View Full Version : Best Moments in Old School Horror movies
Scorpion13
12-07-2006, 08:02 PM
From up to about 1980.
What, in your opinion, are the best scenes in the old school horror movies?
One of mine is from the 1931 Dracula, when Dracula confronts Van Helsing. No music, no special effects, just the two actors doing thier thing. Dracula tries to command Van Helsing to come to him, and Van Helsing resists his hypnotic stare. Its a battle of wills played out so subtly...theres just nothing at all like it in modern cinema. Nothing.
Second, Id have to say the first time in Hammer's the Horror of Dracula, when we first see Dracula good and vamped out. Nothing like the urbane gentleman aristocrat there. With those red eyes and the blood running down the sides of him fanged mouth....he looks like a wild animal. Great stuff.
Indigo Al
12-07-2006, 08:37 PM
I have many, but I'll start with Rosemary confronting the Castevet coven at the end of Rosemary's Baby. What a brilliantly played out scene.
There are many bits in that movie that are brilliant.
Ryan K
12-07-2006, 09:02 PM
The beginning of Suspiria.
Sandoz
12-07-2006, 09:36 PM
"They're coming to get you, Barbara."
The tenement raid in Dawn of the Dead.
The unmasking of Lon Cheney's Phantom of the Opera.
MaxofSteel
12-07-2006, 10:20 PM
I'm not sure about the title (It hink it was just called "Zombie" or something), but in one scene there was a rumble of a showdown between a zombie and a Great White Shark. That qualifies as "pretty sweet" in my book.:p
The Anti-Existence
12-07-2006, 10:30 PM
The end of the original Halloween. Nothing could stop Michael...Larie did all she could but he kept coming. Loomis finally arives, puts 5 bullets into him and out the window he goes.
Larue: Was that the boogyman?
Loomis: As a matter of fact...it was.
Loomis goes to see where Michael is and...no Michael. The imprint of his body clearly in the grass, the look on Loomis' face like "I knew it wouldn't be enough" and the theme playing as the camera looks over the etnire town with the sound of Michael's breathing....
Captain_Video
12-07-2006, 10:41 PM
The Evil Dead.
Whiny puny Ash leaves the cabin, the ordeal is over, he has won, he is a wreck but he is alive and thats all thats important.
Vrrrroooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Panman
12-08-2006, 02:37 AM
The "jesus wept" scene from Hellraiser.
Iron Maiden
12-08-2006, 03:13 AM
The ending of Hammer's "Horror of Dracula".. Peter Cushing as Van Helsing runs along a very long banquet table at Castle Dracula just as the dawn is breaking and rips down the drapes over a big window. The sunlight rushes in and Christopher Lee turns to dust. The morning breeze blows the dust away and just the ring with the Dracula crest is left.
The creation scene from James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein"
The double ending of "Carrie" where her hand comes out wreckage of the house and grabs the girl who survivied the fire at the prom.
John Doe Jnr
12-08-2006, 05:16 AM
The end for Black Christmas. Such a great ending. We don't know who the killer is but he's still out there somewhere.
Lord of Denial
12-08-2006, 06:03 AM
The end of the original Halloween. Nothing could stop Michael...Larie did all she could but he kept coming. Loomis finally arives, puts 5 bullets into him and out the window he goes.
Larue: Was that the boogyman?
Loomis: As a matter of fact...it was.
Loomis goes to see where Michael is and...no Michael. The imprint of his body clearly in the grass, the look on Loomis' face like "I knew it wouldn't be enough" and the theme playing as the camera looks over the etnire town with the sound of Michael's breathing....
That was a genuis scene. Because if Carpenter decided that Loomis went to the balcony and saw that Micheal was gone and was shocked instead of that knowing look it would have robbed the ending of it's punch. And it would have made the end of the camera looking around the town with the music playing less creepy as well.
That simple choice made that movie a classic.
Buzz Dixon
12-08-2006, 08:57 AM
I'm not sure about the title (It hink it was just called "Zombie" or something), but in one scene there was a rumble of a showdown between a zombie and a Great White Shark. That qualifies as "pretty sweet" in my book.:pIt doesn't get much better than this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7_oza_Cww
(BTW, you forgot about the topless scuba diver, so let's mark this NSFW)
Buzz Dixon
12-08-2006, 09:05 AM
My favorite scene is in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
The monster has been roaming the countryside, briefly befriending a blind hermit who taught him how to speak and appreciate cigars and brandy before the peasantry chased him off again.
