Best Horror Movies

After that, though, I really can't think of any others that have stuck with me. _Halloween_ was OK. The "classics" (Universal movies circa the 30s) are good in their own way. I haven't actually seen a Hammer flick yet, so my expectations are grossly out of whack. (And I'm talking about the Technicolor beauties w/ Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee, not the lesbian vamp flicks.)

Oh - _The Blair Witch Project_ is one movie that scared me crapless (though that had as much to do with the crowd response as to actually being scared myself - William Castle would've killed for that sort of crowd response). And _Suspiria_ (the only Argento flick I've seen) disturbed me quite a bit (especially the sequence involving the barbed wire).

The daddy of Brit horror movies though has to be "The wicker man". Thats pretty bizarre with an incredible ending too. Anything with Vincent Price is awesome too esp. "Witchfinder General" and "Theatre of blood". I thought "Scream" was pretty good although it's more of a pastiche than an actual horror movie. Haven't seen any Dario Argento movies. Although I saw "The Church" (I think it may be an Argento flick although he may have only produced it) and thought it was crap.

That, & _2001_ - I don't get it. Either of it.

"Theatre Of Blood" (Vincent Price as a Shakespearian actor who takes ritual revenge on the critics who previously mauled him).

The one about a series of ghoulish murders on the London Underground. Title escapes me.

The one about the little antique shop run by Peter Cushing (who is delighted when customers try to rip him off). Title might be "From Beyond The Grave".

"American Werewolf In London"

"Masque Of The Red Death"

"Hellraiser"

The ghoul's spooky yell is "MIND THE DOORS!" (This is TRUE!!) And yet it is (a) quiet scary and (b) quite moving...

I'll second American Werewolf (in London, NOT Paris)

The Freddie Mercury episode of Behind the Music

I still hold out hope for Mr. PJ - any person that can make _Meet the Feebles_ AND _Heavenly Creatures_ has to do a lot to lose my trust.

_Caligula_ is a horror flick? I thought it was just one long orgy. Unless they get it on with the horse / governor - that's a scary thought.

Would Jowordsky (sic?) count in this topic - _Sante Sangre_, _El Topo_ - ? I've heard many a good thing about his work (including endorsements by Clive Barker), but haven't actually seen these flicks. And what about other foreign horror films (outside Argento)? From what I know of Jess Franco, he could qualify for discussion in both the horror & schlock categories.

Like, say, Herschell Gordon Lewis' _Blood Feast_ - cheeeesy. Ketchup flick about an Egyptian freak hacking up people for some ceremony. Grooovy, maaaan.

Some personal all-time favorites, randomly presented:

Horror of Dracula (classic Lee 'n' Cushing). Rosemary's Baby. Nosferatu (particularly, Herzog's version with Klaus Kinski; the rat sequence is truly surreal). Theatre of Blood (Vincent Price; maybe more a black comedy than a 'Horror' film, but great fun). The Abominable Dr. Phibes (also Vincent Price, similar kind of plot). Alien (I always considered it more a Horror movie than a Sci-Fi movie). Race with the Devil (always loved this one; low-budget horror/car chase movie--think "Rosemary's Baby" meets "Duel"). The Dead Zone. Brotherhood of Satan (featuring the dynamic duo of L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin; one of the coolest endings I've ever seen). The Shining (the scenes with those two girls...gawd!). Masque of the Red Death w/ Vincent Price. From Beyond the Grave (as previously mentioned; great anthology...one might also mention along similar lines "Asylum", "Tales that Witness Madness", " Torture Garden", etc.; varying degrees of quality). The classic Universal stuff: Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, Wolf Man. The Mummy (the Hammer version; again, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing). Devil Times Five (I remember finding this one disturbing as a teen, though haven't seen it in ages; maybe it's goofy when you see it as an adult). The Exorcist (didn't like the new version with the extra scenes, though). Great stuff. The Omen 1 (and maybe Omen 2).

Re: modern (80s onwards) "conventional" horror movies, thought Candyman was excellent. Esp. due to ambivalent ending where you don't know whether Candyman even existed vs. being figment of lead woman's imagination. Sequel was crap for reason most horror sequels are crap: bad guy becomes star and main character. Bad guys always best when have element of unknown, when you don't know what they look like, only hints of such, and when you don't know their motivation or have cause to sympathise, when they're... !*!PURE*EVIL!*!

