shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I forgot about it, but don't think it would have been in my top 75.
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I forgot about it, but don't think it would have been in my top 75.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
The scene with a crazed Renfield maniacally laughing about eating rats would be worth the price of admission alone. Absolute classic and best watched alone and in the dark.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
“Made my top 10”
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
This week's favorites:
Army Of Darkness
Day Of The Dead (1985)
King Kong (1933)
Phantasm
Suspiria
The Evil Dead
Hellraiser
Godzilla (1954)
Dracula (1931)
Evil Dead 2
Nosferatu
Firght Night
Army Of Darkness
Day Of The Dead (1985)
King Kong (1933)
Phantasm
Suspiria
The Evil Dead
Hellraiser
Godzilla (1954)
Dracula (1931)
Evil Dead 2
Nosferatu
Firght Night
jamny
Footballguy
I'm all for suspension of disbelief, especially in a horror movie, but to me it still requires the people to react in a realistic way. I don't know how many times I said "Oh, c'mon!" in that movie.
Scoresman
Footballguy
#44 - Audition
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.Takashi Miike
1999
Torture
Japan
IMDB: 72
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 79
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQHp2__AVQ
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https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/audition
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Footballguy
This one is terrific imo
Scoresman
Footballguy
This movie is just so delightfully twisted. I've always wanted to prank my wife (who hates anything horror) with this one. I love how the first 45 minutes of the movie plays out exactly like a typical romcom, complete with the music, tone, and everything, but every now and then there's a very quick shot to stuff that makes you go WTF was that! Just a hint of how twisted this movie is about to become!
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Sick twisted film. Kind of wish I hadn't known anything about it before I watched it because it would have been even more shockingly wonderful.
Scoresman
Footballguy
#43 - Paranormal Activity
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night. Followed by five terrifying installments in the franchise, this is the original found-footage shocker that started it all.Oren Peli
2007
Spirits, Found Footage
USA
IMDB: 63
Metacritic: 68
RottenTomatoes: 83
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074
Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/paranormal-activity
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jamny
Footballguy
Loved it! I had no idea of the setup and it was beautifully done
Scoresman
Footballguy
Racing through my top 10 here. This movie is found footage gold. Their upstairs/bedroom floorplan was pretty much identical to mine when this movie came out, as a result this is the last movie to actually keep me up at night. That's no easy task.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I guess I still stand by my earlier comment that this is 80% of the genre for me and part of the fun. Here it was intentionally turned on it's head for reasons I laid out. Maybe it's because I am a scaredy cat that has seen too many horror movies, but I am thinking that in so many horror movies. The realistic choice is to GTFO, but people are constantly sticking around haunted houses, going to remote scary places, going further into the buildings, etc.. When it bothers me is when I don't like the movie to begin with, which seems to be the case for you here.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I would have been closer to Scores on this one. I had it in that 10-12 range that Barbarian was in.
jamny
Footballguy
Immediate reactions to stressful situations like you describe are one thing. People make poor decisions when under pressure. But when she saw the slummy neighborhood she was in and goes into the city for an interview and decides to go back to the house? That's just poor writing to me. I liked the movie fine up to that point but that was just the start of the headshaking stupidity.
Hastur
Footballguy
Personally, I prefer Nostalgiaferatoo.
Todem
Footballguy
This movie was brutal!!!!
jwb
Footballguy
These movies frustrated me more than anything. The Cenobites were cool and all, but I always felt they were woefully underused. And can we have a rematch for the second film? Because I thought they were all powerful.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I get what you are saying, but on rewatches one thing that impressed me with the writing is that I can see why she might go back there. For instance - the person who interviewed gave a face, but not a warning. She didn't have any encounters in the neighborhood, it was just abandoned and run down. The person she was with and made a connection with was familar with the area and there for a reason. Would I do it? Hell no, but I think there was enough there, or at least there was an effort in the writing to try to give a mildly believable reason she went back to the house. Of course when she does all hell breaks loose - again, which is kind of the point.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Electric Boo-galoo
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Probably the only decent found footage movie that exists. I used to randomly stand around in the trance like state to try and scare my wife
Scoresman
Footballguy
#42 - Frankenstein
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.James Whale
1931
Monster, Sci-Fi
USA
IMDB: 79
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: NA
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074
Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/frankenstein
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Scoresman
Footballguy
Probably the best of the classic monster movies, but I just dont think they age well for me. In fact, as a kid I saw both this and Young Frankenstein close together and Young Frankenstein actually scared Young Scoresman way more than the original. I was too young to get the adult-ish humor of YF, and I thought it was a legit Frankenstein horror movie.
But there's no arguing that iconic look of Karloff as Frankenstein.
Tick
Footballguy
$500 won't get you a silent 1922 movie. $1000 will, I'm not sure where the line is.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I will say that when it comes to silent movies the comedies are better than most everything else. Buster Keaton's The General, for example, is really great.
The biggest issue for me with silent drama/horror/etc is that the accompanying music doesn't match up to the images on screen. A visually ominous scene doesn't have the requisite matching sound - so there's a disconnect.
The biggest issue for me with silent drama/horror/etc is that the accompanying music doesn't match up to the images on screen. A visually ominous scene doesn't have the requisite matching sound - so there's a disconnect.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Also, my opinion is basically who cares? I was entertained and it was scary. That's all I want, it's not Bicycle Thieves. If you stop and think about a lot of movies, they fall apart. In North by Northwest, why in the world would they try to murder someone with a crop duster? Just shoot him. The Crane Kick in Karate Kid? Telegraphed from a mile away and kicks to the face were explicitly mentioned to be illegal. Yet, he just kicks the guy in the face and wins? The ending of Jurassic Park is amazing. I was so excited to see the T Rex come in and save everyone....but the whole movie it's been clearly established you can hear the T Rex coming from a mile away. Yet at the end, this T Rex has ninja sneaking skills only making it's presence known at the last moment. Back to the Future- aren't his new happy future parents distubed by the fact that their child grows up to look exactly like the new kid that came to town and set them up? They would certainly remember him. If I am George, I would have left Lorraine because it's obvious she slept with the guy from high school. She was head over heels for him in HS and then their kid is his clone? Come on.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
The comedies hold up very well but I think horror is next best. There's something inherently very creepy about movies that old. I am not sure exactly what it is but it's a vibe or aura that modern movies don't have.
