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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.3
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 08:21 am: | |
Hello again!
Someone in the Forum (I can't trace him/her back, sorry!) asked about my favourite titles in Horror, both movies and books. It's a slippery question, as my personal hierarchy will be changing with my internal weather. I suppose it's the same with anybody, anyway, at this precise moment....Movies (not necessarily in this order:
-The Haunting of Hill House (R. Wise's version)
-Night of the Eagle (from Leiber's "Conjure Wife)
-The Descent
-The Ring (Asian version)
-Night of the Living Dead
-The Others
-Horror of Dracula
-Black Sabbath (that's the English title for Mario Bava's "Maschera del Demonio", I suppose, the one about the Russian reanimated witch)
-The Fly (both Neumann's and Cronenberg's version)
-The Fall of the House of Usher (Corman's version, thanks to Vincent Price, still my hero)
-The Lord of the Rings
I could go on for ages...
Books (at a less free formation):
-The Overnight (it worked wonders for me, though not the same with every reader, so it seems...)
-The Influence
(to be fair to different authors, I'm choosing only two by our Landlord)
-The Haunting (Shirley Jackson)
-Sibs (F. Paul Wilson)
-The Judas Tree (Simon Clark)
-Wire-Mesh Mothers (Elizabeth Massie)
-At the Mountains of Madness (guess who's?)
-The Ceremonies (T.E.D.Klein)
-The Tea Party (Charles Grant)
-Night Sisters (by one John Pritchard. I wonder anybody knows about this novel...)
well...enough for today. I'm expecting missiles in return. Take care. Yours,
Giancarlo |
Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.191.209
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 01:50 am: | |
An excellent list, Giancarlo! A nice variety of old and new there, and very varied in terms of nationality too.
I think you mean Black Sunday rather than Black Sabbath for the Mario Bava film, though (it's one of my favourites too - have you seen the Russian film Viy, also based on the Gogol novella?).
I haven't heard of Night Sisters, I have to admit. I'll have to look it up. |
Coral (Coral)
Username: Coral
Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 91.111.30.53
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 01:56 am: | |
I haven't heard of that either, but it's certainly a good list. A friend of mine agrees The Overnight is the best RC, but I have to go for Nazareth Hill myself. One of the two horrors that have actually made my hair stand on end, and a strange sensation it was too! The other was a short story by EF Benson called the Confession of Charles Linkworth, it was in one of those old Fontana anthologies, I think. Or was it Pan??? |
Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.3
| | Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 08:47 am: | |
Hello!
Yes, in the movies section I really meant BLACK SUNDAY, but there is Mario Bava's movie anyway English-titled "BLACK SABBATH" (I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA) that's a trilogy featuring Boris Karloff as the Wurdalak, the Russian vampire, which I suppose was inspired by the tale VIY. I'd add that to the list. Two movies by the same director would be enough but I'm tempted to add Bava's "KILL, BABY, KILL" (OPERAZIONE PAURA) which is about a scary ghost female-child, her bouncing little ball an omen of Death.
I'd add "THE INNOCENTS" (by Jack Clayton, from Henry James TURN OF THE SCREW) and...
"PEEEPING TOM" (by Michael Powell?) and...
"PSYCO" (no need to name by whom).
I suppose that's not the end, both movies and books. They go on coming to my mind like a Chinese water-drip torture. I'll let you know.
Coral, as for Benson, I like him too. He specialised in ghost stories, so that tale should come from Fontana Books, just my surmise.
Giancarlo |
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