Project #3 Announcement!
Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #3: 40 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days – As per your request, a Dark Whimsy overview!
In a previous Behind the Scenes, I posed the question “Any preference as to the nature of the next project?”, and suggested some possibilities.
The leading vote-getter was to review some of my Dark Whimsy favorites, so that’s what it's going to be. My next overview project will be “40 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days”!
Surprised there are so many? I was!
And I didn’t include seven A+ DW favorites that I reviewed in our 2024 Christmas Tour!
I’m aware of lots and lots of films that have a good shot at being future Dark Whimsy favorites of mine, but I limited this list to films I’ve already seen... in most cases twice or more. I can tell you already that most will get A+ grades from me. The direction of the appended arrow remains in doubt.
The list is feature films only, spanning 70 years from 1944 to 2014. I only allowed the first film from a film series to make the list. It’s heavy on 1980s films (18/40), because I was in my movie-watching prime and didn’t miss many good films that decade. It looks to me that about seven or so of the films will be designated as Dark Whimzy, or in other words, not appropriate for children and teens. We will see.
The release schedule will be every other day once I begin, but the start date remains uncertain. In between, I will eventually release reviews from survey projects, but first I will return to the 2024 Christmas Tour, revisiting those reviews to bring them up to my newer standards.
I will reveal the chosen movies five at a time, beginning tomorrow! I hope the reviews will start appearing before the entire list has been revealed, but no promises.
Thanks for your support.
Keep the comments coming!
Originally posted to text group 2025-01-08
Last updated 2025-02-03
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