POST #200 - MY SECOND, FULLY-UPDATED, ALL-TIME TOP TEN REVIEWS ON SHUKER IN MOVIELAND

My 100th Shuker In MovieLand blog post, uploaded back in December 2020 (click here to access it), had been my very first listing of what was currently this blog's all-time top ten movie reviews, i.e. the ten movie reviews that had received the most hits from readers.

Bearing in mind that this listing had attracted a lot of interest, I decided to produce a new, fully-updated top ten listing as my 200th blog post. So here it is, with each of its 10 movie reviews presented as a clickable link, together with its publication date on my blog, so that you can access it directly from this page to read in full if you so wish:

#1        The Lost Continent (4 April 2021)

#2       From Selkies To Space Vampires (14 April 2021)

#3       Shadow of Death (aka Destroyer) (1 May 2021)

#4       Carmen Jones (30 April 2021)

#5       The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot (5 April 2021)

#6       Needle (10 April 2021)

#7        Malpertuis (aka The Legend of Doom House) (2 June 2021)

#8       Imaginaerum: The Other World (15 May 2021)

#9       Isle of Dogs (28 March 2021)

#10     The Hand of Night (8 April 2021)

This is an intriguing list because it does not contain a single movie review that was present in the previous list, which was posted only a little over a year ago, on 6 December 2020. This means that none of those reviews had staying power, continuing to attract readers during the past 12 months. However, no review posted since early June of this year has made the list either.

Instead, all of the top 10 reviews in this new, second list were posted within a surprisingly narrow time period, spanning little more than 2 months, from 28 March to 2 June inclusive. So what makes those particular reviews, and/or that particular time period, so special in terms of attracting high readership counts? I wish I knew!

As for the movies featured in those reviews: Review #2 in the list is actually a six-pack of mini-reviews rather than one single full-length review, which means that this Top Ten list actually includes 15 movies rather than 10. The movies respectively featured in these six mini-reviews are: The Happiest Days of Your Life, Mary and the Witch's Flower, The Secret of Roan Inish, Onward, Not Of This Earth (1995 version), and Hotel Transylvania.

Are there any patterns to be perceived in this list? Not as far as I can see, as the movies reviewed span a very diverse spectrum of genres, from fantasy, comedy, cryptozoology, and horror to animation, science fiction, thrillers, and musicals. However, as this is an accurate reflection of my own eclectic film favourites, I suppose I shouldn't be oo surprised.

Will any of them survive into the next Top Ten list, due to appear as my 300^th post, or will they all sink without trace, replaced by newer movie reviews just as they in turn replaced all of those in my first Top Ten? Who can say? So you'll have to stick around for another 100 movie review posts here on Shuker In MovieLand if you want to find out!

To view a complete chronological listing of all of my Shuker In MovieLand blog's other film reviews and articles (each one instantly accessible via a direct clickable link), please click HERE, and please click HERE to view a complete fully-clickable alphabetical listing of them.