The Haughty Culturist

An alphabetical list of everything on the site.

0-9 & misc.

• 5 films about beauty pageants (film – various)
• 6 books about not fitting in (books – various)
• 10 Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier (book)
• 12 Angry Men (film, 1957)
• 1408 (film, 2007)
• 1984, by George Orwell (book – in comparison)
• 50 horror movie endings compared (film – various)
• Cinema and male role models (opinion)
• Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell (serialization)
• Vampires in film and fiction (Dracula, I Am Legend, Twilight)

A

• And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie (book)
• Alien (film, 1979: What song does Sigourney Weaver sing at the end of the film?)
• Alien (film, 1979: The android theory)
• Alien: Covenant (film, 2017)
• All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (book)
• Annie (film, 1990 – plus others)
• Arrival (film, 2016)
• Atomic Habits, by James Clear (book)

B

• The Beasts / As Bestas (film, 2022)
• Beverly Hills Cop (film, 1984)
• The Birds (film, 1963)
• The Black Phone (film, 2022)
• Black Swan (film, 2010)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (film, 1990)
• The Breakthrough, by Daphne du Maurier (book)
• Bride Wars (film, 2009)
• Brightburn (film, 2019)
• The Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney (book)
• The Bone Collector (film, 1999 – plus others)
• Bounce, by Matthew Syed (book)
• Bullet Train (film, 2022)

C

• Candyman (film, 1992)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl (book)
• Child 44 (film, 2015)
• The Chimp Paradox, by Prof Steve Peters (book)
• The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel (book)
• Collateral (film, 2004)
• Columbo (TV series, 1968 – 2003)
• The Commitments, by Roddy Doyle (book)
• Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata (book)
• The Conversation (film, 1974)
• Copycat (film, 1995 – plus others)
• The Courage To Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga (book)

D

• The Day the Earth Stood Still (film, 2008)
• The Departed (film, 2006)
• The Devil’s Advocate (film, 1997)
• Die Hard 2 (film, 1990)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (book)
• Dogs of War, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book)
• Don’t Let Go (film, 2019)
• Don’t Look Now, by Daphne du Maurier (book)
• Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell (serialization)
• Dracula (film, book, various); see also Coppola’s film
• Drive, by James Sallis (book)
• The Driver’s Seat, by Muriel Spark (book)
• Dybbuk (film, 2021)

E

• Earthlings, by Sayaka Murata (book)
• Edge of Tomorrow (film, 2014)
• Event Horizon (film, 1997)
• Everyday Enlightenment, by His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa (book)
• Ex Machina (film, 2014)

F

• Factfulness: 10 reasons we’re wrong about the world, by Hans Rosling (book)
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (book)
• Fake History, by Otto English (book)
• Falling Down (film, 1993)
• Fatal Attraction (film, 1987)
• The Fear Bubble, by Ant Middleton (book)
• Fight Club (film, 1999)
• The Firm (film, 1993)
• Flatliners (film, 1990)
• The Fly (film, 1986)
• The Foreigner (film, 2017)

G

• The Game (film, 1997)
• Gattaca (film, 1997)
• Get Out (film, 2017)
• God’s Creatures (film, 2022)
• Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys (book)
• Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (book)
• Good Will Hunting (film, 1997)
• The Great Escape (film, 1963)
• The Grey (film, 2011)

H

• Halloween (film, 1978)
• Happy, by Derren Brown (book)
• The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (film)
• Heat (film, 1995)
• Hereditary (film, 2018)
• How to Think Like a Neandertal, by Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge (book)
• How to Own the Room, by Viv Groskop (book)
• How to be Right … In a World Gone Wrong, by James O’Brien (book)
• The Hunt for Red October (film, 1990)

I

• I Came By (film, 2022)
• I, Robot (film, 2004)
• Inception (film, 2010)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (film, 2008)
• Infernal Affairs (film, 2002)
• Inheritance (film, 2020)
• Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer (book)

J

• Jaws, by Peter Benchley (film, book)
• Jaws (film, 1975)
• Joker (film, 2019)

K

• A Kiss Before Dying, by Ira Levin (book)
• Knock at the Cabin (film, 2023)
• Knowing (film, 2009)

L

• Liar’s Poker, by Michael Lewis (book)
• Life (film, 2017)
• The Lighthouse (film, 2019)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

M

• Macbeth (play)
• The Matrix (film, 1999)
• The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
• The Martian, by Andy Weir (book)
• The Machine Stops, by EM Forster (short story)
• The Menu (film, 2022)
• Midnight Cowboy, by James Leo Herlihy (book)
• Minority Report (film, 2002)
• Moon (film, 2009)
• The Mosquito Coast (film, 1986)
• My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (documentary, 2022)

N

• The Nanny (film, 1965)
• Napoleon Dynamite (film, 2004)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (book – in comparison)
• Nightflyers, by George R. R. Martin (book)
• Nope (film, 2022)
• Notes on Nationalism, by George Orwell (essay)

O

• The Omen (film, 1976)
• The Others (film, 2001)

P

• The Pale Blue Eye (film, 2022)
• Parasite (film, 2019)
• Passengers (film, 2016)
• Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely (book)
• Pretty Woman (film, 1990 – plus others)
• Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
• Prometheus (film, 2012)
• Psycho, by Robert Bloch (book)

R

• Rear Window (film, 1954 – plus others)
• Rebecca (film, 1940)
• Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke (book)
• The Ring (film, 2002)
• Rope (film, 1948)
• Rosemary’s Baby (film, 1968)
• Run (film, 2020)

T

• 12 Angry Men (film, 1957)
• 10 Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier (book)
• The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith (book)
• Taxi Driver (film, 1976)
• Tender is the Flesh, by Agustina Bazterrica (book)
• The Tomorrow War (film, 2021)
• Top Gun: Maverick (film, 2022)

S

• The Shining, by Stephen King (book)
• The Shining (film, 1980)
• Shutter Island (film, 2010)
• The Silence of the Lambs (film, 1991)
• Signs (film, 2002)
• So You Want to be a Producer, by Lawrence Turman (book)
• Sorry, Wrong Number (film, 1948 – plus others)
• Spencer (film, 2021)
• Sphere (film, 1998)
• Split (film, 2016)
• Spotlight (film, 2015)
• The Staircase (documentary, 2014-2018)
• The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin
• Success, by Martin Amis (book)
• Sunshine (film, 2007)

T

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (film, 1991)

U

• Unbreakable (film, 2000)
• Underwater (film, 2020)
• Unknown (film, 2011)
• The Usual Suspects (film, 1995)

V

• Vertigo (film, 1958)
• Violent Night (film, 2022)
• Vampires – miscellaneous

W

• Westworld (film, 1973)
• What Lies Beneath (film, 2000)
• Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys – book
• The Witch (film, 2015)
• The Woman in the Window (film, 2021)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (film, 1946)

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