LT42 yeah The Ritual is pretty good, however with most adaptations the book is better
nicksneddon the book is better
The Shining, despite King’s consternations, is the only example I can think of where I prefer the film. The book is not King’s best but I think Kubrick’s film is a masterpiece.
jonattonyeah read it again, might surprise you. I love both, but have to separate them.
TV show not a film, but The Enfield Haunting was pretty underrated I thought.
mono-stereo I stopped watching that and never got round to finishing it, will have a sniff around that - was pretty good from memory.
LT42 The Conjuring is actually pretty good for a horror.
That case was waaaay too disturbing to watch a movie or TV show about. Seriously fucked up shit.
Yeah, there was an interesting program about it on radio 4 a couple of years back. The witness they interviewed comes across as being a pretty level headed guy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4GjC93L35KcswfsR13Gvj8F/what-it-s-like-to-meet-a-poltergeist
The show itself is really well done. There’s a part which is generally unnerving when the child starts talking like an old bloke, giving specific information about how “he” died.
mono-stereo Good cast too iirc.
I’m seeing a lot of love online for a horror from 1972 with Donald Pleasance and Christopher Lee called, Death Line.
“A very unsettling, grubby, masterpiece”
I’m gonna check it and see
LT42 Christopher Lee
One of the best Bond villains. Great actor.
LT42 ‘Mind the doors’.
I love some of the the English horror films from that era, others are absolute shite mind
nicksneddon Hammer House films…
Under The Skin. Fucking hell, possibly the strangest film I’ve seen. Scarlett Johansson drives around Glasgow in a white van picking up single men, then taking them home and processing them for ( I’m guessing ) food. Too many questions, not enough answers
nicksneddon I had to stop watching half way. The scene with the toddler left on the beach when the tide is coming in. 🙁
nicksneddon
nicksneddon Scarlett Johansson drives around Glasgow in a white van picking up single men, then taking them home and processing them for ( I’m guessing ) food. Too many questions, not enough answers
The book the film derived from essentially was trying to look at our inhumane practice of mass rearing of animals for food and turning it back on us. I.e how would we feel being farmed for food if we weren’t at the top of the food chain? It’s pretty graphic and unpleasant reading.
nicksneddon I absolutely loved that movie. And not just for the footage of that fine ass of hers.
mono-stereo Ex SAS in WW2 …..much respect for that.
Watched it again a few years later and yep, No Country for Old Men is still one of the most overrated films of all time.
slabs
Yeah? I’m a There Will Be Blood guy but still think No Country is excellent. The way both films use silence and the environment of the American West is fantastic.
Probably the third best Coen Brothers film, mind.
Amps
That does not look very good. But I’ll watch it for sure.
