@84heroes1 well they say it started with the murder of Sharon Tate. But if you examine the seventies as a decade; half the world was living under Stalinistic communism. Civil unrest and strikes in Europe were rife.
Even America's economy was in the doldrums. Films of that time reflect a paranoia( Race with the Devil) for example. But I see it as the golden era of cinema: Film endings were more realistic, censorship was relaxed.
Technology didn't dominate people's lives. as it does now.
@antonyj84 I second that and a damn good actress! Did you notice how she said, "My brooch!" at the beginning of the film? You can't say it convincing any other way.
Did you know nconte1944 ? that the L.A gangsters the Cripps, i don't know iof this is true or not, but they named their gang after this film,
As I say it could just be a rumour. But that is what I heard. They made a gangsta version called Tales from the Hood, but I have never seen that film so I can't vouch for it.
Best horror movie ever. All the best movies were made in the seventies. The seventies as a decade lent itself quite well to horror. I mean some of the decor in seventies filmsare horrific in themselves. But the zeigeist of the period with its inherent darkness made for really great horror films and this is reflected in a film like this.
Great acting, directing etc,etc. And the end really packs a punch, couldn't sleep after I first saw it on its British T.v Premiere in 1998.
@zakalon123 it also spawned the making of stephen kings and george a romeros creepshow and the tales from the crypt hbo telivision series..so yeah this movie is huge..
I caught this movie on tv about a year ago and just watched the first 20 minutes or so because I had to go somewhere so I never saw the rest of the movie and now I can thank you for uploading.
@ MusicEqualsMemories: I love really quirky, unusual, unreproducible movies like Girly (1969), Performance (1968), Arnold (1973), Asylum (1972) and things like that. What's sad is that no movie company today would ever take a chance on something like that. Of course, if they didn't employ a tech crew of millions with 17 unit directors, go back to just using a camera crew and a single director, they wouldn't have that problem because films wouldn't cost so much. But they're too stupid for that.
@ MusicEqualsMemories: you're right, imagination is withering away. Part of the problem is that it costs so much more to make a movie now, they can only see a return if they sell to the lowest possible common denominator. part of it is that the attention span is so low, they think there has to be a flash of light and a boom on the soundtrack every ten seconds to keep the audience's attention and sadly, they're probably right..
@ MusicEqualsMemories: I could not agree more!! I've been watching Hollywood slowly (or quickly, depending on your point of view) decline into mindless, loud shit with no plot or character development since the '80s. Films with plots you have to pay attention to, literate scripts like Sleuth (1972) with polysyllabic words, surprise endings that actually surprise...this stuff is being lost in a flood of dumb, obvious, loud idiocy,
Could anyone tell me where I can find the actual Christmas carols from the first epidsode shown here? I don't think I've ever heard a better version of "O Come All Ye Faithful."
not much really, it's the same concept as this movie; short horrorstories baked into one movie...though tales from the darkside is a newer horrorfilm.
search for tales from the darkside here at youtube and you'll find out more:)
@theboarman the first and second of that series are worth it but the third and fourth are just crappy stories made by assholes that want to make money off of stephen kings name.
The Joan Collins / Santa Clause episode freaked me out in 72. Richard Greene was in the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles", top billed over Basil Rathbone back in 39.
this is the best horror movie ever made.british was certainly best years ago.great scripts and acting.oh,and a beautiful joan collins.great stuff.i remeber watching this on a friday night in 77 when they used to show a hammer or amicus every week.happy days.
If anyone knows the name of the HBO documentary made in the nineties about horror films please let me know. It may have been a documentary about film genres I'm really not sure but it was made in the early to mid 1990's. Thanks People.
@davidhaythornthwaite: J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ (also used in the original "Rollerball" with James Caen. Other great 'horror' movie pieces ... Night on Bald Mountain, The Danse Macabre, and The Dance of the Knights (particularly the opening).
Does anyone else think that the part of the crypt keeper should have been written with more dark/macabre humor like in the comics? While the more reserved approach creates an aura of mystery, I think a more dark comedic approach ( making morbid puns ala the tv series) would have really made the character more disquieting and provided more creeps for the audience.
