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I'd put both You're Next and The Rocky Horror Picture Sho into the horror comedy genre. You're Next, to me, is a back horror comedy. This shit was hard. Made a list and just listed whatever films I dig, and ended up on 30. Then I decided ti get it down to 15. It's almost impossible. And aside from the first one it's all random. Can't rank them. They're all amazing. 1. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein This is easily my favourite one. Classic Universal Monster film from 1948. What makes this so good to me, is how unique it was and still is compared to other horror comedies. It feels like they were making a proper horror film when Abbott and Costello turned up on the set by a mistake and just started acting like their usual self, while the film, aside from them, feels like a top notch classic Unveral Horror film with Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Glenn Strange playing Count Dracula, The Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster just like they would've done in any of the films 14-18 years earlier. 2. Piranha A film that came in the wake of Jaws and that parodies the excellent Jaws, and it's just as good as Jaws. A shocking thing to say, I now, but I honestly feel that this is just as good as Jaws. That's how good I think this film is. A perfect parody. Over the top silly, yet gruesome in its own way. Superb! 3. Tremors A beatiful homage to the big monster flicks of the 50's with a lovely cast and even better humor. The special effects are first rate and the humour is spot on, and did I mentioned the lovely setting? Western horror comedy. Oh yeah! Hilarious film! 4. Ghostbusters Do I really have to say aything about this film? Is it a horror comedy, though? Well, I think so. Borderline fantasy/horror, but that goes. Brilliant film. It's fun and witty, offers a shitload of stunning special effects and have a nice cast. There's also a nice horror-feeling to it all, without it tying to be scary, terrifying or anything like that. This film is pure fun! 5. Gremlins Another Joe Dante film (directed Piranha as well). A cute, yet dark, twisted and funny horror-comedy with some of the coolest monsters ever made for film. It's fantastic, that's what it is. 6. Return of the Living Dead Braineating zombies, stupid teens, a beyond great soundtrack with the likes of 45 Graves, The Cramps, Rocky Erickson, The Damned and The Flesh Eaters and a lovely lot with a fantastic mixture of the fun, silly and bisarre. What's not to like here? Amazing film! 7. An American Werewolf in London Terifying and awfully funny in equal parts and with stunning make-up work and ingenius special effects. This film is just crazy good! John Landis' best film! 8. Evil Dead II I can't really choose a favourite of the two first, but went for this for the same reason as Jiggy: it's not as serious as the first and not as over the top and silly as the third. It's somewhere inbetween. Insanely good special effects, hilarious slap-stick-gore and comedy in one hell of a fine mix. Bruce Campbell is a God among men, and his comedic timing is among the best ever. Jesus, he is good! 9. Braindead This entire film is a parade of great special effects and make-up, and an orgy of bad taste and splatter humour. What's not to like here? 10. Re-Animator I'm not as big a fan as Jiggy, but this is a damn fine film. Just see Jiggy's #1 or my "review" a page or two back. 11. The Old Dark House An underrated gem by James Whale, director of Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man among others, starring none other than Boris Karloff. It's atmospheric and hilariously grim. this is a proper gem, guys. Make sure you check this out! I'll have a rewatch some time this weekend, and despite already seeing it a couple of times, I cannot wait to see it again. 12. Encounters of the Spooky Kind At the time of its release this was simply one of the most unique horror films made for decades. This probably the first ever jiangshi film, a genre that would blend kung fu, horror and comedy. It's a genre that didn't last for more than 10-15 years, but during this short time we got some absolute classics within the genre. This is an early Sammo Hung-directed film from 1980, and he also stars in the leading role. And he performs both with heart, soul and magic. Fantastic, hilarious and at times almost creepy. Lovely and unique film. 13. Mr. Vampire Another jiangshi film, this time directed by Ricky Lau, but produced by Sammo Hung, and the film that really brought the juangshi films out there. This film is ever as exciting, funny and good as Encounters of the Spooky Kind, but it's perhaps a bit better. However, I am a Sammo Hung fanboy and is probably a bit biased. Anyway, the film is much of the same as Encoutners of the Spooky Kind, but perfected in many ways. If you're new to the genre, this is the one that is recommended. Highly as well! 14. You're Next Yep, I consider this a horror comedy and I consider it a masterpiece. It's intelligent, dark and very funny. Exciting as fuck and a film that'll keep you on the edge, but the black humour will make you lean back every now and then. Slightly original as well, if you ask me. A new twist to the genre. Lovely film! 15. Frankenweenie Say whatever you want about Tim Burton and his precious style, esecially in recent years, but this film is magnificent. The animation is so good you'd think Ray Harryhausen had a hand in everything, the story is lovely and the characters are superb. It's not scary or anything as it is a children's horror film, but it's still damn good. Lots of lovely homages to classics, and all in all a really charming and lovely film. Oe of Tim Burton's best IMO. There's so many films here I could easily have swapped for someone else, though. I had so many on my mind. Way too many. Heh.

