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Post by toodarkmark on Jun 2, 2020 22:15:01 GMT -5
Im trying to find horror movies that are good"ish" from the 1970s and 1980s, that are underrated. Not a lot of people have seen them, but you like them.
Some that I've recently watched have been:
Sleepaway Camp Night of the Demons Slumber Party Massacre
Those have been 3 winners.
So, any suggestions? Early 90s works too, but by 94 I think the aestetic I enjoy kind of died.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jun 2, 2020 23:03:27 GMT -5
Im trying to find horror movies that are good"ish" from the 1970s and 1980s, that are underrated. Not a lot of people have seen them, but you like them. Some that I've recently watched have been: Sleepaway Camp Night of the Demons Slumber Party Massacre Those have been 3 winners. So, any suggestions? Early 90s works too, but by 94 I think the aestetic I enjoy kind of died. Here's 5 70s flicks I've enjoyed: ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976) is about 10-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields before she was famous) being murdered on the day of her first communion. Several characters believe the murderer to be Alice, Karen's older sister by about two years. Prior to Karen's death, Alice frequently acted out as a result of the belief that the entire family ignored her and favored Karen. Alice and Karen's father, who divorced their mother some time prior to the events of the film, returns to the family to investigate Karen's death independently of the police investigation. And Karen's death ultimately becomes the first of many, as whoever the murderer is has a problem with the family. Partly a portrait of a family falling apart, and partly a slasher movie, ALICE is rife with melodrama and claustrophobic Catholic imagery. It's also got the aforementioned child murder, and a previously unmentioned pedophilic landlord character. I think ALICE is a great movie, but I would never call it a *fun* one. My stomach felt turned throughout. VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1971) is about a plague-riddled little town that is visited one day by a traveling circus, little suspecting that said circus houses a cadre or a clan or a gaggle or a swarm of vampires! The vampires are suave and sexy but I love how they're total monsters, even preying on young children! Some very nice gore effects. The vampire transformations into bat and panther (!) are handled with simple trick photography, which doesn't always work but gets the point across. The circus itself is minimalist but colorful and weird. There's a full dance routine from a naked woman painted in tiger stripes and a "tamer" that's fun even if it doesn't advance the plot in anyway. Plus, STAR WARS fans can see what David Prowse looks like outside of the Darth Vader costume. Basically this flick is sexy and weird and badass and I love it. Favorite Hammer Horror! BLACULA (1972) - Nowadays, this movie is mostly looked at as the punchline to a blaxploitation joke, but it's actually a much classier picture than it's given credit for. William Marshall gives a great performance, at times otherworldly and monstrous, at other times he's perhaps the most human character of all, and truly deserving of sympathy. What can I say, I love the damn movie. BEYOND THE DOOR (1974) - Yeah, its a ripoff of the Exorcist, but I really enjoyed it. The music really gets to me, for some reason, and Juliet Mills really puts in one hell of a performance. While it isn't quite as surreal as Suspiria, Ovidio Assonitis certainly added a dream-like quality to this film that keeps my interest throughout. HOUSE (1977), in which 7 girls in their teens trek to visit the elderly aunt of one of them, and find themselves in a haunted house. Kind of a standard issue plot but there's a cavalcade of trippy visuals and a soundtrack of syrupy sweet music ping-ponging with discordant noise. It's funny, it's creepy, it's deliberately amateurish (director Nobuhiko Obayashi put the script together with help from his pre-teen daughter and used special effects that looked like the creations of children). It's strange as hell! Also, we've got 8 years of horror film discussion in this thread: officialfan.proboards.com/thread/443226/fan-horror-thread-return-livingAnd the opening post contains links to all of our previous horror film discussion threads.
