I went as Samara for Halloween one year and this bozo at the party was all "Who are you supposed to be?" and I hissed "Seven days!!!" at him and he was like "Saturdays? Cool, I guess" and I knew these were not my people.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
hahahaha
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
carnival of souls - if you can forgive its technical problems (poor dubbing in some scenes, wooden acting) and focus instead on its strengths (some amazing cinematography, a smart script, heavy atmosphere of existential dread), maybe you'll agree that it's one of the all-time greats. a waking nightmare.
This is totally OTM. I think the lead is actually a pretty good actress, but the dubbing makes her seem a little off, and the rest of the cast can be quite bamboozling. And yet... it keeps up a very strong sense of eeriness, and does tip over into nightmare alley in segments.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
DJP, my first instinct after seeing the ring was to make a VHS copy of the cursed video, slap a "copy" sticker from work on it, and mail it to you.
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
but I was too lazy ;_;
Also, I will be miffed if the American Ring gets in above the Japanese original. Not because it's bad or anything (I haven't seen it) but simply because the Japanese one was great, and the remake basically took away a load of its potential audience (I realise it also gave the story to some people who would never have watched the original, but you can see what I mean when you note someone who seems to have a good grasp of horror like c.a. dress up as Samara instead of Sadako).
xpost the first two times I saw Ringu the phone went off exactly as the credits rolled. The first time was a prank by my friend I watched it with, but I was completely alone when I watched it the second time, and nobody knew I was watching it. I did not answer, hell no.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry to say, The Ring will be on my ballot but Ringu won't make it. I just didn't like it that much.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
;_;
― emil.y, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
sound design in ringu is p amazing iirc
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen ringu a bunch of times but never had the desire to rewatch the ring
wonder if it's one of those things where whichever you saw first will always be yr fave?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
marebito sounds great! will watch asap
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:37 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
uh, "tsukamota" = shinya tsukamoto
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:44 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ the conqueror room
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:53 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
"You're tearing me apart, Hopkins!"
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:20 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
It's Tigon, right?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah tigon/aip
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:45 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Original or remake?
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 03:28 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link