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One-Armed Boxer - The same year Jimmy Wang played in his last One-Armed Swordsman film, Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman, he wrote, directed and starred in his second directorial film, One Armed Boxer. Yes, he went from playing a one-armed swordsman to a one-armed boxer. And the year before this he directed his first film, The Chinese Boxer, which was also a one-armed martial arts film. It's a bit funny. He was a far better martial artist and acto than he was a director, but he did a decent job and made a very good film. It's not on par with The One-Armed Swordsman and its sequel, but but that doesn't mean it's not good. It's got a lot of WTF-moments and is at times very funny. If this is intentional or unintentional I do not know, but it's fun and adds to the charm. This is well worth watching. I remember the sequel being a lot better than this, so I am looking forward to watching that one again. Jimmy Wang is so awesome!

The lack of interest to this is a bit disappointing, but we continue. Let's move back to the 80's. I'll come back with my list lately. It's gonna be a hard one, but not because it was a poor decade. It was a superb decade with a billion good horror films.

I've bought a shitload of films lately. All on VHS of course. I also found Big Trouble in Little China, and since it's my all tiem favourite film, I got stoked as fuck. So happy I forgot to check that it had the actual film inside. Started to think about it on our way back to the ca and checked. What did I see? A film with the name of Merciless Nightfun (or something along those lines). Sounded like a porn film, which made us burst out in laughter, as well as sadness for me. Got home and googled the title and found out it wasn't a porn film afterall. Fun anyway. Anyway, lots of great films. Half of those I got for free, the other half was close to free. Love it!

The New One-Armed Swordsman - I waited a long time before I watched this because I was a bit sceptical. I love the two first films in the series (yet not watched Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman which came before this), but I was a bit sceptic since Jimmy Wang moved on and didn't want to portray the one-armed swordsman any longer. Chang Cheh got David Chiang for the role as the new one-armed swordsman. What David Chiang lacked as a martial artist he made up for with brilliant acting. This film is violent and bloody, and really spectacular. It's a very typical film for Chang Cheh around this time. You can see the Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone influences in his film. At times I get a spaghetti western-like feeling from this, and as we know, spaghetti westerns was very influenced by samurai films. This is just as good, if not better, than the two first films. Amazing! Chang Cheh is, together with King Hu, the most important direcor when it comes to wuxia. King Hu started it, and Chang Cheh took everything toa whole different elvel where things got more spectacular, and he intoduced us to the anti-hero that got a lot of place in these films. He's not known as The Godfather of Hong Kong without any reason, to put it like that. You can see a lot of CHang Cheh in directors like Quentin Tarantino, Zhang Yimou and John Woo. Wǔ xiá - Ah, what a film! This films like a mix of A History of Violence, The Killer and The One-Armed Swordsman, spiced with a bit of Sherlock Holmes on top. The story is the same as we've seen a billione times before in films like A History of Violence, The Killer and other films, and it doesn't ty to hide the fact that it isn't a very original idea. The direction is great, the choreography is amazing as expected from Donnie Yen, who also plays the main role in this film, supported by Yu Wang (The One-Armed Swordsman) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (House of Flying Daggers). I love the fact that it pays tribute to The One-Armed Swordsman like it does. It was bloody amazing! Great film. Bohachi: Clan of the Forgotten Eight - The original title to this film is Bôhachi bushidô: Poruno jidaigeki, which translates to something like this: Porno Period Film: Way of the Outlaw Samurai. But do not be afraid, this has nothing to do with porn as we know it. Not even close. Bôhachi bushidô is a Japanese cult film directed by none other than Teruo Ishii, also knows as The King of Cult. This man pushed the limits in the late 60's and continued making great, fresh films in the 70's. Bôhachi bushidô is a 80 minute long film that shows more tits and ass than your regular 90 minute porn film, and it is topped with huge amounts of violence, blood and flying limbs. But despite all of that, this is still a very nice, tasty and elegant film where Teruo Ishii really got to show off his skills as a film maker, shooting some of the most beautifully shot scenes ever. Tetsurô Tanba plays the lead character, and he is as amazing as ever. Bohachi: Clan of the Forgotten Eight is among the best pinky violence films I've ever seen, and it is close to a 10/10. Maybe a 9,8/10 or something. Jagten - This is a dark danish film with Mads Mikkelsen in the lead. It's a hard watch as it portrays some serious issues in our society. Denmark is on a whole other level dan norway when it comes to film making. I seriously wonder why. Attack the Block - This will be seen as a cult film in 5-7 years. Do I need to say more? Nah, not eally. Great film!

