Oh, the Horror!

[lovecraft68]

Everyday may as well be Halloween for me, but for most this is close enough to the day-and lit contest-to post all things horror. Movie clips, books, art, comics, music, a favorite creepy pasta or youtube short horror film etc...

Discussion of the genre and your comments on the links are welcome.

A few of my posts might be things I linked before in an old "dark inspiration thread" but I didn't want to bump a three year old thread and there's new people here who may not have seen that one.

 

[lovecraft68]

This is my ultimate Halloween movie clip. From the campy but classic Night of The Demons.

A possessed Angela dances to Bauhaus Stigmata Martyr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjua87z9OW0

Also this is the intro for the movie, the music and animation are amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClZbHLD5Eb4

 

[lovecraft68]

From the Original Evil dead 1981 the first possession scene that scared the crap out me at 13 when I rented it at Epic video(video stores...videos store employees not caring kids were renting r-rated movies...oh, the 80's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKR5KdHPiSI

 

[lovecraft68]

Freddy's coming for you, original version. Before Freddy became a wise cracking cartoon like figure in the unwatchable later installments of the franchise, he was original, new and menacing in the first. This song captures the vibe they were going for perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhT3V3Pd_cw

 

[Handley_Page]

The gorgeous Debra Padget dancing for a Cobra in the Temple:
She's less dressed at about 3:10.
How she kept her outfit on is a bit of a mystery. . . . .

 

[lovecraft68]

I'll see your snake dance HP and raise you from Dusk Til Dawn...Salma Hayak

The music helps make this...also being I -as well as Tarantino-have a foot fetish the pouring him a drink down her foot is delicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBstKtjYsZ0

Comment on the movie itself. Its like two movies. The first part where Clooney and Tarantino are bank robbing brothers who kidnap a father and daughter(Juliette Lewis) is a gritty tense segment, their arrival in the weird club that leads to this dance has a great feeling of menace and something isn't right.

But after this dance most of the club changes into vampires and it becomes a ludicrous slap stick three stooges meet the vampires type joke. For a pure horror fan it ruined a great first half.

 

[Handley_Page]

Oh Ain't she pretty ?

 

[SimonDoom]

I know I sound like an old fart but I feel glad to have grown up in the 1970s when so many new film experiences came on the scene, including horror movies.

I remember seeing Jaws when it came out in 1975, and it scared the hell out of me. I was pretty young and it was by far the goriest movie I'd seen up to that point. It was, as I recall, one of the first, and remains the best, of the "scary killer animal" movies.

My first slasher movie was one of the first and, I think, still best, even though it's tame by modern standards -- Halloween. It probably has the most memorable horror movie soundtrack ever.

And of course Alien came out in 1979, and that thoroughly creeped me out too. It set a completely new bar for space horror and remains one of the best visually conceived sci fi/horror movies ever.

 

[lovecraft68]

I know I sound like an old fart but I feel glad to have grown up in the 1970s when so many new film experiences came on the scene, including horror movies.

I remember seeing Jaws when it came out in 1975, and it scared the hell out of me. I was pretty young and it was by far the goriest movie I'd seen up to that point. It was, as I recall, one of the first, and remains the best, of the "scary killer animal" movies.

My first slasher movie was one of the first and, I think, still best, even though it's tame by modern standards -- Halloween. It probably has the most memorable horror movie soundtrack ever.

And of course Alien came out in 1979, and that thoroughly creeped me out too. It set a completely new bar for space horror and remains one of the best visually conceived sci fi/horror movies ever.

I'm a little younger, born in 68 so I saw a lot of classic 70's stuff in the 80's but it was an phenomenal time for horror that did carry into the 80's before everything started becoming gore and franchises.

Alien and the original Halloween still stand up today(I wish they would stop with the sequels, especially Halloween which is now remaking their remakes)

Couple of my favs from the 70's that don't get mentioned a lot

Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Burnt Offerings with Karen Black
The Legacy
Prophecy with Talia Shire

Of course in addition to Halloween the 70's gave us Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left in 1972 which was brutal for its day.

 

[Abbafan]

I'm a little younger, born in 68 so I saw a lot of classic 70's stuff in the 80's but it was an phenomenal time for horror that did carry into the 80's before everything started becoming gore and franchises.

Alien and the original Halloween still stand up today(I wish they would stop with the sequels, especially Halloween which is now remaking their remakes)

Couple of my favs from the 70's that don't get mentioned a lot

Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Burnt Offerings with Karen Black
The Legacy
Prophecy with Talia Shire

Nice picks. The 70s was the golden era for horror movies, IMO. (I guess it's generally considered a great time for movies in general.) The 80s were fun, but horror got a little lot more safe and formulaic. You didn't see as much experimentation and movie makers willing to get a little weird.

 

[R. Richard]

The worst horror movie that I ever had to sit through was a security film, viewed at NOSC, in San Diego. It seemed to run for maybe 12 hours, although my watch said maybe a half hour. It was about some idiot discussing the classified flight characteristics of the X999 aircraft in front of a guy wearing a black spy cloak. The film would have insulted the intelligence of a sewer slug and there were no barf bags.

 

[lovecraft68]

Nice picks. The 70s was the golden era for horror movies, IMO. (I guess it's generally considered a great time for movies in general.) The 80s were fun, but horror got a little lot more safe and formulaic. You didn't see as much experimentation and movie makers willing to get a little weird.

A lot of good late seventies and early eighties were the originals of their kind. Prom Night, Dressed to Kill, The Fog, then it seemed the shift went from original to copy cat, and over the top gore stuff.

