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Hollismason posted:That was me I think, maybe? I love Giallo films. Since most of my favourites are mentioned I'll throw out Torso. Amazing poster and film in general , it's actually pretty good. Torso is great. The guy who made the Giallo Primer was a total rear end in a top hat, it wasn't you. I can't find it in the archives right now.
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Hollismason posted:One of the problems though with the Giallo films is that they were given multiple names and some had recuts or cut in scenes from completely different films then they'd be released with a new name. I get a laugh when they use the success of past movies to market new films. I don't mean posters saying "FROM THE CREATORS OF...." , I mean things like Tombs of The Blind Dead being marketed as Mark of The Devil 4 (or 5 depending on distributor, while other distributors had TTBD 2 relabeled as MOTD 5). Some distributor also had a voice-over added to the beginning and a title change to Revenge from Planet Ape, so to ride on the success of Planet of the Apes. Dr.Caligari fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Any Umberto Lenzi giallo is worth checking out. Seven Bloodstained Orchids, Eyeball and Spasmo especially. I think Seven Orchids and Spasmo are OOP on DVD in America, and Eyeball never had a proper US release. The best time to be a giallo fan (minus being in Italy in the 70s / 80s) was probably 2002 - 2007, as Blue Underground, Media Blasters, Anchor Bay and No Shame Films released tons of giallo DVDs monthly, almost all are OOP now. What Have You Done to Solange? is my favorite movie ever, so I'm super jealous of Uncle Boogeyman right now. No giallo movies ever play theatrically in the Twin Cities, and we have the US offices for Raro Video located here, so you'd think they would pop up every now and then.
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I've never actually seen Tombs of the Blind Dead could never find a decent DVD version at the time, but should go back and try and hunt a copy down.
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Hollismason posted:I've never actually seen Tombs of the Blind Dead could never find a decent DVD version at the time, but should go back and try and hunt a copy down. You absolutely should and Blue Underground released them on DVD a while back (and they all came in a cool coffin: it is one of my favourite collections I have on my shelf).  Spanish horror is really great.
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It seems like old non-American horror films were more brutal than their American counterparts. I was watching At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul the other day and it kinda shocked me that it was released in 1963.
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InfiniteZero posted:You absolutely should and Blue Underground released them on DVD a while back (and they all came in a cool coffin: it is one of my favourite collections I have on my shelf). What other Spanish horror films would you reccomend? I've only seen this series and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.
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P-Zombie posted:What other Spanish horror films would you reccomend? I've only seen this series and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. Who Can Kill A Child? is great.
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I always forget about Blue Underground. I think the thing that endears me most to the Giallo and just generally Italian horror is that the people who act in them genuinely are trying to at least be passable and generally most movies have one or two sequences that are really well directed. I think people forget but there is literally a city in Italy called Cinema City. I've always wanted to visit it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinecitt%C3%A0 Hollismason fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Aug 28, 2014 21:19
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P-Zombie posted:What other Spanish horror films would you reccomend? I've only seen this series and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. Dagon
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Kramjacks posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yf5voaoBiw I'm kind of bummed that it's not found footage but I guess after 3 they weren't going back to that format.
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The second half of Deliria/Stagefright is absolutely loving perfect. I just wish the first half didn't drag so much.
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P-Zombie posted:What other Spanish horror films would you reccomend? I've only seen this series and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. El Dia De La Bestia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2FjEOyl9I A hundred times over. A priest is convinced that the Antichrist is coming and decides that he needs to commit sins and sell his soul so he can be present for his return and destroy him. The only person who believes him is a heavy metal dude at a record store. It all plays out as dark horror comedy. Any of the Paul Naschy films are worth checking out. I've always really dug Panic Beats in particular. I guess The Devil's Backbone counts too, because that was Del Toro (who is Mexican) working in Spain on a story set in Spain. La Residencia is also a Spanish classic. Also not really Spanish except for its director but any time I can pimp PIECES I'm going to do so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCCxGQetNrk InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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I'd also recommend Cannibal Man, which is this portrait of a lonely murder that turns into weirdly tragicomic piling of bodies, sort of like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer by way of Texas Chainsaw 2.
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The short discussion from a few pages back made me want to watch some of those post-Scream slashers that I haven't watched since I was 11. I like to imagine I'm a better film watcher now. What are some of the films in that line? I know there's something like a thousand direct to DVD slashers from the early 2000s that have box art with the characters in profile around the killer. I wish I could hunt those down but,  Blockbuster.Other than the Screams I can think of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend and The Faculty but I imagine I'm missing a ton.
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Hollismason posted:I've never actually seen Tombs of the Blind Dead could never find a decent DVD version at the time, but should go back and try and hunt a copy down. Watch this movie loving NOW. I love all of the sequels too, though not everyone shares that sentiment. Here's some Tombs of the Blind Dead themed metal, just because: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsYjR0l9UlY
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Hooded Menace are a good band and Tombs of the Blind Dead is an outstanding movie.
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weekly font posted:Other than the Screams I can think of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend and The Faculty but I imagine I'm missing a ton. The Craft Idle Hands (very underrated, and basically a comedy) The Rage: Carrie 2 Disturbing Behavior The Babysitter Fear.com
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This thread moves fast when the right subject is brought up, god drat. Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm gonna have to do research because I've seen some of the titles mentioned but I can't recall exactly which. Don't Torture a Duckling is one I do remember and it's one of my favorites from Fulci.Uncle Boogeyman posted:Hooded Menace are a good band and Tombs of the Blind Dead is an outstanding movie. Agreed.
