Good Horror Movies

[Jerzy Bondov]

The Ritual perhaps?

[madhair60]

The Ritual perhaps?

That's the bastard

[Mini]

I thought The Ritual started quite well then all got a bit generic. 3 stars some funny bits.

[zomgmouse]

The Stuff. I loved this. I'll watch almost any satire on consumerism and mass culture. The white ooze was almost so ridiculous as to be actually terrifying. Classic escalating plot with a bit of shakiness but very entertaining.

[SteveDave]

The Stuff. I loved this. I'll watch almost any satire on consumerism and mass culture. The white ooze was almost so ridiculous as to be actually terrifying. Classic escalating plot with a bit of shakiness but very entertaining.

And a lead actor who is tall. From IMDB:

As one of Hollywood's tallest actors standing at 6' 4", he will always be noticed.

[Kane Jones]

The Stuff. I loved this. I'll watch almost any satire on consumerism and mass culture. The white ooze was almost so ridiculous as to be actually terrifying. Classic escalating plot with a bit of shakiness but very entertaining.

Wow, I'd totally forgotten about that film. I used to have it on ex-rental VHS many moons ago. Great fun as I recall.

[St_Eddie]

The white ooze was almost so ridiculous as to be actually terrifying.

[zomgmouse]

There's a scene in it where a factory of The Stuff is exploded and it's right in between a McDonald's and a KFC, and I just... kissyfingerschef.jpg

[zomgmouse]

Just wait till I tell you that it also moves and goes inside people.

[Gregory Torso]

Just watched Creep 2 and thought it was great. Better than the first, which was surprisingly good anyway. Mark Duplass does an excellent job of being frogshit insane as well as pathetic, dangerous and funny. It's found footage so you just have to ignore all the usual "who is filming and editing this? And why?" Questions that usually crop up and also spoilers like the first film the protagonist makes a stupid idiot decision at the end although it's not quite as thick as waiting patiently on a bench by a lake with your back to everything else. Anyway, me liked it.

[Brundle-Fly]

I've just watched Creep 2 too and I think it was more original than the first film (which is also very good).  Wasn't so keen on the coda tacked on at the end, didn't really feel necessary. Strong performances and quite funny in a dark way, "November 1978. It was the last days of disco" scene in the river had me in stitches. Aaron's attempt to copy his favourite director's look was a nice touch and I really like the Sara Likes Her Juicy fruit track on the end titles.

[Bhazor]

The Stuff is why you should never use digital effects for gore in a horror film.

[Brundle-Fly]

Looking at The Stuff's  creator, Larry Cohen IMDB page. What a career this man has had!

Q (1982) is definitely worth checking out.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169540/

[Dr Syntax Head]

A film I remember seeing around the same time I saw The Stuff was Halloween 3 which also had that consumerism satire going on. It's one bloody dark film even for these times. Creeped me right out as a kid those films. Slasher films never did mind, I always found them (and still find them) very boring.

[Bhazor]

Looking at The Stuff's  creator, Larry Cohen IMDB page. What a career this man has had!

Yeah Larry Cohen is great. Definitely recommend a dip in his filmography.

[magval]

Is Creep 2 a sequel to the Franka Potente in the Underground film?

[zomgmouse]

Yeah Larry Cohen is great. Definitely recommend a dip in his filmography.

I watched God Told Me To recently, that was fab.

[Gregory Torso]

Is Creep 2 a sequel to the Franka Potente in the Underground film?

No it's another Creep about a (heh) creepy guy who has issues with getting close to people. Mark Duplass. Both films are really good if you don't mind found footage.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2428170/

[St_Eddie]

...Halloween 3...

Silver shamrock!

[zomgmouse]

Night of Fear, a 1972 Australian film that's really quite nasty, almost proto-Texas Chain Saw. There's no dialogue in this so the atmosphere and visuals and score do all the work. Some really terrifying and brutal and fucked sequences. Plus it's only 50 minutes long.

[St_Eddie]

Night of Fear, a 1972 Australian film that's really quite nasty, almost proto-Texas Chain Saw. There's no dialogue in this so the atmosphere and visuals and score do all the work. Some really terrifying and brutal and fucked sequences. Plus it's only 50 minutes long.

Sold.

[SteveDave]

Plus it's only 50 minutes long.

I'm pig sick of films that last 2 hours+.

[zomgmouse]

I'm pig sick of films that last 2 hours+.

This was initially intended as the pilot of an anthology horror TV series but the ABC thought it was too horrific so they pulled out and now it's just a short feature. It was initially banned in Australia, too, before the censors relented.

[Famous Mortimer]

Although you can all do it yourself (type the title into Google and stroll down four links), here it is.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5glihw

[Oops! Wrong Planet]

i'll put a mention in for Bone Tomahawk, which is on Netflix. A beautifully made western with some gut wrenching moments....well worth a view.

Caught up with that recently and thought it was great, a well-directed slow-burner with realistic and laconic dialogue that didn't sound hokey like so many Westerns do. Good performances too.
I was caught off-guard by the ending, but on reflection I prefer that to a climax that goes way over the top and takes you out of the film altogether.

Just out of interest, how long does it take before the memory of the (no spoilers) splitting scene fades?

[SteveDave]

Caught up with that recently and thought it was great, a well-directed slow-burner with realistic and laconic dialogue that didn't sound hokey like so many Westerns do. Good performances too.
I was caught off-guard by the ending, but on reflection I prefer that to a climax that goes way over the top and takes you out of the film altogether.

Just out of interest, how long does it take before the memory of the (no spoilers) splitting scene fades?

So far it's been 4 months and I still can't look in a butcher shop.

[Oops! Wrong Planet]

So far it's been 4 months and I still can't look in a butcher shop.

*faints*

[Gregory Torso]

That scene was horrific but I was more disturbed by the pregnant cannibal cave women with pegs in their eyes and their limbs amputated. Brrrrrr.

[Brundle-Fly]

I enjoyed Bone Tomahawk but the set design in the cannibal caves at the end was like something from a seventies Saturday afternoon cinema Doug McClure adventure movie or Carry On Up The Jungle (1970)

[Custard]

Love Bone Tomahawk. I'd recommend checking out director blokey's next film, Brawl In Cell Block 99, as 1. It's great, and 2. The violence is even rougher and more wince-inducing