Best Horror Film of 1993 (part 20 of a series)

yikes

Cronos takes this, unless I skimmed past something obvious.

I think I had totally given up on horror by this point, I've seen like 2 or 3 of these

Seen about 3 of these, and wouldn't call Army of Darkness a horror flick. I used to think Cronos was pretty good but del Toro has confused my opinion of his work with every movie he makes since.

yeah, not a lot of highlights this year

cronos still in my instant queue, unwatched

guess I should get to that before all the criterions disappear

Considering that the first The Hidden is ONE OF THE TOP 5 MOVIES EVER MADE I've never wanted to put myself thru the inevitable disappointment of the sequel.

Leprechaun makes me smile at least but it's not even the best Leprechaun movie.

Think I've probably seen Maniac Cop 3, used to love the shit out of that franchise.

Tempted here to vote Carnosaur for the Diane Ladd/Clint Howard/this movie is fucking ridiculous factor.

lol Carnosaur

I mean can I just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k60ZIk25tx8

carnosaur eat a girl's foot

don't mind if I do

Leprechaun makes me smile at least but it's not even the best Leprechaun movie.

^^^it's got nothin on Leprechaun 4 amirite

Skeeter vs. Skinner

lolz@ that carnosaur clip:

Tags:
* horror
* vore
* blood
* feet
* eaten
* alive
* carnosaur
* animals

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xxp

Yeah Leprechaun in Space or Leprechaun in the 'Hood are the epics

I have seen almost none of these films! Cronos is totally obv the winner I think?

there's a part in Carnosaur where one of the dinos approaches a hippy and he flashes a peace sign and says "peace little green brother" and gets eaten

here's that scene in italian!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUct8HztfMY&feature=related

'body snatchers' is pretty good. 'return of the living dead 3' has some moments. 'cronos' and 'army of darkness' are probably the best ones here.

ISTR that Abel Ferrara version of "Body Snatchers" up there being pretty good but I haven't seen since it was new.

xxp lol the Foley guy for Carnosaur clearly did yeoman's work there, kudos to him.

I seem to recall thoroughly enjoying Needful Things. Don't think anyone else did though.

think I've seen some of Needful Things but tbh I think King shd've stopped writing some time in the early 80s

it's deeply silly but iirc Max von Sydow & Ed Harris have a lot of fun with it

when was Misery written? that was pretty solid.

I have just the vaguest memory of this, but I saw The Dark Half because someone in The New Yorker or somewhere like that said it was a much better version of what Film B was trying to do (Film B being a more critically respected film at the time). It was very much a Manny Farber, white elephant kind of comment. Anyway, I saw it, and the only positive thing to come out of the experience was that I'd probably be better skipping Film B.

misery (the book) came out in 1987

I'll give you Misery to be fair. Don't see anything else of worth after that.

Army of Darkness might be my favorite, but it's no horror movie. I think the only other I've seen that I liked at all was Slaughter of the Innocents...

tony todd as an axe wielding, quip cracking james baldwin in the fire next time is something to behold

I think i read some of a novelisation/source novel of Carnosaur once? The descrip on the back claimed that the carnosaur was sexually enraged from millions of years of enforced celibacy.

I was trying to figure out what the hell "Creepers" is. Not Argento's "Phenomena" (1985 and great), but D'Amto's "Contamination". Okay. I don't remember that one.

Don't remember Argento's "Trauma" either. It has Piper Laurie and Brad Dourif, so I vote yes.

Ghost in the Machine. Anime used to be badass.

*And then I realize I'm thinking of Ghost in the Shell. Thanks Google.

"Return of the Living Dead III" is actually pretty good, at least the uncut version. Surprised no one's really lobbied for it. "Carnosaur" was definitely one of the best video-shelf b-movies of that era. That "Friday the 13th" installment may be even worse than "Jason Goes to Manhattan." I seem to recall it featuring a janitor eating a possessed heart and ... turning into Jason? Starts out totally awesome, though, with a condensed sequence that enlists every "Friday" cliche: girl in the shower, cabin, running through the woods at night, ending with a SWAT team ambushing Jason and blowing him up with a rocket-propelled grenade. Now, granted, I have not seen this since opening day back in 1993, but that's how I remember it.

wasn't going to bother with this one, but it has been slow at work.

