Highly recommend it (Susperia). It was more beautiful than I expected. I had a softer spot for that than I thought. I liked the whole film too, but the cinematography is special.

When a stranger calls - The first 20 minutes are pretty intense and scary and, apart from a few highlights, the rest feels like a bit underwhelming in comparison.

Totaly agree! I'd go a step further and say the fist 20 minutes is easily one of the best segments in horror history. The rest of the film is a dull curiosity. The ending scene wasn't bad, just seemed way too late. Tough to go somewhere after that opening... but yesh.

The Return of The Living Dead. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this movie. On the one hand I love it because it had some scary zombies and because I enjoyed the campy humor (like seeing a punk chick with a death fetish dance naked in the graveyard before later becoming a naked zombie). But on the other hand I hated it because I felt like it stole George Romero's spotlight away and it got better reviews than Day of the Dead (which I felt was an underrated film). I don't feel like it deserved to do better than George Romero's movies.

I recently watched it and it is a beautiful and shocking horror movie. I started a topic about the limited poster I purchased.

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68263

I still need to see the original. I've only seen the remake which I thought was ok for a few reasons.

That is a cool poster! It's not what I expected... it seems rather positive, I don't sense any impending horror.

You're in for a great treat when you see the original When A Stranger Calls!

I haven't seen the re-make, might be interesting to see what they do with it.

I haven't seen the remake yet either, but I remember either terrible reviews or the movie popping up on one of those worst remakes video on youtube.

THE TERMINATOR (1984). Saw this in a second run theatre and Me, My fiancée and Best Man were all on the edge of our seats. Watched it yesterday (quite a few years since) and while it is a little dated concerning technology, it's still one hell of a thrill ride. Really good cast and neat seeing Brian Thompson (X FILES) and a young Bill Paxton (as usual, making the most of his screen time) in early roles. *****

Yep, 5/5 stars. Film has a heck of a lot of style. Back then, I'd sometimes dress like Reese. ::big grin::

Yep....sometimes id dress like the Terminator. ::wink:: Loved that movie. I have a thing for 80's night club scenes and there was a good one in that. The whole movie was a blast.

Yep, Terminator clothes too. I even dared to wear the heavy green army shirt unbuttoned going bare chested. ::big grin:: The film is a blast.

I don't have the body for Terminator clothes. ::big grin::

Who does,lol?

True...not even Arnold anymore::big grin::!

Yeah, I guess steroids wear off eventually. ::stick out tongue::

THE LEGACY 1978

A young woman (Katherine Ross) and her boyfriend (Sam Elliot) are lured under false pretenses to an estate in England. Not particularly scary but beautiful to look at.

I'm currently watching The Shining (1980). I love this movie because I can't quite tell if it's an actual ghost movie or a psychological movie. I also like it better than I do Stephen King's book (yeah, I said it) because the way that the father appeared to be deeply disturbed from the very beginning is what made this movie so unsettling and suspenseful. Men do snap and kill their families all the time in the real world which is truly frightening and the idea of a perfectly normal guy going evil and trying to kill his family only because of a hotel is too unrealistic and a bit silly to me.

I feel like Stanley Kubrick's version of the story was way better and the realism is what made it so scary.

a must see for you is Room 237, an excellent documentary disecting the shining... you'll see 'what you missed'.

Saw this also, Sculpt and while it was worth a look, wondering WHAT those people (who we never see) were smoking to form;late those ideas, especially where Jack meets Mr Ullman::confused::::confused::

I think some of those theories were kind of silly. Stanley Kubrick himself once laughed at all the conspiracy theorist in an interview because they were claiming that his movie was about the genocide of the Native Americans which he said wasn't true (and if you pay attention to this documentary you'll notice it really doesn't have anything to do with the people who made this movie).

No doubt... some of the theories are on shaky ground... and some make a lot of sense.

But the real joy of the film is simply displaying so many oddities you may have missed. For instance, when the kid drives the bigwheel around the halls, never going into an elevator or stairwell, and yet it changes levels. And objects in the rooms, things that move or disappear. I missed so many things... things that affected my subconscious impression of a scene, but not my conscious understanding. Room 237 will certainly sharpen what you can observe in a film.

Yeah I understand what you mean, like when the guy at the hotel tells the story to Jack about the man who killed his wife and daughters 10 years ago and he specifically stated that the girls were 9 and 10 years old yet when Danny sees their "ghosts" they look like twins. Also the crime took place in 1970 (10 years ago to 1980) and yet the girls and their father were dressed like they lived in the 1920's. So were they really ghosts or were they just imagined by the story that Jack's family heard?

