Horror Double Bill!! suggestions
I'm going over to a friends for dinner on Halloween. I want to sort out the films.
I'm thinking An American Werewolf In London for the first one and perhaps something a bit more modern as the second feature (as seems to be the way to do it these days).
Which two films do you think would make the perfect horror double bill?
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Braindead/Idle Hands
Let The Right One In
Hot Fuzz <<< Not sure about the opening two hours, but the final act is shocking. Hi-yo!
The Exorcist
The Shining
i can heartily recommend
switchblade romance. it's subtitled, but burger me is it coronary-inducingly good. The original title is high tension and it's incredibly apt. my bum's not squeaked so much in a long time.
Wicker Man remake
Danny Dyer Presents: Doghouse
truly horrifying, especially if you watch them with any vaguely impowered woman
?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo
you should pair that with Shaun of the Dead for something modern
The Thing + The Fly
American Werewolf in London + Evil Dead (1 or 2 doesn't matter)
Martin + Let The Right One In (cheerful night!)
Alien + Halloween
What about Drag Me To Hell or The Orphanage
any good?
they're both alright
Drag Me To Hell is more entertaining
Eraserhead and Don't Look Now.
Or Suspiria.
Not Switchblade Romance though. That is rubbish. SPOILER it's the girl chasing after the murderer who is the murderer. You are welcome!
The Thing as a classic & Trick R Treat for a modern one
Trick r Treat is great http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh0DwJZjz8
he knows you're alone would definitely be a good one
a kind of halloween/psycho mix which is actually quite funny at times as well, plus it's tom hanks' debut feature!!!
slumber party massacre is also quite amusing but not as good, and not very scary at all
or if you want something new then doghouse
doghouse is dire
to be perfectly honest i've only seen trailers+read reviews
looks pretty good from what i've seen so far though, so thought i'd recommend it anyway
...................dyer
how many contemporary horror films have got genuinely good actors in them though?
i reckon i can name 6
only messing. I actually like danny dyer
whatever you do don't watch Vinyan
I heard it was good & wasted a couple of hours last week bored to death
Doghouse is the most misogynistic film i've ever seen
i'm going to write about it in my dissertation
i love my life
if you want some proper old school ones then i'd be more than happy to list some
One Night In Paris
Demons + Suspiria
Trick or Treat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lomZHKf9Exw + Return of the Living Dead
Martyrs
Seriously, hunt it down. Utterly horrific.
Legion looks ridiculous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lGCjd9W8U&feature=related
God arranges the extinction of man kind. Maybe not a horror but on the related films bit to one of the above youtube links.
Tremors + From Dusk 'til Dawn
if you don't find the idea of undead Nazi's too cliche
Outpost is one of the best Horror films I've seen in ages.
REC scared the fuck out of me
I saw Pontypool recently and it was really good.
Re-animator and Suspiria
done
re-animator is rubbs
i'm going to be controversial
and say suspiria's not all it's cracked up to be, either.
suspiria is the supreme example of whats wrong with all of Argento's full on horror
and to a lesser extent his giallo too.
spectacular set pieces strung together with really ropey dialogue and utterly ridiculous plots.
actually ... it isn't really, Mother of Tears probably is. But all that is a selection of his other famous scenes remade and wrapped around some tedious sub-da vinci code balls
it's not really scary at all though, there's no atmosphere
even less so that some of the Fulci films and other B-movies from the same period.
It could have been a great exercise in suspense, a la Rosemary's Baby but it's just a lot of cheap set pieces with no engaging characters or air of tension.
y'know what is vastly underrated these days - as an exercise in tension, creepiness and atmosphere
The Blair Witch Project
the orphanage
and, to some extent, Let The Right One In, were the last films that I saw that felt like that. Other than that, I'm struggling to think of anything that got anywhere near that sort of atmosphere.
i was going to suggest [rec]
the orphanage was also amazing
battle royale and its sequel
why am I still awake :(
Jack Frost 2 and House of the Dead
Body Melt/Monster Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106450/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365513/
Monster Man is great
Body Melt is even better
You get to see Harold Bishops's ear stuck to his hand.
:D MONSTER MAN!
I love that film.
ROOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
romance a goth with
Twilight and the Crow