progress: 10/55

original list by Cory Haynes here

top 3 so far:

1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
2. Tampopo (1985)
3. Attack the Block (2011)

Hater Club Movie Challenge 2026 Prompts (I will definitely do them out of order):
1. Lynchian: Burning (2018)
☑️ 2. Loser Cinema: Invisible Waves (2006)
3. Ari Aster Recommendation: Audition (1999)
4. Black & White (no color films allowed!): Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
5. Psychedelic Cinema: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
6. Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing (1989)
7. It Passed the Bechdel Test: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
8. Goblincore: 1001 Nights (1998)
☑️ 9. Tim Robinson-core: Hot Rod (2007)
10. Period Piece: Dragon Inn (1967)
11. Non-Disney, Non-Pixar, Non-Ghibli Animation (going one step further and doing Non-American, Non-Japanese Animation): The Legend of Hei (2019)
12. Sigma Female: Nina Wu (2019)
13. Dark Comedy: I Am Not a Witch (2017)
14. Gaspar Noe Recommendation: Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
☑️ 15. Yakuza (Japanese Gangster): The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994)
16. Hopeless Cinema: An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
17. Stoner Scrapbook: Human Traffic (1999)
18. Philip Glass: Leviathan (2014)
19. Folklore: This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019)
20. We're So Fucked: Come and See (1985)
☑️ 21. Slice of Life: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
22. Guillermo del Toro Recommendation: Army of Shadows (1969)
23. NOW! That’s What I Call Cunty!: The Worst Person in the World (2021)
☑️ 24. Two Lost Souls Find Comfort: By Hook or by Crook (2001)
25. Scandinavian Cinema: Autumn Sonata (1978)
26. Aesthetically Adjacent to Gay: Ballerina (2023)
27. Philip Seymour Hoffman: Magnolia (1999)
28. Bad Vacation: The Vanishing (1988)
☑️ 29. Directorial Debuts Only: Red Sorghum (1988)
30. Charli XCX Recommendation: Angst (1983)
31. Unconventional Biopic: The Wind Rises (2013)
32. Sensual Cinema: Chocolat (1988)
33. Trilogy (1 of 3): Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
34. Trilogy (2 of 3): Seven Weeks (2014)
35. Trilogy (3 of 3): Hanagatami (2017)
☑️ 36. Death Game: And Then There Were None (2015)
37. By Women, About Women: Three Stories (1997)
38. Michael Haneke: Caché (2005)
39. Vinegar Syndrome: Poison for the Fairies (1986)
40. Good For Her: Monos (2019)
41. Unholy Cinema: All the Colours of the Dark (1972)
42. Creepy Crawlies: Mothra (1961)
☑️ 43. Mind Fuck: Suzhou River (2000)
44. Robert Eggers Recommendation: R.M.N. (2022)
45. Eat the Rich: Z (1969)
☑️ 46. If you like (American film) watch (foreign film): Attack the Block (2011)
47. Neo-Noir: Shame (1988)
48. That's Fucked Up!: Three… Extremes (2004)
49. Feels like an episode of Black Mirror: Aniara (2018)
50. Val Kilmer: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
51. Y2K: Made in Hong Kong (1997)
52. Sam Learner Tool Recommendation: The Aviator's Wife (1981) (the tool's broken, so I grabbed a recommendation from letterboxd.tools instead)
☑️ 53. March Extra Credit: Tampopo (1985)
54. April Extra Credit: Mad God (2021)
55. May Extra Credit: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)