Top Ten Tuesdays

[nosferatu42]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Awesome lists, B – I'll certainly be using this for reference when considering my collection and those I've seen but don't own in order to compile my own list.

In other words you thought of a load of stuff i hadn't considered, well that's my list screwed.

[nosferatu42]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Going back to my list i'm not sure i'd actually have Trick r' Treat on there. Is it a portmanteau? I'm not so sure as the stories all interlock on the lines of Pulp Fiction which Nos said was excluded.

Well you've got two films left on your list, so i'd have kept my mouth shut personally.

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

I thought of Psycho but didn't think it fitted, seeing as it's probably a Schizophrenia thing, wasn't sure if split personalities counted as amnesia.

People with schizophrenia don't actually have split personalities. That's a common misperception. They just hear voices if the required medication isn't administered. I feel fully qualified to make this point as I do actually have schizophrenia and have fortnightly injections for it.

[nosferatu42]

Sorry i know this is not the case, i was thinking in terms of film representation.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

I'll give you a tip " From beyond the grave" is the best.

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

In other words you thought of a load of stuff i hadn't considered, well that's my list screwed.

Yes, but I still forgot to include From Beyond the Grave!

[keirarts]

Portmanteau/anthology films.

Further to the discussion previously. Pulp fiction is very much a Portmanteau film. Tarantino was inspired by novels where characters would carry over into different stories. Centrefold girls is an interesting one as well as each victim works as its own separate story.

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[keirarts]

Snow based films...

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[J Harker]

Portmanteau films.

Dead of Night
Tales of Terror
Dr.Terrors House of Horror
The House That Dripped Blood
Tales From the Crypt
Asylum
Creepshow
Cats Eye
Creepshow 2
Trick r Treat

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I disagree. It's impossible to watch individual events in Trick r Treat.

In Creepshow etc the linking story is separate. There isn't a framing story to Trick r' Treat. If there is, which one is it? Characters move in and out of all the tales. All the events interlink and all take place in the same evening. You can't suggest the likes of Vault of Horror do the same.

I'm not sure you lot have watched Trick r Treat recently.

I admit it's been over a year, but I remember distinct stories involving different themes, families and other assorted. On Wikipedia it says about the film that "It centers on four Halloween-related horror stories. One common element that ties the stories together is the presence of Sam, a mysterious child trick-or-treater wearing shabby orange footie pajamas with a burlap sack over his head, who makes an appearance in all the stories whenever a character breaks Halloween traditions."

For me, that is enough to put it into the anthology rather than hyperlink category, but if you feel different than you are more than welcome to leave it off your list!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I admit it's been over a year, but I remember distinct stories involving different themes, families and other assorted. On Wikipedia it says about the film that "It centers on four Halloween-related horror stories. One common element that ties the stories together is the presence of Sam, a mysterious child trick-or-treater wearing shabby orange footie pajamas with a burlap sack over his head, who makes an appearance in all the stories whenever a character breaks Halloween traditions."

For me, that is enough to put it into the anthology rather than hyperlink category, but if you feel different than you are more than welcome to leave it off your list!

I didn't think you'd have to quote Wiki to get your argument across, Nos. I watch it every year and know it like the back of my hand.

To be honest the Wiki quote is right that Sam ties the stories together but as you watch it, for example we see Dylan Baker with the greedy kid on the porch then it cuts to the werewolf girls trying costumes on, back to Baker and the kid, it doesn't play like here's a link, then a fifteen minute story, then back to a link. When it wants to move things along a comic book page appears and says something like 'Earlier that evening'.