Best of 2019

1. Best International Horror production of 2019: Didn't see any

2. Best films of 2019: Can't remember any

3. Best TV show of 2019: Don't do TV

4. Best book: Bloody Foreigners, but published some years ago.

5. Best DVD/Blu-ray: don't do DVD/Blu-ray

6. Worst film: Can't remember

7. Worst TV show: Don't do TV

8. Best Anime: Don't do anime

9. Favourite other website: http://www.charliechan.info/index.html

10. Your 2019: Work, eat, sleep, play golf, party, drink, party, travel, drink, party, watch Charlie Chan and old horror films, drink, party

11. Hope for 2020: Return to 2019 (without the bad shit)

Best International Horror production of 2019: Us

Best films of 2019: In Fabric / The Irishman / Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood / Burning

Best TV show of 2019: Bojack Horseman / His Dark Materials

Best book: The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa)

Best DVD/Blu-ray: The Golem / Woodfall / The Koker Trilogy

Worst film: Seen this year - Microwave Massacre

Worst TV show: TV is dead to me

Best Anime: Skull-faced Bookseller Honda-San

Favourite other website: The internet is just facebook and Twitter now I'm kinda bored with it

Your 2019: Spent hoping the turkeys wouldn't vote for Christmas (but feeling that they will)

Hope for 2020: That the world doesn't get any shittier (but it probably will) + someone releases Alain Resnais' Providence on blu ray.

Best British Horror production (film, TV, book, album, anything really) of 2019: The Lodge, which I saw at the LFF although it isn't released until next year. Honourable mention for Anna and the Apocalypse which got some cinema screenings in 2018 but I didn't see until this year.

Best International Horror production of 2019: Us.

Best film of 2019: The one I'm going to end up watching most is Avengers: Endgame, which I loved. I'm putting it in a tie with the beautiful Stan & Ollie.

Best TV show of 2019: Killing Eve again. Chernobyl is also remarkable.

Best DVD/Blu-ray: I'm going to say Indicator's Hammer Vol. 4. I'm still watching it but it seems to be their usual impeccable job.

Worst film: At the cinema, the amazingly disappointing Spider-Man: Far from Home. DVD premiere, Heretiks.

Worst TV show: Of the programmes I actually wanted to watch rather than having foisted on me, I have to agree with Darrell and say The War of the Worlds. Tedious, incoherent and inept with one of the worst scores I've heard on a TV series.

Bastard of 2019: Millions of the fuckers! All the self-serving, lying chancers in Johnson's crooked government, the sections of the media that are amplifying or facilitating the coup and those voters who, through ignorance, racism or some other bizarre agenda, have given them power.

Event of the year: Mine is a Rigby as well! The live reading of Vampirella.

Hope for 2020: That the world comes to its senses and starts jailing crooked politicians instead of voting for them and that this allows us to tackle the environmental and social crises they've led us into.

Here's mine:

Best British Horror production (film, TV, book, album, anything really) of 2019: IN FABRIC

Best International Horror production of 2019: FRAMED, directed by the very exciting Marc Martinez Jordan, whose short time travel film YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH is even better.

Best film of 2019: ROCKETMAN

Best TV show of 2019: to my surprise, I'm enjoying THE MANDALORIAN a great deal.

Best book: 'Have a Bleedin Guess' by Paul Hanley

Best album: 'The Utopia Strong' by The Utopia Strong. Of all the surprises ever experienced, snooker champion Steve Davis making an instant classic Kraut/electro/ambient LP is up there with the biggies.

Best DVD/Blu-ray: BORLEY RECTORY from Nucleus

Worst film: AD ASTRA

Worst TV show: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. What a crushing bore!

Man of 2019: the great John McDonnell, heavily involved with my own trade union at one time and now the man with the plan.

Woman of 2019: if there's a contender besides Greta Thunberg, I don't know about them.

Bastard of 2019: who's coming out of the shit-stirring revolving door this year? It's Priti Patel's turn, isn't it?

Favourite other website: Head Heritage

Your 2019: interviewing Dario Argento in front of a live audience was a dream come true, and the Maestro more than lived up to his reputation - a true artist. It's also been a joy to work at several film festivals and to edit some fine new books (Into the Velvet Darkness, From Gothic Chills to Cult TV Thrills, my own Short Sharp Shocks, and a forthcoming study of the films of Yul Brynner). And enjoying a lovely vegetarian lunch at Barbara Shelley's house was a real highlight.

Event of the year: Jonathan Rigby's hosting of THE FATAL NIGHT/PORTRAIT OF A MATADOR/RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL down at the BFI Southbank in April

Hope for 2020: a resurgent Labour Party/movement, under Mr Corbyn or with the Pidcock/Rayner/Long-Bailey dream team at the helm.