[Closed] Horror Films.

Was it this, jimjam?

*EDIT* it must be this, there can't be two films about a detective hunting a killer that turns out to be a shit xenmorph...or can there? 😀

Lol. You know you're getting close to the bottom of the barrel when....but no.

Speaking of obscure. Does anyone remember Dead Heat with Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo?

Edit: Holy shit I think that's it! I mean that must be it. As you say, there can't be two of them. Can there? And I've definitely seen that. Dang, that really takes me back.

Dang, that really takes me back.

In the year 2008, global warming and heavy rainfall has left large areas of London flooded. Rookie police officer Dick Durkin is assigned to partner with Harley Stone, a burnt-out and highly cynical veteran homicide detective who, according to his commanding officer, survives on "anxiety, coffee and chocolate" after being unable to prevent the murder of his partner by a serial killer several years previously.

😆

This is the stuff of pure B-movie gold.

I'm going to have to watch that again.

I'm watching it right now.

Found a great quality stream. So much for doing some work tonight. Great so far though.

Here’s a couple of recent ones.

Autopsy of Jane Doe.

Deathgasm (cracking comedy horror especially if you like heavy metal).

Fin25:

Not from the 70's but it could be Wax Mask, a Lucio Fulci screenplay rewritten by Dario Argento and directed by Sergio Stivaletti in 1997?

Last night I watched The VVitch.. on recommendation of this thread. What an utter pile of cr*p that was. Not remotely frightening, and the goat did it!

trailwagger - Member

Last night I watched The VVitch.. on recommendation of this thread. What an utter pile of cr*p that was.

Other than "not remotely frightening," what was crap about it?

Other than "not remotely frightening," what was crap about it?

I have to admit that I struggled to hear quite a lot of the dialogue, and don't understand why they did it like that. I don't think it adds anything to the film and certainly wouldn't have taken anything away from it if they had used current English language.

The whole thing about the paranoia was ruined by the fact they showed you the witch in the hut in the woods with the boy. Leave that out and then you start to wonder if there is a witch or if its just in the families heads. Given that that is the whole premise of the film really, why would you give the game away so early on and so easily?

I agree with you about the sound production - I did struggle to understand the dad, but I think his voice was just so deep. As for the language used I appreciated the old English - the rest of the production seemed (to my uneducated eye) very historically accurate, or at least believable. Although the splitting axe used by the father looks identical to my Husqvarna / Wetterlings pattern one but I'll not dwell on that.

As for revealing the Witch, I would need to rewatch but my initial take was that it was they boy's imagination running wild. The other point is that even if there's a wierd old woman living in the woods she doesn't have supernatural powers.

I mean, in the reality of a film where we see her casting a spell and the spell having a direct effect then yes sure, you can have witches in fiction, but my take was that it wasn't a literal broomstick wielding hag in league with satan.

I could be wrong, obviously it's very open ended and open to multiple interpretations but that's one of the things I like so much about it.

I just remembered as well, that's not the first time you see the/a witch. After the baby is taken (cant really be imagining that) you see her smothering blood/guts/brains over her skin.
If the witch was imagined by the boy, then why did he return in such a state and subsequently die?

And what happened to the other two kids ? did the goat eat them?

I like Director Neil Marshall - especially Dog Soldiers and The Decent. .

trailwagger - Member

I just remembered as well, that's not the first time you see the/a witch. After the baby is taken (cant really be imagining that) you see her smothering blood/guts/brains over her skin.
If the witch was imagined by the boy, then why did he return in such a state and subsequently die?

I would have to watch it again to give you a better answer, then again maybe I wouldn't be able to, but I do intend watching it again at some point. My incredibly vague and flowery answer at this point to most such questions would be that the reality presented on screen isn't clear. Is it really a world of witches, goats possessed by Satan, magic etc, or are the supernatural things the way that paranoid, isolated and scientifically primitive people rationalise things they can't understand.

Is the film set in our real world, a supernatural world, or a world where people's belief in the supernatural effects their perception of reality and that's what it represented.

A directors commentary might clarify some of those points.

Some answers here from the director....

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/23/the_witch_director_robert_eggers_on_the_real_history_behind_the_movie_s.html

The Descent is a superb film.

trailwagger - Member

Some answers here from the director....

In a nutshell he kept in intentionally vague so people would interpret it their own way. Do you feel any differently reading that or is it ruined for you anyway?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/23/the_witch_director_robert_eggers_on_the_real_history_behind_the_movie_s.html

Not sure, but I think maybe my initial reaction was too hasty. The fact I am still thinking about the film today and looking online to find out more about it probably means it had a bigger effect on me than I first thought.