This isn't getting a theatrical release here in Norway, but I just checked Kosmorama's program, Trondheim's very own film festival, and found out they're gonna screen it there at the end of the month. I am so looking forward to that. Gonna be great. I've got massive expectations. Cinemassacre's Monster Madness - I watched all seasons of this webseries lately. This is James Rolfe, better known as the angry video game nerd, own web series where he every single october watches horror films and reviews them. Everything from the biggest ones in the first season, to a Godzilla-thon in the second season, to sequel-a-thon and 80's-a-thon and so on. It's great fun. Worth a watch if you love horror films! The Italian Connection - This is the second part in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu-trilogy. It's not as good as Milano calibro 9, but still a great film. Mario Adorf is back but plays a different role as a small-time pimp who's getting framed. He's amazing as he was in the first film. Henry Silva and Woody Strode plays two of the badguys here and they're both great, and their characters must have been an inspiration on Tarantino's Pulc Fiction characters Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield. Says it all. it's a geat poliziottesco. Really is. Spring Breakers - This was a great film, but I cannot help but feel a bit disappointed. From what I had been told and read I got the impression this was a modern 60s-70's exploitation influenced flick. I expected a modern Russ Meyeresque film, but didn't get that at all. But I was impressed. James Franco does his best performance ever as Riff Raff... no, fuck. As Alien. He was amazing. The girls does a great job too. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - This is the kung fu genre's answer to Die Hard, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, Psycho and so on. This might not be my favourite kung fu film, but it is the ultimate kung fu film anyway, and if you're just gonna watch one kung fu film, this better be it. Chia-Hui Liu is amazing, the choreography is great, the direction is great and it's just badass as fuck. And yes, Chia-Hui Liu is the one who played both Johnny Mo and Pai Mei in the Kill Bill films. Return to the 36th Chamber . This is the sequel, but it is a weird one. Chia-Hui Liu is back, but he plays another character this time. He plays a character that pretends he is San Te, the character he played in the first film, while another one plays San Te. The concept is much of the same, but this time we're getting a lot more humour and sillyness. But if you like The 36th Chamber of Shaolin you'll like this, unless you hate humour. But this isn't as good as the first one. Five Deadly Venoms - This might be my favourite kung fu film, but unlike The 36th Chamber, this borrors a lot from wuxia as well. So it's not a pure kung fu film like The 36th Chamber, but also not a pute wuxia film like Come Drink With Me either. It's something between these. This is a huge cult film and a film that has inspired everything from Wolrd of Warcraft to Wu-Tang Clan (who's also inspired by The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, and 60-80's martial ats films in general) to Kill Bill to Kung Fu Panda to Batman: The Brave and the Bold. In other words, very influencial film. Masterpiece! Come Drink with Me - This is one of the films that started everything as far as wuxia goes. This is often regarded as one of the best AND most important martial arts films ever made. King Hu saw things as no one else did, and created films no one else could create. King Hu was a revolutionary film maker. The set designs, characters, clothes, acting and the choreaography are all top notch. King Hu created a new form of fighting that was way more than just fighting. Pei-pei Cheng is as good as she's beautiful, and that says a lot, but Hua Yueh steals the show here. Brilliant! This is a must for people who've seen films such as Hero, House of Flying Daggers and/or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and wants to see mroe of the genre. This isn't as spectaculare as those, but the quality is as good as those. However, King Hu would actually make a film that was even better than Come Drink with Me in form of A Touch of Zen. With this is took film making to a whole new level. Class as fuck!

The Zombie Violet Harenchi sounds AMAZING! The atmosphere is thicker than the thickest of morning fogs and it feels heavy. By far one of the heaviest "vk" songs I've ever heard. it's not the slowest or the most down-tuned, but it has this real, heavy as fuck feeling to it. Great! This band should come to Europe soon. One of the very, very, very few of todays VK bands I'd like to see live.

I don't have anything against it, good music is good music no matter who wrote and who performed it. But I do think it's pretty pathetic to use ghost writers and take the cred as writers. Just give the actual writers the cred they deserve for fuck sake.

Haha, I can't help but getting a massive boner when looking at this. It's so fucking ridiculous. I'm so looking forward to this.

