Topic: Father Merrin's Top 100 Horror Movies...

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U started this discussion 4 years ago #101,918

'lo again,

Some fella in the 3 From Hell thread requested I do a top 50 list but after trying to compile it just now, I couldn't whittle it down to 50, so I'm doing 100. As with the albums thread I made a while back, I don't know how long this will take but hopefully not more than a week. My hope is you'll discover some good films along the way if you're looking for decent horror movies.

I have set myself just 2 rules:

1) I won't include more than 1 film from a franchise. That means that even though I think, for example, Nightmare on Elm Street 1 and 3 are worthy of this list, as are Halloween 1 and 4, and Friday the 13th 1,2,3,4 and 6, I'll only pick 1 from each series, to allow for more films.

2) All picks must be films I own on physical media (horror cinema is a passion of mine and one entire room of my house is given over to my collection). I'll be showing the editions I own in the accompanying pictures.

I think the first half of this list will be more interesting than the 2nd half, because as we get nearer the top 20, the films will be more predictable and famous. Hopefully there'll be stuff higher up you may not have heard of but which deserves your attention if you're into the genre.

Ok, on with the show...

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#100: Burnt Offerings (1976). An excellent adaptation of one of the greatest haunted house novels ever written.

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#99: Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993). Brian Yuzna's stylish and weirdly romantic ode to sadomasochistic zombies.

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#98: The Legend of Hell House (1973). Richard Matheson's great adaptation of his own novel.

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#97: The Witch Who Came From The Sea (1976). Fascinating piece of creepy 70s surrealism.

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#96: Nightbreed (1990). Clive Barker's insane and messy monster flick that effectively ended his attempts to ever deal with the Hollywood machine again.

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To be continued.

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Awesome! This is my favorite genre. I would love to have a room dedicated to a collection like this.

I look forward to this thread continuing.

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#95: 10/31 (2018). Cool little modern anthology film which is presented as a throwback to the golden age of 80s horror. If you're wondering why I have it on DVD, blu ray and VHS it's because I try to support independent filmmakers. In this day and age, they're struggling more than ever.

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@1,151,549 (B)

> Awesome! This is my favorite genre. I would love to have a room dedicated to a collection like this.
>
> I look forward to this thread continuing.

Hope you discover some stuff you end up liking!

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#94: Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984). The perfect Christmas Eve horror film. It's also the one that outraged Siskel and Ebert so much they doxxed the producers in their review of it (YouTube is your friend).

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#93: Night Train Murders (1975). Superior rip-off of Wes Craven's Last House on the Left.

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#92: Sweet Sixteen (1983). Low budget 80s slasher film but with a lot of charm and an unusual killer/motive.

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#91: Black Sunday (1960). Mario Bava's gothic masterpiece.

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To be continued tomorrow.

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I find myself thinking the same thing I thought about your fantastic album thread. I wish you had posted like this years ago and abandoned the schtick sooner. I still think you are Scatman, but I am glad you left the schtick behind.

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@1,151,587 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
This one is fantastic. One of my favorites.

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Got a little time, 5 more...

#90: Sometimes They Come Back (1991). A lost Stephen King gem.

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#89: Ghostkeeper (1981). Creepy and atmospheric Canadian flick that is very difficult to find in the UK, hence this German edition I had to pick up.

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#88: Just Before Dawn (1981). Not the greatest 80s slasher film in the world but unquestionably the most beautiful. The Oregon scenery is breathtaking. And even with that aside, it's still a very good horror film with unusually decent acting.

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#87: The House on Sorority Row (1983). Another slasher film from the golden decade of slasher films. Good idea in this one and a likeable cast.

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#86: Near Dark (1987). Very unique and beautiful vampire movie, directed by the woman who would go on to be the first (and so far only) female to win the Oscar for best director.

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#85: The Innocents (1961). Far and away the best adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Martin Scorsese named this as his favourite horror film.

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#84: Girlhouse (2014). Excellent modern slasher film from one of the best horror directors in the game right now.

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#83: All The Colours of the Dark (1972). One of the pinnacles of Italian horror by a criminally underrated director. He'll be appearing again in this list.

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#82: Candyman (1992). As famous for Philip Glass' score as it is for the film itself, this is still a very original film. Clive Barker's imagination plus Bernard Rose's directorial abilities was always going to result in a classic.

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#81: The Hearse (1980). Fantastic atmosphere and a decent story until it falls apart a bit at the end. A childhood favourite, this one.

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To be continued.

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#80: Whispering Corridors (1998). The Ghost School Quintet is 5 loosely connected South Korean horror films (Whispering Corridors, Memento Mori, Wishing Stairs, The Voice and A Blood Pledge) that are all set in an all-girls school and deal with typical Asian horror themes (guilt, sin, shame, abuse of authority, adolescent sexuality). They're all very good and I list Whispering Corridors here only because it's the first in the series, so start there if you're interested.

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#79: Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981). Some of the very best horror films are those that were made for TV. This is because without being able to fall back on sex, violence and gore, they had to rely on story, atmosphere and characterisation. Dark Night of the Scarecrow is arguably the best TV horror film ever made.

