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I can only imagine what it must have been like to obtain a copy of a horror movie that would literally get you thrown in jail for having it. What a loving rush. (not that I'd ever trade the US's values of freedom of expression for anything)
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I remember the whole Faces of Death thing when I was a kid (I mean, the 90s, not '78). It was the US, not the UK, but it was still this taboo thing you had to like get a tape from some dealer you found in the back of a magazine or on some newsgroup if you were one of the few who had and understood the internet or go to some seedy shop to find amongst the hosed up porn. It was always the "kind of horror fan" I specifically wanted to assure people I wasn't. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Faces of Death was at my Family Video on VHS. But they wouldn't carry porn.
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Faces of Death was also a big deal on early P2P networks at the time though a lot of times it was a subtitle for stuff you'd find on LiveLeak today.Spatulater bro! posted:Also from the OP: https://letterboxd.com/thenomad/list/video-nasties-vn1-the-72-banned-films-in/ I'm being That Guy but the Challenge was one of the 72 on the list and this is the list. So I would think you can throw a dart at this board and whatever it lands on will count even if it is Faces of Death. But there are some notable horror titles on there like Zombi 2, Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on Your Grave and even the original Evil Dead. Justin Godscock fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Franchescanado posted:
You loving had to do this the day after I watch The Slayer, didn't you? Anyway, my Birth of Horror entry: 14) Dark Star (1974)  Strictly speaking this is a sci-fi movie, but so is The Thing From Another World. The first two acts are half comedy and half a study in confinement, but they set up the end well. Once the fear and tension starts in the last 20 minutes it's relentless. Doolittle's conversation with his dead commander is pretty drat creepy as well. You can see in it the seeds of all Carpenter's future movies, both horror and non-horror.
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FRAN CHALLENGE #6: Video Nasties
Watch a Video Nasty*
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STAC Goat posted:I remember the whole Faces of Death thing when I was a kid (I mean, the 90s, not '78). It was the US, not the UK, but it was still this taboo thing you had to like get a tape from some dealer you found in the back of a magazine or on some newsgroup if you were one of the few who had and understood the internet or go to some seedy shop to find amongst the hosed up porn. All the cool kids in the 90s were simply shown Faces of Death by their friend’s weird uncle with very little explanation.
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Spatulater bro! posted:I can only imagine what it must have been like to obtain a copy of a horror movie that would literally get you thrown in jail for having it. What a loving rush. Yeah but then the movie sucks
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I had Driller Killer on my list already anyway since I saw the poster while I was browsing through Tubi and the tagline of "THERE ARE THOSE WHO KILL VIOLENTLY!" made me laugh, so that's convenient!
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Guy Goodbody posted:Yeah but then the movie sucks Some of them are good 
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Bruteman posted:Linnea Quigley does the virgin dance of the double chainsaws! I don't think it beats her Return of the Living Dead dance scene, but it's still funny. While I'm glad they were concerned for Linnea's safety, it was hilarious watching her dance daintily around with two chainsaws that weren't even on while they ADR'd some chainsaw revving noises. Franchescanado posted:
Fine, I'll buy Anthropophagous on blu ray. This Halloween season's gonna get real expensive if you keep this up. ...nah just kidding I'll be watching Bloody Moon because it was literally on-deck to be watched this month anyways 
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 #10 From Beyond (1986) Director & Cast Commentary "It ate him... bit off his head... like a gingerbread man!" This movie fuckin' rules. It's easily my favorite Stuart Gordon horror movie and I like all of them. It's campy as hell, absolutely nuts, it gets into my favorite genre (trashy Cthulhu horror), and it's another great 80's example of practical effects outlasting CG. It does a lot with its tiny budget. This is one of the movies that inspired me to write an entire game about this sort of thing. It's part of my movie-going DNA. The commentary is a refreshing change because it is down to earth and not pretentious in the least. Jeffrey Combs is almost MST3King it--clearly he does not consider it his best work. It was made in Italy, with quite a few Italians in the minor parts who couldn't speak a lick of English. For the most part it runs like a stage play, allowing you to focus on the ridiculous performances. A companion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPeMftLe_o 
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Taking a pause in my going by the decades viewings to catch up on Fran challenges.Franchescanado posted:
 103- The Keep 1983 - PRIME The book this is based on is very good. Granted I read it before Wilson made it some shared universe thing so I don't know if any changes got made down the road. It practically begged to be made into a movie with the invading Nazis occupying a strange castle during World War II and they disturb something long buried. When I heard it was going to be made into a movie, I couldn't wait to see it. When I saw it, yeah, could've waited. The core elements of the book are there, the strange castle, the Nazis, the Jewish professor they conscript to solve what's going on, the arrival of a mysterious stranger, but the rest and the execution fall flat. Granted that when adapting a book to movie, some things are just unfilmable, kinda like with Stephen King's works because so much is in internal thought, the points between good and evil are just handled too vague. Even excusing the state of effects at the time, the big evil, Molasar looks like a lumpy clay model when he's supposed to be the being our concept of charismatic vampires comes from. About the only good in this is the actors doing a great job with what they had and the Tangerine Dream soundtrack's good even if it's a bit of an unusual choice for a film set in World War II. Michael Mann's a good director, but I honestly don't know what the hell he was thinking with this one. While it's been said this film was so bad it sent Mann to doing TV work, it's definitely bad but not THAT bad. If there's ever a film in need of a remake, it's this one with what effects technology is currently. Franchescanado posted:
