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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 89.240.140.137
Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 07:38 pm:   

I was just looking through the choices for the top ten greatest British horror films, and I wondered what would be everybody's choice for number one. The Wicker Man? Or is that too obvious?

What about the top ten American horror films? Maybe 'The Exorcist'. A friend of mine thinks Friedkin's 'Bug' to be one of the best horror films, though Friedkin doesn't consider it an out and out horror film.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.155.48.70
Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 07:45 pm:   

Bug was dull.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death.
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Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker)
Username: Stephen_theaker

Registered: 12-2009
Posted From: 62.30.117.235
Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 08:01 pm:   

I'd go for:

UK: The Quatermass Experiment
US: The Thing
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 91.103.168.21
Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 09:12 pm:   

UK - The Wicker Man or Don't Look Now
US - Rosemary's Baby
Europe - Les Diaboliques or Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face)
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.229.55
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 12:24 am:   

Is there a film called THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT?... I'd vote for maybe QUATERMASS AND THE PIT.

And I'd go for ROSEMARY'S BABY, too, in the U.S.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 91.110.216.169
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 01:04 am:   

UK: The Innocents
US: Carnival of Souls
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.13.66
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 02:20 am:   

Whoops - forgot THE INNOCENTS - I switch my UK vote.
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 220.138.165.110
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 02:26 am:   

UK: Night of the Demon
US: Night of the Living Dead
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Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker)
Username: Stephen_theaker

Registered: 12-2009
Posted From: 62.30.117.235
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 06:22 am:   

"Is there a film called THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT?"

Sorry, I just can't bring myself to spell it without the E, even if that is the proper title..!
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 11:45 am:   

UK: Witchfinder General

US: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Italy: Cannibal Holocaust

Spain: [Rec]

Portugal: Tombs of the Blind Dead

France: Les Yeux Sans Visage
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 213.122.209.76
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 11:58 am:   

Germany: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 12:07 pm:   

Oh yes! Well done Lady P

What would I do without you?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 01:59 pm:   

UK: Dead of Night (1945)

OK, I know it's not a technically brilliant film as a whole, but it's the first of it's kind - a real ground-breaking film in my opinion - which later led to all the Amicus (and other) anthology series films. And, of course, it has that classic ventriloquist's dummy sequence - one of those 'once-you've-seen-it-you-never-forget-it' pieces.

US: Frankenstein (1931)

Again, there are better films technically but this was another first of its kind as far as I'm concerned. The performance from Boris Karloff is, of course, what everyone remembers - this has gone on to define what we consider to be Frankenstein's creature ever since. A true great!
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 03:54 pm:   

UK: Night Of The Demon (1957)
US: The Exorcist (1973)
Italy: Tenebrae (1982)
Spain: Horror Express (1972)
France: Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Holland: The Vanishing (1988)
Germany: Nosferatu (1921)
Austria: Funny Games (1997)
Sweden: Hour Of The Wolf (1968)
Australia: Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
New Zealand: Braindead (1992)
Canada: Videodrome (1982)
Japan: Onibaba (1964)
Mexico: Cronos (1993)
Ireland: The Fantasist (1986) - if only there were a few more <sigh>
etc, etc...

...I think a lot about these things.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 04:53 pm:   

Britain: Night of the Demon
America: Lost Highway
Canada: Videodrome
Germany: Nosferatu (Murnau)
Italy: La Maschera del Demonio
Sweden: Vargtimmen
France: Les Yeux sans Visage
Pakistan: Zinda Laash
India: Bandh Darwaza
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.4.252
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 05:58 pm:   

Goodness! Look at all these films to watch! These are just the kinds of lists I've been waiting for! I shall print them out and run, not walk, to my local library....

Sorry, I just can't bring myself to spell it without the E, even if that is the proper title..!

Sorry, Stephen, it wasn't - I actually hadn't heard this title - I looked it up, and realized it's The Creeping Unknown, which yes, of course, is a great film....
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.21.220
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 06:19 pm:   

If it IS a horror film:

US: Fire Walk with Me
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 91.103.168.21
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 06:45 pm:   

I am changing my above UK vote to Night of the Demon/Don't Look Now. Either way, I still can't choose. Sorry The Wicker Man.
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Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker)
Username: Stephen_theaker

Registered: 12-2009
Posted From: 62.30.117.235
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 10:49 am:   

"Sorry, Stephen, it wasn't - I actually hadn't heard this title - I looked it up, and realized it's The Creeping Unknown, which yes, of course, is a great film..."