I'm gonna check it out, but I am not stoked. Interested, yes, but I've got no expectations whatsoever. After the legendary Hole in the Sky festival held their last festival a few years back, Beyond the Gates started right after that. In a few years they've gained some what of a cult status and people don't even miss Hole in the Sky. That's impressive as Hole in the Sky was concidered one of the best metal festivals in the world. I'm thinking about my first Beyond the Gates and Bergen trip later this year. The line up is looking so good at the moment! GRAVE MIASMA IRKALLIAN ORACLE JESS AND THE ANCIENT ONES NIFELHEIM PRIMORDIAL PURSON SATAN SINMARA SONNE ADAM THE RUINS OF BEVERAST There's only one band there I wouldn't want to see right now and that is because I haven't actually heard 'em. That's Sinmara. The rest I really want to see. Primordial, Satan's Satyrs, Jess and the Ancient Ones, Nifelheim, Satan, The Ruins of Beverast and and so on. Goooood damn! And there's still a billion bands left to be announced. Been dreaming of seeing this band live for close to 10 years now. Jesus. A.A. Nemtheanga are, judging from the DVD and other live clips, the very best frontman in the world at the moment, and so he's been fo many years now. That presence, man. Feeling the presence just from the DVD is insane. The charisma. Unlike anyone!

You don't need to apologize. Others might not even think of it the same way as myself. But I hate it when people reveal that there's something unexpected in a film. I consider it a huge spoiler. But as I said, others might not do it.

I've not seen Livide, but I have it on my infamous watchlist. I think this is a great film. I loved it a lot! However, revealing there's a thing at the end is a huge spoiler IMO. Because then people know there's a lot more to a film than they might expect.

The PV looks like shit and I'm a bit uncertain about the drumming on the track, but the rest sounds very nice.

It's always been like that. Things comes and goes. In the 30's it felt like it was all about monsters, and when that died out it was quiet for some years before monsters got really popular again in the 50's. In the 80's it felt like it was all about slashers and so on. It'll always be like that. And if you don't remember the last time you saw a good horor movie then you can't have seen many in recent years. Non-haunted house horrors from the past 10 years that are worth seeing: 2013: Stoker Evil Dead Warm Bodies The Lords of Salem 2012: Maniac Berberian Sound Studio Frankenweenie American Mary Dark Shadows The Cabin in the Woods 2011: You're Next Julia's Eyes Red State 2010: I Saw the Devil Secuestrados Piranha 3D Bedevilled Tucker & Dale vs. Evil 2009: Red Nights aka Les nuits rouges du bourreau de jade The House of the Devil Doghouse Amer The Revenant Zombieland Thirst Drag me to Hell 2008: The Children Eden Lake Martyrs The Strangers Låt den rätte komma in 2007: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Storm Warning Inside Planet Terror 28 Weeks Later 2006: Ils All the Boys Love Mandy Lane All these have 7/10 or more in my book. And on top of that there's been several good films with haunted houses.

Cool list. Jacob’s Ladder and Event Horizon were close to getting two sports on my list as well. But it's been way too long since I saw Jacob's Ladder, so I got a but uncertain about that one. Event Horizon is great, and a bit underrated. I love the claustrophobic atmosphere in the spaceship, which looks great by the way. The set designs are amazing. If I had seen it a few years earlier (aka before I watched Scream) it would've taken its spot for sure. It gets a bit weaker towards the end, though. Gotta add that. But I like it a lot.

I can easily see that our taste are like day and night, but kudos for writig a little (no, way more than a little) about each album. Neither of these are my cup of tea at all, but it's an interesting read anyway. Great work!

I'm not sure I can do that. FUCK YOU AND YOUR AWFUL TASTE!!!!!!! Nah, fuck that. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion and I am happy to see more people contribute here. It's always fun to discuss horror with people, no matter what their taste is like. It's not my thread, but I'll try to keep it alive as much as possible, but I can't do that alone. It's not a remake despite the title. They've got very little in common, except for the title. House of Wax (1953) is a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum, though. Both are fantastic, but I prefer House of Was meself. Can't stand House of Wax (2005). It's a huge failure in my eyes. This, I have to admit, is quite shocking. I'm a huge Dario Argento fan and I consider most of his 70's and 80's horror films to be masterpieces, as well as some of his 90's films. And the best part of his best films (Profondo Rosso and Suspiria) are the soundtrack by Goblin. I fucking love Goblin! Seeing them live in 10 days as well.

