Friday 23 July 2010

10 DVD's I HEMMED & HAWED ABOUT, BUT AM DELIGHTED THAT I BOUGHT IN THE END

"99 WOMEN"(1969)
Actors: Maria Schell, Luciana Paluzzi, Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Lom, Maria Rohm
Director: Jesus Franco
DVD Company: Blue Underground



"THE CANDY SNATCHERS" (1973)
Actors: Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza, Susan Sennett, Brad David, Vince Martorano
Director: Guerdon Trueblood
DVD Company: Subversive Cinema



"THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS" (1974)
Actors: Andrew Prine, Jennifer Ashley, Tiffany Bolling, Teda Bracci, Kitty Carl, Mike Mazurki
Director: John Peyser
DVD Company: Dark Sky Films



GINGER: "GINGER" (1971)/"THE ABDUCTORS" (1972)/"GIRLS ARE FOR LOVING" (1973)
Actors: Cheri Caffaro, Timothy Brown, Jocelyne Peters, Scott Ellsworth, Fred Vincent
Director: Don Schain
DVD Company: Monterey Video



"THE GRAPES OF DEATH" (1978)
Actors: Paul Bisciglia, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Patricia Cartier, Michel Herval, Brigitte Lahaie
Director: Jean Rollin
DVD Company: Synapse Films



"HORROR HOTEL" (1960)
Actors: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
DVD Company: Elite



"I DRINK YOUR BLOOD" (1970)
Actors: Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz, George Patterson, Riley Mills
Director: David E. Durston
DVD Company: Grindhouse Releasing



"LOVE ME DEADLY" (1973)
Actors: Lyle Waggoner, Mary Wilcox, Christopher Stone
Director: Jacques Lacerte
DVD Company: Shriek Show/Media Blasters/Code Red



"MESSIAH OF EVIL" (1973)
Actors: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Elisa Cook Jr., Bennie Robinson
Director: Willard Huyck
DVD Company: Code Red



"GIRLS IN CHAINS" (1973)
Actors: Gary Kent, John Stoglin, Stafford Morgan, Suzanne Lund, Greta Gayland, Leah Tate
Director: Don Jones
DVD Company: Shriek Show/Media Blasters/Code Red




Thursday 8 July 2010

My Top 10 Willy Inducing Moments


As per The Horror Digest, here are My Top 10 Willy Inducing Moments in random order:

1. "PSYCHO" (1960, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)


The look Norman gives the audience... that's right, he looks at the audience, breaking the 4th Wall in such a way that we don't even realize it at the time... at the end of "Psycho". This, mixed with his "I wouldn't even hurt a fly" speech, is shiver time... even before Mother's skull appears in a double exposure.

2. "SESSION 9" (2001, Dir: Brad Anderson)



The final voice over from the reel-to-reel recording of the final session... when we finally hear from the personality known as Simon and discover exactly where he lives... Goose bumps.

3. "DEEP RED" (aka "Profondo Rosso", 1975, Dir: Dario Argento)



Dario Argento's laughing mechanical puppet from one of the essential gialli (that significantly predates that talking, mechanical puppet in "Saw").

4. "SCREAM OF FEAR" (aka "Taste of Fear", 1961, Dir: Seth Holt)



Susan Strasberg discovers her father's corpse (for the first time) in Hammer's excellent "mini-Hitchcock".

5. "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS" (1956, Dir: Don Siegel)



The pay-off (later) to this innocuous dialogue:

Becky: [laughs] I'm not the high school kid you use to romance, so how can you tell?

Miles: You really want to know?

Becky: Mmm-hmm.

Miles: [after kissing her] Mmmm, you're Becky Driscoll, all right!

6. "PRINCE OF DARKNESS" (1987, dir: John Carpenter)



Those video transmissions; unclear images of something... bad.

7. "LOST HIGHWAY" (1997, dir: David Lynch)



Robert Blake makes a phone call to himself... and answers at the other end.

8. "THE HAUNTING" (1963, Dir: Robert Wise)



The "Whose hand was I holding?" scene.

9. "BLACK CHRISTMAS" (1974, Dir: Bob Clark)



Many moments to choose from in this one, but the eye through the crack in the door has it!

10. "HALLOWEEN" (1978, dir: John Carpenter)



Michael emerges from the darkness behind the world's most famous Final Girl. A semi-slow burn.