I do. they were in prison & the guy figured it would be a smart way to escape. it was a great plan & would have worked but the guy that was suppose to dig him up died unexpectantly and ended up being the dead body in the coffin with him. It was genious! one of my faves, but I don't remember the title.
the british horror of the seventies were known for their bloody color scenes, as well as introducing us to such icons as cushing and lee, and ingrid pitt . they were a retelling of the classics in color that dripped! they also were sexier than the ones in usa at the time, not so square...
@Chaaarge: Simple reasons. No reliance on blood and gore special effects, no CGI, camera work as in film noir, no T&A, actors who could actor, directors who
understood the nuiances of developing scenes, writers who could write and lastly...an audience that had been trained to use their imagination by listening to radio, reading books and grandparents who recounted folk tales to charm and
delight and yes scare the little ones. Imagination is withering away in today's culture and society.
@MusicEqualsMemories agreed, haha. todays horror movies look like this: 1. Bunch of stupid teenagers go to a random place, 2. Serial killer murders all but one teenager 3. The surviving teenager kills the serial killer 4. Credits. and let's not forget to make the black guy die first^^
@Chaaarge: Hollywood like television got lazy. Friday the 13th and Halloween started the sequel formula. No new ideas just different faces get hacked up. Now it's the remakes. It's started with The Thing. Pathetic 'adaptation' of the original and the recent The Day the Earth Stood Still even weaker. The War of the Worlds (2 of em) beyond redemption. They even managed to screw up Godzilla and House on Haunted Hill. The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits remakes also deserved an award for lameness.
I liked John Carpenter's The Thing. I thought it was well made and very suspenseful. The gore and viscera was just enough to compliment the movie. I also like War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. It had a claustrophobic feel to it even though the landscape was wide open. The other movies were what they were although 1985 Twilight Zone Movie was kid friendly and somewhat of a throwback for me. I just love the whole genre. Please sugget some movies for me to watch.
@CarlosOnBroadcast: I, bypass the redundant garbage spewed out by TV, Hollywood and the rest of the world's movie makers. I, go to sites that show the old stuff, get me some popcorn and sit back and enjoy. I, try to forget that as a creative society we have hit rock bottom. That we are devoid of fresh ideas. And as consumers that we will gladly pay to watch the same film over and over again because it has a number 2, 3, or 4 behind the title. People are still lining up to see the egress.
@Intotheorchard: There will always be avant garde. But 'pop' culture or the so-called mainstream was once more vibrant than today's quasi culture. When Orson Welles did his version of "The War of the World" that was innovative. And has earned iconic status. When Howard Hawks directed "The Thing from Another World" it was iconic because of the way he intersected sci-fi with cold war fears. The line "Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!" sums up the 50's.
@Hallinilla9: Yes, one thing Carpenter's work can never be categorized as is iconic. Boring, humdrum, pedantic even but not innovative. He breaks no new ground. Is hardly original and is best described as an unimaginative copycat. The only thing his movies proved is that the public is always willing to view an egress even if it's one they just saw two years ago.
@MusicEqualsMemories The Thing remake is a much better film than the original. I agree that his movies often have a slow, meandering pace to them but Halloween and the Thing I think are exceptions.
@Hallinilla9: The original had an impact with the cold war crisis. That's what makes it iconic. The remake is just a gore festival. Also in the 80's if a movie contained Jamie Lee Curtis you knew two things...one she would be a target....two she'd survive. In other words no suspense no surprise no originality. And worse of all laziness. But I respect your opinion...thanks for the exchange of ideas.
@MusicEqualsMemories If you thought the Remake (which is in name only, not overall story, save for the idea of a monster in the arctic. I love the original, but it failed the source material which was better suited for the Cold War) of the thing was a Gore fest only, we did not see the same movie. It is all about trust, isolation and the end of the world. Also, it has been viewed by many as an AIDS metaphor. It's terror from within, the beast in us all, an old concept.