Today's horror as far as Hollywood goes is mostly crap. But Shudder network is churning out a ton of original, and damn good material so there is hope.

 

[jaF0]

Get back to the 50s and 60s B movies. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Island of Dr Moreau. And that Frank thing and the neck biter guy. Don't forget the guy with the hairy face.

 

[lovecraft68]

Get back to the 50s and 60s B movies. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Island of Dr Moreau. And that Frank thing and the neck biter guy. Don't forget the guy with the hairy face.

Night of the Living Dead was 60's and so was 2000 maniacs which was one of the earliest torture porn gore type movies I remember.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hammer Horror from the UK - Christopher Lee's Dracula and Peter Cushing playing Doctor Frankenstein. They used to run double features in the early seventies, scaring the bejesus out of a thousand kids on a Friday night. With sexy heroines to scream and get it in the neck, or vampiresses in flowing nighties, whoa!

And who can forget Andy Warhol's Dracula and his Frankenstein movie in 3D - someone coming at you with a giant pair of sheers, and next you know, that head is on someone else's body.

You Yanks also had a shot at it with Count Yorga, Vampire, a modern day Dracula doing over Californian hippies in a VW campervan. Maybe cut a bit close to Charlie Manson, but there you go. Also, and of course, Sharon Tate in Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers.

 

[lovecraft68]

Hammer Horror from the UK - Christopher Lee's Dracula and Peter Cushing playing Doctor Frankenstein. They used to run double features in the early seventies, scaring the bejesus out of a thousand kids on a Friday night. With sexy heroines to scream and get it in the neck, or vampiresses in flowing nighties, whoa!

And who can forget Andy Warhol's Dracula and his Frankenstein movie in 3D - someone coming at you with a giant pair of sheers, and next you know, that head is on someone else's body.

You Yanks also had a shot at it with Count Yorga, Vampire, a modern day Dracula doing over Californian hippies in a VW campervan. Maybe cut a bit close to Charlie Manson, but there you go. Also, and of course, Sharon Tate in Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers.

We had Creature Double feature on good old UHF channel 56 in the 70's. They showed some hammer stuff and a lot of cheesy 50's flicks, but some good ones like I was a Teenage Werewolf with Michael Landon and they did a lot of the Godzilla movies.

Yorga was pretty good, as was Nosferatu 79 remake. I also liked Night Stalker, the movie the show was based on about a vampire.

 

[lovecraft68]

Near Dark 1987\

Imagine a dysfunctional family, now make them undead. One of Lance Henriksen early and best roles.

The Jon Parr Naughty Naughty playing through the trailer just makes it much more fun...great 80's song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HL3JgadNlY

 

[lovecraft68]

Giallo, Italian Horror, much of which featured Zombies

Fulci, Bava and Argento were three of the biggest names.

This trailer is for Fulci's City of the Dead(AKA Gates of Hell) from 1980 classic film for its genre. Great score, reminds me a bit of Romero's Dawn of the Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z-G7Iwn3R0

 

[Bramblethorn]

Strictly speaking not quite horror, but I love Crimson Peak. The costumes, the gothic sets, the ghosts, and the heroine. It's not an accident that her surname is "Cushing".

The Babadook was great. Some classic horror elements, but it also drew on some RL fears that don't often show up in horror movies - a lot of the tension comes from seeing a mother who's exhausted and not coping and afraid that social services will notice it.

Dagon. There are so many terrible HPL adaptations out there, this one's not Oscar material but it's pretty good, and it preserves what to me is the heart of the original story (Shadow over Innsmouth).

Lair of the White Worm. This is cheesy as hell but it's fun.

And since LC didn't link to this, I have to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPI9b9N6CQ

 

[ElectricBlue]

Lair of the White Worm. This is cheesy as hell but it's fun.

Yes, not Ken Russell's greatest moment in cinema, but I agree, a bit of fun.

There's some good Tasmanian Gothic at the moment, too: The Kettering Incident and The Gloaming, where Tasmania's country almost becomes a character.

 

[Handley_Page]

Get back to the 50s and 60s B movies. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Island of Dr Moreau. And that Frank thing and the neck biter guy. Don't forget the guy with the hairy face.

But we must not forget those brilliant Vincent Price epics, such as "The Masque of the Red Death" and "the Abominable Dr Phibes".
And we have not mentioned the famous Hammer productions. Perhaps you may not have seen them over there ?

 

[karaline]

Such a fortuitous thread! I found out late last week, I am apparently running a creative writing club on Mondays after school, I am planning to start with horror.

Super helpful -thank you!

 

[jaF0]

But we must not forget those brilliant Vincent Price epics, such as "The Masque of the Red Death" and "the Abominable Dr Phibes".
And we have not mentioned the famous Hammer productions. Perhaps you may not have seen them over there ?

Vinnie was everywhere. The only Hammer guy I remember was Mike as played by Stacey Keach.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Yes, not Ken Russell's greatest moment in cinema, but I agree, a bit of fun.

There's some good Tasmanian Gothic at the moment, too: The Kettering Incident and The Gloaming, where Tasmania's country almost becomes a character.

I'm not much of a person for vibes, but Tasmania is one of those places where you don't have to imagine very hard to see the blood soaked into the earth.

 

[lovecraft68]

But we must not forget those brilliant Vincent Price epics, such as "The Masque of the Red Death" and "the Abominable Dr Phibes".
And we have not mentioned the famous Hammer productions. Perhaps you may not have seen them over there ?