Oh yeah, that sounds great. Those vocals are exceptional!

Wet Hot American Summer - Because of Netflix' sequel series, as well as the film's cult status, I decided it was about time I got down a watched this. But I went from really looking forward to the series to being highly sceptical, because this film was god damn awful. It's got a lovely cast, even though a lot of them weren't exactly great actors at this time, but no one is given something proper to work with. Everything about it feels so cheap, and it's just a huge fucking mess. Everything feels thrown together with no thought behind it. I get the feeling that David Wain was always aiming towards making something that will be seen as cult in years to come, instead of aiming towards making something good. And to me, that wasn't close to working out. Fuck this shit. Watch the classic films in the genres it parodies/satires instead. Narco Cultura - A nice documentary that takes a look at the Mexican drug war in Ciudad Juárez, but instead of documenting how the drug cartels are, it focuses on the culture that surrounds it. On one side it focuses on the rise of the narcocorrido genre, with rising star Edgar Quintero and his band Buknas de Culiacan, and on the other side it focuses on CSI Richi Soto, and his work and team. A very good documentary. Well-made, interesting, thought-provoking and disturbing. It's nice to see it from both sides, and the narcocorrido side of it just makes me shake my head. It's a very interesting and facinating culture, but it's so stupid. The way they see huge crime lords, many responsible for many, many, many thousands of deaths, as hero's, making songs about how great they are. On the other side, covering the CSI's days, it's inspiring, sad, provoking and disturbing. Shocking stuff, and no matter how many documentaries about the drug wars you see, it never gets less shocking. It's the opposite: you'll just get more and more shocked and disgusted for every singe time you watch or read something new. I like how the documentary feels very neutral and it doesn't try to spin things around on their head. It just comes off as very honest, very real.

Considering all the great horror film you've seen I am sure you'll be more than capable of making a lovely top 10. Santo vs. the Vampire Women - This is the second proper Santo film, and this is even better than the first one. It's sillier, cheesier and way more over the top than the first one, but that's how I like it. It is also mroe of a horror film than the first one. It brings nothing new to the screen, it just uses whatever lot is already used 5000 times, but I don't mind that. Vampire women are awakened from a long sleep and set out to kidnap a girl, Diana Orloff, as she has the vampire's mark and must become the vampire queen's successor. You have sexy vampire women, male vampires using "deadly karate blows" (as Santo himself put it), Santo popping out from nowhere to save the day and mooe silliness. It's really stupid, but really fun. If you like campy horror films, then check this out. A must-have for fans of camp(ing! Høhøh!). However, while the overall film is a huge ball of cheese, the cinematography in the sexy vampire womens mansion looks lovely. I get a total Mario Bava-feeling from those scenes. Very gothic and atmospheric. Brilliantly done!

I don't really have a favourite as the 80's, 90's, 00's and 10's are more or less equal to my ears. Plenty of great music from the 50's, 60's and 70's as well. Not too familiar with music before the 50's. But if I had to choose three I'd say the 80's, 90's and 00's, which is what I just voted.

It's been a long time since we made any lists in this thread, so top 10 favourite horror comedies, people? Come with your list, and write what you like about the film if you bother. It's always more interesting if you add a few words to it.

Where did you visit? Me and my girlfriend took a drive around Norway this week. Went from Trondheim to Kristiansund, then took the Atlantic Road down to Molde, then we went to Åndalsnes and up Trollstigen, and through Geirangerfjorden, then down to Stryn and the old Strynefjellvegen, down to Sogndal and over Valdres and to Hamar, and then back up to Trondheim. Went on sunday and got home on friday. It was amazing. The Atlantic Road was nice, the road up to Trollstigen was absolutely magical and Geirangerfjorden must be one of the most beautiful places on earth, as well as Sogndal and the Sognefjorden and Valdres being beautiful places. Suddenly I was able to understand why so many go to Norway just to see the nature. Pure magic. Such a shame with the tourism, though. We didn't stop as much as we'd like because of all the tourism on some of these places. Especially Geirangerfjorden suffered massively because of this. But we had a lovely time, especially me since she drove all the way and I got to see it all. Shame for her of course, but that's how it is. It was lovely nonetheless. Would do it again.