Meanwhile, Dr. Praetorious has blackmailed Dr. Frankenstein into continuing his experiments, this time attempting to create a female.
Dr. Praetorious goes off for a night of grave robbing in order to gather the necessary raw material. Around midnight he decides to take a smoke and brandy break and, setting a candle atop a skull, lights up and pours himself a stiff one. He's sitting in a crypt with only one entrance.
Suddenly the monster shows up at the door, blocking the only escape route. The monster growls. Dr. Praetorious without batting an eye says, "Oh, I thought I was alone..."
Anybody who can react that coolly to the Frankenstein's monster appearance is just Major League Bad News.
Dreadstar
12-08-2006, 09:21 AM
The third and final story in Trilogy of Terror, with the Zuni fetish doll. Karen Black finally "kills" it in the oven, then calmly goes to the phone and calls her hated mother:
"This is Amelia, mom. I'm sorry I acted the way I did. I think we should spend the evening together, just the way we planned. It's kind of late though. Why don't you come by my place and we'll go from here? No, I'm all right! Good. I'll be waiting for you."
Cue the final scene of Black sitting on the floor stabbing the floor with a knife in rhythm, pan up to her teeth...
Scorpion13
12-08-2006, 09:34 AM
That was a genuis scene. Because if Carpenter decided that Loomis went to the balcony and saw that Micheal was gone and was shocked instead of that knowing look it would have robbed the ending of it's punch. And it would have made the end of the camera looking around the town with the music playing less creepy as well.
That simple choice made that movie a classic.
I heard somewhere that Pleasance asked whehter he should play it as he was shocked, or like he knew it would happen, and Carpenter said do both at the same time.
And you know what? It worked better than either one of them could have.
Scorpion13
12-08-2006, 09:41 AM
My favorite scene is in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
The monster has been roaming the countryside, briefly befriending a blind hermit who taught him how to speak and appreciate cigars and brandy before the peasantry chased him off again.
Meanwhile, Dr. Praetorious has blackmailed Dr. Frankenstein into continuing his experiments, this time attempting to create a female.
Dr. Praetorious goes off for a night of grave robbing in order to gather the necessary raw material. Around midnight he decides to take a smoke and brandy break and, setting a candle atop a skull, lights up and pours himself a stiff one. He's sitting in a crypt with only one entrance.
Suddenly the monster shows up at the door, blocking the only escape route. The monster growls. Dr. Praetorious without batting an eye says, "Oh, I thought I was alone..."
Anybody who can react that coolly to the Frankenstein's monster appearance is just Major League Bad News.
Yeah, He just basically said "Sup" to a grotesque, murderous abomination made of stitched together body parts. One that popped out from behind him in a friggin crypt in the dead of night.
Another great part of that movie is when after the villagers finally capture him, and put him in a dungeon with a thick steel bolted door, chained to a chair.
Up until then, and even in the previous movie, they had portrayed the monster as basically freindly but misunderstood and more frightened of people than they were of him.
Now, stuck in the dungeon, he finally snaps. Its like you can actually see him say "I have HAD IT with this bullshit!!" and then you see him escape easily, snapping thick steel chains and a huge metal door like they were tissue paper.
From then on, he turns outright hostile to everyone, only tolerating Praetorious because he promised to have Frankenstein make him a wife, so that he and her can run off and tell the rest of the world to go to hell.
Its really good stuff. Man, I love that movie. So many great scenes.
Julusnc
12-08-2006, 11:25 AM
I know it is not an old movie but I love the entire scene in Seven when Morgan Freeman finds out the head of Brad Pitt's wife is in the box.....
The original "It's Alive" in Frankenstein is classic.
Cephus
12-08-2006, 12:53 PM
The original "It's Alive" in Frankenstein is classic.
Heh, the funniest take-off of that I saw done was in the cartoon Gargoyles where David Xanatos basically does the same thing, complete with the electrodes, and says:
It's alive! Alive! I always wanted to say that!
MaxofSteel
12-08-2006, 01:00 PM
It doesn't get much better than this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7_oza_Cww
(BTW, you forgot about the topless scuba diver, so let's mark this NSFW)
Heheh, Nice!:D
I actually hadn't seen this scene (or the movie) until just now. I only heard about it from somewhere.
Classic Zombie acton baby!
Bradley
12-08-2006, 01:52 PM
The end for Black Christmas. Such a great ending. We don't know who the killer is but he's still out there somewhere.
