[Hallowe'en] Horror/Something Else Movies?

[TheAuldGrump]

Event Horizon gets you your Horror/MST3K entry, too.   

[Lying]Oh come on, it wasn't that bad![/Lying]

I should have mentioned that I am trying to avoid Splatter movies for some reason they have never amused me in a good way....

The Auld Grump, Event Horizon is probably better than Lifeforce at least....

[Mister Andersen]

Dead & Breakfast (horror/comedy starring David Caradine, his daughter, pappa Winchester)

Dog Soldiers (horror but team it together with Event Horizon for a Sean Pertwee double bill)

David Lynch's Dune (sci fi with a lot of horrific -- specifically body horror -- elements).

Species I (horror/sex comedy)

[Crafty_Pat]

Sorry, Glimmerrat, I seem to recall most of those as straight up horror. (Gods Ghostship brought me back - it felt like an old bad horror movie. While bad, I had a good time. (13teen Ghosts was another by the same company, and felt much the same on my nostalgia buttons.) Pumpkinhead is one of my favorite movies - while far from perfect I liked the fact that the demon had purpose, and that calling him forth had a price. A very decent Call of Cthulhu type movie. The Gate on the other hand....

My fave Cthulhu flick is The Resurrected. Might be another good addition.

[ThunderMonkey]

Up until I got addicted to Japanese and other Asian horror/macabre films, my all-time favorite horror movie was "The Serpent and the Rainbow" with Bill Pullman. I also really enjoyed John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness", Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder." "Slither" is also good for goofy horror fun and it has Nathan Fillion.

[TheAuldGrump]

Up until I got addicted to Japanese and other Asian horror/macabre films, my all-time favorite horror movie was "The Serpent and the Rainbow" with Bill Pullman. I also really enjoyed John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness", Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder." "Slither" is also good for goofy horror fun and it has Nathan Fillion.

Unfortunately, I had read the book 'Serpent and the Rainbow' - which was about cultural and social anthropology. Our plucky hero bought the recipe for zombie making from not one, not two, but five different Bokor.

The book is nonfiction, and fairly good - no being turned into a zombie, nor was he chased by the Tonton Macoute.  The movie is so thinly based on the book that it should have had a completely different title - and left me wondering not if Tobe Hooper had read the book, but rather if Tobe Hooper could read.

The movie is taking the view 'Voodoo is scary!, while the book is more along the lines of 'Voodoo is a religion with millions of believers'.For this reason the Serpent and the Rainbow is rated by me at about the same level of one that has Magellan being attacked by sea monsters when he reaches the edge of the mapped ocean.

Nonfiction should remain nonfiction. Among other things that I found interesting in the book - most of those 'turned into zombies' by culture, belief, and society, were actually not at all nice people (the one I remember best was a child rapist) - their communities chipped in to have these people taken off the streets and made useful....

The movie Sweet Liberty was about something very similar happening as part of a comedy fiction. Tobe Hooper did it in reality. Using a nonfiction book for research is fine, but claiming that what you have done is 'based on the book' is just plain wrong.

The Auld Grump, sorry, one of my go buttons there.... I like movies that are based on books to be based on the books, most especially in regards to nonfiction.

[Aldus Vertten]

I also agree about Dog Soldiers and Slither. I would also add Rocky Horror Picture Show, event probably is more Something/horror that the other way around...

[TheAuldGrump]

Heh - there used to be a small arthouse theater that showed Rocky Horror every year for Hallowe'en - they went out of business this year. A tiny, tiny place that had the cheapest and best theater popcorn in the city. Made in a 1930s era popcorn popper. A lot of their equipment is ending up in a museum - part of what ended them is the need to switch to digital projection in order to stay profitable, something that they could not afford.

The only time I went to Rocky Horror in costume I went as Riff Raff.

It's astounding.
Time is fleeting.
Madness... takes its toll....

The Auld Grump

[Krensky]

Heh.

Next Saturday me and a bunch of friends are going to a similar theater. Matinee of Ghostbusters, followed by a six hour pubcrawl, then RHPS with shadow cast.

[foproy]

Sorry, Glimmerrat, I seem to recall most of those as straight up horror. (Gods Ghostship brought me back - it felt like an old bad horror movie. While bad, I had a good time. (13teen Ghosts was another by the same company, and felt much the same on my nostalgia buttons.) Pumpkinhead is one of my favorite movies - while far from perfect I liked the fact that the demon had purpose, and that calling him forth had a price. A very decent Call of Cthulhu type movie. The Gate on the other hand....

My fave Cthulhu flick is The Resurrected. Might be another good addition.

masters of horror, dreams in the wich house is an excellent film based off of a lovecraft short story.

[ThunderMonkey]

The Auld Grump, sorry, one of my go buttons there.... I like movies that are based on books to be based on the books, most especially in regards to nonfiction.

I'm with you there buddy. I agree, and some of the worse offenders have been the John Grisham novels. I haven't read the book (it's still on my list of books to track down). If I know a book is going to be turned into a movie I won't read the book until after I've seen the movie. Which is why I'm probably one of the last holdouts who haven't read a single Harry Potter novel.

[Crafty_Pat]

If I know a book is going to be turned into a movie I won't read the book until after I've seen the movie. Which is why I'm probably one of the last holdouts who haven't read a single Harry Potter novel.

You and me both, brother.

[Wolverine]

Which is why I'm probably one of the last holdouts who haven't read a single Harry Potter novel.

Read the novels? I was thinking about it until I realized I could just get audio books read by Stephen Fry. That might be easier to manage.

[Nepenthe]

If I know a book is going to be turned into a movie I won't read the book until after I've seen the movie. Which is why I'm probably one of the last holdouts who haven't read a single Harry Potter novel.

You and me both, brother.

+ me.

[Gentry]

Which is why I'm probably one of the last holdouts who haven't read a single Harry Potter novel.

Read the novels? I was thinking about it until I realized I could just get audio books read by Stephen Fry. That might be easier to manage.

I did them all on audio by Jim Dale, and they're my personal gold standard in audio books. Dale's verbal showmanship is superb--only Saul Rubinek's reads of Rex Stout fiction even come close. Everybody else is just weaksauce.

[OverNinja]

If I know a book is going to be turned into a movie I won't read the book until after I've seen the movie. Which is why I'm probably one of the last holdouts who haven't read a single Harry Potter novel.

You and me both, brother.

+ me.

* raises hand *