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Post by toodarkmark on Jun 2, 2020 23:28:13 GMT -5
Im trying to find horror movies that are good"ish" from the 1970s and 1980s, that are underrated. Not a lot of people have seen them, but you like them. Some that I've recently watched have been: Sleepaway Camp Night of the Demons Slumber Party Massacre Those have been 3 winners. So, any suggestions? Early 90s works too, but by 94 I think the aestetic I enjoy kind of died. Here's 5 70s flicks I've enjoyed: ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976) is about 10-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields before she was famous) being murdered on the day of her first communion. Several characters believe the murderer to be Alice, Karen's older sister by about two years. Prior to Karen's death, Alice frequently acted out as a result of the belief that the entire family ignored her and favored Karen. Alice and Karen's father, who divorced their mother some time prior to the events of the film, returns to the family to investigate Karen's death independently of the police investigation. And Karen's death ultimately becomes the first of many, as whoever the murderer is has a problem with the family. Partly a portrait of a family falling apart, and partly a slasher movie, ALICE is rife with melodrama and claustrophobic Catholic imagery. It's also got the aforementioned child murder, and a previously unmentioned pedophilic landlord character. I think ALICE is a great movie, but I would never call it a *fun* one. My stomach felt turned throughout. VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1971) is about a plague-riddled little town that is visited one day by a traveling circus, little suspecting that said circus houses a cadre or a clan or a gaggle or a swarm of vampires! The vampires are suave and sexy but I love how they're total monsters, even preying on young children! Some very nice gore effects. The vampire transformations into bat and panther (!) are handled with simple trick photography, which doesn't always work but gets the point across. The circus itself is minimalist but colorful and weird. There's a full dance routine from a naked woman painted in tiger stripes and a "tamer" that's fun even if it doesn't advance the plot in anyway. Plus, STAR WARS fans can see what David Prowse looks like outside of the Darth Vader costume. Basically this flick is sexy and weird and badass and I love it. Favorite Hammer Horror! BLACULA (1972) - Nowadays, this movie is mostly looked at as the punchline to a blaxploitation joke, but it's actually a much classier picture than it's given credit for. William Marshall gives a great performance, at times otherworldly and monstrous, at other times he's perhaps the most human character of all, and truly deserving of sympathy. What can I say, I love the damn movie. BEYOND THE DOOR (1974) - Yeah, its a ripoff of the Exorcist, but I really enjoyed it. The music really gets to me, for some reason, and Juliet Mills really puts in one hell of a performance. While it isn't quite as surreal as Suspiria, Ovidio Assonitis certainly added a dream-like quality to this film that keeps my interest throughout. HOUSE (1977), in which 7 girls in their teens trek to visit the elderly aunt of one of them, and find themselves in a haunted house. Kind of a standard issue plot but there's a cavalcade of trippy visuals and a soundtrack of syrupy sweet music ping-ponging with discordant noise. It's funny, it's creepy, it's deliberately amateurish (director Nobuhiko Obayashi put the script together with help from his pre-teen daughter and used special effects that looked like the creations of children). It's strange as hell! Also, we've got 8 years of horror film discussion in this thread: officialfan.proboards.com/thread/443226/fan-horror-thread-return-livingAnd the opening post contains links to all of our previous horror film discussion threads. Thanks Dancing. I just watched Vampire Circus last week, fun movie. Ill start going through those threads.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jun 2, 2020 23:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jun 2, 2020 23:51:58 GMT -5
Four escaped mental patients try to kill their new psychiatrist and his family during a blackout. Starring Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Donald Pleasence, Erland Van Lidth (Dynamo from "The Running Man"), and Dwight Schultz (Lt. Barclay "Star Trek: TNG", Howling Mad Murdock "The A-Team").
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Post by koreycaskets on Jun 3, 2020 0:00:00 GMT -5
Bloodsucking Freaks
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Jun 3, 2020 9:55:02 GMT -5
1974's Axe, directed by Frederick R. Friedel. It's only 67 minutes long and the story is basic, but it's one of those movies that makes so much of its meager budget. The soundtrack is so unique and there's so much understated pathos just beyond the surface.
1976's Beyond the Darkness, directed by Joe D'Amato. Like virtually any D'Amato film, it's exploitive and gratuitous to the hilt, and downright sickening if you have a weak stomach. But then it's also this quasi romantic drama? It's so weird. Plus, Goblin actually does the soundtrack!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 3, 2020 10:27:19 GMT -5
Don't Look in the Basement-Great 70s drive in classic. Pretty young redhead nurse gets a job at a remote mental hospital. She goes there and stuff is not right. Should be easy to find on Youtube. There is plenty of DVDs for cheap they all look the same.
Pieces-80s Italian mindf*** film. Set at a college. A killer is going around killing college females. All so he can use their parts to make the perfect woman. Great and crazy film. Has the guy that played Bluto in the live action Popeye movie as one of the red herrings.
House on the edge of the Park-WARNING this might not be a film for every one. David Hess(last house on the left) and his buddy fix a yuppies car and get invited to a house party. Once they get there Hess takes over and brutalizes the men and has his way with the women. This I am pretty sure was on the UK Video Nasties list. Not sure how hard it would to find now,but there is a Brentwood 10 film pack with a nice laserdisc rip of House on the Edge of the Park.
