Top Ten Tuesdays - Page 274

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**2731** 27th June 2016, 10:59 PM

Thank you all for a great week of top ten death scenes. You've put a lot of effort in so cheers one and all.

This week, i've done all the work for you....

...yes, it's cut and paste time.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**2732** 27th June 2016, 11:05 PM

The subject is The Films of Dario Argento.

Basically i'd like to know what you think are his best films? Here they all are.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
The Tram (1973)
The Eyewitness (1973)
Five Days in Milan (1973)
Deep Red (1975)
Suspiria (1977)
Inferno (1980)
Tenebre (1982)
Phenomena (1985)
Opera (1987)
Two Evil Eyes -The Black Cat (1990)
Trauma (1993)
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
Sleepless (2001)
The Card Player (2004)
Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Jenifer (2005)
Pelts (2006)
Mother of Tears (2007)
Giallo (2009)
Dracula 3D (2012)

I'd like you to rank them all, or as many as you've seen, in order, the best being first of course. That's why it's a possible top 24 this week for a change. However don't let the fact you haven't seen a film deter you. If you've only seen five or six of his output that's fine, we want as many lists as possible so we can determine the definitive Dario Argento. Once all the results are in i'll get the Cult Labs tech chimps to work and we can do an official Cult Labs ranking of all his films based on your lists.

J Harker · #**2733** 27th June 2016, 11:13 PM

Guess i got me some films to watch this week. My Argento viewing is either poor or out of date. Good one though Dem.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**2734** 27th June 2016, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by J Harker

Guess i got me some films to watch this week. My Argento viewing is either poor or out of date.

That doesn't matter, J.

Just rank as many as you can, don't feel bad for not having seen them all (I doubt anyone has a copy of Five Days in Milan), just do as many as you can.

The more the merrier.

Just wait until you lot see how highly i rate Mother of Tears. I imagine some of you will weep.

J Harker · #**2735** 27th June 2016, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

That doesn't matter, J.

Just rank as many as you can, don't feel bad for not having seen them all (I doubt anyone has a copy of Five Days in Milan), just do as many as you can.

The more the merrier.

Just wait until you lot see how highly i rate Mother of Tears. I imagine some of you will weep.

Good reason to actually try and catch up Dem. I've got Inferno, Cat O Nine Tails, Phenomena and Dracula to watch for a start, plus I'd like to rewatch Suspiria. Does frustrate me how many and yet at the same time how few films I've actually seen.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**2736** 27th June 2016, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J Harker

Good reason to actually try and catch up Dem. I've got Inferno, Cat O Nine Tails, Phenomena and Dracula to watch for a start, plus I'd like to rewatch Suspiria. Does frustrate me how many and yet at the same time how few films I've actually seen.

Get cracking then.

nosferatu42 · #**2737** 28th June 2016, 02:06 AM

Ok, late as usual but here were my top death scenes.

Top Ten
(Some films had multiple contenders)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre- blunt hammer door combo (1st kill)
The Thing- gotta be ****in kidding (sort of death)
The Omen- glass /nanny/church spike
Suspiria- hanging stained glass
Day of dead - choke on ‘em
Wild at heart- shot gun scene
Opera- bullet through door
Robocop- ed 209 (15 seconds to comply)/ melting bloke
Raiders of the lost ark- melting nazi's
Wicker man- end scene

Next !0

Inferno- knife through neck to Verdi/ guillotine glass scene
Beyond valley of the dolls- gun blow job + ugly broad beheading
House on edge of the park- balls blown off in slo mo
Blood for dracula- no good to nobody/final staking

Night of the living dead -kid with trowel
Damien - Omen 2 -raven attack
Blade runner - tears in rain
Alien- chest burster
Seven- head in box/wrath
Society- shunting

All the rest

Death proof- wheel to the face
Don’t look now- dwarf/daughter deaths
Black sunday- spiked mask
Man bites dog- granny snuff
Dr strangelove- bomb ride
Repo man- death by alien in a car boot (smoking boots)
Zombie creeping flesh- eyeballs poked out
Return living dead - self cremation
Bad taste- rocket launcher sheep

Dracula- candlesticks
Psycho- shower
Near dark- bar scene
Scanners - exploding head
E.T- flowers + resurrection
Cannibal holocaust- end/ hypnotic
The Beyond- kids head
Martin- stake
Meaning of life -salmon mousse

Maniac- shotgun