Dario Argento and others thrillers/horror movies directors

[Whirlwind]

OK, folks, here's a guilty pleasure low grade horror film that maybe some of you have seen. Take THE EXORCIST and JAWS and mix them together and you get....

THE CAR



This film might just be the top so-bad-it's-good movie ever made. The almighty Satan comes back to Earth...as a 1971 Lincoln Continental! Now how can you not love that? 

[Ghosttrain]

If you like that try ''Rubber'' a film about a tyre /tire that kills people.........i kid you not,so awfully bad  ..

[Guillaume]

"Rubber" was terrible in my opinion, at least the plot was so thin, that it should have been a short, not a full length movie.

And i quite like "The Car"!! 
ok the story is a bit silly, like a tired rehash of "Jaws" and "Duel" but the widescreen cinematography and the western locations are nice, and there are some cool effective scenes here and there (the opening or SPOILER!!! the wife in her house meeting a nasty fate...)   

[cthulhu]

If you like that try ''Rubber'' a film about a tyre /tire that kills people.........i kid you not,so awfully bad  ..

Whaaaat? I love that movie! Really!! Got it on dvd and blu and after that i just went for everything by Quentin Dupieux. Rubber is about expectations and reason and is just a surreal and a little dadaistic wonderful picture.

The movie begins with this scene:

In the far distance a car comes from the left and slowly slaloms towards the viewer. A beautiful shot with lots of depth of field and a very nice focus, and after the car stops, a man gets out of the trunk, with a glas of water in his hands and talks directly into camera and to the viewer:

Lieutenant Chad:
In the Steven Spielberg movie "E.T.," why is the alien brown? No reason.
In "Love Story," why do the two characters fall madly in love with each other? No reason.
In Oliver Stone's "JFK," why is the President suddenly assassinated by some stranger? No reason.
In the excellent "Chain Saw Massacre" by Tobe Hooper, why don't we ever see the characters go to the bathroom or wash their hands like people do in real life? Absolutely no reason.
Worse, in "The Pianist" by Polanski, how come this guy has to hide and live like a bum when he plays the piano so well?
Once again the answer is, no reason.
I could go on for hours with more examples. The list is endless.
You probably never gave it a thought, but all great films, without exception, contain an important element of no reason.
And you know why? Because life itself is filled with no reason.
Why can't we see the air all around us? No reason.
Why are we always thinking? No reason.
Why do some people love sausages and other people hate sausages? No fuckin' reason.

Cop Xavier: [honks the horn]
Come on! Don't waste your time explaining that garbage. Let's go!

Lieutenant Chad:
Just a minute. Let me finish.
[looks back at the audience]

Lieutenant Chad:
Ladies, gentlemen, the film you are about to see today is an homage to the "no reason" - that most powerful element of style.
[pours his glass of water on the ground before getting back into the trunk of the police car]

There is also a group of people in the desert, who watch the story of the movie going on...

Well, i just love this kind of surreal, bizarre and creative art. You have to let loose your expectations and your pre-visions of a linear story-telling and just go with the flow...

There is a special on my edition, an interview with Quentin Dupieux. I think it runs just under 20 min. But his answers are filmed backwards and Dupieux talks to a plastic sexdoll.

That's funny!


And yeah, The Car looks great!

[Ghosttrain]

Only said it was awfully bad........not that i did'nt like it, i also have it on DVD.... ..Love it....

[Whirlwind]

If you like that try ''Rubber'' a film about a tyre /tire that kills people.........i kid you not,so awfully bad  ..

Yeah, I saw "Rubber." Not all of it, but enough so I got the picture. It was odd and thus interesting.


 

And i quite like "The Car"!! 
ok the story is a bit silly, like a tired rehash of "Jaws" and "Duel" but the widescreen cinematography and the western locations are nice, and there are some cool effective scenes here and there

You are right, the cinematography is quite good. That vast expanse of desert is really captured well.

"The Car" also has a top score by a top film composer Leonard Rosenman. And how can we not mention the film's great sound effect: the car's honking. I love that.

[Guillaume]

"The Car" also has a top score by a top film composer Leonard Rosenman. And how can we not mention the film's great sound effect: the car's honking. I love that.

Indeed! If i remember well a track was even used at the beginning of "The shining".

[cthulhu]

Only said it was awfully bad........not that i did'nt like it, i also have it on DVD.... ..Love it....