Yes, that was the title it was given for its US release.
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.185
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 01:37 pm:   

Belgium: Left Bank
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Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains)
Username: Johnny_mains

Registered: 04-2010
Posted From: 82.22.75.99
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 02:06 pm:   

UK: The City of the Dead (1960)
France: J Accuse! (1919)
US: The Island of Lost Souls (1933)
Italy: Deep Red (1975)
Spain: Night of the Seagulls (1975)
Germany/ Austria? : The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Holland: Spookies (1986) - ok, it's not that good, in fact it's awful - but one you have to watch...
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 213.122.209.76
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 03:04 pm:   

Norway: Naboer (aka "Next Door")
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 05:09 pm:   

I love 'Spookies' and have it on DVD! One of those films that creates its own nightmarishly absurd reality. I imagine it as the kind of film a young David Lynch would have made with his college mates had he ever got into alcohol in a big way.
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Joelmurr (Joelmurr)
Username: Joelmurr

Registered: 04-2010
Posted From: 82.169.25.44
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 07:19 pm:   

Here's what I'd pick:

UK: Don't Look Now
US: Psycho (or Cat People)
France: Les yeux sans visage
Russia: Viy
Czechoslovakia: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Belgium: Les levres rouges (Daughters of Darkness)
Italy: Suspiria
Spain: La novia ensangrentada (The Blood-spattered Bride - or is it really as good as I remember it being?)
Finland: Valkoinen peura
Sweden: Vargtimmen
Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Japan: Onibaba (of the ones I've seen, at least)
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.31.8.83
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 08:37 pm:   

Greenland: Penguin Massacre 3 - This Time They're Worthy of Newspapers: Black and White and Red All Over.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 08:42 pm:   

Stevie - was Spookies the one where the spider woman in the basement literally sucks a man dry (not in that way, those of you with a filthy mind). The way his face collapsed made me feel a bit sick when I saw it as a kid...
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 08:51 pm:   

The Wicker Man, yes...

However, Robert Wise's The Haunting seems to make all the lists of UK horror films despite having a predominately American cast and director.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.17.252.126
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 12:58 am:   

That's the one, John. It was the farting muck-men always stuck in my mind. That film is stark raving mad and completely wonderful.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.7.76
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 02:27 am:   

Well, I do got, for a country not mentioned...

Poland: Possession (1981)

Not that I've seen other Polish horror movies, but... I don't think much is ever going to beat THIS one! (In any country!)
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 10:07 am:   

France - Martyrs
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Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains)
Username: Johnny_mains

Registered: 04-2010
Posted From: 217.171.129.69
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 11:12 am:   

Thanks to Lord P, I recently had the oppurtunity to watch Martyrs, and if they had shaved even ten minutes from the torture section, it would have been way more effective. Still quite something though - and I think it could be a USA remake proof film...
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Joelmurr (Joelmurr)
Username: Joelmurr

Registered: 04-2010
Posted From: 82.169.25.44
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 12:11 pm:   

Craig, Possession is uniquely disturbing! Hated it when I first saw it, but later became a fan of Zulawski's work - although they're not horror, films like The Third Part of the Night and That Most Important Thing: Love have a disturbing intensity. His film Devil apparently makes Ken Russell's The Devils look like a model of restraint, but I haven't had a chance to see it yet.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 78.144.129.82
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 03:47 pm:   

Britain - Night of the Demon.
The States - The Haunting.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.252.116
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 04:13 pm:   

Wow, Joel M. - I just read the synopsis of DEVIL, and it sounds exactly like the kind of film I gotta see pronto!!! It's available on Netflix, and I've just moved it to the top of my queue... thanks for the tip!...
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 78.144.129.82
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 04:37 pm:   

Craig - I've got the sequel to Donnie Darko sitting next to me.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 78.144.129.82
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 04:38 pm:   

Yes, I know how that must sound (:
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.252.116
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 04:44 pm:   

Actually, Frank, tell me if it's any good - I'm actually bizarrely desirous of seeing it - though I'd feel embarrassed and ashamed, like the time they caught me and Paul Reubens at that movie theater - er, what?
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 78.144.129.82
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 05:11 pm:   

Paul Reubens as in Pee Wee Herman? I knew you had to be in on that little sleazy escapade. After all, you're a screenplay writer (;

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