(rare) Max Schreck taking a break filming 'Nosferatu' (1922) This photo is creepier than any shot in the movie pic.twitter.com/sQ2iCiN1wj— Hammer Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) May 1, 2021
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
dead and buried, 1981 slow motion seaside village horror a la messiah of evil, currently available on shudder, fog in every scene, totally fucking amazing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
This has been a crown jewel in Blue Underground's catalog for so long I'm shocked I still haven't seen it. Was featured in the second installment of In Search of Darkness, though, and it looks fantastic.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
There's a second installment of In Search of Darkness!? I think I saw most of the first one, and it was iirc 4 1/2 hours long! And was basically just a parade of talking heads going "and then this movie came out, and it was really cool," and then moving on to the next movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 May 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
Totally forgot that I bought Dead and Buried from a Blue Underground sale late last year. I should get on that.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
All criticisms of In Search of Darkness are 100% correct and I also 100% don't care.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
xpost that was just included on Last Drive-In on Shudder
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
i've heard the second in search of darkness is an improvement on the first
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
The selection of films feels more esoteric, fwiw, and there's definitely more of a laser focus on the Italio horror of the early 80s.
Also, a somewhat hilarious meta moment where the doc includes Terror in the Aisles as one of its featured movies.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
Dead and Buried is the other great horror film directed by Gary (Death Line) Sherman. It was actually considered a 'video nasty' in the UK on its first VHS release, probably because of the old needle to the eyeball moment.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
I've passed it up many times but I might give it a shot soon
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 17 May 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Fade To Black looks pretty good, anyone seen it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BFrJEmbak
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 22 May 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
i enjoyed it quite a bit
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 May 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
watched the original Nosferatu this afternoon, 99 years old
― koogs, Saturday, 22 May 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
saw it a couple of years ago, it was a memorable film
― Dan S, Saturday, 22 May 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
pretty influential. the 25 minute Grayling talk about it was also interesting (this was the bfi disk).
my usual concentration span failings seem to be doubled when watching silent films though - without the speech telling me to pay attention i tend to drift away
― koogs, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
Rewatched Dead and Buried after many, many years, thanks to this thread. Still holds up imho. I misremembered the film as being quite comic - a la O'Bannon's Return of the Living Dead - but in fact it's not even especially a 'black comedy', just an out and out shocker. You can sort of see why it got caught up in the Video Nasty scare, despite having more production values than most of the VNs - there's a certain dreamy disconnected energy that's not that far removed from Fulci's House by the Cemetery etc - as well as some fairly graphic gore, especially for an American horror movie at this time. The bandaged man who gets his eyeball needled really looks looks terrified - it's a great image of fear. Perhaps the one major downside is that the central sheriff guy isn't very charismatic and seems kind of slow on the uptake even for movies of this type - his wife teaching kids at her school about voodoo while hiding books about witchcraft around the house does provide some laughs, and brings the film closer to Night of the Eagle than Night of the Living Dead. The sequence where the sheriff watches some black and white film he's got developed by the sinister local chemist already feels v v 'found footage horror' - all the paraphernalia of old cameras, film projectors, flash lights seen throughout now becomes a wonderful snapshot of old means of seeing, as well as a fairly unique portent of sinister intent, still, wisely not too literally explained.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 23 May 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6dFW-ZHAs8
― xzanfar, Monday, 24 May 2021 02:39 (two years ago) link
The video isn't one of his best but I'm really happy to see somebody with a big audience talking about Lemora, fingers crossed for a blurayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFT7usSROU
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
finally watched Maniac Cop, not the tone I was expecting and bruce campbell kinda phones it in but overall a lot of fun, stoked to watch the sequels
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
Maniac Cop 2 is maybe better and more fun and features a pretty novel car chase conceit that I've never seen before and I have no idea how the stuntwoman made it through the scene without sustaining severe carpal injuries. Haven't heard much good about the third, though.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
I remain very interested in the refn/hyams reboot series
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
Finally! I've got a czech dvd of this but I'm so happy about thishttps://secondrundvd.ecwid.com/#!/Beauty-and-the-Beast-Blu-ray-Special-Edition/p/367281809/category=0
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 June 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
Watched Night of the Eagle aka Burn, Witch, Burn! last night, holy shit did I ever love that. great script, really inventive direction, awesome effects, engaging performances, a killer premise, and an ending that doesn't shit the bed. (also, since it involves witches and voodoo, I kept waiting for overt racism and/or misogyny, but it never really materializes much - I'm sure it helped that this fellow apparently wrote the final draft) the US version, which is under the latter title, adds a wonderful voice-only intro that is already one of my favorite-ever openings to a movie
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 26 June 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
Just saw that for the first time a few months back. VG+, a much more serious-minded horror flick than most Arkoff productions of that era. As much love as I have for AIP's campy goof-fests, it's a welcome change of pace.
