Topic: Halloween Films and TV

[orthonorm]

I was waiting for Gebre to attempt to loot our candy baskets before posting this, but someone beat him to it, so:

Recommendations or just whatever you think rings in the season movie / TVwise.

I'll start first.

Since I am starting a Kubrickfest of sorts, The Shining will be shown.

And I will likely watch the original Let the Right One In. (It's been sitting around and I haven't seen it since the big screen. Great film.)

And I have to say that I first saw:



was during last time I did a pyschotropic  and it was on the big screen (or was it Lost Highway, who can remember such things?anyway) I used to watch above pretty regularly around Halloween.

Spamming this space with every horror film is verboten! Now, biro can enjoy doing so in *'s stead since I have disallowed it.

Looking for recommendations, oh and I can't stand torture pr0n.

Psycho might happen as well.

[Shiny]

[orthonorm]

Seriously dude, I might watch many of the films suggested here. Please don't mess with me.

Are you being serious?

[Shiny]

I dare you to watch it. And yes I am being serious.


Underrated.


An alltime B-Movie classic and my favorite Carpenter film.

[orthonorm]

A classic that all must see:



Sorry if it is mean to consider the above a "horror" film.

[Shiny]

Seriously dude, I might watch many of the films suggested here. Please don't mess with me.

Are you being serious?

Also it is more of a mood film and subtlety than anything else. And I really like horror films like that. It's kinda why I gravitate to Lynch a lot, dude works with mood brilliantly.

[Shiny]

^ really shocked me how good this was. Kind of amazing it gets so overlooked.

[Peter J]

Good question. Haven't really decided much yet, but looking at Netflix's thriller page (I'm not sure if all of them are really thrillers ... how did War Games and The Score get on there?) a couple caught my attention:
- Memento (never completely saw)
- Along Came a Spider (never saw)
- Vanilla Sky (never saw)
- Clue (saw and might recommend to others)
- Sleeping With the Enemy (saw and might recommend to others)
- The Raven (about Poe; never heard of it before)

[orthonorm]

Achronos,

Check out Dead Alive if you want to see post-Freudian examination of the death drive. It's in the vocabulary of a lot of Australian / New Zealand film that doesn't attempt to mock Hollywood. Think, Baz Luhrman.

Jackson should have stuck with this sorta work instead of the garbage he decided to unleash upon the world.

[Rufus]

Time to search for my next set of victims for Evil Dead II.

And:

Achronos,

Check out Dead Alive if you want to see post-Freudian examination of the death drive. It's in the vocabulary of a lot of Australian / New Zealand film that doesn't attempt to mock Hollywood. Think, Baz Luhrman.

Jackson should have stuck with this sorta work instead of the garbage he decided to unleash upon the world.

I'm gonna go back to this...last time I saw it was before I had started reading Freud. I just have to find some Republicans to watch it with, if possible.

[orthonorm]

Time to search for my next set of victims for Evil Dead II.

And:

Achronos,

Check out Dead Alive if you want to see post-Freudian examination of the death drive. It's in the vocabulary of a lot of Australian / New Zealand film that doesn't attempt to mock Hollywood. Think, Baz Luhrman.

Jackson should have stuck with this sorta work instead of the garbage he decided to unleash upon the world.

I'm gonna go back to this...last time I saw it was before I had started reading Freud. I just have to find some Republicans to watch it with, if possible.

A lot of ink has been spilled over Zombies and their relationship to the death drive or id. I think knowing Freud's later writing well enough on this stuff (The Economy of Masochism for instance) is enough to make the analytical leaps to the so-called post-Freudian stuff (Lacan for example).

Just attempt to keep in mind that Freud first and foremost wanted to be a philosopher and sorta took a more ontological rather than economical approach in later work, personally I think the title of the work I named above is rife with irony.

The death drive ends up having a sorta ontological priority to the libido, life force, whatever you want to call it.

