What are some of my favorites so far you might ask? (even if you didn't I'm still going to answer).
Let's see...
American werewolf in London-David's transformation scene will always be one of the greatest examples of why CG will never replace the age old practice of REAL special FX. Yes it's much more time and work to do the real stuff, but when it pays off, which it does in this movie, it's amazing.
Oh yeah, Nazi werewolves come in a close second
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The Thing-Everything about this movie is perfect. Challenge it, I dare you.
It has Wilford Brimley in it fer fucks sake.
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Dog soldiers-Next to American werewolf, this is the second best (in my opinion) werewolf film ever made. It's just serious enough to be great, but never takes itself too seriously (you get what I mean?)
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Dagon-Just watched this the other night. Forgot how good H.P. Lovecraft stories can be when done well. Yes Stuart Gordan has slipped a couple times. When he's on though, he's spot on.
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Grindhouse-Saw this when it was first out. Enjoyed it, or at least Planet Terror and the fake trailers immensely. Death proof, while it had it's moments, just didn't live up to what I expected Tarintino to do (being that Kill bill vol 1&2 were more grindhousey than Death Proof was). Still worth all three of your hours if you have it in you.
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The Mist-Holy fuck. Did Frank Darabont knock this one out of the park. I know some people didn't like the ending, but I personally (having grown up with the original short story) think he did a bang up job on making the ending better, and horribly brutal.
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Zombie-What a great goddamn zombie film. You gotta love the Italians for taking something from America (like they did with westerns) and showing us how to REALLY do it. At one point in this film a zombie fights a shark, let me repeat that. A zombie fights a shark. What else do you want?
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Dawn of the dead (original)-Favorite film growing up. Still my favorite zombie film. Even got to go to the mall where they filmed it when I lived in Pittsburgh. It's a shame that Romero is so out of touch now...
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Event Horizon-Fer real's. This is a creepy ass film. It might not have the biggest stars in it, but the actors do a fine job with what they have. I feel like this is an overlooked gem.
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The Descent-Another Marshall film. Yes the CGI bats sucked, deal with it. Other than that, I dare you to watch it alone, in the dark. Such a good idea, done so well, on a limited budget.
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The Exorcist-If you haven't seen this you don't deserve to.
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Shaun of the Dead-Why it took someone as long as it did to actually make a GOOD spoof of zombie films is beyond me. It's also the fact that it does take itself seriously at times too that puts this in such a high place in my heart.
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From Dusk till Dawn-How in the fuck does this movie not get more praise? Seriously, it starts off going in one direction (heist movie) and then adds Mexican vampires. I give up, you win movie.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street-I'll be the first to admit that this movie isn't as good as I remember it being, but it's still a classic. Long before Freddy became just a burnt up bag of one-liners. His character actually had some menace to him. Worth a repeat viewing if you haven't seen it in awhile.
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And for tonight I shall be watching
In the mouth of madness-Carpenters "love letter" to the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. In no way is it as good as "The thing" but it's still pretty damn good.
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I've included links to all of the films profiles on IMDB, so if you're interested you can learn a thing or two.
See I'm teaching people...how to be nerds.
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Oh very nice collection indeed. Just watched Planet Terror yesterday, amazing. Death proof, couldn't get past the first fifteen minutes.
I very much agree with your assesment of Dusk till Dawn, it's a classic.
Ditto to the above. I wonder what Quentin Tarantino thought as he watched his contemporaries, the Cohens and PT Anderson revealing these absolute masterpieces. Maybe something like "man, like--y'know--maybe i should--like, focus less on re-creating horrible old movies and, y'know-- more on making good new ones."
Can't wait to see his WWII movie. Wonder what he'll come up with. Adrienne Barbeau as a German chanteuse? Martin Mull as wizened colnel? Harry Dean Stanton playing a renegade army major with one last chance at redemption?...ugh.
And I like the inclusion of two Sam Neill roles on here. He seemed to have the disturbing, demonic wing of the film industry locked down for a bit of the 90's. Creepy fucker.
Death Proof has it's moments. To me though, it was nothing but a movie he made for Zoe Bell.
Yeah, I didn't purposely go in to this thinking "boy oh boy, i can't wait to watch me some Sam Neill". He just happens to have been in two pretty good horror/sci-fi films from the 90's.
On the subject of Inglorious Basterds (the new Tarintino film, and no, I didn't spell it wrong).
I think it could be good, but there is so little info about it right now. Other than the fact that the platoon in it is supposed to contain nothing but Jewish people (at least in the story) and Brad Pitt plays some sort of scout (within the platoon).
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