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#78: Black Sabbath (1963). One of the best horror anthologies from the maestro of style, Mario Bava. 2 of the 3 stories here are among the very best horror shorts.

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#77: The Barn (2016). A love letter to Halloween (the holiday, not the film) by a great up-and-coming director. Low budget but teeming with ideas and creativity.

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#76: Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight (1995). Silly as hell but great fun from the Tales From The Crypt team.

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To be continued.

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#75: Amityville 2: The Possession (1982). The best of the Amityville franchise (which currently has over 15 movies), this film is fantastic up until the very end where they decided to rip off The Exorcist. It also contains the single most uncomfortable scene of incest I've ever seen.

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@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I saw it as an adolescent and was titilated

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#74: Creepshow (1982). 3 great stories from 5 is a good return for this kind of thing. Pick of the bunch is a coked-up Stephen King himself doing a hilarious 1-man show in the Lovecraftian segment.

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@1,151,921 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)

> I saw it as an adolescent and was titilated

What makes it so unnerving for me is how beautiful and 'innocent' Diane Franklin is in the film.

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#73: The Entity (1982). A very strange ghost film about a spirit that keeps violently raping a woman. Those rape scenes are famous for the amazing music that accompanies them. Great film, but weird.

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#72: Curtains (1983). Another great 80s slasher, 'nuff said.

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#71: The Beyond (1981). The 2nd film in Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy. Doesn't make a lick of sense but it's not supposed to, it's all about the atmosphere and the disorienting experience.

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#70: Slaughter High (1986). Yet another great 80s slasher. Weirdly, the young man who plays the lead role - Simon Scuddamore - killed himself days after shooting for the film wrapped up. And even more weirdly, he is buried in St Margaret's churchyard, Westminster, which is part of Westminster Abbey and was the Anglican church of the English government (Svet, if you're reading this, go pay your respects on one of your bike trips past Big Ben).

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#69: The Shining (1980). A brilliant film in its own right but not one for Stephen King purists. King recognised this film's brilliance while also feeling it was cold, soulless (it's Kubrick, duh) and turned the strong and resourceful Wendy of his novel into a whimpering moron. I agree with him. Still a classic movie though with so many iconic scenes.

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#68: The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971). The 2nd Sergio Martino film on this list, and another one to star the most beautiful woman to have ever lived, Edwige Fenech. This is a very intricately-plotted horror/giallo with the rarest thing in cinema: legitimately erotic sex scenes.

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#67: Curse of Chucky (2013). The best of the 8 Child's Play films by a long distance, this was a much needed return to form after the abomination that was the stupid 'comedy' shit of Seed of Chucky. I love horror films that take place in a single location (in this case a big house) because it tests a director's ability to maintain interest using only story and characters. This guy passed with flying colours.

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#66: The Bloodstained Shadow (1978). This won't be for everyone because it's very much a slow burn, but I think it's one of the very greatest Italian horror/giallo films.

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#65: Trick 'r Treat (2007). Another anthology film, and pretty much flawless. Very cleverly put together (it uses the Tarantino/Pulp Fiction non-linear method to tie it all together) and the stories are all fantastic.

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To be continued.

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#64: The House of the Devil (2009). To West's very creepy homage to 80s horror.

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#63: Don't Torture A Duckling (1974). Not my favourite Lucio Fulci film but probably his best one. This has very similar themes to The Bloodstained Shadow (see above) and they make a great double bill.

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#62: The Evil Dead (1981). It's amazing how much can be achieved with a few thousand dollars and massive amounts of raw talent.

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#61: Hacked (2013). Also released as 'The Den' in America, this is one of only a handful of films to have genuinely scared me. However, it's important HOW you watch this. Because of the way it's shot, this film is only effective if you watch it on a laptop through headphones and with the lights out. If you watch it on a big TV it won't have the same effect.

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#60: Carrie (1976). Very dated now but still one of the all-time great acting performances from Sissy Spacek. The sequel (1999) and 2 remakes (2002, 2013) are surprisingly good too.

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#59: The Conjuring (2013). I'm generally not a fan of mainstream horror films (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, stuff like that). They tend to be horror films made for non-horror fans. I have to make an exception for this though. This is just so well done.

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#58: Haunted (1995). As much as I love horror fiction, I think James Herbert was an extremely overrated writer. That said, his short novel Haunted was possibly his best work and this is a great adaptation. Incredibly beautiful score too.

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#57: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970). The directorial debut of Dario Argento, and what a debut it was. Within a decade he'd go on to be the greatest horror director of his generation.

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#56: American Gothic (1988). Weird little gem.

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#55: Tourist Trap (1979). It's not easy to create a killer who is both alarmingly fucked up but also arouses pity. This is a cool 'lost' film from just before the 80s slasher boom.

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#54: The Reef (2010). My vote for the best shark horror film (I don't consider Jaws a horror film).

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#53: Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972). Sergio Martino again, his strange take on Poe's The Black Cat.