The Burning-Tom Savini does the FX work on this early slasher from Miramax. Based on the Cropsy Urban legends. For years this movie was heavily edited in the US.Now there is fully uncut dvds and Blu rays. Set at a summer camp this is also known for having early appearances of George from Seinfeld and Holly Hunter.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jun 3, 2020 10:35:06 GMT -5
1974's Axe, directed by Frederick R. Friedel. It's only 67 minutes long and the story is so basic, but it's one of those movies that makes so much of its meager budget. The soundtrack is so unique and there's so much understated pathos just beyond the surface. 1976's Beyond the Darkness, directed by Joe D'Amato. Like virtually any D'Amato film, it's exploitive and gratuitous to the hilt, and downright sickening if you have a weak stomach. But then it's also this quasi romantic drama? It's so weird. Plus, Goblin actually does the soundtrack! Yeah Beyond the Darkness is all kinds of f***ed up. Highly recommended! I still have to track down Axe. I’ve been really looking forward to that one. As for things the OP would like, absolutely There’s Nothing Out There (1990). It has that tone of Night of the Demons where there is humor, but it’s not forced like so many horror comedies. Killing Spree (1987) is a free one Amazon Prime has. I mean on a technical level it’s quite bad, but just so fun. I’ve been trying not to rewatch movies as much and just check out stuff that is new to me. I say that because Zombi 3 is one movie I made an exception for and watched twice. It’s a Lucio Fulci movie but not really. He directed a bit then an exploitation director took over the rest. It’s so goofy and quotable, I love it. Check out eBay. If you hunt around you can find Zombi 3 on the Zombie Pack put out by Shriek Show for a very cheap price. Shriek Show put out two Zombie Packs each of which have 3 movies. I’d recommend getting both packs. You used to be able to get both on eBay for under $20 total. Not sure if you still can, but if you can then do
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jun 3, 2020 10:43:31 GMT -5
Don't Look in the Basement-Great 70s drive in classic. Pretty young redhead nurse gets a job at a remote mental hospital. She goes there and stuff is not right. Should be easy to find on Youtube. There is plenty of DVDs for cheap they all look the same. Pieces-80s Italian mindf*** film. Set at a college. A killer is going around killing college females. All so he can use their parts to make the perfect woman. Great and crazy film. Has the guy that played Bluto in the live action Popeye movie as one of the red herrings. House on the edge of the Park-WARNING this might be a film for every one. David Hess(last house on the left) and his buddy fix a yuppies car and get invited to a house party. Once they get there Hess takes over and brutalizes the men and has his way with the women. This I am pretty sure was on the UK Video Nasties list. Not sure how hard it would to find now,but there is a Brentwood 10 film pack with a nice laserdisc rip of House on the Edge of the Park. The Burning-Tom Savini does the FX work on this early slasher from Miramax. Based on the Cropsy Urban legends. For years this movie was heavily edited in the US.Now there is fully uncut dvds and Blu rays. Set at a summer camp this is also known for having early appearances of George from Seinfeld and Holly Hunter. Pieces and House on the Edge of the Park I strongly second on this list! Pieces I picked up way back in the very early 2000s at I think Record Town. It was a budget DVD, but one of my favorite ever as I’m pretty sure it was completely uncut. If it wasn’t then they sure left a lot in the edited version lol. I watched that movie a ton. House on the Edge of the Park is very similar in tone to Last House on the Left and even stars David Hess as was pointed out. I love how Hess was never really a huge name, but the producers of this move wanted him so bad they gave him half the rights to the goddamn thing. Hess earns it to as he may be even better in this than Last House on the Left. He’s such an asshole! In addition to the already mentioned budget release Shriek Show put this out on a triple feature set along with Beyond the Darkness and something else. I love that set so much, but it’s OOP so if you find it, you’ll probably have to overpay for it. Ideally if you have Shudder or Amazon Prime or something, hopefully they have it streaming at some point.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Jun 3, 2020 15:37:29 GMT -5
Revenge of the radio active reporter
Killer klowns from outer space
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Jun 3, 2020 16:44:10 GMT -5
Motel Hell (1980)
Night School (1981)
Dolls (1987)
American Gothic (1987)
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Post by bob on Jun 3, 2020 17:12:34 GMT -5
I got the Criterion Collection edition of this
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jun 3, 2020 17:42:22 GMT -5
Again I guess this only really applies if you still buy DVDs, but Scream Factory put out 2 volumes of All Night Horror Movie Marathon. I just checked and Vol. 1 is going for $9.99 on Amazon while Volume 2 is just going for $7.99. You can probably find both cheaper if you hunt.
Anyway each volume collects 4 movies. In particular though I just wanted to focus on two that might interest you.
Vol.1 has The Godsend. This is a killer kids movie that is better than it has any right to be. I went in with low expectations, but even if you don’t I think you’d be blown away by this one. One of the most surprisingly good movies I’ve seen in recent years.
