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Halloween Viewing? (Film & TV)

Started by lipsink, October 31, 2010, 11:23:39 AM

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Jemble Fred

I wouldn't like to say one was better than the other, but Asylum scared me the first time I saw it – BOSC didn't.

Marty McFly

I haven't seen either of those, sadly, but I do know that Asylum was written by Robert 'Psycho' Bloch, if that's any indication of its quality...

Has anyone seen "The House of the Devil"? An 80s throwback "babysitter horror" from last year. Really, really something if you like your horrors slow and uber-tense.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: Shameless on October 31, 2010, 08:28:05 PM
Heh, i bought Re-Animator on the recommendation of someone on here (sorry, i'm terrible at remembering names n things) a couple weeks back, and greatly enjoyed it too. Great fun from start to messy finish.
The next two films in the series are worth a watch, particularly the last (Beyond Re-animator).

lipsink

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Poltergeist was a disappointingly tame for Halloween viewing. I knew it was meant to be family friendly but the odd creepy twisted moment got lost in the Spielberg slush (he did do Jaws and Duel's meant to be terrifying - perhaps I'll do that one next year!!)

My viewing was very last minute and I didn't get my act together to find some decent stuff so just ended up watching the 'Royal Jelly' episode of Tales of the Unexpected and 'A Kind of Stopwatch' episode of The Twilight Zone. Both a bit tame and disappointing too to be honest. Plus it's probably better to watch a handful of these things in one go.  By the time I finshed Psychoville I realised I was a bit knackered and wasn't feeling it so didn't get to watch Blood On Satan's Claw or Asylum. Perhaps later!

Famous Mortimer

My Halloween viewing ended up being "Virgin Among The Living Dead". I've seen this film numerous times, with different releases and edits, and I still don't understand a word of it.

A young woman goes to the island of Montserrat for the reading of her father's will, and there either has the worst time ever or just a particularly vivid dream in the hotel she stays in on her first night. Or neither. It's a bit hard to tell. What I can tell you is there's lots of close-ups of faces, either greasy or over-made-up, staring off into the distance and rarely doing any acting. There's blood, 70s pubic hair, and a blue glass phallus.


Bingo Fury

Last night's viewing ended up being "Psychoville" (terrific, and immaculately made) followed by a showing of the original "Halloween" on some digital channel.

Quote from: Pepotamo1985 on October 31, 2010, 07:39:06 PM
cunnilingus on a rather genitally hirsute blonde girl tied to an operating table

I can't even think about horror after reading that. When's the sex/porn equivalent of Halloween?

lipsink

I saw the hilarious Island of Death last week which had big 70s pubes too. The guy presenting it at the Glasgow Film Theatre was a bit pissed off that the director cancelled at the last minute because he refused to fly economy class. He read out a few of the director's stroppy texts too. Hard to imagine anyone being able to keep from laughing through the film if he had shown up.

papalaz4444244

I watched Orgy of the Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4RAO6DpDJU

So shit, it has to be seen. Basically a horror themed nudie cutie written by Ed Wood Jr. starring Criswell, who looks pissed out of his mind. Classic.

Melody Lee

Last night I rewatched a couple of christmas ghost stories on youtube - Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee as M.R James. Unfortunately the series doesn't seem to be available on DVD, I remember watching it when it was originally on BBC2 at christmas in 2000.

Number 13, part 1 of 3

I also watched the excellent 1976 TV adaptation of The Signalman. Beautifully creepy.

The Signalman, part 1 of 4

Famous Mortimer

I can't believe I once sat through Orgy of the Dead. I think it's probably Ed Wood's worst film, because it achieves nothing - it has no plot, no action, barely any acting, it's cheap, it's not titillating in the slightest...absolute bollocks from beginning to end.

VegaLA

Quote from: Famous Mortimer on November 01, 2010, 05:11:31 PM
My Halloween viewing ended up being "Virgin Among The Living Dead". I've seen this film numerous times, with different releases and edits, and I still don't understand a word of it.


Holy shizer the last cut I saw of this had the Zombie dream sequence inserted with a completly different actress who spent the whole scene trying to hide her face. If I remember rightly her hair was a different colour. Jesus Franco at his Ed Wood' best there. I need to watch that shit again. Thanks.

