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I just downloaded this with the English subtitles (Yugoslavian)

https://archive.org/details/Leptiric...hSubtitles1973


LEPIRICA THE SHE-BUTTERFLY

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The Shining, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Mulholland Dr., Deep Red (Profondo Rosso), Antichrist, and Audition are among my favorites.

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I'm REALLY loving the black and white, silent throwback Lovecraft films like Call of Cthulhu and The Colour Out of Space. I have no rational reason for liking them I just do. They are kind of awesome to me. I hope the people who have been pumping them out continue to do so. Let's get the entire Lovecraft oeuvre (. . . uhh actually we can leave most of the Dunsany inspired stuff for last, or out entirely).

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The Whisperer in Darkness is also great, besides The Call of Cthulhu and Die Farbe.

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I've not seen a silent version of The Colour Out of Space. Has it been released on DVD?

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The Colour Out of Space is not a silent film; it is a black and white German film called Die Farbe.

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Sorry for the confusion! Bad sentence structure on my part. Meant black and white, silent throwback like Call of Cthulhu and black and white Colour Out of Space. Well, black and white except for the obvious part.

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Anyone seen this?


It's on Netflix. First, the title is misleading. Second, this movie has a couple of really strong parts even though, as a whole, it's not gonna make any top 10 lists. But those strong parts are pretty strong. Don't want to ruin any parts for anyone because overall I liked it a lot due to those parts. I saw a few Ligottian themes in here (especially Jessica Biel's monologue about halfway through the movie). Anyone else see it yet?

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RE: Tall Man, yes, saw it on Netflix, had to be almost two years ago, barely remember, but remember it was good.

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Thanks cnpappas! I know it's not gonna be up there as one of the greats. But, there were some really, really cool parts and I thought those parts (and the whole plot) was very Ligottian. What did you think?

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Thanks for the heads-up on Die Farbe (2010). That one's new to me.

I greatly enjoyed the H P Lovecraft Historical Society film of Call of Cthulhu. I also admit to a soft spot for the 1965 version of The Colour Out of Space starring Karloff and the excellent Freda Jackson (but then, I'm the sentimental type and it makes pleasant comfort viewing).

Has anyone seen Hemoglobin (1997)? I can't find mention of it here. An adaptation of The Lurking Fear, directed by Peter Svatek, I thought it deserved a little better than the miserable 3.7 rating given it by IMDb.

Also known as Bleeders, it's presently available on YT under that title.

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Any fans of Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley?

One of the most convincingly 'humdrum' beginnings to a horror I can think of, very English, and very bleak in a way that draws its unsettling nature straight from the British tabloids - unemployment, slacking, the'a-job's-a-job' attitude, and the undercurrent of abuse that certain papers want you to believe is lurking on every suburban street in 'broken Britain'. Except in this case it's an out of work hitman who needs the money from one last job .

It then builds to a conclusion that I really don't want to spoil for anyone, but overall this is a GRIM film that should appeal to anyone who likes Dead Man's Shoes as well as weird fiction.

Wheatley has also directed an adaptation of Ballard's High Rise, that should be out next year - I can't think of a better fit!

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I envy you that experience! It was horrendous enough when I knew what I was getting into!

Are you a fan of A Field In England?

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1. John Carpenter's THE THING
2. DIE FARBE/The Color Out of Space
3. the HELLRAISER films of Clive Barker
4. BLUE VELVET (although not technically Horror, David Lynch's vision of reality
is creepy)
5. Bram Stoker's DRACULA-Francis Ford Coppula, for its decadent and symbolist settings.

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A Field in England is wonderful.

The two Nosferati/Nosferatae/Nosferatwos are top-tier auteur cinema and the Coppola film is a laudable piece of pop gothic. The Hammer film is great also, whilst the Universal film is shoddily made but still iconic. None of them do the book right at all, but ol' Drac has had his share of memorable movies.

He's not always horror director, but I'm a huge fan of the Hitchcockian thrillers of Brian De Palma. Body Double, Dressed to Kill, Sisters, etc. I see them as reaching Aickman-esque levels of eerie oneric splendour. Body Double in particular feels like a dream that is always one didder away from nightmare.

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A Field in England is a trip, literally. The dialog is authentic to the historical period and needs to be listened to carefully to get the full enjoyment. Wheatley is a great director. Highly recommend it.

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A Field in Engand - one of the best western's I've ever seen. Right up there with Straw Dogs.