Vol. 2 has a movie called The Dungeonmaster. It’s an Empire Pictures movie that had multiple directors working on different segments of it to tell one cohesive story. Despite that description it’s not highbrow at all. Any movie where Charles Band directs a WASP music video and Bull from Night Court plays a villain with super powers can’t be too bad. Chalk full of 1980’s cheese.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 3, 2020 17:44:29 GMT -5
I got both the packs you mentioned. Celler Dweller is pretty decent from those packs.
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Jun 4, 2020 2:51:46 GMT -5
Demons, and while it's not quite as good, Demons 2.
Waxworks and its sequel.
I Drink Your Blood
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue/Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Midnight (the John Russo film)
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jun 4, 2020 4:56:09 GMT -5
The Changeling
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 4, 2020 9:33:21 GMT -5
Demons, and while it's not quite as good, Demons 2. Waxworks and its sequel. I Drink Your Blood The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue/Let Sleeping Corpses Lie Midnight (the John Russo film) Midnight is pretty good. Oddly all the other John Russo films I have seen are really bad. Stuff like Santa Claws.
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Post by autisticgeordie on Jun 4, 2020 10:17:53 GMT -5
Im trying to find horror movies that are good"ish" from the 1970s and 1980s, that are underrated. Not a lot of people have seen them, but you like them. Some that I've recently watched have been: Sleepaway Camp Night of the Demons Slumber Party Massacre Those have been 3 winners. So, any suggestions? Early 90s works too, but by 94 I think the aestetic I enjoy kind of died. Here's 5 70s flicks I've enjoyed: ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976) is about 10-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields before she was famous) being murdered on the day of her first communion. Several characters believe the murderer to be Alice, Karen's older sister by about two years. Prior to Karen's death, Alice frequently acted out as a result of the belief that the entire family ignored her and favored Karen. Alice and Karen's father, who divorced their mother some time prior to the events of the film, returns to the family to investigate Karen's death independently of the police investigation. And Karen's death ultimately becomes the first of many, as whoever the murderer is has a problem with the family. Partly a portrait of a family falling apart, and partly a slasher movie, ALICE is rife with melodrama and claustrophobic Catholic imagery. It's also got the aforementioned child murder, and a previously unmentioned pedophilic landlord character. I think ALICE is a great movie, but I would never call it a *fun* one. My stomach felt turned throughout. VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1971) is about a plague-riddled little town that is visited one day by a traveling circus, little suspecting that said circus houses a cadre or a clan or a gaggle or a swarm of vampires! The vampires are suave and sexy but I love how they're total monsters, even preying on young children! Some very nice gore effects. The vampire transformations into bat and panther (!) are handled with simple trick photography, which doesn't always work but gets the point across. The circus itself is minimalist but colorful and weird. There's a full dance routine from a naked woman painted in tiger stripes and a "tamer" that's fun even if it doesn't advance the plot in anyway. Plus, STAR WARS fans can see what David Prowse looks like outside of the Darth Vader costume. Basically this flick is sexy and weird and badass and I love it. Favorite Hammer Horror! BLACULA (1972) - Nowadays, this movie is mostly looked at as the punchline to a blaxploitation joke, but it's actually a much classier picture than it's given credit for. William Marshall gives a great performance, at times otherworldly and monstrous, at other times he's perhaps the most human character of all, and truly deserving of sympathy. What can I say, I love the damn movie. BEYOND THE DOOR (1974) - Yeah, its a ripoff of the Exorcist, but I really enjoyed it. The music really gets to me, for some reason, and Juliet Mills really puts in one hell of a performance. While it isn't quite as surreal as Suspiria, Ovidio Assonitis certainly added a dream-like quality to this film that keeps my interest throughout. HOUSE (1977), in which 7 girls in their teens trek to visit the elderly aunt of one of them, and find themselves in a haunted house. Kind of a standard issue plot but there's a cavalcade of trippy visuals and a soundtrack of syrupy sweet music ping-ponging with discordant noise. It's funny, it's creepy, it's deliberately amateurish (director Nobuhiko Obayashi put the script together with help from his pre-teen daughter and used special effects that looked like the creations of children). It's strange as hell! Also, we've got 8 years of horror film discussion in this thread: officialfan.proboards.com/thread/443226/fan-horror-thread-return-livingAnd the opening post contains links to all of our previous horror film discussion threads. Alice, Sweet Alice might have one of the most underrated and terrifying horror villain masks of all time, it's right up there with Michael Myers'.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 13:35:47 GMT -5
Revenge of the radio active reporter Killer klowns from outer space Dude, I used to watch Killer Klowns form Outer Space like every time it came on when I was a kid.
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