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Since people don't seen interested we'll just jump to the 90's. This is a hard one if you ask me. The year that horror "died". Ok, it wasn't as bad as I make it out to be. But it's still the weakest decade ever IMO. 1. Braindead What a I supossed to say about this masterpiece? It's hilarious from begining to end. The keywords here are blood, blood and more blood. Because that is what this is; a film full of blood. This is Peter Jackson at his best. 2. Army of Darkness This is somewhat of an underrated film if you ask me. It's got a huge cult following, but is kinda looked fown upon because of its huge amoutn of slapstick humour. And it's less bizarre than the two others. And while this probably is the weakest of the three, it's stilla great film. 3. Audition A slow drama that suddenly explodes and gets fucked up. You just have to love that. 4. Ringu This was one of the first films of its kind, isn't it? The new wave of terrorizing "J-horror" that scared the living shit of out people for years to come. That kinda says it all, doesn't it? Atmospheric, terrorizing and mean. 5. Wild Zero This is one of those crazy, Japanese films that you've just got to love. This cult film stars Masashi Endô who plays a rockabillyfan who friggin' love Guitar Wolf. And who else stars in this film? Well, I'll tell you that. Guitar fucking Wolf! That's right. Guitar Wolf! How cool is that? Should be more than enough to get a hold of your interest. This is a badass film from start to finish. 6. Sleepy Hollow I've always had a weak spot for Tim Burton and his directorial style, but this is one of my favourites of his. Visually stunning film with a great atmosphere and a fabolous Johnny Depp. It's a great, and somewhat underrated film. 7. Bram Stoker's Dracula This is a great, semi-erotic gothic horror film with a brilliant Gary Oldman in the lead. The atmosphere is great, but my favourite part of this film is probably the use of shadows. It's absolutely chilling and geat. You gotta love it! 8. In The Mouth of Madness This seems to be a love/hate type of film. I love it. I think it's great. It is at times very Lovecraftian, but at other times it doesn't fee like anything close to Lovecraftian. I think that's quite exiting. 9. Tremors Top-rate special effects, a superb Kevin Bacon and lots and lots of fun. Is it possible not to love this film? I mean... this is awesome. 10. Scream I've got a love/hate relationship to this film. It' a great film and it makes lots of fun of the slasher genre, but on the other hand it always struck me as the film that killed the genre completely. But it's a great film. It really is. And you have films like Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, Misery and so on that you easily can include on a horror list. I didn't do this now, though, as you can see. But some other day I might have included them. I'll add some links later.

I recommend you to write a little about each title. It'll make your thread about a billion times more interesting for readers, and it might spawn soem discussions and stuff.

Anyone ready for some great fucking news? Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil Sequel Underway How awesome is that? I'd say bloody fucking awesome.

I was looking forward to this, and I was really hoping for an old school Nega rip-off. I really love old Nega (before they got a typer writer for bass drums and got overproduced like fuck) and don't mind Jin at all. In fact, I really like his unpolished, almost untalented style of singing. But to me, this sounds like a band that took leftover riffs from Nega and tried to do everything in their power tomake them into their own, and sadly failed. It sounds very half-hearted to be honest. Yeah, I must admit I am very disappointed. Guess I just had way too high and unrealistic expectations.

Which is quite normal. It isn't made to scare anyone. Neither is the likes of The Happiness of the Katakuris, Shaun of the Dead, Bud Abbott & Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hausu, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Zombieland and so on. Horror films aren't necessary made to scare people. Different subgenres have different purposes. Horror comedies are ment to be silly and just make people laugh. Good list by the way. The Chaser is such a great film. I hated Funny Games. It was such a poor film. Poor, forced acting and it felt so uninspired. Sadly, I watched the remake before the original because my girl wanted to watch it with me. It's so obvious it was made to please the american market and get some more dough and nothing else. The Hills Have Eyes too. Far from the worst remake in recent years (last 15-20), but still lacks what made the original such a great film.

We'll take 2000-2014 now so that we get to use every single year available. Then in the 90's we'll take 90-99, then 80-89 until we reach the 20's, and we will take from 1929 to the begining of films (1890's-ish). I use IMDB. I rate all the films I've seen and whenever I need to make a list I'll take a look at my own list and pick out horror as the genre, and then the years I want to see. It's not "perfect" as there's a billion films I've forgotten to rate throughout the years, but it gets me close enough. Haven't been as muh response and discussion as I had hoped, though. I was hoping this would start a discussion about the films chosen and so on. You are right about The Quiet Family being a black comedy, but it's a blak comedy-horror film. Looking forward to the 90's. That'll probably be the hardest decade of them all because it's by far the worst decade for horror IMO. It looked like a dying genre, despite some gems here and there.

Nah, I hated it. But that was 10 years ago now. I should probably give it a new watch sooner or later to see if I still feel the same or not.