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What Is Your Favourite Unknown Horror Movie?

posted 4 years ago by MrRipEager (94)
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This discussion is about listing our favourite lesser known horror films, If like me you are a fan of the genre, you will likely have sat through a large amount of crappy or cheesy horror flicks, but every once in a while you can come across a film that makes you ask yourself, Why Have I Never Seen This Film Until Now?

So please feel free to mention any film that you feel to be a real find, you can also give a brief description of it (even if its just an IMDb Synopsis) but please try and avoid mentioning spoilers on the film as that will make people less inclined to watch it.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Nightmare City (1980)
Laura Trotter and Hugo Stiglitz (the real one, not the fake one from Inglorious Basterds) do battle against hordes of infected people in this insane Italian flick directed by Umberto Lenzi. If we were talking spoilers I could go on at length about all the crazy scenes in this one.

For those who aren’t worried about spoilers, here is a video someone made to heavy metal music that will give you a good feel for Nightmare City. Notice all the zoom shots Lenzi is famous for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYnlvfGeEDU

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

Love it. 🙃 Watch Nightmare City, guys it is indeed wylin.

This reminds me, do you look at instagram? I love this account that makes music video montages of obscure flicks, video macabro: https://www.instagram.com/video_macabro/?hl=en
I've found out about lots of fun stuff from it!

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

I’ve done a couple of those myself that are quite amateurish but they are indeed fun. Thanks for the link and I’ll check it out! Did you find obscure movies that you had never heard of before on this channel?

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

No way that's so awesome! Just for fun or what?

Did you find obscure movies that you had never heard of before on this channel?

Oh definitely, some of these are extremely deep cuts. This guy is super far flung into the deranged asian joints in particular, which of course is the all-time world's source highest concentration of bat shit bonkers horror movies.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

You are right about the Asian horror and bat shit crazy is a great describer. Lol

I just made some for fun and posted some on YouTube so friends could check them out. I love early 90’s trance music and my favorite video I’ve made is clips of Metropolis made into a music video in a trance song. I added all kinds of sound effects and cool samples. It’s quite amateur but here it is. Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcnveWaDkg

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

This is sick!!
I love how far you took synchronizing the sound to the images. It's really become its own new thing. And of course very cool selection of flick and tune. The synth sounds work so well with all of the mechanical and architectural imagery and then when it contrasts with an antique element like the reaper it takes on a surreal apocalyptic quality. Very nice work!

How did you get into editing for these? Is editing something you do professionally or related or anything?

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Dude! Thank you so much for the compliments!

In the early 90’s i fell in love with the music of the club scene which was a combination of Techno, House, Trance, Industrial, Old School, Break Beat and other dance style music. I amassed a large collection of mix tapes on cassette from then and years later I decided to collect the tracks that made up these tapes on vinyl records and digital. So my original plan was to make 90 minute mixes in a video format so it can be played on a TV with the individual track information showing when that song is playing during the mix. It worked great and naturally with loving movies also I had to give editing other things a try.

With modern software editing film or music is pretty easy to accomplish but time consuming. So in short, mixing music led to adding video which led to creating videos like the Metropolis one. It’s a lot of fun but not my profession.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Curse of the Demon (1957)

[–] BillHicksFan (10129) 4 years ago

Room For Rent (2019)

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Blood Rage (1987) Louise Lasser (known for Mary Hartman) plays the binge eating mother of twins, one of whom is released from a mental institution on Thanksgiving. Arrow has a great DVD rerelease of this one. Next Thanksgiving you’ll be saying “That’s not cranberry sauce!!”

