ok lets all shit our pants to something old: pre-2006 horror film thread

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.

yes!!!!

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 film

I 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

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.

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...

It has its fans but I’ve never pulled the trigger myself

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.

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.

the first one is really pretty shitty and ugly.

I'm happy with the all time great clips on youtube (garbage day!

garbage day is silent night deadly night 2

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.

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.

Oops, wrong thread

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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 script
https://thebedlamfiles.com/fiction/the-mask-of-the-black-death/

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.

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

i am watching new nightmare right now and YOU'RE ALL WRONG IT'S GREAT

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).

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?

they're all different ways of talking about the same horror -- US!!!

On the same site as that Kurosawa screenplay review is new reviews of similar dream project screenplays by Shane Carruth and Coppola.

Attack Of The Super Monsters looks hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2_zNrN8NE

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.

CAT'S EYE
WOLFEN
SOLE SURVIVOR
OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
HABIT
FADE TO BLACK
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS
THE NEW KIDS (not horror I know, this was addressed in original post, it involves a multitude of text and Tom Atkins)
BAD CHANNELS
TWO EVIL EYES
THE 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)

Sorry, should be 10-2 80s-90s not 11-1, I forgot Bad Channels is 90s cos it's so quintessentially 80s

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!

Actually you said "lycanthrocentric"... hmmm... NO, STILL NOT ACCEPTING THIS

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).

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?

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

cause you're a COOOOOOOOL DUDE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMkJ0Imn1Y

(from the 1987 slasher pic Berzerker)

I bet Parker & Stone have seen every film like that.

i really like that video and have found myself mumbling ur a cooooooool dude got your bs in social psy today

tales from the crypt: demon knight is an AWESOME movie

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

Agggh, I hadn't finished!

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 Designer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-BWVmi6Ps

I got the Lost Soul documentary bluray for the extra interviews and it was worth it. Comes across even more how incessant Stanley is when he talks and how much he had thought about absolutely everything; seems to regret not taking a chance on Judge Dredd though there were was already serious script problems to deal with. Barbara Steele (in audio only) says she was at a disturbing dinner party with Frankenheimer but stops there.

Have you seen The Otherworld? Peak Stanley.

Stoked there's talk of it being a Lovecraft trilogy after the reception Colour out of Space has got.

Last week I passed up the chance to meet Luigi Cozzi because his wife was really vague about when he was coming into the shop other than "5, maybe half past" and it wasn't 3 yet. (And I didn't think making my wife hang about for hours to watch me shake the hand of a guy she'd barely heard of would win me many brownie points.)

I've got The Otherworld and White Darkness on my wishlist.

Barbara Steele (in audio only) says she was at a disturbing dinner party with Frankenheimer but stops there.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, November 17, 2019 2:20 PM

I should add that she had more to say about him and there was no implication that he was the disturbing part of that dinner.

"A Woman Sobbing" episode of Dead Of Night -
I'm fairly sure this is a riff on Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"; Gaslight is referenced a few times. Intelligent script and very 70s.

george romero's season of the witch aka hungry wives is on shudder and is nearly as brilliant as martin imo, check it out

Uh...how the hell is Romero's Season of the Witch not more of a thing?!? I always thought it looked/sounded intersting but I'm shocked to discover that this obscure thing is one of his very best films. Certainly one of the best acted. Only caveat wrt this particular thread is that it's barely horror, but big thumbs up.

― Dethloaf LLC (Old Lunch), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 5:29 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

omg i LOVE that one
my favorite non-Dead old Romero!!