Yeah, Jacob, I picked a couple of tracks from The Beyond from the Fulci soundcloud, need to choose a few more though, I reckon. http://soundcloud.com/luciofulci
Just realised La Lech actually started a whole thread for this topic a while ago, but oh well, conversation is here now.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
i just consulted that thread to jog my memory -- shoulda just linked!
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (it counts!) - now I'm tempted to take that along. Also, Wicker Man, duh.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, "Absentia." That was like one of those classic Stephen King "Night Shift" stories, except executed with a really uncommon sensitivity.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Still catching up. "The Tall Man:" like it or not, what a truly surprisingly, honestly provocative movie. Makes up for the facile shocks of "Martyrs," imo. Though like "Martyrs," very oddly structured., almost radically, subversively so.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody love *both* Martyrs and The Tall Man?
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not even sure the director does.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
“I’m not sure you have made the right decision.” —director Pascal Laugier, in his video introduction to the Martyrs DVD
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
I like *both* Martyrs and The Tall Man, though the first half of Martyrs is much better than the second, wish it had carried on more with the first half.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Hey I just watched the French film the pack on streaming and congratulations, now you don't have to! Totally wildly incoherent and despite some good atmosphere nothing holds together at all.
― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Thx bro, I was gonna end up watching that at some point.
― this update fixes the following known sugs (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
I finally saw Black Christmas for the first time
Goddamn that is one creepy movie. I had no idea that was where 'THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE' came from, lol
Also Andrea Martin rules
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
LOVE that movie. The... err... 'vocalizing' on the phone calls is straight up virtuoso.
Creepshow expires today on streaming.
― this update fixes the following known sugs (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
oh the phonecalls are crazy! the pig noises and the baby crying and ... yeah.
a friend had told me 'it's good, it's just slow' but honestly I found it slow in the way that is SUPER compelling. Like I felt like I knew the story already, but I was hooked in becasue I wanted to see where they went with it.
and I love that it delivers 100% creep factor without delivering any kind of killer reveal or killer backstory or killer resolution at all.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Black Christmas is one of my favorite horror movies of all time
― Jesus said "What the hell is a Wumpscut?" (jjjusten), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Also the woman who gets to be the 'last girl' is so NOT the one which later formulaic slasher films would favor. Don't want to give anything away but i like how the deaths are not dealt out as some form of paternalistic moral opprobrium.
― this update fixes the following known sugs (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
I agree! At first I wondered if that's what was going to happen and it really didn't play out that way.
Also I saw Olivia Hussy talking on one of the special features - goddamn she just got more and more beautiful with age. What a stunner.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen Black Christmas!!
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
SEE IT
I am biologically opposed to slasher films and I think "Black Christmas" is one of the greatest horror movies ever made
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
djp otm
I'm all about that movie now.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen "Black Christmas" either. I just watched a 4 minute(!) trailer on youtube. Wau.
― Sex Kitten mind control slave (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
everyone needs to watch it! it's GREAT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
We watched Rosemary's Baby last night, it was the first time watching since the first time years ago. I couldn't help feeling that Woody Allen squandered Mia Farrow's potential.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Never seen Black Christmas either and always thought "the call is coming from inside the house" came from When a Stranger Calls.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Thursday, 1 November 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
When A Stranger Calls was 1979; Black Christmas was 1974
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Thursday, 1 November 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
I knew one came before the other, but not having seen Black Xmas, I always just assumed the line came from Stranger, which I vaguely remember seeing.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 November 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
Of note to Black Christmas fans: http://www.fright-rags.com/teaser/black-christmas-teaser.html
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
whoa that's cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
xxp: Well they did both use the line, and I think it's more common to see the invocation from When A Stranger Calls when it's brought up; just pointing out that BC got there 5 years earlier.
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 2 November 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Just watched Amer, I really loved it, but um...
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 3 November 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
The adolescent scenes was pure brilliance, untouchable, I'm still digesting the other parts.
