Curt McGirt Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 I dig The Grim Reaper/Anthropophagus but nope. The proper answer is Beyond the Darkness/Buio Omega/Buried Alive if you're really gonna go deep with it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Not that it needs any more pimping, but I just rewatched Carrie(I just got the new bluray after taking advantage of the big Scream Factory sale) and it's moving up my list. I've enjoyed it, but I think I've taken it for granted over the years. Like Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it gets better the more I watch it and the older I get. It's amazing that there's no real horror the whole movie until the climax. Also the Jesus statue is easily Top 10 scariest images in film for me. Those fucking big ass eyes. Who knows how many more I'll rewatch for this, but I'm certainly excited after this one to rediscover the great qualities of some of the classics, and other movies I just took for granted as being good enough to list without any real convictions as to why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brocklock Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 I've been doing a deep dive the last few months Definitely making my top 25/50: The Devils (Maybe top 10, this absolutely blew my mind. The performances from Reed/Redgrave are out of this world and it has so many images and scenes that will be burned in my mind forever.) Ghostwatch (Might be the best found footage movie I've ever seen. They pulled this off perfectly and it's the first movie I've seen in a while that actually scared me.) Making the top 100: All Of The Colors Of The Dark (Would make a great double feature with The Devil. Absolutely batty at times with an awesome soundtrack and uneasy atmosphere. Great acting for a Giallo as well and does a great job at taking the genre in a different direction while hitting similar notes.) The Innocents (It took me a second to get used to the super theatrical acting, but what a great ghost story. Very envelope pushing at times and the acting all across the board is great.) Tourist Trap (Was expecting a cheesefest, but got a really unsettling movie with a great performance from Chuck Connors. Another one that actually scared me.) Might have a shot after I reevaluate my list: Razorback (Another one where I was expecting something corny, but got a fantastic balls to the wall mean monster movie. Great visuals here as the desolate Australian Outback leads to some striking images. Would probably make for a great triple feature with The Hitcher and Near Dark. I think the aesthetic of all three are similar.) Lisa And The Devil (Another great occult movie with a show stealing performance from Telly Savalas and some memorable scenes. Hilariously convoluted at times, but incredibly entertaining. I want to watch it again.) The Living And The Dead (Probably more of a psychological thriller than a horror movie, but deeply disturbing and well acte.d) The Day Of The Beast (Entertaining horror comedy with some fantastic characters.) Calvaire (I felt really gross after seeing this one and it goes in the one time is enough pile, but very well acted and will stick with me for a long time.) The Witch Who Came From The Sea (Completely different from what I expected from the title. Unsettling and off putting 70's chiller.) Watched and liked but not enough to make the list: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Legend Of Hell House, Long Weekend, Deranged, The Addiction, Baby Blood, Dark Water (02), In My Skin, 28 Weeks Later, We Are What We Are (2010), Wake Wood, Banshee Chapter, God Told Me To, It's Alive (74), Rabid, Cold Prey Didn't care for/trash: Pougkeepsie Tapes (Avoid at all costs), Splinter, Kolobos (Terrible but entertaining Argento ripoff with the most late 90's dialogue), Wendigo, Open Water, Grim Prarie Tales, House on Sorority Row, Baxter, Frightmare, Torso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 9 hours ago, jaedmc said: Not that it needs any more pimping, but I just rewatched Carrie(I just got the new bluray after taking advantage of the big Scream Factory sale) and it's moving up my list. I've enjoyed it, but I think I've taken it for granted over the years. Like Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it gets better the more I watch it and the older I get. It's amazing that there's no real horror the whole movie until the climax. Also the Jesus statue is easily Top 10 scariest images in film for me. Those fucking big ass eyes. How come I never thought about Stephen King movies? Carrie and Pet Semetery are going on the list. Shit, if the first half of Cujo wasn't all boring exposition, it'd be on there too. The Shining is going to be problematic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said: How come I never thought about Stephen King movies? Carrie and Pet Semetery are going on the list. Shit, if the first half of Cujo wasn't all boring exposition, it'd be on there too. The Shining is going to be problematic Dont forget maximum overdrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 7 minutes ago, odessasteps said: Dont forget maximum overdrive WE...MADE...YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU! WEEEEEEEEMAAAAADEYUUUUUUUUUUUU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 I love love love Maximum Overdrive but that isn't making the list for obvious reasons. If you or someone else works either that or Graveyard Shift (OR SILVER FUCKING BULLET) onto their list though, I will give a Sid-level fistbump just because Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 12 hours ago, jaedmc said: Not that it needs any more pimping, but I just rewatched Carrie(I just got the new bluray after taking advantage of the big Scream Factory sale) and it's moving up my list. I've enjoyed it, but I think I've taken it for granted over the years. Like Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it gets better the more I watch it and the older I get. It's amazing that there's no real horror the whole movie until the climax. Also the Jesus statue is easily Top 10 scariest images in film for me. Those fucking big ass eyes. Who knows how many more I'll rewatch for this, but I'm certainly excited after this one to rediscover the great qualities of some of the classics, and other movies I just took for granted as being good enough to list without any real convictions as to why. What I like so much about Carrie is the grittiness of the setting and the way she and her mother looked and acted the part. Their ramshackle house full of unsettling backwoods rummage store jesus bricabrac made them actually look like the scary old testament isolationist christians that everyone in the neighborhood would avoid and start rumors about. That was my biggest issue with the remake - the characters were way too conventionally attractive and the setting too clean to convincingly portray the creepy lifestyle they had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 On 6/22/2017 at 7:55 PM, Control said: Anyone voting for any Joe D'Amato movies? The copy of Porno Holocaust that got for free from a neighbor moving out of his apartment and then cheerfully donated to Goodwill out of disgust seven years ago says that I'm not revisiting any Joe D'Amato sexploitation horror movies for this poll. God, even the thought of Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals makes me want to