 104- Nightmare in wax 1969 - YOUTUBE Who would've thought my birth year was pretty sucky for horror film releases. Seriously, just a year before or after and I'd have some serious options to pick from. So here we have a variant on the House of Wax story. Instead of the wronged wax artist filling his museum with his murdered victims, we have a makeup artist disfigured in a questionable accident who gets revenge against the studio he worked for by abducting their top stars and making them exhibits through a combination of hypnosis and a serum. While not being particularly bad, it's not particualarly good either. Franchescanado posted:
 105- Faces of Death 1978 - DVD Number 19 on the Video Nasty list. This was a Section 1 Prosecuted film. Gonna start this with a personal story. Back when I was in High School in the 80s, there were two films with the reputation of being the ultimate in out there to be seen. The porn film Taboo (OMG it's got family having sex with each other!?!), and Faces of Death (OMG it shows real people dying in it!!). Bootleg copies made from other bootlegs circulated around in secret with limited chances to watch them before getting passed on to others. Of course with my luck, I had two friends who snagged copies and both were doing a 'pack everyone in the house since the parents are out' byob viewing on the same night. So, when it came down to choosing, I went with this one. I think it was something like fifteen people crammed in a basement that only had room for barely half that with all the storage boxes around, all watching what had to be a fifth or more generation VHS bootleg. I don't know if it was the build up we all had in our minds about it at the time, or the shared group experience thing, or even the fact it was a pretty fuzzy copy and our minds were imagining what we were seeing in a sharper image, but it really felt like we were really sitting through something forbidden. Years later I did eventually sit through an original copy and did pick up an anniversary edition with an attached documentary. The film's a mix of real footage and recreated, and some (self included) have made it a drinking game of spot which is what footage. From what the director says, they started with a box of footage discarded by the news outlets for being unsuitable for broadcast. They edited them together and showed them to thier backers who loved what they had but wanted them to show more gruesome stuff. Not quite sure how much more gruesome the backers were thinking, they got some people together and did their best to match what footage they had with some gory effects. The backers loved this and wanted even more gore put in. So they went back and filmed new scenes like the hippy cult and the monkey dining. Needless to say the backers adored this and film history was made. You can pretty much tell what's real and what's added. Things like the morgue shots are real, the cyclist accident, real, animal cruelty's..um...yeah. The electrocution, hippy cult cannibals and the monkey being eaten are all fake. With the advent of the Internet, this has practically become a quaint relic when we've seen things like Rotten.com, Ogrish, Liveleak,and steakandcheese. Faces of Death inspired a bunch of imitators, main one being Traces of Death which did feature more real death footage including Bud Dwyer's suicide. This film did eventually get released in the UK in 2003 after some cuts to the animal cruelty segments.
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Franchescanado posted:
You son of a... Last year I used the Nasties as a clearing house for my challenge list. I've already watched all 72! I've even given a talk on the subject at conventions. Unless you will allow one of the 83 "Section 3" films, I've failed this one.
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Choco1980 posted:You son of a... You specifically can have this exception, since I knew there'd be an issue for you with this challenge before posting it.
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Franchescanado posted:
You know, after the previous two challenges involving personal information, I figured this one would be "Watch a movie involving the last four digits of your social security number," or "Watch a movie with someone that has your mother's maiden name."
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Random Stranger posted:You know, after the previous two challenges involving personal information, I figured this one would be "Watch a movie involving the last four digits of your social security number," or "Watch a movie with someone that has your mother's maiden name." Those are next week's challenges. Also, "Watch a movie that includes where you bank at."
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"Change your facebook password to the name of a horror movie and watch that movie"
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Bumping this so one of you will help declutter my movie case.Butch Cassidy posted:
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King Vidiot posted:While I'm glad they were concerned for Linnea's safety, it was hilarious watching her dance daintily around with two chainsaws that weren't even on while they ADR'd some chainsaw revving noises. On the subject of expenses during this, Arrow Video is doing a digital sale on the iTunes Store. $0.99 rentals and $3.99 purchases. The selection will change weekly: https://arrowfilms.com/news/arrow-video-itunes-shocktober-sale/
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Here is an IMDb list of the The 72 Video Nasties . Maybe letterboxd does too, but you can sort by rating or several others ways there It looks like The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) is the my highest rated unseen movie and it's on YT in acceptable quality Tubi TV recently added Anthropophagus under the title The Grim Reaper if anyone wanted to tackle that one
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Butch Cassidy posted:
So I saw I Bury the Living years ago, and yeah, it was part of my horror movie pack. It is legit great and you guys should give it a look.
