ringu is good, true. ring is one of the few non-embarrassing horror remakes of the 21st-century.
i am probably more seduced by american ring because it is more "technically assured" or wtfever.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
though in many ways it did unfortunately launch the "everything looks like it was shot under flickering fluorescent lights and through blue-grey filters, even the outdoor scenes" thing.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of stuff to see before voting, marebito is an unsung masterpiece imo. Also shutter is on Netflix streaming fyi.
― Rango Unchained (jjjusten), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
marebito sounds great! will watch asap
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
interested due to the presence of tsukamota as much as anything else, i have to admit...
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
man my ballot is just embarrassingly m.o.r.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
but i have to go with my heart
or maybe my gut, given the subject
and while we're on the subject of recent japanese stuff, i wanna put in a word for Noroi: The Curse. it's a documentary-style horror film, not perfect, but very clever and spooky as hell. recommended to anyone who dug ringu and/or ju-on.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
uh, "tsukamota" = shinya tsukamoto
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly what I thought when I sent in mine. More than with comedy, more than with almost any music list I assemble, my horror-film ballot was like an AFI list (with a predominance of post-Psycho picks). I guess horror films bring out the stodgy classicist in me.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
here's to stodgy classicism
http://www.therealmusician.com/images/pie-in-the-face.jpg
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing Possession on the list, makes me wonder if anyone's seen Zulawski's On The Silver Globe...
I haven't, but, judging by descriptions, I suspect it deserves some sort of mention.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, I've been meaning to mention three key writers on the genre: 1) Robin Wood, for The American Nightmare--I've mentioned that book a few times; 2)David Pirie, who wrote A Heritage of Horror about Hammer Films (where I found out about The Conqueror Room and The Devil Rides Out and things like that; 3) Carlos Clarens, who may have written the earliest genre history. It's been ages, but they all influenced me when I first started paying attention to this stuff.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
on the silver globe usually considered sci-fi.... pretty sure there's a zulawski thread around here somewhere
xp
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ the conqueror room
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
hammer stuff got under-nommed but it's been so long since I've seen most of the frankenstein/dracula series I'm not sure which I'd even vote for. I don't think a single one of those films got nommed? very disappointed in you brits tbh
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
i thought about nominating some of that stuff, but tbh, i'm not very familiar with it, so i figured i'd leave it to others. surprised that no one here seems to care about that era.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like redoing my ballot and including nothing but unearthed and toetag films.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
if i won't speak up for slaughtered vomit dolls, who will?
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
SOME NOTES:
- Seeing Coffin Joe nominated thrills me, largely because all I can remember of his movies is him being not so much evil as obnoxious, moody, and self-righteous.
- DUMPLINGS!! is an eyecatcher on that list.
- Leprechaun 2 nominated, but not Leprechaun.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
HEADS UP TO VOTERS:
DON'T FORGET Def By Temptation!
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
Hammer films are like Carry On films in that they're mostly good but quite similar to each other, the only one I can think of that really stands out is Witchfinder General (was that even Hammer?). Also they turn up on tv a lot, or used to at least, so they don't seem like anything special here.
― 0O0O0O0O0 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
"The Conqueror Room"--yikes. Vincent Price rides around the English countryside, trying to rid the country of...I can't even figure out a punchline for that one. Maybe should have gone with Witchfinder General.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
The Conqueror Room: Vincent Price rides around the English countryside, trying to convince Denny that two is great, but three is a crowd.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
"You're tearing me apart, Hopkins!"
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
― 0O0O0O0O0 (Matt #2), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:14 PM (8 minutes ago)
there are a couple of hammer films nommed, just not any from the dracula/frankenstein camp. I get the cultural fatigue but it strikes me as, like, not nomming any of the corman poe adaptions.
also roomfinder general is not a hammer film
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
It's Tigon, right?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah tigon/aip
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno maybe those hammer films just haven't aged well
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
The Pirie book may have been about British horror films in general, with a focus on Hammer. But I see The Conqueror Worm's in the first Danny Peary cult-movie book, so maybe that's where I first found out about it.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
Just scanning over a list of Hammer films, and yeah, most of them do blur into one for me. For some reason I thought Theatre of Blood was a Hammer, but noooo.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
peary's cult movies turned me on to so many movies in the 80s
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
i missed all the threads/testament discussion earlier, but like i said in the noms thread, threads is a lock for my top ten. and unlike e3, it totally fits my definition of horror, or at least one of them. i can't think of anything much more horrifying than the complete breakdown of human society, especially since [SPOILERS?] the ending hints at a slight hopefulness for survival that's even more horrifying than the entire destruction of all organic life on the planet, and in the best horror movie tradition it makes the whole thing gripping (if not thrilling).
plus it's available to watch in its entirety for free on google video. #hintsfromstrongoise
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
I nommed Dracula: Prince of Darkness. It's got a lot more action than a lot of Hammer Dracula films, and Christopher Lee is in fine form. Also nommed The Woman in Black, which I'm not expecting a lot of support for but I loved it.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
Nine ballots so far. No movie shows up on more than six, and only two boast that number.
Almost wish I could've preserved the results in amber at four ballots. The number one movie would've shocked the hell out of everyone.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's i accidentally domed your son amirite?!?
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
Original or remake?
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:03 PM (Yesterday)
I can see why somebody would consider threads a horror movie, it's pretty horrific, and I've gone back and forth on it myself as y'all debate. but for some reason threads feels more akin to bleak desolation fests like pixote or come and see. they all depict hell on earth, it's just in threads it's a hell that hasn't yet occurred.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
OK, so I just copy-pasted the nom list into Word so I can start winnowing out the ones I haven't seen and go from there, and it runs 16 pages.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
cutting one of 2,000 Maniacs! and Two-Thousand Maniacs could help bring it down to 15
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Who's the joker who nommed Donkey Punch?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
?
it is a horror movie. maybe theres 2 w/the same name or something, but this was abt bad things happening on a bout
― Rango Unchained (jjjusten), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Mine's in progress, but it's looking pretty much like this will be the case for me, too. I wish I could vote anonymously. Eric, are you judging voters?
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
Not at all. My own ballot is probably apt to strike a few participants here as ... well, whatever the horror movie equivalent of Biskand is. I think all of my top 5 are American horror movies 1968-1979. Can't help it.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
dont worry i am working up some totally strange internal rules for my ballot that will make mine a glorious mess
btw on the "hey give this a shot before voting" tip both deadgirl and session 9 are on streaming netflix
― Rango Unchained (jjjusten), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
also i just started narrowing down my list and good god this is a fucking nightmare
Drew down to 100 before making the hard choices.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
Sadly I winnowed down to 6 pages by eliminating what I haven't seen. And expect mine to be pretty MOR as well.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I actively hated Session 9 and I thought it was pretty clearly garbage but then people whose opinions I value told me they liked it. That was surprising.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link