2021 Personal Year in Review
Originally published January 4, 2022
2021 Year in Review Posts:
Now that 2021 has finally passed, I can write my last writeup for the year. This will mostly consist of fun statistics I tracked throughout the year, which will help me establish what sort of goals I’ll have for 2022.
TOTAL MOVIES WATCHED
From January to December, I watched a total of 423 horror films. This is significantly less than 2020 where I watched upwards of 520. I attribute this to some aspects of life returning closer to normalcy rather than perpetual lockdown.
YEARS
When were all the movies I watched made?
1950s: 3
1960s: 9
1970s: 42
1980s: 75
1990s: 57
2000s: 28
2010s: 31
2020s: 164
Unreleased (Film Festival Releases without wide releases): 14
DIRECTORS
By watching 423 movies, I was able to explore a small fraction of the creative minds of 405 different directors.
DIRECTOR GENDER
Of these 423 films, 32 were directed by women and 12 had split male/female co-directors, meaning about 10% of all films were directed by women. This is an area that I am actively looking to improve upon this next year.
MOST WATCHED DIRECTOR
With 5 films; Shock (1977), A Bay of Blood (1971). Kill, … Baby Kill (1966), Black Sabbath (1963), and Blood and Black Lace (1964); Mario Bava is my most watched director of 2021.
LANGUAGES
Throughout the year I watched horror films in 19 different languages: with my most watched non-English language films being either French (12 films) and Italian (12 films). In total, 60 films were presented in a non-English language. This is another area that I am actively looking to improve upon this next year.
COUNTRIES
I watched horror films from 32 different countries.
Top Countries:
Ireland (5)
Germany/West Germany (5)
South Korea (6)
Australia (8)
France (17)
Italy (26)
Canada (35)
United Kingdom (46)
United States (221)
Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Russia/Soviet Union, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia
RATING STATS
The average score I gave movies throughout 2021 is a 5.37 with the most common score of 7/10, followed closely by 6/10.
And that’s it! I hope you enjoyed these fun facts and that you join me in diversifying your horror watching experience as I continue to strive to do!