Peter Jackson: prefer Bad Taste to Brain Dead if only cuz it came first. Both very funny, more "splatter" than "horror" genre. In Bad Taste, hero shoots ONE bullet into tree and lots of aliens fall out shot = excellent funny idjit stuff!!

Unusual ending on that one. They spend the whole film desperately trying to escape the Satanists. Then when you/they finally think they're clear...they're not..and that's it.

I always get to these threads too late, every film I could mention has already been mentioned.

I'm also lovin' the Jackson fella, most of the script of Bad Taste has entered me and my mates' pub/drunk vocabulary: "The barrsteds have landed"; "Some pricks tried to take us on"; "Mmm, aren't I luckyyy, I got a chunky bit?"; "Did you have to drink some chuck?". And. So. On.

And The Frighteners is very underrated. Michael J Fox's second best film. I love how a sodden New Zealand has to stand in for the US as Jackson insisted it be filmed in his home country. So we get incongruities like a white picket fence around the lawn of what is clearly a NZ suburban house and so on.

Other Horror flicks: The Haunting ('63 version, I need hardly add.); Argento's Suspiria, Opera, Inferno, Tenebre, Deep Red and I even have a soft spot for late [crap] Argento flick Creepers: Donald Pleasance and Jennifer Connelly? Argento's daughter getting decapitated? Yes please.

And The Blair Witch Project: a superb film, audacious and genre re- defining. For though it has the same shaky-cam, 'let's do the film right here' ethic of many other cinema verite / dogme 95 films of recent times, it isn't rendered near un-watchable by the suffocating air of smugness that stinks out the likes of Gummo or The Idiots. Okay, so the Blair Witch character's incessant "Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?" whining quickly gets annoying, but the black and white photography is genuinely beautiful and haunting - even if it was 'accidental' - and the way the air of tension is cranked up, the way the sense of disorientation and panic is made real precisely *because* of it's 'home-made' quality. Furthermore, in an era where, increasingly, 'Horror' = cynical, ironic and self- conscious; a genre that hates itself; has become embarrassed by itself, so now plays everything for laughs, tipping knowing winks to it's audience, TBWP plays it straight. It's a refreshingly serious, old-fashioned, camp-fire ghost story, and one that explores the fear of the unknown; the fear of the dark - real fears that we actually have experience of, not the fear of being chased by an un-killable, semi-mythical maniac in a mask, which - if we're lucky - might provide us with a 'jump' or two, but, ultimately, leaves us smirking at the ridiculousness of it all, and happy. Unchallenged.

It ends with magic: the scene that really pulls TBWP clear of it's contempraries is the final one in The Old House in the Woods (classic!). After finding the - creepy - children's handprints on the landing wall, Mike hears Josh's cries coming from somewhere below them and races off to find him, leaving Heather still upstairs. Mike has the small camcorder - the one recording sound while Heather has the silent 16mm B&W camera. And it's through this camera only that we see the ensuing, final scene. As Mike disappears downstairs, we are left with Heathers jumpy, unsettling camera work, she follows after, crying out, but as Mike is recording the sound, her cries are weirdly distant and muffled, leaving the scene with an eerie quiet. As she gets closer and closer to the basement where Mike has disappeared her screams get louder and louder and louder until... bang. Darkness. The end. F'kin' A!

"The Fly" is a good example of that, particularly the original. The horrible dawning of the truth on the main character when he realises that he may have been reconstituted part-fly...and even before that when his early experiment with a plate sees the object reconstituted perfectly *except the writing on the base is back-to-front* (creepy).

I like my horror films spooooky, and preferably foreign. Eyes Without A Face is just an impressionistic nightmare - could be remade now with perfect special effects and completely lose its impact. As happened with The Haunting. Enjoyed The Ring (Japanese video virus horror) earlier this year as well, merely because it played the game under slightly different rules.