Funny you should mention this movie-- I just saw it for the first time the night before last, and was kinda shocked to discover it's actually great. Probably one of the scariest movies I've seen in a long, long time. I like to think I've grown desensitized to the point where horror movies don't scare me anymore, but everytime the phone rang in that movie, I found myself cringing. In a good way.
Has anybody here seen The Baby (1973, directed by Ted Post)? It would be inaccurate to really call this one a "horror movie," as nothing particularly scary happens throughout most of the movie-- there's just this kind of underlying sense of creepiness. But then, in the last few minutes of the movie, everything's turned on its head and you realize the movie you've been watching is actually a whole lot creepier than you thought it was.
Lord of Denial
12-08-2006, 02:23 PM
I heard somewhere that Pleasance asked whehter he should play it as he was shocked, or like he knew it would happen, and Carpenter said do both at the same time.
And you know what? It worked better than either one of them could have.
I have never heard that but it makes sense if you look at his reaction. No matter what he did it made the ending.
Domo Goddess
12-08-2006, 04:22 PM
The endings of Sleepaway Camp and Asylum
The ending of Burnt Offerings was meh IMO
The scene in Ghost Story where the ghost appears in a hallway looking decomposed. Pretty much every scene where she decays !
Bradley - I was curious about The Baby, but I read a spoiler for the ending which was a bit confusing !
Haunt
12-08-2006, 04:37 PM
The third and final story in Trilogy of Terror, with the Zuni fetish doll. Karen Black finally "kills" it in the oven, then calmly goes to the phone and calls her hated mother:
"This is Amelia, mom. I'm sorry I acted the way I did. I think we should spend the evening together, just the way we planned. It's kind of late though. Why don't you come by my place and we'll go from here? No, I'm all right! Good. I'll be waiting for you."
Cue the final scene of Black sitting on the floor stabbing the floor with a knife in rhythm, pan up to her teeth...
my only regret is that i had to sit through 2 very lackluster tales before getting to that point. :(
Bradley
12-08-2006, 04:50 PM
Bradley - I was curious about The Baby, but I read a spoiler for the ending which was a bit confusing !
It's an odd movie in a variety of ways, right down to the misleading art on the DVD box. I'm not sure I can confidenly recommend the movie to just anyone, but if you're into odd movies, you might like it.
Domo Goddess
12-08-2006, 04:59 PM
How is the cover misleading ?
Doesn't he act like a baby because of his '' mother '' and '' sisters '' ?
I think I saw the DVD of The Baby at FYE once.
I had nightmares the night I purchased Ghost Story and I haven't even watched it yet !
Luther the Geek is supposed to be really odd, but I am not exactly sure what happens at the end.
Bradley
12-08-2006, 05:05 PM
How is the cover misleading ?
Doesn't he act like a baby because of his '' mother '' and '' sisters '' ?
I can't remember if they were his actual family or not.
I think I saw the DVD of The Baby at FYE once.
The cover has a picture of a grown man's legs arms hanging out of a crib, with his hand gripping a bloody axe, and a tagline that says (if I'm not mistaken): "Horror is his formula." But "Baby" isn't actually the villain in the movie-- as you know, he's the victim of his mother and sisters.
Basically, it looks like it's going to be a slasher movie, when in fact it's actually more like a really weird made-for-TV movie about the social worker investigating this family-- until, as I said, a really creepy twist at the end.
Scorpion13
12-08-2006, 05:07 PM
I have never heard that but it makes sense if you look at his reaction. No matter what he did it made the ending.
Honestly, I forget where I heard it. Maybe onthe Bravo top 100 Horror movie special, or something about the Halloween movies on AMC.
I totally believe it though, because thats exactly the reaction Donald gives.
Tobias March
12-08-2006, 05:39 PM
The costume party oral sex scene from The Shining.
"Great party isn't it?"
Plus Martin - I'm a big fan of Romero's 'vampire' film. The scene when Martin's uncle is chased by him through the streets, terrified that his nephew is a vampire. It manages to be comical and quite sad at the same time.
The ending of Don't Look Now.
Domo Goddess
12-08-2006, 05:46 PM
Eva in Ghost Story
http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=427
I don't remember that scene though. :confused:
david r
12-08-2006, 08:50 PM
Has anybody here seen The Baby (1973, directed by Ted Post)? It would be inaccurate to really call this one a "horror movie," as nothing particularly scary happens throughout most of the movie-- there's just this kind of underlying sense of creepiness. But then, in the last few minutes of the movie, everything's turned on its head and you realize the movie you've been watching is actually a whole lot creepier than you thought it was.