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Keith R
The Don
Bride made my list, the original just missed. Both are iconic but the story on Bride was just a bit deeper IMO.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Watching Nosferatu, for instance, it's kind of uncanny to remember that every single person you see on screen is long dead. That colors the way I view certain scenes, like when characters display youthful impetuousness, plan for their future lives, or mourn the lives of others.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I was hoping to give the original Suspiria a watch today, but it's not on any service that I subscribe to. The next highest-rated movie that I feel bad about not having seen is The Wicker Man, so we'll go with that instead.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I am really enjoying the, uh, relaxed attitude toward nudity in 1970s cinema.
Todem
Footballguy
We’ve got bush!I am really enjoying the, uh, relaxed attitude toward nudity in 1970s cinema.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Wow this was really good
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Rented Abigail tonight. Highly recommend it.
zamboni
Footballguy
Edgar Winter is right behind Karloff in terms of scary looks in the Frankenstein realm.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
This was a pretty solid movie that was worth watching. On the plus side, it has that early-1970s feel, where it is going for a realistic, natural look, and it nails that look. Most of the actors look like random people pulled off the streets of an obscure Scottish island, and the location looks great too. While the story is mostly a police procedural, they throw in plenty of "WTF?" snippets that place this one clearly in the "horror" column. The big reveal at the end has been spoiled for everyone for the past 50 years, but it was still cool.
On the minus side, there is too much straight-up exposition in this movie for my liking. Christopher Lee is great, but he gets too many "Let me now pause to explain the current goings-on to the main character and, by extension, the audience" moments. The Wicker Man is obviously going to draw comparisons to an Ari Aster film that hasn't shown up yet but does a similar story better - both of Aster's best-known films go light on the exposition and let the audience figure it out. I like that approach better.
But the Aster movie isn't really about what The Wicker Man is about. The Wicker Man is about society's unease with the decline of Christianity, which was a pretty common thing to come up in the 1970s. In that respect, a better comparison is with The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby. I find the characters in those to be much more believable than the main character in Wicker Man. This guy is a bit of a cardboard cut-out, and I think that makes the movie a little too didactic.
If you like Greek drama, it's also worth noting that this movie is a loose retelling of The Bacchae. (An overly-zealous authority figure tries to stamp out a new religion featuring weird sexual practices and is killed at the hands of the cultists, with the audience realizing at the end that he was doomed from the start).
It's a great-looking film with plenty of tension and quite a few scenes that make the viewer genuinely uncomfortable. I would have ranked this had I seen it previously, probably down in the 60s or 70s. I can see myself coming back to it. (Edit: If I wrote this much about it, obviously I think it's worth seeing).
WVU Alum
Footballguy
And bewbs!
Scoresman
Footballguy
#41 - American Psycho
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.Mary Harron
2000
Psychological, Slasher
USA
IMDB: 76
Metacritic: 64
RottenTomatoes: 67
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YnGhW4UEhc
Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/american-psycho-1
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Scoresman
Footballguy
Sometimes I feel I'm the only one who likes exposition in a movie. The scenes where someone is explaining stuff always seem to get my attention the most.
jamny
Footballguy
I had to special order the book at a local bookstore when it came out since most refused to carry it. They did a great job with the movie.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I guess it’s horror. Ice nine kills dressed up as Bateman for their set on the Metallica tour so I’ll allow it
“Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now”
Scoresman
Footballguy
#40 - The Fly (1986)
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.David Cronenberg
1986
Body, Sci-Fi
USA
IMDB: 75
Metacritic: 79
RottenTomatoes: 91
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1SHpBsY7w
Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-fly
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Todem 51
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
A movie that's more interesting to quote than it is to watch. As a complete work it is IMO...awful.
I align with these reviewers on IMDB:
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IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
The book is excellent, and I'd probably have rated this movie even higher if we were doing "best movies" instead of "best horror movies." It doesn't fit the genre as well as, say, The Fly. But it is a better movie than The Fly.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
In what way?
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
American Psycho is very overtly saying something about corporate culture. Because it's a 1980s period piece, people think "It's a critique of the 1980s," but that's obviously wrong. Remember when Bateman gives this little speech, where he's just mouthing socially-acceptable platitudes that he doesn't believe or even really understand?
Does that remind you of anything that we encounter in present-day workplaces? The fact that this movie noticed this type of performative sociopathy and remarked upon it two decades ago is really remarkable. (But that's not really the kind of thing we associate with "horror.")
That's just one example, of course. There's the fact that none of these guys actually do anything. The way they're obsessed with showing off status by getting reservations at Dorsia. The business card thing. The fact that they don't even know one another's names and constantly get people confused with one another. All of that is pretty astute IMO.
What do you not like about it? If it's the "Tony Montana syndrome" argument, I've grown more sympathetic to that over the years even if still don't really accept it.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
What you described sounds to me like modern social media culture.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
All the corporate stuff is fine and that's the most interesting part
But when it goes over the top by "murdering with chainsaw by throwing it down a stairwell" - regardless of whether or not it's literal - is just grotesque for the sake of being grotesque; it doesn't really add to the narrative.
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