Some company should release this to DVD in the UK along with the BFI restored version of The Vault of Horror.I'd buy the R1 DVD's but Vault is heavily censored.
Joan was so HOT!!! This movie stuck with me since I was a kid. It is a work of art that has such a creepy realism that newer movies will never capture again.
I remember watching this movie as a child. It scared the shit out of me! I've always been trying to find it again and never could. Thanks for posting this!
Yes, in the "unmasking scene" revealing one of Chaney's scariest persona. It was that use of BTFD-- that lead to it be associated with horror movies for more than a century. Humm, image if they had used Ravel's Bolero.......
"Merry Christmas!"
That reminds me of James Bond's one liner after he's killed one of Blofeld's goons in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
KraalThal 6 days ago
I would so love to go to Highgate cemetary, I do believe that some very famous people are buried there including Karl Marx.
I bet you that it is a very atmostpheric place.
zakalon123 1 month ago
@84heroes1 well they say it started with the murder of Sharon Tate. But if you examine the seventies as a decade; half the world was living under Stalinistic communism. Civil unrest and strikes in Europe were rife.
Even America's economy was in the doldrums. Films of that time reflect a paranoia( Race with the Devil) for example. But I see it as the golden era of cinema: Film endings were more realistic, censorship was relaxed.
Technology didn't dominate people's lives. as it does now.
zakalon123 2 months ago
i've got to say that joan collins was kind of hot...
antonyj84 5 months ago 2
@antonyj84 Aye, i could easily put one in her biff or poop chutes
chubbylilloser 4 months ago
@antonyj84 I second that and a damn good actress! Did you notice how she said, "My brooch!" at the beginning of the film? You can't say it convincing any other way.
jeprice08 4 months ago
I know this guy came first but it just isn't the same as the crypt keeper I am used to.
Shanethefilmmaker 6 months ago
Did you know nconte1944 ? that the L.A gangsters the Cripps, i don't know iof this is true or not, but they named their gang after this film,
As I say it could just be a rumour. But that is what I heard. They made a gangsta version called Tales from the Hood, but I have never seen that film so I can't vouch for it.
zakalon123 6 months ago
Best horror movie ever. All the best movies were made in the seventies. The seventies as a decade lent itself quite well to horror. I mean some of the decor in seventies filmsare horrific in themselves. But the zeigeist of the period with its inherent darkness made for really great horror films and this is reflected in a film like this.
Great acting, directing etc,etc. And the end really packs a punch, couldn't sleep after I first saw it on its British T.v Premiere in 1998.
zakalon123 6 months ago
@zakalon123 it also spawned the making of stephen kings and george a romeros creepshow and the tales from the crypt hbo telivision series..so yeah this movie is huge..
Nconte1944 6 months ago
I really enjoy this movie as many times I have watched it . The best seen is the Home for the blind he was a evil man and got what was coming to him
MsLadybug1967 7 months ago
I love the music.
GamaScythe 7 months ago
I remember watching this in school and we had 1 girl get so scared she hyperventilated...good times! They dont make em like this ne more!
Imachowderhead 8 months ago
Best way to wacth this movie.
Friday at 11:45 pm,full moon,room 100% dark or candles,your pick.
If you home is near a cemetary even better.
Or just at your country side home,with no phone lines.
resnoex1 8 months ago
Hey, Joan Collins playing a cold-hearted bitch! You sure know how to stretch, Joan.
mst3KGf 9 months ago
behar dira serie handi honetan, baina ez dut denak ikusten!
Ybrain100 9 months ago
Nossa... eu não tinha nem nascido! Esse filme é + velho do que eu uns 3 anos!
Ybrain100 9 months ago
I caught this movie on tv about a year ago and just watched the first 20 minutes or so because I had to go somewhere so I never saw the rest of the movie and now I can thank you for uploading.
njova25 10 months ago
Thank you for the posts !
jsilence418 10 months ago
the 70's were creepy!
bluestate69 11 months ago
Scariest movie I've ever seen, period.
mbumburu 11 months ago
Thank you for uploading this!!! ^_^
xpinay4lifex 11 months ago
'Vault Of Horror' was another great movie made up of short stories.
