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Sat 22 Oct, 2005 11:46 pm
I'm getting together with all my friends for a Halloween-movie-fest on the 31st. However, some of them are a bit squeamish when it comes to straight-ahead horror, so I was thinking of horror pics laced with some offbeat elements, such as conventional comedy or thriller stylings. The two that came to mind were the Frighteners and Shaun of the Dead.
I've heard Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy is in this vein, but have yet to see any of them. Which of the three is best? How good are they really?
Another recommendation I got was Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (though they say it's the goriest film ever done!) and Re-animator.
Any other suggestions on these kinds of Halloween films?
Thanks & cheers...
I loved both Evil Dead and Dead Alive. D.A. is indeed gory, but it's so over the top that it's laugh-out-loud, jaw-dropping gory.
If I remember correctly, Peter Jackson used something like 300 liters of fake blood just for the final segment of Dead Alive. Dead Alive and the Evil Dead movies are definitely
cult classics--are your friends the type who like such films?
And who cares if their squeamish?! It's Halloween--let 'em squirm!
I recommend a Canadian film called
GINGER SNAPS, it's a werewolf film with
a difference. There are actually 3 films
in the series. The other 2 are GINGER SNAPS 2
and GINGER SNAPS BACK. I'd go with the
first one.
"The Haunting," but the Robert Wise version, not the remake with Liam Neeson. It's black-and-white and psychologically one of the scariest movies ever made. The bulging door effect was coped by Disney in their Haunted Mansion.
The best Evil Dead film is Army of Darkness
Another good Bruce Campbell film is Bubba-Ho-Tep
I also really dig Underworld ...they have vampires and warewolves in the same movie--how much more Halloween can you get than that? Plus the costumes are pretty Goth and stuff. The sequel comes out in Jan and will be awesome!
thiefoflight wrote:I recommend a Canadian film called
GINGER SNAPS, it's a werewolf film with
a difference. There are actually 3 films
in the series. The other 2 are GINGER SNAPS 2
and GINGER SNAPS BACK. I'd go with the
first one.
Is that the one with thte girls in it and a guy that i think was a 'dropout'.
If it is I stumbled across it a couple of years back and I was pleasently entertined.Very different, couldnt stop watching it.
It's about two goth sisters who live in surburbia
who are social outcasts. one of them is bitten
by a wolf.
If you can find the other two films they are worth
watching also.
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