take a blistering hot shower to cleanse myself. If we ever do a Swords & Sorcery / Fantasy poll, at least one of the Ator the Fighting Eagle movies will earn Honorable Mention spots, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Throat Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 19 minutes ago, J.T. said: The copy of Porno Holocaust that got for free from a neighbor moving out of his apartment and then cheerfully donated to Goodwill out of disgust seven years ago says that I'm not revisiting any Joe D'Amato sexploitation horror movies for this poll. Wow...that's quite a parting gift to remember him by. I imagine Goodwill just trashed it, which is for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Yeah, I had a habit of "donating" the sketchier DVDs I inherited from friends and neighbors leaving town to Goodwill just to see if they would put them on the shelf. Most of the time, the employees would knick the really questionable stuff for themselves and put the other materiel out for resale. There's no content policy for media other than that management reserves the right to refuse donations for any reason and that anything with no immediate resale value cannot be donated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 11 hours ago, J.T. said: Yeah, I had a habit of "donating" the sketchier DVDs I inherited from friends and neighbors leaving town to Goodwill just to see if they would put them on the shelf. Most of the time, the employees would knick the really questionable stuff for themselves and put the other materiel out for resale. There's no content policy for media other than that management reserves the right to refuse donations for any reason and that anything with no immediate resale value cannot be donated. This is absolutely fucking hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FluffSnackwell Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 On 6/22/2017 at 11:45 PM, Curt McGirt said: I dig The Grim Reaper/Anthropophagus but nope. The proper answer is Beyond the Darkness/Buio Omega/Buried Alive if you're really gonna go deep with it. I've never even tried to watch Anthropophagus outside of clips of the notorious gore. From what I understand, the rest of the movie is a real slog to get through. At least in Beyond The Darkness Frank and his weirdo housekeeper/nanny are amusing idiots in between the nasty bits. Also the creep's job as a taxidermist is plenty off-putting in its own right. The sequel to Anthropophagus, Absurd which was apparently one big giant shameless ripoff of Halloween sounds a little bit more interesting if I was going to try to make it through either of them. Also Absurd is one of those interesting cases where another movie came along and borrowed even more from the ripoff than it did from Halloween. Just going from the trailers and clips I've seen and plot synopsis, Absurd's plot seems to have been mostly recycled for Silent Rage; that Chuck Norris slasher co-starring Flounder from Animal House as his comic relief deputy. I mean without knowing about Absurd, it would be easy enough to just write Silent Rage off as another Halloween ripoff; but how it actually goes about explaining why the killer came to be invincible in the first place was a plot element directly lifted from Absurd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FluffSnackwell Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Absurd AKA Anthropophagus II Just kind of scrolling through quickly, I noticed lots of recycled musical cues and sound effects; some from Pieces and others from The Beyond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Oh yeah, Anthropophagus is sloooooooooooooooooow. It hits its marks, so to speak, and has a pretty good ending too with some actual suspense and a really disgusting reveal. The island has some nice daytime-horror atmosphere too. I wouldn't be adverse to anyone having it on their list except on basic principle. Beyond the Darkness is just deeply disturbed on multiple levels. It was kind of the precursor to the current generation of nasties but is somehow even more bizarre and fucked up. Definitely the highest its hustler director ever flew. I've never seen Absurd (or... for god's sake... Porno Holocaust) but I saw Silent Rage on TV when I was a kid and I've been waiting for it to show up again ever since. Hey, Robert Rodriguez... please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Speaking of which, I just came across this again at random. "If you enjoy the violent emotions, this film is for you" Severin Films is re-releasing it if you really really to see more than this (BTW, very NSFW) Also, Goblin did the soundtrack so if you're interested I'd look it up on Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Sugar Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 On 2017-04-06 at 3:11 PM, OSJ said: Gremlins is not only horror, it is one of the most mean-spirited and nasty films ever made. Read Harlan Ellison's essay on it if you find my opinion odd. Oh, I agree: with no warning it tells kids that Santa isn't real. That's how my oldest figured it out. This damn movie! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 I have a tradition of watching Gremlins and Die Hard on Christmas Day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 For your consideration. I haven't seen it in many many years and I think it has a comfortable place on the list. Also some other new spots possibly filled: Scarecrows Dead Alive/Braindead The Return of the Living Dead Candyman Bay of Blood The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FluffSnackwell Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 There used to be a pretty awesome remix of the main theme from Beyond The Darkness on YouTube. Scarecrows was already on my list as it's a personal favorite. Between the spooky scarecrows and all the corny macho dialogue back and forth between the paramilitary gang of robbers, you can't go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 On 6/27/2017 at 11:22 AM, J.T. said: The copy of Porno Holocaust that got for free from a neighbor moving out of his apartment and then cheerfully donated to Goodwill out of disgust seven years ago says that I'm not revisiting any Joe D'Amato sexploitation horror movies for this poll. God, even the thought of Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals makes me want to take a blistering hot shower to cleanse myself. If we ever do a Swords & Sorcery / Fantasy poll, at least one of the Ator the Fighting Eagle movies will earn Honorable Mention spots, though. Hmm... I think my list would have to start with: Deathstalker Deathstalker 2 Deathstalker 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 For your sincere consideration 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Yeah, I'm just gonna leave these right here... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 In Re Martin: RIP George Romero. The Showtime Networks recently had a lot of late 1970's horror movies in its regular rotation, mostly appearing on Showtime Beyond.. I remember both Martin and Patrick being in the Sho On Demand Horror / Sci-Fi queue for a while, in addition to Rabid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Just thought about this one too: Polanski's Repulsion totally deserves to make the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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