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#52: All Hallows Eve (2013). Nasty modern anthology that introduced the disturbing character of Art The Clown (who received the full film treatment in the 2018 movie Terrifier, which just missed the cut on this list).

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#51: Sleepaway Camp (1983). Ahead of its time in the gender politics stakes, let's say.

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#50: Close Calls (2017). And lastly before we break the top 50, a very strange film that pays homage to Lucio Fulci's 80s deliriums. This certainly isn't for everyone but I personally love its devotion to its influences.

Edit: and not to be crude but the girl in this - Jordan Phipps, she signed this blu ray - has absurdly large boobs and inexplicably spends most of the film in her bra.

(Edited 4 minutes later.)

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That'll do it for today. To be continued.

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@1,151,559 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)

Isn't that the GARBAGE DAY film?

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@previous (blom)

> Isn't that the GARBAGE DAY film?

That's the hilarious sequel, over half of which consists of reused footage from the first film.

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#49: Sleepless (2001). The last great Argento film. Borrows heavily from his earlier work but it serves as a nice summary of his career.

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#48: Children of the Corn (1984). Very good adaptation of my favourite Stephen King short story. Some of the (9 so far) sequels are also worth checking out.

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#47: Tales From The Crypt: Bordello of Blood. Great goofy fun from the Crypt team again. Lighter in tone than Demon Knight (see above) and more comedic. Both films make a great double bill for a Friday night with friends and lots of beers.

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#46: The Church (1989). Odd Italian horror flick from Michele Soavi, who made very few films in his career but all of them were great.

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#45: Misery (1990). Stephen King's black comedy about his own asshole fans who would go crazy whenever he tried to write something other than what they demanded of him (i.e horror). Fantastic adaptation which actually tones down the brutality and insanity of Annie Wilkes' character (aside from Gerald's Game, I think Misery is King's most difficult-to-read novel from the point of view of how gruesome it can be).

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#44: Trauma (1993). Very nasty horror/giallo with a fucked up motive for the killer that more than suits the title.

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#43: Dead and Buried (1981). Very imaginative 'zombie' film with some legitimately creepy and shocking scenes. Features a very young Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger).

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#42: The Burning (1981). Probably my choice for the best standalone (i.e non-franchise) slasher film. Great location and cast.

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#41: Torso (1973). Arguably Sergio Martino's best film, this is way more intelligent and stylish than this DVD cover would have you believe.

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@1,151,929 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I remember randomly seeing this on TV once as a kid. You're right about the soundtrack when it attacks, I can still remember it now. Very unsettling, but effective.

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#40: Fright Night (1985). Just a damn good time. Perfect blend of horror and comedy.

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Do you like the Scary Movie series? Too low-brow for you maybe. :3

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@previous (Alice !faggot)

> Do you like the Scary Movie series? Too low-brow for you maybe. :3

The first one was enjoyable but the sequels were a bit forced. I don't think it's a premise that can sustain itself for 4 or 5 films because the number of iconic horror scenes and tropes you can lampoon gets smaller and smaller.

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#39: Inferno (1980). The 2nd film in the Three Mothers trilogy, this one is low on coherent plot but through the roof on style.

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#38: Black Christmas (1974). Bob Clarke's fantastic exercise in tension. Influenced so many horror films over the following 15 years or so. Very creepy ending.

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@1,152,247 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
That's a very 90s wordmark

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#37: The Sentinel (1977). Batshit-insane lunacy from British weirdo Michael Winner. I also highly recommend the novel by Jeffrey Konvitz. Great idea, this one.

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#36: the Thing (1982). John Carpenter at the very top of his game. Possibly the best remake of all time.

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#35: Paranormal Activity (2009). It's fashionable to hate this film nowadays but personally I think it's brilliantly done. Not one of the literally hundreds of found footage rip-offs that have since attempted to do what it did have come close to matching it for skill and creepiness in my opinion. The sequels are all great too, including the much-maligned part 4.

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@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I had a brief period where I was interested in found footage films. I quite enjoy how "real" they feel.

You ever see Rec? It's a series of Spanish zombie movies, with the first two being found footage. Probably not up to the calibre of the horror ITT, but I liked them.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 47 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,376

#34: Blood and Black Lace (1964). Mario Bava's greatest film. Probably also the most influential Italian horror/giallo. Great intricate plot and beautifully filmed.

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@1,152,375 (Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE)

> You ever see Rec? It's a series of Spanish zombie movies, with the first two being found footage. Probably not up to the calibre of the horror ITT, but I liked them.

Yep, love them :)

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#33: The New York Ripper (1982). Lucio Fulci's banned-for-3-decades ultimate video nasty. Even to this day you can't find a copy with the full version of the eyeball-cutting scene (probably just as well). I think this is the most mean-spirited and nihilistic film I've ever seen. I can only watch it when I'm in a certain mood. This is also a film my wife insists I keep off the shelves and in a drawer because from time to time her young niece likes to browse through my collection and the back of the dvd is kind of fucked up.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) quadruple-posted this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,381

The craziest thing about that sick as fuck film is it stars a guy who went on to be famous for a guest role in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, which is a beloved British sitcom.

tteh !MemesToDNA joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,384

Impressive! I'm adding so many of these to my to-watch list.

