Delirious Comedy/Horror films
I need some recommendations from my esteemed readers.
The gorier and more ridiculous the better.
And now I must go - I've scripts to write and wimples to scrub!
The gorier and more ridiculous the better.
And now I must go - I've scripts to write and wimples to scrub!
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Accion Mutante, El Dia De La Bestia (I think this qualifies as delirious... I can't recall a nun with a gun here but there's a priest who's well armed and knows where we live!), Cannibal- The Musical, Dellamorte Dellamore, Eight Legged Freaks, From Dusk Til Dawn, The House On Haunted Hill (Remake), 13 Ghosts, The Howling, the thoroughly enjoyable Razor Blade Smile, Re-Animator, the Scream Trilogy and Return Of The Living Dead Part 3 (if I remember rightly).
If you like the idea of something not so gory and fancy a nostalgia trip try: The Cat And The Canary (Bob Hope version), The Black Cat (40's version), Carry On Screaming, Young Frankenstein, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The 'burbs, Innocent Blood, Jabberwocky, The Lair Of The White Worm (compleat with nuns!) and the brilliant Theatre Of Blood (which everybody should watch anyway!).
....and last but not least, morbid thouhg not gory: The Corpse Bride.
And now I shall retire to recuperate...
Some I have seen but it's films of the ilk of Cannibal - the Musical I was looking for. And the European ones.
I remember giggling at Lair of the White Worm and I remember with great fondness all the early ones you mention.
Have you seen Satan? Not literally, I mean the French film Sheitan. Vincent Cassel and a load of sex-mad teens in a remote farmhouse on Christmas Eve. Now there's a pitch!
I've just remembered that the director of Accion Mutante and El Dia De La Bestia was also behind Perdita Durango (but I can't remember whether it was particularly gory, horrific or funny).
Lair is a wonderfully silly film and when I see the floppy-haired-one I always remember him in it... that and Bitter Moon.
I'd like to catch Sheitan some time but I'm hampered on keeping up with recent releases by geography... there isn't a large cinema carrying a decent range in the whole county so I wait for the DVD (preferably in a sale!). Will have to check the price right now. The pitch is also enhanced by the words Monica and Bellucci. Not that I'd ever be swayed by such things!
As for Satan, I think Igor tripped over him hiding in the vault... he gets frightened by the firework noise...
La Bellucci does pop up in Sheitan as a vampire. Rent it off Amazon Jon, you know you want to!
...and now I find it's very cheap at HMV...
...and that reminds me of the non-gory , deeply strange, deeply wonderful Le Pacte Des Loups... all the things I like to see (bar the odd vampire) blended into one film!
And happy wimple scrubbing by the way - I prefer a bit of badger lacquering myself, but each to his own...
I'm so old I remember going to see Videodrome at the cinema before it got banned. The scene where James Woods hides the gun in his own stomach stays with me still.
Jon - did you mean Time of the Wolf or Brotherhood of the Wolf re-imagined as comedy?
Aroooooooooooo!!!!
You don't mind if I pass on the birching do you? It's just that I hear Lucy Vee is limbering up for METLAB with a bazooka and I'm going to need my wits about me...
And, go on Chip, take the birch... you might even enjoy it! Might release a few endorphins, sharpen the senses for bazooka avoidance strategies...