Privately I started handing out humorous, very specific movie awards for movies I watched in 2020. Even if no one else was amused, I was. So I decided to expand them some and post them here. So here’s my weirdly specific MTV Movie Awards style picks for movies I liked.
The Unlikeliest Satanists Award goes to: Anything For Jackson
The I Don’t Know Fully What Happened But It Sure Was a lot of fun award goes to: The Call
The Yes We Need More Indonesian Martial Arts Super Hero award goes to: Gundala
Greatest use of a remote controlled vehicle: (tie) Peninsula and #Alive
Most surprising death that came halfway through the movie: Impetigore
Best Final Performance: Robert Forester in The Wolf of Snow Hollow
The Chow Yun Fat Award goes to: Chow Yun Fat showing up with an RPG in The Seventh Curse
The ha-ha you though that was the only twist award goes to A Tale of Two Sisters
The Creepy neighbor award: (tie) #Alive and Metamorphosis
The sometimes you have to watch old movies with current racists award: Vampires and Anaconda
The why is the bad guy making me feel things award: Fright Night
The Oh My God Don’t Eat the Mushrooms award goes to Matango
Brian Lindenmuth is the former non-fiction editor of Spinetingler Magazine and the former editor of Snubnose Press. He likes both kinds of books, fiction and non-fiction. He blogs about subtitled TV shows and movies at One Inch Tall Movies