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

Creepy in a "this movie's old and terribly lit and 16mm" sense. Corporate films that look like snuff.

Right. For a second I was imagining educational films with completely inappropriate and indulgent gothic fantasy.

Right. And no gory workplace accidents either, if memory serves.

I watched a bit of the drinking/driving educational film by the Carnival of Souls director. I love grade-Z black and white schlock, but it's pretty wretched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh30DWaOuzk

Has anyone else seen Forklift Driver Klaus?

It was a super gory German comedy short film in the style of a health and safety video. It was on tv when I was in high school and in retrospect in was unusually popular for a foreign short film, maybe it got several repeats because quite a few people seemed to know about it.

Well worth searching for, it was hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_-_The_First_Day_on_the_Job
http://www.staplerfahrerklaus.de/

Watch it on the English section.

Will do, thanks! Way off topic for this thread, but if you like that sort of thing, this is a spot-on audio parody. If the crunching celluloid, wobbly music and wooden acting don't hook you in the first :30 seconds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNa9WdayY-M

should i go see Nosferatu in a 1929 movie palace with a pipe organ tomw night, or The Exorcist for the first time?

http://www.loewsjersey.org/films/92-nosferatu

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2014/10/24/detail/the-exorcist

love Let's Scare Jessica to Death btw. does a lot with a little, great atmosphere maintained throughout, almost Polanski-esque in places, predictable but awesome "twist" ending etc. thx for the rec folks

xp I don't The Exorcist will appeal much to you based on your dislike of most horror, but even then it is worth it for the Lee J. Cobb/Jason Miller interaction and performances if nothing else. But AFAIC it's a must-see for horror fans but won't leave much of a gap if you never see it.

Exorcist was on TV last night and even with all my reservations about posession movies expressed on that other thread, it really is great. I don't see how a nice catholic boy like Morbz could resist

also when the devil is yelling "fuck him in the ass" at von sydow... I see that line a bit differently in light of the church's paedo proclivities

Right, great performances on the whole and a genuinely ugly worldview (never did read the last five minutes the way I'm sure Catholics generally do).

b-b-but pipe organ

Nosferatu with pipe organs for sure. I'd love that personally.

Oh, I wasn't saying that you should choose Exorcist *this* weekend. There'll be many other chances.

I am a huge Exorcist fan but Orlok with pipe organ is kinda hard to pass up.

Do murnau every time

Okay, The Innocents was great. Gorgeous and effectively spooky and it doesn't feel dated at all. All of the actors were fantastic, but I think the little boy in particular might've given one of the best child actor performances I've ever seen.

Saw this again on the big screen last year I think, where it's particularly effective in 'scope. Kerr never better.

The boy (Martin Stephens) is also the lead child-demon in Village of the Damned, a TV constant in the '70s.

Bought Stuart Gordon's Dolls and Rollin's Requiem For A Vampire and Night Of The Hunted. There was quite a few unfamiliar horror and noir films at the shop. Some Hammer films I kinda want to see but all the best ones were only there on bluray.

Totally forgot Patricia Arquette was the star of "Nightmare 3," and that Larry Fishburne is in this, too. And that Angelo Badalamenti did the score!

Actually, the lol full credit:

Music by Angelo Badalamenti, Dokken

Hahaha that dokken song is so bad.

shouldve used fresh prince amirite

The Dokken song is terrible but it's also ridiculously catchy (he says as he continues to periodically sing it weeks after the fact).

3 was also co-written by Frank Darabont. Who I'll no longer be quite as flip about after finally seeing The Mist recently.

Oh, I forgot that I also watched Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders this weekend. Really unsure how I felt about that one. I liked a lot of the constituent parts but... There's generally a through line of sorts (however elusive or disjointed) that allows me to enjoy those dreamlike/nightmarish movies that I count among my all-time faves (e.g. The Tenant, Possession, a number of Lynch's films), and I think that's what was missing from Valerie. It was like watching a kaleidoscope of beautiful and haunting images but it really didn't leave much of an impression once it was over. Maybe further viewing will help.

I'm a fan of it. Always wanted to read the book.

I quite like The Innocents but the ending is great, those sounds when the hand moves are amazing.

can i take a minute to recommend ALUCARDA?!

1) nuns who sweat blood 2) lots of screaming 3) exceptional costuming 4) cast 90% women

very memorable

Alucarda is an all time great!

It really is. Top notch. Glad we finally watched it!

DANIELA!
JUSTINE!

Yeah Alucarda is the business. Never have I been less irritated by so much screaming.