Going to an all night horror marathon tonight at a local cinema.
28 days later
The eyes of my mother
Young Frankenstein
A nightmare on elm Street
There's also a mystery film, even if it's shit, the other four are more than worth the £25 quid (which includes bottomless coffee).
Might have a little nap in a minute.

Bottomless beer would have been better but still, sounds good. I got half way through Split Second last night. I'm going to watch the rest of it later, it's so hilarious. The lead character is literally an unhinged mad man. It's really deep in the "so bad it's good" territory.

I see that the guy who wrote it actually went on to write The Fast and the Furious, so no doubt he'll have pocketed many millions from that.

trailwagger - Member

Not sure, but I think maybe my initial reaction was too hasty. The fact I am still thinking about the film today and looking online to find out more about it probably means it had a bigger effect on me than I first thought.

Well it's good to discuss it with you anyway. If anything it's helped me remember what I liked about it. I'm now thinking that on my second viewing I'll be trying to see exactly what is left in, and what's left out in order to prompt or lead the audience one way or another.

Young [s]Frankenstein[/s]Fronkensteen

All nighter at cinema sounds ace btw!

All nighter at cinema sounds ace btw!

It is, but I've never made it all the way to the end before in 3 attempts... it's 10 solid hours of movies!
Have to do it this time, they're finishing with Nightmare on elm Street, can't miss that.

I just read the plot of A Serbian Film on Wikipedia, and now I feel bit nauseous, how anyone could watch it is beyond me TBH.

I just read the plot of A Serbian Film on Wikipedia

You've already gone too far...

I've got zero interest in watching it, or anything else that's just relentlessly unpleasant. Now saying that if someone told me there was a genuinely great film that contained any kind of nastiness I'd probably watch, but that's not the feedback I've heard about A Serbian Film.

I love a bit of grot, but that film is just horrible garbage.

You've already gone too far...

you're probably right

There was a time when I would definitely have sought it out based on the reputation it has, but in this day and age, what with the real horrors we can watch online, honestly what's the point.

I quite enjoyed black death, not strictly a horror I don't suppose, more a supernatural thriller.

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I didn't mind it either, especially with Carice van Houten in it. Just sayin.

So.. anyone seen this film:

"A deformed boy grows a disembodied head within a boulder-sized, mucous-lined orifice by basting the noggin with his own freshly produced faeces.
A man, who’s scared of breasts visits a doctor who pulls down his pants and has the patient sing into his anus in order to wake a huge cockroach."
And more!
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I have. Oh yes.

No ones mentioned the first three 'wrong turn' films?

Final destination was fun.

Jeepers creepers.

Some of the vignettes from the v/h/s series were downright weird.

I always enjoyed watching 'the masque of red death' in all its technicolor glory.

And if you enjoy watching Vincent price ham it up (deliberately), then the Howard Hughes thriller 'his kind of woman' is worth a swatch.

'The tripper' is a slasher movie, but with a cynical edge.

Jeepers Creepers is a bad film.

You talking about Kuso, DezB, if so, I have seen it, it's on shudder. And yes, it is a bit messed up, but not as messed up as I think it thinks it is, I think.

Kuso indeed. It's a challenging watch - mainly for the "is this actually shit?" feeling throughout. But at least it's someone making something challenging! I preferred his music videos really. Especially the one for "Ready Err Not". I won't link it, cos that is "messed up".

mikey74 - Member

Jeepers Creepers is a bad film.

It's not a bad film as such, in terms of monster/slasher type films. What's bad about it is that it was written and directed by a convicted pedophile and is (according to him) a metaphor for his insatiable lust for young boys. This is even more disturbingly apparent in the sequel.

The fact that Francis Ford Coppola and United Artists produced this and other films by Victor Salva is ...well I have no words really and I think I've already referenced this in the Kevin Spacey thread so no point going on anymore.

I was watching "The Skull" last night. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing... It was GREAT.... and the 'scarey' thing was an inanimate object with some atmospheric music, no need for blood, guts, gore... .just a stills camera and a skull !

just watched REC. thought it was rubbish. ill try some of the other recommendations over the next few weeks.....

I watched all the Hammer films when I was a kid and generally liked them, but since then horror films bore me. I can rarely stay interested in them. Except Wolf Creek and Switchblade Romance.