Roulette Challenge 2026: Dopplebangers

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The second annual Roulette Challenge from zsally-llama (last year's challenge is here).

Double the Pleasure, Double the Gains! Water Falls Both Ways!

Welcome to the 2nd year of Roulette Challenge! Where the challenge is genre-fluid and the roulette spins for discovery!

- the time frame is January 1st to December 31st -

Have fun and interpret the prompts as broadly as you like. Tag your lists and reviews with roulettechallenge2026 & rc2026

take a chance -- undress your twinhibitions -- give a second chance -- pluck a whisper from your field of vision and let's make the unknown EFFABLE **

~ ~ ~ Le Prompts ~ ~ ~

1. Debut film from a favorite director.
✅ 2. Recommended by a friend
✅ 3. IN SERVICE OF A MAD GOD: nightmare film shoots
4. give me BONKERS
✅ 5. Screwball Comedy
✅ 6. Space Western
7. Splatstick
8. Playing with Swords: Wuxia
9. Martial Arts film featuring Michelle Yeoh
✅ 10. Queer Rom-Com
✅ 11. Southern Gothic
✅ 12. Folklore: Japan
13. Queer Horror
14. 70's Animation
15. Experimental Documentary – boxd.it/gH7Z2 (Thomas Flight) boxd.it/wTPhG (Anti_Climacus)
16. Avant Gardener: watch a film by Jonas Mekas
17. Doubling: dopplegangers & twins & clones
18. A "Spring" movie
✅ 19. An "Autumn" movie
20. From the Doc: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
21. a Ghost story
22. Directed by: Dorothy Arzner
23. Directed by: Elia Suleiman
24. Passport: a movie from IRAN
25. Passport: a movie from CHINA
✅ 26. Featuring: Anna Magnani
27. Featuring: Saleh Bakri
✅ 28. 28,000 Weeks Later: Far Future Post-Apocalypse
29. Ancestors: pick a film based in where your family comes from
30. Setting: in the mountains
✅ 31. Setting: ocean
✅ 32. Setting: underground
✅ 33. Setting: a place/space that you love
34. Soundtrack: composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto
35. Soundtrack: composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir
36. Double Take: rewatch a film that you loved growing up that may or may not hold up
✅ 37. Funny People: film from your favorite laughter dealer
✅ 38. Legendary Collaborators: watch a movie from your favorite Director/Actor duo
39. featuring: Koji Yakusho
40. featuring: Pam Grier
41. Cinematography: Sven Nykist
42. Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa
43. Scaredy Cat's Cradle: watch that scary movie you've been putting off
✅ 44. Watch a film from your least favorite genre
45. Disability on Film
46. Released the year you turned 13
✅ 47. Released by ARROW VIDEO
✅ 48. Programmed at FANTASIA Fest
49. En Memorium: watch a film featuring Tatsuya Nakadai
50. En Memorium: watch a film featuring Graham Greene
51. Let Me Live: a film that you would live in
✅ 52. Pick from someone else’s 4 Favorites (fellow participants or last year's Roulette Challenge)