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Yeeeesssss!!! The chilling season is upon us. Let us begin the countdown of the top 50 movies for watching around Halloween. As usual, the information collected for each entry has been mostly or totally "borrowed" from web sources such as wikipedia and internet movie database. 16 lists were submitted for this countdown, with the following results. Let's get spooky. |
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2009, 10:21:29 AM » |
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# 50 - The Birds 3 lists, 31 points, highest ranking # 11 Tyrant
The Birds (1963) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the 1952 novella The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few days.
Tippi Hedren was actually cut in the face by a bird in one of the shots.
There is no musical score for the film except for the sounds created on the mixtrautonium, an early electronic musical instrument, by Oskar Sala, and the children singing in the school.
When audiences left the film's UK premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, they were greeted by the sound of screeching and flapping birds from loudspeakers hidden in the trees to scare them further.
The film does not finish with the usual "THE END" title because Alfred Hitchcock wanted to give the impression of unending terror.
In May 2001, the son of "The Birds" novelist Daphne Du Maurier reported that he and his wife were being terrorized by seagulls nesting outside their cottage in Cornwall, England.
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2009, 10:23:54 AM » |
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# 49 - The Sixth Sense
4 lists, 31 points, highest ranking # 13 Kete00
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 psychological thriller film, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist (Bruce Willis) who tries to help him.
The color red is intentionally absent from most of the film, but is used prominently in a few isolated shots for "anything in the real world that has been tainted by the other world" and "to connote really explosively emotional moments and situations". Examples include the door of the church where Cole seeks sanctuary and the color of the balloon, carpet, and Cole's sweater at the birthday party.
Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan pitched the film as a cross between The Exorcist (1973) and Ordinary People (1980)
The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Shyamalan said that the "The Tale of the Dream Girl" episode of Nickelodeon's television series Are You Afraid of the Dark? directed by David Winning was an inspiration for the film.
The movie was filmed in sequence.
Toni Collette has said that she was so moved by the emotional resonance of the story whilst filming, she didn't even realize it was a horror film until after its release.
The movie's line "I see dead people." was voted as the #44 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
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« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2009, 10:25:06 AM » |
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# 48 - Hellboy 3 lists, 32 points, highest ranking # 10 Relaxing Dragon
Hellboy is a 2004 supernatural action-thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. In the movie's plotline, a demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
Director Guillermo del Toro for years considered this film a dream project and had always wanted to cast Ron Perlman in the lead, but could never secure a budget or studio approval. After the massive success of Blade II (2002), del Toro was offered Blade: Trinity (2004) or Hellboy, and though he briefly considered trying to schedule both in, he chose Hellboy.
The filmmakers decided not to make the film too bloody so as to avoid an R-rating and thought of things they could substitute for the blood. While filming the fight between Hellboy and the monster in front of the people in the subway, actor Ron Perlman suggested that Hellboy could grab a gumball machine and start beating the monster over the head with it, with the flying gumballs standing in for the blood. Instead, Hellboy rips a payphone off the wall and beats the monster over the head with the phone, with the coins that go flying out standing in for the blood.
Baby Hellboy, Sammael, Ivan the corpse, Train Driver and Kroenen were all voiced by Guillermo del Toro.
One of the headstones in the graveyard in Moscow reads "Here Lies Mike Mignola" - the creator of Hellboy.
When del Toro met with producers, many changes to the Hellboy character were suggested. One idea was to have Hellboy be a human who transforms into Hellboy when he gets angry. Another suggestion was that he came from hell but was a normal human. del Toro vetoed all such attempts to alter the character.
Upon meeting to discuss the movie, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and director Guillermo del Toro decided to reveal to each other their choice for the lead role of Hellboy. They both said at the same time, Ron Perlman.
Much of the demonology in the film is inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos developed by H.P. Lovecraft, a horror writer in the 1930s. The Sammael creatures have characteristics of both Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu. Elder gods, many eyed and tentacled, sleeping at the edge of the universe, are a staple of his books.
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« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2009, 10:28:08 AM » |
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# 47 - Silent Hill 2 lists, 33 points, highest ranking # 4 Tyrant Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary. The story is an adaptation of the Silent Hill series of survival horror games created by Konami. The film, particularly its emotional and aesthetic content as well as its creature design, includes elements from Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 3. The score to the film consists almost entirely of music from Akira Yamaoka's soundtracks to the four main games in the series.
The film follows a mother, Rose, who takes her troubled adopted daughter, Sharon, to Silent Hill, the town the girl cries out for while sleepwalking. After being knocked unconscious in a car crash outside the town, Rose awakens to find her daughter missing and the town engulfed in an alternate reality of fog and falling ash. While searching for her daughter, she faces surreal reality shifts and monstrous creatures while uncovering her daughter's connections to the town's dark secrets.
