Here is the sum total of what you need from the 'big 3' slasher franchises:
NoES 1-4Halloween 3 and the scene from 2 when Lance Guest accidentally kills himself by slipping in bloodJason Goes to Hell and the scene from Friday 4 where Crispin Glover dances and maybe the scene in Manhattan where Jason punches that guy's head off
The rest can go straight in the terlet (unless you're drinking with friends in which case they make for fun background noise)
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
I do have some fondness for Jason vs. Carrie (is that the 7th?)
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
yes, it's my favorite friday the 13th movie
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
i'm assuming old lunch meant jason lives instead of jason goes to hell aka eat your and everyone else's heart out jason
No way, man, Jason Goes to Hell is completely batshit + great.
Full disclosure: still have not seen most of the Friday sequels after 4 because goddamn are those movies a slog.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
i mean i also love jason goes to hell, i've just never had anyone agree with me about it (except you, probably a year ago in the friday the 13th thread)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Ha, yes, I engage in this playful argument way too often and stump for that steaming POS every time.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Jason Goes to Hell is the only one I saw in the theaters, and iirc it suuuuuuuuucked. Great cold open, though.
Red Letter Media has a good appreciation of Exorcist III it just posted.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
exorcist iii is one of the best movies ever made, between it and the ninth configuration i think william peter blatty had a really individual and beautiful voice as a director, i wish he had made more films
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
The RLM review taught me that the film contains blink and you miss them cameos from Patrick Ewing, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry King and ... Fabio.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
yes!!!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
plus the greatest brad dourif performance
New nightmare is so boring and po-faced and dumb guy’s idea of “intelligent horror” to me, I’ve tried but I really can’t groove to its unscary half-baked ambition. Langenkamp(sp?) is really good tho, and the bit where she suddenly has the Nancy white streak is done so subtly, it belongs in a better filmI pretty much like all the other nightmares, even the dogshit one with Roseanne in it. I also like Jason goes to hell but my opinion is fairly worthless as I only recently watched most of the big masked killer franchise movies and don’t really care about any of them
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
I've mostly avoided them but there's a few I might watch. There's maybe only 10 horror films left that I'm still really eager to see, the 70s version of Demon Pond at the top of the list. I'm hugely pleased to see there is a bootleg version of Kumashiro's Hell/Jigoku available now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
has anybody seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night,_Deadly_Night_3:_Better_Watch_Out!
I mean... Monte Hellman! Two Twin Peaks castmembers! uh... Robert Culp!
otoh the first film is truly atrocious and this was straight-to-video, how good can it be...
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
It has its fans but I’ve never pulled the trigger myself
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Can't be bothered to sift through thread, but watched Chopping Mall last week and am totally flummoxed that this film hasn't been remade in a dead mall/robot cop scenario for the 21st century.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Silent Night Deadly Night? I'm happy with the all time great clips on youtube (garbage day! and old man talking about santa), probably wont ever watch the actual films.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
the first one is really pretty shitty and ugly.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
I'm happy with the all time great clips on youtube (garbage day!
garbage day is silent night deadly night 2
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
oh which you probably knew lol
Yeah, I heard it played on a bad movie night and there is a compilation of that actor moving his eyebrows about.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
There's a lot more going on in "Digital Love" than the George Duke sample. There's not a ton going on in "Harder" that doesn't come from Birdsong.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Oops, wrong thread
Pumpkinhead (Winston, 1988) pic.twitter.com/k88jWGRpwS— K I N O D A S E I N (@cinexistenz) October 16, 2019
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 19 October 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Been watching Schlocktober videos, wish he did more of that instead of the big current films. Recent one has brief clip of unauthorized Mortal Kombat film.
Akira Kurosawa scripthttps://thebedlamfiles.com/fiction/the-mask-of-the-black-death/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 20 October 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
Saw the Wicker Man on the big screen at the weekend and it was such a bad print, a very obvious jump cut during Willow's Song and the scene with Willow washing the table outside of the pub was nigh unwatchable. I watched the same cut a couple of months ago on bluray and it was fine, so I don't know why this one was so bad.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Monday, 21 October 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
it's part of the fun of seeing film projections - you don't know if it'll be complete, or it'll be washed out pink, or a foreign print. i've learned to "enjoy" the gamble
― Nhex, Monday, 21 October 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
i am watching new nightmare right now and YOU'RE ALL WRONG IT'S GREAT
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
I have this thing where I like to leave 'treats' for myself, films I figure I'm likely to enjoy but hold off on seeing so that I always have classics I can visit for the first time. So last night, I finally took on The Howling! And it was pretty much everything I could have possibly wanted from a werewolf movie directed by Joe Dante. It's rare that a movie so perfectly meets my expectations and still manages to surprise me. Did Dante and Landis consult with one another while making their respective were-films? It's weird that two such innovative films of the genre were released pretty much in parallel.
And what was up with werewolves in 1981, anyway? No fewer than five lycanthrocentric films were released that year (Howling, American Werewolf, Wolfen, and Full Moon High, as well as Naschy's Night of the Werewolf original release in Spain).
