Favourite exploitation/horror/trash films
 

For those who are interested in the world of celluloid filth, which are you current or all-time faves? Mine at present are:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Last House On The Left
Cannibal Holocaust
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Anthropophagus (a real bore-fest, but has one of the all-time great endings)
Ichi The Killer
Battle Royale (both 1 and 2)
Two Thousand Maniacs
Pink Flamingoes
Female Trouble
Combat Shock

...and about a hundred others...

I'm watching battle royale right now.

Diesel - thanks! Check out "Last House..." if you get the chance. A very visceral film, if nothing else.

nicfit - I'd be interested to know what you think of BR.

I' ve seen it quite a bunch of times, I really like it. The more i crank the volume up, the more the japanese sounds scary.

I love a good sick film. Ichi The Killer and IZO are to date the most twisted I have seen. Battle Royal is pretty good but I've seen it far too many times to enjoy it anymore. If you like just plain weird films you have to see Gozu.

Vampire circus is the single greatest movie i have ever seen...
its from the 60s (?) made in england by hammer studios. greatest trash film, evah!

Evil Dead (1)

the part where the girl gets twigged is gnarly.

Evil Dead 2 was even ok (I'm fiiiine now. leeeet meee out), but I am one of the few that didn't really think Army of Darkness was funny or good...


I've always meant to rent Battle Royale. the Lips play some of it behind them on stage and it's always looked really cool.

Der Todesking

any of the kern films

Army of Darkness is quite different than the others, though I do still love it. I watched it on TV last night, even though I own the movie. I feel like an idiot when I do that. Anyway, even if you don't like Army of Darkness, Bruce is pretty handsome in it. And he's just as charming in person.

Thundercrack! and the cinema of transgression.

OH OH OH!

Bubba Ho-tep

It's good to see that we're on the same page here.

Also I would like to bring up for discussion the exquisite film entitled "They Live." But seriously, is that movie great or what? I really don't feel that it fits in entirely with the movies we're supposed to be discussing in this thread, but it does have a certain special something to it.

ANYTHING by John Carpenter is gold***! I love the thing with the glasses. I actually mentioned that movie a couple weeks ago while in the grocery store. I wondered what all the boxes of stuff there REALLY look like.


***Big Trouble in Little China owns all.

Kurt Russel for my money was never more bad-ass then in :

Battle Royale isn't exploitation horror or trash.

anyway

maniac
rock n roll nightmare
night train to terror
wild zero
monster high
premutos lord of the living dead
dead alive
necropolis
spookies
burning moon
gore gore girls
blah blah blah

Wild Zero is wonderful. Everyone I've shown it to has loved it.

Women In Revolt
A Nightmare On Elm Street
They Live
Scorpio Rising
Deep Red
Carnage
Holy Mountain
Flaming Creatures

This trash film is sooo funny. When reading about John Waters, you're often given stuff about Divine and nada about the others, when Mink Stole creates a character as strong as Divine's.

Horror :
George Romero's flicks; the opening of Martin is creepy, before you find out that the bad guy is a naive romantic real monster.
The opening of Carpenter's Assault is scary too.
Vampire Circus has a great plot; a vampire curses a little village before going to hell. Time passes. The villagers can't leave their town for villages from the neighbourhood don't want them to bring the curse along. So they're shot at. And a circus hits town. Beautiful images then, feet turning into panthers'legs in a staircase, bats in skulls, a head chopped by a... crossbow !
If you wanna track down the film's actors, one of them, English John Moulder-Brown, a couple of years earlier, played in La Residencia (1969), which is one of my favorite films. It's a Spanish flick; directed by a guy from Uruguay; with a leading actress from Austria who had done some Sirk movies in Hollywood; the action takes place in France. A friend of mine summed it up as Dario Argento meets Ingmar Bergman. With all that (or in spite of), and the action of Franco's censorship, the film is miraculously coherent, and the camera moves are beautifully fluent.





Exploitation :
The Thing with Two Heads.
A rich and racist surgeon (played by Ray Miland, a guy it doesn't cost much to hate) understands that he'll soon die. He decides to plant his head on a healthier body, and trusts his partners to find the proper one. He (I mean his head) ends up on the body of a tall black convict whose head hasn't been cut off yet. And the convict escapes. So you've got the two of them on the same body, trying to control it and cursing each other.
The first part of the picture scares you (the operation is filmed with no music at all - the way Georges Franju did in Eyes Without a Face), then, all of a sudden, the film turns into The Dukes of Hazzard, with police cars joyfully chasing the odd body on a bike in the countryside ! Really funny picture.

Good choice. Relatively understated as well, at least for a Buttgereit film. My own Buttgereit fave would be "Schramm".

Halloween is another classic, really good story.

The original chainsaw massacre was awesome, just the whole dark mood of it, with no suspense music, really raw and nasty.
The remake of it was all too clean and modern I guess and the latest one, 'The Beginning' was ok, but not as informative as it could have been.

also, any troma film.

i own 112 troma films and they're all great!

Oh, one of the first explotation films ever!



"Gobble Gobble, one of us!"

Not mentioned:

I Spit on Your Grave
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Poor White Trash II

this one made me feel like a despicable human just for watching it...

Necromantic...the nastiest film ever.

If you like Jörg Buttgereit's films, Sex Murder Art is a great book to get.
It provides both a detailed analysis of his films, including excellent synopses, but also a wealth of back-ground material. He gets to grips not only with the films, but also with the disparate (and occasionally desperate) cast and crew. The book is extremely well-produced and the photographs and graphics serve to give a taste not only of the films but also on the milieu that they traverse.

I bought it here

Yes!! By far the most classic hammer film. So weird!

As for others, I could go on all day but:

The omen
Night of the living dead trilogy
Sisters of satan
the ring (Japanese version)
halloween
Texas chainsaw massacre
Curse of the vampire
The deadly spawn

That's all for now!

Ha ha ha ha.

death race 2000 is a great film.

if you notice in kill bill the car that bill drives in the scene where he goes to see buck is the same one he drives in death race. useless bit of trivia for you.