Yes I saw it. It does have a memorable ending.
I think a truly suspenseful moment was the original "When a Stranger Calls." That voice saying "Go upstairs and check the children" was truly creepy for anyone who has babysit in a strange house late at night.
Bradley
12-08-2006, 09:01 PM
Yes I saw it. It does have a memorable ending.
I think a truly suspenseful moment was the original "When a Stranger Calls." That voice saying "Go upstairs and check the children" was truly creepy for anyone who has babysit in a strange house late at night.
When A Stranger Calls is odd, because it's got a really good opening, and a really good ending, but the bulk of the movie is... not really related to either that beginning or the ending, you know? And not very good, either. It was like a less ambitious Dirty Harry... but with Charles Durning.
I mentioned Black Christmas before, which I really think you might check out if you haven't seen it already. It came out five years before When A Stranger Calls, but uses creepy, menacing phone calls in a similar way. Obviously, both were influenced by the same urban legend, but I think Black Christmas is a much better movie.
Funny thing... I just checked the Internet Movie Database to make sure that I remembered the dates for those movies correctly, and it turns out that When A Stranger Calls was originally planned as a sequel to Black Christmas. Huh. Did everyone but me know that?
Royal
12-08-2006, 09:12 PM
Funny thing... I just checked the Internet Movie Database to make sure that I remembered the dates for those movies correctly, and it turns out that When A Stranger Calls was originally planned as a sequel to Black Christmas. Huh. Did everyone but me know that?
That's not right. Halloween was supposed to be the sequel, but Clark wanted to give horror a rest after BC. Carpenter just took the idea and ran with it.
I also thing the whole phone angle was started by Bava with I Saw What You Did.
Domo Goddess
12-08-2006, 09:15 PM
I wonder if the Black Christmas remake will be any good ?
I forgot about the hearse driver in Burnt Offerings !
He was a bit creepy at times.
When Ghost Story came on AMC a month or so ago, I closed my eyes during certain scenes.
Royal
12-08-2006, 09:19 PM
I wonder if the Black Christmas remake will be any good ?
Better off with the Bob Clark version. They totally missed the point with the remake. I know that's the usual point in the remake debate, but in this case, they really do miss the point.
Domo Goddess
12-08-2006, 09:43 PM
What are the differences between the remake and original Black Christmas ?
What point did the remake miss ?
Royal
12-08-2006, 09:52 PM
What are the differences between the remake and original Black Christmas ?
What point did the remake miss ?
Who cares why the serial killer in the sorority house during the christmas season is crazy. THERE'S A FUCKING SERIAL KILLER IN A SORORITY HOUSE DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON!!!
You know what I mean?
Bradley
12-08-2006, 10:08 PM
That's not right. Halloween was supposed to be the sequel, but Clark wanted to give horror a rest after BC. Carpenter just took the idea and ran with it.
Well, as I said, I don't know much about it, but the IMDB says that both Halloween and When A Stranger Calls were originally conceived as sequels to Black Christmas. That actually makes sense to me-- it would explain why the movies have so many striking similarities.
Bradley
12-08-2006, 10:09 PM
Netflix delivered Ghost Story to me days ago, and I still haven't gotten around to watching it. Do you guys recommend it? Maybe I should prioritize watching it tomorrow...
Domo Goddess
12-08-2006, 10:12 PM
I see.
When I saw the trailer for the BC remake, I didn't really know what it was at first. Scenes went by too fast at times.
This isn't really a scene, but I remember the opening animation / music to Night of the Demons well.
Albert
12-09-2006, 06:36 AM
Roddy McDowell browbeating the hell out of the ghost of Emeric Belasco at the end of Legend of Hell House. Someone needs to get their act together and release this on DVD.
Scorpion13
12-09-2006, 06:49 AM
Roddy McDowell browbeating the hell out of the ghost of Emeric Belasco at the end of Legend of Hell House. Someone needs to get their act together and release this on DVD.
Wait...its NOT on DVD? The hell?
That movie is the only Haunted house movie outside of The Shinning that I dont find terrifyingly dull. I did, in fact, loved it.
Albert
12-09-2006, 07:04 AM
My bad, apparently it is available. I was reading an old posting elsewhere about the lack of a DVD, and took it at face value. Amazon has it, am placing an order today. Sadly, no extras except the trailer, though. Great movie based off a Matheson book... and he did the screenplay as well.
And I agree with you, most Haunted House movies bore me to death-- Rose Red particularly.
