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Post by cheesecake on Oct 1, 2018 12:03:49 GMT
It's October and you know what that means! 31 Days of Horror: Some of the Best Underseen Freaky Films to Get You in the Mood for Halloween.
Buckle your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 1, 2018 12:04:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 14:16:36 GMT
Planning on watching this soon. Hyped.
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Post by coop032 on Oct 1, 2018 14:23:53 GMT
Love this one!!!
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Post by idioticbunny on Oct 1, 2018 16:55:09 GMT
Yessss, bring it on! Hoping to realllly catch up on some horror this month, hope I can see 31 as well!
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Oct 1, 2018 17:33:34 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 2, 2018 11:44:33 GMT
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 2, 2018 12:04:28 GMT
Alex de la Iglesia is a genius.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 3, 2018 3:36:09 GMT
Alex de la Iglesia is a genius. What else do you recommend of his?
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 3, 2018 7:07:38 GMT
Alex de la Iglesia is a genius. What else do you recommend of his? My favorite film of his is Balada triste de trompeta ( The last circus in English), then Bitching and Witching and Common wealth. He never really directed a straight-up horror movie, he always makes these crazy blends of horror, comedy, crime, thriller. As i said, he's quite something.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 3, 2018 12:03:02 GMT
What else do you recommend of his? My favorite film of his is Balada triste de trompeta ( The last circus in English), then Bitching and Witching and Common wealth. He never really directed a straight-up horror movie, he always makes these crazy blends of horror, comedy, crime, thriller. As i said, he's quite something. Awesome. Looking forward to checking out more of his stuff.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 3, 2018 12:03:43 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 4, 2018 12:07:33 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 4, 2018 16:30:30 GMT
Been wanting to see Lisa. I really like Gary Sherman's first two films: Raw Meat and Dead & Buried. Lisa's plot reminds me of I Saw What You Did (1965) which I haven't seen yet but it's on my watchlist for this month.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 4, 2018 21:40:22 GMT
Been wanting to see Lisa. I really like Gary Sherman's first two films: Raw Meat and Dead & Buried. Lisa's plot reminds me of I Saw What You Did (1965) which I haven't seen yet but it's on my watchlist for this month. I've been meaning to see I Saw What You Did as well.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 5, 2018 12:04:45 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 6, 2018 11:39:43 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 7, 2018 11:39:26 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 8, 2018 15:28:12 GMT
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Oct 8, 2018 20:37:11 GMT
I was able to check out Lisa, and it was a quite a rollercoaster, though that wasn't entirely the movie's fault. First off, the concept is super creepy, helped by the fact that Moffett effectively played it as both charming and sinister. It would have been easy for him to just constantly act creepy, leaving you begging to know how he lured all the women he has, but it's surprisingly believable. I do think it probably could have used a bit more suspense, with more scenes like when she was trapped in his car. Another surprise was that she was quite likable, given her sometimes bratty approach to things. With that said, I was expecting something the whole movie that actually never happened. When I was searching for a copy of the movie, one of the first results was a 20-second YouTube video of just the scene where he smashes her mother's head against hers, with the title being "Killer Uses Mother's Head as a Weapon- Lisa 1990", which I took in the worst way, imagining that meant her severed head. So I was bummed out the whole movie whenever I liked their relationship because I thought it was leading to something that horrific. So while that would have been something kind of wonderfully twisted in a different movie, I was so relieved that they both lived. I'd say that's a testament to how well the relationship is played that I wouldn't want to see that. I was also able to catch both The Silent Scream and Dead Heat. That first shot of Steele in the former is amazing, where it appears she's looking into a mirror until we get closer and realize she's staring into a picture. Whether this or with DePalma, I always have this sense I should almost be mad at the Hitchcock homages because of just how blatant and obvious they are, but it says something about the techniques that they still always pay off anyway. Though the climax is a bit rushed, it's always nice to come across something that captures that feel of the classic slasher so potently. Being just the year after Halloween before the genre really took off, it's cool to see some of the clichés absent, like the shockingly low number of kills or the fact that the survivors get a sex scene and live to tell about it! Dead Heat was just as much fun as it sounded. Also being the following year of a popular movie, I'm glad it avoided being the Robocop ripoff it so easily could have been. Williams isn't appreciated as an actor near as much as he should be and plays a large factor in the movie's charming cheesiness. Some of those effects are wicked, with the girl's sudden rapid decomposition evoking memories of the original Evil Dead. Was also glad to see we got more Price than it seemed like we would. And it's so short and moves so fast, never overstaying its welcome. The Unknown is just a straight up masterpiece. So glad to see it here.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 9, 2018 2:03:19 GMT
That first shot of Steele in the former is amazing, where it appears she's looking into a mirror until we get closer and realize she's staring into a picture. Glad you dug them! Steele is such a sight to behold. Have you seen Black Sunday?
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Oct 9, 2018 6:02:12 GMT
That first shot of Steele in the former is amazing, where it appears she's looking into a mirror until we get closer and realize she's staring into a picture. Glad you dug them! Steele is such a sight to behold. Have you seen Black Sunday?I've almost blind bought it like three times, but have never actually ended up with it yet, though Bava is someone I've always wanted to explore. I owe most of my knowledge of Steele to those cheap horror packs that always have The Ghost, Nightmare Castle, and She Beast in them. She has such an interesting way of adding this certain higher level to those B-movies she often found herself in.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 9, 2018 12:03:57 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 10, 2018 1:43:49 GMT
I watched The Silent Scream, pretty good but stumbles in the second half. There's a really fascinating production history behind this, with Denny Harris (his only film) reshooting the majority of the movie with a new improved script, soundstages, and some name cast. Apparently 15% or so of the original version (shot in '77) is in there but I couldn't tell what. Denny was producing with his wife Joan who IMDb lists as being among the dancer/choreographers on The Red Shoes + Tales of Hoffmann! The Wheat brothers went right from producing Scorsese's doc-profile on Steven Prince to rewriting this script and producing it too - they went on to write Elm Street 4 Dream Master.
Anyway! The set-up is clever, she practically has no other choice but to live there, right? And the actress Rebecca Balding is good, an immediately refreshing character bc she's assertive and kinda sarcastic and cool. She cracks open a beer while studying for an exam! Speaking of which this could've used a few more college campus scenes. The second half feels rushed, convoluted, and conveniently plotted and Balding is left literally hanging around; it's too concerned with selling us Psycho. The score I gotta note is excellent...until the murder scenes where it just mimics Psycho again...
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 10, 2018 2:42:43 GMT
I watched The Silent Scream, pretty good but stumbles in the second half. There's a really fascinating production history behind this, with Denny Harris (his only film) reshooting the majority of the movie with a new improved script, soundstages, and some name cast. Apparently 15% or so of the original version (shot in '77) is in there but I couldn't tell what. Denny was producing with his wife Joan who IMDb lists as being among the dancer/choreographers on The Red Shoes + Tales of Hoffmann! The Wheat brothers went right from producing Scorsese's doc-profile on Steven Prince to rewriting this script and producing it too - they went on to write Elm Street 4 Dream Master. Anyway! The set-up is clever, she practically has no other choice but to live there, right? And the actress Rebecca Balding is good, an immediately refreshing character bc she's assertive and kinda sarcastic and cool. She cracks open a beer while studying for an exam! Speaking of which this could've used a few more college campus scenes. The second half feels rushed, convoluted, and conveniently plotted and Balding is left literally hanging around; it's too concerned with selling us Psycho. The score I gotta note is excellent...until the murder scenes where it just mimics Psycho again... Yeah, the history of the production is pretty crazy. I didn't know that about Joan's resume -- very cool.
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