Recommend a scary movie that others might not have seen

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Scratch said:
"From Beyond" was a really weird one. Anyone see that? Pineal glands gone wild."From Beyond (1986) - Trailer - YouTube"
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Stuart Gordon has disappeared a little off the radar. The last things he did were Stuck and Eater from the Fear Itself series, and that was 2008. I wonder if he'll make any more films if it's been that long.

He's of nearly the exact same age as Stephen, born a month before. Super nice guy, I've met him. And his work is always of a certain quality. 'Stuck' is another great recommendation, yet also sadly impossible to find on dvd or blu-ray - YouTube doesn't have it either.
 
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Holly Gibney said:
It would be lovely to follow a thread about the Green Knowe books, but please don't give yourself all that work unless you would really enjoy writing about them at length and introducing people to them. Writing can be wonderfully therapeutic and highly enjoyable at times, so you may well want to do it, but please don't do it just for me! You are too good, you know!
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You're right...I am too good! :rolleyes: I don't know when I'd get to posting about the books, but I do have an extra copy of Enemy at Green Knowe to trade if anyone had a copy of one of the titles in the series which I am missing, of which I need several.
 
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CYRUS said:
Quatermass and the Pit 1967
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Now, this is interesting! I've never seen the 1967 movie, but the original TV series were masterpieces of horror!
The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Quatermass II (1955) and Quatermass and the Pit (1958 - 59)... Superb examples of what directors and writers can do with a low budget it they are inventive and talented!

Are there any other fans of the TV series here?
 
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Holly Gibney said:
Now, this is interesting! I've never seen the 1967 movie, but the original TV series were masterpieces of horror!
The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Quatermass II (1955) and Quatermass and the Pit (1958 - 59)... Superb examples of what directors and writers can do with a low budget it they are inventive and talented!

Are there any other fans of the TV series here?
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Ive never seen the prior Quatermass serials. though I did see the recent remake of the Quatermass Experiment with David Tenant. I've seen the feature films with Brian Donlevy in the role of Quatermass.

I have the 1958 serial on dvd and yes is a great piece of television drama . One of the best of all time. :cool:

Nigel Kneale wrote the screenplay for the 67 film. It is a well done film, a classic. Roy Ward Baker who directed A Night to Remember directed this film and did a superb job.

I have The Quatermass Conclusion which was decent but not as good as what came before and was very disappointed by the ending.
 
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Here's another good one from Auntie Holly's toy box! The Exorcist III - does that count as obscure? :) Exorcist II was pretty awful, and the box office figures for Exorcist III were poor as a result, most people apparently deciding that the series was going to descend, Jaws style, into a string of sequels, each sillier than the last. Which is a shame, because William Blatty returned to the director's chair for the third instalment and produced another lean, chilling, serious, "adult" horror in the style of the original. It is perhaps not quite the equal of the first film, but it delivered some wonderful, atmospheric chills and some moments of real tension and fear, and I feel that it deserves to be known and loved by horror fans as part of a two-film story along with the original.

Below is a clip of one of the scariest scenes from the movie, and one (IMO) of the very best scares from the horror canon! It is a perfect demonstration of one of my favourite sayings concerning art, whether it be films, writing, music or anything in that line: "If you want somebody's attention, whisper." The camera barely moves for over two minutes; there is no music and no dialogue, and then - BANG! Masterful! If I was teaching a course in film-making, this scene would be one of the lessons, no doubt about it.

Anyone who knows the film will know the scene I am talking about. Yes, it's nursie... :) For the rest of you, watch and enjoy, my friends!!!

 
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Holly Gibney said:
Here's another good one from Auntie Holly's toy box! The Exorcist III - does that count as obscure? :) Exorcist II was pretty awful, and the box office figures for Exorcist III were poor as a result, most people apparently deciding that the series was going to descend, Jaws style, into a string of sequels, each sillier than the last. Which is a shame, because William Blatty returned to the director's chair for the third instalment and produced another lean, chilling, serious, "adult" horror in the style of the original. It is perhaps not quite the equal of the first film, but it delivered some wonderful, atmospheric chills and some moments of real tension and fear, and I feel that it deserves to be known and loved by horror fans as part of a two-film story along with the original.

Below is a clip of one of the scariest scenes from the movie, and one (IMO) of the very best scares from the horror canon! It is a perfect demonstration of one of my favourite sayings concerning art, whether it be films, writing, music or anything in that line: "If you want somebody's attention, whisper." The camera barely moves for over two minutes; there is no music and no dialogue, and then - BANG! Masterful! If I was teaching a course in film-making, this scene would be one of the lessons, no doubt about it.

Anyone who knows the film will know the scene I am talking about. Yes, it's nursie... :) For the rest of you, watch and enjoy, my friends!!!

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One of the better scenes in horror movie history imho. Saw that at the theater when it came out and every person watching came out of their seat on that scene.
 
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X the Unknown . Hammer Horror originally wanted to make it past of the Quatermass series but Nigel Kneale wouldn't let them use the the Quatermass character . It is a great film one the best science fiction horror films of all time , It would have been worthy addition to the Quatermass series.
 
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CoriSCapnSkip said:
I don't get it. It looked more like a human killer in a bedsheet than anything paranormal.
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It's a long time since I last watched the film, but if memory serves, she goes into that room just before the sequence that I posted and we see that it's empty. We also see her looking at the door a few times, with a fairly worried "There's something just not right about this place" look on her face. A good film, from what I remember! :)
 
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The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Deep Red are two good Argento films not a ton of people have seen.

The Keep is visually trippy. The book is much better though.

Warlock with Julian Sands is OK.

Martin is a lesser known Romero flick. It's not bad.
 
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swiftdog2.0 said:
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Deep Red are two good Argento films not a ton of people have seen.
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Don't forget about Tenebre.
Crawlspace had some visceral shocks, but it was really just Klaus Kinski Acting Weird: The Movie. If that's your cup of tea, have at it.
Malicious: Molly Ringwald's direct-to-video answer to Fatal Attraction. Oh yes, much scenery is chewed up and spat out.
I didn't think Oliver Stone's The Hand was that bad. Michael Caine was good, as usual, and the visuals and score were creepy.
Suspect Zero: Underrated psychological thriller, with supernatural elements. Very reminiscent of The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en.
 
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