This movie really is awesome. :D

Looking back, I think I assumed the events of ten years ago were just one of victims bewitched by the 1920's 'ghosts'.

But here's a likely true explaintion from wiki:

Well one thing I always thought about was the woman in the bathtub. All psychoanalysis aside, if you want to go with the ghostly side of this movie it is a well-known fact that hotels are notorious suicide spots especially for prostitutes who often do their business in hotels. So was this dead woman in room 237 maybe the ghost of a prostitute who committed suicide in that bathtub? I think it's a very plausible theory and she may have even represented somebody from Jack's past back when he was the caretaker in the 1920's. What do you think?

Blood Beat, 1983, 7/10

Moon in Scorpio. 1987. 6.5/10

This was a cinematic mess, I fucking loved it.
Badass poster.


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I really don't know anything about the bathtub woman. I think what struck me at the time was what it revealed about Jack and the Hotel... the hotel was supposed to be empty besides his family, and Jack was a married man, yet he just went with kissing the woman. He was revolted by the mirror reflection of decay/death, it was a foreshadowing, and a clue for Jack, but it wasn't enough to change his course with the Hotel's force. So I don't really see her as a prostitute, nor someone who committed suicide. Plus in the 'transformation' she's shown as very old (face), not just decayed, so I don't think that fits the story narrative.

But I feel like she could have maybe committed suicide after she turned old, like maybe she felt that she was no longer desirable and she hated herself because of her profession? I mean in some horror movies ghosts can appear in a young form and old form. Plus Jack seemed to hold some deep resentment towards his wife so it's no surprise to me that he was thinking about cheating on her with some random beautiful naked lady. Maybe instead of a ghost she was some sort of sexual fantasy created in his mind and he turned her into an ugly old hag when he felt guilty for cheating on his wife?

I dunno, I'm not exactly an expert on things like that. ::stick out tongue::

Sure! Could have been. ::big grin:: It's a valid and interesting thought.

You asked me what I thought. Her being a prostitute or suicide victim didn't cross my mind. And I don't think Kubrick (director/screenwriter) intended for the audience to think about her as a specific person or victim (beyond being disregarded as a real person). I don't even think she was meant to be a prostitute... in this story. I just think she was an apparition of the evil force trying to enlist Jack, which would entail infidelity to his wife and family.

Your theory LP could indeed be valid, as it appears to have been purposefully left ambiguous to be open to interpretation. Check out this article about it...

In “The Shining,” who is the woman in room 237

The woman in 237 is one of the many elements of The Shining (1980) that are intentionally left ambiguous by Stanley Kubrick, but were explained in greater detail in the novelization.

The woman’s name is Mrs. Massey, and she was an older woman who came to The Overlook to have an affair with a younger fellow. One night, the younger man stole her Porsche and left. She was heartbroken and killed herself in the bathtub with sleeping pills and liquor.

As such, when Danny (Danny Lloyd) enters her room in the film version, he’s able to see her. When Jack (Jack Nicholson) enters the room, he sees a younger, beautiful woman instead of the deceased old woman. It’s not until he kisses her that she becomes the corpse. A popular theory is that she represents the overall seductive power of evil that inhabits the hotel, and is taking over Jack. Kissing her is his submission to the evil forces at work, and the turning point where he loses any goodness left in him.

“This is the strangest scene in the film. It has no reference to earlier events, and it seems completely unconnected with any of the characters. Yet it serves as an important link between all the characters in this psychic drama. It would be wrong to insist on a single interpretation of this scene, but in looking at it it exposes the heart of Kubrick's method in the film.” - Paul Mayersberg

Mayersberg goes on to note the ways in which the scene is a rewrite of Psycho’s bathtub scene, is a reversal of horror conventions, is overtly sexual in nature, and is ambiguous in nature.

“All these interpretations have a certain validity without getting near totally to describing the scene. It may come down to the simple fact that the scene in room 237 is no more nor less than a nightmare of its creator. But one of the extraordinary aspects of The Shining is the way the simplest events in bright light conjure dark fears, guesses and portents.”

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That makes perfect sense then. So she wasn't a prostitute but she was a suicide victim and was having an affair in that room. I guess that years of watching ghost hunting shows helped me to pick up on why she was haunting room 237. ::big grin::

Halloween 1978

The Centerfold Girls, 1974. 7/10

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 1973. 7/10

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Videodrome, 1983. 8/10

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Deathdream, 1974. 8/10

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I just watched this the other day! Not bad at all and some good early Savini work.

And i like it too!

TENTACLES 1977

Stellar cast but a real bombshell about a pissed off octopus.

"the cause and object of sensational and usually widespread attention, excitement, or attraction"? ::stick out tongue::