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Joined: October 16 2006
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Posted: November 11 2015 at 09:19
I am an huge horror freak. I have a collection with hundreds of dvds/blurays of horror movies from the silent era through Universal (and RKOs and MGMs and etc etc) terror era through my absolute favorite, Hammer Films (while also loving competitors Amicus or even Tigon) through AIP, through oddities of relative weak quality like Jess Franco and Paul Naschy, through the glorious era of Italian horror (Bava, Argento, Fulci), all the way to today's films. I love horror. All types. Intelligent or not. The only thing I generally dislike (with exceptions) are horror-comedies.
Joined: October 16 2006
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Posted: November 11 2015 at 09:20
BaldJean wrote:
this is one of the very best:
Fantastic movie. Starts so slow, so nothing-happens, and just with Deneuve's great acting can we detect the slow onset of madness. At the end is a masterpiece of suspense and for my Polanski's best.
Joined: July 26 2008
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Posted: November 23 2015 at 07:27
Skalla-Grim wrote:
Cactus Choir wrote:
Blood on Satan's Claw, an atmospheric and beautifully filmed drama about devil worship among children in the English countryside.
Comus First Utterance was done the same year and could almost be the soundtrack to it. There was obviously something demonic in the air in 1970 with the first Black Sabbath album as well.
I admit the cast (e. g. Linda Hayden) is very nice and there are beautiful sceneries, but I hate the story with brave old Christian puritan men fighting evil satanic youths, though I may just have missed the irony.
I didn't mind the storyline but then I'm probably a grumpy old reactionary! The film was made shortly after the Manson murders and also a famous case in the UK about a 10-year-old girl called Mary Bell who murdered two younger children. I think the film's writer was influenced by both of those in terms of the evils that children and flower children "hippies" might be capable of.
SPOILER ALERT! The final frame of the film freezes on a shot of the head Christian puritan's eye making him look as possessed as the satanic youths he has just routed so it isn't necessarily presenting the puritans as complete goodies.
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"
The Shining is the most overrated horror movie of the past century.....love the cinematography, but for pure chills - meh. Now, Nakata's the Ring.....scared the shirt off of me.
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
Joined: May 28 2005
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 13:42
DanicaL wrote:
the shining and the exorcist are still the 2 scariest movies ever made...
I do not consider "The Shining" to be that scary. an overrated movie, in my opinion. "Repulsion" is a lot scarier, in my opinion. that rotting rabbit....
Edited by BaldJean - January 26 2016 at 13:48
A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
Joined: June 02 2005
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 16:42
A little known horror movie that I love a lot is "Malpertuis" featuring Orson Welles, Matthieu Casrriere and the fantastic Susan Hampshire in 3 major and 2 minor roles.
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