Will always have a soft spot as well for the original Nightmare On Elm Street - which is genuinely scary and is the pinacle of the teenage girl slasher movie/power over menstruation analogy. These days I just get merely impressed by good horror films rather than scared - and of course that happens rarely. Last time I got a proper headfuck was probably watching Jacob's Ladder pissed.

For some reason, I can only deal with horror movies which aren't slasher flicks. I find the entire "Friday The 13th"/"Halloween"/"Nightmare On Elm Street" axis to be completely unwatchable in the sense that I will have screaming nightmares if I watch them. In fact, the only one of those that I've seen in its entirety is "Nightmare On Elm Street 2", which I recognized as being somewhat, um, stupid, yet kept me awake for months afterwards because I was SO DISTURBED by the idea of someone entering my dreams and killing me/making me kill my friends. One gnawingly creepy scene from that movie was the party scene, where Freddy shed the main character like an old skin and ran rampant on his best friend and the kids by the pool... *shudder*

Of course, to be completely perverse, I love vampire movies (unless they happen to be "From Dusk 'Til Dawn", aka "The DUMBEST MOVIE EVER TO AVOID THE MST3K TREATMENT").

I'm a sucker for Catholic horror - anything with priests and Satan in it, preferably with a lot of Latin thrown in.

Re slasher movies - good to see above that they are effective. The idea behind Nightmare On Elm Street is persuasively simple and hence terrifying if done right (the original, and for more imagination but less fear number 3: Dream Warriors). However should be noted that slasher films are squarely aimed at teenage girls, us boys don't really get a look in.

Otherwise, I loved Blair Witch, but there's also a very nice psychological horror movie called Session 9 that you should check out sometime

The Omen (which was pitched very much as a psychological thriller - is Gregory Peck losing his mind? - rather than as a blood and thunder
exercise, something the sequels dropped)

Suspiria (though the underwater basement scene in Inferno is equally brilliant)

The Beyond (the only Lucio Fulci movie I like, mainly because it's cheesy and disturbing in roughly equal measure).

Hammer's best three films - The Devil Rides Out, Plague Of The Zombies, The Reptile - wonderful camp old nonsense.

Kwaidan - more of a ghost story than a horror film though.

Doesn't anyone here think The Wicker Man is overrated? The ending is outstanding but the rest is fairly mediocre? The much-lauded seduction scene (Britt Ekland's wall-banging and stunt arse antics and Edward Woodward's sweaty reaction to it) seems just risible now.

Ring

An American Werewolf In London

Lair Of The White Worm was enjoyably camp stuff.

Does anyone remember The Godsend? Bad seed/cuckoo-in-the-nest type storyline where mysterious little girl adopted by family bumps off the other kids? I still remember the look on the girl's face after the death scenes - utterly malevolent.

Ring

An American Werewolf In London

Lair Of The White Worm was enjoyably camp stuff.

Does anyone remember The Godsend? Bad seed/cuckoo-in-the-nest type storyline where mysterious little girl adopted by family bumps off the other kids? I still remember the look on the girl's face after the death scenes - utterly maleveolent.

Phantasm was excellent.

Would anyone say that something like The Stepford Wives (contemporary 70's conspiracy thriller) could be classified as a *horror* film?

Possibly. I do like it a lot but more as a charming fairy tale combined with '70s period piece. It's not really a horror film as such.

Can anyone who is familiar with this movie explain to me what the hell is going on in it? All I can make of it is something about robots trying to make a race of robots, by kidnapping humans and lopping off their body parts one part at a time. The movie starts off with like four different plots. Hilarious 60s jazz soundtrack, though...makes it sound like a Bond flick.

I'm not an expert on horror movies, help me out!

All-time favorites, Poltergeist and (somewhat less so, and I'm not always sure it's really horror) The Omen.

Phantasm is a little further away from Poltergeist on the "things make sense and are explained" axis, but the horror aspects are similar, I think. Except that you don't have the "Spielberg world haunted by Tobe Hooper" aspect that I think is what makes Poltergeist work.

Oh, for the slashers, I'm always surprised at how well Nightmare on Elm Street ages, maybe simply because the acting is noticeably better than in the sequels.