Ian McShane is confirmed for a role in season 6. Ian god damn McShane for fuck sake. How cool is that? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh!!!

Out of nowhere there's also a new Krallice out. Or, it's leaked at least. I am very surprised to see the short playtime of this new one. It's only 35 minutes divided on 6 songs, while of their previous four albums the shortest have been 60 minutes divided on 7 tracks. That's pretty interesting if you ask me. The longest tracks, four of them, clocks in at only 6:41 minutes. I'm not very impressed by that song though, and I think the band's just gotten worse with every single album which makes me slightly worried. But a Krallice album needs time to grow, so I'll give it some spins later on. But they'll never top the self-titled debut though. Great album. Like a progressive, avant-garde-esque Weakling or Wolves in the Throne Room. Not 1/10th as good as Weakling or Wolves in the Throne Room though, but great nonetheless.

New Deafheaven. Sunbather was a huge disappointment, so I don't have too high expectations here. But Roads to Judah is excellent so I hope they can reach that level again. It's only five tracks so I hope that means it's not filled with fillers like Sunbather was.

Bad Boys - Say whatever you want about Michael Bay and his explosive style of film making, but the few times he's hit he'shit hard, no matter how ridiculous, silly and over the top his film are. But as his budget went up, the quality went down and to this date it's still his two "low-budget" films Bad Boys (19m) and Pain & Gain (26m) that stands the strongest, followed by The Rock (75m) which is his third lowest budget to this date. So the smaller his budget, the better the films. Anyway, Bad Boys still stands strong in my eyes. Ok, so it's fairly generic and standard in the buddy-cop genre rehashing the Lethal Weapon and Beverly Hills Cop films, and already here Michael Bay goes way over the top with his explosive film making. Everything that can explode, explodes, and the explosions are usually big. Huge. Immense! But the chemestry between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence is absolutely fantastic and the humour is spot on for mot part, even though there's some awful one-liners here and there, especially by Téa Leoni whom I think is the weakest point of the film. But the chemestry between Smith and Lawrence is incredible, the action is good and the explosion are many and big. What's not to like? Superb braindead popcorn flick. And I've always been in love with Will Smith, something that surely helps me enjoy this film. The Godly Beggar - I don't know much about this film as it doesn't have a wikipedia page and isn't listed in IMDB, but what little I do know i that The Godly Beggar is a wuxia-inspired martial arts flick from Mainland China by Gao Tianhong, starring the excellent Wang Qun who is probably best known for starring in the brilliant Fist From Shaolin. So it's a very rare film, but it's a good film leaning more towards drama than martial arts action, despite some well-choreographed action scenes here and there. Is it the best martial arts drama ever? Nah, but it's well-worth seeing for fanatics. 6,5-7/10

Shit, these guys just doesn't know how to do anything below god damn fantastic, do they? What a band, both live and on album. Will be one of the best album this year for sure.

It's impossible to make a list like this without feeling you've left someone important out, but today my list would look like this (only one release per band): Sigh - Hail Horror Hail Kagrra - San Flower Travellin' Band - Satori Sabbat - Sabbat Boris - Akuma no Uta Pyg - Pyg! Original First Album Utada Hikaru - Ultra Blue Framtid - Framtid Kinoco Hotel - Marianne No Jubaku Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor S.O.B. - What's the Truth? Denki Groove - A Kiko Yano - Japanese Girl Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Ominous from the Cosmic Inferno Meiko Kaji - Golden Star Twin Deluxe Tomorrow the list would be slightly different.

That hair is sexy, Catsy. Both the one on your head and the one around your face. Mmmmmh.