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Is anyone planning to see As Above, So Below? I think a movie set in the Paris Catacombs has the potential to be pretty creepy, and it seems like it will focus more on psychological horror (the thought of literally losing yourself in the maze is terrifying). I want to go this weekend, but I don't have enough friends who live close to me who appreciate horror movies (and I feel weird going to movies alone). 
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Dia De La Bestia is probably my favorite Spanish horror movie.
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P-Zombie posted:What other Spanish horror films would you reccomend? I've only seen this series and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. This may not be what you were after, but I very much liked The Baby's Room from the "Films to Keep You Awake" collection. It takes a premise similar to Insidious and takes it in a very strange direction. Edit: Also it is Spanish. Skyscraper fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Dia De La Bestia is probably my favorite Spanish horror movie. I couldn't remember the name of this earlier and it was bugging me but yeah, it's good. It's basically Fright Night but replace a vampire with the Antichrist.
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weekly font posted:The short discussion from a few pages back made me want to watch some of those post-Scream slashers that I haven't watched since I was 11. I like to imagine I'm a better film watcher now. What are some of the films in that line? I know there's something like a thousand direct to DVD slashers from the early 2000s that have box art with the characters in profile around the killer. I wish I could hunt those down but, You're looking for everything Dimension put out in the years following their success with Scream. You mentioned The Faculty, but they also used that same poster design for Phantoms, Mimic, Dracula 2000, Halloween: H20, and likely a bunch of other releases I can't recall offhand.
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katium posted:Is anyone planning to see As Above, So Below? I think a movie set in the Paris Catacombs has the potential to be pretty creepy, and it seems like it will focus more on psychological horror (the thought of literally losing yourself in the maze is terrifying). I will be seeing it; trailer sold me. Definitely has potential. FAKE EDIT: Oh yeah, and speaking of post-Scream slashers, Cherry Falls was torture to sit through.
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I'm kinda scared to see As Above So Below. It's like, it has that same "will scratch the itch" feeling that Grave Encounters did but I am scared they are going to gently caress up the ending like they did with GE as well. I really want to see it, and I really want it to be good, but I'm gonna wait till someone else sees it and tells me if the ending is retarded or not.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I'm kinda scared to see As Above So Below. It's like, it has that same "will scratch the itch" feeling that Grave Encounters did but I am scared they are going to gently caress up the ending like they did with GE as well. IT WAS ALL A DREAM
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Hollismason posted:Watching End of Days right now I had forgotten how good Gabriel Byrnes was and how actually not to terrible Arnold was. The movie loving owns. InfiniteZero posted:The Exorcist spawned a few great/horrible rip-offs. This actually looks kinda legit; am I being fooled by this TV spot or should I watch this?
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I was very underwhelmed by Stage Fright it didn't have very good songs at all. I think Repo is still the best Horror Musical not counting Rocky Horror, even thoug that is more of a comedy or Phantom of the Opera, since well it was alright. Oh I may go see Evil Dead : The Musical it's playing here in Chicago. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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Hollismason posted:I think Repo Man is still the best Horror Musical not counting Rocky Horror, I think you mean Repo. Repo Man, while having both awesome music, is very much not a horror or a musical. As for Repo, it is the winner based on being fairly passable in a very narrow genre with a very small pool. That said, I enjoyed it when I watched it, but it certainly isn't a runner for one of the great musicals.
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I thought Repo: The Genetic Opera was loving garbage. Well, what I saw of it, anyway. It was so bad I couldn't even make it all the way through. I'm not really a fan of Rocky Horror either. I'd say I'm not a fan of horror musicals in general, but I saw a live production of Evil Dead: The Musical and thought it was hilarious and awesome.
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Just watched Apartment 143/Emergo. I liked it, but the last jump scare kind of felt superfluous. Like, I guess they were wrong about the girl being a poltergeist/schizophrenic? Or maybe there was more to her accusations while 'possessed' than they realized? Apart from that sort of speculation, I guess it was just a reminder that the girl's mental illness wasn't going away just because the movie was over. But it still felt a little like a cheap jump scare, and the only scene in the film that struck me as derivative of The Grudge and so forth.
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weekly font posted:The short discussion from a few pages back made me want to watch some of those post-Scream slashers that I haven't watched since I was 11. I like to imagine I'm a better film watcher now. What are some of the films in that line? I know there's something like a thousand direct to DVD slashers from the early 2000s that have box art with the characters in profile around the killer. I wish I could hunt those down but, I only vaguely remember it, but I think Valentine is another one of those lame Dawson's Creek meets slasher movies.
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Neumonic posted:IT WAS ALL A DREAM I would love to see this board's reaction to a found footage film that ended up being a dream.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I would love to see this board's reaction to a found footage film that ended up being a dream. That, or multiple characters being all the same person.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I would love to see this board's reaction to a found footage film that ended up being a dream. That would own so much. Prince of Darkness features exactly this.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I thought Repo: The Genetic Opera was loving garbage. Well, what I saw of it, anyway. It was so bad I couldn't even make it all the way through. The biggest problem with Repo is that it's a musical with really loving awful music.
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Daveski posted:The biggest problem with Repo is that it's a musical with really loving awful music. Begins and ends there.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I would love to see this board's reaction to a found footage film that ended up being a dream. Isn't that kind of what Mr. Jones is? That and terrible.
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Yaws posted:It seems like old non-American horror films were more brutal than their American counterparts. I was watching At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul the other day and it kinda shocked me that it was released in 1963. That name rings a bell. Is it one of the Coffin Joe movies?
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