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What is the most beautiful-looking horror movie of all time?
And Argento is a gimme, so try to come up with something else.
For me, it's "Don't Look Now." The location in which the story takes place is in itself creepy, and the fact that you see little splashes of red here and there is a nice touch. Also, that damn dwarf in the end is horrific.
And Argento is a gimme, so try to come up with something else.
For me, it's "Don't Look Now." The location in which the story takes place is in itself creepy, and the fact that you see little splashes of red here and there is a nice touch. Also, that damn dwarf in the end is horrific.
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Tue, April 12, 2005 - 10:12 PM"Don't Look Now" looks great; story is in Venice; another one I missed but must see. Glad I joined this tribe.
us.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/
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Wed, April 20, 2005 - 7:24 PMI should also mention "Don't Look Now" has one of the most beautiful sex scenes of all time. -
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Wed, April 20, 2005 - 7:31 PMi would/should have liked to say interview with a vampire but i can't because that would be lying
sigh
but that's another story....
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Tue, April 12, 2005 - 11:22 PMOne of the mostbeautiful horro movies I ever sawwas the 1979 re-make of "Nosferatu" by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinksi. It's not "lush," but the composition of the scenes and the cinematography are just stunning.
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 12:06 AMMy candidates for most beautiful horror movie are a little more mainstream:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Sleepy Hollow
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bride of Frankenstein
Angel Heart
The Ring
The Pit and the Pendulum
King Kong
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 10:51 AMEyes Without a Face
White Zombie
Planet of Vampires
Susperia
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 11:21 AMI didn't even know they amde a movie version of "Something Wicked This Way Comes"!
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 1:17 PMMight be considered marginally horror, but what the hell...
'The Innocents' & 'Night of the Hunter', both making fine use of wonderfully stark B&W photography.
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 3:45 PMA film I saw at Sundance/04 called, "One Point 0" with Jeremy Sisto and Lance Henriksen. Really gorgeously shot. I believe it's called something else now on DVD.
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 5:33 PMSure did! Disney Pics, as a matter of fact. Don't let the Disney label chase you off. The movie really captures that Bradbury Autumn in a small town feel. The movie has atmosphere. -
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 5:37 PMThe above reply concerns Something Wicked...
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Mon, January 28, 2008 - 11:21 AMyeah, it's actually a Disney Flick too. Early 1980's...I think I was 12 or 13 when it came out.
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 3:46 PMAh, but have you ever read the short story the movie is based upon? Delicious. -
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 3:47 PMSorry, the above post was supposed to be for "Don't Look Now" (1st 2 posts). -
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 7:53 PMYep, I read the short story. Daphne Du Marier is a great writer. She also wrote the Birds AND Rebecca.
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 4:33 PMI agree that Herzog's Nosferatu is visually stunning. Another to consider is Neil Jordan's "The Company Of Wolves", which contains some beautiful imagery. I must also toss in "Hellraiser" if only for the elaborate scarification of the cenobites. There's a horrifying beauty to that, I think. -
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 5:34 PMYeah, Company of Wolves! That's one I meant to mention. It's my favorite Werewolf flick. -
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Wed, April 13, 2005 - 9:48 PMPlease--if you haven't, you MUST see Eyes Without a Face.
Imagine Cocteau if he did horror.
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Mon, January 28, 2008 - 11:23 AMThis movie was the first movie I watched as a young girl to stir up erotic thoughts.....
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Thu, April 14, 2005 - 6:01 AMHeavenly Creatures, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Birds, Interview With The Vampire, Hellraiser .... -
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Thu, April 14, 2005 - 8:48 PMYeah...kinda forgot about The Hunger...pretty-pretty! -
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Wed, April 20, 2005 - 7:07 PM"The Hunger" is one of those movies that looks great both in the theater, and on television.
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Wed, April 20, 2005 - 7:17 PMthe hunger. oh yeah!
that movie really does make me hungry.
the soundtrack is great too.