― I Scream For Ice Cream But Also Just All The Time And For No Reason (Old Lunch), Saturday, 26 June 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
I wld say that Night of the Eagle/Burn With Burn is Baxt's best credit, although City of the Dead has some nice atmos.
Peter Wyngarde gives a 'full' performance in NOTE/BWB but he's pretty effective playing/conveying fear in the face of unseen terror.
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 26 June 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
he really grew on me over the course of the movie for sure
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 26 June 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
horror channel uk seems to be working through cronenberg movies. and i must've seen Scanners before, but i hadn't recognised the sample on, i think, Dubstep Allstars Volume 2 until today.
― koogs, Saturday, 3 July 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link
(yeah, DA2, specifically Loefah's Goat Stare
― koogs, Saturday, 3 July 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
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https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-snake-girl-and-the-silver-haired-witch-blu-ray/FCD2196Worth a watch, I have a bootleg of this. Adapted from Umezu's comic, he makes a brief appearance.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 19 July 2021 00:46 (two years ago) link
shudder just added messiah of evil. if you have not seen messiah of evil, drop everything
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 19 July 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
― Ward Fowler, Monday, May 17, 2021 6:52 PM (two months ago)
Quite surprised by this. Just watched Dead And Buried and found it a little underwhelming despite good moments. Script seemed a bit cliched and the acting didn't smooth over it. Style of Death Line is just completely different.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 19 July 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
I am psyched to see Messiah of Evil at some point but I don't have Shudder so someone needs to put the blu-ray back in print.
Fun fact: it's written and directed by the folks that brought us Howard the Duck! I won't hold that against it, though.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
Abel Ferrara watching The Driller Killer, the good stuff. pic.twitter.com/QHVcyuAMhH— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 20, 2020
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 19 July 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
Messiah of Evil is gd fun - in parts it's the most proto-Lynchian film I can think of - but it does have one of the all-time lame endings (they ran out of money before they could shoot a proper finale).
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 19 July 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
I missed the recent Eureka release of Viy with the bonus limited edition extra film called Sveto Mesto/A Holy Place. Luckily it is on youtube in a probably scratchier but very watchable form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwYk7h_wJAkIt's one of the most substantially different versions of Viy I've seen (let's forget about the recent one). More sex, ballbusting, an angry cat and the witch seduces women too. Doesn't have the full-on phantasmagoria of the other ones, but takes interesting directions, definitely worthwhile.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
that ferrara commentary is hilarious
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
Yeah, next time I pick up any of his films I'll check for commentary. Kind of great to hear him just laughing at the really nasty bits.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
Just got the Daimajin boxed set (the trilogy all came out within 7 or 8 months in 1966!) and reading an essay in the booklet about the cultural impact. A ton of famous writers and directors were going to do reboots. Katsuhiro Otomo scripted a film that was going to feature Steven Seagal and Golden Harvest was going to co-produce one featuring Kevin Costner. There's a very expensive fan film that was well liked but copyright prevents it getting a proper release
Seems that Kim Newman stuffed his recent Anno Dracula books with an extensive list of japanese monsters including Daimajin and even Kato from Teito Monogatari (the character that M Bison/Vega from Street Fighter was based on)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
Daimajin and (at last) Criterion Godzilla set on their way to me, psyched for big-time kaiju filmfest
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
fear dot com!!!!!