MrSeaoftranquility 11 months ago
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Love this kind of movie!!
Shasha1673 11 months ago
I don't know who decided to use Bach in horror films but I have to give them endless props for doing so!
weirdguy75 1 year ago
Being trapped in a room with Joan Collins in her 30's, sounds like fun to me.
planetrockford 1 year ago
I watched this too around Christmas. I wasn't born when it was first aired but it is so creepy.
link71711 1 year ago
it's christmas day now - great occasion to watch xmas part, once again :D
rnk1977 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories: so thanks for saying what needed saying!!
breemystic 1 year ago
@ MusicEqualsMemories: I love really quirky, unusual, unreproducible movies like Girly (1969), Performance (1968), Arnold (1973), Asylum (1972) and things like that. What's sad is that no movie company today would ever take a chance on something like that. Of course, if they didn't employ a tech crew of millions with 17 unit directors, go back to just using a camera crew and a single director, they wouldn't have that problem because films wouldn't cost so much. But they're too stupid for that.
breemystic 1 year ago
@ MusicEqualsMemories: you're right, imagination is withering away. Part of the problem is that it costs so much more to make a movie now, they can only see a return if they sell to the lowest possible common denominator. part of it is that the attention span is so low, they think there has to be a flash of light and a boom on the soundtrack every ten seconds to keep the audience's attention and sadly, they're probably right..
breemystic 1 year ago
@ MusicEqualsMemories: I could not agree more!! I've been watching Hollywood slowly (or quickly, depending on your point of view) decline into mindless, loud shit with no plot or character development since the '80s. Films with plots you have to pay attention to, literate scripts like Sleuth (1972) with polysyllabic words, surprise endings that actually surprise...this stuff is being lost in a flood of dumb, obvious, loud idiocy,
breemystic 1 year ago
Could anyone tell me where I can find the actual Christmas carols from the first epidsode shown here? I don't think I've ever heard a better version of "O Come All Ye Faithful."
SonnyJamesJefferson 1 year ago
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can you possibly send the whole movie to me???? adriennenoxarcana@gmail.com
Nergaladdictchic 1 year ago
this wasnt scary but cool:D
yoyokim123 1 year ago
Every woman was named Joanne in the 70's.
Hallinilla9 1 year ago
5 losers dislike this epic movie :/
FeastOnBrains 1 year ago
Sit. Down... Dont even sound like he is REALLY asking does it? Brrrr. Creepy..
PhflyDan1 1 year ago
whats the name of the opening song?
warnock500 1 year ago
@warnock500 Bach
HauntedQueenMary 1 year ago
Remember watching this years ago. Still creepy!
bananasplitsable 1 year ago
lol i just realized i own this moive
hank5291 1 year ago
@hank5291 lol!
jaroncreed 1 year ago
ha ha im kinda scared to watch this lol,at least i have my kitten with me lol
iluvGod17 1 year ago 11
@iluvGod17
But what if the cat starting to behave like the cat from "Tales from the darkside"? ;)
croby 1 year ago 4
@croby im srry but that makes no sense
iluvGod17 1 year ago
heheh download/buy the tales from the darkside movie and you'll know what I mean!
croby 1 year ago
@croby whats the diffreence between tales from the crypt and tales from the dark side
theboarman 1 year ago
@theboarman
not much really, it's the same concept as this movie; short horrorstories baked into one movie...though tales from the darkside is a newer horrorfilm.
search for tales from the darkside here at youtube and you'll find out more:)
croby 1 year ago
@theboarman well tales from the darkside was meant to be creepshow 3.
Shanethefilmmaker 6 months ago
@Shanethefilmmaker isnt creepshow real dead bodies ? gotta be 18 to buy the creepshows at my video store
theboarman 6 months ago
@theboarman the first and second of that series are worth it but the third and fourth are just crappy stories made by assholes that want to make money off of stephen kings name.
