Hey it's halloween, everybody should shit their pants - ilx horror crew top tens.

(revises list of films he will never, ever watch)

hey eric have you gotten any blowback for including freddie got fingered in your list?

Nope. Just another lone voter on that one, obv.

Seriously, though, a revisit of that movie's highlights confirmed my belief that it was on some sort of Bunuel-on-bath-salts wavelength.

Yeah, pretty sure Ebert said roughly the same thing in his zero-star review.

Dead minds think alike.

Even if only for the sake of riling those who've argued that it decidedly is not a horror film, I wanna double down on the praise I gave Martha Marcy May Marlene in one of these horror threads. I rewatched it the other night and it holds up. It's like a horror film with the horror cored out. Beautiful and dreamlike but with lots of slowly mounting dread (and a slow reveal of that dread's source). And I only noticed this time around (trying not to spoil...) the possibly horrific implication of the line of dialogue regarding the specific type of children John Hawkes has.

films that are new to me from eric's list:

inside
in a glass cage
joshua
otto

horror not horror:
lots of bergman

So, I watched House With Laughing Windows last night. Really good, actually, though the bits I kind of want to talk about are spoilers. But good.

I'm really champing at the bit this year so I've already gotten started on the marathon. I still have a bunch of older stuff I never got around to watching and a whole slew of new stuff to boot. I've been whetting my appetite with episodes of Tales From The Darkside and Ray Bradbury Theater (both oozing the brand of creepy '80s low-res video cheese that I have a huge fondness for). Here's what I haven't seen but hope to get to in the next month and a half:

Night Of The Comet
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Salem's Lot
The Omen
The Funhouse
Phantasm 2
The Innocents

I also ordered the Val Lewton box sight unseen and I'd like to get at least one of the Amicus anthology films (also sight unseen).

Good list, there are some on there that are super high on my to watch list as well (Valerie, innocents). I really should get the DVD part of Netflix added so I can see that kind of stuff.

yes you should
september is horror blackout and then october is ALL HORROR ALL THE TIME
i am excited about october

I want to watch horror with all you guys ;_;

Also: time to start reading Bradbury and Ligotti

Yeah, I wanna finally read From The Dust Returned! I also bought an Arthur Machen collection that I haven't gotten to yet.

I really want the new Constantine show to be good, as I've always thought a faithful Hellblazer adaptation would be my favorite horror film/TV series ever. I don't have high hopes.

Love horror movies - hate crappy haunted house jumpfests though. What are some good non-jumpy films in the style of the Wicker Man, the Others or what have you, that I might have missed?

The Tenant is one I can never recommend enough.

god i hate that movie - but i hate it because it works?

Black Christmas!

i ain't seen either of these, i'll check em.

original Black Christmas is the BEST

yep Black Christmas is amazing

Orig black christmas and the tenant both ruuuuuule

hmmm i might have to refine this but off the top of my head

The Abandoned
Bad Milo! (no really! horror comedy so you know, youve been warned)
The Conspiracy
Escape From Tomorrow
The ABCs of Death
Alien Abduction
The Bleeding House
Antiviral
The Possession of David O'Reilly
Tony

and Only God Forgives if people are down with calling that horror

i actually watched The Abandoned a while ago but don't know if I ever brought it up.

The ones I'd suggest that deserve more viewers(I've written about most of these in the horror threads)...

Ghost Of Yotsuya (late 50s Colorado version, probably need to resort to YouTube)
Lemora: A Child's Tale Of The Supernatural
Horror Hotel/City Of The Dead
Beauty And The Beast/Panna A Netvor
Alucarda
Dark Waters (Baino)
Faust (Murnau)
Haze (Tsukamoto, and throw in more of his films whether or not they are horrory)
Great Yokai War (monstery fun for all ages)
Room Of Laughter (Nina Shorina short film, youtube)
Dir En Grey- Agitated Screams Of Maggots music video (by Keita Kurosaka)

Give me all of your fall horror viewing lists!

i wanna know yours

Valerie is def on it now that I have Hulu Plus! (shaking my own head I haven't seen it until now)

Re: Yotsuya. Color version not Colorado version!

i see i'm not the only person planning ahead! i want to watch possession. that's one i've been saving bc i know it's gonna be rill good.
we always try to watch mostly things we haven't seen before, but i am insisting on some repeats because i'm in the mood
let's scare jessica, top of the list
also want to see stage fright!

I feel like I'm the world's only Jessica naysayer, but it has been probably about 10 years since I watched it.

it's like a soothing horror blanket
i want to watch lots of early 80s movies with ladies in them

ha well as often, im right there with you on jessica xpost

My planned rewatches for this year:

Legend of Hell House and The Changeling (my girlfriend has been pretty into the other "unquiet house" films we've seen so I thought she'd dig these)
Creepshow 2 and Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (been a dog's age since I saw either, and I'm way into anthologized horror at the moment)
Basket Case and Brain Damage (anyone rate the Basket Case sequels? I bought the trilogy but it remains to be seen how advisable a purchase that was)
The Dead Zone (the gf said the other day that she'd like to see a supernatural conspiracy movie and this was the closest thing I could think of in the moment)
possibly the Scream and/or Child's Play series (I have no real idea why...seems like a good idea at the moment?)

skip Scream 2, the rest are watchable

throw childs play in a box, burn it, and bury it in the woods

i want to watch possession. that's one i've been saving bc i know it's gonna be rill good.

I want to watch it, too, but I also kind of don't. It's amazing and compelling as hell with stunning performances (number one on my horror poll ballot) but it dredges up some deep psychic garbage. Maybe as dread-ful a horror movie as I've ever seen, particularly for something that barely qualifies as a straight horror film. It's like staring into the Ark of the Covenant.

I sometimes think that Isabelle Adjani in Possession might be the single most mindblowing acting performance I've ever seen.

Like, I don't know how you go that far out and come back with all of your facilities intact.

mine is not v exotic or unique & kinda just 'klassiks 101' but these are my go-to's
Black Christmas
Carnival of Souls
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Thing
The Fly
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness

Like, I don't know how you go that far out and come back with all of your facilities intact.

yes! this is why i have been saving it. i think i'm ready!

That is a pretty solid bunch though. There are quite a lot of classics I'm really not into but I'm fond of all those.

I still have yet to see any of the Evil Dead movies. I kinda feel like Raimi isn't really my thing, but maybe I should take the plunge.

They are loads of fun. The third is a mess but it doesn't stop it from being a good time (directors cut if you can, it has more funny stuff if I recall right). A Simple Plan is fantastic. Drag Me To He'll is pretty good. The Gift is okay.
I've never seen Crimewave, the reputation is very mixed.

anyone rate the Basket Case sequels?

Basket Case 2 is enjoyably batshit. not a patch on the first one but entertainingly ridiculous in a different way.

i want to watch lots of early 80s movies with ladies in them

This is more mid 80s and not necessarily good but have you seen Spellbinder?

I hated Drag Me To Hell but you can't fuck with the first two Evil Dead movies

I do love A Simple Plan but I never got the impression that it had much in common with his earlier stuff.

It is different but it has some of his humour.

One thing I miss about early Raimi is the visuals. His later films look less distinct. Within The Woods short film is good too.

Alison Lohman really is a lot of my enjoyment of Drag Me To Hell. She is astonishingly cute. I thought she was really funny when she talked like Ash "I'm gonna get some! Yeah!"