Aha! Now i see!;-)  I also could say that i love bad movies, but "awfully bad", that tricked me...;-)
When you also love Rubber, than you could and should try his other Movies: Wrong (kind of a drama about a lost dog, but it's Dupieux and it's Wrong!) Wrong Cops (a crazy comedy about a drug selling Cop and a cops who makes music and other stuff, with Marilyn Manson playing a 15year old) and Reality ("A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.")

And here is Quentin Dupieux making music:
Mr. Oizo

[Ghosttrain]

Without doubt the greatest so bad it's good film has to be (imho) ''Plan 9 From Outer Space''.....shaky props,appalling special effects (car hub caps as flying saucers anyone)  ...main star dying during filming not enough money to re-film his bits so use another actor to replace him so we only see the back of him,i could go on but i am sure many of you will have watched it to know these things.... ...

[Master Ray]

Without doubt the greatest so bad it's good film has to be (imho) ''Plan 9 From Outer Space''.....shaky props,appalling special effects (car hub caps as flying saucers anyone)  ...main star dying during filming not enough money to re-film his bits so use another actor to replace him so we only see the back of him,i could go on but i am sure many of you will have watched it to know these things.... ...

Yeah, Ed Wood at his 'finest'.... and wasn't the man he hired to replace Bela Lugosi his dentist?

Just in case anyone hasn't seen it, Tim Burton's biopic about Ed Wood is excellent, probably his best film...

[Whirlwind]

"The Car" also has a top score by a top film composer Leonard Rosenman.

Indeed! If i remember well a track was even used at the beginning of "The shining".

Well, THE CAR wasn't the first to use it. It's a 13th century Gregorian Chant called the "Dies Irae." It's used in a ton of movies, going back to METROPOLIS from the 1920s. It is used a lot now, but, yeah, THE CAR definitely was an early film that made use of it. It definitely makes an impression in that film and does tie that music to Satan. Clearly, though, THE SHINING is what really made "Dies Irae" famous for filmgoers. All we are seeing in the opening credits is a car travelling through Colorado landscapes, but those credits are creepy as hell.  It's the "Dies Irae" playing over that travelling car which makes it so darn scary.

But full credit to THE CAR simply for tying that music to the Devil. Other films use it for death - heck, it's even in STAR WARS when Luke's Aunt and Uncle are found dead - but THE CAR really did link that creepy music to Satan.

[Ghosttrain]

According to Wiki it was his Chiropractor who replaced Bela Lugosi.......but whoever it was he was about a foot taller than the diminutive actor,and obv.looked nothing like him...sad fact was Lugosi was and had been a drug addict for many years and was reduced to playing roles in bad films,a sad end to what had been a great acting career..

[Master Ray]

OK, I was rooting round Amazon Prime Video this evening and stumbled across Ken Russell's 'The Lair Of The White Worm' (1988)... such a wonderful oddity.  Original trailer below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QINhGh-U8Qo

Yes, it's cheap and cheesy but so tongue in cheek.  Many moments when you'll be saying 'oh, that's ridiculous' but laughing out loud as well.  A great cast camping it up, hopefully in on the joke.  Deffo one to watch with beer and pizza, as I did.  Anyone else remember this one?   

[cthulhu]

Good hint there Master Ray, i have seen that one but that's the only thing i remember. And a scene with a nail and a hand, some voodoo stuff...Hope it stays a while on prime, would like to re-watch and remember it. But i also do remember that i didn't think about it as tongue-in-cheek, but those things may change through time.

[Master Ray]

Good hint there Master Ray, i have seen that one but that's the only thing i remember. And a scene with a nail and a hand, some voodoo stuff...Hope it stays a while on prime, would like to re-watch and remember it. But i also do remember that i didn't think about it as tongue-in-cheek, but those things may change through time.

Ken Russell once said that 'all my films are comedies' but he actively encouraged people to laugh at this one.  It's very funny, just ramping up the stupidity with ridiculous lines ('Ooh, me spotted dick!'), outrageous scenes (Jesus, on the cross, being eaten by a massive serpent whilst a bunch of buxom nuns are defiled) and the hilariously dumb dream sequence posted below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-T0KPF54Mc

I mean, Russell was a talented film-maker, he was obviously taking the piss with this movie... as I said, a fun watch.