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 3 November 2012 06:44 (eleven years ago) link
I've already started in earnest but I'm preparing for an utter deluge this year. Beyond just rewatching old faves, I've bought a bunch of stuff to fill some of my horror canon holes. Just watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time the other night (good value but still doesn't supplant the other two Apartment Trilogy installments in my esteem), and I have The Innocents, The Haunting, Black Christmas, and a Universal 4-pack (Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride, and Creature From The Black Lagoon) lined up. And the director's cut of Little Shop of Horrors. My GF's onboard with binging and there's a bunch of classic stuff that she hasn't seen that I'm looking forward to watching with her. Still trying to sell her on Possession while questioning the wisdom of trying to sell her on Possession.
― Wayland Flowers and Madame's® brand Mustard Pork Rub (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
Oh, in the spirit of the thread title, the top ten I'm looking forward to watching this year that weren't in last year's list:
PhantasmThe StepfatherJacob's LadderIn The Mouth of MadnessThe BirdsAmerican Werewolf in Londonthe first four Romero Dead films (haven't rewatched in years...or in the case of Land, since I saw it in the theater)
Brain DamageThe Blob (1988)The TinglerPiecesCathy's CurseGod Told Me ToThe TenantReturn Of The Living DeadChristineNightmare On Elm St. 4: The Dream Master
― Wayland Flowers and Madame's® brand Mustard Pork Rub (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
Whoops. Oh, well, I'll rewatch all that stuff, too.
― Wayland Flowers and Madame's® brand Mustard Pork Rub (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, I should review this years watch list and throw one of these together
― ACA: not bad, needs more death panels (jjjusten), Friday, 18 October 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
and my list for this year - again, not all new releases, but new to me, mostly streaming on netflix. no order.
Tucker and Dale Vs. EvilKill ListABC's of DeathLords of SalemSinisterCitadelEvil Dead (remake obv)V/H/S 2Magic MagicLast Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
just missed the cut - House at the End of the Street, Mama, John Dies at the End, and kinda sorta Some Guy Who Kills People, which is not really even horror at all, but super appealing nonetheless
― Y KANT LOU READ (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
My horror top 10 x 10:
http://letterboxd.com/ephender/list/slant-magazines-100-greatest-horror-films-1/
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
great list
intrigued by decasia and leviathan, neither of which i know anything about
also a big fu to them for disallowing short films because outer space is so so worthy. next time tell them if they don't want to count it, they should just loop it ten times
― Y KANT LOU READ (jjjusten), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
if i'm gonna watch 1 netflix horror flick tnite, which one should i make it?
― Mordy , Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
For some reason, the ed. there has this thing against counting short films in any of Slant's lists to the point that he doesn't even list Un Chien andalou among his favorites despite Bunuel being possibly his all-time favorite director. I find it infuriating, but have made my peace with it. Whatever gets one out of having to sift through which Chuck Jonze and Frank Tashlin Looney Tunes to count and which to exclude, I guess.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
which ones from my 2 lists havent you seen mordy?
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
i've seen none of them!
― Mordy , Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Decasia is a really interesting choice, EH. I would never have thought of it fitting there, but I can totally see it.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
oh, i've got a copy of john dies at the end just sitting on my computer - should i watch that?
its a total mess, but an endearing one. it would be about my last pick of what i listed
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, emil.y. As I posted on Twitter earlier this week, I adore Horror Not Horror nearly as much as I do Disco Not Disco.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
from my 2 lists, i would vouch most for absentia, the innkeepers, or last will and testament of rosalind leigh i think
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
i mean of the stuff that i know is streaming.
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
bit of crossover bc I watched a lot based on recommendations here, lots new to me
Cheap Thrills (only moderately horror-ish but...)You're NextTucker and Dale Vs. EvilMartha Marcy May MarleneLords of SalemMamaCitadelV/H/S 2Last Will and Testament of Rosalind LeighThe Innkeepers
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
decasia is aaaamazing but it's experimental, might as well suggest the act of seeing with one's own eyes
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Thursday, 31 October 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link