lol what was "erotic" about IE or Eraserhead
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
Lynch is no minimalist across the board or anything, but dude has the uncanny knack to make a relatively straightforward shot of a lamp or ceiling just totally menacing and evil. Yeah, sound design has much to do w/ that as well, I guess.
― Apartment of Evil (Pillbox), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
*ceiling fan
messed up babies are totally erotic
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
Surely a lot of this dread is just his ADD inclusions of hallways, empty doorways, and inanimate objects.
― remy bean, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of times there's this low rumble in the background of lynch films, after many years I realized it's v similar to the sound of a highway in the distance
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of messed-up babies, that final shot of Threads... xpost
― The Thnig, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://filmbalaya.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/66153-3.jpg
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
"Speaking of EROTIC THRILLERS, I love the scene when those cute little MONSTERS take in a MIDNIGHT screening of SNOW FRIGHT and the SEVEN PLAGUES!"
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64. GREMLINSJoe Dante, USA, 1984(299 points, 12 votes)
I admit, I'm not much of an admirer of Gremlins, but it's almost completely worth it just for the fact that it's such a blatant riff on the cuddly, sentimental style of producer Spielberg, who actually went to great lengths to defend Dante's vision.― Anthony (Anthony F), Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:35 PM (7 years ago)I do hope this doesn't degenerate into a thread about Gremlins.― Pete, Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago)
I do hope this doesn't degenerate into a thread about Gremlins.― Pete, Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't vote for it, but I do love those little guys.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Nice! Did not include on my ballot because it plays almost as straight-up comedy to me now, but great to see it get some love here.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Not that there's not some genuinely horrifying shit in there, I mean the gremlins do absolutely kill several people, but still.
yeah this is a comedy
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
didn't vote for it
most horrifying thing in it is the santa/dead dad story tbh
I had to check my ballot on this one, because voting for Gremlins totally sounds like something I'd do, but I did not.
~milk duds~
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i found the first section of lost highway almost unbearably unnerving, bill pullman in the apartment what with those long, dimly lit, almost static shots of yawning beige hallways, always with some eerie whooshing static in the background. nothing ever really happens there, but i just knew that something unspeakable was about to swim up out of that darkness, and that when it did, it would completely break my mind. i think that's lynch's best trick, btw. he gets across this idea, very familiar from nightmares, that the worst thing possible is about to be revealed.
then again, maybe i'm just a sucker for this approach. like i said upthread, the scariest monster, to me, is the one that has not yet taken shape - not the ghost itself, but the shapeless moment in which it seems (perhaps) to be appearing.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
love gremlins, love the sequel even more, didn't vote for either
― original bgm, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
most clearly horror thing lynch has done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYB2FykZgkg
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
always thought that gremlins was too dumb to spend too much time thinking about.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
gremlins is awesome, but yeah, i see it as a comical fantasy adventure with a few dark/scary spots.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
When (SPOILER) Spike melts at the end, it freaking HORRIFIED and HAUNTED me as a kid. But, yeah, today it's a comedy.
― The Thnig, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
LOL. I still growl this sometimes.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, sound design has much to do w/ that as well, I guess.
absolutely
― original bgm, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hark.com/clips/kdznxgrzft-milk-duds
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
I have a lot of love for mulholland dr but it ain't horror in my book. now inland empire otoh...
― original bgm, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
gremlins takes the malevolence of its creatures seriously enough that it works as horror, but it's def at the light end of the spectrum. that's ok, not everything has to be a gruelfest.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
it definitely put some fear into me as a kid
― original bgm, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
well SOMEBODY must have voted for Gremlins..
It was def an integral part of my childhood movie-going experience and as such prob fundamental to my taste for horror in general, but I don't ever have the inclination to return to it for either laughs or scares tbh.
― Apartment of Evil (Pillbox), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yay, Gremlins! Another low-placer on my ballot but worthy of inclusion.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait to show it to my kids
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Aside from Die Hard, it probably is my favorite Christmas movie, though.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Mulholland is a TV pilot with an "it was all a dream" tack-on finish.
