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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

House of 1000 Corpses (2001)

No matter how many times i watch this i always notice or hear something new. That's the beauty of Rob Zombie's grimy yet wonderfully colourful debut feature film.

Never moving out of classic grindhouse territory, House of 1000 Corpses plunges two young couples into a nightmarish Halloween back woods tale where they fall victim to a family of sick deviants and deformed grotesques including Karen Black, Bill Moseley, a demented Sid Haig in the now iconic role of Captain Spaulding and Zombie's soon wife to be, Sherri Moon.

I do think there's far more to it though. It's a far more technically proficient film than the ones it emulates like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Funhouse and is influenced as much by the 30's and 40's Universal horror classics that seem to play constantly on tv in this film. Zombie takes us on a daringly wild ride of a hallucinatory mindf*ck of weird images, colours, varying film stocks and sounds in a relentless assault on the senses which is stunningly enhanced in HD with it's 7:1 surround soundtrack.

It's a film that's perhaps not as gory as you may think but the overall tone reeks of putrification and i can't get enough of it.

The Witch (2015)

Banished by their Puritan elders over a religious dispute, William (Ralph Ineson) and his family of English settlers build a new home on the edge of a secluded forest. In a shocking scene the family's youngest member, baby Samuel, is stolen from under the nose of teenage daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) by a witch who uses the dead baby's body to make a flying ointment.

From there on things become increasingly more unsettling as director Robert Eggars thrusts us headfirst into a historically accurate, beautifully crafted exercise in sustained tension and ultimately madness that's as disturbing and genuinely frightening as any horror film i can remember. Oh and it's as creepy as f*ck with it.

A modern masterpiece.

Both master works in their own right the Witch is one of the most unnerving films I have ever seen and it doesn't loose any impact with multiple viewings