Abel Ferrara

I love this guy's work. I hate to to use the clichéd phrase, but I feel he is a tad underrated. I really like how his films have remarkable, gritty quality to them. The characters in his films, tend to be, for the most part, caught up in self-destructive patterns. He often collaborates with screenwriter Nicholas St.John, who is also very good IMO.

Anyway, instead of listing some of my favorites (because I kinda like all of his movies) I thought I would just rank them:

The Addiction
The Funeral
Bad Lieutenant
China Girl
King of New York
Body Snatchers
The Driller Killer
Ms .45

There are a fair few more I have to see yet.
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Do you like his movies? What are you favorite(s) ?**

Something I would like to see more of in horror...

A little difficult to exactly explain but I'll give it a go. A sustained feeling of fundamental wrongness throughout a film. A sense that at no point are things quite safe or normal or happy and that things will only get worse and worse. Unrelenting, suffocating doom. The main example I have of a film that does this, the film that prompted it in fact, is Noroi. But the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre does a similar sort of thing. And otherwise films sometimes approach it, like The Blair Wtch Project or Candyman or earlier stages of Jacob's Ladder. But all too often there is levity, or clarity. The doom lifts. I want unlifting doom.

What are some horrors I should try out for unlifting doom?

Sean Penn....

Though he's a douche like Clooney for mixing his stardom with politics, there's no doubt he's one of the greatest actors of the past 30 years...thinking to myself I've come up with my favorite parts he's had, I've come up with this top 10 IMO.
Carlito's Way
At Close Range
Bad Boys
State of Grace
The Thin Red Line
U-Turn
The Falcon and the Snowman
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Colors
The Game

Any thoughts?

Had an '80s Gross-Out Marathon

Over the weekend, I wanted to show my girlfriend three of the nastiest, ickiest, groddiest and lowest-budgeted gore films the '80s had to offer. So I picked Killing Spree the first night, Splatter Farm the following night and lastly, The Abomination for the remaining night. Three awesome-as-fuck, homegrown, backyard gorefests with a combined budget that is probably lower than your monthly car payment. I didn't think of it at the time, but all three feature horrific, LOL-worthy acting by old ladies and two of the three feature those ugly wood-panelled walls that were popular in homes at the time.

Killing Spree - dude (who's name is Asbestos Felt(!)) thinks his wife is cheating on him, so he begins dispatching of electricians, TV repairmen, delivery men and lawn maintenance in all sorts of wonderfully graphic ways with some of the best being a ceiling fan n•gger rigged with machetes and a chainsaw, but best of all, the nosy neighborhood grandma gets it in the film's wettest, most show-stopping gore effect. Killing Spree is easily the most professionally made of the three films, with lots of attention paid to detail, and all sorts of neat gimmicks (like the pink lighting), plus a cool, totally out-there surprise ending reminiscent of Don't Go in the House or Maniac.

Splatter Farm - here we enter SOV (shot-on-video) land. Movies really don't get much more amateur when they look like your family's homemade Christmas and birthday videos circa 1988. Nevertheless, there's a unique charm to these productions and to its benefit, a certain scuzziness that can't be found in bigger-budgeted productions shot on film stock. Quintessential '80s looking twin bros go to stay at their dear old aunt's farm for vacation. Almost immediately things seem amiss, especially when they meet their aunt's farmhand, Jeremy. Splatter Farm is the ickiest of the three movies we watched, with unflinching, cruel and sadistic scenes of graphic gore, incest and anal fisting (followed immediately by coprophagia(!)) Believe it or not, this was my gf's favorite movie of the weekend.

The Abomination - this one's a bit more slow-going than the preceding two movies, but it makes up for things with some truly gnarly creature and gore fx later in the film. Shot on (what appears to be) some really low-grade Super 8 film stock and without sound (all sound and dialogue was added later, I'm sure of it) it tells the tale of a coughed-up tumor that is in fact actually "the abomination," a creature that feeds on human flesh and has mind-control powers. Lots of sickening gore to be found in this cheapjack production with some pretty hilarious toilet humor, that literally involves a toilet! An Arkansas bred film, it also tackles a subplot of a TV evangelist and therefore seems to be maybe some kind of commentary on the Bible Belt, which is reasonably interesting and well-thought out enough for a film of this type.

All three are on YouBoob. To the uninitated, have your showers hot and ready - these three are about as gross, slimy and brain-fried as '80s horror gets.

Thoughts on the movies are of course, welcome.

10 years later "Poughkeepsie Tapes" gets released



Scream Factory announced a Blu-ray and DVD release for October 10th 2017

Harry Dean Stanton, starring in new movie "Lucky"!

This dude is 90 years old, and he's still with it! Yes, that's David Lynch in there, so I pretty much have to see this now.

Neill Blomkamp Youtube / Oats Studio

Neill Blomkamp, modern sci-fi filmmaker, has a youtube channel called "Oats Studios", which produces some epic 20 minute sci-fi videos, but they also have some goofy short videos about cooking shows gone wrong.

Check it out if you want some interesting shit:
https://www.youtube.com/user/OatsStudios

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017)

Netflix snuck this one by me. The follow-up to Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is due August 4th. I love this shit. I'm gonna binge the hell out of it the day it comes out.

Looking for a Horror Title

Post Saw. Three loser kids (2 guys and 1 gal) have a party in a cave or something similar. They invite a bunch of kids who were mean to them, and plot revenge. One of the revenge deals I think involved the star QB cutting off his hand, or his girlfriend dies.
Toward the end, one of the three thinks they've gone too far and tries to find help.

Thanks

Your favorite Horror anthology films?

What are some of your favorite Horror anthology films? I'm a sucker for anthologies. I am having trouble narrowing it down to 5 - so I am going to go with my Top 10. In order:

The Vault of Horror
Alien Zone
Tales from the Crypt
Asylum
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Night Train to Terror
Encounter with the Unknown
Creepshow 2
Body Bags
The Offspring

What are some of your favorites?