― da croupier, Friday, May 18, 2012 1:07 PM (5 minutes ago)
and casablanca was a hackneyed story worked over by a hodgepodge of screenwriters scrambling to rush the movie into the theaters. in both cases the means of production doesn't amount to much when compared to the finished product.
if you're going to try and dignify mulholland dr worship with a historical precedent, it should probably be Wizard Of Oz.
― da croupier, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
"dignify"
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'm with Edward III. Gremlins is a fantasy and a comedy, but it is still a horror movie. Made for children.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
I think a reasonable, arbitrary cutoff point along the 'horror spectrum' is if a film is squarely marketed toward children. I mean, I never had a Martyrs lunchbox. Yhat said, iirc it was the release of both Gremlins and Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom & the ensuing parental uproar which led directly to the PG-13 rating becoming a thing.
― Apartment of Evil (Pillbox), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
"More like DON'T WHOP ME NOW!"
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63. SHAUN OF THE DEADEdgar Wright, UK, 2004(301 points, 11 votes)
Also I am willing to bet that between us we know every single person in that film. ONE OF THOSE ZOMBIES COULD HAVE BEEN ME you know!!!― sarah not at work, Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:08 AM (8 years ago)"even zombie flicks can have multiple Star Wars references."Wha? Please don't make me dislike this film now.― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, September 26, 2004 10:15 PM (7 years ago)This film is better than other films.― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, January 17, 2005 4:27 PM (7 years ago)
"even zombie flicks can have multiple Star Wars references."Wha? Please don't make me dislike this film now.― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, September 26, 2004 10:15 PM (7 years ago)
This film is better than other films.― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, January 17, 2005 4:27 PM (7 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh, fuck off.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
E3 dignified the shit out of that movie
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
well, i had to make amends for not voting for Shaun in the comedy thread ...
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
I was afraid this was gonna show up. Sigh. All right.
― The Thnig, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Another movie I totally support but didn't vote for.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for Shaun of the Dead (in the comedy poll).
― Apartment of Evil (Pillbox), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, but it's pretty tragic seeing all the eberty "what did lynch mean?" ponderances about mulholland dr when the director himself admits it was an open-ended intro he slammed a cop-out ending onto. If you still enjoy it, great, but when people are like BEST MOVIE EVER...idgi, sorry
― da croupier, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
the other reason I have respect for gremlins - at 13 I was a hardcore horror fan, having already seen dawn of the dead, last house on the left, halloween, friday the 13th, eraserhead, and a ton of other v scary movies. but gremlins still won me over, and I ended up going back to see it a couple of times in the theater. its love of grue and willingness to go to some real places (e.g. cates' santa story) helped.
that said, if you humps try to place ghostbusters in this thing we will have words
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Remember v little abt Gremlins cept Phoebe Cates chimney monologue
havent seen SotD
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
i cut shaun of the dead early on cuz it's a straight-up comedy (albeit one with impressively serious horror trappings). made the same decision about dead alive, though i did come very close to voting for that one. it's not like there's a clear line or anything, though. i did vote for creepshow, after all.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
dead alive is such a blast. I can't imagine it won't place.
― original bgm, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
"You had to know OLD FRANK would have a slot on this countdown ALL SEWN UP!"
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62. FRANKENSTEINJames Whale, USA, 1931(301 points, 13 votes)
I want to make a movie called "Drunkenstein"― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, July 6, 2011 1:25 PM (10 months ago)IIRC there are a number of stills shot on the set that aren't actually scenes from the movie.― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:33 PM (1 year ago)you think it takes talent to play frankenstein?? it's all, all MAKEUP and, and GRUNTING
IIRC there are a number of stills shot on the set that aren't actually scenes from the movie.― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:33 PM (1 year ago)
you think it takes talent to play frankenstein?? it's all, all MAKEUP and, and GRUNTING
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
This would be the first of two films that I voted for in both the comedy and horror polls and which will, deservedly, show up in the results of each. Do not get the SotD reactionaries, but that might be because I'm a 'Murrican.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link