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House On Haunted Hill
-Vincent Price Perfect movie for Halloween. My favorite Price movie. |
The Haunting- again...
Really a perfect example of how to make a good movie. Give us interesting characters that have a background, that we may like or not like, put them in a compelling situation and then let the story unfold. Village of the Damned The blueprint for all the creepy kid movies, and still the best. |
Hi,
I'm new to this forum, actually it's my first time in a forum! I love the horror movies and so i'm here.... I just watched Haxan (Witchcraft Through The Ages, 1922); The Wicker man; Blood and Black lace; Videodrome; Alien; The last house on the left. |
Well, some of those are from the classic era, and some are not.
If you go to the forum index page, you can read desriptions of what each forum is for. You'll notice that the classic horror forum is for discussing horror films from the 60s and before, and the modern horror forum is for discussing horror fiolms from the 70s till now. |
Sorry...I just read the first post and I didn't see forum's title!
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The Wolf Man
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Every time I see this movie it blows me away again. What a great role for Karloff, and a tour de force by Bagdonivich. IMO this film is one of the great harbingers of the new modern style of horror films along with Psycho & Night of the Living Dead. A brilliant film. |
"Les Diaboliques" (1955) 10/10
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The Black Room (1935)
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9107/blackroom.jpg Surely a sparkling gem for Karloff fans. Playing double roles for the twin brothers demonstrates what a great range of performer he was. Karloff plays both the devilish and kind brothers, but in addition, he portrays the nasty brother imitating the gentle one. And that's what makes this masterpiece fun along with great sets, costumes, and lighting. It was like a Gothic fairy tale with good amount of horror elements. Director Roy William Neil did an excellent job; especially having the two twins in the same room together really boost this underrated film. Kudos to Columbia Pictures, they showed that there was more to Karloff than just the Frankenstein's monster. >>: A The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1...ldnothang1.jpg This is my first Karloff's "Mad Doctor" film and it just straight blew me away! Karloff was magnificent as Dr. Henryk Savaard; along with the beautiful storyline & fantastic dialogs his character's transformation from kindly dedicated scientist to a madman bent on murder & revenge was simply brilliant to watch. >>: A- |
Glad you're enjoying these. There's a reason Karloff is called the King of Horror!
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currently watching The Invisible Man
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Planet of Vampires
Space travelers clad in black leather from head to foot, swirling clouds of mist, red and green lights everywhere, vintage electronic score... Mario Bava's Planet of Vampires is a fetishistic acid trip of a movie... love it. |
The Black Room is definally one of Karloffs greatest performances - the film doesn't seem to get as much credit as it should...
I might watch a few classics tonight for Halloween - I was thinking of THE MAZE and 1 or 2 others.. |
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Mask Of Fu Manchu (1932)
-Boris Karloff Corny, over the top and a hell of a lot of fun to watch. |
Halloween Special: Karloff-Lugosi Double Bill..!!
The Invisible Ray (1936)
The lines are pretty interesting when Dr. Rukh (Karloff) & Dr. Benet (Lugosi) first met in this film...:cool: Karloff: "....We meet at last!" Lugosi: "But we already know each other." Karloff: "True. You come to see me failed; but you would be disappointed!" Lugosi: "I have never seen eye to eye." Karloff: "That's because I have always look ... years ahead of your theories!" >>: B+ The Raven (1935) Lugosi was brilliant as Dr. Vollin! His 2nd best performance after Dracula...as I have seen so far. >>: A |
"Curse Of The Undead" (1959)
A Halloween staple at my house. The movies first vampire western. Low budget but made with some good atmosphere and fun western action. "Night Of The Living Dead" (1968) The original, the classic and still the best damn zombie movie ever made. "Psycho" Hitchcock at his best. The greatest thriller ever made. A fine Halloween triple feature. |
Son of Dr. Jeckyll
Not a great movie, but a solid film. |
Caught Night of the Living Dead last night during the all night running. Actually 1 and 1/2 times. Gotta agree with Phantomstranger on this one. The best zombie movie ever made. Before it came back on after the commerical they had inserts from a Romero interview. He was talking about how the film was precived as burtal when it came out. Although this is probley in the top 5 movies Ive seen the most, Id never thought about that. Id never thought of any classic horror as gory but I guess in 68 it was pretty burtal.
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Until i watched NOTLD (1968) last night, i didn't realize how similar the 1990 remake is to the original. Even Tony Todd look alot like the guy from the original, it's hard to say a zombie movie is better than the 1990 NOTLD, but the 68 version is originally better...I feel honored to had watched it!!:cool:
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The Wolf Man (1941)
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3045/thewolfmant.jpg >>: A The Abominable Snowman (1957) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6632/snowman.jpg One of best Hammer pieces for sure. An excellent adventure mystery set on Himalayas & Yeti legend with a bit of Philosophical touch. Glad to see finally Cushing on a beautiful B&W feature. >>: A |
Creature from the Black Lagoon
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The Mummy (1932) and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Before I Hang (1940)
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5695/beforeihang.jpg Blood carries vengeance & killing instinct! Karloff's another exciting 'Mad Scientist' film. Liked it too. >>: B+ Night of the Eagle aka Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962) http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1400/eagleh.jpg Excellent movie! Along with brilliant camera works, performances and lighting, the Eagle attacking scene at the end was beautifully shot. Pretty chilling indeed. >>: A- |
Watching "Dementia 13" right now
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Now watching "Phantom from 10,000 Leagues"
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The House on Haunted Hill
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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9...hewerewolf.jpg One of the best plotted Werewolf movies and like his other films Oliver Reed was splendid in the main role. I loved his work in The Brood and had no idea before that he was in this classic too. Is there any other horror films of him that I need to check out? >>: A- |
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Just some: Burnt Offerings The Devils The Shuttered Room The Damned Paranoiac |
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M (1931). Not sure if this belongs here, but M was an absolutely incredible story that unfolded brilliantly. It is crazy that this was one of the first "talkie" films. Wonderful film from all aspects. Ashe.
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Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
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What a great movie. One of the best examples of pure paranoia. I love this film. Kevin McCarthy is great. |
13 Ghosts (1960)
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/9777/13ghosts.jpg Spooky fun with good score & effects. >>: B I Walked with a Zombie (1943) http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4...ithazombie.jpg A subtle romantic story with eerie elements of horror...results a unique masterpiece of cinema from another great Lewton-Tourneur collaboration. Both drama & horror beautifully collide into another level of awesomeness which is really rare in celluloid arts. and... Ah, woe! Ah, me! Shame and sorrow for the family what a beautiful calypso song from Sir Lancelot! Looking forward to have its mp3 in my walkman someday.:) >>: A |
The Haunting and Night of the Living Dead
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