Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Science Fiction Films of the 70's

Star Wars (1977)
The Black Hole (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Logan's Run (1976)
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Demon Seed (1977)
The Omega Man (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)

I didn't want to include films like Shivers and Horror Express as i see them as, well, i think the clue is in the title of the second film i just mentioned.

[Demoncrat]

Cthulhu!! Shivers was a documentary???

Dark Star
A Boy & His Dog
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Solaris
Stalker
The Final Programme
The Visitor
THX 1138
Bug
Blue Rita

[mr 420]

So what's the topic for this week Dem?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by mr 420

So what's the topic for this week Dem?

EXTREME HORROR!!!

This weeks subject is open to interpretation of course. For example i haven't seen anything from August Underground. Lets have a top ten of the films you consider to be the most EXTREME HORROR.

[keirarts]

I'll be honest, I've gone off 'trangressive films'. Maybe I'm getting old but I sat through American guinea pig bored as hell. I've had a long hard think on this and compiled stuff I've actually enjoyed beyond their shock value. Last house is the wild card as its not extreme these days but I'm taking in the shock value from the time it was made.

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[J Harker]

Not sure how I'm gonna fair with this one. My idea of extreme horror is probably quite tame, stuff like the Guinea Pig film, August Underground, Faces of Death holds no appeal whatsoever to me.

[Susan Foreman]

It's your interpretation of 'extreme horror', Mr Harker

Don't forget that the original Universal and Hammer films were considered 'extreme' when they were first released

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I'll be honest, I've gone off 'trangressive films'. Maybe I'm getting old but I sat through American guinea pig bored as hell. I've had a long hard think on this and compiled stuff I've actually enjoyed beyond their shock value.

Same for me - a lot of extreme horror stuff nowadays seems to be based on trying to 'one-up' the film that came before it in terms of gore at the expense of everything else.

Originally Posted by keirarts

I've had a long hard think on this and compiled stuff I've actually enjoyed beyond their shock value.

I think I'll be doing the same.

[J Harker]

My belated 60's/70's sci-fi list. It appears i have a massive hole in my film viewing to fill as i just can't do ten of each so I've combined decades and done five of each.

The Time Machine. 1960
The Last Man On Earth. 1964
Quatermass and the Pit. 1967
Planet of the Apes. 1968
2001: A Space Oddyssey.1968

Westworld. 1977
Star Wars. 1977
The Incredible Melting Man. 1977
Mad Max. 1979
Alien. 1979

[mr 420]

The following are/were extreme to me:

Cannibal Holocaust
Africa Addio
Last House on the Left
Last House on Dead End Street
Philosophy of a Knife
City of the Living Dead (my first 'nasty' experience)
Wet Wilderness
Gestapo's Last Orgy
The Last Victim
The Legend of Hell House (the 3 or 4 times I saw this on TV as a kid I could never get past the bit of the record player going on by itself. It used to spook the shit out of me.)

Edit: an honourable mention to the fantastic Singapore Sling.