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21st April 2011, 02:27 PM
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 Your Favourite Horror Film from 1963
1963 was a year for some brilliant horror films, but which one is your favourite? What makes it special to you? When did you first see it? Would you recommend it to the uninitiated? Sometimes it's a hard decision to just pick one film (even when you're limiting it to a single year!), but my favourite film of 1963 is... The Girl Who Knew Too Much - Mario Bava 1963 is a very tough year to choose a favourite, as there were so many great films. However, my pick is one of my favourite Bava films, and one that owes a lot to Hitchcock, but one which also helped to kick-start the giallo sub-genre of films in the late '60s and early '70s. The Girl Who Knew Too Much is a fantastic blend of terror, suspense, and mystery, which also features a young John Saxon in one of his better roles. Trailer: Runners Up: The Birds Black Sabbath Blood Feast The Castle of Terror The Comedy of Terrors Curse of the Crying Woman Dementia 13 Diary of a Madman The Haunted Palace The Haunting The Kiss of the Vampire Matango The Old Dark House Paranoiac The Raven The Sadist The Terror Violent Midnight The Whip and the Body X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes  |
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21st April 2011, 07:28 PM
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BLACK SABBATH! This has to rank of one of Bava's finest-absolutely incredible anthology! The Wurdalak segment is a masterpiece in suspense.  Another fave is Corman's X THE MAN WITH THE X RAY EYES Ray Milland is great in this and the ending,well.......  Hitchcock's THE BIRDS is also an all time classic.
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21st April 2011, 08:47 PM
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The Wurdalak segment gets at least 2 views as winter draws in. bizarre_eye@Cult Labs likes this. |
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24th April 2011, 08:27 PM
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Clarifying my previous post. All three segments of the film are excellent, but The Wurdalak really is the bees knees. Black Sabbath |
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24th April 2011, 08:30 PM
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I was tempted to post these images from the band who saw the film at their local Birmingham cinema and decided it would be a cool name.
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24th April 2011, 09:35 PM
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25th April 2011, 06:16 AM
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I quite dig The Whip and the Body
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16th July 2011, 11:05 AM
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As much as I love Mario Bava's film, Hitchcock's follow-up to Psycho is my favourite from this year as the way he turned Daphne du Maurier's short story into a horror masterpiece with a completely different setting and time period, plus ensuring a whole generation would never look at a seagull the same way again is truly brilliant. The Birds
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16th July 2011, 11:09 AM
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Definitely The Birds, it's a masterclass in building tension from the off. perfect in every way.
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16th July 2011, 11:38 AM
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Tough call between The Birds and Black Sabbath...probably just The Birds though.
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