What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nosferatu42]

I haven't got a photographic memory but i've got a F*ckographic memory, as in i remember stupid shit that just screws with yer mind at any given opportunity.

[nosferatu42]

Also I kinda have a thing for early Diane Keaton, She's sweet as in Sleeper and Love and Death.

[nosferatu42]

Oh yer he also mentioned I bury the living and Wait until dark, all films that i sought out and enjoyed, I'll have to look it up, it was a thing where he describes 20 films in a loose way. Or something like that.

[nosferatu42]

I was a proper King fiend until he started writing 1000 page novels, then i was f*ck that shit.
IT killed King for me.
As i get older i'm even more so...
I want a 200 page book and an 1hr and a half film, anything longer and i might have a heart attack and never know how it all works out.

[nosferatu42]

Ok the Danse Macabre thing is on page 207 in my copy.

[MrBarlow]

Nothing But The Night. 1973.

Three trustees of the Van Traylen fund die of apparently suicide, when a coach carrying children and other trustees crashes, Police Colonel Bingham teams up with pathologist Doctor Ashley to discover what actually happened.

This was good little number of a psychological chiller with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, not as enemies but more acceptances and are on the same wave length that something mysterious is happening around a home and the centre is a young girl Mary played by Gwyneth Strong.

Keith Barron plays a young doctor who believes that hypnotherapy can open Mary's mind and uncover what exactly happened with the bus crash and involves a journalist who uncovers more than she expected. Diana Dors plays Mary's mother with a tormented past and can come across as a real bitch but also has her intentions with her daughter's safety.

The main part is set in London then switches to a island in Scotland that makes it feel like a good Hammer Horror film set on a Scottish Island. This did peak my interest on how it changed location and does come with a nice twist and murders that happen and be connected with a cult or pagan theme. This was a blind watch and definitely worth a watch.

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[nosferatu42]

Just reading that part of Danse Macabre i mentioned yesterday while i was a bit tipsy.

In the segment King sets a quiz where he describes 20 films he finds frightening.

Describing Looking for Mr Goodbar he says...

"Once upon a time there was a sad girl who picked up men in bars, because when the men came home with her she didn't feel so sad. Except one night she picked up a man who was wearing a mask. Underneath the mask he was the boogeyman."

I remembered seeing it on TV when i was young and it stuck with me, Keaton is very good in it and the ending is pretty disturbing. Not released on dvd or anything in the UK, i recorded it off channel 5 when it was shown a few years back.

And just because i'm looking at the page here are the films King recommends.

1. Wait until dark
2. Halloween
3. Psycho
4. Coma
5. Looking for Mr Goodbar
6. Alien
7. The Haunting
8. Midnight Express
9. The Bad Seed
10. Night of the hunter
11. Night watch (1973)
12. Night of the living dead
13. The Birds
14. Dementia 13
15. Whatever happened to Baby Jane
16. I bury the living
17. Macabre (William Castle)
18. X- Man with the x ray eyes
19. The Omen
20. Deliverance

Haven't seen Macabre or Night watch still so may have to look them up.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

Haven't seen Macabre or Night watch still so may have to look them up.

Lambert Bava's Macabre is a good film, along with House by the Cemetery and Sleepless, one of the first released by Arrow Video. There is a major point that is often given away by the poster artwork, so try and avoid that if you want to get the most from the story.

[nosferatu42]

I've seen and own the Bava Macabre the one King refers to is by William Castle.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

I've seen and own the Bava Macabre the one King refers to is by William Castle.

I'm sure I have seen it and there is a reasonable quality version on YouTube.



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