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I won a DVD collection at a Halloween party on Saturday -- 50 old horror films! Some of 'em, like Nosferatu, for instance, go back to the silent era, and they're all the originals, not remakes. Some of 'em are pretty obscure, but I've seen most of 'em already. Not that that's a bad thing. I've wanted many of these for a long time.

Anyone have any particular favourites from this list, and why?

Carnival of Souls
Atom Age Vampire
Creature From the Haunted Sea
Nightmare Castle
Black Dragons
Invisible Ghost
One Body Too Many
White Zombie
Attack of the Giant Leeches
The Screaming Skull
Beat of Yucca Flats
The Terror
Revolt of the Zombies
The Giant Gila Monster
The Fatal Hour
Dead Men Walk
The Mad Monster
Maniac
Metropolis
The Vampire Bat
The Ape
The Monster Maker
The Killer Shrews
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
King of the Zombies
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Blue Beard
The Corpse Vanishes
Night of the Living Dead
Doomed to Die
The Phantom of the Opera
The Indestructible Man
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Nosferatu
Swamp Women
The World Gone Mad
The Little Shop of Horrors
Tormented
The Monster Walks
Monster From a Prehistoric Planet
The Gorilla
A Shriek in the Night
Bloodlust
The Amazing Mr. X
Last Woman on Earth
The Bat
The House on Haunted Hill
The Last Man on Earth
Dementia 13
Phantom From 10,000 Leagues

Where's Bambi?

Where's Bambi?

You cried when Bambi's mother died, didn't you? :p

The only one I have seen, much less heard of, is Little Shop of Horrors.

Is Giant Gila Monster that one every single show uses to make fun of old horror movies?

The House on Haunted Hill
the old copy of the movie is not scary at all

The only one I have seen, much less heard of, is Little Shop of Horrors.

Is Giant Gila Monster that one every single show uses to make fun of old horror movies?

It's the original The Little Shop of Horrors, though -- the one with Jack Nicholson.

And yeah, The Giant Gila Monster, as well as a few others on that list were featured on MST3K.

The House on Haunted Hill
the old copy of the movie is not scary at all

Maybe for someone who needs blood spattered everywhere and lots of special effects... :rolleyes:

That reminds me, it is time for another episode of "Why won't the sequels stop? OR the movie industry lacks imagination!"

They are doing a sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. How the fuck does that work?

That reminds me, it is time for another episode of "Why won't the sequels stop? OR the movie industry lacks imagination!"

They are doing a sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. How the fuck does that work?

It doesn't.

Maybe for someone who needs blood spattered everywhere and lots of special effects... :rolleyes:

no i just saw the new one before i know that it was made before in late 40s ,50s by turning on the tv

That reminds me, it is time for another episode of "Why won't the sequels stop? OR the movie industry lacks imagination!"

They are doing a sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. How the fuck does that work?

i saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 on dvd
i look at it and said WTF an put it back

That reminds me, it is time for another episode of "Why won't the sequels stop? OR the movie industry lacks imagination!"

They are doing a sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. How the fuck does that work?

You mean another sequel. The original already has quite a few sequels.

Wasn't The Screaming Skull on MST3K a few years back? :confused:

Both Nosferatu and Metropolis are artistic masterpieces, and between the all-time greatest movies ever made.

But, they are (of course) surpassed by Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer - The father of special effects: Very few movies can make my hair crawl, but this one can; even though it turns 75 next year

Wasn't The Screaming Skull on MST3K a few years back? :confused:

Yeah, along with quite a few others on that list. :D

They also did one of my personal favourites from the list: The Brain That Wouldn't Die. Can't beat a woman's head, still alive, sitting in a roasting pan and mocking her former boyfriend. :D

They also did one of my personal favourites from the list: The Brain That Wouldn't Die. Can't beat a woman's head, still alive, sitting in a roasting pan and mocking her former boyfriend. :D

Maybe seeing that movie is what inspired Glorious Freedonia's feminism thread. :eek:

A film thread, and Ruffy hasn't chimed in yet? I'm disappointed. :(

Nosferatu scared the living shit out of me when I was 4 yrs old and saw it by accident. My mother had fallen asleep watching TV, I woke up for whatever reason and went downstairs,quietly sat down and watched it and couldnt move til dawn. The channel went off the air when it was over and I was terrified to move of make a sound.

Thats the last time I remember feeling real physical terror. His shadow stalking up the stairs is still in my head.

Nosferatu scared the living shit out of me when I was 4 yrs old and saw it by accident. My mother had fallen asleep watching TV, I woke up for whatever reason and went downstairs,quietly sat down and watched it and couldnt move til dawn. The channel went off the air when it was over and I was terrified to move of make a sound.

Thats the last time I remember feeling real physical terror. His shadow stalking up the stairs is still in my head.


Back then, they really knew how to use shadow for best effect.