Famous Mortimer

As I know more about that film than I care to remember, the zombie scenes were filmed 8 years later during the production of the awesome-sounding "Zombie Lake", and as the starlet didn't look remotely the same as she did in 1972, they got someone and just shot her from the back.

The first version I saw had some brilliant censorship - all the nudity was blacked out and you just saw the faces of the people in the scene in small circles. It was ace.

Glebe

Halloween night, watched Halloween 1+2 at a buddies house... we watched the not-terrific Taste The Blood Of Dracula the night before! He happened to be doing a presentation on Hammer Films for college, as it happens.

VegaLA

Zombie lake.

A first for Zombie films that..... and certainly not in a good way!

Jemble Fred

Has anyone ever seen The Legend of Hell House then? I finally got round to it last night, and wasn't in any way scared by it, plus it took an age to get going... But I did like the attempt to fuse science and the paranormal, it made me wonder whether Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis had been fans of the movie before writing Ghostbusters.

Everyone goes on about... oh shit, I've forgotten the name of that other movie which is supposed to be like a non-comedic Ghostbusters, the one with THE DEVIL as a green slime... ah, found it – The Prince of Darkness. But that was three years after Ghostbusters, Hell House seems to be one of the strongest forebears of the blockbuster.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: Jemble Fred on November 15, 2010, 09:20:41 AM
Has anyone ever seen The Legend of Hell House then? I finally got round to it last night, and wasn't in any way scared by it, plus it took an age to get going... But I did like the attempt to fuse science and the paranormal, it made me wonder whether Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis had been fans of the movie before writing Ghostbusters.

Everyone goes on about... oh shit, I've forgotten the name of that other movie which is supposed to be like a non-comedic Ghostbusters, the one with THE DEVIL as a green slime... ah, found it – The Prince of Darkness. But that was three years after Ghostbusters, Hell House seems to be one of the strongest forebears of the blockbuster.

I would check out the early sixties version of The Haunting, like the novel it was adapted from (The Haunting of Hill House), it's about a group of four people (I believe one is a scientist/researcher and two are psychics) staying in a house to investigate the notorious claims about it being haunted – Mathieson, who wrote Hell House and the film version of it, named these as the reason for his decision to write a novel about a haunted house.

There was a remake of The Haunting not that long ago, but it's yer usual standard horror flick – the first version, like the book, is rather more subtle and concentrates on the psychological (in fact, it's probably best to go in expecting a psychological drama, rather than a horror film).

I quite like The Legend of Hell House – although it's not one I would say is that scary, it is atmospheric and well shot. I haven't read the Mattieson novel, although I've been meaning to and it's meant to have rather a lot of sex and violence. When writing the film, he toned down these elements and one main reason was that as teens were the main market for horror flick, it made commercial sense to make sure it was a PG.

The film is credited with being fairly influential on subsequent horror television/movies, particularly on the scientific side of things – also, I think it's supposedly the first time ectoplasm was depicted onscreen. Certainly, it was a well-regarded and well-known horror flick from the Seventies – wouldn't surprise me if Aykroyd was a fan.

Jemble Fred

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Quote from: Ignatius_S on November 15, 2010, 01:23:23 PM
I would check out the early sixties version of The Haunting, like the novel it was adapted from (The Haunting of Hill House), it's about a group of four people (I believe one is a scientist/researcher and two are psychics) staying in a house to investigate the notorious claims about it being haunted – Mathieson, who wrote Hell House and the film version of it, named these as the reason for his decision to write a novel about a haunted house.

There was a remake of The Haunting not that long ago, but it's yer usual standard horror flick – the first version, like the book, is rather more subtle and concentrates on the psychological (in fact, it's probably best to go in expecting a psychological drama, rather than a horror film).

Indeed, it should be illegal to ever discuss ghost movies unless you've read Jackson's book and seen both The Haunting and The House on Haunted Hill, plus both remakes! ;)

But yes, I must admit Hell House was a new one on me. Unlike the other two movies, however, I can't help feeling that a remake could be theoretically worthwhile... actually no, the whole storyline and concept are too weak to ever be worth putting on screen. The very basic concept, however, of using weird science against a vicious spiritual force (with lots of sex and violence involved), is something I'd like to see tried out for scares by a conteporary filmmaker.

Actually, a movie loosely based (ie you'd pretend they weren't liars and frauds) on The Fox Sisters could also be good – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters – a movie with real ectoplasm in it and so on.