https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/ Watched festival films, ratings, and reviews from the Circle M diary. en-us 60 https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-32573c9e603617032fcf2d01 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062603790 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-11-02 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>Last movie of cmhff 2025</p> {"director": "Jack Clayton", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062603790", "imdb_id": "tt0086336", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-32573c9e603617032fcf2d01", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/1wWC", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24808"}, "original_title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes", "overview": "In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?", "poster_alt": "Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/94dMO6kAawyFUk0sCDGIjAnchED.jpg", "release_year": 1983, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1062603790", "text": "Last movie of cmhff 2025", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/something-wicked-this-way-comes/"}, "runtime_minutes": 95, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "What would you give a man who could make your deepest dream come true?", "title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes", "tmdb_id": 24808, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-11-02"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-6d0da3ce7b7d9c5960e16716 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062603252 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-11-01 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>Teacher plot makes sense now</p> {"director": "Luca Guadagnino", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror", "Mystery", "Drama"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062603252", "imdb_id": "tt1034415", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-6d0da3ce7b7d9c5960e16716", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034415/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/cioI", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/361292"}, "original_title": "Suspiria", "overview": "A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.", "poster_alt": "Suspiria (2018) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bRpKFPb8CWKRQxVo9NzOuPPlO3Q.jpg", "release_year": 2018, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1062603252", "text": "Teacher plot makes sense now", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/suspiria-2018/"}, "runtime_minutes": 152, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Give your soul to the dance.", "title": "Suspiria", "tmdb_id": 361292, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-11-01"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-cb374333fd1d6e19ccc0c6c2 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062602673 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-11-01 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>So much red</p> {"director": "Dario Argento", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062602673", "imdb_id": "tt0076786", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-cb374333fd1d6e19ccc0c6c2", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/1SNW", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11906"}, "original_title": "Suspiria", "overview": "An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.", "poster_alt": "Suspiria (1977) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sEcvc9h1X3hYZdFgtiiKMm6RB3f.jpg", "release_year": 1977, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1062602673", "text": "So much red", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/suspiria/"}, "runtime_minutes": 99, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Do You Know Anything About Witches?", "title": "Suspiria", "tmdb_id": 11906, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-11-01"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-054b9e02c5f189322d0b5bca circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062602329 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-31 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>Dark</p> {"director": "Parker Finn", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror", "Mystery"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1062602329", "imdb_id": "tt15474916", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-054b9e02c5f189322d0b5bca", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15474916/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/xjfE", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/882598"}, "original_title": "Smile", "overview": "After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.", "poster_alt": "Smile (2022) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aPqcQwu4VGEewPhagWNncDbJ9Xp.jpg", "release_year": 2022, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1062602329", "text": "Dark", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/smile-2022/"}, "runtime_minutes": 115, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Once you see it, it's too late.", "title": "Smile", "tmdb_id": 882598, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-31"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-56099119d2f86029d8561eba circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1058342982 Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-30 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 4.0/5</p><p>Canonical Dracula</p> {"director": "Francis Ford Coppola", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": true, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Romance", "Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1058342982", "imdb_id": "tt0103874", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-56099119d2f86029d8561eba", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/223a", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6114"}, "original_title": "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "overview": "Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.", "poster_alt": "Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jSxCIZXudp5q8wQO8VERGX8hRAl.jpg", "release_year": 1992, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 4.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1058342982", "text": "Canonical Dracula", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/bram-stokers-dracula/"}, "runtime_minutes": 128, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Love never dies.", "title": "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "tmdb_id": 6114, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-30"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-4b7c04101f70cbc4e5fc1d26 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-watch-1055052281 Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-26 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 2.0/5</p> {"director": "Kirk R. Thatcher", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Comedy", "Family", "TV Movie"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-watch-1055052281", "imdb_id": "tt14602326", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-4b7c04101f70cbc4e5fc1d26", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14602326/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/vaTw", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/826914"}, "original_title": "Muppets Haunted Mansion", "overview": "Gonzo is challenged to spend one night in The Haunted Mansion on Halloween night.", "poster_alt": "Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/AeVMV8cMvNhn6aKozAH3pysvftm.jpg", "release_year": 2021, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 2.