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Post by bushwick on Aug 12, 2008 12:18:42 GMT
And here's my horror film list for the last week: CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD THE UNDYING MONSTER THE LODGER HANGOVER SQUARE THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE Like some on here I have nearly as many unwatched DVDs as I have unread books. I've also been watching a set of 4 DVDs of Lovecraft short films (about two hours worth per DVD). City Of The Living Dead is one of my favourites, classic Fulci that. Especially the notorious 'vomiting of entrails' scene, and the poor village idiot getting his head drilled. Living Dead At The... is quite something, really enjoyed that. A quirky little number, very camp. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 12, 2008 13:42:38 GMT
I'd forgotten about Mr Woodward's appearance, and his rather incongrous speech. Yes - another highlight, but still not as good as GONKS
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 12, 2008 14:11:01 GMT
Courtesy of Rog I have been glutting on Spanish Horror. Six Films to keep you awake series. The Baby's Room, A true Friend and To Let.
I have to say all were good but I have become obsessed with To Let which is nearly a masterpiece. It needed one 'endless corridors and rooms' scene aka The Shining and a room with a corpse in it and it would have been a masterpiece. As it was, it comes very close. I watched it alone in a hotel room and had to sleep with the bloody light on. Haven't done that for a long time. Highly recommended
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 12, 2008 14:27:52 GMT
I thought that series was excellent, Craig. To Let has the (slightly) weirdly attractive Macarena Gomez from Stuart Gordon's DAGON (great film). My favourite was The Baby's Room, but they were all worth a look. I may get the DVD when it's available
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 12, 2008 14:50:05 GMT
As ever John, you get straight to the hub of the matter. The 'weirdly attractive Macarena Gomez' kept me awake, not the horror.
The Baby's Room was really well crafted and I appreciated the slow and unusual build to it. I imagine the director assumed quite rightly, that the sexual tension between the two ladies would hold the interest and he need for immediate horror was unnecessary. It was a terrific film. The characterisation of the female doctor was very effective - well acted. I just love that step away from one's own cultural norms: always makes horror more interesting.
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Post by bradstevens on Aug 12, 2008 16:06:58 GMT
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Post by sean on Aug 13, 2008 11:47:17 GMT
Watched 'Audition' yesterday. Its still sinking in, but the last twenty minutes did make me go a bit faint, and its very unusual that a horror film causes me to have that reaction!
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Post by albie on Aug 13, 2008 12:21:56 GMT
THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS is, apparently, not porn. But I did watch it with that in mind.
It's all gravy. Or is that...GRAVE-y? (grave full to the brim with thick black gravy. Ghouls knelt around, supping with hands, ladels, lips, sporks.)
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Post by Dr Terror on Aug 13, 2008 12:44:40 GMT
It's got Beatrice Dalle in it Surely no other reason is needed to watch it...  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 13, 2008 20:44:08 GMT
Still on a roll. Frankenstein Created Woman last night (was Derek Fowlds really that young?) and a real treat with The Ghoul (1933) tonight. Never seen that before but Karloff and especially Ernest Thesiger (with club foot and Scots accent) on great form.
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Post by Calenture on Aug 14, 2008 18:40:24 GMT
...and a real treat with The Ghoul (1933) tonight. Never seen that before but Karloff and especially Ernest Thesiger (with club foot and Scots accent) on great form. I've seen this described as "the first major British horror movie". Producer Michael Balcon who later ran Ealing Studios showcased Karloff with atmospheric camerawork and vivid sets. He also brought a top German make-up artist to Britain for the film. Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke also star in addition to the names you mention. Text paraphrased and stolen from an old video blurb. |
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Post by carolinec on Aug 14, 2008 18:56:43 GMT
...and a real treat with The Ghoul (1933) tonight. Never seen that before but Karloff and especially Ernest Thesiger (with club foot and Scots accent) on great form. I've seen this described as "the first major British horror movie". Ooo, one of my favourite Karloff films, this. Saw it on the "big screen" for the first time a few years ago at the Fantastic Films Weekend. I've seen it on telly loads of times. I love Boris Karloff. |
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Post by albie on Aug 18, 2008 12:00:20 GMT
I watched DEMENTIA 13. Is it me, or did this surruptisously inspire FRIDAY THE 13TH?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 31, 2008 10:46:00 GMT
With the Mrs still away (one week left - and a shedload of shite on order) I'm still catching up (not all horror) and my poor DVD player has nearly knackered itself -
Blade
The Mummy (1959)
Die Monster Die
The Invasion (2007)
Rollerball (McTiernan)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Inseminoid
The Cottage
I Am Legend
The French Connection
The Offence
Tomb Of Ligeia
Village Of The Damned (1960)
The Revenge Of Frankenstein
Event Horizon
Blade II
Underworld (1985)
The House That Dripped Blood
Symptoms
Magnum Force
Halloween II
And Soon The Darkness
M*A*S*H
Catch 22
The Fly (Cronenberg)
Ned Kelly (The Mick Jagger one)
Dracula (Thames TV 1968 - with Denholm Elliott as the Count)
Alien 3 (Extended version)
Hostel
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 31, 2008 18:17:42 GMT
Very impressive Mr Marsh! Is that the Jose Larraz SYMPTOMS that he made before VAMPYRES? I've never seen that.
INSEMINOID (as I may have mentioned before) is one of those films I keep wathing hoping against hope that this time it will fulfil its promise of being like the sleaze-filled film tie-in that held the young JLP spellbound back in 1981. Someone should film that book. But not Norman J Warren.
DIE MONSTER DIE is weird but I love the rubber monsters in the greenhouse and Oakley Court popping up.
TOMB OF LIGEIA - classic. Tend to pop it in the player around Xmas
EVENT HORIZON - everyone seemed to hate this but I found it a true guilty pleasure & it actually scared me.
HOSTEL I watched again recently & still love it. And I still think HOSTEL II is crap.
I also speak as someone who orders 'shedloads of shite'. Most recently I have been watching the HP Lovecraft short film DVDs Volumes 1-4 which have been a lot of fun.
Oh, and DAWN OF THE MUMMY which is so crap as to be truly brilliant. Here's a review for the connoisseurs of the board:
When nations come together anything is possible – world peace, an end to poverty and hunger, even a new respect and tolerance for different cultures. It’s also possible to end up with 1981's ‘Dawn of the Mummy’ – a South African-Egyptian co production with Italian special effects and disco music from the Palestinian bloke who wrote the theme for the ‘He-Man’ cartoon series.
It’s difficult to know where to begin with this film that rode on the coattails of the popularity of the zombie subgenre kick-started by George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and kicked along like a rapidly deflating football by a bunch of delinquent Italian schoolboys led by Lucio Fulci with his chums Bruno Mattei and Marino Girolami. What could have been a fantastic bit of gory knockabout fun is fumbled a bit by director Farouk Agrama, who basically crosses the standard ‘mummy’s curse’ storyline with Bagpuss. When this mummy wakes up, all his friends wake up too, and then proceed to wreak havoc.
This all sounds great but for the most part it’s sadly not, due to a marked degree of incoherence in the plotting and no acting or characterisation to speak of. Horror prospectors keen to sift through the detritus of stuff like this will be rewarded with two fantastic bits: the reanimation of the mummy’s undead servants against a setting sun is superb, as is the ending where everything goes mental (starting with a wedding reception where the bride ends up on the menu) to the aforementioned pounding euro-disco music. Apart from that it’s a bit rubbish but still 1000000 times better than Bonekickers.
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