13 Horror Movies You Need To Watch This Weekend!
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I found 13 horror movies that would make a great film festival.
Vampires, inbred underground cannibals, frog gods, old gods, zombies and insane actors. Everything you'd ever need in a horror flick.
00:00 Intro
00:43 Death Line/ Raw Meat
03:18 The Baby
04:46 Vampyres
05:55 Daughters of Darkness
07:13 Martyrs
09:04 Nightmare City
10:16 Theatre of Blood
11:12 Trilogy of Terror
12:03 Daybreakers
13:12 Horrors of Malformed Men
14:14 The Dunwich Horror
15:43 The Fury
17:17 Psychomania
18:32 Outro
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Trilogy Of Terror I remember well. Freaked me out as a kid, not bad for TV horror. Karen Black knocked it out of the park. What could have been ridiculous with a doll chasing someone around but has a nasty twist. Take that Chuckie! Great picks, Terry.
Thank you. 😀
I first saw the "Raw Meat" U.S. version and was very impressed. Later I got the Blu Ray with the British version. Great film. "Mind the doors!" And where else can we see Donald Pleasence mouth "F*$@K you!" to Christopher Lee. I wish this film were better known. That slow, 360 degree shot in the man's lair in the Underground is just fantastic. And "Theater of Blood"? Amazing, snarky film I re-watch every year at Halloween. "One is irrepressibly reminded of a ham sandwich". Fantastic stuff, great film festival list, Terry. Cheers!
Thanks so much, Jose. I'm glad you liked it.
"One is irrepressibly reminded of a ham sandwich." A great line. 🤣 Also the one where Price is disguised as an effeminate hairdresser for one of his murders and quotes "Spare for no faggots ..." from the execution of Joan of Arc in Henry VI. 🫢
Thanks for all the cool recommendations. Unlike other channels that regurgitate the same standard movie lists as each other over and over, you actually suggest really interesting stuff. The majority of which I wasn't even aware of. Excellent as always.
Thanks, Douglas. I wanted to avoid the obvious with this one, like all the festivals.
Another great list Terry. The Fury is a favourite. It's hard to put in words how much that movie just freaked me out at the time I first saw it. As you say it's always a plus when the lead bad guy is so graphically exploded.
Also that the sploding baddie is one of the great American indie directors of the second half of the last century.
Killer program. Not a dud among them. I recently saw Horrors of Malformed Men on the Arrow Video app along with the director's other horror films and they are WILD. Highly recommend them all. Dunwich Horror is great and has one of my favorite title sequences ever!
Sacrificing Sandra Dee to an Elder God is a delicious, crazy idea.
you are absolutely right about Martyrs!! You only need to watch it once .
Love Deathline " Mind the Gap!"
Psychomania - it's almost English 70s kitchen-sink drama. Beryl Reid is fab and the whole thing has a wonderful level of campness. Clever premise, actually.
They're all great but yes, Martyrs is in a weird conceptual space. Great film, see it only once.
I’ve only seen seven of the movies, but I think breadth and depth wise your selections would really work for a horror themed film festival. You might want to save Martyrs for last since I’m not sure what you could follow it up with that wouldn’t be a bit of a cognitive and thematic jolt.
Yep. Martyrs is a tough flick to follow.
love that you said "It's not a first date movie" regarding "Martyrs"! lol! never a truer statement made. i went with a guy as a "first date" to see "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover". neither sex nor going for food was likely after that! I like this list! Different types of horror from different nations and different decades. the only other "biker" horror film i can think of besides "Psychomania" is "Werewolves on Wheels"
I once saw Silence of the Lambs as the first movie with someone, so I know of what I speak.
Awesome list and recommendations as always! I love your movie festival videos and your flow for them.
I couldn’t help but see the count duckula box set behind and I know you’ve done some commentary on cartoons but it would be neat to see a film festival for animated films regardless of genre.
I do have a strong recommendation for watching The Spine of Night. I discovered it last fall and it scratches an itch for me in a lot of ways. Rotoscoped sword and sorcery like the 80s. Nudity and violence CW. Nothing crazy, but just as an fyi.