How large is the collection - how many items overall?

Could we maybe get a full shot of the shelving? :)

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 38 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,385

#32: Rosemary's Baby (1968). Polanski's page by page, line by line adaptation of Ira Levin's masterpiece (which was also Truman Capote's favourite horror story, fun fact). A masterpiece, what else to say about it? Partially filmed in the building where John Lesson would be killed 12 years later, another fun fact.

tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,386

@1,152,379 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Have you seen Cannibal Holocaust?

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,390

@previous (tteh !MemesToDNA)

> Have you seen Cannibal Holocaust?

No, animal cruelty is my one red line when it comes to films. I can just about stomach Apocalypse Now but I draw the line at what Deodato did in that film. Beautiful theme music though.

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@1,152,384 (tteh !MemesToDNA)

> Impressive! I'm adding so many of these to my to-watch list.
>
> How large is the collection - how many items overall?
>
> Could we maybe get a full shot of the shelving? :)

Thanks! For horror I have around 2000 DVDs and blu rays (many more non-horror which are in another room), plus a lot of VHS back in England. I'd take pictures of the 'horror room' but first I'd need to take down various pictures from the walls.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) triple-posted this 4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,394

#31: Ghost Town (1988). The first film I ever rented from the video store (remember those? They're sorely missed). A horror western, what more could you ask? Major nostalgia every time I watch it.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) quadruple-posted this 4 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,395

#30: The Exorcist 3 (1990). The hospital corridor scene is the most frightening scene in cinema in my opinion. I generally don't get frightened by films but the first time I saw that I nearly shit myself. Word of warning: don't watch the director's cut, it's a mess. Stick to the theatrical release.

(Edited 31 seconds later.)

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#29: Stephen King's IT (1990). Very flawed, very dated, but I love it anyway. Watched it all the time as a kid. Prefer it to the recent remakes, good though they were too. Yeah the ending is ridiculous but if you've read the novel you'll know that King's original ending is basically unfilmable, so they had to think of something else.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) sextuple-posted this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,398

#28: Night of the Demons (1987). Don't be put off by this God-awful cover art, this is one of the very best Halloween-themed films. The 2 sequels are also pretty good.

Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE replied with this 4 years ago, 25 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,399

@1,152,394 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I was just about in time to grow up with video stores, yeah. It was pretty fun to go and browse the selves and randomly see something interesting. I understand why they faded away, but it was still a nice experience.

@1,152,378 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Oh, cool! I was disappointed when they ditched the found footage angle from the third one onwards. Still enjoyed them, though. I'm a sucker for a decent zombie film.

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#27: Silver Bullet (1985). The older I get, the more I love this film. It has so much heart. And maybe I was a very dense child but I honestly didn't figure out who the werewolf was and was scared shitless at the big reveal the first time I saw it.

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#26: Ghost Story (1981). Peter Straub's novel is, in my opinion, one of the masterpieces of horror fiction. This film adaptation necessarily cuts a lot out but it still does a decent job of capturing the mood of it. Great casting too, with a very improbable star turn from Fred Astaire of all people (he doesn't dance in this).

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#25: Salem's Lot (1979). Another childhood favourite. Tobe Hooper was such a strange director. When he was good, he was great (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Salem's Lot, The Funhouse) but when he was bad, he was Ed Wood levels of awful (The Mangler anyone?). This 3 hour adaptation of King's 2nd novel (and still one of his best) manages to pack in a lot of the novel's scenes and huge cast of characters.

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#24: The Changeling (1980). Excellent ghost/haunted film. George C Scott is his typical wonderful self. I also enjoy its implied politics (more on that soon), greedy rich arseholes being greedy rich arseholes and fucking themselves over because of it in the end.

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#23: Halloween and Halloween 2 (2007 and 2009). First things first, I consider this to be one film, for the same reason Kill Bill is all one film. Neither movie makes sense without the other. Rob Zombie's Halloween deals with violence. Halloween 2 does what few horror films do and shows the effects of that violence on the survivors. I disliked these films on first watch (I thought they were going to be remakes of John Carpenter's original, so naturally that opening 'white trash' scene was very unexpected and off-putting). But now, after many more watches, I think this is Rob's best work. I think it's a lot more intelligent than it gets credit for.

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#22: Psycho (1960). One of Hitchcock's many masterpieces. Classic scene after classic scene. The 3 sequels are also surprisingly good, all staring Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates). The 3rd one was directed by Perkins himself and shows a remarkable flair for direction. The 4th was filmed just before his death from AIDS (he was one of the first openly gay actors in Hollywood) and there's a sadness to the film knowing that. He was a very beautiful and kind soul in life.

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#21: The Stand (1994). My favourite novel of all time gets a very serviceable 6-hour adaptation (King himself wrote the screenplay). Its special effects are very primitive and it's a TV miniseries so it's family friendly, but I still love it. I was looking forward to the new version before Covid understandably put its release on hold (it's a story about a virus wiping out mankind).