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Wed, December 13, 2006 - 3:33 PMI agree with Joyce, the Hunger was awesome! Great music too, espcially Bauhaus's Bela Lugosi's Dead!! :)
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Wed, April 20, 2005 - 5:01 PMJulie Taymor's production of Titus. Yeah, it's Shakespeare, but is damn site grusome too. Oh, yeah, and very beautiful. -
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Wed, April 20, 2005 - 11:27 PMAnything that Julie does is gorgeous. -
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Thu, April 21, 2005 - 12:05 AMThe Shining.
Stanley Kubrick has always been awesome.
Any movie by David Lynch.
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Thu, April 21, 2005 - 9:06 AMThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(Personally I liked the silent Nosferatu better... )
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
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Fri, May 20, 2005 - 7:11 PMyes, 'don't look now' definitely.
an awesome film encounter
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'a psychic thriller'.
also one of the better films of that year.
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Mon, June 6, 2005 - 7:03 PMLost Highway
Cat People (though I imagine it will suffer from 80s-isms)
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Tue, June 7, 2005 - 2:24 PMok, this may not qualify as to what this topic thread is about, but...
when i recently saw 'night of the living dead' completely restored picture on dvd (after decades of watching the crappy print that had been passed on through all the vhs copies), i would say that was truly a beautiful thing to see.
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Tue, June 7, 2005 - 2:36 PMI always come back to "The Company of Wolves" -- I haven't seen it in years, but I remember the movie had a very dreamlike quality to it, vivid colors, but kind of gauzy.
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Sat, July 16, 2005 - 12:28 AMYeah, Carrie is a great movie!!
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Tue, July 19, 2005 - 8:32 PM"Repulsion" is irresistable to look at, as is "Night Tide" "Eyes Without A Face" and anything by Jean Rollin. Also a little known 50s film called "I Bury The Living." Albert Band, the director, really let his background as a painter show on that one.
The 1920s art deco look of "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" is amazing.
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Wed, July 20, 2005 - 6:27 AMMost Beautiful:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Wed, July 20, 2005 - 10:09 AMMy all-time favorites have always been Nosferatu, The Birds, The Exorcist, The Omen series and The Hunger.
From Hell (surprised that nobody has mentioned that one yet) and Sleepy Hollow were both beautiful films, but the Hughes brothers and Tim Burton have fat budgets so they better look good.
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Mon, July 25, 2005 - 11:26 AMI'm going to have to go with "The Devil's Backbone", directed by Guillermo Del Toro, followed closely by his other movie "Chronos".
After that, on my list it's:
Suspiria (yeah, Argento is a gimme)
Alien
The aforementioned version of Nosferatu
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Mon, July 25, 2005 - 3:34 PMThe three most beautiful "horror" (suspense, comedy, whatever you would call it....) that come to mind, due to whole content and cinematography would have to be:
Deathwatch with Ruaidhri Conroy and Jamie Bell
The Machinist with Christian Bale and Jennifer jason Leigh
Last but not least Dagon with Ezra Godden
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Wed, August 3, 2005 - 10:41 AMi really loved the movie house of a thousand corpses
they way it was filmed i could only see red for a half and hour after the movie was over
as well the ending was quite superb
the devils rejects was done quite well too with good role reversal of slasher vs victim
but for me i love the sleepaway camp series
and pinhead
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Wed, December 13, 2006 - 3:37 PMOh yeah Darren, GREAT choice with The Devil's Backbone, I rent it from Netflix all the time... love it, stunning and haunting... The orginal Nosferatu... creepy creepy... I think you've got awesome taste in horror flicks.. :)
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Wed, August 24, 2005 - 3:01 PMANYTHING by Dario Argento. His films are like moving paintings. Incredible. -
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Mon, August 29, 2005 - 8:12 AM"Brotherhood of the Wolf". Not exactly a horror movie...it covers many genres. But an amazingly filmed movie.
