[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

I'm gettin feeble-brained...I forgot one of the very best...Spoorloos (1988, The Vanishing) by George Sluizer ..the original Dutch version.

Yeah, I was considering that one myself. It's definitely up there. Not sure if it qualifies as a horror film, but the ending is definitely one of the most horrifying I've seen.

Thinking about it, I'd probably change at least five of the original entries on my list.

[MellySingsDoom]

A minor entry this time from me, but still quite moving, in it's own way: Joerg Buttgereit's "Der Todesking" (especially the last segment), and also "Schramm".

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Psyho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock (my #3 all-time)

Off-topic, I know, but what are the others on your all-time list? Sorry, but I'm just a total list-hound.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Off-topic, I know, but what are the others on your all-time list? Sorry, but I'm just a total list-hound.

I had a big list of almost 200 movies in a text file and deleted it by accident a good while ago.

I have a notebook somewhere with over 500 listed.

I wonder if I have the make-up list somewhere. I know I did a few for another thread awhile ago. I'll try to find that.

It was a top twenty thread.
Yr Top 20 Films of All Time

This list needs some retooling.

Blue Velvet
Apocalypse Now
Psycho
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather
Dr. Strangelove
Mean Streets
The Elephant Man
Dog Day Afternoon
Raging Bull
Young Frankenstein
Unforgiven
Chinatown
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Bonnie and Clyde
Reservoir Dogs
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Cool Hand Luke

I don't think I posted to this one:
Worst movies you have ever seen

[Norma J]

It's a little sad that movie rental stores have abandoned most, if not all vhs from their stores. You can get re-issues on dvd or whatever, but majority of films are lost.

I might have a look through the horror section for some old films sometime today. I haven't seen alot that I perhaps should have.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Norma J

It's a little sad that movie rental stores have abandoned most, if not all vhs from their stores. You can get re-issues on dvd or whatever, but majority of films are lost.

I'm not convinced by the whole DVD thing at all. The picture/sound quality might be better than VHS, and the extras are obviously great, but you only have to touch the discs a couple of times and they start skipping/pausing, etc. I've still got videos that are over twenty years old which I watch regularly, and they play fine. I seriously doubt that i'll be able to say the same about my DVD collection in twenty years time.

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I'm not convinced by the whole DVD thing at all. The picture/sound quality might be better than VHS, and the extras are obviously great, but you only have to touch the discs a couple of times and they start skipping/pausing, etc. I've still got videos that are over twenty years old which I watch regularly, and they play fine. I seriously doubt that i'll be able to say the same about my DVD collection in twenty years time.

I've got about 400 VHS tapes with rare documentaries from tv, which I find more important than films. I have to fast forward and rewind them every 2 years or so. Very time consuming and tedious.

[atari 2600]

Well, I've seen so many movies, but have never seen the original (or the remake) of The Wicker Man; never have seen Witchfinder General or even (gasp!) Carnival of Souls.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I'm not a big horror movie type person, but lemme think if I can think of 13. . .

The Shining
Psycho
The Haunting
Friday the 13th
Eraserhead
Dead Alive
The Exorcist
Goke- Body Snatcher From Hell
American Werewolf in London
Saw
Ghostbusters
Alien
Akira

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Well, I've seen so many movies, but have never seen the original (or the remake) of The Wicker Man; never have seen Witchfinder General or even (gasp!) Carnival of Souls.

Witchfinder General was retitled The Conquerer Worm in the States in a cynical attempt by its American distributers to tie it in with Vincent Price's earlier Poe movies - despite the fact that the film itself has absolutely nothing to do with the Edgar Alan Poe story of that name. So maybe you saw it under that title without realising that it was infact Witchfinder General and was put off by the reasonable feeling of 'what the fuck has this got to do with Edgar Alan Poe?'.

The Wicker Man (orig) has been released in so many different versions it's almost impossible to know which is the 'proper' one. There's a 'Director's Cut' version available on DVD which most people think of as the definitive one, but I think that's missing a couple of scenes that appeared in the version shown on the BBC in the late 80s - and which has, to my knowledge, never been shown since outside of the inevitable realm of the bootleg.

You're gonna love Carnival of Souls if you have even the slightest fondness for old episodes of The Twilight Zone.

[demonrail666]

Night of the Demon is great up until they show the monster at the end, which apparantly was a studio decision to make it more sellable. As Russell Brand would say, 'the swines."