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) octuple-posted this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,426

Starting the top 20 soon.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) nonuple-posted this 4 years ago, 16 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,442

#20: Friday the 13th (1980). A small note, I fucked up and accidentally wrote down 101 films, so I'm going to cheat and make #20 a 2-parter. Anyway, Friday the 13th. I could easily include parts 1,2,3,4,6 or 8 here, I love them all, but I'll go with the original just because it started it all. A fantastic slasher film marred for me only by the actual on-screen killing of a snake (I said above that animal cruelty is a major turnoff for me). Thankfully the laws were changed and that stuff couldn't happen now.

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#20b: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. What happened to my rule about only 1 film per franchise you ask? Rob Zombie's films are not a part of the Halloween franchise in my opinion, they are completely their own thing. Of the 'proper' series, Halloween 4 is my favourite, including Carpenter's classic original.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) undecuple-posted this 4 years ago, 6 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,448

#19: Society (1989). So my politics lean left. Very left. It's why I left (!) 'the West' immediately after university and moved to Russia. This mad film speaks to me, maaan. It especially speaks to my own university experience, which was miserable as fuck being a working class person in a so-called 'elite' university full of rich cunts whose paths in life had been bought by the contents of daddy's commodious pockets. God bless Brian Yuzna and his immensely fucked up imagination, I wish he had made more films.

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 9 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,451

@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
That cover is deeply unsettling. The movie sounds interesting however.

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Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,454

#18: Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979). Fulci again, and who else would think to have an actual shark fighting an underwater zombie? Insane film but awesome too.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) double-posted this 4 years ago, 54 seconds later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,457

@1,152,451 (J)

> That cover is deeply unsettling. The movie sounds interesting however.

If you think the cover is unsettling, wait till you see the last 15 minutes of the film.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) triple-posted this 4 years ago, 5 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,468

#17: Opera (1987). Stupidly renamed 'Terror at the Opera' for this Arrow Video release, this marked the end of Dario Argento's golden period; a remarkable run that saw his first 9 films all go on to be classics of the genre. For this one, Argento got sick and tired of squeamish audiences closing their eyes at the gore in his films, so he devised a killer who places needles under the victim's eyelids to force them to watch what he's doing. Sick fuck. Great movie.

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#16: Hellraiser (1987). Clive Barker's brilliant Faustian tale, one of the greatest directorial debuts. Amazingly, Barker had no experience in feature film making and he and his friends (Doug Bradley who plays Pinhead was his schoolmate) figured it all out as they went along. It's very flawed but still one of the most unique horror movies ever made in my opinion. It's sawned 10 sequels to date, 2 of which (parts 2 and 3) are also good.

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#15: The Haunting (1963). The best of the many adaptations of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House. For its time, this was very radical in its treatment of repressed sexuality/lesbianism.

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#14: City of the Living Dead (1980). The first in the Gates of Hell trilogy, it's also my favourite Lucio Fulci film. As always, it makes precisely zero sense, but that's beside the point of this kind of thing. It's all about the atmosphere and the bewildering experience.

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#13: Deep Red (1975). Argento again. An ingenious plot in my opinion. The reveal of the killer is another moment in horror cinema that genuinely frightened me.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) octuple-posted this 4 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,484

#12: The Omen (1976). I like devil films, I like evil kid films, and I like Gregory Peck. This masterpiece ticks all the boxes. The scene where the new nanny tells Damien not to be afraid: again, shit myself as a kid. The first 2 sequels are also very good and the 4th film is an abomination but worth watching for how hilariously bad it is.

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#11: Tenebrae (1983). A film that Tarantino has been ripping off in one form or another for 25 years. Very clever, immaculately-made and pioneering in its camera work. Also legitimately disturbing to me (losing my mind and not knowing what I am is my biggest fear).

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Top 10 coming up soon!

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 4 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,490

@1,152,484 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I like when she says "Its all for YOU, Damien!"

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 12 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,494

@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)

> I like when she says "Its all for YOU, Damien!"

Yeah, that's a great scene. That's the old nanny though, the part that terrified me is when her replacement showed up and enters his bedroom. "Have no fear little one. I am here to protect thee". Fuck me it petrified me as a kid.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) double-posted this 4 years ago, 7 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,495

#10: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). A very smart and original film with one of the greatest horror villains. I love its themes (the main one in my opinion being that the men and women in positions of authority who are tasked with protecting children's fates - parents, teachers, the police - are rarely the most intelligent or imaginative people around). Of the sequels, part 3 is also excellent, and part 2 has been voted the gayest horror film ever made (seriously, the writer intended to make it one massive gay in-joke which almost everyone at the time missed. Check out the awesome documentary 'Never Sleep Again' for more info, it's delightful how they did it).

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) triple-posted this 4 years ago, 5 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,497

#9: The Fog (1980). I think this is John Carpenter's greatest film. It's spooky, it's atmospheric, it has a great story, and I love the setting. And, again, the implied politics. Being a money-grubbing greedy prick will, in a just world, fuck you over in the end. I like to believe that, even if real life proves otherwise.