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
it is odd that we go through cycles of key horror things. Vampires, werewolves, zombies... i guess at the moment the key creepy in the theaters is, um, society?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 October 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
they're all different ways of talking about the same horror -- US!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
On the same site as that Kurosawa screenplay review is new reviews of similar dream project screenplays by Shane Carruth and Coppola.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
Attack Of The Super Monsters looks hilarioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2_zNrN8NE
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 October 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Ah ffs, I just reviewed 11 80s and one 90s horror films for yis and somehow the post got lost. I ain't typing it all again but btw they were all GREAT.
Except Chopping Mall. Chopping Mall was just fine.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
CAT'S EYEWOLFENSOLE SURVIVOROF UNKNOWN ORIGINHABITFADE TO BLACKNIGHT OF THE CREEPSTHE NEW KIDS (not horror I know, this was addressed in original post, it involves a multitude of text and Tom Atkins)BAD CHANNELSTWO EVIL EYESTHE HOWLING
ALL GREAT (I addressed my issues with THE HOWLING at length in OG post basically ffs no one gave me a trigger warning for parts of it, but HEY DICK MILLER, I guess it's GREAT)
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Sorry, should be 10-2 80s-90s not 11-1, I forgot Bad Channels is 90s cos it's so quintessentially 80s
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, I forgot my main point:
And what was up with werewolves in 1981, anyway? No fewer than five lycanthrocentric films were released that year (Howling, American Werewolf, Wolfen, and Full Moon High, as well as Naschy's Night of the Werewolf original release in Spain)
WOLFEN IS NOT A WEREWOLF FILM!
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Actually you said "lycanthrocentric"... hmmm... NO, STILL NOT ACCEPTING THIS
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Been wondering whether to take a chance on some things I've always passed up because the trailers weren't interesting enough. Like The Beast Within, Boogeyman and Madhouse (the version with the dog). Or a lot of other things that Arrow released that might only be as good as The Slayer (not that great).
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 October 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMfH7c8XSs
Monsters look cool but I'm not sure Orochi: Eight Headed Dragon will be worth tracking down. Anyone here seen it?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Demoness From Thousand Years - Joey Wong starring time travel fantasy with bits of romantic comedy, not enough sword fighting, punching or kicking to be considered a martial arts film. I was hoping this would be more along the lines of Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain but only the few fight scenes in a cave 1000 years ago are like that (and they do look quite good), the rest is mostly fish out of water and cop/gangsters comedy set in the 90s, occasionally a bit funny from what I could make out. There's only a couple of hong kong disc versions with slightly murky letterbox picture and the subtitles are poor. I wondered why this was obscure and now I know why this is unlikely to be remastered any time soon. Disappointing.
Mister Designer - I sometimes saw this on Russian horror film lists, favorably reviewed too. It's good, based on an Alexander Grin story, definitely worth seeing, (appropriately) well designed, Sergei Kuryokhin soundtrack is really good (I might try to find this on CD, or something else by him, he seems famous in Russian avant garde music); not a masterpiece (though surely a hidden gem), there's some rough edges...BUT, I've never seen another film so deeply into the whole decadent/symbolist/gothic milieu (it's set in 1914 and a lot of the expected artwork is shown onscreen, Odilon Redon in particular) and if you like that sort of thing, you'll probably enjoy this. Above all, it is beautifully designed. If there is justice, pretentious aesthetes everywhere will titter at their friends who haven't seen or heard of it.Check out the screens.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157713/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 October 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
cause you're a COOOOOOOOL DUDE!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMkJ0Imn1Y
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
(from the 1987 slasher pic Berzerker)
I bet Parker & Stone have seen every film like that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 November 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
i really like that video and have found myself mumbling ur a cooooooool dude got your bs in social psy today
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 2 November 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
tales from the crypt: demon knight is an AWESOME movie
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
Eve Of Ivan Kupalo - Based on a Gogol fairy tale. I could only see this in a crappy version on youtube subtitled in French but it is still quite striking at times with the sense of design, rapid cuts that shift characters across the screen in different positions, that weird crowing laugh of the old man played several times, characters tilting on the ground and it may be partly the poor quality of the version I seen, but I was wondering how on earth they achieved the scene of the woman darting around the forest.
Anyone know about Church Of Film? It moves around a few locations in Portland, and from the youtube
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Agggh, I hadn't finished!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 November 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
Muriel Lucas's youtube channel has such an incredible array of obscurities that I'd love to see. As much as I like all sorts of cult films, I've never considered myself much of a cineaste or cinema goer, but I'd feel very lucky to be near enough to regular showings like this and I'm sure I would actually go to see them. Any of you been to them?
http://churchoffilm.org/index.html
This trailer proves there is a superior print of the film.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeSyPHfBFko
Check out the selection of trailers on the channel, it's incredible.
Here's a trailer for Mister Designerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-BWVmi6Ps
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link