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-watch-1055052281", "text": null, "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/muppets-haunted-mansion/"}, "runtime_minutes": 52, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Cue the light(ning)!", "title": "Muppets Haunted Mansion", "tmdb_id": 826914, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-26"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-ff63e15edc25f154c5c0f036 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1055052031 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-25 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.5/5</p><p>Another banger!!</p> {"director": "Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": true, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1055052031", "imdb_id": "tt32246771", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-ff63e15edc25f154c5c0f036", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32246771/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/Hxlc", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1151031"}, "original_title": "Bring Her Back", "overview": "Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.", "poster_alt": "Bring Her Back (2025) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1Q3GlCXGYWELifxANYZ5OVMRVZl.jpg", "release_year": 2025, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.5, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1055052031", "text": "Another banger!!", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/bring-her-back/"}, "runtime_minutes": 104, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Family requires sacrifices.", "title": "Bring Her Back", "tmdb_id": 1151031, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-25"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-6b58224f148e9b0d45a90447 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1052186072 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-25 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 4.5/5</p><p>Wow</p> {"director": "Zach Cregger", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": true, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror", "Mystery"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1052186072", "imdb_id": "tt26581740", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-6b58224f148e9b0d45a90447", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26581740/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/EMTM", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1078605"}, "original_title": "Weapons", "overview": "When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.", "poster_alt": "Weapons (2025) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/cpf7vsRZ0MYRQcnLWteD5jK9ymT.jpg", "release_year": 2025, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 4.5, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1052186072", "text": "Wow", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/weapons-2025/"}, "runtime_minutes": 129, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark ...and they never came back.", "title": "Weapons", "tmdb_id": 1078605, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-25"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-aa9b6863f5075de2086cf94f circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045147837 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-17 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.5/5</p><p>Great family Halloween movie</p> {"director": "Justin Simien", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": true, "rewatch": true}, "genres": ["Comedy", "Drama", "Fantasy"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045147837", "imdb_id": "tt1695843", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-aa9b6863f5075de2086cf94f", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1695843/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/mOsi", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/616747"}, "original_title": "Haunted Mansion", "overview": "A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.", "poster_alt": "Haunted Mansion (2023) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8Im6DknDVxRiGXc5t8rVOJyzuNx.jpg", "release_year": 2023, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.5, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1045147837", "text": "Great family Halloween movie", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/haunted-mansion-2023/1/"}, "runtime_minutes": 123, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Home is where the haunt is.", "title": "Haunted Mansion", "tmdb_id": 616747, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-17"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-9e5acb5172e78aa2a6adbddc circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045147324 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-15 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>Just ok, big expectations made it a let down</p> {"director": "Rob Zombie", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045147324", "imdb_id": "tt0373883", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-9e5acb5172e78aa2a6adbddc", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/27u6", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2082"}, "original_title": "Halloween", "overview": "The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.", "poster_alt": "Halloween (2007) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/cD8JrfSEI4j7WVnKM1GdiYzMoUh.jpg", "release_year": 2007, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1045147324", "text": "Just ok, big expectations made it a let down", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/halloween/"}, "runtime_minutes": 110, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Evil has a destiny.", "title": "Halloween", "tmdb_id": 2082, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-15"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-c1535fae19e4151403419bf3 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045145757 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-14 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>Was way scary when I was a kid but still a classic</p> {"director": "Wes Craven", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": true}, "genres": ["Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045145757", "imdb_id": "tt0087800", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-c1535fae19e4151403419bf3", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087800/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/2aw0", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/377"}, "original_title": "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "overview": "Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...", "poster_alt": "A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wGTpGGRMZmyFCcrY2YoxVTIBlli.jpg", "release_year": 1984, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1045145757", "text": "Was way scary when I was a kid but still a classic", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street/"}, "runtime_minutes": 91, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.", "title": "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "tmdb_id": 377, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-14"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-d907f07bf1f2102427072a17 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045466378 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-12 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 1.5/5</p><p>Nostalgia watch made this even worse. I thought it was a halfway decent movie at the time but now it was bad. Bad acting bad directing.