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#8: The Fly (1986). I wrote earlier that The Thing may be the greatest remake but I'd forgotten this was still to come. Cronenberg's masterpiece. Even today, nearly 35 years later, the practical effects hold up very well (fuck CGI). I also think this has the best screen couple in a horror film.

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#7: Peeping Tom (1960). Released the same year as Psycho yet Hitchcock cemented his status as a giant of cinema whereas Michael Powell was condemned as a depraved pervert and had his career ended due to this film. It's only thanks to the efforts of Martin Scorsese (his editor Thelma Schoonmaker was Powell's wife) that this film was dusted off and resurrected 40 years later. It's a bona fide masterpiece.

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#6: In The Mouth of Madness (1994). So yeah, The Fog is John Carpenter's greatest film but this weird Lovecraftian story is my favourite of his. Love the idea and love the execution of it, which must have been tricky to pull off given the budget constraints. Carpenter places this in his loosely-connected 'apocalyptic' trilogy along with The Thing and Prince of Darkness, and those 3 films make for a fantastic all-night marathon in my experience.

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#5: Demons (1985). Lamberto Bava's (son of the legendary Mario, who has 3 films on this list) bonkers romp through the very best of 80s Italian madness. Great soundtrack, fantastic setting (it takes place in a Berlin cinema) and a hilarious cast (an actual local pimp played Tony the pimp to save money using a proper actor, and he's fucking hysterical in the role). It's not meant to be taken at all seriously, it's just a damn fun ride. This steelbook edition is the most expensive single item in my collection by the way, with shipping it came to well over a hundred dollars. Collecting can be an expensive hobby.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) octuple-posted this 4 years ago, 6 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,512

#4: An American Werewolf in London (1981). This has my favourite opening scene in horror, the first 20 minutes set on the Yorkshire Moors (not far from where I grew up, though in reality those scenes were filmed in Wales). A rare example of a flawless film to me. If you're ever in Wales or the North West of England, take a trip over to the tiny village of Crickadarn where the pub scenes were filmed. I've been a few times and it's an eerie place at night, you can see why John Landis chose it as a location.

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#3: Suspiria (1977). Argento's masterpiece. I have no idea what that recent remake was meant to be but it sure as shit had fuck-all to do with this film. This is Argento at the very peak of his craft.

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#2: The Exorcist (1973). Given my forum name this was obviously going to feature somewhere. A brilliant adaptation of a surprisingly badly-written novel (the writer, William Peter Blatty, directed The Exorcist 3 and showed far greater talent as a screenwriter and director than a novelist).

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) undecuple-posted this 4 years ago, 31 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,520

#1: Phenomena (1985). An adolescent Jennifer Connelly has the ability to sexually arouse insects which helps a paralysed Donald Pleasance track down a maniac with the help of his razor-wielding pet chimpanzee. Let's see, what else? Oh yeah, Argento's own kid daughter gets decapitated, there's a vomit-inducing pit of death that sees Jennifer Connelly (14 years old when this was filmed remember) literally covered in maggots, Argento's real life wife gets her faced carved apart by the aforementioned chimpanzee, there's a deformed kid chained up somewhere, and the child Jennifer has conversations with her new boarding school roommate as to whether she's fucked her own father.

Dario Argento, you are quite simply my cinematic God.

To be clear, I don't think this is the greatest horror film ever made. Far from it. It's not even Argento's best work. But it is my favourite. It's just so gloriously weird. The music is awesome (even the incongruous Iron Maiden tune that appears out of nowhere), the Swiss settings are beautiful, and the 'story' (such as it is) is nothing if not unique.

This box set in the picture is pricey nowadays but it's worth getting if you love the film, because it has 3 separate cuts of the film plus a tonne of bonus features. Alternatively, you can grab the standard DVD (support physical media people!) which also has some great bonus features and only costs around £10.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) duodecuple-posted this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,521

Here's the basic DVD version for any Brits reading this and interested in picking it up from Amazon or HMV.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 4 years ago, 30 seconds later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,522

@1,152,520 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Jennifer Connelly is so pretty

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,523

So that wraps it up. As with the albums thread, this was a lot of fun for me to do. Hope you'll discover some stuff here you like. Thanks to whoever stickied the thread. Once it gets unstuck I'll post in it now and again with any horror related stuff. I'd love to read other people list their own favourites.

Thanks for reading this.

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@1,152,522 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)

> Jennifer Connelly is so pretty

She is, she's beautiful.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 4 years ago, 9 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,526

@1,152,523 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
I like the Loved Ones.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 42 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,527

There’s a video game based on Phenomena called Clock Tower.

Also surprised there’s no Phantasm.

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@1,152,523 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
have you seen Santa Sangre
thoughts etc

dw !p9hU6ckyqw replied with this 4 years ago, 3 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,565

@1,152,513 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Nice lettering

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 6 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,603

My favorites are Phantasm, Rosemary's Baby, The Conjuring, and Get Out.

Anonymous M double-posted this 4 years ago, 10 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,615

Good list though. I didn't expect to see The Conjuring on it. I would have been sorely disappointed in you if The Exorcist didn't make an appearance for obvious reasons (naturally, it would have to feature in any list of great horror films anyway).