I hope you have a great week and happy watching!
Thanks for the tip on The Spine of Night. Much appreciated! 😀
Great selection, Terry. All great entertainment, and worth your time. My favourite has to be 'Theatre Of Blood' which is just a joy. It's full of great actors, enjoying themselves, and it is also very funny, but with some properly nasty violence. It's a movie that pushes all the right buttons for me. Plus, it stars Vincent Price, and was an AIP movie. The loss of Roger Corman, a few days ago, made me rather sad.
Terry, have you seen a couple of lower budget UK horror movies from 1966 - 'It!', starring Roddy McDowell, and a very creepy Golem, and 'The Frozen Dead' which features an industrial deep freezer full of Nazis?
They were made by Goldstar, and filmed at the Merton Park Studios. Both a lot of fun, and, of course, batshit crazy, but I wondered if you were familiar with them.
I love It! Psycho meets The Golem. It's crazy AF.
Great choices. I saw Theatre of Blood in the cinema, with my dad - it is surely the absolute epitome of British camp horror, even more so than Dr Phibes, and I love it. What a cast!
Psychomania is another such film, and it has Ted Moore as its cinematographer! Only in the British cinema of that time could a low-budget horror throwaway have a star-studded cast like Theatre of Blood or an Oscar-winning cinematographer, like Psychomania.
Personally, I've never had the urge to watch horror that isn't essentially comic or fantastic. Martyrs is not for me...
I'd be the first to admit that Martyrs isn't for everyone. It's a brutal watch but a truly fine horror movie by every criteria.
Dean Stockwell was superb in The Dunwich Horror. I have been a devoted fan since seeing his performance in the movie, Compulsion, many years ago. He and the movie were both amazing
Compulsion is a hidden gem. Welles' long monologue about capital punishment is chef's kiss terrific, too.
Hey Terry from Ned n Janet in sunny España. Great picks, some of which I don't know but will take a peek at. Both Raw Meat and The Baby are wild cards. Mr Price and Dynamite Diana work fabulously in Theater..., Psychomania was a movie I first saw on the late late show and loved it instantly. Speaking of sexy vampire movies do you know Queens of Evil 1970, dir Tonino Cervi with a lone hippie biker getting his head messed with by 3 Mod freaky blood drinkers ? Great as always and thanks!
Thanks for the tip on Queens of Evil. I'll check it out.
The Dunwich Horror is great, so different to the usual Dean Stockwell characters. I'll try to tackle some of the others.
I hope you enjoy them. 🙂
Great selection as always, Terry.
Like your fantasy marathon, I wanted to see if I could come up with at 13 film horror marathon (with no crossover). So my attempt is:
The Burrowers - cool weird western horror
Cronos - Guillermo del Toro's first film and token vampire film
Island of Lost Souls - great delirious horror film from the 30s
Lake Mungo - one of the greatest Australian films in recent history (though I haven't watched Babadook yet.) A real slow burn
Maléfique - French horror film set in a prison cell. Not as well known as it should be. Great effects for something so minimal.
The Nameless - Spanish adaptation of a Ramsey Campbell novel (got to put my favourite author in there.) Campbell prefers the ending of the film to his book.
Night of the Demon - The Tourneur classic. I've got the set with multiple versions so there could be a vote on the one with the demon on screen or without.
Possession - you need one film in a horror marathon that people can't walk away from in a hurry.
Pulse - considered Kiyoshi Kurosawa's masterpiece. Has some truly frightening moments.
Short Night of the Glass Dolls - very strange Italian horror film from the point of view of a paralyzed journalist awaiting his own autopsy. (I had a number of choices from my collection but this one seems underseen and is pretty near perfect.)
Symptoms - another Larraz film from the collection you chose Vampyres from. Though set in a decrepit English estate there's very much a decadent European vibe to it.
Trick 'r Treat - a melange of stories set around Halloween. I think one particular story prevented its distribution for years.
Zeder - an Italian zombie film not like any other Italian zombie film. More like Pet Semetary as a occult thriller.
