The Poison Thermometer
Brutal and unvarnished numbers of everything we have torn apart (and occasionally praised) since opening this independent review trenches. The figures never lie, even if directors do.
📊 Score Distribution
🗂️ By Category
✍️ Our Critics
🏆 Top 10 — The Gems
- 1. *The Thing (1982): John Carpenter’s Frozen Masterpiece of Paranoia and Mutant Flesh* 10/10
- 2. *Halloween: The Night Pure Evil Slapped on a Cheap Mask and Took a Leisurely Stroll* 9.8/10
- 3. The Executioner: Berlanga and the Black Comedy that Portrayed the Darkest Spain 9.8/10
- 4. *The Wailing (The Stranger): Shamanism, Demon Plague, and the Existential Collapse of Rural Faith* 9.6/10
- 5. *"When Evil Lurks: The Rural Gut-Punch That Redefined Satanic Horror"* 9.5/10
- 6. *Requiem for a Dream: The Symphony of Collapse in 24 Frames per Second* 9.5/10
- 7. *Full Metal Jacket: The War’s Grillwork on the Canvas of Military Horror* 9.5/10
- 8. *Le Corbeau (The Raven, 1943): The Masterpiece That United Nazis and Communists in Hating Clouzot* 9.5/10
- 9. *Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Broken Mirror or How to Turn Jimmy Stewart Into a Stylish Psychopath* 9.5/10
- 10. *Parasite*: The Sharpest, Most Darkly Humorous Dissection of Class Warfare 9.5/10
💀 Hall of Shame — The Disasters
- 1. *Madame Web: The Spiderweb of Cinematic Neglect* 1.2/10
- 2. Special Operations: Lioness – Autopsy of a series without anesthesia 2.3/10
- 3. Resident Evil: The Infection of Skinless Marketing 2.5/10
- 4. The Idol: A Parade of Scandal and Excess 3/10
- 5. Babybacks: The Low-Budget Knockout Nobody Asked For (And We All Deserved) 3/10
- 6. Yesterday Island: Paradise Found in the Cliché Swamp No One Asked For 3/10
- 7. Extinction Line: The Apocalypse Hollywood Sold Us (And We Should’ve Known Better) 3.2/10
- 8. Lapönia: When the Nougat Tastes Like Ashes and the Christmas Spirit Smells Like Rot 3.2/10
- 9. The Mutiny: The Mutation of Cheap Machismo 3.2/10
- 10. Head to Head: Marfil – Acid Review 3.2/10
CURIOUS FACT
46% of films seem worthy of our praise.
10% deserve immediate condemnation to oblivion.
The rest are the cinematic filler keeping popcorn vendors in business.