Monday 30 August 2010

MY HORROR AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Clive Barker (Author)


Dario Argento (Dir, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, Deep Red)


Herschell Gordon Lewis (The Godfather of Gore)


Herk Harvey (Dir, Carnival of Souls)


Linnea Quigley (Return of the Living Dead; Savage Streets; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Night of the Demons)


Autographs M.I.A.: David Cronenberg, Tom Savini.


Monday 23 August 2010

70's Cult Project



The Mike over at From Midnight, With Love poses this question: "What would you say are the most essential cult films of the 1970s?". Sez The Mike, "You can pick whatever you want, as long as you formulate a ranked TOP 5 in this category. After everyone has created their list, I will compile an overall list that will use YOUR picks to determine a final list of The Midnight Warriors' Most Essential Cult Films of the 1970s! I'll plan on trying to finish this in two weeks, so I'd like to have lists from people by Monday August 30th."

With thanks to The Mike, here's the Bloody Terror List of the Most Essential Cult Films of the 1970's:

FORMER #5. Suspiria (1977, Dir. Dario Argento)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Suspiria (1977) ... each of these deserve to be on this list. BUT I gotta get rid of this/these choices to make way for Bloody Terror's REAL choice for #5 (see below).


5. The Poseidon Adventure (1972, Dir. Ronald Neame)


4. The Streetfighter (1975, Dir. S. Ozawa)


3. Supervixens (1975, Dir: Russ Meyer)


2. El Topo (1971, Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)


1. Eraserhead (1978, Dir. David Lynch)



Tuesday 17 August 2010

My Canuxploitation Film Festival



While perusing the essential Canuxploitation website, I got to thinking... If I were to program my own little festival of Canadian exploitation films, the schedule would run like this:
























Friday 13 August 2010

Classics Re-Arranged


From Miss Jinx over at Totally Jinxed via Tim Grant of Post-Mortem Depression:

“Below are twenty horror films which are universally accepted as classics listed in alphabetical order. Just rearrange the list by cutting and pasting them into your own order based on how you would rate them. For instance, if you think that "The Hills Have Eyes" is a better movie than "Hellraiser" then cut and paste it higher up in the list. Repeat this with all the titles until you have your own personalised top twenty. Other people will then be able to see if you have the same tastes in horror as them or not.”

The Bloody Terror List:

The Exorcist (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Psycho (1960)
Halloween (1978)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Haunting (1963)
The Thing (1982)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Shining (1980)
Alien (1979)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Friday the 13th (1980)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Wicker Man (1973)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Hellraiser (1987)
The Omen (1976)
The Lost Boys (1987)


Thursday 5 August 2010

RELEASE ME! Movies That Need a (Decent) Region 1 DVD Release

Blood and Lace
(USA; 1971) Dir: Philip S. Gilbert

UPDATE: RELEASED NOVEMBER 24, 2015 BY SCREAM FACTORY.



Blood on Satan's Claw
(UK; 1971) Dir: Piers Haggard



Corruption (aka Carnage; Laser Killer)
(UK; 1968) Dir: Robert Hartford-Davis

UPDATE: RELEASED BY GRINDHOUSE RELEASING - NOVEMBER 5, 2013



Curtains
(Canada; 1983) Dir: Richard Ciupka

UPDATE: RELEASED BY SYNAPSE - JULY 29, 2014



Death Laid an Egg (aka La morte ha fatto l'uovo)
(Italy; 1968) Dir: Giulio Questi



Death Weekend (aka The House by the Lake)
(Can; 1976) Dir: William Fruet



Dorian Gray (aka The Evil of Dorian Gray; Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray; Il dio chiamato Dorian)
(1970; UK, Italy, West Germany) Dir: Massimo Dallamano

UPDATE: RELEASED BY RARO VIDEO USA - APRIL 12, 2011



Eating Roaul*
(US, 1982) Dir: Paul Bartel

UPDATE: RELEASED BY THE CRITERION COLLECTION - SEPTEMBER 25, 2012



Eyeball (aka Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro, The Devil's Eye, The Secret Killer, Wide-Eyed in the Dark)
(Italy; 1975) Dir: Umberto Lenzi



Footprints on the Moon (aka Le orme; Footprints)
(1975; Italy) Dir: Luigi Bazzoni



Goke, the Bodysnatcher from Hell (aka Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro, Body Snatcher from Hell)
(Japan; 1968) Dir: Hajime Sato

UPDATE: RELEASED BY THE CRITERION COLLECTION AS PART OF THEIR "WHEN HORROR CAME TO SHOCHIKU" SET - NOVEMBER 20, 2012



The Green Slime
(Japan, US; 1968) Dir: Kinji Fukasaku

UPDATE: RELEASED BY MGM MOVIES ON DEMAND - DECEMBER 17, 2010



Homebodies
(US; 1974) Dir: Larry Yust



The House That Screamed (aka La residencia; House of Evil; The Boarding School; The Finishing School)*
(Spain; 1969) Dir: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador



The Incredible Melting Man
(US; 1977) Dir: William Sachs

UPDATE: RELEASED BY SCREAM FACTORY - JULY 30, 2013



Moonshine County Express
(US; 1977) Dir: Gus Trikonis

UPDATE: RELEASED AUGUST 30, 206 BY CODE RED.



The Name of the Game is Kill!
(US; 1968) Dir: Gunnar Hellström

UPDATE: RELEASED BY VCI VIDEO - APRIL 30, 2013



The Perfume of the Lady in Black (aka Il profumo della signora in nero)
(Italy; 1974) Dir: Francesco Barilli

UPDATE: RELEASED BY RARO VIDEO USA - MARCH 22, 2011



The Psychopath (aka An Eye for an Eye)
(US; 1975) Dir: Larry G. Brown



The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
(US; 1975) Dir: J. Lee Thompson



Rolling Thunder
(US; 1977) Dir: John Flynn

UPDATE: RELEASED BY SHOUT! FACTORY - MAY 28, 2013



A Small Town in Texas
(US; 1976) Dir: Jack Starrett

UPDATE: RELEASED BY MGM MOVIES ON DEMAND - DECEMBER 20, 2011



The Spider Labrinth (aka Il nido del ragno; The Spider's Nest)
(Italy; 1988) Dir: Gianfranco Giagni



Tidalwave (aka Nippon chinbotsu)
(Japan, US; 1973,1975) Dirs: Shirô Moritani, Andrew Meyer



To Be Twenty (aka Avere vent'anni, Being Twenty)*
(Italy; 1978) Dir: Fernando Di Leo

UPDATE: RELEASED BY RARO VIDEO USA - JULY 26, 2011



The Traveler (aka El caminante)
(Spain; 1979) Dir: Paul Naschy



What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (aka La polizia chiede aiuto, Coed Murders)
(Italy; 1974) Dir: Massimo Dallamano



* Already on crappy Region 1 disc.