I haven't had much occassion to get into horror as a genre, however, of the mainstream stuff I've watched, Ichi the Killer has a certain atmosphere to it.

I haven't had much occassion to get into horror as a genre, however, of the mainstream stuff I've watched, Ichi the Killer has a certain atmosphere to it.

Mainstream?

Mainstream?

Well, ok, I watched it round a friends, but its the only thing that spirngs to mind. Other than that its bollocks like Halloween, or the new House on Haunted Hill.

Well, ok, I watched it round a friends, but its the only thing that spirngs to mind. Other than that its bollocks like Halloween, or the new House on Haunted Hill.

Halloween is bollocks?!?! :eek: You just killed any credibility you may have had on this subject (the new House on Haunted Hill I'll give you, though).

Halloween is bollocks?!?! :eek: You just killed any credibility you may have had on this subject (the new House on Haunted Hill I'll give you, though).

The "Halloween: Resurrection" I watched was just a bit cheesy for my tastes, given that the context it was played in was remarkably modern. I haven't seen the others, but that one just seemed to conform to genre convetions to rigidly given its decidedly "cyber" context.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/
^Village of the damned

The "Halloween: Resurrection" I watched was just a bit cheesy for my tastes, given that the context it was played in was remarkably modern. I haven't seen the others, but that one just seemed to conform to genre convetions to rigidly given its decidedly "cyber" context.

You need to see the original. The others were all crap. The first sequel was okay, but the original laid the foundation for every slasher film that followed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/
^Village of the damned

That's an excellent one, too. Something about little kids in suits is just creepy. Think (the original) The Omen. :cool:

You need to see the original. The others were all crap. The first sequel was okay, but the original laid the foundation for every slasher film that followed.

You're probably right. The wierd killer dude actually looked like an originally good concept that was a little overused and tired. A bit like the Sims really....

no frankenstein?!? :eek: no Mummy?!?:headbang:

between those - Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde and The Phantom of the Opera

http://afm.infinit.net/dossiers/universal/mummy01.jpg
http://www.northernstars.ca/posters/frankenstein_150.jpg

You're probably right. The wierd killer dude actually looked like an originally good concept that was a little overused and tired. A bit like the Sims really....

Seriously, go out and rent the original NOW! The trouble is, though, yes, it laid the foundation for all the slasher films that followed, but if you've seen them, you've become a bit desensitised. My gf and one of her friends had never seen it, so I had 'em watch it. They didn't really see the scary in it, probably because, in terms of gore and stuff, it's nowhere near the crap they make today. But it's all about the suspense really, and that's where Halloween really kicks ass. It's a pretty slow build up, but that's key -- building it up for those final scenes.

Back then, they really knew how to use shadow for best effect.

I think it was a combination of me being young, the black & white, no sound and the jittery movement-all combined creeped the hell out of me.
I havent watched it since.

It was only recently that I was explaining it to one of my kids that it occured to me that vampires arent supposed to cast a shadow.

no frankenstein?!? :eek: no Mummy?!?:headbang:

between those - Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde and The Phantom of the Opera

http://afm.infinit.net/dossiers/universal/mummy01.jpg
http://www.northernstars.ca/posters/frankenstein_150.jpg

None of the old Universal Pictures monster movies are in the collection. I'm guessing it has to do with the rights and whatnot.

I did see The Mummy again the other day, though. That's one of my favourites. Most people expect to see some guy shambling around in bandages, when in reality, it's actually a love story, cloaked in horror.

It was only recently that I was explaining it to one of my kids that it occured to me that vampires arent supposed to cast a shadow.

Who says? It's a myth. You can play with it as you like. Hell, original vampire myths made no mention of them turning into bats. Bram Stoker just made it up when he wrote Dracula.

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Last Woman on Earth


Is that when she discovers last man on earth has died before they managed to hook up?:p

Is that when she discovers last man on earth has died before they managed to hook up?:p


No, she's underwater, swimming in the Caribbean, when there's an unexplained temporary removal of oxygen from the atmosphere that kills everyone else on the planet.

Don't blame me. I didn't make this shite up. :p

Don't blame me. I didn't make this shite up. :p

Well, then, tell me about the Brain that Wouldn't Die...

How is that even supposed to be scary in any way?

"IT WON'T DIE! OH DEAR GOD! THE BRAIN IS STILL ALIVE!NOOO!"

:D

Well, then, tell me about the Brain that Wouldn't Die...

How is that even supposed to be scary in any way?

"IT WON'T DIE! OH DEAR GOD! THE BRAIN IS STILL ALIVE!NOOO!"

:D

Okay, I admit, that one's more funny than scary. See my earlier post about the plot. :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/
^Village of the damned

now that one did get me when i watch it but was long ago

now that one did get me when i watch it but was long ago

How could it not? That movie's creepy.

How could it not? That movie's creepy.

it was
must see if i can get it out to watch