Favorite Horror Anthology Film? - Page 2

I just added a bunch of the films in this thread to my Netflix "Q" (Thanks!). My choice is Two Evil Eyeswhich is a two-film anthology so it is kind of a cheap pick. But the Romero film is the better of the two. Both are E.A. Poe adaptations. The Argento version of The Black Cat is OK, but not great. Worth a viewing...

Great news: The '70s anthology films Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror will be released as a 2-pack DVD in September.

Additionally, Vol. 2 of the Tales from the Crypt "EC Archives" came out several weeks ago, and is wonderful. Jack Davis' work has never looked better.

I vote for Black Sabbath as well. And If you dig the Italian vibe in horror anthology movies, Argento's section in Two Evil Eyes is worth checking out. Romero's part, on the other hand, rots.

Grim Prairie Tales has got to be on the list if only because of the great paring of Brad Dourif and James Earl Jones in the framing story. I seem to remember the Wheat brothers After Midnight as a pretty good anthology movie but it's been a few years since I last saw it. The story with the girls in the broken down car chased by pack of dogs was about the best.

I've mentioned Terror Tract in a few other threads, but felt that it needs repeating here. John Ritter plays a very determined real estate agent trying to sell property that has some grim history.

Worth checking out for the ending that manages to tie the various short segments together.

Plus you get one story where Bryan Cranston, from Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad, faces down a killer monkey.

SOLD

please be on netflix

Damn, no luck. They didn't even list it on the site. Maybe it's not on dvd?

The other segments are Lance Henrikson as a priest terrorized by a possessed truck and a suburban family terrorized by a giant rat. I remember liking this when I caught on TV as a kid, but something tells me it hasn't held up.

I love Cat's Eye. My favorite Stephen King work has always been his short stories, and like Alex I love short stories in general and have a soft spot for anthology horror films, so this was a no-brainer. I also find little doll/toy sized creatures creepy (thanks to the Zuni doll) so I loved the last segment.

I have to disagree. I read about this film when it was in production (probably in Fangoria) and was really excited about it. I couldn't find it for rental anywhere in my hometown so I had to ante up and buy the DVD. I watched it and thought it was terrible, just cheap and bad and not at all cool or frightening. Not even my love of anthology films helped, and I sold the DVD. Maybe I should have waited and given it another shot but I really really didn't like it.

Whisper to a Scream is another one I rented as an anthology/obscure horror obsessed kid (I had one of those encyclopedic horror movie on video guides, and I would read through it and pick out films that sounded good and search for them at my local video stores). I remember it being pretty decent, although the only parts I can remember clearly are the wrap-around story and the segment with the killer kids in the civil war. It's another one I'd like to revisit, despite what EOD says.

I've got a lot of love for all the anthology shows too. Night Gallery, Amazing Stories, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, and Ray Bradbury Theater all used to play on TV when I was younger (mostly on Sci-Fi Channel I think, back when it still had some decent programming). Night Gallery was probably my favorite, I'd love to see more seasons on DVD. The Roddy McDowell segment of the pilot really creeped me out, and another story I remember is one with an insect crawling into some guy's ear and driving him insane.

Ray Bradbury Theater was a bit more like Amazing Stories, more sci-fi oriented, but I remember it being good. I can recall an episode with a teenage boy whose family are actually aliens, and they have to return to their home planet. The boy is crushed because he will have to leave his friends and say goodbye to the girl from school he likes, and he can't tell them the truth, but in the end they board the spaceship to leave along with other aliens who have been hiding on earth and he discovers that the girl is one of them. Then there was one with a stop-motion animator bringing his creations to life (I believe they were dinosaurs) and turning them against a cruel film producer (at least that's how I remember it). Anyone else watch this show?

Out on DVD within the past year (for the uninformed):

You can rent the Ray Bradbury series through Netflix.

Most unexpected performance has to go to Jeff Goldbloom in "The Town Where No One Got Off".

It is on dvd, but it is paired up with the movie Cherry Falls. It is available on Amazon. As far as Netflix, I have no idea since I don't use their services.

No love for the old Amicus anthologies?