</p> {"director": "James Wong", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045466378", "imdb_id": "tt0195714", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-d907f07bf1f2102427072a17", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195714/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/1YrC", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9532"}, "original_title": "Final Destination", "overview": "After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.", "poster_alt": "Final Destination (2000) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1mXhlQMnlfvJ2frxTjZSQNnA9Vp.jpg", "release_year": 2000, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 1.5, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1045466378", "text": "Nostalgia watch made this even worse. I thought it was a halfway decent movie at the time but now it was bad. Bad acting bad directing.", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/final-destination/"}, "runtime_minutes": 98, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "No accidents. No coincidences. No escapes. You can't cheat death.", "title": "Final Destination", "tmdb_id": 9532, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-12"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-1d831f40518e214c2e6d966e circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045464659 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-12 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 2.0/5</p><p>Very disappointing. Felt like the movie never had a hook.</p> {"director": "Frank Capra", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Comedy", "Crime"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045464659", "imdb_id": "tt0036613", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-1d831f40518e214c2e6d966e", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/2aRW", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/212"}, "original_title": "Arsenic and Old Lace", "overview": "Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!", "poster_alt": "Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xG1GEEQGgExKl0WT5sRo1Arst5D.jpg", "release_year": 1944, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 2.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1045464659", "text": "Very disappointing. Felt like the movie never had a hook.", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/arsenic-and-old-lace/"}, "runtime_minutes": 118, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!", "title": "Arsenic and Old Lace", "tmdb_id": 212, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-12"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-80c0a03019870ff51550600e circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045146461 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-10 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 5.0/5</p><p>From my favorite short story I have ever read. This story made me fall in love with reading in the 8th grade</p> {"director": "Robert Enrico", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Drama", "Fantasy"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1045146461", "imdb_id": "tt0056300", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-80c0a03019870ff51550600e", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056300/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/x4O", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/53218"}, "original_title": "La Rivière du hibou", "overview": "During the American Civil War, a Southerner is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when something unexpected happens.", "poster_alt": "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4GKfYhSuOOaJKjKOpoaDJKulCA8.jpg", "release_year": 1961, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 5.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1045146461", "text": "From my favorite short story I have ever read. This story made me fall in love with reading in the 8th grade", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge/"}, "runtime_minutes": 28, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "", "title": "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "tmdb_id": 53218, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-10"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-2f9933303669e18a4a109d19 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1040128548 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-10 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 5.0/5</p><p>Wow. Absolutely fucking insane! Every time I thought they won&#x27;t go that far they did! Last 10 min so over the top but loved it.</p> {"director": "Coralie Fargeat", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": true, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Thriller"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1040128548", "imdb_id": "tt17526714", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-2f9933303669e18a4a109d19", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17526714/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/zanS", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/933260"}, "original_title": "The Substance", "overview": "A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.", "poster_alt": "The Substance (2024) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lqoMzCcZYEFK729d6qzt349fB4o.jpg", "release_year": 2024, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 5.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1040128548", "text": "Wow. Absolutely fucking insane! Every time I thought they won't go that far they did! Last 10 min so over the top but loved it.", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/the-substance/"}, "runtime_minutes": 141, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?", "title": "The Substance", "tmdb_id": 933260, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-10"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-20750116a0f641e2d5e5d48f circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1037316286 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-09 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>Solid movie, ending was meh.