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

Three...Extremes also springs to mind. And I guess Grindhouse technically counts.

and V/H/S

From a Whisper to a Scream is an anthology film that doesn't get enough love.

And of course Trick 'r' Treat.

Not familiar with either.

How did we forget Trilogy Of Terror? People only really like it for the third segment though.

Two Evil Eyes is only two segments. The Romero half is really dull but the Argento/Harvey Keitel half is pretty watchable and a little nuts.

Trick 'r Treat is one of the better shoulda-been-mainstream (its theatrical release was horribly fumbled) horror movies of the past decade.

I've always had a soft spot for Tales from the Darkside: the Movie.

Ken Russell's segment of Trapped Ashes ("The Girl with the Golden Breasts") is very enjoyable bonkers.

DEMONIACS

I had my Jean Rollin phase a little while ago but I still wanted to see this one.

A bad bunch of sailors rape and kill two shipwrecked girls who are later reborn. There's lots of rocky beaches, seaweed, prostitutes, bastards and an abandoned church.
It's very boring, the action scenes are incredibly sloppy (especially that guy going to untie the girl then just falling in the water (Did I miss something? Was he wounded or something?). It's just not very good. One of the weaker early Rollin films.

Another Redemption/Salvation DVD that jitters in the intro before the selection screen. Some of the subtitles later on in the film come a few minutes early, good thing the film isn't dialogue heavy.

I watched a few short Jess Franco documentaries this week and they're not inspiring confidence. Someday I'll see a few of his films because he's one of the biggest horror directors (in the area I care about) I've seen nothing by.

I'm happy with my region 1 Synapse remaster of Lemora but with so much being reissued right now I really wish there was a UK dvd of it. There's a few Spanish region 2 dvds with the English audio intact but I don't know if they are the remaster (which looks brilliant).

I think it's a really special film and I wish Blackburn had directed another 30 films like this. Probably repeating myself now.

Still no region 2 of Lets Scare Jessica To Death and Alucarda either but seemingly plenty of barrel scraping going on.

There's a bunch of fancy reissues for things I know very little about or plain never heard of. Anyone seen The Skull (Eureka dvd), Dr Terror's House Of Horrors, Anthropophagous, The Bloodstained Shadow, A Blade In The Dark, Dead Of Winter, What Have You Done To Solange, Nightmare City, Spasmo, Nightmares In A Damaged Brain, Island Of Death, Madman, Candle For The Devil, Burial Ground, Horror Hospital, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Slaughterhouse, Tower Of Evil, A Study In Terror?
I doubt I'd like most of them but maybe there's a gem in there?

Tenderness Of Wolves is supposed to be really good.

^^ i've seen a few of those.

'burial ground' has a special place in my heart mostly because of the synth-driven soundtrack - sleazy italian zombie flick, lacking the atmosphere. same goes for 'nightmare city' iirc - i know some people who rate it highly tho. 'tower of evil' is an interesting 70's uk slasher, but it's not great by any means. 'antropophagus' is quite atmospheric even if it becomes some nasty piece of work. might need a rewatch tho.

i've never been a fan of 'the town that dreaded sundown'. maybe 'madman' isn't as bad as i recall. 'what have you donw to solange' is far from my fav giallo, but it's quite good, and i can't remember if i've seen 'the bloodstained shadow'.

re: anthologies - 'grim prairie tales' is one of the few times the - filled with so much potential - horror/western crossover worked. and yeah, 'asylum' is my fav amicus.

I've seen most of them.

The Skull and Dr Terror's House of Horror are ok Amicus productions iirc. Anthropophagus is a ropey Joe D'Amato effort with little of the entertainment value of other, ropier Joe D'Amato efforts. The Bloodstained Shadow / Solamente Nero is a fairly minor but watchable Antonio Bido giallo with a score by Goblin.

What Have They Done To Solange is a genuinely good giallo. Spasmo (giallo) and Nightmare City (zombies) are both by Umberto Lenzi - the former is better but neither is great. I can''t remember much about most of the others, which is probably indicative of something.

Island Of Death is a low-budget Mastorakis shocker but is quite good - or at least very memorable, imo.

xp: 'tears of kali' is a great debut from andreas marschall - he also has a segment on 'german angst' that i'm really eager to see, along w/ 2 other segments from jörg 'nekromantik' buttgereit and some guy called michal kosakowski. '4bia' is a nice thai horror anthology as well.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death is on UK Netflix

Xps to myself, there was a remastered version of Island Of Death on Amazon Instant Video last time I checked.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death is fantastic. I've never seen anything like it. There's a really peculiar and beautiful sensitivity at work there.

http://nefertiti.tumblr.com/post/130669647204/rare-color-shots-of-mario-bavas-black-sunday
These look amazing. Surprising to me, because it's one of the best looking black and white horror films.

Bava was such a great user of colour. I need to get the new print of Blood and Black Lace they just put out.

Yeah, that Blood and Black Lace blu from Arrow is absolutely luscious - beautiful lurid reds and greens.

whoa, nice.

I've never seen Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (aka simply Nightmare), but I have seen the unforgettably sleazy decapitation finale, as it was featured in a talk show segment on video nasties back in the day. Also gained some notoriety because it credited makeup effects by Tom Savini, which he denied.