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Dr.Caligari posted:
Hopefully it's not that cut of it that removes the most memorable scene.
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7. October 5 - The Nightmare  The synopsis sounded promising, but this movie is mostly boring, and the weird stuff isn't engaging enough to justify the runtime. It felt like somebody put E.T., Raw, Colossal, and Donnie Darko in a blender; a potentially interesting combination, but it comes out as a tasteless brown sludge. The creature is cool, there's lots of red and blue, wayyyy too many strobe lights, some interesting, voyeuristic handheld camera work, but it's mostly a big plodding bore.
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Franchescanado posted:
Dang, I wish this had popped up in the May challenge! I've seen something like 25+ video nasties this year and I've watched three documentaries about them. The major ones I haven't seen are The Burning and Alice Sweet Alice, so I guess I'll have to track one of them down.
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Is there some rule that we can't watch movies we've already seen? Or is that just some personal thing that some posters are abiding by? Because I already kinda broke that rule, several times.
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King Vidiot posted:Is there some rule that we can't watch movies we've already seen? Or is that just some personal thing that some posters are abiding by? Nah, it's a self-imposed rule. Otherwise some of us probably wouldn't be able to participate.
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King Vidiot posted:Is there some rule that we can't watch movies we've already seen? Or is that just some personal thing that some posters are abiding by? Nope, one of Fran's challenges is to rewatch something. Some people just like to only watch new things as part of their challenge. CRAYON fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Oct 6, 2018 |
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 17)Jigsaw I've got a bit of a soft spot for the Saw movies. Very few of them are good, but they're all varying degrees of entertaining. This one is particularly silly. From the hot nurse jigsaw fanatic to the guy who makes obnoxious snarky comments all the time, and the even more convolouted planning. still entertaining though, and certainly not the worst saw movie 3/5 Also here's a good video series that's going through all the video nasties. IT's from the guy who does Chrontendo, so the quality is great, but the output is super slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZNIpm3mCdk Ambitious Spider fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Oct 6, 2018 |
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16. Halloween (1978) This film is straight up masterful. Like, I knew it would be good, but I didn't expect how good it was. Every aspect of it is incredible, from the score to the cinematography to the script. The characters are all genuinely likable; they feel like real people whose lives suddenly get thrown into chaos with the arrival of Michael Myers as opposed to caricatures of convenience. Special mention goes to Nancy Loomis, who might be my favorite horror movie best friend in this Challenge and Donald Pleasance, who acts his loving rear end off in every scene he's in. The creepiest moments in this movie aren't even the kills! It's every single scene of Michael stalking Laurie around Haddonfield in the daytime. His presence is so goddamned eerie that it sets the tone for everything else that's to come. Physical acting rarely gets the credit it deserves and Nick Castle should have been paid a lot more than the alleged $25 a day he was getting. gently caress, I can't believe it took me this long to see this movie.
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man, actually looking at the Video Nasty list, a lot of these movies seem really, really random. like, I legitimately have no clue what Possession is doing there; it's not super graphically violent or sexually explicit (it is both, but not to the level of basically anything else on the list) and it's a straight-up arthouse movie by a well-regarded director with a pretty decently well-known cast. and like, I at least understand how Driller Killer ended up on the list (media furor over the VHS cover with the guy getting a drill to the forehead), but... i kinda gather that nobody actually watched the movie, or they would have been very confused as to why they should be outraged by it.
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 Night of the Creeps, 1986 Someone earlier in the thread gave this one less than a favorable review and I don't get it. This movie is pretty fun and everything you want from 80s horror. There's blood, gore, zombies, heads exploding, tits and like in a fuckton of 80s horror, it's retro 50s with the monster being some thing from space. Some kind of goo crashes on earth on 1959 and infects a guy (while his girlfriend gets hacked to pieces by an escaped lunatic), flash forwards to 1986, and some loser college students finds the infected body frozen in a lab in a basement. They unleash the black slugs living in the corpse's head when they unfreeze him and the slugs infects both humans and animals by jumping into their mouths, turning them into zombies. I really don't get whats not to like about this movie. It's good 80s cheese to drink beer to and I see a lot of similarities with this and Peter Jackson's Braindead/Dead Alive that came much later, including a lawnmower kill and the house where the main attack is happening burning down at the end. It got everything going for it when it comes to this kind of 80s horror. Is it as good as some other fun horror films full of gore? No, but it's good enough. While I can watch classics like Braindead and Evil Dead 2 over and over again, it's nice to have some variation, and Night of the Creeps definitely gets on the list of fun horror for drunken nights.