Modernized trailer below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LpF08PLATA

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

i was watching blood rage last march, and the whole time i felt that it seemed very familiar, & was sure i'd seen it before. & when i went to letterboxd to write my little review of it, i found that i had indeed watched it previously - on march 17th of 2018, exactly one year earlier.

so i am now committing to watch blood rage every march 17th for the rest of my life, because why not? i have a reminder booked into my outlook calendar.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

What did you think of it on your second viewing? That’s crazy it was a year later.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

i thought it was fun. it's very silly, but it has some fun gore & some attractive women & some atrocious acting & ridiculous plotting.

i mean, it's not the kind of thing that i would watch and immediately think 'that is now an annual tradition,' but when things line up like that, i figure the universe might be trying to give me a nudge in that direction.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Yeah, your right. The stars aligned for some reason. I think I would do the same.

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

Haven’t ceen / watchlisted, thank u mojo 🙏

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Damosuzuki has pretty much summed up it’s feel. It’s silly and feels like the entire movie is filmed in one apartment complex.

[–] MrRipEager (94) 4 years ago

Blood Rage is OK, I could see the twist coming from a mile away though. It was the film debut of actor Ted Raimi I believe. I also used to wonder why it took them so long to get a it into cinemas since it was released 4 years after it was made.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Pieces (1982)
“You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre” Spanish production starring the Lynda Day and Christopher George husband-wife team solving grizzly murders occurring on a College campus. Lots of fun scenes in this one including wacky professional tennis, random Kung-fu attacks and one of the best shock endings in slasher history. I say one of the best because of Sleepaway Camp (1983). Most Slasher fans will know this title but I thought I would still mention it.

You’ll never say bastard the same again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCCxGQetNrk

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

I remember this being very fun and having some hilarious moments... gotta revisit.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

it's ridiculously great! it's become my favourite 80s slasher.

it's streaming for free on tubitv if you're in north america.

https://tubitv.com/movies/505474

[–] MrRipEager (94) 4 years ago

I never really found the ending of Sleepaway camp to be that shocking tbh, I just found it more disturbing considering how old the character is meant to be. I found the ending of the 1st friday the 13th film more shocking (even though I knew Jason would go on to do what he does in the rest of the series).

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

When I think of Friday the 13th that image of him coming out of the water in the first one is the one that sticks in my head.

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

The combo of that final sequence and its music is super potent. The one part of the whole pretty ok movie that I think is actually brilliant.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

The Oblong Box (1969)

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

Good movie with an amazing title. One of my favorite movie titles! I had it on my list in BillHicksFan's coolest movie titles thread.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Vincent Price was the man

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

Hell yeah. He's such a big part of my inner world.

For instance his reverb soaked monologue at the beginning of City Under the Sea (@1:30)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1x7olj
is a feeling I return to so often that a part of me lives there forever.

[–] sslssg (28031) 4 years ago

The Banana Splits Movie (2019) - horror comedy about a birthday trip to the Banana Splits Show.

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

Oh yeah I've been wanting to see this!

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983)

Here is another I thought might be obscure enough to make this list. This one always gives me a chuckle because even though the plot is common slasher territory, the characters do many quirky unexpected things during the mayhem. There’s a really odd pulsing synth track throughout that stands out as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSPnpkWRjIo

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

Yeah boi nice one! You don't hear much talk about MMM, but you should. I liked the score enough to make a 40 min edit of the audio track that cuts out all the dialogue-only scenes to make a sort of ramshackle soundtrack. Also available via me, a sample pack of all the ambient "silent" moments in the film, because got probz.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

I would be quite excited if there is any way you can provide a link to your soundtrack edits for MMM. I would love to hear this without interferences. The sounds in this movie are really strange.

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

https://www.sendspace.com/file/2c56uo

(Note there is still some dialogue, but only where there was also music or interesting sound design.)

There's a cool part that sounds almost like rapidly flicking cardstock with a bike wheel or something that first seems like it's supposed to be diegetic, but then it morphs and you can tell it's part of the score and must be a synthesizer, but it's very mysterious how they designed that sound. I've tried to replicate it and can't quite.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20482) 4 years ago

Thank you for the link!! I must say that listening to that alone was creepier than the actual film itself.