Scorpion13
12-09-2006, 07:07 AM
My bad, apparently it is available. I was reading an old posting elsewhere about the lack of a DVD, and took it at face value. Amazon has it, am placing an order today. Sadly, no extras except the trailer, though. Great movie based off a Matheson book... and he did the screenplay as well.
And I agree with you, most Haunted House movies bore me to death-- Rose Red particularly.
Sweet Jesus, why does Stephen King keep signing deals with networks like ABC and TNT? So they can chop up his books into a pg-13 mess?
david r
12-09-2006, 08:26 AM
I mentioned Black Christmas before, which I really think you might check out if you haven't seen it already.
I have seen Black Christmas and loved it. That killer's voice.......<shudders>
I think horror flicks from the 1970s put this generation to shame. They just had more atmosphere back then and were much more eerie and creepy. Have you seen Let's Scare Jessica to Death?
Domo Goddess
12-09-2006, 10:28 AM
I have seen Black Christmas and loved it. That killer's voice.......<shudders>
I think horror flicks from the 1970s put this generation to shame. They just had more atmosphere back then and were much more eerie and creepy. Have you seen Let's Scare Jessica to Death?
I've heard of Let's Scare Jessica to Death.
Supposedly, the raft part in the Burning is a memorable scene, but I haven't seen it. I'm not sure if the Burning is out on DVD or not.
Netflix delivered Ghost Story to me days ago, and I still haven't gotten around to watching it. Do you guys recommend it? Maybe I should prioritize watching it tomorrow...
Not as good as the book, but still worth a view.
Roddy McDowell browbeating the hell out of the ghost of Emeric Belasco at the end of Legend of Hell House. Someone needs to get their act together and release this on DVD.
I picked Hell House up on DVD a couple of years ago.
I'm really surprised that it isn't out right now.
Speaking of Let's Scare Jessica to Death, the part where Jessica is running away from her former friends and loved ones and then comes across the dead guy sitting on the tractor spraying pesticide is just icky.
Also the girl in the last shot, just sitting very still in the boat waiting for Jessica to show up.
I haven't seen it in years, but that film just had such a great payoff for all the endless build up.
Domo Goddess
12-09-2006, 10:40 AM
Netflix delivered Ghost Story to me days ago, and I still haven't gotten around to watching it. Do you guys recommend it? Maybe I should prioritize watching it tomorrow...
I'll admit that Ghost Story is a little slow moving at times, but it has some good scares. I still haven't watched it yet.
Buzz Dixon
12-09-2006, 11:00 AM
I also thing the whole phone angle was started by Bava with I Saw What You Did.??? I thought I SAW WHAT YOU DID (a great little comedy thriller, BTW) was produced by William Castle. It's the obverse of DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE; in it the baby sitters are the ones making random prank calls ("I know who you are and I saw what you did.") and one call is to a man who has just finished murdering his mistress.
Buzz Dixon
12-09-2006, 11:05 AM
I think horror flicks from the 1970s put this generation to shame. They just had more atmosphere back then and were much more eerie and creepy. Have you seen Let's Scare Jessica to Death? Yes! What a marvelous low budget thriller! The scene where the ghost girl comes out of the lake and you can see the blue of her veins through her pale white skin is one of the most visually chilling things I've ever seen.
Frankie Dennis
12-09-2006, 11:17 AM
I always enjoyed this breathtaking scene from Robot Monster...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2QJ44HnrM
Scorpion13
12-09-2006, 12:32 PM
Yeah, that was better than anything that hack James Whale did.
Domo Goddess
12-09-2006, 01:22 PM
There's something about today's horror movies that I am not liking.
To me, they don't seem as interesting as the horror movies from the 70's / 80's. Someone did tell me that Scream was the scariest movie of all time ( whatever floats their boat ! )
I read one interesting rant about the person being annoyed at the fact that most horror movies now are PG-13.
Buzz Dixon
12-09-2006, 02:07 PM
I don't think a horror film has to be any particular rating in order to be scary. The original versions of THE HAUNTING or THE TURN OF THE SCREW are pretty scary without using gore or violence (though admittedly a number of viewers -- then and now -- find them a bit languid).
Dario Argento used an R-rating effectively for his films; conceivably one could go for an X or NC-17 without being gratuitous.
But most R-rated films (and I'm talking about all genres, not just horror films) are rather artless, using language/violence/gore/nudity/sex as a poor substitute for substance.