And I watched the infamous "Pai Mei trilogy". Two of them features Lo Lieh as Priest Pai Mei, a character who would later show up in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. II. He's such a fantastic character. I love the living shit out of him. Fun fact: Gordon Liu, who appears in two of the three films, played Pai Mei in Kill Bill Vol. II. Executioners from Shaolin - The first one if directed by Lie Chia-Liang, perhaps best known as the director of classics such as 36th Chamber of Shaolin and its sequels and Drunken Master II, and it's a film that is nothing short of perfect. The film stars Chen Kuan-tai, Lily Li, Lo Lieh and Gordon Liu, and they are all great. But Lo Lieh steals the show here. His performance is stunning! But everything from the cool opening sequence with Pai Mei and a Shaolin Temple master fighting in front of an empty backdrop to the plot, cast and action choreography is stunning. It's an absolutely mind-blowing film for someone as into the martial arts genre as I am. Shaolin Abbot - Several actors including Lo Lieh and and Lily Li returns for this "sequel" directed by Ho Meng-Hua, the man behind the important and legendary, but disappointing, horror film Black Magic, but only Lo Lieh are playing the same role and joining them are, among others, David Chiang. The film isn't nearly as good as Executioners, but it's still damn good and both David Chiang and Lo Lieh are excellent here. At times it feels like I am watching a good remake of the über classic 36th Chamber of Shaolin, but it's not anywhere close to as good as it. But I did really like this film anyway, and Lo Lieh is so good as Pai Mei. Badassery! Clan of the White Lotus - This is probably my favourite of the three films, or at least it's just as good as the perfect first one, and is directed by Lo Lieh who in this film plays Pai Mei's brother Pak Mei, or Priest White Lotus as he's called. With him he's got Gordon Liu, and they're both amazing. The plot is at times really odd, but it offers a new, unique touch which I really appreciated. It's not original and it's not unique, but it's fresh and has a good plot and brilliant action sequences. And more than that I really can't ask from a film like this. Monsterously good film!

Drunken Master II - As you understand by the title this is the sequel to Drunken Master which came 16 years earlier, and it was Jackie Chan's first traditional martial arts film since the early 80s', probably 1983's Fearless Hyena II or soemthing. He'd made plenty of martial arts films inbetween of course, but they were very either martial arts comedies or action comedies which were very stunt-oriented. The first one is perfect and this sequel is just as good, if not better, and it proved that Jackie still had it. It's exciting with brillitnat martial arts, some insane stunts and fantastic comedy. The film is hilarious with some of the best comedy ever catched on film, and if you don't laugh when seeing this you'e crazy. The cast is good. Jackie Chan, Anita Mui and Ti Lung takes the lead roles and they're all brilliant, and people like Andy Lau and Lau Kar-leung having smaller roles as well. There's not really much to say about this film. It's perfect. Breathtaking! The God of Cookery - A nice, and as usual silly as fuck, comedy by Stephen Chow who also stars in the film. Over the top and stupid, absurd and silly, but very enjoyable. But he'd make way better films later on in his career imo. The Pirates - A decent enough adventure film with Korean pirates and bandits, but it suffers a bit from its lenght (130 min), uneven pace and sudden mood changes. There's some nods towards other film (Pirates of the Caribbean!!!) and shit like that, but overall it's a nice enough adventure film with good action, some really funny moments and some cool characters. The costumes and sets looks incredible too. The Defender - A nice Jet Li action flick directed by Corey Yuen. The plot is alright even though I don't buy the romance in the film, but the action is top notch badassery from begining to end. Some nice humour thrown in as well, but this film is all about the action and that's was makes it so good. Yes, dear Des, this movie is great because of its action brilliance.

Kung Fu Cannibals - Oh shit, this film rocked. Superb trash cinema for people who enjoy that kind of films. Cheap, vulgar and silly in a way that I doubt any of you can imagine. It's got awful acting, poor martial arts (save the asian oen who looked like he could feature in something better than this), blood & gore and both tits 'n' ass. What more can you ask for in a film like this? The plot is simple: some guys led by someone I believe is a german nazi who does his best to look like a fat Hitler kidnap beautiful chicks and sell them to stupid-as-fuck-looking cannibal monks who uses these girls to gain some amazing powers which I will not say anything about. You've got zombie ninja, samurai and shaolin monks fighting the good guys and it's all just beautiful. I mean, this is as amazing as it sounds. I am not kidding! Favourite moment of the film is when a chubby nazi-biker with a drawn swaztika on his helmet attacks a pair who's going to get hot. Then some karate guy comes and when he kicks in that toilet door, man. Unbelieveable! Hilarious scene that gave me wet eyes. It was that funny. Yeah, it's a beautiful so-bad-it's-absolutely-amazing type of film! Just take a look at this poster, read the tagline and tell me you're not dying to watch this martial arts action-horror film: Gooooood damn!

Re-Animator - This film is hand down nothing short of brilliant. Perfectly paced with an ingenius balance between the funny and macabre. It's campy as fuck, but not in a way that makes you point finger and laugh at how bad it is, because this isn't bad at all. This is, in my eyes, geat filmmaking with a great lot, AMAZING special effects and a good cast with Jeffrey Combs as the obvious star. He does everything right in this film. Splat, splat, splat! Amazing film!

This song is amazing. Never checked out anything else by Afu-Ra, though. Is his albums worth checking out?

