WATCHcanonNope
2022 · USA/Japan · 130m
Peele's best-looking film. About spectacle, and about what happens to the people who handle the animals.
The films
486 entries, from the 1931 Universal cycle to last year. Curated, not exhaustive: a short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate.
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WATCHcanonThe Lighthouse
2019 · USA/Canada · 109m
Shot on black and white 35mm in a 1.19:1 box. Two men, a rock, and a great deal of drinking.
WATCHcanonEvent Horizon
1997 · UK/USA · 92m
A haunted house film in space, hated on release, and the studio destroyed roughly thirty minutes of it.
WATCHcanonInvasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · USA · 80m
The best paranoia film ever made, and it works whichever politics you bring to it.
WATCHcanonThe Mist
2007 · USA · 126m
Frank Darabont's third King adaptation, and the ending he changed is one of the cruellest in cinema.
WATCHcanonThey Live
1988 · USA · 94m
Carpenter's angriest film, disguised as a B-movie, about sunglasses that let you see the ads underneath everything.
WATCHcanonAnnihilation
2018 · USA/UK · 115m
No villain at all, only a process. The last twenty minutes are the closest film has come to Lovecraft.
WATCHcanonGodzilla
1954 · Japan · 100m
A serious film about the atomic bomb with a man in a suit in it, and the American recut removed most of what mattered.
WATCHcanonThe Cabin in the Woods
2011 · USA/Canada · 95m
A machine for explaining why every other film on this site is shaped the way it is.
WATCHcanonAlien
1979 · USA/UK · 117m
A haunted house film in space, and the crew are contractors arguing about bonuses.
WATCHcanonThe Thing
1982 · USA/Canada · 109m
Flopped, was called empty and disgusting, and is now the most imitated horror film of its decade.