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@1,152,565 (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
Funny to see you're still obsessed with fonts all these years later.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 16 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,626

@1,152,543 (jodie !foster2PAQ)

> have you seen Santa Sangre

No, Jodorowsky is a bit too impenetrable for my tastes. I'll check it out though if you recommend it.

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@1,152,527 (K)

> Also surprised there’s no Phantasm.

Considered it but in the end it just missed the cut. To be honest I can never decide if it's a masterpiece or a complete mess.

Anonymous M replied with this 4 years ago, 16 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,634

Do a book thread.

tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 4 years ago, 47 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,646

I sometimes enjoy watching terrible horror films, simply to appreciate their terribleness. Since you mentioned the 4th sequel to the The Omen being so hilariously bad it's worth watching, I wondered if you have any other suggestions for films that are so bad they're good? Or just generally crappy yet entertainingly crappy films (Death Bed: The Bed That Eats and The Giant Spider Invasion pop to mind).

Also, have you seen the self-funded Birdemic (IMO not worth watching even "ironically")?

jodie !foster2PAQ replied with this 4 years ago, 46 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,653

@1,152,626 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
it's still jodo but it's also good horror. I'm not big into the genre but it's one film that's stuck with me ?

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@1,152,523 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Thanks this was fun to read! I will skim through again and pick some of these to add to my growing (I’m a late adopter lol) blu ray collection

dw !p9hU6ckyqw replied with this 4 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,669

@1,152,617 (M)
That's not a font that's drawn by hand. Also i worked in dtp and such

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 4 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,677

@1,152,646 (tteh !MemesToDNA)
I like Death Becomes her. Have you seen it?

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 43 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,682

@1,152,646 (tteh !MemesToDNA)

> I sometimes enjoy watching terrible horror films, simply to appreciate their terribleness. Since you mentioned the 4th sequel to the The Omen being so hilariously bad it's worth watching, I wondered if you have any other suggestions for films that are so bad they're good? Or just generally crappy yet entertainingly crappy films

For me, the holy grail of so-bad-it's-good is Howling 7: New Moon Rising. It was made by an Australian guy called Clive Turner who not only directed it but produced it, wrote it, edited it and starred in it. There are no actors in the film, he used the local rednecks from the American town where he filmed it. Barely any of them can deliver a line. It's a werewolf movie with no werewolf but a shitload of terrible jokes, yokels behaving like yokels, country music and - the most surreal part - inexplicable scenes of these hillbillies line-dancing in a darkly-lit barn. In literally the last 45 seconds of the film the 'werewolf' appears: some guy in a cheap wolf mask and, er, yellow shirt. It has to be seen to be believed.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) double-posted this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,683

<--- and for my fellow cricket fans, this is also enjoyably terrible.

Anonymous K replied with this 4 years ago, 12 seconds later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,684

No House, Cemetery Man, or any love from Romero! For shame

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,685

@1,152,654 (Coil E. Leafeon !QnI1ArmPmY)

> Thanks this was fun to read! I will skim through again and pick some of these to add to my growing (I’m a late adopter lol) blu ray collection

Glad to be of help, hope you find some stuff you like.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) double-posted this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,686

@1,152,684 (K)

> No House, Cemetery Man, or any love from Romero! For shame

Not a fan of House, Cemetery Man is great but I think Stage Fright and The Church (which made my list) are better Michele Soavi films, and Romero's Dawn of the Dead just missed the cut.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) triple-posted this 4 years ago, 14 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,688

Actually, wait, Romero is there, he directed Creepshow which is #74 on my list. I knew I had him in there someplace.

tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 4 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,710

@1,152,682 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Ha, that sounds fantastic. I can't seem to find it on Amazon or eBay and the only streaming link I found 404s, but I'll hunt it down tomorrow (maybe there's a torrent somewhere) and add to my list. Cheers!

Anonymous O joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 6 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,718

I don't like you but I respect this list.

Oskar Schindler (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,721

@previous (O)

> I don't like you but I respect this list.

Thank you.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) double-posted this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,722

@1,152,710 (tteh !MemesToDNA)

> Ha, that sounds fantastic. I can't seem to find it on Amazon or eBay and the only streaming link I found 404s, but I'll hunt it down tomorrow (maybe there's a torrent somewhere) and add to my list. Cheers!

It used to be on YouTube but now there are only clips and people's reviews of it. Though some of the reviews are almost as entertaining as the film itself.

Catherine !w2r9BOt4Fk joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,725

I don't like horror as a genre. Horror comedy is interesting sometimes. I don't like horror.

Anonymous Q joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,731

@OP
Tell me you love me. I could do with it right now.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,732

@previous (Q)
Do you mind if I do it hesitantly so it doesn't feel quite so weird?

Erm...I love you...I guess?...

Anonymous R joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 9 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,898

@1,152,474 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
With this so high on the list, I'm curious how you'd feel about ANATOMY. It's a video game so... who knows, but it definitely takes influence from Hill House and is by far one of the best horror games out there right now.

https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/anatomy

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 49 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,917

@previous (R)
Thanks for the suggestion but to be honest I don't play video games. Played a few as a kid but didn't really take to it.