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El Poder de las Tinieblas (The Power of Darkness, 1979) an Argentinian movie based on Ernesto Sábato's Informe Sobre Ciegos (Report on the Blind), a chapter from his novel Sobre Héroes y Tumbas (On Heroes and Tombs, 1961), and directed by Sábato's son, Mario Sábato.


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Any one ever see Behind The Mask


First 10 minutes and last 30 it's a straight horror movie, but in the middle it gets incredibly awesome. I can't find anyone who has ever seen it besides me.

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Though of course Radford had nothing to do with the horror genre proper, this and "Hour of the Wolf" always struck me as the scariest movies I'd ever seen up till the age of, say, 13.

It is the most perfect translation of a novel into a film that one can find, I'd say.

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Eraserhead.

I also went and saw The Witch a couple weeks ago. I'm convinced that film is the greatest horror film of the 21st century, next to Antichrist.

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I have mentioned my love for Brian De Palma a lot on here. Usually I focus on his more Hitchcockian efforts, but recently I have become obsessed with Carrie. It is a powerful piece of work and adds an oneiric ambience to King's original character based story. I'm obsessed.

I would take De Palma's Carrie and Kubrick's The Shining over the original diffuse novels as both are more dream-like than the original texts, although I don't think the Salem's Lot miniseries is even nearly as good as King's book.

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I watched Dario Argento's Suspiria the other day. I felt that the plot was rather clunky at times, but the score and the cinematography were sublime.

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True that. Also agree on The Shining and Carrie as the best early cinematic translations of King novels.

The Witch and Antichrist are transcendent classics, both of which must be viewed multiple times. So amazing!

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Oh, and 1984 is indeed one of the best film adaptations of a novel ever. You'll notice that the dialogue in the scene above is Orwell's almost word for word.

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I have seen it about 9 years ago.I liked but I thought the idea of a world were Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers (and Freddy? I am not sure if he is in ) are real is kinda forced...

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Dark City is a great sci-fi/horror hybrid. Oh, and Lost Highway by David Lynch.

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Dark City is my ####, Miguel! Blows The Matrix out of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and to the Moon!

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It is a fantastic film indeed. Everything is pitch perfect, from the performances by Rufus Sewell (a totally underrated actor), Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland and William Hurt to the Edward Hopper-inspired interiors. The director's cut is really cool too.

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sleep now (not full track :( )




full track




actually, not judging, but I see Scarlett here, she looks inside herself more - she would look good in red for a Scarabae movie.. not sure if she would cast in a "la rose da fer" remake at this stage

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I saw this again last night. One of the few movies that leaves me exploring the facets and possibilities for hours and sometimes days afterward.


Below is the documentary about making the movie. I think it's worthwhile.




Deleted scenes...




The original ending.



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Love Phibes! One of the rare examples of the sequel being just as great also.

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Watched THE VVITCH last night. A great movie that could have been even better (but I ALWAYS say that) with a little finesse here and there, and a little work on making the dialogue a little more understandable, especially from the children, in the first third of the movie.

Caleb's big scene STOLE THE SHOW!

The ending was fantastic, albeit it could have been . . .

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Glad you enjoyed it, njhorror.

Needed some polish in places, I agree, but even so it was much more deserving of hype than It Follows and is my favorite horror film of the decade so far, The Babadook being a close second.

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I'm looking for more surrealist horror films akin to the likes of Antichrist, Inland Empire or Suicide Circle. Would appreciate suggestions.

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That's pretty tough thinking of anything similar enough.

Have you seen Sono's Strange Circus? I wouldn't say it's great but it does have some good surreal imagery.

Tale Of Tales is pretty surreal but by virtue of being based on very old fairy tales. But it doesn't have a similar darkness to what you mentioned.

There's a short animation called Room Of Laughter by Nina Shorina that's amazing. Animation from Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Belrus and Hungary has a lot of surreal animation and the techniques tend to be better than animation from elsewhere.

Taxidermia is a black comedy and definitely the weirdest film I've ever seen. I think on some level most people can understand where the weirdest Lynch and most surrealist stuff comes from, but after seeing Taxidermia I was completely bemused and wanted to ask the director "where did this come from and why did you make it?"

I just saw Men & Chicken at the cinema tonight and it has a similar feel but a lot less gross and weird. Not that surreal but very good. A strange grotesque family comedy.

I don't know if you saw my Shinya Tsukamoto thread but his films are dark and some have very surreal elements. Haze is one of his lesser known films but it's got similarities with Inland Empire.

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I have a new favourite movie: the Japanese horror film Hausu.


Bizarrely, Walter de la Mare is cited as an influence on the Wikipedia page.

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These two that I watched after Darren Aronofsky mentioned them in an interview: