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oblique strategies wrote:

Machinesworking wrote:The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If you like horror movies, this one is amazing. I forgot how well it just keeps building tension.

"Look what your brother did to the damn door!!!"

Damn good film.

One of a small handful of milestone films that include:
Psycho
Night of The Living Dead
The Exorcist
The Shining

Each one just BLASTED the parameters of the horror film, & opened new doors into terror.

Just posted that EXACT list on another board.

You following me?

You could include Videodrome, The Thing, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, and the first Alien. Every non horror fan likes Aliens better, but the Alien costumes and sets weren't half as good, and it basically was an action movie.

Another movie often overlooked is Night of the Hunter. Freaky as hell!

Machinesworking wrote:

oblique strategies wrote:

Machinesworking wrote:The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If you like horror movies, this one is amazing. I forgot how well it just keeps building tension.

"Look what your brother did to the damn door!!!"

Damn good film.

One of a small handful of milestone films that include:
Psycho
Night of The Living Dead
The Exorcist
The Shining

Each one just BLASTED the parameters of the horror film, & opened new doors into terror.

Just posted that EXACT list on another board.

You following me?

You could include Videodrome, The Thing, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, and the first Alien. Every non horror fan likes Aliens better, but the Alien costumes and sets weren't half as good, and it basically was an action movie.

Another movie often overlooked is Night of the Hunter. Freaky as hell!

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Good calls all the way around. I wanted to include a Cronenberg flick, but couldn't really put one of his movies in exactly the same league as the other movies I mentioned (even though I think Cronenberg is one of the very best directors working in the field). A particular Cronenberg fave is Dead Ringers (1988); dark as hell.

My reasoning is because the other flicks were also break out flicks, meaning they had a big influence on the mainstream as well as the horror genre (mainly because they were so frightening to almost everyone who saw them, horror fan or not). I guess you could argue that Cronenberg's break out flick was The Fly. Hee hee hee.

Texas Chainsaw may have actually had the least influence on the mainstream -regardless of it's absolutely epic impact on the horror genre. I don't really think it spawned all the slaher films -that was John Carpenter (imitating Dario Argento & Mario Bava).

I was very disappointed in Aliens; like you say: just an overblown action film. I actually like Alien 3 the best -so very bleak.

Night of The Hunter (the 1955 version) is an excellent film. It was actor Charles (Hunchback of Notre Dame) Laughton's only film as a director. Really scary stuff!


I was also thinking of adding The Haunting (1963), probably the biggest break out ghost story put on film.

As for vampires, I'm going to mention George Romero's Martin (1977). While hardly a break out film, quite the opposite in fact, it is probably the best re-visioning of the vampire from a gothic to a modern character.

Recently i have enjoyed

The grizzly man -Werner herzog
And
The science of sleep-Michel gondry

Being John Malkovich

also a damn good movie:

Cashback

oblique strategies wrote: Good calls all the way around. I wanted to include a Cronenberg flick, but couldn't really put one of his movies in exactly the same league as the other movies I mentioned (even though I think Cronenberg is one of the very best directors working in the field). A particular Cronenberg fave is Dead Ringers (1988); dark as hell.

My reasoning is because the other flicks were also break out flicks, meaning they had a big influence on the mainstream as well as the horror genre (mainly because they were so frightening to almost everyone who saw them, horror fan or not). I guess you could argue that Cronenberg's break out flick was The Fly. Hee hee hee.

I would still say Videodrome, maybe not as popular as the others, but it did change the game for movie makers I believe. I see a lot of Videodrome in Fight Club, Memento, the Matrix etc.

Texas Chainsaw may have actually had the least influence on the mainstream -regardless of it's absolutely epic impact on the horror genre. I don't really think it spawned all the slaher films -that was John Carpenter (imitating Dario Argento & Mario Bava).

Disagree. Texas Chainsaw came out four years before Halloween. It really capitalized on black humor elements, but didn't sink into comedy. The characters are similar to the point of it being a copy almost. I liked Halloween, but it wasn't a particularly original horror film. Carpenters most original film IMO is still The Thing. Also one of the few remakes that's actually better than the original.

THX1138

awesome

m:o wrote:also a damn good movie:

Cashback

Cool, because every time I'm at the video store I want to rent that movie because of the girl. Now I have a legit excuse.

TITBAG wrote:happiness

How about 'Gummo' up in there too?

Brick - Film-noir style murder mystery, but set in modern high school...very stylized and fun to watch.

Primer - Incredibly good, mind-bending time-travel movie, all done for $7K.

Irreversible - This movie will likely scar you for life, so I can't really recommend it.... but if you rally want to push the boundaries with realistic ultra-violence, this movie will definitely leave it's mark....

Big Lebowski

Transformers

Star Wars


and



South Park the Movie

Wayne's World

Caddyshack

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

this movie is my all time no.1
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys

djadonis206 wrote:South Park the Movie

Probably my favorite musical!

"Little boy, you're going to HELL!!!"

Children Of Men

The Lives of Others


"Triumphs of the human spirit" both of them.

(Yeah, I cry in movies, sometimes)