Shanethefilmmaker 6 months ago
@croby then i would be scared and run into the bathroom and lock the door lol
iluvGod17 1 year ago
@iluvGod17 HAHA lucky you, you have a kitty with you
FeastOnBrains 1 year ago
@FeastOnBrains ha ha i know right
iluvGod17 1 year ago
@iluvGod17 its funny u wiil die but kitten will escape.lol jk
ABChorror123 1 year ago
@ABChorror123 ha ha i hope i dont die lol
iluvGod17 1 year ago
@iluvGod17 if u think this is scary dont watch dead alive who ever directed that was sickin the head
grimlockfire 1 year ago
@grimlockfire ha ha i have never heard of that movie but since u told me to not watch then i wont but wat is it about,
iluvGod17 1 year ago
@grimlockfire dude i own that movie and love it so much. especially the ba priest with his line "i kick ass for the lord mate" haha
parnd 10 months ago
@parnd im not dissing it im just making a point
grimlockfire 10 months ago
wow joan collins looked so hot back then! what a knockout!
stefanmuth 1 year ago 2
Had this film on vhs miss it! Just in time for this Halloween, or anytime I feel like seeing it here on youtube.
shibainuwalker 1 year ago
Had this film on vhs miss it! Just in time for this Halloween.
shibainuwalker 1 year ago
someone knows who made the music in the intro, by any chance?
Tjekhov 1 year ago
@Tjekhov It is "Toccata and Fugue" by JS Bach.
TheValeriePlame 1 year ago
even though this movie was made yearsss before i was born it is one of the best films i've seen in my life time :D
gothdoll4evaTM 1 year ago
I used to watch this all the time growing up....Brilliant
bunniwabbit1 1 year ago
I used to watch this all the time growing up....Brilliant
bunniwabbit1 1 year ago
I grew Up Watching the Tale's From The Crypt, Thumbs up if you did too.
MrStiletto123 1 year ago 3
Friday 11 pm,sky is grey,moon is full,what we do?
hammer or amicus films with Lee and Cushing
God bless the brits.
resnoex1 1 year ago 5
wtf thats the crypt keeper, thats kinda cool, i wonder if thats what he supposed to look like in the comics
tetrisking2 1 year ago
Joan is so fierce!
Cazxiro 1 year ago
The Joan Collins / Santa Clause episode freaked me out in 72. Richard Greene was in the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles", top billed over Basil Rathbone back in 39.
riley5678 1 year ago 2
I slept with my dad after watching this. But I didn't want to stop watching cause it was good.
bubbawhale 1 year ago 2
EC lives!
masipag999 1 year ago
this is the best horror movie ever made.british was certainly best years ago.great scripts and acting.oh,and a beautiful joan collins.great stuff.i remeber watching this on a friday night in 77 when they used to show a hammer or amicus every week.happy days.
themachman19691 1 year ago 3
RICH ARISTOCRATIC PEOPLE DEAD IN THEIR BEAUTIFUL DRESSES..
HOW ROMANTIC!!
goodbyelonglive44 1 year ago 2
cool movie with an epic song at the start
TheDickstaple 1 year ago 2
If anyone knows the name of the HBO documentary made in the nineties about horror films please let me know. It may have been a documentary about film genres I'm really not sure but it was made in the early to mid 1990's. Thanks People.
cxc410 1 year ago
I've never seen a Christmas tree with so many presents under it. We were so poor we didn't even have a tree:(
PAM2167 1 year ago 2
wats the music too the start of this, its wonderfull
davidhaythornthwaite 1 year ago
@davidhaythornthwaite: J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ (also used in the original "Rollerball" with James Caen. Other great 'horror' movie pieces ... Night on Bald Mountain, The Danse Macabre, and The Dance of the Knights (particularly the opening).
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
One of my favourite Amicus anthologies along with The Vault of Horror, From Beyond the Grave and Asylum.Great stuff!
richwicz 1 year ago
this movie creeped me out in 1972
LittleEdie1955 1 year ago
hey this guy looks like jdee!!