Haven't seen Phantasm films in the shops for a long time. Think I might get the box set. I've never seen any of them aside from bits on tv.

Coincidentally, I just watched Phantasm (my only rewatch from last October) and the first sequel (for the first time). I've gone from bafflement to admiration to something like awe with each subsequent viewing of the first one. The second is, uh, kind of a piece of shit? I'm still gonna press on and watch the lot.

Years ago I taken against this series from what little I'd seen. I think I found it too ugly or miserable looking or something (difficult to explain when they might seem similar to other films I liked). But since then I'd heard some compelling recommendations of it and more than anything, there doesn't seem to be enough films in this area.

Have been meaning to give it another chance since it slipped just barely into the top 100 in ILX horror poll, but I too found it offputtingly ugly the first time I saw it.

It's a grower but it has ultimately worked its way into my all-time favorites. The thing is so dreamlike that I swear it's a slightly different movie every time I see it.

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A big ass Hellraiser trilogy box set with a sought after deleted scene and other extensive extras.

There are so many horror movies my wife has not seen, and I think this is the year she sees them. When we were in Mammoth Cave I got her to agree to "The Descent!"

I was debating whether that Hellraiser box was worth buying (considering I already own the only two movies in the series that I care to own or watch again) but then I realized that it isn't region 1 so I guess that's a no.

This isn't a dig at you in particular Old Lunch, but I'm always surprised at American Ilxors' reluctance to buy an All-Region DVD player - no one region has all the good stuff

I've got the old Anchor Bay 'cube' box set which I think I'm going to stick with - and I only really like the first HellRaiser movie, mainly for its seedy British exploitation aesthetic - it gives off a real Pete Walker vibe in places.

Talking of nice Arrow DVD sets, really pissed off that their Videodrome set sold out pre-sale, and already now goes for stupid money on Amazon.

I think if I was in America I maybe wouldn't have bothered getting a multi-region player because the majority of my foreign dvds are region 1.

Criterion (majorly) excepted, world arthouse cinema is very poorly represented on Region 1 compared to Region 2, just for example

I hacked our old Harman Kardon dvd player so it would play all-region mainly so i could watch Aus movies sent from home - that is why we kept it even though we mostly use the PS3 as a dvd/blu player

good to have a multi-region option imo

Yeah, my PS3 is the house blu-ray player. My laptop drive is region free so I can at least do international DVDs. I've spent way too much money on R1 stuff that I still haven't watched to justify expanding the scope of my purchases.

I would always buy DVD players based on their ability to be region hacked. But even then I saved purchases of out of region DVDs for rare occasions, because they were so expensive. The irony is all the region juggling and hard to find titles over the years have lead me down more grey area routes, which often means watching copies as modest in quality as initial DVD quality, if not sometimes VHS. Like a million other people, I would totally pay a premium for a global infinite jukebox that just lets me watch what I want, when I want, without worrying about what's not available, or what's about to disappear, etc. But of course that is literally too much to ask. You have to buy 10 ladders for 10 different sized walls.

Why too much to ask? Isnt an international version of Netflix possible if the rights holders would let it happen?

How about bluray players?

UK Netflix has a very limited catalog in comparison with, say, Spotify.

if the rights holders would let it happen

Ergo, too much to ask.

The increasingly-balkanized landscape of streaming media and the unpredictable availability of said media is what keeps me buying physical copies of movies when I can and t0rrentz-ing when I can't. I won't be paying for a service beyond Netflix (which I basically only have for their original programming) until these chowderheads get their shit together and realize that they're shooting themselves in the foot by not seeking some kind of unification of their myriad of services.

Same thing happened in the early days of Napster et al. They fucked it up then, they'll fuck it up again. If and when they get their shit together movie piracy will be as easy and rampant as were MP3s and the movie industry will meet a similar fate. Maybe. Because certainly there are still huge movies (albeit shitty ones), and stuff like Walking Dead or Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones or whatever make more than enough money to keep interesting or novel or good shows coming to cable and streaming. If anything that gives me some hope the movie/TV industry is at least to some extent trying to figure things out, as opposed to hiding their heads in the sand. No doubt, there is as much TV and as many small movies as ever, which is remarkable, because it is much harder and more expensive to make a movie that no one sees than it is to make an album no one hears.

Not strictly horror, but I discovered this book last night and it shot to the top of my Christmas wish list: VHS Video Cover Art: 1980s to Early 1990s.

finally watched 'black sabbath' during a nighshift at this hostel and while overall it's good, 'the drop of water' segment is genuinely scary. [minor spoilers?] that's a face you cannot unsee.

^^^ responsible for MANY childhood nightmares.

FYI: Shout! Factory has some old horror movies (Day Of The Dead, Sleepaway Camp, Night Of The Demons, and some non-horror stuff) that have been sourced directly from VHS streaming online at http://thevhsvault.com/ .

I sometimes wish horror DVDs/Blu-Rays had a "watch in shitty VHS fidelity with occasional tracking problems and maybe, after the movie's over, see the last 15 minutes of whatever was on the cassette before and that you taped over" option.

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lol

Oh my god.

It's a shame that tattoos don't have an audio component.

that's commitment