DANGERLION

Since Vertigo I have seen Edmond and The Ninth Gate. 

Edmond is a bizarre and disturbing film; William H Macy plays a homophobic and racist man who sees a psychic on his way home from work, which compels him to leave his wife before he slowly descends into a world of madness. It's about the thin line between our human and animal instincts. A great performance by Macy and the David Mamet script is full of interesting dialogue and monologues but it was just really too bizarre and fucked up for me. 

In the Ninth Gate Johnny Depp plays a rare book dealer who is hired to verify the authenticity of a book supposedly co-authored by Lucifer. This one was TERRIBLE. I expected way more from Roman Polanski; it starts off pretty promising (we see a man writing a letter, then the camera drifts to a stool, and then up to a noose--great screenwriting/directing there and in a very cool title sequence where the camera zooms through the 9 gates) and Johnny Depp gives a good performance as a potentially intriguing kind of mercenary obsessed with books. But the plot is boring and ridiculous and the dialogue is cliched and weak. There are way too many scenes of Depp in rooms talking to people who explain things to him and there is no payoff to any of it. There are also a few absurd action moments, one in which Depp beats a guy for no reason with a shoe. 

Despite these two being pretty disappointing I've added a few more to my list. Hoping to get to some of the truly creepy/scary/suspenseful ones soon:

Amadeus

Contact

The Prestige

Silence of the Lambs

The Shining

The Tenant

Persona

Perfect Blue

The Others

A Tale of Two Sisters

The Haunting

Brotherhood of the Wolf

The Wages of Fear

Black Swan

12 Monkeys

The Searchers

Rebecca

Marnie

Tombstone

The Seventh Seal

The Game

Serpent and the Rainbow

Heathers

I Bury The Living

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Hustler

ANTICHRIST

Breaking the Waves

Dancer in the Dark

The Wild Hunt

Kill List

Let the Right One In

The Lives of Others