Best Horror Film of 1994 (part 22 of a series)

New Nightmare, possibly

I've only seen a handful of these, the big studio stuff. Probably go for "In The Mouth of Madness" or Branagh's "Frankenstein" just for being so batshit crazy.

The Nightmare on Elm Street and Phantasm franchises are both like greasy comfort food for me, but I think I'll end up picking New Nightmare because it was so much better than I thought it'd be.

Is there a list of the previous polls anywhere?

cemetery man is pretty great.

Is there a list of the previous polls anywhere?

So far, we've done 1973-1993.

Cemetery Man / Dellamorte Dellamore is an extraordinary film. One of the best comic adaptations i've ever seen. Kind of crazy that Michele Soavi has only made one not-for-tv film since.

also crazy that they actually got rupert everett for it! (since the character was actually modeled after him an all.)

anyone know anything about the new dylan dog movie? looks like it's coming out quite soon.

and man, anna falchi in this movie. damn.

Don't know which is the better concept done worse, "Wolf" or "New Nightmare." Probably the latter; in the former, James Spader and Jack Nicholson are great, and the aging in the workplace metaphor strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37vZ2G_XbmU&feature=related

I still remember this exchange from Charlie Rose's show soon after Wolf came out (very rough paraphrase):

Janet Maslin: I think Mike Nichol's Wolf is really strong for the first 30 minutes or so.
Charlie Rose: And what happens then?
Maslin: He turns into a wolf.

I thought it was pretty good at the time, and that Nicholson was actually acting instead of doing Jack schtick.

shatter dead!

^ dude who knows whats going on

lol, I saw "Wolf" in the theater

your username fits well with that post

Where the hell is

Ticks
Brainscan
Ghoulies IV

Cemetery Man pretty easily.

schramm.

Ticks came out in 1993, Brainscan is already on the list and Ghoulies IV was probably direct to video.

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Nadja! So good. Psychic faxes and torture by buttered toast.

No "Interview With the Vampire"?

I'll vote In the Mouth of Masness. It's the last Carpenter movie worth a damn.

Madness

Wolf is a satire, and a pretty decent one.

I really like 'in the mouth of madness' - so that

wolf is an inadvertent satire (if that), and absolutely fucking terrible

damn, I don't know how the hell I missed Interview With a Vampire.

i support your oversight whatever the reason

wow genre was really in the shitter by this point

I saw Wolf in the theater too btw. mostly because of Spader.

yeah, tbh things don't pick up this decade until around '96

wow genre was really in the shitter by this point

― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, May 3, 2011 5:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

it really was. "horror" didn't really get a boost again until Scream.

Even though it didn't make this list I'll rep for Interview With the Vampire--certainly no classic but it's better than the book it's based on.

I like Wolf.

a few interesting movies here.

Yeuk saat (Red to Kill) is a good movie, with an incredible performance by Lily Chung. the verboten subject matter is the sexual abuse Chung's character endures at the hands of a lovesick psycho caretaker at the special-needs facility where she resides. but it doesn't add up to a better pic than Cemetery Man.

Aswang deserves credit for inducting a loathsome new entity, the fetus-fed long-tongued vampire of Filipino lore, into the West's horror-movie bestiary. it's always nice to see writers looking beyond the Universal cadre of vampires and werewolves and zombies (oh my!) - and Eastern and Aboriginal legends are rife with similarly malevolent miscreations. there are better aswang movies out there (mainly from Indonesia; try Mystics in Bali), but this one isn't bad.

i struggle mightily with Shatter Dead, an ambitious backyard zom-pocalypse epic, among the first to be set in a world where the living dead are not monsters but second-class citizens, clamoring not for braaaaaaaaaaaaaains but for equal rights. the director overindulges in nudity, gunplay, squalor, and abject ugliness, but the idea is too compelling to dismiss. it would indeed be revisited - and better realized in - films like France's They Came Back and the superior Last Rites (aka Z.A.: Zombie Anonymous.

but Cemetery Man is Cemetery Man, it's feckin' brilliant, and i also promised many moons ago that Michele Soavi would win the 1994 poll. so...

Oh damn, didn't realize Yeuk Saat was Red To Kill. Retroactive vote for that.

Still need to see New Nightmare, voted In The Mouth Of Madness. Saw part of Cemetery Man and it was either too Euro for my tastes or I was too drunk/tired to appreciate it.

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Wow no one mentioned this at all but it got two votes. Seems interesting and kinda crazy:

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0291272/