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Peeping Tom is also notable in that it pretty much ended the career of an English director who may well have been as good as Hitchcock. Seriously, if it wasn't for Scorsese championing the Powell/Pressburger films they may well have disappeared into the ether.
And if you've never seen Powell's 'Stairway To Heaven'. See it now. You'll be amazed how many filmmakers paid tribute/ripped it off.
And if you've never seen Powell's 'Stairway To Heaven'. See it now. You'll be amazed how many filmmakers paid tribute/ripped it off.
Absolutely. But Bob is talking about 'Slasher' movies, which are a sub-genre of horror/thriller.Thrust said:
Ah, I'm gonna have to stop you there. 1 is excellent, but 2 pulls the sequel problem where it forgets thatKasurami said:
Jason doesn't kill anyone. It's his mum. Jason died sometime ago
I suppose if you can forgive that, they're good films - but it's a major problem. TBF, Nightmare on Elm Street works in a similar way.
This pretty much goes well with his super rant on Escape to the Movies though. Basically a six minute rant about how Scream took away his special thin...and now he's provin it was his special thin by pointin out super obscure slasher movies that only he knows about.Kasurami said:
On a related note...noticed that There's Nothing Out There came out in 1992...and here I thought the nineties universally sucked.
Edit - On the topic of the Jason movies...really the Nightmare on Elm Street movies suffered the same problem that the Jason ones did. They wanted a sequel but the story was fairly wrapped up as is so they just had to do some hand wavin voodoo magic to make it work. Personally...I dug it. Would I have rather seen a more uhh...realistic take on them? Sure (Though the Nightmare reboot was kinda...meh, so maybe I wouldn't), but without it I wouldn't have been able to be delighted by the incredibly weird and strange turns the two series took down the road.
Bob,
Since you're on the subject of horror, last year I was waiting for your review of Let Me In to come. I was actually looking forward to a comparison between it and its source Let the Right One In.
It never came. Did you ever get around to seeing it? I was a huge fan of LTROI, and am as picky as fanboys get. I avoided LMI, believing I'd hate it, but finally saw it on a whim not too long ago and actually ended up loving it.
Since you're on the subject of horror, last year I was waiting for your review of Let Me In to come. I was actually looking forward to a comparison between it and its source Let the Right One In.
It never came. Did you ever get around to seeing it? I was a huge fan of LTROI, and am as picky as fanboys get. I avoided LMI, believing I'd hate it, but finally saw it on a whim not too long ago and actually ended up loving it.
The only one I saw was Peeping Tom, but that was awesome, so there you go.
Now I really want to see "There's Nothing Out There."
Now I really want to see "There's Nothing Out There."
There is a disturbing lack of Dario Argento in that list, at the very least Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) should have a mention. If only for the Goblins soundtrack.
I expect Child's Play not to get a mention, because it is a pretty obvious classic slasher and Moviebob might be worried about children murdering other children just from hearing the title. Still, it has Brad Dourif, Brad fucking Dourif. I'd put him right up there with Warren Oates in terms of character actors. That is high praise indeed.
I expect Child's Play not to get a mention, because it is a pretty obvious classic slasher and Moviebob might be worried about children murdering other children just from hearing the title. Still, it has Brad Dourif, Brad fucking Dourif. I'd put him right up there with Warren Oates in terms of character actors. That is high praise indeed.
Man I really haven't seen enough horror flicks in my lifetime. The only horror movie I've seen in the last... decade or so, has been "The Crazies", and I only saw that because I got two free tickets.
And man, that movie didn't scare me. It was so unrealistic and cliched that even I could tell what was going to happen and the only horror movies I experience are vicariously. I get more chills from playing Fallout 3 than I did from watching that movie.
And man, that movie didn't scare me. It was so unrealistic and cliched that even I could tell what was going to happen and the only horror movies I experience are vicariously. I get more chills from playing Fallout 3 than I did from watching that movie.