For any film other than pornography (and here I would include sadistic horror films, "snuff" documentaries like FACES OF DEATH, etc.) to entertain an audience, it needs to make that audience care about the characters and their situation. This requires more talent and ability than many film makers are capable of producing, particularly in the horror genre.
I'm not saying one can't do a film where a victim gets skinned alive by a maniac, only that one shouldn't unless one has got a story worth telling that really requires such a thing.
Then again, as drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs once observed about nudity in B-movies, "It's absolutely essential to the plot because without the nudity, there wouldn't be much of a movie."
Scorpion13
12-09-2006, 02:08 PM
There's something about today's horror movies that I am not liking.
To me, they don't seem as interesting as the horror movies from the 70's / 80's. Someone did tell me that Scream was the scariest movie of all time ( whatever floats their boat ! )
I read one interesting rant about the person being annoyed at the fact that most horror movies now are PG-13.
What alot of people forget is that Scream actually was a pretty good horror movie with an interesting take and spin on the genre, and a whodunit mixed in for good measure.
Its the many, many imitators, all taking the self-referential, wink-wink attitude of the first one to astoundingly annoying and terrible heights that has soured people on the first one.
Buzz Dixon
12-09-2006, 02:50 PM
Speaking of G-rated horror films (weren't we? Well, we are now...), here's a trailer for one done by Disney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJBV9xUNig
(Apologies if this has been linked to in another thread.)
The origional Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The dude is just walking into the house, he hears some weird noises from the back room, goes to look, and BAM! Leatherface comes out of nowhere and beats him to death with a hammer.
God I love that scene.
Domo Goddess
12-09-2006, 05:16 PM
I finally watched Ghost Story today and it did have a few scares, but not as bad as I thought.
I saw the movie on Sci Fi a few years ago.
Cephus
12-09-2006, 05:22 PM
I think horror flicks from the 1970s put this generation to shame. They just had more atmosphere back then and were much more eerie and creepy.
It's because most modern horror films are just gore for the sake of gore, they're not scary, they're just gross. There's nothing particularly frightening about any of them, it's just buckets-o-blood thrown at the camera for no particular rhyme or reason.
It's because most modern horror films are just gore for the sake of gore, they're not scary, they're just gross. There's nothing particularly frightening about any of them, it's just buckets-o-blood thrown at the camera for no particular rhyme or reason.
Don't forget sex and nudity.:rolleyes:
Captain_Video
12-09-2006, 06:25 PM
Sex and Gore are a horror staple since Hammer, it is because they are really stupid that modern horror sucks.
But moving on....
Lon Chaney Jr's performance as The Wolf Man, in every one of his movie roles from the serious tragic tone of the first movie to Abbott and Costello's lampooning of the character is a whole pile of great moments, sadly the role would mirror a lot of Chaney's off screen turmoil.
"there is something so tragic about him ( Larry scores yet another girl ).
Also one of the most wonderful moments ever.
From King Kong.
"No, it wasn't the planes, was Beauty killed the Beast"
( Though I really did wish for one of the crowd to say "nah, it was the planes, I saw it Carl they shot him, shot him in the chest, till he died....died like a dog....Carl ? ....where are you going Carl ? )
Buzz Dixon
12-09-2006, 07:02 PM
I know when I mention silent films a lot of posters here will :rolleyes: but they really owe it to themselves to check out the films of Lon Chaney. They are weirder, sicker, and more twisted than anything Hollywood has produced in the last 60 years and they do it without graphic violence, nudity. and gore (but, oh, are they ever drenched in sex and sadism!).
Check these out the next time they play on TCM:
THE PENALTY
THE UNKNOWN
WEST OF ZANZIBAR
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED
THE UNHOLY THREE (silent version is best, but the sound remake has its moments)
Most of the above were made with director Todd Browning; he's also responsible for FREAKS.
Albert
12-09-2006, 07:13 PM
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED
THE UNHOLY THREE (silent version is best, but the sound remake has its moments)
I've seen these three (silent and talkie of Three, and yes the silent is far more unsettling). PBS had a great Cheney documentary on a while back as well. If memory serves, he was dying of lung cancer when remaking The Unholy Three, and passed soon afterwards.
Browning's Freaks definitely has some skin-crawling moments. The DVD has a great commentary track and featurette, detailing the biographical backgrounds of many of the "freaks"; many of them were sideshow legends in their day.
Royal
12-09-2006, 07:48 PM
??? I thought I SAW WHAT YOU DID (a great little comedy thriller, BTW) was produced by William Castle. It's the obverse of DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE; in it the baby sitters are the ones making random prank calls ("I know who you are and I saw what you did.") and one call is to a man who has just finished murdering his mistress.
d'oh! That's the one I ment.