Body Bags - made-for-cable omnibus - a failed (Showtime?) pilot that prefigures the Masters of Horror series. reluctant thesp John Carpenter hams it up as a Cryptkeeper-esque morgue attendant and directs two of the tales, neither of which rises significantly above the par for TV anthology fare. the first revisits the late-night gas station terrors of Nightmares (which failed to get off the ground as a series in '83. didn't anyone consider that this script might be bad mojo?) via Halloween, while the other is amiable fluff about the darker side of the Hair Club for Men. best is the third story, a visceral but too-familiar ocular riff on "The Hands of Orlac" offering (fleeting) proof that Tobe Hooper can still scare with the best of 'em.

Body Melt - half-baked Aussie gross-out. has delusions of Cronenberg high-brow but plays more like an unfiltered mix of Razorback and Street Trash. Philip Brophy, who'd made some intriguing (and very icky) art shorts, wasn't quite ready for the feature-length arena, and it shows.

Creepers - killer swamp-vine spaghetti atrocity, inexplicably AKA Troll III and in every way an even worse movie than its notoriously Best Worst prequel.

Death Train - why is this here? TV actioner with Pierce Brosnan.

there are a couple of good ones (Jack Be Nimble, To Sleep with a Vampire) and many i'm ashamed to own/enjoy (Evil Toons, Necronomicon) but, ugh. i just... i just can't. truly painful year. coin-toss vote for either Carnosaur or Cronos.

yeah i think this was prob the low point for horror - army of darkness is great but yeah not horror in the slightest, will prob win tho. was about to vote for the dark half and then realized i was actually thinking of "raising cain" which is great for pure lithgow scene chomping ridiculousness. still havent seen cronos. might vote for return of the living dead iii which is fairly decent all things considered.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I think i read some of a novelisation/source novel of Carnosaur once? The descrip on the back claimed that the carnosaur was sexually enraged from millions of years of enforced celibacy.

― CharlieS, Saturday, March 19, 2011 2:59 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Carnosaur was based on a quickie 1984 science fiction/horror novel written by John Brosnan (under the pseudonym Harry Adam Knight).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnosaur_%28novel%29

It was put back in print to tie in with the movie (which is unusual because it was basically a straight-to-video flick). I bought a copy from the local Rite Aid IIRC when I was ten!

Things I recall about the book: lots of weak English social satire and several cheesy sex scenes, which pretty much blew the scales (pun intended) off of my 10 year old eyes.

Yes, Carnosaur played a part in ushering me into puberty. That's how much of a hardcore dorkasaurus I am.

these threads = ctrl+f Hal Jam

Creepers - killer swamp-vine spaghetti atrocity, inexplicably AKA Troll III and in every way an even worse movie than its notoriously Best Worst prequel.

on netflix as "Contamination .7"-- I'm pumped

Return of the living dead 3 is pretty good. Haven't seen cronos, so I guess I'll vote for that.

The best leprechaun is totally the one where he goes to vegas.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Is the version of Cronos on Netflix all fucked up for anyone else? It's all low-framerate when I try to watch it, like a stop-motion movie.

Yeah, it's definitely a problem on Netflix's side. I had the same problem and a few member reviews brought it up too.

i voted for Warlock twice

Cronos is a better movie than this year deserved. QED.

i actually like Warlock: The Armageddon but, c'mon.

is man's best friend actually any good? who voted for that?

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3560020992/tt0107504

not sure how this could be anything other than amazing

it found a way.

x-post omg

I LOVED Warlock: The Armageddon when I was younger but that's mostly because Julian Sands rules in general.

would agree in a world without Argento's Phantom of the Opera.
would really like to live in that world, actually.

Julian Sands AS the Warlock rules = incontrovertible truth.

yes

robotic dog!!

many xposts

I can't believe you guys have convinced me to re-queue warlock after already dropping it once thinking, "I will never watch warlock with 300 other movies in my queue." still will prob never watch it.