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The Fortress of Horror Returns
A Bell From Hell (1973)
The Day of the Beast (1995)
Deranged (1974)
Possession (1981)
The Devils (1971)
The House With Laughing Windows (1976)
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
Eyes Without a Face (1959)
Kill List (2011)
Santa Sangre (1989)
Shock Waves (1977)
Uzumaki (2000)
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Michael Barnes wrote: The Gate would be a good one too.
Oh yeah, definitely. Nostalgia aside, this movie is strangely effective and the stop-motion effects for the creatures are far more creepy than CGI.
As for recommendations, I would say 1972's Horror Express would be a good candidate, merely for the fact that it's the least known of the four "The Thing" films. It even stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, with Telly Savalas hamming it up in a memorable supporting role. You could do a roundup of all four movies as you've probably already seen The Thing from Another World and John Carpenter's The Thing.
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The Gate would be interesting to look at too because it seems to be one of the less obvious things that influenced Stranger Things.
How about Poltergeist? I think it's become somewhat underrated and under appreciated over the years...there really isn't any other horror film like it...it has that whole Spielberg thing, but it's malicious...and it's not some kind of coy, ambiguous thing...IT'S ACTUALLY FUCKING GHOSTS.
The beginning with Carol Ann talking to the TV is one of the creepiest scenes in any film ever.
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I think I did House? Can't remember. What a weird flick (either movie bearing that title, doesn't matter).
Drewcula, if it's the 2000s anthology movie Trick r Treat you mean, I'm sorry but I'm not a fan of that one. But I do like the majority of the others you listed. There's a cult classics group that's started up here in Connecticut. Every month they rent out this old movie theater from the 40s and do a double feature, complete with old trailers at the beginning of each flick. Their first night was Fright Night and Lost Boys, which Egg Shen and I went to and had an absolute blast. The next one is Stephen King night, Christine and Creepshow. You can bet your ass we'll be there.
The Witch has been talked about quite a bit on here already and my love for it has already been made known. It's another one that's hard to talk about because what makes it is the ending. You really do need to wait for the very end of the movie before you can truly assess it, but it is so worth it. The ending will hit people in different ways, largely based on your spiritual standing, which I think is really cool. Some people might be startled by it, personally though, I was grinning from ear to ear.
I do really want to do Eyes of Fire though and I've been eager to rewatch it (but I'm waiting for that New England autumn to hit first). It's on YouTube, and since you can't watch it any other way aside from hard to find VHS tapes, I don't feel so bad about pointing people to watching it on there.
Looking over all these movies, many I've seen (and love), lots I haven't and am intrigued by. Getting a lot of great stuff here, thanks everyone. The season can't get here soon enough.
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Or you could look at things in the broader sense, looking at anythings that explores his key themes. In that case, so many horror films meet that criteria. Hell, Ghostbusters is probably the best Lovecraftian movie ever made (ancient interdimensional god opens a portal to our world after an insane architect designs a building that can makes it all possible). Cabin in the Woods
I'll ponder on that one. Its easy for me to cross the line into Lovecraft fatigue, but there's something interesting there.
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The mythology of Nightbreed is mostly filled out with the viewer only doing minor lifting to fill in any missing pieces. Boone is by far the weakest character in the bunch. The actor is given the thankless task of being the every man/savior archetype. It's a necessary role in that we get to see the world as our main character sees it for the first time, but he's kind of boring as shit. You want to follow these other characters, but we're meant to keep following our vanilla lead.
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It's also a picture that resulted in a lot of scratching heads at the studio, so to speak. How do you market this thing? What is it really about? Why isn't this more like Hellraiser? Who is the audience for this? There was a lot of studio tinkering and recutting, Barker himself cut it a few times, and overall it's one of those films that bears the mark of a lot of post-production juggling. That it came out at all is kind of a miracle.
I remember seeing it in the theater when it was released and at the time I just thought it was amazing. It really captured my imagination. But I also recognized that it was awkward, tentative and sort of half-formed.
The director's cut helps, but it still feels like half of the movie that it should be. I almost think that all of the Cronenberg stuff could (regretfully) be cut. Boone was terribly miscast, that is one of those instances where you can tell that the actor has no fucking idea what they are involved in.
If this story were filmed today, it would likely be a cable/Netflix series with a much greater emphasis on developing the setting, expanding the concept of Midian and giving it all more room to breathe. And then maybe the slasher storyline works without compressing it into a feature length film. You'd also get more of a sense of the other characters, like the crazy looking moon dude and the porcupine girl, which is one thing the movie REALLY needed to develop audience sympathy and engagement with the monsters.
I love the movie, but it is a total mess.
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What are the great Clive Barker movies? Hellraiser and maybe Candyman?
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