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Tue, August 30, 2005 - 8:18 AMtale of two sisters... it also has a wonderful score -
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Tue, August 30, 2005 - 10:23 AMTo avoid threading upon already suggested titles, I'll go with a dark horse...
Rollin's Les Raisins de la Mort (The Grapes of Death) which was shot in the gorgeous countryside of Southern France.
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Tue, August 30, 2005 - 10:31 AMNot that there's anything wrong with jacking off to Brigitte Lahaie!
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Tue, August 30, 2005 - 4:47 PMAh, Joyce got it first. -
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Tue, September 6, 2005 - 1:38 PMAlien was absolutely gorgeous.
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Sun, December 11, 2005 - 3:40 PMI was thinking Argento...the set design and use of color by the Italians is wonderful.
But I have to agree with Ebooty....ALIEN....it still floors me today...no other movie is/was/ever been as truly alien.
I hate but enjoy the other Alien movies...but it bother's me that they try to explain the how's and why's of the Alien Mythos...I like that it's not explained in the first film.
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Mon, December 19, 2005 - 8:16 PMOk, not exactly a horror, but I noticed Cronenberg missing so let me throw outa recent creepy movie I just loved:
-Spider
But for all-times-sake, I find The Exorcist beautiful, and of course horrific.
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Wed, January 25, 2006 - 1:13 PMOh yes! Spider is beautiful. I think Cronenberg makes beautiful movies.
Beautiful is in eye of the beholder , so Videodrome is gorgeous...those throbbing televisions, fleshy cables, and lots of tv static..wierd and beautiful. -
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Tue, February 21, 2006 - 3:52 PMFor me ..... I would pick "Silence of the Lambs".
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Sat, March 11, 2006 - 12:37 PMI remember, when I was growing up, I would go to the local movie rental place and see "the Silence of the Lambs" VHS on the shelf and it would give me chills. Something about that picture of Jodie Foster with the death's head moth on her mouth...
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Thu, March 16, 2006 - 2:06 PMim a huge b horror and horror fan and i like all the old stuff. white zombie was awsome, but after see all these crappy remakes i would have to say that the new chain saw massacre and the new hills have eyes do it for me there shot so critty it rocks. and has always house of a thosand.
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Tue, January 30, 2007 - 2:42 AMHmmm, many great horror movies in my mind at this moment...well, some of them are as follow:
01. Bram Stoker's Dracula
02. Angels heart (perfection at hand, every part of the film is filled with eerieness)
03. Silent hill (the atmos is supreme)
04. Alien (but only the first one)
05. Shadow of a vampire (Willem Dafoe's uber performance make's it such a great movie)
06. Nosferatu (1922 - respect)
07. Hellraiser (1,2,3,4 - well...either you like it or not but the idea behind the movie is original - only flesh and pain :)
08. Nightbreed
09. Dawn of the dead (both old and new one)
10. Exorcist (the last but not the least - one of the greatest movies of all times) -
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Thu, January 17, 2008 - 9:09 PMok, bram stoker's dracula, interview with a vampire, qween of the damned, haunt tension or in this town hot tension, underworld both of them, blood choclet, la fume, monster, boy's don't cry not a horror movie but it is sad! to many to list realy i can go on forever on this cause when a horror movie comes out i have to watch it!!!!!!
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Mon, February 4, 2008 - 8:19 AMThis is a great thread!
I wanted to add the 80's version of 'Cat People'--maybe it has something to do with the Bowie soundtrack, but I really love that one. Especially the fantasy scenes with the cats in the desert. -
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Mon, February 4, 2008 - 9:20 AMI would say Underworld or Videodrome.
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Mon, February 9, 2009 - 2:41 PMThe movie hostel was great as women seductively baited men into being tortured. I luv this type of movie as I am a masochist enjoying seduction and heavy pain administered by women!!!!