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So I finished the 1st of the last 2 discs in my horror pack, time for the final one! 7 Terror Creatures from the Grave - 1965 This is an American and Italian co-production and stars Barbara Steele. A lawyer comes to a manor that was built a medieval hospital for plague victims at the request of the owner, who died nearly a year earlier. This doctor liked dabbling in the occult. Some of the medieval villagers actually liked spreading the plague themselves, and they are buried outside in unconsecrated ground. The doctor resurrects them to take revenge on his cheating wife and the people who killed him. For some reason the plague zombies, which are never directly shown on screen, are weak to pure water, so while they end up killing the wife and her co-conspirators, they are defeated by the rain that falls in the final shot, leaving the doctor’s daughter and the lawyer alive. Not super terrible, but also not super great, mostly just forgettable.
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23 I went into this with low expectations, just throwing something on to kill some time with the boy, but this owns so much. KISS all go by their stage names, and are in fact aliens with super powers who have opened a new theme park; A witch shows up so the gang comes to help. Penny and Gerry Marshall both have roles for some reason. Daphne tries to bone Paul Stanley. All the alien stuff is heavily Jack Kirby inspired. It just gets progressively crazier and does not give a gently caress at all and it works. Of course there winds up being a rational explanation for everything and Shaggy hallucinationed most of the weird poo poo, but it's a better movie if you turn it off at the concert scene Opopanax fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Oct 6, 2018 |
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CRAYON posted:Nope, one of Fran's challenges is to rewatch something. Some people just like to only watch new things as part of their challenge. Yeah, watching only new movies is a fun way to explore some stuff even though for a lot of us it means watching a lot of garbage since we've seen so many of the great movies. Speaking of which... Day 5 - DeepStar Six  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pouTM3jqZCM Ah, DeepStar Six, perpetual dweller in low rent video stores everywhere. I remember seeing that VHS box so many times. Never bothered with it, though. I was curious about it but I had a suspicion it would be pretty lovely. But there it was for streaming and I thought, "Hey maybe it'll be some cheesy fun." No, it wasn't. The world's most incompetent naval crew at an undersea base decides to blow some stuff up for no good reason and let a monster out. The monster smashes their submersibles up and then runs away to not actually get involved in the plot until an hour and ten minutes in. Instead accidents and incompetence picks off the crew one by one until they escape. The best thing about this movie is that there's a pretty good death for someone who heads to the surface without decompressing first. The makeup effects look good and it's shot decently so it feels like it came from a completely different movie. Everything else, however... I seriously spent over the first hour wondering if I could really call DeepStar Six a horror movie. There was an offscreen monster that collided with things and shook some stuff up, but the conflicts were all about surviving in a failing underwater base. Then the monster shows up but the completely goofy crab monster isn't really a significant threat compared to everything else. Still, it has a monster attack so I guess DeepStar Six is safely horror. At the beginning, the crew blow up a cavern despite the fact that there's a dozen legitimately solid reasons beyond "You might let a monster out" not to do that. I kept going, "Why don't they have any procedures for dealing with anything?" I'm sure there would be a procedure about not putting nuclear missiles on places that can't support them and procedure about actually knowing the scale and shape of a cavern you're going to be blowing up under your feet. Then someone blows up those missiles because they were "just following procedure!" and it's a bad thing that procedure was being followed. It threw me for a loop to have my complaint about the movie thrown back at me. I wasn't expecting a whole lot from DeepStar Six but it failed to clear that low bar. It's far from the worst movie I've ever seen, but it is almost completely forgettable. I doubt I'll be able to tell you a single significant thing about the movie beyond the guy exploding and crab monster by this time tomorrow.
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Random Stranger posted:Day 5 - DeepStar Six This is why, if you're going to watch a 1989 underwater horror movie, you should go for the one with Robocop and Richard Crenna in it instead of the one with nobody in it.
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 18)butter on the latch Definitely a disorienting view, but worth it if you like things on the artier side. 3/5
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Do anyone got a link to all the previous marathon threads? Forum search isn't that helpful.
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My favorite part about this movie is that KISS did the Ascot Five song that Fred listens to in the beginning.
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Hot Dog Day #89 posted:Do anyone got a link to all the previous marathon threads? Forum search isn't that helpful. 2017: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3834342 2016: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3790802 2015: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3744557 2014: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3669007 I don't know where the 2013 thread is and I think that was the first one.
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Random Stranger posted:2017: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3834342 Funny, the first three threads only consist of about 20 pages, and last year's has 49. But our current one is already at 33 and it's only October 5th! This is becoming a big deal.
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