Captain_Video
12-09-2006, 08:18 PM
I know when I mention silent films a lot of posters here will :rolleyes: but they really owe it to themselves to check out the films of Lon Chaney. They are weirder, sicker, and more twisted than anything Hollywood has produced in the last 60 years and they do it without graphic violence, nudity. and gore (but, oh, are they ever drenched in sex and sadism!).
Check these out the next time they play on TCM:
THE PENALTY
THE UNKNOWN
WEST OF ZANZIBAR
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED
THE UNHOLY THREE (silent version is best, but the sound remake has its moments)
Most of the above were made with director Todd Browning; he's also responsible for FREAKS.
On that note, almost all of Nosferatu is very creepy indeed, there is something about the jerky nature of early film matched with Max Shreck's creepy performance as Count Orlock that chills.
The specific moment is of course him ascending the stair case to the girls room, also when he is established and there is a shot of him staring into the camera creeps me out when I watch it alone.
Scorpion13
12-09-2006, 08:58 PM
On that note, almost all of Nosferatu is very creepy indeed, there is something about the jerky nature of early film matched with Max Shreck's creepy performance as Count Orlock that chills.
The specific moment is of course him ascending the stair case to the girls room, also when he is established and there is a shot of him staring into the camera creeps me out when I watch it alone.
The creepiest part for me was when he "stood up" out of the coffin on the ship.
Bar none, for me, no other part of that movie displays just how unearthly it is. He flips up slowly, eyes wide open, staring..
Domo Goddess
12-09-2006, 09:27 PM
The only creepy silent film era scene that comes to mind is the unmasking of the Phantom.
Buzz Dixon
12-09-2006, 10:44 PM
Next week (the 15th) TCM is running WEST OF ZANZIBAR and THE UNHOLY THREE in the Rob Zombie underground block. If you haven't seen these films, don't miss 'em.
(Double posted in case anybody skipped the "Rob Zombie" thread.)
Albert
12-09-2006, 10:53 PM
Cool, I haven't seen West of Zanzibar. While doing a little reading on it, I did turn up this interesting tidbit. Submitted for your approval...
A sequence planned for the original film had a sideshow tent advertising "The Human Duck," and Chaney made himself up as the half-man/half-duck. Stills of the sideshow tent and Chaney's makeup exist, but it is unclear whether the scene was actually shot, or merely planned and publicity stills taken. The original cutting continuity of the film does not contain the scene, so if it was shot, it was clearly removed before the original release. Browning decided to use the idea instead for his finale of the 1932 FREAKS, with Olga Baclanova as a deformed duck-woman, mutilated by the freaks.
TheLazy
12-09-2006, 11:52 PM
I can't believe no one's mentioned this
http://www.thecountymorgue.com/sitebuilder/images/wickerman-203x152.png
:)
Albert
12-10-2006, 01:14 AM
I can't believe no one's mentioned this
http://www.thecountymorgue.com/sitebuilder/images/wickerman-203x152.png
:)
That was the weirdest episode of The Equalizer ever.
Return of the Living Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iufu6jvmNc&mode=related&search=): The corpses rise as the poison rains down. Trash becomes a zombie after she dies from having her brains eaten & exposed to the rain...
Royal
12-11-2006, 09:19 AM
No love for Roland West's The Bat Whispers?
For Shame!!
Gavin Higginbotham, BotF
12-11-2006, 02:57 PM
The specific moment is of course him ascending the stair case to the girls room
I just think of the parody of that moment from THE FAST SHOW when I see that clip...
The scariest scene & most favorite is the opening in JAWS when Christine Watkins is the first victim of the shark as she is pulled under & never seen again until her remains are found the following morning...
I Must Break U
12-11-2006, 03:27 PM
The best moment for me comes from the only "horror" movie that i can always watch whenever it comes on and that is Child's Play.However they are not really monets but lines. I like in child's play( i can;'t remeber which one, when he say don't fuck, with the chuck!) And from child's play 2 i LOVE the part right before he kills andy's foster father, He say's " Hi phil, how's it hanging?"( the father was hanging upsode down from the steps and chucky was about to let him go and break his neck) the look on the father's face is classic!
Buzz Dixon
12-11-2006, 07:49 PM
You wanna see a classic look, take a gander at Lon Chaney's reaction when Lionel Barrymore stops laughing at the end of WEST OF ZANZIBAR when it plays on TCM Friday night.