I saw The House That Dripped Blood mentioned, but what about Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Asylum etc.?

I just the other night watched Necromonicon for the first time in years. It's much better then I remember, especially Brian Yuzna's ending segment.

I also recently saw From a Whisper to a Scream (aka: Offspring) for the first time and I happen to have liked it very much, especially the Cameron Mitchell Vs. Evil Children episode. In fact, I'm having trouble thinking of a single horror anthology I haven't liked at least one section of. I even liked Tales From the Hood a little bit.

You're right, Nightmares hasn't held up well at all. I just saw it on cable recently, and it was pretty bad.

I love King's short stories, too, so I liked Cat's Eye as well. And the Zuni fetish Doll gave me nightmares as a very young child. I can kind of laugh at it now, but I still easily see why it's so creepy.

The embarrassing thing is it wasn't even the original Trilogy of Terror that initially made me afraid of that thing, it was the "sequel" from 1996, which was a big event for my friends and I at the time. Of course, after that we went out and rented the original.

Tales From The Hood (ENDING)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbT4SxXbX6U

Welcome! To hell! Motherfuckers!

C'mon, Corbin Bernsen tortured by a room full of tiny fetish dolls is fun. Actually I don't remember anything but that.

I still remember the first time I ever saw Tales from the Crypt from Amicus.

I faked sick to stay home from school, and this was on (for the first and last time) during the day. I sat in my bed and watched this collection of fun, fucked up stories, and haven't seen it since.

The best one still sticks out, because of the nursery rhyme, where Peter Cushing's ghoulish self has torn his asshole neighbor's heart out. So good.

I need to pick this and Vault of Horror up now. Thanks for bringing it up!

I have yet to watch the 1945 British anthology Dead of Night, but I have high hopes of it.

Finally checking out Stephen King's NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES TNT mini-series and I'm enjoying them so far (in the middle of ep 4). There's a TZ or Amazing Stories vibe to these.

I thought the William Hurt as a assasin VS the army-men was entertaining (no dialog and directed by Jim Henson's son).

I was pleasantly surprised when "Crouch End" started with a Dark Tower vibe (thin spots, other dimensions, "moved on") and went into Lovecraft territory.

William H. Macy in duel-roles as a Raymond Chandler PI and as a S King homage was fun...

Did you catch The End of the Whole Mess yet? That was my favourite one of the whole show. A very good adaptation of the original short story that I loved as well.

Don't know how I've never heard of this one till now...
THE WILLIES

When brothers Kyle (Jason Horst) and Josh (Joshua Miller) join their cousin Michael (Sean Astin) for a backyard camp out, the boys try to outdo one another with campfire horror stories. But they soon discover that even made-up tales can become frighteningly real. The goose bumps multiply as each grotesque story drags them closer to true terror. James Karen, Kathleen Freeman and Jeremy Miller also star in this spooky thrillfest.

on DVD
Sounds right up my alley for the age I was back then. CREEPSHOW ala Goosebumps (before there was a Goosebumps)? Any thoughts on this one?

Great poster (much better than this)...

I remember always seeing that in my local video store as a kid, that's all I got.

It's on a certain netflix list. I learned about it via a book on Splatter Movies by John McCarthy.

It's got a guy fucking a girl and being snapped in half backwards as he's sucked into her vagina. Amazing thing to stumble into on cable.

I remember seeing THE WILLIES a lot as a kid, too. I seem to remember a VHS cover with either a skull or a deformed face and maggots.

EDIT: Or was it a dude screaming with grubs all over him?

My friends and I rented THE WILLIES in high school, but it was a different cover.

Yes! You're right, I remember that now. Now I'm gonna have to try to find this thing.

The only THE WILLIES vhs cover I could find was this one.

I remember liking The Monster Club (Amicus?) when it ran on Channel 9 in NY, but it's probably shit.

It still has it's moments.

that's the one I recall.

I like THE MONSTER CLUB. The last story -- with Stuart Whitman as a film director who gets trapped in a village full of inbred creeps -- is surprisingly intense, and Price and Carradine have great chemistry in the linking sequences.