I feel I would have watched more horror movies, but it seems to be a common problem that most of them do not deliver. Do people have higher expectations of the type of emotional charge to be had from watching horror than they do any other genre?

Oh, yes.

I think the Sixth Sense-style twist ending, and the who's-the-killer plots of Prom Night, Scream, etc., are to cover this up.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original version)
The Shining
Videodrome, The Fly, pretty much any of David Cronenberg's earlier films
The Thing (1982 remake)
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
Frailty
Dawn of the Dead (original version)
28 Days Later
Alien

I haven't seen Rosemary's Baby in years, I really should rent it.

The second one wasn't a good movie, I guess (though it was as good as Cabin Fever, which I liked), but it had atmosphere, some humor (U&K for cheesy horror), the reality twist (and Wiccan nudity). In every possible way, it was definitely better than the first one.

My faves - the Omen, the Fog, Scream and the Shining. Sleepy Hollow, too, if it counts.

Yup. Soundtrack by Goblin.

xpost

The Fog, Dawn of the Dead, The Thing, American Werewolf in London, Alien.
And when I was only a ickle boy: Island of Terror, The Deadly Spawn, Alien

my vote goes to "Audition," another scary-as-all-fuck Japanese movie

Ste, "The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue" (aka "Don't Open the Window") is not very good, BUT I'm in a minority of one there. It is a generally regarded as a true classic of the genre, but I found that very little happens for the first hour and the (then) legendary bloodshed is very dated. BUT, I did see it some years ago and it might need some revisiting from me.

The best horror film (as in the horror film that just flat out beats any other for pure entertainment/ quotability/ brilliance) is "An American Werewolf in London". Every single time.

a horror movie is exactly what it is.

I guess it's a horror movie. I don't object to it being one, just didn't have a clear measure of a horror movie in mind: "it's scary" can't be enough, since most horror movies aren't -- but a lot of bad comedies aren't funny, so maybe intent is enough. I'm not sure anything in the Omen has scared me since I was little and believed in a literal Revelation, Antichrist, and so on -- but it was definitely suspenseful even after that, and the more internal horror of "I think my puppy may be a bit of a devil" is still striking.

"Poltergeist" on the other hand is fantastic.

For the person chatting about cheapo living dead films - "Night of the Zombies" (released in the UK as "The Zombie Dead" by Vipco) is, quite frankly, crap - as are almost all of the Italian rip offs ("Zombie" aka "Zombie Flesh-Eaters" being the sole exception, unless we want to categorise "The Beyond" as a zombie film).

"GILIGILGILGILGILI!!!!!!" I'm not in a hurry to hear that sound again.

House of 1000 Corpses wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, considering it's got something to do with Rob Zombie. A very accomplished update of the Texas Chainsaw storyline. Excellent nu-metal (almost) free soundtrack to boot (search Slim Whitman - "I Remember You")

re: Poltergeist's supernatural horror vs. the supernatural horror of Christian-themed movies like the Exorcists, Omen, etc., I wonder how compatible that is with my "explanation is less scary" thing -- what I like about Poltergeist, especially in comparison to the sequels, is the relative lack of explanation compared to so many other movies.

i like the trashy boold horror movies too, but most of them are more funny than scary to me.this Italian director i forgot his name,does it great...

Also, anything that includes Tom Hanks. I always feel trapped inside a cell losing time.

Lucio Fulci?

And Nathalie....Man Bites Dog was called "It's coming near your house"? in Belgium?? Uhhh.

May
Ginger Snaps
Haxen: Witchcraft Through the Ages
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Dead Alive

Thread should have been locked here! The most wonderfully OTT celebration of human innards ever committed to film. Laughed my head off, and then scrabbled about looking for it. Etcetera.

Clearly a euphemism!

fucking love this film, i love Dawn too. i reckon i like them equally as much tho, they're both very different films and both have seperate redeeming qualities.

seriously. the bits when jack nicholas goes gaga with an axe aren't scary, they're close to slapstick. the first half with the subliminal girls and the waves of blood, however, ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH

Yep, it happened close to you. I always thought that was much scarier than "man bites dog."

I am also WTF at the remake of The Hitcher.

