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[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I dunno nek, we only see you talking about modern rubbish!

ha ha very funny!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Don't Look Now is a masterpiece of horror and is still an extremely effective genre piece now with Venice, the city of love, turned into something extremely creepy with numerous foreboding alleyways, bridges and waterways. Although the shock value is there on the first viewing, it is on the second and third that you really appreciate the writing and direction as you grow to understand how everything was almost predetermined, hence why the dwarf shook its head before... well, that would be a major spoiler, wouldn't it?!

[Sargento]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

While some midget in a red cape is not scary at all.

I can only assume you knew the ending of the movie before watching it Nek. My first viewing, I certainly didn't know what to expect. I think the spoiler would have been shown a million and one times now on these top 100 shocking moments programs, thus maybe diluting the overall movie for you. I think we (the older viewers) were lucky that we didn't have all the over exposure that is evident these days .. tinterweb, multiple telly channels and books of course.

Mind you it was fun ganging up on Nek tho for a while

[nekromantik]

ha ha
Nah I never knew the ending before I saw it!
and I got someone else who dont like it on here
He shold post on here today

[oaxaca]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

ha ha
I have not!
I love 70s and 80s horror more then modern horror. Im 25 so not that young.
Suspiria is one of me all time favs.
DLN is just rubbish, yes it was well made etc but it was blindly boring.
Exorcist had something to be scared of...a young girl being possessed by a demon. While some midget in a red cape is not scary at all.

Hehe. Like you I'm 25 too, SUSPIRIA is one of my favourite movies of all time. I also love 70s and 80s horror. Yet we differ in opinion on DON'T LOOK NOW... I found it incredible: haunting, atmospheric, suspensful... it just has that feeling of otherworldliness; very dreamlike; much like SUSPIRIA in that sense. And both Christie & Sutherland were excellent (as always! 2 extremely versatile actors) and I was totally surprised by the ending.

Mind you I love films that place atmosphere above all else (including plot & pacing e.g. Jean Rollin's GRAPES OF DEATH). I think Hammer did this the best. No matter the tight budgets, the bright red blood, the cartoon-like technicolour visuals, they always played it straight and the films were very atmospheric & gripping in a way that most horror movies produced today just never seem to equal...

[nekromantik]

Guess we gotta agree to disagree.
Changeling was also very very good. The atmosphere in that was and is still the best for a haunted house movie.

[oaxaca]

With you there! THE CHANGELING was fantastic! (BD release anyone? )

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

Guess we gotta agree to disagree.
Changeling was also very very good. The atmosphere in that was and is still the best for a haunted house movie.

The Changeling not as good as Robert Wise's The Haunting, a superlatives adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House, but the way in which Peter Medak handles the tension is masterful. Illustrating this beautifully is the section when George C Scott enters the house and looks up those stairs and you just know something bad is going to happen long before that wheelchair chases him out the house!

[oaxaca]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

The Changeling not as good as Robert Wise's The Haunting, a superlatives adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House, but the way in which Peter Medak handles the tension is masterful. Illustrating this beautifully is the section when George C Scott enters the house and looks up those stairs and you just know something bad is going to happen long before that wheelchair chases him out the house!

Agree with that too... THE HAUNTING is THE quintessential British haunted house film! Although THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE is also great little 70's haunted house film.

[nekromantik]

i have yet to see the haunting.

I know this wont be a popular opinion on here but what the heck

I enjoyed the Stephen king mini series - Rose Red

Yes its nowhere near as good as Poltergiest or Changeling but it was fun.