Finally - Horrors of Malformed Men was based on several stories by Edogawa Rampo - Japan's master of horror (who's pseudonym is based on Edgar Allen Poe.) There's a whole slew of films based on his work, but two I'd suggest are: Rampo Noir - an anthology of short films based on his stories, and The Mystery of Rampo which is a biopic with elements from his stories creeping in at the sides.
Great selections, mate. I figured out I could do ten or twelve horror festivals if I dived deeper into the collection, too.
Hi Terry. Great list. I’ve avoided the Baby so far but may give it a peek as I liked Ruth Roman in Impulse with William Shatner. Nightmare City, that ending hey? Big Balls on Lenzi for the audacity 😜 I recently watched Let’s Scare Jessica to Death. That is a great little early 70s Southern Gothic Gem.
Let's Scare Jessica To Death is great. Imprint's Blu-ray release of it is choice.
Love, love, love Raw Meat. "Mind the doors!"
It was a very different kind of horror movie for its time.
The Dunwich Horror was one of the first Lovecraft stories I read. The movie was a fairly faithful adaption, and I did enjoy it.
It has a satisfying 1970s craziness about it, too, which I really appreciated.
I know you're into it, but I can so lose The Baby, I don't even need bathwater to throw it out with. For me it just felt like a big sad waste of time. On the subject of female vampires, I've always enjoyed Countess Dracula, a retelling of Elizabeth Bathory. I take Theater of Blood as a fun lead-in to the Dr. Phibes movies. Trilogy of Terror is a TV classic -- I also recommend The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler, the two TV movies which led to the Kolchak show, and 1972's Gargoyles. These were the kinds of movies that half my high school loved talking about the following day. The cast alone recommends Daybreakers for me. My favorite Willem Dafore vampire is in Shadow of the Vampire. The Dunwich Horror I take more as a curiosity than a genuine horror. My favorite Lovecraft may well be the whacked-out version of From Beyond with Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. One thing I note about The Fury is that Quentin Tarantino is a David Cronenberg fan, but he felt that The Fury stole a lot of thunder from Cronenberg's Scanners. (The Fury might make a fair double bill with 1968's The Power -- do you think?) Lots to think about with these. Thanks, Ter.
The Power is a great little movie. George Pal and Byron Haskin trying to show things that the technology didn't yet exist to show on screen.
Seen Raw Meat, The Baby, Vampyres, Trilogy of Terror, The Dunwich Horror and The Fury. Heard of many of the rest. There was a Japanese horror fest at the Film Forum in NYC that included Horrors of Malformed Men but it's just a bit too far for me to go unfortunately. If I was 20 and not a dad, then yes. I'm a horror fan but boy are there so many coming out in the last 10-15 years or so. Can't keep up. Here's my ideas for a horror marathon: Mad Love, Doctor X, Black Sabbath, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Legend of Hell House, The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Near Dark, The Tenant, The Dark Half, Below, Green Room, Train to Busan.
Good choices!
Good group, I have seen a few. I find it interesting how many people misinterpreted the Killer doll in Trilogy of Terror. Price was at his prime in, Theater. of Blood although he had taken roles in The Mad Magician and House of Wax. The Eighties holds so many gems. Watched most on VCR rentals.
Didn't we all? 🙂😊
Watching this again, it occurred to me that a good second feature with 'Death Line', would be 'Creep', from 2014.
I have Creep but haven't watched it yet. Thanks for the recommendation.
just a quick addendum!
"The Atrocity Exhibition" (1998) might be worth having a look at. Only the 4th (as far as i know) adaptation of a JG Ballard book, along with Cronenberg's "Crash", Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" and Ben Wheatley's "High Rise". "The Atrocity Exhibition" (film) is in many ways like the film of "Crash"; it veers wildly between deliberately banal moments and performances, to vivid and at times excruciating visceral detail. Because it's been done on a smaller, tight budget, a lot of the squirm inducing material appears to come from what looks to be declassified documentation footage of things like wounds from Hiroshima, close-ups of plastic surgery, actual (hopefully already deceased) bodies being used as crash test dummies. It is a curious labour of love for the film makers and presumably well created enough to have a commentary from Ballard himself. Watching it i was reminded a lot of Cronenberg's own early shorter features "Stereo" (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970).
