Terror Tract (2000)

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“Terror Tract” is a fun, freaky, and creepy anthology filled with a trio of horror stories that, although derivative, pack a punch with their clever twists and top notch performances. John Ritter is an unusually quirky real estate agent named Bob who is showing houses to a newlywed couple on a weird neighborhood. We automatically get the idea that this is a weird neighborhood thanks to an incident involving a cat. From there, Bob begins telling our couple a trio of stories, one of which comes with every house he shows.

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X-Men (2000)

Based on the hit comic book from Marvel Comics, we go into the not too distant future where a brand-new race of highly evolved human beings born with super powers are constantly ostracized with prejudice by the human race. The revolutionary Professor X leads a band of peaceful mutants who want nothing but to live and co-exist peacefully with humans, but he is constantly troubled by senators who want to treat the new race and keep them on tabs by a program called “Mutant Registration”. Now, his powerful metal controlling adversary known as Magneto who leads evil fugitive mutants who seek to halt Professor X’ plans and strike down the human race. I was really looking forward to “X-Men” since its initial announcement from Fox about its production.

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The Matrix (1999)

This has only been around for a little while and already it’s a cult classic and has a huge following, not to mention two more movies out. The movie starts off with Trinity running away from the agents in a sequence that instantly caught my attention and made sure I paid attention. Then we go into Neo (Keanu Reeves  Hardball, Dracula)  who is at his computer and gets a mysterious message telling him that they’re watching him. He disregards this message and decides to applies for a job the next day. But little does he know what’s in store for him. He receives a phone call from someone telling him that some men are after him. The caller instructs an escape for him but unfortunately the people catch him.

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Pitch Black (2000)

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This starts off with a sequence of a woman narrating and showing the crew of the ship in their pods as they enter what looks like Saturn’s atmosphere. So for some reason they crash on the planet and much of the crew is dead, but what’s left of the crew must survive. But there’s one problem, the vicious criminal they had captive in the ship has escaped and is on the run. The crew is looking for him, but strange things start happening as they scour the planet. They discover creatures that inhabit the planet. They live in the dark. They’re safe for now because the planet has three suns… or are they?

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Neal Bailey’s Top 10 Films of all time

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10. HIGH FIDELITY (2000) (Starring: John Cusack, Jack Black) – I don’t like romantic comedies, I really don’t, but this movie was a romantic comedy told from the honest and thus sexual perspective of an adult man, trying to decide whether to give up on a girl or try to win her back. It’s also the story of a niche geek, which I am, struggling to decide whether to keep his hobby even though it makes him an outcast, or come to terms with it and profit from it. I generally don’t like Cusack, but here, he turns in a banner performance, and if you’ll recall, this is the first place that Jack Black really started shining on…good stuff.

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Vampire Hunter D (Banpaia hantâ D) (1985)

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“Vampire Hunter D” is an underrated movie; sure, it may not rank up there to some with other anime masterpieces, but it will always top my list of the best anime horror I’ve ever seen. Though kind of an obscure animated horror/action classic, “Vampire Hunter D” is one of my favorite animated films of all time and is worth the watch. In the animated adaptation of the manga, we meet Doris, a lonely demon hunter and farmer who lives alone with her little brother. One night while hunting a monster, she meets up with a vampire warlord named Magnus Lee who brands her with his patented vampire kiss of death.

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The Iron Giant (1999)

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I was pleasantly surprised at what I was watching when watching this movie. It is a gem to behold. The movie’s animated style is probably the most unique of the movie as it fits well with the fifties pop aesthetic. Many of the characters look very similar to the style of folks like Chuck Jones or Bob McKimson, offering a new innovative style that sets it apart from other animated movies.

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