NaWfSiiDeHouSton3 1 year ago
oh no blood stains on the white carpet
diseym 1 year ago
Sounds creapy...
tfkisawesome 1 year ago
aint this the original one?
evikt14 1 year ago
Does anyone else think that the part of the crypt keeper should have been written with more dark/macabre humor like in the comics? While the more reserved approach creates an aura of mystery, I think a more dark comedic approach ( making morbid puns ala the tv series) would have really made the character more disquieting and provided more creeps for the audience.
slipkid24393 1 year ago
ahh, old british goth-horror .gotta love it
Ericzeppe 1 year ago
Hey whats the one where the guy takes all these women back for ... ... kisses and then the couch eats them? whats the name of that episode???
SparrowWarlord 1 year ago
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@dinopower1
I do. they were in prison & the guy figured it would be a smart way to escape. it was a great plan & would have worked but the guy that was suppose to dig him up died unexpectantly and ended up being the dead body in the coffin with him. It was genious! one of my faves, but I don't remember the title.
truvonna1 1 year ago
Is this based on the series?
Diesel2gp 1 year ago
@Diesel2gp actually
this was based on the comic books
the series was based on both the movies and the comic books
saturnlover9 1 year ago
the british horror of the seventies were known for their bloody color scenes, as well as introducing us to such icons as cushing and lee, and ingrid pitt . they were a retelling of the classics in color that dripped! they also were sexier than the ones in usa at the time, not so square...
laceydays 1 year ago
Joan Collins was (is) so frickin sexy.....
heffeII 1 year ago 2
I first saw this on TV in or around 1985 and it's stuck with me ever since. Classic.
netjunkie9 1 year ago
Whats the song playing during the begging
dnewt2 1 year ago
@dnewt2 J.S Bach Toccata and Fugue in Dminor
neil73 1 year ago
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@dnewt2
song at the beginning
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
stylezofom 1 year ago
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@dnewt2
song at the beginning
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
stylezofom 1 year ago
~ I watched this @ the theatre when it first arrived.
pseudokarma 1 year ago
@pseudokarma
song at the beginning
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
stylezofom 1 year ago
if thats the best wife in the world than i dont want to see the worst
powetcrusher 1 year ago
gasp my broach
skaterlame 1 year ago
this was about 23 years before my dob! still one of the best and orginal horror movies ever made
TheDarkregicide 1 year ago 2
@TheDarkregicide haha you were born into a shitty generation
azrial4421 1 year ago
how was joan collins classed as sexy man she looks as rough as a ploughed field but this film brings back good memorys
smiler418 1 year ago
@smiler418 Wouldn't go so far as to say that, but certainly the hairstyle did nothing for her.
Krzyszczynski 1 year ago
one of the best horror movies ever,
MrPSGifford 1 year ago
this film is 25 years older than me
bobbys999 1 year ago
@bobbys999 this film is 13 years older then me
akaboo69 1 year ago
this is almost 20 years b4 I was born, but I gotta admit they made movies way better back then
Chaaarge 2 years ago 31
@Chaaarge me and my sister both agree with you
powetcrusher 1 year ago
@Chaaarge: Simple reasons. No reliance on blood and gore special effects, no CGI, camera work as in film noir, no T&A, actors who could actor, directors who
understood the nuiances of developing scenes, writers who could write and lastly...an audience that had been trained to use their imagination by listening to radio, reading books and grandparents who recounted folk tales to charm and
delight and yes scare the little ones. Imagination is withering away in today's culture and society.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago 2
@MusicEqualsMemories agreed, haha. todays horror movies look like this: 1. Bunch of stupid teenagers go to a random place, 2. Serial killer murders all but one teenager 3. The surviving teenager kills the serial killer 4. Credits. and let's not forget to make the black guy die first^^
Chaaarge 1 year ago
@Chaaarge: Hollywood like television got lazy. Friday the 13th and Halloween started the sequel formula. No new ideas just different faces get hacked up. Now it's the remakes. It's started with The Thing. Pathetic 'adaptation' of the original and the recent The Day the Earth Stood Still even weaker. The War of the Worlds (2 of em) beyond redemption. They even managed to screw up Godzilla and House on Haunted Hill. The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits remakes also deserved an award for lameness.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago 12
@MusicEqualsMemories
I liked John Carpenter's The Thing. I thought it was well made and very suspenseful. The gore and viscera was just enough to compliment the movie. I also like War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. It had a claustrophobic feel to it even though the landscape was wide open. The other movies were what they were although 1985 Twilight Zone Movie was kid friendly and somewhat of a throwback for me. I just love the whole genre. Please sugget some movies for me to watch.
cxc410 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories
and now they remake movies that came out in Europe a year prior.