Actually, I really liked The Ring and The Grudge; I guess I should really say it's slasher flicks that I can't deal with.

thats the one..

If you liked Ring and The Grudge, Dan, definitely check out Audition. It's not supernatural, or a slasher film, it's more like a romance drama with a stillborn octopus growing out of the side of its head. And read as little about it as you can before seeing it!

-- Nathalie (dotdotdo...) (webmail), January 10th, 2007 10:13 AM. (stevie nixed) (later) (link)

My french is poor. :( LOL GRAD SCHOOL LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENT, YOU ARE BEING COMPLETED IN NOT FRENCH.

Audition ROOLZ.

And indeed, Audition does rule. Oh, Miike-san.

Lady Vengeance was a horror movie?

The Shining is not a comedy, it just mostly sucks.

The Descent
The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
Hard Candy (if it counts)
Slither
Wolf Creek

Still need to see Feast, Lady Vengeance, Hostel, and the Masters of Horror series.

Then I nominate K-PAX. *shudders violently*

Hostel would top my list for 2006, horror-wise.

How about we just agree that Slither was a ton of fun, and one of the few recent films to get the humor/horror balance right?

I ranted about Hostel in the noize sandbox movie thread...BORING. REALLY BORING. also, added bonus of incredibly offensive to my womanness. apparently miike has a cameo in it though?

Has anyone seen any of the Masters of Horror series? Netflix has the whole series available, but I'm not sure I want to commit to watching all of them. Sounds like the Miike one is a stand out, but I'm curious about the others as well.

-- darin (darin...) (webmail), January 10th, 2007 5:32 PM. (darin) (later) (link)

I haven't seen any of them, but there a lot of really good genre directors did episodes (John Carpenter, John Landis, Tobe Hooper if you forget everything other than Texas Chainsaw Massacre kind of blows, etc.). I think it'd definitely be worth netflixing.

The most terrifying part was the cave in at the start, but once the monsters came it was an absolute snooze-fest. Poorly explained husband-cheating-with-best-friend sub plot as well. Was the hopeless standard ending really too intense for U.S. audiences? It was just the 'all-a-dream' ending but in reverse.

Oh, and did anyone else think the monsters pretty much looked like CHUDs? Poor make-up application in parts as well.

Day is definately underrated. Dawn is still better. Land was surpringly decent, I thought.

The Descent was about my favourite film of 2005, it just completely worked.

Still worth watching, as it contains a number of jaw-dropping scenes and the general tone is like David Lynch directing The Grugdge scripted by The Brothers Grimm.

I included the bedroom scene in a presentation I did on Korean film, so I had to watch the clip like 50 times - it never got any less scary.

If you're curious at all about Masters Of Horror - WATCH IMPRINT - and proceed with caution after that...

Dan doesn't seem to like serial killers randomly cutting people up. Audition does get gory and sadistic, but there's a whole lot more character development going on, and it's definitely not a slasher film, more of a psychological thriller.

(holy shit, 21 years)

Um anyway, I deal with these movies a lot better now but I still don't enjoy most of them. I do dig stuff like "The Ring" and "The Grudge", though.

If you are talking about Rowdy Roddy Piper v. the aliens what vote republican that is.

The bedroom scene in A Tale of Two Sisters is so scary. ;_; Asian horror ghosts scare me WAY more than anything else ever. I am basically terrified of Sadako and refuse to watch either version of the Ring.

Jessie, will this make you run screaming out of the room?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Ringu_sadako.jpg

Look at all this awesome stuff coming out on DVD before Halloween this year.

http://www.dvddrive-in.com/features/mgmfox07halloweendvds.htm

Well, mostly just Witchfinder General and (holy shit!) a double feature disc of the two Amicus EC horror anthologies!!!

Can we possibly talk about how ridiculously shitty the "twist" in High Tension was? Everything up to that point was pretty OK, & the soundtrack was fantastic (esp. during the forest chase) (I'm not counting Muse, FWIW), but when the big reveal comes, it is SUCH a letdown.

no one said carrie??

xpost: good to see MGM finally putting out 'Mephisto Waltz' - saw it late night on local TV years ago, found it quite atmospheric, and always wanted to give it a second look. I don't think it's a lost classic by any means, but an interesting oddity.