Yeah I love Alucarda. The opening music is goooooorgeous and the main character is easily one of the most charming I've ever seen. I just wanted to go with her into a fantasy land and never come back.

Oh shite! Copies of Mansion Of Madness (same director as Alucarda) are way up in price. Hope youtube isn't going to keep acting funny. The Dr Tarr version is supposed to be inferior so I'm not going that way.

JUSTINE!

DANIELA!

Watched Nightmare 3. Kinda sucked. Some OK acting mixed with some terrible acting, some OK FX mixed with some terrible FX. Still too much sitcom lighting. But then started Nightmare 4, and it really feels like the first time the budget, acting, FX and stuff are finally up to snuff (discounting the scrappy, scary first movie). I mean, it's no good, but it's solid enough product. Good '80s MTV-synergy soundtrack, too. Sinead over the end-credits is like the anti-Dokken.

Speaking of which, there are some good points made by Tasha here, but there are is some convenient shoehorning that ignores all the exceptions to her thesis.

http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/803-horror-sequels-are-the-exact-opposite-of-horror/

Got the Blu-Ray of Wake In Fright in the mail this morning; watching it now. Not exactly horror, but holy fuck, "toxic masculinity" has never been so perfectly captured on film.

I know it isn't important but I just love the part when Plesence introduces himself and does that funny smile.

The blu ray of wake in fright doesn't happen to have an isolated score bonus feature does it? Awesome music by john scott and it's never had a soundtrack release.

Nah, there are a lot of documentaries and interviews, but very few audio options - commentary on or off, that's it. And no subtitles, annoyingly enough.

Looked at all the options for Mansion Of Madness on YouTube and I couldn't find one with good enough picture or assurance that they were uncut. I really should have bought that DVD years ago when it was cheap, right after I saw Alucarda. I'll need to wait for a reissue which probably won't come any time soon.

I only learned recently that Moctezuma had worked with Jodorowsky, Arrabal and Cordiki; and that the great Leonora Carrington designed parts of this film.

Weird how much some people hate this film but most people I trust love it.

Sadly I've heard his Mary Mary Bloody Mary isn't as distinguished as Alucarda or Mansion Of Madness. It seems yet another horror director who only had one or two gems.

This is probably old news to the Brits, but I watched "Ghostwatch" last night -- finally, a complete copy has been uploaded to YouTube -- and loved it. For those unfamliar, it's a 1992 BBC production of a faux-live-TV event following a newscaster's night in a haunted house. It precedes so much of what happened years later with found-footage films and goes to some great, unexpected places. Watch and love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHVqzRyaByM&feature=youtu.be

I keep meaning to watch it again, but am afraid it will have lost some of its magic (I saw it at the time of broadcast, when I was a kid).

I was so glad I waited to watch a good-resolution video on a nice TV -- there are subtle moments that I never would've noticed on a tiny computer screen. I think you'll find that it holds up very well.

I really dig Ghostwatch but, yeah, I wish I could've seen its initial airing. I can imagine it would've been similar to my first viewing of The Blair Witch Project (free passes to a preview screening of a movie no one in the audience knew anything about, up to and including whether it was fictional).

Wow, finished Nightmare 4, and weirdly it plays like a particularly gruesome Buffy season finale.

Also, forgot the Fat Boys song in the credits!

Re: Ghostwatch. Maybe this is unfair but having tv personalities mixed with a horror show always put me off. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

Couldn't resist and went in for more today. Saw so many things and had to keep reminding myself I'm not wealthy and I probably won't enjoy most of my purchases that much, but the excitement wouldn't fade so easily. Nice to see lots of films coming into official UK release that I had to import over a decade ago (Black Sabbath, one of my favourites).

My purchases..

Curse Of The Werewolf
The Reptile
Kiss Of The Vampire

I heard next to nothing about Kiss Of The Vampire, it rarely gets mentioned alongside other Hammer films, it doesn't have the Hammer DVD line art design; perhaps because it's a Universal/Hammer co-production?

The Reptile is dual format. Why is the feature running time of the bluray 4 minutes longer than the DVD? Is it like how different region dvds have slightly different running times on the same cut of a film? Never understood this technical stuff.

That's the beauty of it. Sarah Greene and Mike Smith make it much more chilling than it would be as a straight horror film. It's an evening of light entertainment gone horribly off the rails. Also, at least a few people seem to have thought it was real at the time. Xp

To answer my own question, but still don't really understand the tech stuff
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=110455