Quote: JuliaC @ October 29 2009, 4:38 PM BSTReece for me, please.
Nude Day. 
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Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 29 2009, 4:32 PM BSTThen they must be scared shitless by their own pitiful lives which already border on oblivion and non-existence.
It's like you've met me 
Quote: Nil Putters @ October 29 2009, 4:32 PM BST
Totally. Yes, pictures please. Preferably naked.
Ok, that's where pictures come off better, no denying!
Quote: JuliaC @ October 29 2009, 4:39 PM BSTOf Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss, Vic Reeves or Yvette Fielding?
Reece for me, please.
Not the film. Maybe this very weekend, what with it being Halloween an' all.
Bring Ghostwatch too!
Ewwww.
Okaaaay. 
Quote: Kenneth @ October 28 2009, 12:50 PM GMTExcellent film. Bette Davis never looked - or sounded - so good. It's up there with Sunset Boulevard in depicting how horrible it is for attention seeking actresses to grow old in Hollywood.
I love "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and "Sunset Boulevard" - two of my favourite horror films.
Several other great films in that sub-genre (called Grand Dame Guignol) include...
"Hush, Hush... Sweet Charlotte"
"Whatever happened to Aunt Alice"
"What's the Matter With Helen"
"Whoever Slew Auntie Roo"
"Dead Ringer"
"Lady in a Cage"
"Trog"
"Straight Jacket"
"Beserk"
"I Saw What You Did"
"Did, Die, My Darling"
"Queen of Blood" - a pre-"Alien" film about an alien queen who is taken aboard a ship by a group of astronauts and proceeds to try eat crew-members.
Charles Busch's "Die, Mommie! Die!" is an amusing parody of the "grande Dame Guignol" genre.
Some of my favourites are silents...
"The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari"
"Nosferatu"
"Metropolis" (More sci-fi, really)
"The Phantom of the Opera"
The German "Doctor Mabuse" series - starting with the silent "Doctor Mabuse - The Gambler"
The old universal horrors - two favourites being "The Bride of Frankenstain" and "Dracula's Daughter"
the hammer Horror films!
Great Horror Comedies include "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Mad Monster Party" and "Clue".
Any of tim Burton's more gothic stuff makes great horror fare. I eagerly await his "Dark Shadows" with johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter and michell Pfeiffer - as well as his feature length, black, stop-motion animated version of "Frankenweenie".
I can safely add, after watching "Dark Shadows" twice - that it is a fulfilling trip into both the comedy and horror genres. The adjustment of the vampire, Barnabas Collins, to the 1970's is genuinely amusing as are the interractions between the disfunctional Collins family and friends.
The moments when Barnabas loses control and the actions of the witch, Angelique, range from the blackly comical to the genuinely unsettling. The actors, of course, have do a fabulous job of bringing the kooky characters to life and the design, as always with Tim Burton, is beautiful.
In other horror recommendations - watch "Suspiria". Has anybody seen it?
Let me know what you thing of "Dark Shadows" or "Suspiria".
Quote: ToddB @ May 18 2012, 12:16 PM BSTI can safely add, after watching "Dark Shadows" twice - that it is a fulfilling trip into both the comedy and horror genres. The adjustment of the vampire, Barnabas Collins, to the 1970's is genuinely amusing as are the interractions between the disfunctional Collins family and friends.
The moments when Barnabas loses control and the actions of the witch, Angelique, range from the blackly comical to the genuinely unsettling. The actors, of course, have do a fabulous job of bringing the kooky characters to life and the design, as always with Tim Burton, is beautiful.In other horror recommendations - watch "Suspiria". Has anybody seen it?
Let me know what you thing of "Dark Shadows" or "Suspiria".
I'm not hearing good things about Dark Shadows and has taken more of a pasting than Burton's Planet of the Ape's remake.
But Susprisa's very good, a very influential on things like Black Swan.