I think Jackson wanted to send up Oedipus in a big way and like most folks mocking Freud in good or bad taste, he ends up making a stronger argument for Freud's understanding of the structure of psychic being and arguably its economy.

[Shiny]

One of these days I'm going to find out why Jackson was chosen to helm the LOTR trilogy, because there is no way based on his past films he was heading in that direction. Maybe it truly is the $$$ but I want to believe it is something different.

On topic, I've thought about watching a horror movie per day this month.

[Shiny]

Time to search for my next set of victims for Evil Dead II.

And:

Achronos,

Check out Dead Alive if you want to see post-Freudian examination of the death drive. It's in the vocabulary of a lot of Australian / New Zealand film that doesn't attempt to mock Hollywood. Think, Baz Luhrman.

Jackson should have stuck with this sorta work instead of the garbage he decided to unleash upon the world.

I'm gonna go back to this...last time I saw it was before I had started reading Freud. I just have to find some Republicans to watch it with, if possible.

A lot of ink has been spilled over Zombies and their relationship to the death drive or id. I think knowing Freud's later writing well enough on this stuff (The Economy of Masochism for instance) is enough to make the analytical leaps to the so-called post-Freudian stuff (Lacan for example).

Just attempt to keep in mind that Freud first and foremost wanted to be a philosopher and sorta took a more ontological rather than economical approach in later work, personally I think the title of the work I named above is rife with irony.

The death drive ends up having a sorta ontological priority to the libido, life force, whatever you want to call it.

I think Jackson wanted to send up Oedipus in a big way and like most folks mocking Freud in good or bad taste, he ends up making a stronger argument for Freud's understanding of the structure of psychic being and arguably its economy.

I've been reading "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" off and on.

I figure I try to tackle Freud before moving onto Lacan. The death drive is interesting to me.

[NicholasMyra]

I am Legend (the last man on earth) with Vincent Price is worth at least one view.

[Iconodule]

Dario Argento is mostly a hack with some interesting stylistic touches, but Suspiria is worthy of its accolades.

[Iconodule]

Another great Italian horror film: Cemetery Man AKA Dellamorte Dellamore.

[Iconodule]

Mario Bava + Christopher Lee = gold

[Iconodule]

Last one for now: Onibaba

[Shiny]

LOL that poster is hilarious.

[Gebre Menfes Kidus]

I was waiting for Gebre to attempt to loot our candy baskets before posting this, but someone beat him to it, so:

 

I don't steal candy from children. In fact, I give out candy to children on Halloween. So what am I missing here?


Selam

[orthonorm]

I was waiting for Gebre to attempt to loot our candy baskets before posting this, but someone beat him to it, so:

 

I don't steal candy from children. In fact, I give out candy to children on Halloween. So what am I missing here?


Selam

A healthy dose of self-deprecation as usual. It's different than claiming to be the worst of all sinners by the way.

[Arachne]

While the young one is up and about:




After he's gone to bed:

[Arachne]

Since something is eating links... this is one of the young master's favourites too:

[CoptoGeek]

Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw VII...er Saw 3D. Kidding.

This!

[orthonorm]

Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw VII...er Saw 3D. Kidding.

This!

Are any of the Saws actually good. If so, are any watchable for those who might have a general aversion to 90 minutes of grotesque human butchering?

[Mor Ephrem]

Are any of the Saws actually good. If so, are any watchable for those who might have a general aversion to 90 minutes of grotesque human butchering?

I've only seen two of them (I and VI), and I didn't think they were very good.  And I don't have a problem with grotesque human butchering.  Generally, I don't recommend these movies, but certainly not if you have a problem with that kind of violence.

[Shiny]

Saw 1 isn't good, even with that ridiculous plot twist at the end. I mean I'd say at the very least a C-movie.

That head contraption...

[Iconodule]

Saw sucks.

[NicholasMyra]

Saw sucks.

+1

[Shiny]

Saw sucks.

In some small ways it reminded me of Cube.