The only film to ever really scare me was Funhouse. And it really, really scared me when I was about 14.

Only film to ever really scare me was Jacob's Ladder, like a year and a half ago.

And Total Recall when I was 4; but when I tried rewatching the part that horrified me, I felt absolutely nothing.

We saw "Scream" for the first time in its entirety last night; that movie is constructed really well with all of its metanonsense ("Jamie, look behind you!", Freddy Kruger janitor, "Sid, this is all a movie and you can't pick your genre", etc) and the final run of killings are great (poor Rose McGowan).

Scream is great. The way the first scene unspools is one of the all-time great moments in any horror movie.

"DEAD MAN'S SHOES"!!!!! ultra-gritty realism, absolutely harrowing, and fantastic acting.

I love the fact that the biggest-named actress in the movie dies right at the beginning!

Yes

also the Jif-E-Pop on the stove

The Haunting is the best ghost movie in existence. Book by Shirley Jackson is great too, although she's been lost to the mists of time and some of her stuff isn't even published anymore.

The Wicker Man - the original, of course - and Audition.

Night of the Demon
I Walked with a Zombie
Bride of Frankenstein

!

Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

SLITHER was great & k-funny but also creepy. However, in the creepy department, SHIVERS took the cake for me. Way scarier than a zombie movie, but with the same tension of 'OMG this will take over the world & no one will escape.

I wish SLITHER got mentioned more. It really hasn't gotten its due.

slither was a bit disappointing. it was funny and full of rubbery-splattery goodness, but it just didn't stay on my mind too long after i watched it. i did admire the effort to emulate that kind of horror-comedy they don't make enough of anynore.

The Haunting is the best ghost movie in existence. Book by Shirley Jackson is great too, although she's been lost to the mists of time and some of her stuff isn't even published anymore.

-- humansuit, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:34 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

really? you can find the haunting and some of her other novels and short story collections in almost any major bookstore chain, last time i checked. "the lottery" is available online a lot of places for free as well.

i do totally agree that the original Haunting movie is great.

Thirded. I caught it on telly when I was a wee kid so it just might have made more impression back then. That horrific banging noise!

Dr Phibes Rises Again! Was there anything more impressive that killing someone by sand-blast ?

I love the fact that the biggest-named actress in the movie dies right at the beginning!

Christ, Dan, why not tell us WHO THE FUCK DID IT AS WELL. :-)

It was the guy in the mask.

TIS THE SEASON!

We just kicked it off this week with Night of the Living Dead (own that one) and a double feature of Friday 13th (decent) and F13th part II (disappointing). I've compiled a list based on this thread and good ol' IMDB of potential rentals:
* The Innocents
* The Changeling (might have already seen this one?)
* Dead Zone
* Race with the Devil
* The Frighteners
* Phantasm
* Shivers
* American Werewolf in London (have definitely seen this)
* Jacob's Ladder (this too)

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

So, we watched The Innocents last night, and it was pretty scary for a non-gory B/W film from 1960.

gore isn't usually scary, just "shocking."

The Witchfinder General (w/ V Price) just came out on DVD, and it's quite scary though it is somewhat gory yet NOT a true horror film!

The Vault of Horror DVD has some goofy moments of censorship, but it's almost more fun for them. Tales from the Crypt still my favorite anthology horror.

After all these years, I cannot get Julian Beck's final performance in Poltergeist II (unfortunately an otherwise crappy movie) out of my head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Hz-nZjulQ

Haunting in the truest sense of the word.

Sleepaway Camp
Silent NIght, Deadly NIght (come on, KILLER SANTA!)

not the best ones e ver, but please don't go into obscurity.

Silent NIght, Deadly NIght

Is that the one with GARBAGE DAY?

nope, that was the sequel.

I hear they're remaking this as well. seriously, how the hell can Hollywood expect to improve on movies that were charming for their camp (intentional and unintentional)?

Troll 2

-- latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 11:20 (1 year ago) Link

Just watched Nightmares this weekend. Completely silly and completely awesome. The graphics in the Emilio Estevez story are great unheralded stoner segment and Lance Henriksen vs. a truck is way better than Maximum Overdrive.

