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garyFLR -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/23/2013 6:06:35 AM)
Hi Gauge, If you like the European Horror films, have you tried Dario Argento, an Italian director. Susperia & Bird With The Crystal Plumage are must sees.

Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/23/2013 10:32:26 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: hlen5 quote: ORIGINAL: Moonhead If you walked out of Dead Ringers, don't even think about watching either of these two... Tetsuo and Tetsuo Two (Body Hammer), are raving mad. Imagine Ichii The Killer, if it had been scripted by Phillip K Dick on crack. These films have everything (except much of a plot in the first one): scrap metal Akira style mutations (a great mix live action and stop motion), casual slaughter, misogyny (one scene involves a woman being screwed to death with a penis that's turned into a drill), strange conspiracies, you name it. Strange flicks, but not much like anything else, particularly as both were made in the early '90s. Another horror film everybody should see is the wonderful short of The Call Of Cthulhu a HPL fan society made. it's done as the film they'd have made of the story in the year it was written, so it's a black and white silent film, with stop motion monsters and awesome cod expressionist sets. Wonderful fun, particularly if you know your Lovecraft. No offense Moon, but I SO wish I had skipped this post. To theshytype - I HATED Seven for the "Lust" murder. Each to their own. [:D] I have to admit that it was sloth who made me jump in that one...

Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/23/2013 10:48:45 AM)
Another one you really wouldn't like, I suspect, is Cannibal Holocaust. This is the film that the Blair Witch Project ripped off the found footage conceit from, but is much cleverer, has a cast who can act, is staggeringly nasty, and at no point does somebody who can't act break down in tears while wearing a noddy hat. A Mondo film crew vanishes filming a documentary up the Amazon. The footage is recovered to find out what happened to them, and it emerges that what did isn't at all pleasant. Lots of splattery effects, but also some unfaked footage of cruelty to animals that I fround very hard to take and may well be unwatchable for many. Thirst is an unusual Korean vampire film. Very unusual and very Korean but hugely inventive, unpleasant, and very very funny. You'll probably have to resort to a torrent to see Crazy Family, but it's well worth tracking down. The most barking mad Japanese film of the '80s by a mile. Another horribly nasty Korean film is Hansel And Greta. If Angela Carter, JG Ballard and Phillip K Dick had collaborated on a horror novel in the early '80s, then this is what a film version would look like thirty years later.

theshytype -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/23/2013 11:28:07 AM)
quote: I have to admit that it was sloth who made me jump in that one... Me too. I do look away now that I know he's coming up.

sexyred1 -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/23/2013 11:34:09 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pissdoll quote: ORIGINAL: PyrotheClown I keep chanting "ubu gabu ubu gabu,one of us one of us" at work but no one ever gets the reference hmmm, might be because the reference is "gooble gobble, gooble gobble. we accept her. we accept her. gooble gobble, gooble gobble. one of us. one of us." Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932) Freaks was awesome!!! My brothers and I used to chant that all the time until my parents yelled at us to stop, lol. Also scary is anything with dolls and clowns. IT by Stephen King kills me from Pennywise; I had nightmares from him. I don't remember the name of this English film about stranded motorists who come to an old couple's mansion at night and the old man is a toy maker. He has rooms of dolls that whisper to each other at night about who they are going to kill. I cannot even look at a doll now. Shivers.

Winterapple -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/23/2013 2:07:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Moonhead Another one you really wouldn't like, I suspect, is Cannibal Holocaust. This is the film that the Blair Witch Project ripped off the found footage conceit from, but is much cleverer, has a cast who can act, is staggeringly nasty, and at no point does somebody who can't act break down in tears while wearing a noddy hat. A Mondo film crew vanishes filming a documentary up the Amazon. The footage is recovered to find out what happened to them, and it emerges that what did isn't at all pleasant. Lots of splattery effects, but also some unfaked footage of cruelty to animals that I fround very hard to take and may well be unwatchable for many. Thirst is an unusual Korean vampire film. Very unusual and very Korean but hugely inventive, unpleasant, and very very funny. You'll probably have to resort to a torrent to see Crazy Family, but it's well worth tracking down. The most barking mad Japanese film of the '80s by a mile. Another horribly nasty Korean film is Hansel And Greta. If Angela Carter, JG Ballard and Phillip K Dick had collaborated on a horror novel in the early '80s, then this is what a film version would look like thirty years later. Cannibal Holocaust? Ugh, would not go there. There are a lot of movies that have urban legends surrounding them. But the stories about animals being tortured and killed for this movie are true. I would never, ever watch it. I don't want to watch faked animal abuse much less the real thing.