And I freakin love Cube

[Peter J]

"Did you see Saw?"

(Is that too obscure? I did indicate that it's a quote, so that's kind of a compromise. Maybe I should go further and say it's from The Office.)

[Iconodule]

Saw sucks.

In some small ways it reminded me of Cube.

And I freakin love Cube

Cube has some interesting ideas/ set-pieces, but, like Saw, terrible writing and acting.

[Luke]

I always like the old movies, such as Frankenstein with Boris Karloff.

[Iconodule]

I always like the old movies, such as Frankenstein with Boris Karloff.

I like Bride of Frankenstein the best of that bunch. Great images and atmosphere. I also enjoy the Hammer films though they are uber-schlocky. Frankenstein Must be Destroyed is particularly nice. And my favorite Hammer film is probably The Plague of Zombies.

[Shiny]

Saw sucks.

In some small ways it reminded me of Cube.

And I freakin love Cube

Cube has some interesting ideas/ set-pieces, but, like Saw, terrible writing and acting.

But dude that's why I loved it, the acting was so bad. The black dude in that film totally made it for me. The most serious performance in cinema history.

But yeah it had some fantastic ideas.

Can you believe they only used one room to film the entire thing? You would never have known.

[Shiny]

I think I'm going to watch Eraserhead and Alien this month again.

79-80s Ridley Scott I am a diehard fan of.

Alien is a great horror movie, and I seem to watch it always around Halloween.

[Iconodule]

Speaking of horror films with really strange ideas, there's Uzumaki AKA Spiral

[orthonorm]

I think I'm going to watch Eraserhead and Alien this month again.

79-80s Ridley Scott I am a diehard fan of.

Alien is a great horror movie, and I seem to watch it always around Halloween.

ALIEN. Thank you!

[orthonorm]

Speaking of horror films with really strange ideas, there's Uzumaki AKA Spiral

But do we want to watch it? Our fate is in your hands.

[Shiny]

I read "HP Lovecraft" in the quote and turned away instantly.

[Shiny]

Aliens was probably the worst sequel.

You talk about terrible writing

GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER

[Iconodule]

I read "HP Lovecraft" in the quote and turned away instantly.

It's really nothing like Lovecraft.

That said, Lovecraft is great and you have no business turning away from him, unless it's to avert your eyes from an overwhelming sense of your own insignificance in the face of indifferent and hostile cosmic forces.

[Gebre Menfes Kidus]

I always like A Haunting. But alas, it's not on TV anymore and I can't find it on Netflix.


Selam

[orthonorm]

I always like A Haunting. But alas, it's not on TV anymore and I can't find it on Netflix.


Selam

Gebre, how are you accessing Netflix? There interface, like most sites, has gone downhill as everyone has decided a computer should act like a tablet or smartphone.

There are some better ways to deal with your queue and certainly to know what's available for streaming, which I think is how you access netflix, I still keep a DVD account to get access to stuff that isn't streaming.

If you are happy with your methods, awesome. Otherwise I think Achronos and I could give you a handful of alternatives. to maximizing your experience. But you seem like a healthy satisficer rather a neurotic like we are.

[Gebre Menfes Kidus]

I always like A Haunting. But alas, it's not on TV anymore and I can't find it on Netflix.


Selam

Gebre, how are you accessing Netflix? There interface, like most sites, has gone downhill as everyone has decided a computer should act like a tablet or smartphone.

There are some better ways to deal with your queue and certainly to know what's available for streaming, which I think is how you access netflix, I still keep a DVD account to get access to stuff that isn't streaming.

If you are happy with your methods, awesome. Otherwise I think Achronos and I could give you a handful of alternatives. to maximizing your experience. But you seem like a healthy satisficer rather a neurotic like we are.

Hey, I'm open to suggestions. We had to cut our cable down to basic, but we still get Netflix. Lots of good stuff on Netflix, but forget about finding anything like Nights in Cabiria.


Selam