In researching the different elements of Silent Hill, screen writer Roger Avary was inspired when he heard of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and decided to base the film on it. The population of the town has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 9 in 2007, as a result of a 47-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough.
Many of the creatures in the film were played by dancers so they could be flexible enough to create the required disturbing movements.
It took director Christophe Gans five years to obtain the rights to make the film. He was given the rights after he sent Konami a video of an interview describing how much Silent Hill meant to him. Along with the interview, he sent scenes that he filmed on his own dollar cut up and overlayed with music from the games.
In the original script, there were only female characters. After submitting this, the script was returned to Christophe Gans with a memo saying "there are no men!". Sean Bean's character was added and the script was approved.
The theater in Silent Hill is playing a double feature of the Vincent Price vehicle, The Last Man on Earth (1964) and its remake The Omega Man (1971), starring Charlton Heston. Both of these films were based on Richard Matheson's story "I Am Legend".
Writer Roger Avary states about Silent Hill that, "the base idea was that this is not a haunted house, it's a haunted town, y'know, separate from our reality, but it also exists within our reality. So you effectively become a ghost during your time there. And it's a very terrifying emotion, that you are a ghost of yourself. Frankly I think it's a theme that's followed me."<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/f5mT5LhbRJw&hl=en&fs=1&" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/f5mT5LhbRJw&hl=en&fs=1&</a>]]> |
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« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2009, 10:28:51 AM » |
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yay list o crap! enough lists so that random #1s arent gonna make it too! nothing from mine yet though i really should have thought of birds and sixth sense.
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« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2009, 10:31:12 AM » |
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# 46 - Dead Alive / Braindead 2 list, 33 points, highest ranking # 3 Edgewriter
Braindead (New Zealand 1992), released as Dead Alive in North America, is a zombie comedy splatstick horror film directed by Peter Jackson. In the movie, a young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
During the lawnmower scene, movie blood was pumped at five gallons per second. 300 liters of fake blood was used in the final scene of the film. The movie is said to be the bloodiest of all time (measured in amount of film blood used during the production).
The rental in Sweden came with supplemental vomit bags.
The tarot cards in the film are from Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck, but two cards, the Star and the Prince of Cups, are different from the ones featured in the deck, and they were probably specially prepared for the film.
There is not one cut from Peter Jackson's original screenplay.
The Spanish title of the film literally translates to "Your mother ate my dog", a line said by Paquita in the film, who happens to be played by a Spanish actress.
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« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2009, 11:01:33 AM » |
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Pretty good start, already got two of mine. And one of these days I need to get around to watching the Silent Hill movie, but I still need to play the first game first (or so I've been told).
Interesting choice in poster for Dead Alive. I always just see the one with the mouth being pulled, or occasionally the one with the baby.
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« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2009, 02:04:06 PM » |
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nice start...
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« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2009, 02:09:24 PM » |
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Huzzah!!
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« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2009, 02:21:20 PM » |
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I like this so far!
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« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2009, 02:45:57 PM » |
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# 46 - Dead Alive / Braindead2 list, 33 points, highest ranking # 3 Edgewriter
Braindead (New Zealand 1992), released as Dead Alive in North America, is a zombie comedy splatstick horror film directed by Peter Jackson. In the movie, a young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
During the lawnmower scene, movie blood was pumped at five gallons per second. 300 liters of fake blood was used in the final scene of the film. The movie is said to be the bloodiest of all time (measured in amount of film blood used during the production).
The rental in Sweden came with supplemental vomit bags.
The tarot cards in the film are from Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck, but two cards, the Star and the Prince of Cups, are different from the ones featured in the deck, and they were probably specially prepared for the film.
There is not one cut from Peter Jackson's original screenplay.
The Spanish title of the film literally translates to "Your mother ate my dog", a line said by Paquita in the film, who happens to be played by a Spanish actress.
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Why would you do that? - Zim Because it's cool. - Martian "My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We only kill out of personal spite." - Brain Guy Chomp on, little dude!
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« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2009, 02:47:45 PM » |
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I really should have included The Birds.  Interesting list thus far. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2009, 04:36:24 PM » |
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Great work, so far Smoky! None of mine yet, but looking forward to seeing what else ends up in this, the first List of Crap I've contributed a list to.  [If the RiffTraxed version was allowed, I would've included 6th Sense myself.] |
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« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2009, 05:00:58 PM » |
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Good list so far. Nothing I have, but all stuff that makes for Halloween fun.
Love that Braindead trailer. It would have scared the living hell out of me if I saw it before my teen years.
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