Was playing Abyssos' debut album today, Together We Summon the Dark, a really good melodic black metal album and was wondering what the members was up to today. When checking it I found out that the main member Christian Rehn is the father of one of the guys in Seremedy and uncle of Yohio. Jesus, what a poor man. I'm surprised he hasn't commited harakiri yet with kin like that. Great song from a great album!

Sightseers - Well, this was disappoitning. My girlfriend choose this film and when I saw it was directed by Ben Wheatley I got excited as fuck beause I thought A Field in England was excellent. But with this I felt it failed on everything it tried to do. It's a black comedy that isn't even slightly funny, and the characters are annoying as fuck. I just didn't get anything from this at all. Dirty Wars - A nice little documentary that basically shots itself in the foot by focusing way too much on Jeremy Scahill and his thoughts and feelings, rather than the very interesting subjects themself. At times it feels like Jeremy Scahill is the subject of the film and that just didn't work for me. No idea why they made it like they did. But it was interesting anyway.

Monkey Kung Fu - Let me just start off by saying that this film must not be confused with the better know Chia-Liang Liu film Mad Monkey Kung Fu releaed the same year. There's not much of a plot in the film, but it's got a shitload of action scenes and they are really, really well-choreographed and even better executed on screen. It's baically 75 minutes of action and 15 minutes of talking, waling and doing nothing. So in that sense it's not a very impressive film, but the action is nothing short of stunning. Creative, fun and impressive. All in all it's a film for the hardcore martial arts fans. If you don't get wet in your pants by watching great fights alone, then this isn't a film for you. Hapkido - An early 70's martial arts film with an impressive Angela Mao, Sammo Hung and Carter Wong (fucking Thunder in Big Trouble in Little China!) in the lead roles. Is it a fairly standard film? Yeah, sure it is. There's nothing new here. It's basically a Fist of Fury remake. But damn is this shit working well. Everything is well-done. Yeah, except fo the racism. Heh. "Japs sucks, go China!". But I can overlook that kind of bullshit when everything else is this good. Short camoes by both Jackie Chan and Biao Yuen too, which makes this one of the earliest films to feature the three brothers Hung, Chan and Biao. Cool as fuck, even though you barely see Jackie. Heh.

Seven Steps of Kung Fu - Pacy, old school kung fu flick from the late 70's with lots of badassery and flair fights. This film offers nothing new, and I am sure this was mad on a really small budget and in a very limited period of time, intended to earn money as one of two films in a Grindhouse showing, but it was a great film nonetheless. Or, it wasn't a great film, but it was great entertainment. The choreography is slick and fast-paced, and I dare even say fairly fresh and original with lots of creativity thrown in, the bad guys are cool as fuck and the good ones even cooler. But what really made this something great, is how sly and sneaky the two heroes are. They just don't give a fuck and are ruthless as fuck going up two on one several times during the film. You don't see that too often in films like this. It probably sound stupid, but that really sets this apart from a lot of films during the era and makes it a bit unique. I really liked this film despite all its flaws. Golden Swallow - An early Chang Cheh wuxia, and a semi-sequel to King Hu's classis wuxia Come Drink With Me. This sequel continues the story of Golden Swallow, once again played by the always so fantastic Cheng Pei-pei, but the main characters in the film are Silver Roc, played by Wang Yu, and Golden Whip, played by Lo Lieh. All three leads are fantastic and it's a well-directed, superbly acted and amazingly choreographed wuxia with nice characters and lots of bloody action. There's a love triangle present and I think it were executed perfectly here and I feel for all three involved, and it's a fairly melancholic film with great atmosphere. But despite this, it's still got this Chang Chehexploitation-feeling to it with his name written all over it. A bit epic, yet raw in a certain way. Yu Wang's character is the best in this film. An anti-hero one might say, and he's one badass motherfucker. He stole this film. What a brutal character. Brilliant film!

Below - This started out as a fairly decent submarine thriller, but it slowly turned towards horror and slowly got less and less interesting. There's a serious lack of suspense despite it trying, some awfully cheap scares and not one single likeable character. When you make a film like this, in the vein of Event Horizon, you need someone likeable so that you actually get drawn into the flick and care what happens to them. I didn't care for any in this film, and the lack of suspense just made it mediocre. Mediocre film. Not awful, but it could've been so much better with a few different choices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jZ66GNmyPY Damn, this sounds really good. It's close to 10 years since they released their last great album, Eclipse, so this is something very welcomed. Happy to see them go away from the formula they've been rehashing every since Eclipse as well. This song sounds like it was very inspired by Elegy and Tales from the Thousand Lakes. I'm liking it a lot. Looking forward to the album.