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I rather like "Carnival of Souls"...

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I rather like "Carnival of Souls" (1962)

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I'll also put in a word for The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, a midly macabre thriller from 1976, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen. A mostly-forgotten entry into the "bad seed" genre, which manages to touch on issues of class and racism. I was able to watch it on You Tube about a year ago.

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I would also recommend 'Jacob's Ladder' about a Vietnam vet after he has returned to the US.

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The Haunting, the original, not the Catherine Zeta Jones monstrosity. Practically gore-free, but amazing use of sound. Watch with the lights off for the full effect.

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But I have friends/family members who really get into them, and I find myself wondering if torture-porn films don't actually appeal to the same part of the human psyche to which, in times past, Roman gladiator fights and wild-beast spectacles appealed?

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Originally posted by Bene Gesserit:
There was one horror moment that did scare the bejaysus out of me - in the original Ring (The Japanese one, not the US remake), there is a moment when Sadako comes crawling out of a television screen and it is properly scary.

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There was one horror moment that did scare the bejaysus out of me - in the original Ring (The Japanese one, not the US remake), there is a moment when Sadako comes crawling out of a television screen and it is properly scary.

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I saw this on tv, preceded by an introduction explaining how unique and unexpectedness the imagery was, illustrated with a clip of this scene. A very good film, but that took the edge off slightly.

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Back to overlooked, though--Interesting one called dSession 9, an indie America film with a decent cast that revolves around the creepy encounters experienced by a Hazmat team clearing an abandoned mental hospital. The plot is not the world's most original, but the atmosphere is just painfully anticipatory and nerve-wracking

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
(Speaking of anthology-- I really have a weird affection for those Amicus anthology flicks. Am I the only one?)

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And am gonna put a big thumbs up for Ginger Snaps(Canada). which has the look of a teen horror flick, but turns the whole genre on its head. Ginger is teen who has an unusually strong bond with her younger sister who finds herself bitten by a werewolf. This corresponds with her first menstrual period. The full moon, you know?

Actually the menarche bit signals the real theme of the movie-- which-is, how girls come into their sexuality. The changes in appearance( there is a moving scene in which Ginger is discovered by her sister, sobbing in the bathroom, trying to shave stiff wolf hair off her legs-- that whole idea of all those changes happening to a teen girl at once, and the desperate attempts to stay on top of them) the physical pain of change, virginity, loss of virginity, desire versus control.It manages to be tongue-in-cheek, thought-provoking, and really freaking scary all at once.

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Back to overlooked, though--Interesting one called dSession 9, an indie America film with a decent cast that revolves around the creepy encounters experienced by a Hazmat team clearing an abandoned mental hospital. The plot is not the world's most original, but the atmosphere is just painfully anticipatory and nerve-wracking

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That film, for me, kinda signposts the end of an era. Near the beginning, one of the workers says to another: "Back in the 90s, psychiatrists believed in something called repressed memory".

So within the period encompassing my young-adulthood, repressed-memory had gone from being something that was talked about as a proven fact, to something used as an example of "discredited folk belief" for purposes of horror-film plot development.

Though I seem to recall(it's been a long time since I've seen it) that the storyline eventually vindicates the belief in repressed memory.

The director of that film, Brad Anderson, went on to do The Machinist, another film dealing with questionable memory. Not exactly overlooked(in fact I think it got a lot of press), but highly recommended.

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(More spoilers) I thought the film vindicated the belief in possession [GORDON.] (My take is the director was trying to be responsible by bringing up false memory syndrome, but we were to understand something much weirder than "repressed memory" was going on.) I've never seen the Machinist, though-- now I want to, knowing it's from the same director. Interesting catch on the memory thing.

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(Speaking of anthology-- I really have a weird affection for those Amicus anthology flicks. Am I the only one?)

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Nope. I love 'em. In fact, I'm one of those annoying people who, if someone is enthusing about something they assume to be a "Hammer" movie, will put on my best offended voice and say, "It's an Amicus, actually."

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I actually started to type "Hammer", then caught myself. I thought I remembered "Shepperfield Studios" and looked it all up. "Oh, yeah-- Amicus."

Every time I see that cheesy blood that looks like something you'd paint a stop sign with, a tear of nostalgia comes to my eye.

Kel// remember their version of "The Monkey's Paw"? Sigh.

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Kel// remember their version of "The Monkey's Paw"? Sigh.

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I particularly remember camera shots taken as if from inside the skull, looking out through the eye sockets.

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Does anyone recall a 1957 film 'The Creeping Unknown' based on and alternatively named 'The Quatermass Experiment'? The horror was suggested rather than blatant. I managed to track it down in DVD but some clown has edited out most of the cogent shots.

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Gatiss is superb - really knows his subject, and approaches it with a sort of boyish glee. Interestingly, he stopped his History of Horror with the first Hallowe'en movie, because he said after that, gore got boring.

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That said, my favorite entry in the genre was A Tale Of Two Sisters, from South Korea. If you liked The Ring and its various satellites, and you're really wowed by Freudian motifs in horror films, you might wanna check this one out.

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Korean horror is superb. Check out the Wig(South Korea, also) sometime, too. Same thing-- it's deliberately tropy, but then it takes those tropes and just hones them razor sharp.


This is a good time to bring up Shadows in the Palace(South Korea, again)-- a costume drama set in feudal Korea, revolving around the declared suicide/ suspected murder of a concubine in the expansive, village-like women's quarters. Magnificent examination of the hierarchical issues at the time. It's more of a thriller, actually but there's a supernatural subplot that weaves in and out of the proceedings. Park Jin-Hee absolutely owns the screen in the lead role, as the royal physician to the concubines. You can't take your eyes off her.

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I certainly agree about "Duel". What makes it frightening is the utter plausibility of the premise. To be truly frightening, a situation has to be something you can readily imagine happening in your own life.

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There was one horror moment that did scare the bejaysus out of me - in the original Ring (The Japanese one, not the US remake), there is a moment when Sadako comes crawling out of a television screen and it is properly scary.

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If you liked The Ring, try 'Audition' it is a Japanese horror that had my friend and I shrieking in unison, clutching each other. It is pretty gruesome though, I normally go for more atmospheric horror, but the audition is pretty visceral in parts. It isn't torture porn, however, leaving most of the horror to your imagination.

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Not that it's of utmost importance, but, just for historical interest, has anyone mentioned that Duel was directed by Steven Spielberg?

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One which isn't quite overlooked, but which I think isn't celebrated as much as it should be, is the 1957 Night of the Demon (Curse of the Demon in the USA). It's based on M.R.James's short story Casting the Runes.

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[tangent]Re: Duel. The author Richard Matheson, who wrote Duel, has written so many good stories, subsequently turned into cracking horror films: Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone with the demon on the plane wing), althought I'm still waiting for a good version of I Am Legend. I don't think he gets the credit he deserves for his incredible CV. [/tangent]

I love Ginger Snaps, especially the Mimi Rodgers mother character who takes her daughter's lyncanthropy in her stride, but beware the sequels .

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Sir Kev - you may care to revise that - she was only 13 years old when that film was made.

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I certainly agree about "Duel". What makes it frightening is the utter plausibility of the premise. To be truly frightening, a situation has to be something you can readily imagine happening in your own life.

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