Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 16, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Black Christmas is tremendous isn't it? So often it gets looked past. I know a lot of people who are critics of it find it to slow but to me its just crazy talk. Its a cracking slasher AND it has John Saxon what's not to love? Back on-topic I think I'd put much higher. Might have to watch it again tonight now. Maybe in a My Bloody Valentine double bill.  I haven't seen the original Black Christmas yet. I've seen the remake, though, and it was appalling. The original My Bloody Valentine is nothing more than okay - no idea why they thought it needed a remake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Black Christmas is tremendous isn't it? So often it gets looked past. I know a lot of people who are critics of it find it to slow but to me its just crazy talk. Its a cracking slasher AND it has John Saxon what's not to love? Back on-topic I think I'd put much higher. Might have to watch it again tonight now. Maybe in a My Bloody Valentine double bill.  I've not seen it for donkeys if I'm honest, but John Saxon is watchable/great in pretty much anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Many of the recent Asian horrors have a mostly daytime setting, especially stuff like Pulse and A Tale Of Two Sisters. Â I'd forgotten about A Tale Of Two Sisters; thought it was quite shit though. Â Pulse sounds pretty great having just looked it up, so I'll definitely give that a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Is this just turning into a horror thread? Because that'd be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I think horror is in a difficult place now; it seems stuck in the post-gore era where you're either making torture porn or some wobbly-cam or clever-spying thing. I can't remember the last horror movie that I felt had really moved the genre along. If I ever move back into film, my one burning desire is to do a horror film that's not set at night, or in a dark woods, or a spooky building. I'd like to see someone attempt to make a film that's scary in a really different way - in a suburban house in the middle of the day, in a crowded city street, that sort of thing. I can think of examples that are kind of like that (e.g The Wicker Man) but not in recent memory.  I think we are pretty much out of the Torture cycle now thankfully. I don't dislike them all but when they are bad they are torture (see what I did there). If anything we may even be coming to the end of the found footage cycle. Thankfully Platinum Dune have passed on the recent idea of a found footage Friday the 13th. It would go down like a lead balloon.  I was hoping Scream 4 was going to reinvigorate the mainstream slasher genre but then that turned out to be paint by numbers to the tenth degree AND underperformed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted April 16, 2012 Moderators Share Posted April 16, 2012 Many of the recent Asian horrors have a mostly daytime setting, especially stuff like Pulse and A Tale Of Two Sisters. Â I'd forgotten about A Tale Of Two Sisters; thought it was quite shit though. Â Pulse sounds pretty great having just looked it up, so I'll definitely give that a go. Â Â Pulse was dumb. Entertaining, but dumb. I would say I'm not sure what it's doing on this list, but I don't watch that many horror films. Maybe there aren't a lot of good ones. Â Edit - just seen it's just below Eraserhead on the list, which is complete turd and was on my "worst films" list submitted to Gladstone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Snake Plissken Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I would have like to have seen Nightmare on Elm Street somewhat higher up that list. Not sure I would list Salo as a horror film, it's more exploitation, Sixth Sense isn't horror either, thats a thriller (A rubbish one at that) Aslo, I have never got Suspiria, but then I watched that a long time ago. So, I wouldn't have that in the top 10, probably push Jaws up in there instead. Rest of the top 10 pretty much agree with although The Shining is a tad high for best ever horror. From that point forward Nicholson effectively just repeated that performance, non more so than in Burton's Batman. You can put me in the Blair Witch haters group as well, however you can't deny it's impact so it probably deserves it's slot on the list. Â (Also gives me a few more films to add to Letterboxd. I have one more invite left if anyone wants it?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I think that the next wave of horror should be taking its cue from Hausu. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I would have like to have seen Nightmare on Elm Street somewhat higher up that list. Not sure I would list Salo as a horror film, it's more exploitation, Sixth Sense isn't horror either, thats a thriller (A rubbish one at that) Aslo, I have never got Suspiria, but then I watched that a long time ago. So, I wouldn't have that in the top 10, probably push Jaws up in there instead. Rest of the top 10 pretty much agree with although The Shining is a tad high for best ever horror. From that point forward Nicholson effectively just repeated that performance, non more so than in Burton's Batman. You can put me in the Blair Witch haters group as well, however you can't deny it's impact so it probably deserves it's slot on the list. (Also gives me a few more films to add to Letterboxd. I have one more invite left if anyone wants it?)  I'd love that invite, Snake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpRobinson Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I Love 80s Horror i spent pretty much the whole of last year collecting as much of it as possible there are some proper classics out there u just have to find them on i watched recently that i love and will never get rid of is The Deadly Spawn even how bad it is just love that movie  Theres loads of great slashers out there stuff like Alice Sweet Alice, Evil Laugh, Trapped, The Prowler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 The Deadly Spawn isn't bad, it's just cheesy. I normally hate cheesy, but as that movie has some blinding shocks and effects, and the main kid is very good, I can forgive it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 16, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Theres loads of great slashers out there stuff like Alice Sweet Alice  Good call, that, Corp. Is that the one that was renamed as Communion? It does tend to get hugely overlooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Theres loads of great slashers out there stuff like Alice Sweet Alice  Good call, that, Corp. Is that the one that was renamed as Communion? It does tend to get hugely overlooked.  I think it was originally called Communion and changed, then changed back again. Its a great film. I remember reading a Kim Newman review that singled it out years ago and hunting it down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted April 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 IIRC, Communion/Alice, Sweet Alice/Holy Terror was in a very confused situation over director's cut on DVD - Alfred Sole was at odds with the rights holders, and eventually got his way and released a director's cut that was generally considered worse than the actual original cut. Any way you slice it, it's a great slasher. Weird link to contemporaneous shitpile The Incredible Torture Show/Bloodsucking Freaks/The Heritage of Caligula: An Orgy of Sick Minds(!?@!) - Niles McMaster plays the investigating male lead in both of these extremely different movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I Love 80s Horror i spent pretty much the whole of last year collecting as much of it as possible there are some proper classics out there u just have to find them on i watched recently that i love and will never get rid of is The Deadly Spawn even how bad it is just love that movie  Theres loads of great slashers out there stuff like Alice Sweet Alice, Evil Laugh, Trapped, The Prowler  Have you seen What Waits Below? Robert Powell running around in caves being chased by monsters. It's surprisingly good for such a low-budget film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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