Anonymous S joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,941

Good list.

Have you seen "Come and See"? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/ - technically a war drama, but shot in the style of a horror movie. What is most horrific about it is knowing that the events depicted actually happened.

ftd !Cs02iDB7RA joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 5 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,992

Id have much rathered this in list form. It's hard to read as a big long post.

If they aren't listed I'd highly recommend The Babadook, A Quiet Place, Get Out, Ma and The Terrifier

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tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 4 years ago, 9 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,152,995

@previous (ftd !Cs02iDB7RA)
Yeah, unfortunately Minichan (well, our TinyBBS software) limits the size of posts, and there's no way to format posts into tables with multiple embedded images or anything similar.

I do need to finally watch Get Out. Fuck's sake, I now have an enormous list of horror films to get through. :p

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dw !p9hU6ckyqw replied with this 4 years ago, 3 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,153,072

@previous (tteh !MemesToDNA)
Get out is great and the other one too

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 4 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,153,122

@1,152,992 (ftd !Cs02iDB7RA)
Have you seen Death Becomes Her? It's quite good

Morbid !vbsvhaneDY joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 12 hours later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,153,289

@OP
Where the fuck is Burial Ground?

ftd !Cs02iDB7RA replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,153,290

@1,153,122 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)

I'll look it up :')

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,153,347

@1,153,289 (Morbid !vbsvhaneDY)

> Where the fuck is Burial Ground?

It's ok but Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters did a much better job with the same kind of material. 'Strip Nude For Your Killer' is a much better Andrea Bianchi film.

Anonymous V joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 7 hours later, 5 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,153,459

@1,152,683 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
lmao that looks lovably shit, shall watch
@1,152,513 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
personal fave

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Anonymous X joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 1 day later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,218

@1,153,347 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
No.

Morbid !vbsvhaneDY replied with this 4 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,352

@1,153,347 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
And where the fuck is Re-Animator?

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,398

@previous (Morbid !vbsvhaneDY)
Good film but I'm not a huge fan of horror comedies, and besides which I think Brian Yuzna did the whole Stuart Gordon thing better than Stuart Gordon himself.

Anonymous Z-1 joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 13 hours later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,602

I'm sure you're tired of questions by now, sorry, but what's your favorite horror novel? If you have one. :-)

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 38 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,619

@previous (Z-1)

> I'm sure you're tired of questions by now, sorry

Not at all, I love discussing this theme.

> but what's your favorite horror novel? If you have one. :-)

Favourite - it's tied between IT and The Stand, both by Stephen King. But my vote for best - Dracula by Bram Stoker. Its a shame the story and character are so well-known because it means few people actually bother to read the novel. I think it's a masterpiece.

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Anonymous Z-3 joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,783

@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Bram Stoker was a queer who died of Syphilis.

Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 4 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,833

@previous (Z-3)

> Bram Stoker was a queer who died of Syphilis.

He was married, scholars don't know the reason of his death, and syphilis isn't capitalised. You got his name right though.

Anonymous Z-3 replied with this 4 years ago, 18 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #1,154,841

@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
The marriage was his beard.

tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 3 years ago, 1 year later, 1 year after the original post[^] [v] #1,156,675

I'm glad this thread made the cut.

Anonymous Z-4 joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 year after the original post[^] [v] #1,156,721

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@1,156,675 (tteh !MemesToDNA)
I downloaded this thread & some other good ones. I will try find them and share them.

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Anonymous Z-6 joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 18 minutes later, 1 year after the original post[^] [v] #1,156,782

@1,156,675 (tteh !MemesToDNA)
I'm not.

Anonymous Z-7 joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 1 year later, 2 years after the original post[^] [v] #1,232,348

Have you seen any of the Ghoulies films?

Anonymous Z-8 joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 4 hours later, 2 years after the original post[^] [v] #1,232,362

some of these are impossible to find

one I can't even find a dvd of anywhere except like one ebay listing where it's $200

well $170 + shipping

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Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 2 months later, 2 years after the original post[^] [v] #1,241,672

Added this to the collection today. Really cool 80s slasher about this kid who chops up his mum for quasi-sexual reasons and then as a grown-up tries to piece (hence the title) her image back together using the body parts of murdered young women. Cheesy fun for all the family.

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Father Dave !RsSxeehGwc double-posted this 3 months ago, 1 year later, 4 years after the original post[^] [v] #1,353,997

@1,151,916 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)

> #75: Amityville 2: The Possession (1982). The best of the Amityville franchise (which currently has over 15 movies), this film is fantastic up until the very end where they decided to rip off The Exorcist. It also contains the single most uncomfortable scene of incest I've ever seen.

Just rewatched this. The incest scene will never stop being weird as fuck to me, not helped by Diane Franklin being impossibly beautiful throughout it.

If this movie had ended after 70 minutes it would be damn near perfect. It really didn't need the half-hour long Exorcist coda.