October 2021 Review: The Best Movies I Saw Last Month
Originally published November 7, 2021
I always get excited for October every year, much like many horrors do. It’s because of this hype that I intentionally seek out great films to stack my watchlist with and pray for the new releases to be as great as they are advertised. Unfortunately, this year the October releases were largely mediocre, and the films I sought out from before did not meet my expectations. Regardless, I did see a few films I enjoyed, and plenty I did not, to populate this list. Out of the 34 films I watched in October here are the best and worst!
BEST #3) Antlers (2021); Director: Scott Cooper; United States/Mexico/Canada
Please check out the full review here.
Overall Score? 7/10
BEST #2) StageFright (1987); Director: Michele Soavi; Italy
While a group of stage actors are rehearsing for their upcoming show, a maniac escapes a mental hospital. After the death of one of their own, the group is reasonably shaken up. They are reassured that the police will watch over their rehearsals and ensure that no further harm comes over them. After locking themselves in as a security measure, the group find that the killer hasn’t moved on from their production and is intent on making that night their final performance. Will the cast and crew fall victim to the owl headed serial killer or will they live to see curtain call? A wildly fun and inventive slasher, StageFright is a wonderful giallo/slasher hybrid. Dotted with intense chase sequences and vivid death sequences, StageFright keeps the audience on their toes wondering where and how the killer will strike next. It falls into conventions at times, but it’s a fun enough film to forgive. Its masked killer alone is frightening and memorable compared to most masked killers and is met with a compelling force to be reckoned with in final girl Alicia. It won’t upstage the classics, but StageFright is enough of a spectacle to make you beg for encore after encore.
Overall Score? 7.5/10
BEST #1) Last Night in Soho (2021); Director: Edgar Wright; United Kingdom