Gargus
12-12-2006, 05:44 AM
I'm not sure about the title (It hink it was just called "Zombie" or something), but in one scene there was a rumble of a showdown between a zombie and a Great White Shark. That qualifies as "pretty sweet" in my book.:p
You sir are correct it was zombie.
Hell I dont know I have so many favorites.
The gut puking scene in gates of hell.
The scene with the body bag when nancy falls asleep in class after tina died.
The end of sleepaway camp.
The zombie trying to walk up the down escelator in dawn of the dead.
When the cadaver gets out of the freezer in return of the living dead.
When the guy on tvs head explodes in scanners.
The blood test scene in thing remake.
Last 15 minutes of day of triffids.
In demons where people in theater are watching the movie. And where the demons come up the stairs and their eyes reflecting. And when they get out of the place and you realise what has happened.
John Doe Jnr
12-12-2006, 07:52 PM
Dawn of the Dead when one of the character remarks "When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." that is such a great clip and it's believable with all that has been happening, that hell could fill up with sinners and God would be so angry to let them walk the earth.
Dawn of the Dead when one of the character remarks "When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." that is such a great clip and it's believable with all that has been happening, that hell could fill up with sinners and God would be so angry to let them walk the earth.
I've come to the conclusion that George Romero Zombies are a result of a his possible atheism. The zombies are the ultimate judgement for the people of Middle America. However, Romero could not be further from the truth. Hell already exists on Earth before the zombies showed up. And Heaven is made of virtually infinite dimensions. God is not a vengeful force either.
Many atheists are in charge in Hollywood; therefore, you see zombies come out every few years.
Indigo Al
12-13-2006, 10:34 AM
I've come to the conclusion that George Romero Zombies are a result of a his possible atheism. The zombies are the ultimate judgement for the people of Middle America. However, Romero could not be further from the truth. Hell already exists on Earth before the zombies showed up. And Heaven is made of virtually infinite dimensions. God is not a vengeful force either.
Many atheists are in charge in Hollywood; therefore, you see zombies come out every few years.
DDM, you are hilarious! :p
I don't think use of zombies is indicative of anyone's religious faith, though...it's merely one of many horror conventions to choose from.
Countless horror films have used Judeo-Christian tropes -- not every one of those filmmakers had to be Christians, though.
Ryan K
12-13-2006, 11:11 AM
I've come to the conclusion that George Romero Zombies are a result of a his possible atheism. The zombies are the ultimate judgement for the people of Middle America. However, Romero could not be further from the truth. Hell already exists on Earth before the zombies showed up. And Heaven is made of virtually infinite dimensions. God is not a vengeful force either.
Many atheists are in charge in Hollywood; therefore, you see zombies come out every few years.
So you've come to a possible conclusion from what you belive to be Romero's possible atheism and you think that conclusion is wrong. So you feel Romero is wrong.
What?
Isn't it more likely you've reached a wrong conclusion?
There's message in Romero's zombie films, but I think you've completely missed them and started plugging your own issues in there.
Buzz Dixon
12-13-2006, 11:59 AM
So you've come to a possible conclusion from what you belive to be Romero's possible atheism and you think that conclusion is wrong. So you feel Romero is wrong.
What?
Isn't it more likely you've reached a wrong conclusion?
There's message in Romero's zombie films, but I think you've completely missed them and started plugging your own issues in there.And that message is ya gotta shoot zombies in the head in ya wanna stop 'em...
Dreadstar
12-13-2006, 12:06 PM
And that message is ya gotta shoot zombies in the head in ya wanna stop 'em...
Unless they're the O'Bannon zombies, then you're fucked.
Buzz Dixon
12-13-2006, 12:13 PM
Peter Jackson's zombies in DEAD ALIVE are the worse: You can run 'em through a cuisinart and it won't slow 'em down.
Cephus
12-13-2006, 12:38 PM
Peter Jackson's zombies in DEAD ALIVE are the worse: You can run 'em through a cuisinart and it won't slow 'em down.
But if you use a lawnmower... ;)
Buzz Dixon
12-13-2006, 05:40 PM
But if you use a lawnmower... ;)...they jes' reassemble into one big one. SPOILER WARNING
Royal
12-13-2006, 05:57 PM
All of Juan López Moctezuma's Alucarda
Domo Goddess
12-18-2006, 09:35 PM
One of the most revolting scenes in Sleepaway Camp 2 was when ( I forget her name ) gets shoved into a toilet with leeches.
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