CarlosOnBroadcast 1 year ago
@CarlosOnBroadcast: I, bypass the redundant garbage spewed out by TV, Hollywood and the rest of the world's movie makers. I, go to sites that show the old stuff, get me some popcorn and sit back and enjoy. I, try to forget that as a creative society we have hit rock bottom. That we are devoid of fresh ideas. And as consumers that we will gladly pay to watch the same film over and over again because it has a number 2, 3, or 4 behind the title. People are still lining up to see the egress.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories You are confusing mainstream with society. Tisk tisk.
Intotheorchard 1 year ago
@Intotheorchard: There will always be avant garde. But 'pop' culture or the so-called mainstream was once more vibrant than today's quasi culture. When Orson Welles did his version of "The War of the World" that was innovative. And has earned iconic status. When Howard Hawks directed "The Thing from Another World" it was iconic because of the way he intersected sci-fi with cold war fears. The line "Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!" sums up the 50's.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories Did you say that Carpenter's thing remake is pathetic?
Hallinilla9 1 year ago
@Hallinilla9: Yes, one thing Carpenter's work can never be categorized as is iconic. Boring, humdrum, pedantic even but not innovative. He breaks no new ground. Is hardly original and is best described as an unimaginative copycat. The only thing his movies proved is that the public is always willing to view an egress even if it's one they just saw two years ago.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories The Thing remake is a much better film than the original. I agree that his movies often have a slow, meandering pace to them but Halloween and the Thing I think are exceptions.
Hallinilla9 1 year ago
@Hallinilla9: The original had an impact with the cold war crisis. That's what makes it iconic. The remake is just a gore festival. Also in the 80's if a movie contained Jamie Lee Curtis you knew two things...one she would be a target....two she'd survive. In other words no suspense no surprise no originality. And worse of all laziness. But I respect your opinion...thanks for the exchange of ideas.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories If you thought the Remake (which is in name only, not overall story, save for the idea of a monster in the arctic. I love the original, but it failed the source material which was better suited for the Cold War) of the thing was a Gore fest only, we did not see the same movie. It is all about trust, isolation and the end of the world. Also, it has been viewed by many as an AIDS metaphor. It's terror from within, the beast in us all, an old concept.
SiliconHaloMedia 10 months ago
@MusicEqualsMemories
what? john carpenter's the thing is not a pathetic adaptation
i agree with the other movies but come on
the thing wasn't bad...
SirExcremento 1 year ago
@SirExcremento Actually I think The Thing (with Kurt Russell is one of the best sci-fi horror moves ever made, after Alien.
carmaj156 1 year ago 3
@carmaj156 IT IS!
SirExcremento 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories The thing was a great remake, I agree on the others though...
Ur2ez4me81 11 months ago
@MusicEqualsMemories Totally Agree...
PhflyDan1 1 year ago
@Chaaarge you got that right
onemooners 1 year ago
@Chaaarge HEY
@9:55 British sense of Humor....
"To the best wife in the world"
and dead..
goodbyelonglive44 1 year ago
I dont like the sound track
clairemae425 2 years ago
It's J.S.Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor, one of my favorite pieces. However that has got to be one of the worst versions of it
dirtcake001 1 year ago
Indeed, she is amazingly beautiful. I always find myself wishing that women of today were as exceptionally gorgeous as women of the 70s.