Thanks for the tip, Jack. I'll check it out.
I'll have to look these up! I enjoy old B horror movies, like "The Dead of Night", and "The Asphyx". Suspect 0 is a good murder mystery/horror movie, too.
Good picks there!
Love Theater of Blood. Great Shakpearean over-the-top macabre murders and theatrical in-jokes.
It is really joyous and silly and fun and the cast is first class.
You cannot beat a movie where the sympathetic cannibal looks like Ian Anderson circa 1972....
And is weirdly sympathetic.
@@terrytalksmovies -- Makes me wonder about Ian Anderson.... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Good selection Terry. The 70's was a great time for hooror.
Being a teenage cinephile in the 1970s was a magic time that I only fully appreciated much later.
@@terrytalksmovies Yes I remember myself sitting in the dark and watching the screen and thinking why am I here watching this lol. But enjoying every moment lol
Sounds like quite the freaky line-up with some great movies!
That was the intention! Thanks.
Horrors of the Malformed Man: Yes! Teruo Ishii is famous for all the wrong reasons. He has done so many great film! Okay most are strange, over the top, trashy - but GREAT! And a few are really horrible, haha.
The hard part with the festivals is the flow from one movie to the next. Getting it right is wonderful fun.
@@terrytalksmovies Yeah, I know. The same with music (mix tapes ...).
I’ve only seen The Fury.
There were a couple of good ones in the 21st Century:
- Drag Me To Hell (2009)
- I saw the Devil (2010)
The 1970s had lots of great horror movies of various sub genres:
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The Wicker Man (1973)
- Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- Jaws (1975)
- Carrie (1976)
- The Omen (1976)
- Suspiria (1977)
- Halloween (1978)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Alien (1979)
I covered I Saw The Devil, Suspiria and The Wicker Man in previous videos. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies What is the title of your video about “I Saw the Devil”? Perhaps the best movie I’ve seen about a serial killer and the copper who pursued him. Scary too.
Great list, never actually seen Psychomania, somehow, I keep passing it over when it comes up on my radar. All worth seeing again, except maybe Martyrs. Yes, not a good first date movie. Not a good date movie at all. Maybe a good break up movie. Break up, with prejudice.
No. Showing someone Martyrs as a breakup movie is a sadistic move. Always be kind. 😀
The Baby is just... wrong. I had a great time watching it.
I remember liking Vampyres, though not so much Daughters of Darkness. However, I only ever saw the latter in one of Umbrella's old NTSC-PAL conversions which could be ugh to look at. I suspect I might enjoy it more if I could at least a nice-looking copy of it.
Nightmare City is great fun, especially when paired with Bruno Mattei's Hell of the Living Dead.
I badly need to upgrade my copy of Theatre of Blood. Phenomenal work by Vincent Price.
Horrors of Malformed Men is indeed hard to describe. One I should watch again. Also The Dunwich Horror, which I saw around the time I was discovering Lovecraft aged 15/16 but not since.
And yes, Psychomania, good grief. That was a film I couldn't work out how to take.
The Baby is wonderfully F'ed up.
Psychomania, played it for my son who hates old movies. He thought it was awesome.
Slick move there! Hit him with the weird shit and let the movie do the rest.
Horror is not my genre. When I was young, my gran taught us not to be afraid of the dead and that horror stories are not true, so I grew up immune to horror. As an adult, I do watch some horror but have no reactions to it. I grew up watching Hammer House of Horror and Tales of the Unexpected very often because we had so few channels to watch and control of the TV was dad.
Time to discover horror as an entertainment, not as something scary. 😀
Sadly Roger Corman is no more:(
Yes but he was incredibly important and influential.
You can never go wrong with old lesbian vampire films. But I prefer the Hammer films.
Call me shallow but I prefer young lesbian vampire films. 😀
Theater of blood whereas I do like it is plot wise too close to the abominable Dr. Phibes
The addition of Diana Rigg makes it different. Phibes has a lot more creative goriness about it.