</p> {"director": "Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror", "Thriller"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1037316286", "imdb_id": "tt27489557", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-20750116a0f641e2d5e5d48f", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27489557/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/G0NA", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1111873"}, "original_title": "Abigail", "overview": "A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl.", "poster_alt": "Abigail (2024) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/5gKKSoD3iezjoL7YqZONjmyAiRA.jpg", "release_year": 2024, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1037316286", "text": "Solid movie, ending was meh.", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/abigail-2024/"}, "runtime_minutes": 109, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Children can be such monsters.", "title": "Abigail", "tmdb_id": 1111873, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-09"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-4d1fa809853b9f1bedf49648 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1035012381 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-07 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>Some great gross out scenes but acting was meh</p> {"director": "Osgood Perkins", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror", "Comedy"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1035012381", "imdb_id": "tt27714946", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-4d1fa809853b9f1bedf49648", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27714946/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/Gwiu", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1124620"}, "original_title": "The Monkey", "overview": "When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.", "poster_alt": "The Monkey (2025) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yYa8Onk9ow7ukcnfp2QWVvjWYel.jpg", "release_year": 2025, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1035012381", "text": "Some great gross out scenes but acting was meh", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/the-monkey-2025/"}, "runtime_minutes": 97, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Everybody dies. And that's fucked up.", "title": "The Monkey", "tmdb_id": 1124620, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-07"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-8d498746c2678fd5cad64a58 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1034248843 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-05 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>This review may contain spoilers.<br><br>Needed more Cage!!!!</p> {"director": "Osgood Perkins", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Crime", "Horror", "Mystery"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1034248843", "imdb_id": "tt23468450", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-8d498746c2678fd5cad64a58", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23468450/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/KzLM", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1226578"}, "original_title": "Longlegs", "overview": "FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.", "poster_alt": "Longlegs (2024) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1EwNyiiNFd863H4e8nWEzutnZD7.jpg", "release_year": 2024, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1034248843", "text": "This review may contain spoilers.\n\nNeeded more Cage!!!!", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/longlegs/"}, "runtime_minutes": 101, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Say your prayers.", "title": "Longlegs", "tmdb_id": 1226578, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-05"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-e125ccfcfedb00849fcef47d circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1033477066 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-05 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 3.0/5</p><p>For the film fest with jj</p> {"director": "Robert Zemeckis", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": true, "rewatch": true}, "genres": ["Comedy", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1033477066", "imdb_id": "tt0104070", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-e125ccfcfedb00849fcef47d", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/1YQi", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9374"}, "original_title": "Death Becomes Her", "overview": "Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.", "poster_alt": "Death Becomes Her (1992) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kkWxyyyWFK5KNk9WVwQuGEC9H9H.jpg", "release_year": 1992, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 3.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1033477066", "text": "For the film fest with jj", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/death-becomes-her/1/"}, "runtime_minutes": 104, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "In one small bottle... The fountain of youth. The secret of eternal life. The power of an ancient potion. Sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't.", "title": "Death Becomes Her", "tmdb_id": 9374, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-05"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-7454d97580e6344c65d8d17b circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1031773109 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-03 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 5.0/5</p><p>Great horror film</p> {"director": "Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": true, "rewatch": true}, "genres": ["Horror", "Comedy"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1031773109", "imdb_id": "tt7798634", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-7454d97580e6344c65d8d17b", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7798634/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/kOf0", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/567609"}, "original_title": "Ready or Not", "overview": "A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.", "poster_alt": "Ready or Not (2019) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oJD9KQFoObZmxAS1je56SIFVNJt.jpg", "release_year": 2019, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 5.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1031773109", "text": "Great horror film", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/ready-or-not-2019/"}, "runtime_minutes": 95, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "A killer game of hide and seek.", "title": "Ready or Not", "tmdb_id": 567609, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-03"} https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-ffedd60a8f19679240deb950 circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1029660624 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 2025 <p>Watched 2025-10-01 for the 2025 festival.</p><p>Circle M rating: 2.0/5</p><p>First movie of the 10th annual Circle M Horror Film Fest. <br><br>Slow moving with a few jump scares but nothing too scary.</p> {"director": "Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes", "festival_edition": 10, "festival_theme": null, "festival_year": 2025, "film_status": {"liked": false, "rewatch": false}, "genres": ["Horror"], "id": "circlem:watch:2025:letterboxd-review-1029660624", "imdb_id": "tt14966898", "links": {"diary": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html#watch-ffedd60a8f19679240deb950", "festival": "https://circlemhorrorfilmfest.com/year-2025.html", "festival_letterboxd": null, "imdb": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14966898/", "justwatch": null, "letterboxd": "https://boxd.it/zo6G", "tmdb": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/938614"}, "original_title": "Late Night with the Devil", "overview": "A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.", "poster_alt": "Late Night with the Devil (2023) poster", "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mu8LRWT9GHkfiyHm7kgxT6YNvMW.jpg", "release_year": 2023, "review": {"author": "Circle M", "rating": 2.0, "rating_out_of": 5, "source": "letterboxd", "source_id": "letterboxd-review-1029660624", "text": "First movie of the 10th annual Circle M Horror Film Fest. \n\nSlow moving with a few jump scares but nothing too scary.", "url": "https://letterboxd.com/thecirclem/film/late-night-with-the-devil/"}, "runtime_minutes": 93, "schema_version": 1, "tagline": "Do not adjust your set.", "title": "Late Night with the Devil", "tmdb_id": 938614, "watch_time_known": false, "watched_date": "2025-10-01"}