george romero's season of the witch aka hungry wives is on shudder and is nearly as brilliant as martin imo, check it out
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
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 onemy favorite non-Dead old Romero!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
Nighbreed (director's cut) - So strange to see Cronenberg as a proper main character in a film but I like him in this role. Noting the LGBT theme, I wonder if this was a sort of callback to Michael Caine Dressed To Kill? I liked it okay but it runs into that problem of lots of science fiction tv shows and creature filled b-movies do: there's often an unimpressive lumpy face look to piled on prosthetics; still preferable to cgi.
The Inferno / Hell / Jigoku (1979) - Another bizarrely underseen old Japanese horror film; and Kumashiro is one of the most important Japanese directors of his time who somehow hasn't travelled abroad like his peers. This is far better than the 1960 Nakagawa version (which has some great scenes but a bit boring overall) and the 1999 Teruo Ishii version (declining director on shoestring budget), by quite some distance. Far more ambitious, more stages to it and more serious. This time it's about a girl reliving her mother's life, possibly possessed by her. Nearly everyone in the film goes to hell. Much more sex than the other films.
I particularly liked it when the daughter looks down into hell at her mother. Lots of nice mountain scenery. Uses similar effects to the Nakagawa film in the hell scenes, but bigger demons. But how does Shima die in the basement? She was left there for a short time.Hako Yamasaki contributes some songs which make the film seem several years older than it is.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
Didn’t know extended nightbreed had happened
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
I actually hadn't seen the theatrical version. Also new to me was that Barker intended this to be the first part of a franchise, but since he never wrote any prose sequels I'm guessing it would have been just like his comics lines and Hellraiser film sequels: probably for extra income and to give his buddies work. The cop rubbing his lips against a choking wire was funny.
Still cant wrap my head around why so many good Japanese horror films from 50s-80s don't get English releases. A very strange blind spot for horror film fans, of all places. The Inferno is growing on me in the days after seeing it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 13 December 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
I loved Nightbreed when I was a kid - I had the game for the spectrum! And the later, flawed Amiga game.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 13 December 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
http://www.hammerfilms.com/10-unmade-hammer-films/Kali project is news to me, could have been interesting, probably a bit awful.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
I want to see all these, best channel!
Feather Fairy, Millennial Bee and Snow Queen (1986)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxzNHxA0t-8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8IYfF-VpUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acfI4ryt6kM
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 21 December 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
getting midsommar vibes off the snow queen there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 21 December 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=VYNrIVKuaio
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 23 December 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
Sorry:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYNrIVKuaio
"Iconic" is a very overrated quality but I really don't think the 80s beats the 30s for that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
Muriel Lucas's channel has been deleted for repeated nudity/sex violations. This is extremely shit and a bit suspicious, I don't recall anything that could have got her banned and youtube tends to be more tolerant of nudity/sex in the context of old films.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 2 February 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
A Criterion box set called When Horror Came To Shochiku
X From Outer Space - a space exploration film that turns into a kaiju film halfway through. I think it is considered a joke among kaiju fans and I say it's for completists only. Really boring.
Goke: Body Snatcher From Hell - Some seem to really love this. Outside the bizarre images of slime going in or coming out people's foreheads, I think it's just a serviceable paranoid survival story.
Living Skeleton - Quite stylish black and white and I'm always happy to see Ko Nishimura but I didn't get much out of it sadly.
Genocide - More consistently interesting than the others, but I still wouldn't recommend it much. But the only film I've seen with a femme fatale mad scientist holocaust survivor.
I warn you about this set. I'm aware Criterion probably knew they weren't great but it is quite annoying when there are so many other more deserving japanese horror films of this era. Why did it need to be 4 discs, surely it could have all fit on one or two discs?
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Along Unknown Paths - Based on popular children's books by Eduard Uspenskiy. Who knows why Russian Cinema Council put this on their label of classics? Aside from some fun things like a house that moves like a train, it's awful. Some familiar characters like Baba Yaga and Vasilisa, so I dont know how much of the good things are established fairy tales, how much is Uspenskiy and how much is original to the film. I'd get rid of this if it didn't have Aksyuta being so adorable.
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Bluebeard - I'm interested in how Breillat seems to deliberately avoid any suspense, see how it cuts when Bluebeard chases his young bride up the stairs?I have no idea why the mother at the end doesn't respond at all to her daughter's fall.
Sleeping Beauty - The made for tv style taken a bit of getting used to. Parts of Snow Queen are equally important.Thanks to Zaharoff for this one, I wasn't previously aware of it.
Also saw her film The Last Mistress (period film without any overt horror or fairy stuff; overt horror debatable though), which was probably the best of them.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
Lumikuningatar / The Snow Queen (1986) - A Finnish version of the story that makes the Snow Queen and the witch pedophiles. There's a song an hour in that seems like it was from a musical version that never happened, it feels out of place with the whole aesthetic.The visuals alternate between looking gorgeous and well designed and looking cheap and under budget. I could never decide if I actually liked the Snow Queen's hair or thought it was too ridiculous.The story feels a bit lifeless and poorly paced, which is a shame because the quality of the images and the brilliant main theme music deserved better.Ultimately I'd recommend it, it's not hard to find on dvd, there's a few editions with english subtitles.
