 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Top 5 Friday. I'm gonna need your help to keep this series running this time. I got burned out on it last time. I'll probably end up doing a series. I'll do a, do recording all in one or two days and set up kind of like a seasons kind of thing. So consider this season two of Top 5 Friday. We're coming back and today we are talking about my Top 5 favorite shutter movies. So right off the bat, the first one, we're gonna get out of the way as an honorable mention because everybody and their mama talking about this. So this is technically number six, which is host. It's a fantastic movie shot completely with Zoom or whatever they used. It's great. Everybody seems to like it. There's a couple outliers that don't like it, but that's number six. I don't wanna talk about host here because I want to focus on hidden gems that I found. So that's number honorable mention. At number five, we have Daniel Isn't Real. This was a wild ride. You don't see movies like this anymore and this is why I love Shutter now. Shutter wasn't always this good. They had to start somewhere. It was usually old cheesy horror movies, the crappiest of the bunch that they could get their hands on. Nowadays they're producing their own content and they're getting other great content in and Daniel Isn't Real, that's one of those stories that you just will not find outside of Shutter. I wish they would bring it back and do more movies like this, just wild, batshit, crazy movies with these special effects with everything was note perfect. The characters were on point, the dread, the pacing, everything and the ending is absolutely amazing. At number four, we have Spiral. No, not the saw reboot that's coming from Chris Rock, but it's a LGBTQIA themed horror story about this couple with a kid move into this town and weird cult shits going on. I love the representation in this movie and I just love seeing just this regular family fall into this ugly trap. There was a lot of stuff, I don't wanna say hereditary, but I'm going to, it's not really a mixture, but it had the tone of hereditary and say something, I don't know, not disturbia, but there's something else that this makes me think of and I can't, I completely skip my mind. If I remember it, I'll get to it, but this is a hidden gem for me and most people, it kind of flew underneath the radar because most people that are talking about it are confused with this one that's on Shutter and the one that's coming from Chris Rock, the new saw reboot. But yeah, this one really spoke to me, it was a fantastic story. The tension really ramps up and the ending's phenomenal. I really liked what they did. It's very sad, very upsetting, very topical for today's times. But yeah, I haven't seen anything quite like this one, but I kind of have. It just does enough different that it is its own thing. Next up, we have Z. There are gonna be a lot of, there's gonna be a lot of movies on this list that most people don't like, especially the top two. For some odd reason, I have a different opinion of horror than most people and I think that's why a lot of people come to check out this channel because my opinions differ so much, especially in like Stephen King books, man. I don't like the biggest, most popular ones, but then again, some of them I do. Z is a story about an imaginary friend that goes all different kinds of wacky places. I say wacky, but it's a really, really good horror story and it went some places I didn't expect whatsoever. The acting in this one was phenomenal. It's one of those stories that kind of tricks you with who, let's say, who the main character is or what the main issue is and then it breaks down from this bigger environment to this much smaller, more isolated environment and it hit all the right notes for me. The directing is impeccable. I really, really liked it and this is only my opinion. I've read reviews from people who didn't like it. I don't quite understand their point of view so if you'd like to tell me why you don't like it, that's fine, but yeah, this is number three. It is Z. Next up, we have a film. I think it's by the same director. Probably should have looked this up before I got started here, but it is Still-slash-born, so stillborn. It opens up with so content warnings for stillborn, miscarriage, that kind of thing. More so stillborn because the baby is born stillborn. That's the very beginning of the movie. There was some really upsetting stuff in this one and I think the reason why I liked it so much is because it upset me so bad. The characters were so well done. Everything got underneath my skin and then by the end of the movie, you're just, well, I was, I was just yelling at the screen. I was like, no, no, no, no, you know that kind of thing and the movie brought out a visceral reaction for me, which, I mean, what else could you ask for? I honestly don't know, it's just, but maybe there was a little bit of bias there because I have some history with this topic, which upset me also, but there were certain scenes like in the nursery or in the crib that those scenes were really, truly haunting and horrifying and to watch this husband, watch his wife maybe, maybe not go just utterly insane after this, I thought that dynamic was perfect. Okay, last but not least, it's probably one of the most hated movies on Shudder and I'm not really gonna plead my case, I'm just gonna tell you why I liked it and if you don't like it, that's fine, but it's Sam was here. I've never seen anything like this movie. I've never seen, I mean, it's a journey through hell. Maybe even, you know, figuratively and literally. This one guy realizes that damn near everybody's sane has fallen off the face of the planet and it's nothing but killers left and they're all hunting him and the whole time there's this radio station broadcasting, saying where he is, you know, information that they shouldn't have and when it is, here's the reason why I love it so much. There's a reveal on who the DJ is and it was unexpected and it was the actor who played this character absolutely nailed it and you never see his face. I don't, it's an amazing concept. I love the way it ended. A lot of people were upset, felt that, you know, it didn't do enough. It is also a very, very short movie, so that's my number one pick for this Shudder. The more I think about it, the more I've sat on this. Wayne Fenlon asked for this Top 5 Friday ages ago, I think way back when I was still doing Top 5 Friday. It's been a long time, so Wayne, this one's for you, buddy. And I've been thinking about all these movies. I watched these movies last year and I've been thinking about what really stood out for me and these are the films that really stood out to me. So if you would like to let me know what films stand out for you on Shudder, put them down there in the doobly-doo. Hopefully I haven't seen them so I can go check out some new stuff. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been Top 5 Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.