*ahem*

The graphics in the Emilio Estevez story make it a great unheralded stoner segment

(have not been stoned in years...honest)

polite lol @ Picket Fences sonning Gilmore Girls in Saw IV (and V, I'm guessing)

Surprised no one's brought up Kyoshi Kurosawa's Cure.
Not really gore heavy but it's the scariest movie i've ever seen. Not scary in the sense of springloaded cats, but in the way that you start to worry that the movie is brainwashing you into murdering.

Just ordered Raw Meat (Death Line) and Dead & Buried. I'm stoked. Another Halloween season is upon us.

A couple of weeks ago we bought Phantasm, but I fell asleep 10 minutes in. I kept waking up and not understanding what the hell I was seeing, but even more so than when I usually do that. All I remember is YELLOW BLOOD! I want to try to revisit it, but the Missus (who stayed up through the whole thing) hasn't been interested. Maybe I'll try to put it on again tonight.

I kept waking up and not understanding what the hell I was seeing

This sensation will not change even if you manage to see it from start to finish--it's one of Phantasm's great attributes.

Love Halloween season.

It's the best! I mean, it's always fun to watch Dawn of the Dead, or Evil Dead 2, or Halloween, but there's something so satisfying about watching them on or around Halloween.

A coworker of mine watches a horror movie every night starting October 1st, leading up to Halloween.

Your coworker is my new hero.

I kept waking up and not understanding what the hell I was seeing

This sensation will not change even if you manage to see it from start to finish--it's one of Phantasm's great attributes.

OTM.

Also, make sure you watch all the sequels.

I wish I could do that this year. But i have too many '00s films to catch up on before year's end.

Has anyone seen this? I'm hearing good things and it comes out on Netflix this week.

http://mimg.ugo.com/200709/2784/trick_r_treat_poster.jpg

xp! It's out on October 6, and as you can see, it is ON MY LIST.

My picks so far this year are:

The Thaw
Trick 'R Treat
End of the Line
Night of the Lepus*
From Beyond**

I usually go straight cheese, but there seems to have been some decent new releases, so I am trying to be somewhat current.

*In honor of the conversation on the Least Favorite Movie thread.
**It's playing at this year's Music Box Massacre, but I'm not going so I'm renting it.

xpost - Yeah, that has a mysteriously high 8.1 imdb rating but I'm a little dubious.

I'm intrigued by this, if only for the vintage poster art (that ubiquitous slick monochrome chiaroscuro gets tiresome):
http://www.moviesonline.ca/AdvHTML_Upload/house-devil-posgter.jpg

wow! yeah, that is a great poster.

oh hold on, I know this one. It played at Tribeca; directed by the dude who did Cabin Fever 2, right? Haven't heard a ton about it, but heard he's going for a real late 70's/early 80's feel. hope it's good.

IIRC, Bloody Disgusting gave it a good review.

Creepshow, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Hal Holbrook, Stephen King, Ted Danson... ahh...

That's one of those movies you can find in a DVD bin for $4 or so. Glad I got it

Finally got around to seeing It Follows, and I was floored by how beautiful and original and poetic it was. I've never seen a movie pull off the "indeterminate time period" thing so well, either. Almost everything about it was masterful.

whoa this looks good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6wWKNij_1M

http://www.spookyisles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Abominable-Dr-Phibes.jpg

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Abominablephibes1.jpg

i saw this recently, it was incredible. it has that pop art Batman 60's TV show look to it like the other kinetic-stylistic comedy-horror films of the era. the murders are pretty ghastly and the romantic-goth vibes are very nice.

also: did Arcade Fire rip off Dr. Phibes's band the Clockwork Wizards?

https://hardtickettohomevideo.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/phibes-clockwork-wizards.jpg

Phibes is great and the sequel is no slouch either.

Finally got around to seeing It Follows, and I was floored by how beautiful and original and poetic it was. I've never seen a movie pull off the "indeterminate time period" thing so well, either. Almost everything about it was masterful.

― Evan R, Monday, January 2, 2017 10:59 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^same. Great flick.