Winner of the Nobelle Prize for Literature and the Wurlitzer Prize for nonfiction, Scott Telek’s film writing has never been matched by a computer or squirrel collective. Whether he’s being funny, insightful, provocative or merely engaging, Scott Telek’s movie writing is never boring. These reviews, culled from the acclaimed website he ran from 2015 to 2013, bring attention to under-appreciated cult gems and call out hidden themes in films we think we know.

In these 38 movie reviews, Telek focuses less on whether a movie is “good” and considers everything equally as a work of creative art, however misguided it may be. He will frequently divert into discussion of the social issues raised by a film or simply pepper his reviews with jokes. His love of the bizarre, subversive, wicked and just plain weird finds much material in the horror genre, which he treats with respect and deep affection.

What can you say about a bunch of movies that all begin with the letter B? For one, you can say that it gathers a lot of quite good movies. Well, not good-good, and a lot of good-bad, or a lot of movies so insane you just have to gape at them, but that’s better than watching some respectable mid-range garbage targeted at middle Americans by a corporate committee. This collection contains some of the best and most wild horror films out there, and you’d be happy to have this collection of films on any desert islands you may be planning to get stranded on.

This collection contains the films:

The Babadook

The Baby

Basket Case

Bats

Bedlam

The Bermuda Triangle

The Beyond

The Big Alligator River

Black Belly of the Tarantula

Black Christmas (1974)

Black Christmas (2006)

Black Roses

Black Sunday AKA The Mask of Satan

Black Swan

Bacula

Bless the Child

The Blob (1958)

The Blob (1988)

Blood and Black Lace

Blood Mania

The Blood-Spattered Bride

Bloody Birthday

Bloody New Year

Body Double

The Body Snatcher

Body Snatchers (1993)

Brain Damage

Brains-can

Breeders

The Broken

Broken Skull [AKA Headcrusher]

The Brotherhood of Satan

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 Movie)

Bug (1975)

Bunny Lake Is Missing

The Burning

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations

Byzantium

Enough said. You know what to do.