I was annoyed because the used disc I had looked like it had been on the floor of a chicken and dog fighting arena for years, but it played fine.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 26 March 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
The Living Corpse - This is a 1967 black and white Dracula adaptation from Pakistan. Atypical elements including the vampire as a scientist looking for eternal life and inadvertently creating the vampire race; a car chase and of course songs and dances (some of it even sounded like surf music). It's just okay, most of the enjoyment for me was seeing the fashions and dances of the actresses. This was a Mondo Macabro dvd, they released a bunch of other south asian horror films (why has nobody else bothered?); there's a short Making Of documentary and another documentary about south asian horror films and violent action films (some interesting talk of the tragic bad girl and big action mother tropes), it's not much over 20 mintues but I wish it had been longer. Might watch the commentary.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
I really like the Living Corpse, the dance sequences are probably the best part though I agree.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
Funniest thing in the Making Of/retrospective was that the censors only allowed the film a release if they promised they'd never make another film like it.
The Mondo Macabro collections of Ramsay brothers films are just a bit too pricy. They are listed on amazon prime but only one seems to be viewable right now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 27 March 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
Mondo Macabro released Woman Chasing The Butterfly Of Death months ago and Grady Hendrix said it is a towering monument of weirdness.https://vimeo.com/341846045
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
I had no idea there was a Paul Nachy werewolf vs samurais film: Beast And The Magic Sword.https://vimeo.com/347761901
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
Somewhere quite far upthread, years ago I said how much a second viewing of Coppola's Dracula stunned me; some of you really liked it too and now I've seen quite a few people talking about how great it is. Has there been a big change in how people view it?
I still think it's more a great collection of scenes than a great story.
I disavow what I said near the start of the thread about conservative horror in Hammer horror films and Blood On Satan's Claw, that was quite a reductive and simplistic way to look at it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
Coppola’s Dracula is a blast
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 11 April 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
I don't remember why - maybe it was Keanu's performance - it really turned me off when it came out. I saw a screening a couple years ago and can appreciate it just on a visual level, and Oldman was great.
― Nhex, Saturday, 11 April 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
I saw some trailers for Freaked years ago and was never interested and I had never liked anything I'd seen from Red Letter Media but this episode was fookin' brilliant. Can't believe all the people who were involved in this film, including the soundtrack.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gk8cHCo4Y
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
Some of the animation techniques shown are stunning. Liked the line about the milkmen.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 April 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
Freaked - Liked this, it is constantly silly and I laughed out loud a few times. Butthole Surfers (Gibby makes a short acting appearance too) and Blind Idiot God are most of the soundtrack.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
been watching a lot of full moon features films lately and having a great trashy direct-to-video time. i looove the subspecies movies, they are absolutely part of the black metal canon
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
bloodstone: subspecies 2 is legitimately a great movie with really awesome gross practical effects, it's the only full moon movie i've seen so far that feels theatrical
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 May 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
a lot of full moon movies are free to watch on tubi btw
Madhouse (1981) - This was pretty decent in most respects, the crazy sister was genuinely creepy in two parts, BUT I've never seen a film so wrecked by one lousy character: the priest! He's a pain in the ass. Has that type of wholesomely-goofy-twisted-into-sinister schtick ever worked in anything? Were these characters trying to copy The Shining when Nicholson is going on about little pigs? That was one of many things I disliked about Stephen King's novel IT.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 18 May 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
i rewatched hellraiser recently and, while the character design holds up, nostalgia didn't carry it through for me. Barely coherent story, really bad acting, confusing and occasionally scare-ruining direction, often pretty boring!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 18 May 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
that's a shame. to me those creature effects will always hold. JESUS WEPT!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 09:50 (three years ago) link
ah man hellraiser is rad
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
hellraiser 2 even radder
I did the SHUDDER free trial and watched a bunch of old 80s horror I've never seen, including "Chopping Mall" which turned out to be hilarious and awesome and I will now stan it unto death.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
xpost Yeah, I think forks saw the wrong movie or something. It's a ramshackle affair at times but still v good and effective.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
chopping mall fuckin rules!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
No chopping, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
Chopping Mall pairs well with Night of the Comet
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 8:06 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
there is one scene that can be construed as chopping
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
man, the hellraiser practical effects are REALLY bad and corny now.i dunno. I'm gonna watch the second one and report back; i remember that one being the best of the bunch. I had no idea there were so many sequels.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
the effects still look fuckin gnarly? imo?
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
all that blood
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
like i personally consider hellraiser, though a classic, just mostly very good and almost great (and the second, in spilling totally over into hell, gets there), but it actually achieves greatness with the frank reconstructing himself scene
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
man, the maggot guy and the muscle suit with goop and the giant corridor puppet and the corny ass rotating gobbet board are all laaaaaaame, i dunno.i just watched it so it's fresh in my head. I remember it being unbelievably good!
Internet Hellraiser Rave with Lance Henriksen!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09r-jMhraDw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11:10 AM (two hours ago)
They share a shooting location:
Best Film Shot Inside the Sherman Oaks Galleria
― Josefa, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
hahaha, as soon as I saw that wide shot at the top of that thread I was like "oh, the mall from Commando!"
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
...and Kelli Maroney!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Pretty great piece about anti-jewishness in and around Nosferatu and the jews who worked on it. Lots of stuff I hadn't heard about.https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/nosferatu-hoberman-murnau
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link