Winterapple -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/23/2013 2:13:05 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sexyred1 quote: ORIGINAL: pissdoll quote: ORIGINAL: PyrotheClown I keep chanting "ubu gabu ubu gabu,one of us one of us" at work but no one ever gets the reference hmmm, might be because the reference is "gooble gobble, gooble gobble. we accept her. we accept her. gooble gobble, gooble gobble. one of us. one of us." Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932) Freaks was awesome!!! My brothers and I used to chant that all the time until my parents yelled at us to stop, lol. Also scary is anything with dolls and clowns. IT by Stephen King kills me from Pennywise; I had nightmares from him. I don't remember the name of this English film about stranded motorists who come to an old couple's mansion at night and the old man is a toy maker. He has rooms of dolls that whisper to each other at night about who they are going to kill. I cannot even look at a doll now. Shivers. I know that whispering doll movie but I'm blanking on the name. It was creepy as hell. Another movie that has a creepy doll scene is Bunny Lake is Missing. It's a suspense movie not a horror movie. But there's scene that takes place at a doll hospital with Noel Coward playing a perv that is memorable. It's a good film, black& white, mid-sixties British film.

Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/24/2013 8:21:46 AM)
Dead Of Night?

Winterapple -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/24/2013 9:14:13 AM)
I like Dead of Night. The Anthony Hopkins movie Magic from the 70's is another evil dummy movie. Not the greatest movie but Hopkins performance is very good.

Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/24/2013 10:05:20 AM)
If we're talking '60s and 70s British horror flicks, it's worth mentioning some of the raving mad stuff: films that are far too strange to just dismiss as camp. Scream And Scream Again (Vincent Price as a mad scientist, strange murders, bionic disco dancers), Psychomania (undead motorbike gang, led by him out of the "Confessions Of A..." soft porn flicks), Horror Hospital (michael Gough as a mad scientist, health farm full of lobotomised hippies and badass dwarfs, a hearse fitted with huge blaqdes to behead people as it drives past them) and Blood On Satan's Claw (a mash up of Witchfinder General and Hellraiser on really bad acid) all spring to mind...

hlen5 -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/24/2013 11:01:09 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: theshytype quote: I have to admit that it was sloth who made me jump in that one... Me too. I do look away now that I know he's coming up. Is that the one with the air freshener trees??

Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/24/2013 11:17:17 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: hlen5 quote: ORIGINAL: theshytype quote: I have to admit that it was sloth who made me jump in that one... Me too. I do look away now that I know he's coming up. Is that the one with the air freshener trees?? Yep.

hlen5 -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/24/2013 4:35:51 PM)
Sorry I asked!! Luckily the only other one I remember is gluttony. Who the hell wrote that monstrosity anyway??

jlf1961 -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/24/2013 5:04:29 PM)
My problem with horror movies is that the directors, writers, producers, and whoever thought up the ideas have done away with suspense and the surprise "OMG where the fuck did he/she/it come from" factors and replaced it with the "OMFG, does the human body even have that much blood?" factor. The last two good horror movies of recent years (after 1970) was "The Howling" and "An American Werewolf in London." As far as suspense movies, no one has come close to the master, Alfred Hitchcock, I mean you know what is about to happen just by the freaking soundtrack. "Dressed to Kill" with Angie Dickinson and Micheal Caine came fairly close, but fell a little short. As for Drama movies, the plots are good, but the actors aren't of the quality of the greats, Bogart, Bacall, Gable, Lombard etc. Westerns declined, not with the death of John Wayne, mediocre actor, but his presence on screen made up for it, but with the deaths of John Ford, Howard Hawks, Sam Peckinpah, John Sturges, George Marshall I could go on, but I wont. Hollywood is full of film school graduates with little passion and no imagination.

Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/25/2013 4:32:55 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jlf1961 The last two good horror movies of recent years (after 1970) was "The Howling" and "An American Werewolf in London." Exaggerating much? The tendency towards in the last ten years is both deeply crap and unlikely to produce any films better than The Human Centipede, but there's been a lot more than two decent horror films produced since 1970. Hell, if you like werewolves, what's wrong with Ginger Snaps?

Hillwilliam -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/25/2013 6:57:57 AM)
If you like extreme weirdness, Fellini's "Satyricon" is kinda fun. I wouldn't recommend you watch it sober.

kalikshama -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/25/2013 9:38:33 AM)
quote: Ichii The Killer I had a FWB who liked watching Ichii the Killer as foreplay...

kalikshama -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/25/2013 9:41:51 AM)
quote: To me, The Devil Wears Prada was a horror flick, but then I work in publishing. My first employer in South Florida was a male Colombian version of Meryl Streep's character. I walked off that job - only time in my life I've done that. Two months of hell, bracketed by a nasty commute.

kalikshama -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/25/2013 9:45:09 AM)
quote: I am a huge fan of the Saw series I had no intention of ever watching Saw but walked through the room towards the end and then had to watch the whole thing to see how the plot had evolved to that climax.

Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/25/2013 10:31:08 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kalikshama quote: Ichii The Killer I had a FWB who liked watching Ichii the Killer as foreplay... The blond with the mouth is a bit kinky, I suppose. [:D]

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