Anyone Here A Horror Movie Buff ?

fulloflead said:
As long as we're on the subject, did anyone ever watch "Monstervision" on Saturday nights on the USA Network? Billy Joe Bob Briggs would sit on a set that was made up of lawnchair in front of a trailer and he would make fun the campy horror movie they were playing during the breaks along with behind-the-scenes trivia, etc. That dude knew EVERYTHING about "B" horror. He wasn't just reading the cards either - he really knew all that stuff. I miss that show.

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I LOVED Monstervision on TNT!! That show made me stay in on Saturday nights when I would have normally been out. I felt a real connection with Joe Bob (aka John Bloom), as he was a '71 Cuda fan (see his comments from Phantasm II), and he went to Vanderbilt University like me. He is a nice guy in person as well. Here is his website where you can read his Monstervision transcripts and more: http://www.joebobbriggs.com/index2.asp
 
"Monstervision" reminds me of another "horror/comedy" from the early 80's -- an obscure one, but worth checking out -- Terrorvision.

Then, there is one of the most twisted horror movies ever made -- Truth or Dare?
 
71cuda said:
I LOVED Monstervision on TNT!! That show made me stay in on Saturday nights when I would have normally been out. I felt a real connection with Joe Bob (aka John Bloom), as he was a '71 Cuda fan (see his comments from Phantasm II), and he went to Vanderbilt University like me. He is a nice guy in person as well. Here is his website where you can read his Monstervision transcripts and more: http://www.joebobbriggs.com/index2.asp
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Rock 'N' Roll!:D Was it TNT? I thought it was USA. Whatever.
Then there was "UP All Night" with Gilbert Gottfried. Not quite the same, but still watched it.

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It's not actually a horror movie at all, but i think that "Trinity and Beyond, The Atomic Bomb Movie" has some pretty horrifying scenes in it....

no, not *just* the mushroom clouds, yes those are scary, yet errily beautiful, the scary scenes are scenes with Navy sailors setting up animal test subjects on ships used in Project Crossroads, it's old, grainy, black and white film, but you can *see* the fear in the animals eyes as they're strapped into frames and cages......

the Bombs detonate, with the requisite jaw-dropping mushroom clouds, shot from multiple angles

then you cut to Navy sailors at ground zero, inspecting the ships, removing the broken, bloated animal corpses, while standing on the decks of the badly irradiated ships, with *no* protective gear, sucking up *major* doses of radiation......

later on in the movie, you see the detonation of the first thermonuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll, and the mushroom cloud just keeps growing....and growing....and growing

later, that explosion is *dwarfed* by a 15 Megaton explosion that literally *consumes* a small chain of islands (small barrier islands)

yet the most unnerving test to me, was Shot Grable, a "small" 15 Kiloton nuclear *artillery shell* fired from a standard artillery cannon

(most of the stock nuke footage you see on TV is from that test, the stand of trees whipping forward and back, the vehicles getting flattened and thrown around, building walls *collapsing* under the shockwave....)

then....you finally remember that these devices *still exist* and have only gotten *more* powerful since that footage was shot....
 
I think you'd have to go a long way to find a better horror movie than the wicker man, no special effects, no monster make up and the action all takes place during the day. A chilling meditation on the the collision of religions and the tragic consequences thereof.
Recently I've been impressed by The Descent and Wolf Creek. I'm looking forward to Hostel, looks wild.
 
BTW, forgot to say that I've always been a big fan of David Cronenberg's films,
especially Shivers and Rabid.
Ditto all George Romero's zombie stuff. mmmm entrails....
 
It's funny that people are talking about Asia Argento, instead of poor Dario. :p My favorite film of his is probably "Deep Red" (Profondo Rosso).

MacTech said:
It's not actually a horror movie at all, but i think that "Trinity and Beyond, The Atomic Bomb Movie" has some pretty horrifying scenes in it...
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I was just thinking about that movie. Last night, I found my boxed set of it behind a VCR. There’s definitely some amazing footage in it and the music is great too. :thumbup:
 
tyr_shadowblade said:
Reanimator and Evil Dead 2 are comedies . . . in a sick and twisted sorta way . . . and were clearly intended as such.
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Alright, alright. They do have some funny parts, I agree. But not many comedies feature the hero putting the severed head of his girlfriend's reanimated corpse into a vise and sawing it down the middle with a chainsaw. :p
 
MacTech said:
It's not actually a horror movie at all, but i think that "Trinity and Beyond, The Atomic Bomb Movie" has some pretty horrifying scenes in it....
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If you're old enough to remember the "leave it to beaver" days, then you should get a kick out of "The Atomic Cafe"... made entirely out of govt. propaganda films, newsreels, military archival footage and the like, and a perfect satire on our policy and attitudes back then.
 
I've only seen MonsterVision once or twice. It was OK.

I grew up near Chicago and we had Son of Svengoolie, a local horror movie host, on WFLD. Good comedy skits, bad movies, song parodies, and rubber chickens. Still, I would have traded him for Elvira. :D
 
But do you all know of any good scary movies with clowns ? I recently saw this right to video movie called S.I.C.K, a low budget slasher flick with a killer in a clown mask, while my two brothers thought it was kind of cheesy, I slept that night with one of my knives under my pillow (:eek: )




I know I open myself to a wide array of jokes admitting this, but I am SCARED TO DEATH OF CLOWNS !!!!! Ever since I was like three, I would go sleep over at my cousins, and my aunt had all these porcelain clown figurines all over the living room, her kitchen, her bedroom, her dining room, they were everywhere, and they gave me the creeps, and have been ever since. Anyone here think they can come up with a decent list of scary movies involving clowns ? Trust me, I watch at least one of them, I'll probably have nightmares for a year !!!!!




Andrew
 
Deadhead Archer said:
What the heck are the vertical "streamers" rising to the right of the mushroom cloud? :confused: I've seen them in other mushroom cloud pictures and have always wondered.
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Observers used to fire "tracer" rockets" at predetermined angles towards the cloud. Observation of their tracks enabled scientists to work out the eventual height of the mushroom cloud.

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
Observers used to fire "tracer" rockets" at predetermined angles towards the cloud. Observation of their tracks enabled scientists to work out the eventual height of the mushroom cloud.

maximus otter
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Thanks Maximus! Another mystery solved! :D

BTTTOH...
Hellraiser I & II
John Carpenter's "The Thing"
John Carpenter's "In The Mouth of Madness"
The Exorcist (still scary as hell!)
The Others - for me, suspenseful, not necessarily scary IMO.

I lost interest in horror movies after the mid 90s with the campy horror movies that seemed to be so popular then: "I Know What You Did Last Summer...", "Final Destination", "Scream"...all crap IMO.
 
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