Scary Movies
Forums:
The countdown to Halloween has begun and we kicked off horror movie season last night with a sold out 35mm showing of the 1974 classic "Seven Brothers Meet Dracula" at the Hollywood Theater. It was a mash up of British gothic horror and Hong Kong kung fu, and features legendary vampire hunter Peter Cushing and seven kung fu masters (and their sister) traveling through China to battle Dracula, seven really hideous looking vampires, and an army of undead. All the trappings of classic Hammer Horror punctuated with incredible kung fu action:
Thinking about renting Midsommar at the Red Box tonight. What do you folks have lined up for scary movies this Halloween season?
- Log in to post comments
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary
Wow that looks like some
Wow that looks like some kickin shit.
I'll watch any older horror movie, love that stuff. Lon Cheney's Wolfman is stupendous. For newer, Bram Stokers Dracula rules the night .
Anything Bela Lugosi, Dracula, White Zombie,, even if its about him -- Ed Wood
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
>>>>For newer, Bram Stokers
>>>>For newer, Bram Stokers Dracula rules the night .
Agree. Well done gothic horror. Saw that a the theater and ate the acid. By the final reel, I didn't know what was going on, but it was visually stunning.
Watched Midsommar last night. Disturbing film and will make you think twice about eating mushrooms at a Swedish pagan-fest.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: krab
Totally agree on Lon Chaney
Totally agree on Lon Chaney Jr's work in the Wolfman. His acting once he starts to realize what is happening to him and what he's doing as a monster is really good.
Some info on his last horror movie, Dracula vs Frankenstein, a real camp classic...
Wheelchair-bound mad scientist Dr. Durea (J. Carrol Naish), the last descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, takes to murdering young girls for experimentation in hopes of perfecting a blood serum of his own creation with help from his mute, simple-minded assistant Groton (Lon Chaney, Jr.). Count Dracula (Roger Engel (producer Al Adamson's stockbroker) listed in the film's credits under the pseudonym "Zandor Vorkov") comes to the scientist, promising to help him revive the Frankenstein Monster (which he has exhumed from its secret grave in Oakmoor Cemetery) in return for Durea's serum, which he hopes will grant him immunity to sunlight.
Chaney filmed his part in mid-1969 when the film was titled The Blood Seekers. Naish filmed additional footage in 1970 when Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster were added to the story (in his confrontation scene with Dracula, he appears noticeably older). Director Adamson's wife, Regina Carrol, appears in the film as Judith Fontaine, one of the people who discover the two title monsters.
Two other films titled Dracula vs. Frankenstein were made around the same time as Adamson's film. In 1970, Spanish horror film icon Paul Naschy starred in Los Monstruos del Terror which was later released on VHS as Dracula vs. Frankenstein.
Meanwhile, also in 1971, famed Spanish schlock film director Jesus Franco turned out his Dracula vs. Frankenstein (also released as Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein), apparently unaware that Al Adamson was already using that title
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary
Another alltime favorite of
Another alltime favorite of mine. Horror Hotel.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary
And any Vincent Price,
Any Vincent Price, especially House On Haunted Hill
And now House Of Wax --- ohhhh boyyyyyyyyy
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: DaBreeze
Creep factor 11.
Creep factor 11.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary
Oh counnn sulllll errr
Oh counnn sulllll errr
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
Picked up some Hammer Horror
Picked up some Hammer Horror this week at the video store:
Devil Rides Out with Christopher Lee:
Black magic in the English countryside. It was released as "the Devil's Bride" in the US because they thought "Devil Rides Outs" would be mistaken as a western.
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell with Peter Cushing:
This one was just gross. Shock horror with an extended and graphic brain transplant scene with Peter Cushing giving his apprentice step by step instructions on cutting various nerve stems and stuff. Dave Prowse (aka body of Darth Vader) played the monster.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Druba
"The Comedy of Terrors" 1963
"The Comedy of Terrors" 1963
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Joe Buck is Back
Those guys were milking it
Those guys were milking it just like some rock bands out there on the road these days.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
Rented "Devils Rain" last
Rented "Devils Rain" last night. William Shatner and Eddie Albert (Green Acres) versus a Satanic cult led by Ernest Borgnine out in a ghost town in the Arizona desert. Classic 70s devil movie.
Shatner didn't break character. He is Kirk and his screams as he was being tortured by the Satanic cult is right up there with "Khaaaan!"
Horror movie trivia. During the filming, Shatner had a face cast made for a Star Trek Halloween custom. The mask later made its way into another movie and became one of the most infamous faces in horror cinema. Who is it?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Hitchhiker awaiting "true call"
Mike Myers
Mike Myers
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
Yep.
Yep.
Do you all have any horror movies on tap for the Halloween week?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Hitchhiker awaiting "true call"
We're binging Halloween,
We're binging Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. We also watched a couple Living Deads.
Stephen King marathon next.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish
Roman Polanski's " The
Roman Polanski's " The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me Your Teeth are in My Neck", very late 60s (SharonTate) is a go to.
Sleeper.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish
They Live
They Live
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Denny
The island of Dr Moreau, the
The island of Dr Moreau, the law says "walk like a man, not on all fours". Great movie, especially the old one.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary
(No subject)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: gypsy tailwind
Wes Craven's first...
Wes Craven's first...
The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, edited, and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham. The film stars Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David A. Hess, Fred Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, and Marc Sheffler. The plot revolves around two teenage girls who are taken into the woods and tortured by a gang of murderous thugs. The story is inspired by the Swedish film The Virgin Spring (1960), directed by Ingmar Bergman, which in turn is based on a Swedish ballad, "Töres döttrar i Wänge".