EligosPoltergiest 2 years ago 4
it's christmas eve now - great occasion to watch joan collins part of this great movie :D
rnk1977 2 years ago
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I have a wet pink sword that Joan Collins can thrust!
stravinskyrocks 2 years ago
lmao totally awesome. She is a beautiful woman, isn't she?
underpathunderpath 2 years ago 2
Some company should release this to DVD in the UK along with the BFI restored version of The Vault of Horror.I'd buy the R1 DVD's but Vault is heavily censored.
richwicz 2 years ago 2
great movie from hammer!!!! think about the monkeys paw.
bytorandthesnowdog1 2 years ago 2
This is not a Hammer movie. This is from Amicus.
lokismig 2 years ago 6
Tales From the Crypt was not a Hammer House production. It was an Amicus production. Many people get the two confused at times.
afton1955 2 years ago 9
@afton1955
They shared common talent like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Even Tom Baker, who I consider one of the worst Dr. Who's was in an Amicus production.
ysbaddaden2003 1 year ago
alright! i haven't seen this in years!! thanks for the upload !
9wires 2 years ago 4
Great horror series, I never saw before since I was 8.10-Q 4 post.
starkfine4 2 years ago 2
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amc01071989 2 years ago
"Fitting Punishment" season 2 ep 18, vault of horror issue 16
kingovkingz 2 years ago 3
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amc01071989 2 years ago
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I love love love this movie. XD
tygersflowerz 2 years ago
yes yes yes yes yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
junnnnnn06 2 years ago 2
Chloe Franks is 49 years old(the blond girl)
Joan Collins over 70,i guess.
The actor on the Peter Cusing episode he is also almost 70 y old
resnoex1 2 years ago
who are those Christmas songs by with the organ accompanying??
cwshere1 2 years ago
Joan was so HOT!!! This movie stuck with me since I was a kid. It is a work of art that has such a creepy realism that newer movies will never capture again.
draganutube 2 years ago 2
YEAH!!!
WORLDWAR187 2 years ago
this movie creeped me out when i was young haha ive been looking for it for the past couple of months, thanks for posting!
GooGooMuck13 2 years ago
thankyou very much for posting this... i'm gunna get myself comfy and enjoy it :D
bibby5000 2 years ago
I remember watching this movie as a child. It scared the shit out of me! I've always been trying to find it again and never could. Thanks for posting this!
MaggieLovesJimmy 2 years ago
Amazing how many of the cast members are still with us, this being 1972....
Nosmos 2 years ago 2
Best introduction to a horror movie ever!
Nosmos 2 years ago
Enjoyed this more than the tv revival Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis produced.
gaIIery 2 years ago
I knew there was a Tales From The Crypt from the 70's, I kept telling people and either they didn't believe me or they didn't remember.
tobiasoswald 2 years ago
the oldest horror movies is the scariest ^^
LoveMyGames 2 years ago 2
the grudge is scary too :D but ur absolutely right!
AmIOwnz0r 2 years ago
A door in an ancient crypt opens by itself...do you really want to go in?
Spartages 2 years ago
This film and 'The Skull' were the 2 best Amicus films.
12dave9 2 years ago
'Asylum' was great too.
gpwerner 2 years ago
HA!! Gotta love it..What british cinema always did best: Combine the great british theatrical tradition with some great british locations.
C0NTR4B455 2 years ago
When the titles of any movie says Peter Cushing you can make sure that it will be another classic of the golden age of British horror movies.
resnoex1 2 years ago 2
The man was the epitome of class.
sapphiretaurus 2 years ago
Thanks so much for adding this. I really appreciate people like you.
fionagellbarry 2 years ago 6
SHE had it coming to her
dpisceslady 2 years ago
DIDN'T HE SAY STAY CLOSE TOGETHER??? If they had the upcoming would have occured!
dpisceslady 2 years ago 2
tocata and fuga from Bach it is the opening theme song
resnoex1 2 years ago 3
It was also used in Phantom of the Opera.
movielothario 2 years ago 2
Yes, in the "unmasking scene" revealing one of Chaney's scariest persona. It was that use of BTFD-- that lead to it be associated with horror movies for more than a century. Humm, image if they had used Ravel's Bolero.......
linuxguru1968 2 years ago