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ackblom12:
That's added to my watch list then. It isn't to say he always handled having a female lead well. The female lead in Demons was even more useless and damsel like than most typical horror films, and her reward for surviving the film thanks to her hunky romantic interest is turning into a demon and getting shot during the credits.  There were a lot of unfortunate things about that character was handled.

ackblom12:
Alright, I've watched a ridiculous number of films over the last 2 or 3 weeks and I think I'm going to try and get my motivation for this thread up yet again. This time I'm going to start off with...

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1973):

This one's a classic, though I'm not entirely sure that it's a particularly well known one. An acting troupe are brought to an island with a history of curses and demons, by their asshole director Alan. While there, he gets the gang to dig up a dead body and perform a ritual to raise the dead as a gag. After mocking Orville, the ceremonial body, for a large chunk of the film, the inevitable happens and everyone dies. It's humor regularly falls a bit flat, but the atmosphere is incredible and the entire time you're just waiting for Orville to chew Alan's face off for being a total shit heel. Well worth your time, if only to see Alan (who seems to be the 70's version of a hipster) get his come uppance.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rHXUt3XHQ
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVu-xaCH7cw

ackblom12:
Sweet Home (1989):

This was released at the same time as the video game of the same name. The game is known for being the spiritual predecessor to Resident Evil/Alone in the Dark and they're both pretty great in their own right. The film follows a film crew wanting to explore the abandoned mansion of a famous painter to see if they can find his last fresco. In the process, they accidentally unleash the evil spirit of his wife, who haunts the home. Once the actual curse gets started, the film loses all of the friendly charm it had built up and turns nasty real quick. It has some fantastic special FX for the time and the design of the spirit is damned impressive. Well worth a watch. The following video is the most impressive death in the movie by far.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dmFtsmvEPQ
If you want to watch the whole thing, here's Part 1.

ackblom12:
Cronos (1993):

This movie is mainly being added here because despite it being part of of the Criterion Collection and being a del Toro film, I seem to have a hard time finding people who have actually seen it. The story begins with the tale of the Alchemist. In the 16th century he discovered the secret to immortality and built the Cronos device. 400 years later, the Alchemist dies and his estate is sold off. An antiques shop owner unknowingly comes into possession of the Cronos device and he discovers the terrible cost which youth and immortality comes. Being del Toro, it should come as no surprise that this is a great watch. It has his very clear ability to put his incredible imagination on screen with beautiful cinematography and a damn good tale of Vampirism. It manages to pull off his signature bitter sweet fairy tale story, but with a little more more hamminess (almost entirely from Ron Pearlman) than his following films. It's well worth the watch and a hell of a debut.

This here is the intro to the film, and the Tale of the Alchemist.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y57eReGhsrE

ackblom12:
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1970):

This film is considered part of a tiny genre of film called 'Folk Horror', a genre shared by two other fantasic films, The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General. These films are all about the amazing atmosphere and they are some of the best horror (some would argue best movies) ever made because of it.

In the case of Blood, it's about a village in 17th century England where a farm hand plows up a strange looking body. the body disappears before he can get anyone else to confirm his finding and shortly after, people start going mad, a satanic cult starts up and people start getting sacrificed. It's a bit of a slow burn, but it's well worth the effort.


The video has some artifacting. The file I made it from has a few spots with this kind of damage.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJqI53XEFPg

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