Originally posted by Nastybutlerbob
I am assuming that you are a romero fan considering you own the Dead trilogy. So this is not a reccomendation, its an order.Look for Fulci! Lucio Fulci.
The Beyond
Beyond the Beyond
Zombie
Zombie 3
The Gates of HellFulci is the man, he has made some very primo zombie gore flicks. He succesfully combines suspense and gore. For example one scene in zombie is a lovely woman hiding behind a barricaded door. A zombies hand busts through the door and slowly pulls her head, eye first, towards a jaggged wooden shard. Now in modern mainstream horror the maiden will get away at the last moment. Not with Fulci. Also is the magnificent underwater battle in zombie between a zombie and a real shark. Find it. Being a Romero fan I'm sure you'll dig it. If not, well then I'll just have to shut up and go F*** myself.
Take Zombi 3 off that list and add New York Ripper, House By The Cemetery, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, or Don't Torture the Duckling. Zombi 3 is terrible, and is only part directed by Fulci, the rest is directed by Italian Uber-Hack Bruno Mattei a notoriously awful filmmaker responsible for such films as (Troy McClure voice) Hell of the Living Dead (aka Night of the Zombies), Rats : Nights of Terror, and Cruel Jaws (aka Jaws 5 a terrible Jaws ripoff) It also rips off many many elements of Dan O'Bannon's - Return of the Living Dead.
Add these films to your list of must see horror films
Lisa and the Devil
Black Sunday
Kill Baby Kill
Suspiria
Opera
Profondo Rosso
Phenomena
Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man, Mi Novis Es un Zombie)
Stagefright
Cannibal Holocaust
Beyond the Darkness (aka Buio Omega)
Demons
Night of the Living Dead '68
Dead and Buried
Re-Animator
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Breakfest at Manchester Morgue)
Plague of the Zombies
Horror of Dracula
Curse of Frankenstein
Blood Feast
2000 Maniacs
The Gore-Gore Girls
Brain Damage
Basket Case
Maniac
Martin
Phantasm
The Prowler
Society
Return of the Living Dead 1 and 3
Dead Alive
Bad Taste
Originally posted by BAFilmworks
Take Zombi 3 off that list and add New York Ripper, House By The Cemetery, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, or Don't Torture the Duckling. Zombi 3 is terrible, and is only part directed by Fulci, the rest is directed by Italian Uber-Hack Bruno Mattei a notoriously awful filmmaker responsible for such films as (Troy McClure voice) Hell of the Living Dead (aka Night of the Zombies), Rats : Nights of Terror, and Cruel Jaws (aka Jaws 5 a terrible Jaws ripoff) It also rips off many many elements of Dan O'Bannon's - Return of the Living Dead.Add these films to your list of must see horror films
Lisa and the Devil
Black Sunday
Kill Baby Kill
Suspiria
Opera
Profondo Rosso
Phenomena
Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man, Mi Novis Es un Zombie)
Stagefright
Cannibal Holocaust
Beyond the Darkness (aka Buio Omega)
Demons
Night of the Living Dead '68
Dead and Buried
Re-Animator
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Breakfest at Manchester Morgue)
Plague of the Zombies
Horror of Dracula
Curse of Frankenstein
Blood Feast
2000 Maniacs
The Gore-Gore Girls
Brain Damage
Basket Case
Maniac
Martin
Phantasm
The Prowler
Society
Return of the Living Dead 1 and 3
Dead Alive
Bad Taste
awesome im glad this post is still getting action .. i have the most enourmous amount of movies to pick from now (:
Originally posted by Zilverz
awesome im glad this post is still getting action .. i have the most enourmous amount of movies to pick from now (:
I tried to come up with a well rounded list, but in doing that my love of Italian horror cinema came out, and many of those film are Italian, primarily from the late 70's and early 80's. Some of those are just Gore films and others lean toward science fiction like Phantasm and Bad Taste.
If you want some good suggestions check out these books
Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics
Videohound's Horror Movie Guide
Joe Bob Brigg's Profoundly Disturbing
Eaten Alive : Italian Cannibal and Zombie Films by Jay Slater
Most of these films deal with cult films in General, but much information on horror can be found in those pages, then again who's for being a total elitist. That can get boring, believe me I've tried it before. I wouldn't take the reviews too seriously in either of the videohound's, it's all of a matter of opinion really, but they really are great sources of information for the cult/horror fan.
Others like Eaten Alive are very well written essays and reviews, although once again it's all a matter of opinion. For example Giovanni Lombardo Radice's commentary to Jungle Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox are quite negative, but then again he suffured through the making of Cannibal Ferox, and even had a prosthetic penis cut off of him in front of a crowd of people while being filmed. On the other hand Lloyd Kaufman's review of Cannibal Holocaust is quite interesting, and being that it's in Lloyd's nature, he brings up some Troma films that relate to the topic at hand.
Joe Bob Brigg's book is so well written that it at times seems out of character. It's more John Bloom then Joe Bob Briggs, but it is one of the most interesting reads to come out recently on the subject of cult/disturbing cinema. It only covers 15 or 16 movies, but the essays are interesting and as I mentioned prior were very well written. Esp. good were the essays that covered The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Blood Feast, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Reservoir Dogs.
If I could pick any one film off the list earlier for you to check out immediatly...I would end up picking two... rules are meant to be broken ..
Re-Animator
and
Dario Argento's Suspiria
Check out some reviews if you like, but try going into them with a fresh mind.
I've been told that people didn't get Suspiria the first times they've seen it, but with me the attraction was instant. Suspiria imo is one of the most beautiful, suspenseful, horrorfic films ever made, and cemented Dario Argento of one of the all time great masters of horror cinema regardless of his recent output (Barring the Stendhal Syndrome)