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
i watched william malone's 1999 remake of house on haunted hill the other week and i loved it so much i needed to see the other movie he made that people actually watched, and fear dot com is maybe the most visually inventive horror movie of its era. if you like shitty macromedia flash websites that are also evil and full of gnarled gothic industrial designs that keep peeling back to reveal FURTHER gnarled gothic industrial designs and also detective procedurals that make little to no sense and also naked ghosts vomiting up blood, this is your (and my) movie. also forecasted the coming decade of torture porn two years in advance of saw
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
if you like shitty macromedia flash websites that are also evil and full of gnarled gothic industrial designs that keep peeling back to reveal FURTHER gnarled gothic industrial designs and also detective procedurals that make little to no sense and also naked ghosts vomiting up blood, this is your (and my) movie. if you like shitty macromedia flash websites that are also evil and full of gnarled gothic industrial designs that keep peeling back to reveal FURTHER gnarled gothic industrial designs and also detective procedurals that make little to no sense and also naked ghosts vomiting up blood, this is your (and my) movie. if you like shitty macromedia flash websites that are also evil and full of gnarled gothic industrial designs that keep peeling back to reveal FURTHER gnarled gothic industrial designs and also detective procedurals that make little to no sense and also naked ghosts vomiting up blood, this is your (and my) movie. if you like shitty macromedia flash websites that are also evil and full of gnarled gothic industrial designs that keep peeling back to reveal FURTHER gnarled gothic industrial designs and also detective procedurals that make little to no sense and also naked ghosts vomiting up blood, this is your (and my) movie. if you like shitty macromedia flash websites that are also evil and full of gnarled gothic industrial designs that keep peeling back to reveal FURTHER gnarled gothic industrial designs and also detective procedurals that make little to no sense and also naked ghosts vomiting up blood, this is your (and my) movie. if you like shitty macromedia flash websites that are also evil and full of gnarled gothic industrial designs that keep peeling back to reveal FURTHER gnarled gothic industrial designs and also detective procedurals that make little to no sense and also naked ghosts vomiting up blood, this is your (and my) movie.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 August 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
this is my favorite sentence ever, thank you Brad :)
Amazing boxed set, I've heard the third film isn't very good but this should be fun. I'm a fan of Great Yokai War despite some notable flaws.https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/yokai-monsters-collection-limited-edition/FCD2205
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 12 August 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Stuart Gordon's Dagon - This is actually an adaptation of "Shadow Over Innsmouth", I didn't detect anything from "Dagon". I liked this better than Reanimator and From Beyond, aside from some iffy special effects it's pretty good. I'm half convinced the team behind Resident Evil 4 seen this, the resemblance seems quite strong to me. All the Barbara Steele comparisons for Macarena Gomez make sense, she looks like a total goth queen in this, wish I'd seen her in more stuff but she's never stopped working.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 August 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
I love Dragon, the thickness of Fransisco Rabal's dialect and unsubbed Spanish increases hugely the otherness imo.
Macarena Gómez is great, the last thing I saw her in was Hex Studios' The Black Gloves.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 23 August 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
Shrew's Nest seems to be one of her best known films, looks alright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLVPWNcCqs
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 August 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
She's so genuinely eerie in this scenehttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MANS9q9o6ec/TwuR3ZkniMI/AAAAAAAANuw/6ULB1n45_DA/s1600/Dagon%2B2.jpg
Slight Curse Of The Crimson Altar vibes here?https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/8224825/1024full-macarena-g%C3%B3mez.jpg
The scene with the huge well might have been a lift from Corman's Haunted Palace?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 August 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link