I saw Monster Club on Monstervison way back when, and oddly enough I was trying to remember the title of the of movie for a while now, which was annoying the shit out of me. So I gotta thank Phil for bringing it up.

So, Troma got in on this action in '87?



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092750/

"While waiting for their bus, five passengers have just had horrible nightmares and decide to tell them to each other to help killing time. A swimmer, who has lessons in a swimming pool with a dead swimmer, tells the first one. A young boy, who goes camping with two friends and a crazy man as a leader, is the next. Then, a lonely woman, who has an infatuation with the anchor of a late night show, and finds that he is indeed a vampire. A young man, who finds he has the gift of bringing dead people back to life, brings a cold blood criminal back to life. Last, a skeptic professor of anthropology tells to his students about an evil Spanish creature from the Middle Ages called "Ixpe", and a young woman embodies it. When the bus arrives, they have a huge surprise."

Always been curious about that one, though it probably sucks

It's actually pretty good. It's really really cheap, but it's pretty good. I don't think it's actually a Troma production, but something they bought. It's part of one of those Toxie Triple Terror box sets.

anyone Remember Quicksilver Highway? the 2 stories where ok
film is actually two one hour stories, the first based on a Stephen King story called the "Chattering Teeth" about a man who picks up a hitchhiker and the second is based on a Clive Barker story called "The Body Politic" about hands that rebel against the body.

How about the Filipino horror Shake Rattle and Roll. I found a couple on netfix and watched i think it was part 9 with the killer christmas tree, goth band that meets a witch or so and a strange love triangle. i found a few on netflix but i guess there are several out there lol.

anyone see Chillers? the british show that had Anthony Perkins hosting it? i was on netfix and i saw many people bashing it. i sometimes go by the reviews but most of the time i get it anyway lol. was wondering if anyone saw them?

Creepshow and Twice Told Tales

I watched that a couple of weeks ago. It's really bad. The only decent bit was John Landis' and Clive Barker's tiny cameos.

Christopher Lloyd in S & M gear.



My all time favorite is Creepshow 2. All the stories are great, especially "The Raft".

Who can forget "Thanks for the ride, lady!"?

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Trick r Treat.

Still gotta give it up for Creepshow and the OG Tales From the Crypt. My two short selections that I loved would be "The Raft" from CS2 and "The Cat From Hell" in Tales From the Darkside. How can you not love Bill Hickey in that?

One really awful flick that is worth a look for the sheer stupidity of it all is a horror anthology called "After Midnight".

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...AL._SS500_.jpg

This looks promising...

Appears to be more like WAXWORK than a genuine anthology, but I like the meta-cut of its jib. Must locate it:

Roger Corman's THE PHANTOM EYE
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219448/

"The movie is about Dr. Gorman who is Roger Corman of course trapping 2 film student interns in AMC's horror movie library. They have find the movie "The Phantom Eye" by midnight and if they don't they die. They have to go through doors that lead to different kinds of movies like there is one door that leads to the House Of Usher. The only way they can get out is by escaping the bad guy. Overall excellent!"

double

I was discussing the way Michelle Gondry's films usually don't work as feature length works for me (Eternal Sunshine is an obvious exception), and then I realized Chris Cunningham hadn't made a feature length film yet. Now I really want a Gondry/Cunninham/Spike Lee/Maybe Someone Else Famous for Music Videos horror anthology. Especially if the filmmakers really stick to their usual sensibilities.

It'd also be great if Park Chan-Wook and Miike got together for...oh wait.

Aw, that movie isn't that bad... problem is it isn't that good, either. It just sort of is, which is a enough to be a letdown considering the names involved. Still, it doesn't beat TRAPPED ASHES for most disappointing horror anthology.

I like your music video director idea. I'm trying to picture what a Michel Gondry horror film would be like. Just seeing him attempt it would be interesting. And I think Spike Jonze definitely has it in him. Still wish the Kauffman/Jonze horror movie had happened, although I believe it morphed into SYNECDOCHE, NY and that movie retains some horrific undercurrents.

Nonono, I like Three Extremes very much. I was just realizing I forgot that it was directed by such allstars.