Kevin McCallister wrote:Here's a list of the ones I haven't seen (which means I've actually seen 68 and I can't count!) The majority of them are either black and white horror, Mario Bava, or both. Where should I begin?
Freaks (1932) Deep Red (1975) Les Diaboliques (1955) The Devil's Backbone (2001) The Vanishing (1988) Pulse (Kairo) (2001) Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan, Revenge of the Vampire) (1960) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Martin (1976) I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
burnt offerings http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/ been meaning to finish messiah of evil and um.......someone here was raving about house by the cemetary, which i still haven't seen
Slartisfgh is never mentioned in The Bible, but it is here, during one of the early battles, that Matthew spontaneously became liquid. Radiation trace: negligible
Been awhile since I've watched it, but the only story in Dead of Night that really held up for me is the ventriloquist dummy one. Has historic importance as the first horror anthology flick and all that, but eh.
The Old Dark House is really good as an examination of the psyche (characters representing id, ego, superego) and has a nice, unnerving creepiness to it all. Only loosely fits into horror, though.
Similar goes for I Walked With A Zombie. Quality noirish drama with some horror elements. On par with Cat People as the cream of the Lewton RKO flicks.
In terms of movies that genuinely make my skin crawl (more than I can say about a lot of their picks), list is totally missing Tetsuo: The Iron Man, In My Skin, Irreversible. I'd throw a Haneke in there too... that's a tough one though.
if it's haneke it has to be funny games, and that's the worst haneke time of the wolf, benny's video, cache............can't really call any of them horror by any stretch
Slartisfgh is never mentioned in The Bible, but it is here, during one of the early battles, that Matthew spontaneously became liquid. Radiation trace: negligible
seventh continent is top 3 disturbing movies ever, don't get me wrong
Slartisfgh is never mentioned in The Bible, but it is here, during one of the early battles, that Matthew spontaneously became liquid. Radiation trace: negligible
+1 to Santa Sangre, In a Glass Cage, The Devil's Rejects -1 to The Orphanage, Wolf Creek (John Jarratt's really good, but he's the best part of this bar none), [REC]
I think it's better than something like High Tension or Frontier(s), but it's really ridiculous, and maybe unbearable if you feel it takes itself seriously.
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Santa Sangre is totally overlooked by a lot of people and would easily be on my list of the best horror. It's a movie unlike anything I have seen in horror. Full of tons of energy.
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Ghosthouse is such big, dumb fun. W/r/t pure cheese entertainment value, Lenzi might have one of the best ratios of any Italian working in the 70s and 80s. I watched this one a few weeks ago and wrote about it on my blog:
This was a lot of fun. Come for hott lady-to-fish-thing transformation scene, stay for various other disgusting genetic mutant abominations, far south of The Thing's mark but still worth it.
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I agree that's Salo's not categorically horror, but it does a better job of sustaining dread than so many archetypal horror films. So yeah, even if you come for the coprophagia, you stay for the atmosphere; a true masterpiece in that sense.
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[rec] is so much unbearable, stopgap dialogue to get to one final scene. shouldn't be near the list except as a footnote
kmac, you have to got to watch the fog. it doesn't deserve its place on the list, but you'd be in love with the aesthetic. it is one of the most beautifully shot films ever made
Kevin McCallister wrote:Here's a list of the ones I haven't seen (which means I've actually seen 68 and I can't count!) The majority of them are either black and white horror, Mario Bava, or both. Where should I begin?
i'd seriously recommend threads.
it's a bbc tv movie from the 80s, so i don't think many people outside the uk will have seen it, but it's on dvd so easy to get hold of. it's not a great film by any means, but it's probably the most influential british tv drama of the 80s and certainly one of the most frequently talked-about. it's a pretty dull, unfocussed take on sheffield in the lead-up to nuclear war, followed by a brutal, unsympathetic take on the aftermath. oh, and a protracted depiction of the blast itself. since it was at the height of nuclear paranoia, the expectation that this was definitely going to happen to all of us made it crazy effective.
more for interest than entertainment, but it was only ever shown once, and twenty years later people were still saying it was the most horrific thing they'd ever seen, so worth seeing.
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