quinch on 13/7/2010 at 15:24
In a similar vein (I think), I hope to eventually get round to watching Fritz Lang's 'M' starring Peter Lorre.
EDIT: (
http://www.archive.org/details/M_) The complete film is available online
suliman on 13/7/2010 at 17:22
Hour of the wolves, Ingmar Bergman. Actually caught me off-guard by just how freaky it was. Diabolique was also pretty awesome.
BrokenArts on 13/7/2010 at 17:33
Ohh some good recommendation, thanks peeps. :cool:
fett on 13/7/2010 at 20:12
Yeah, I'm wanting to watch all of these. A genre I've not had much exposure too, be averse to horror in general, but I really like dark, creepy stuff. The Innocents looks right up my alley.
Sombras on 13/7/2010 at 20:21
Sorry if this has already been mentioned: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956):
The trailer is cheesy as hell, but it's a classic in Cold War-era sci-fi horror.
[video]http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3014131993/[/video]
Enchantermon on 13/7/2010 at 20:23
Taking into account that I had never seen a black and white horror film before, I saw (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055505/) Scream of Fear back in 2003 and thought it was pretty good, and I don't even really like horror films.
Though it also gets bonus points because it made a girl cling to my arm the entire time. :cool:
Sulphur on 13/7/2010 at 20:34
Lotsa real shitty movies can do that too, mang. Hell, I had a girl cling to my arm when we went for Vacancy. Vacancy! Woman nearly buried her nails in my palm. Same thing happened for 28 Weeks Later.
Bonus points for 'em being different girls each time though. For me, that is. :cool:
Also: thread needs more Nosferatu.
Enchantermon on 13/7/2010 at 21:13
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Lotsa real shitty movies can do that too, mang.
I don't doubt it. But even taking her out of the equation, I recall it being a good movie. I want to see it again; seven years has been too long.
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Woman nearly buried her nails in my palm.
Nice. I had nail indentations in my arm afterwards and they were all red the next day. Oddly enough, I didn't really mind. :)
Kolya on 14/7/2010 at 00:01
This is sounding more and more like an episode of Big Bang Theory...
Sombras, Demagogue mentioned a 1945 film named The Body Snatcher. I haven't seen either. Is the latter a remake?
And I found the Ingmar Bergman film, it's actually called "The Hour of the Wolf" (1968) ((
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063759/) imdb). Looks very interesting.
Muzman on 14/7/2010 at 03:45
Ah, I knew Bergman did one. I couldn't remember which one it was. Cheers.
Couple more.
(
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/) Carnival of Souls (1962)
A young woman tries to get on with life after being in a terrible car accident that kills all her friends. She moves to another town and takes a job as a church organist, but she suffers from flashbacks and increasingly unpleasent halucinations. She goes into therapy to figure out if she's going mad and understand why she feels drawn to the abandoned theme park down the road.
This one's a fairly famous cheapie. It suffers from the fact that you pretty much know the story already thanks to it appearing in various forms before and since. So it's not really scary. But it manages to be memorably spooky. The low budget is masked with atmosphere and good use of locations and some surrealist florishes.
Inline Image:
http://static.open.salon.com/files/carnival-of-souls.jpg(
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/) The Woman in Black (1989)
Cheating somewhat (hey it's got black in the title at least), this is worth a mention. A young solicitor is sent to settle an old estate. When he hits the nearby town he gets a hint of its dark history. The towns folk are unhelpful and live in thrall of the old place and there's this woman in widow's weeds who appears in the distance who none of the townsfolk ever acknowledge. He decides to check out the estate's story more closely by paying it a visit and auding the papers properly.
The place is in an estuary marsh, only accessable at low tide and no coachman will stay longer than a few minutes. To do his work he must spend the night.
Yeah, this one's got it all. It sounds potentially cheesy but amazingly it isn't (at least as far as my remember). I don't want to build it up too much and it was a long time ago I saw it, but to date nothing has scared me as much as this show. That cold dread that stays with you for weeks afterwards, has you checking out every dark shape in the corner of your eye. Oh I built it up too much. Never mind.
Inline Image:
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/images/TVH_Thumbs/ffw09/thewomaninblack.jpg