Dario Argento and others thrillers/horror movies directors

[Master Ray]

Blimey.  Someone else likes Mr Zombie's Halloween pictures.  I thought I was alone in that.   

Also like TDR and HO1000C.  Haven't seen LOS, but I noticed 31 seems to be on Amazon Prime Video, I'll check it out asap.

[Digital Man]

Blimey.  Someone else likes Mr Zombie's Halloween pictures.  I thought I was alone in that.   

Also like TDR and HO1000C.  Haven't seen LOS, but I noticed 31 seems to be on Amazon Prime Video, I'll check it out asap.

please post back, I'm eagerly awaiting

[Guillaume]

BURNT OFFERINGS directed by Dan "Dark Shadows" Curtis in 1975.
This film has just been released on blu ray under its weird french title "Trauma"..:




I've watched this film on tv for the first time when i was a kid, in the late 80's...it gave me nightmares, especially the scenes with the "chauffeur" and the insane ending. 30 years later i"ve watched it on blu ray last week and i still think it's a creepy, pretty great movie!
Great performance from Olivier Reed and excellent supporting character performances from Karen Black, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, etc. Stephen King is a big fan of "Burnt offerings", both the film and both the Robert Marasco novel...it was an obvious influence on "The shining". 
A well acted, well written, subtle, slow burn creepy movie, I would warmly recommend it as one of the best "haunted houses" movie, next to "The innocents", "Full Circle"/"The haunting of Julia" and "The entity".  Also worth checking are others Dan Curtis tv works:
"Curse of the black widow", "Dracula" (with Jack Palance) and "Trilogy of terror" especially the story "Prey"/"Amelia" starring Karen Black. 

[cthulhu]

That seems like another good suggestion, a movie i think i will like, too. In looked it up and in germany it's called "Landhaus der toten Seelen" like "The Villa of dead Souls". So maybe Trauma is not the baddest choice;-)

[Guillaume]

That seems like another good suggestion, a movie i think i will like, too.

And unlike "Full Circle", you can find good looking blu rays of this film!
There are US, UK and now french blu ray of BURNT OFFERINGS. 

[cthulhu]

Of course i checked it out already and ordered the blu of Landhaus der toten Seelen 
Looking forward to it...

[cthulhu]

I saw for the first time

What a cast!! and it was so entertaining to watch them act out.
But to be honest, the movie kind of sucked.;-) I don't know how they thought they could do an atmospheric film with only one spotlight.
I found the camera work really bad sometimes. You have this huge mansion and the classic old house interior, but no great use of that. What a pity for that case.

But these guys



really did their best and i would recommend it. It is a strange 80's production, not a good movie i would say, but fun to watch.

[Ghosttrain]

It may be a crap film but what a great poster/picture...

[Shush]

I am a big fan of this genre of British horror film. I personally prefer the the spate of anthologies that were popular in the 1970's to 80's. My favourites --

From beyond the grave
Tales from the crypt
Asylum
the Monster club.

[cthulhu]

It may be a crap film but what a great poster/picture...

well, maybe i was too harsh on this. i meant it mostly on a technical level. the same movie with a good director of photography and i would have applauded;-)

btw, how is operation: switchblade romance going?;-)

I am a big fan of this genre of British horror film. I personally prefer the the spate of anthologies that were popular in the 1970's to 80's. My favourites --

From beyond the grave
Tales from the crypt
Asylum
the Monster club.

what about Tales of Terror? I sometimes just have to put it in to see the scene of the wine tasting with Vincent Price Peter Lorree. Timeless marvellous!
and damn, i haven't seen any of those you mentioned and all seem to be good fun. will have a look out for them.

[Shush]

Not one I am familiar with but as I say, I prefer the British vintage horrors. They are not to be taken seriously as horror films, I like the atmosphere and the locations and the long lists of legendary actors that can be seen in them.

I remember when my youngest lad was about 12 he would bring his friends round to watch some of my "horror" DVD's. They used to howl with laughter especially at Asylum after Richard Todd had chopped up his wife and wrapped the parts in string and paper, these parts later attacking him when he went to the cellar. Not very convincing but quite funny. That film alone with a cast including Richard Todd, Silvia Syms, Brit Ekland, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Robert Powel, and naturally my favourite actor, Peter Cushing.

[Master Ray]

Ah, 'The Monster Club'... loved that one as a kid!

I also loved the 'Hammer House Of Horror' TV show, the episode 'The House That Bled To Death' proper freaked me out... any memories of that one, fellow horror fans?

[cthulhu]

Not one I am familiar with but as I say, I prefer the British vintage horrors. They are not to be taken seriously as horror films, I like the atmosphere and the locations and the long lists of legendary actors that can be seen in them.

I think Tales of Terror



fits perfectly in that description, maybe a bit too old, it's from 1962. Here is the wine tasting sequenz:
Vincent Price vs Peter Lorre in Wine Tasting Contest

Cool when the kids can have fun with those old pictures. I wouldn't be able to get my son to watch old flics and with old it would be befor 2000;-)

Ah, 'The Monster Club'... loved that one as a kid!

I also loved the 'Hammer House Of Horror' TV show, the episode 'The House That Bled To Death' proper freaked me out... any memories of that one, fellow horror fans?

Sounds great but i haven't seen it. Does TV show mean that there were episodes, like Twilight Zone or did they show whole movies?

Yesterday I saw this totally suprise super hit!

Never had so much splatter fun since Braindead or Bad Taste by Peter Jackson. Really a wonderful surprise watching this. So good. The effects are superb, no cgi, gallons of pure wtf? A good preparation for GWAR next tuesday in cologne 

(sorry, the pics are a bit too big, had the presets wrong when copying)

[Ghosttrain]

I am still waiting for my copy to arrive,i have had to order it from another seller on Amazon as the original supplier could not fulfill the order.............it should be here in the next couple of days.

[cthulhu]

I am still waiting for my copy to arrive,i have had to order it from another seller on Amazon as the original supplier could not fulfill the order.............it should be here in the next couple of days.

I'm really curious what you will have to say about it.

Now i have seen

and it was everything Guillaume said. A bloody good horror movie! Loved it and it got under my skin and the ending...
And i think it's now clear for me where Sam Raimi got some inspiration for The Evil Dead.
But no spoilers here;-)