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Anyone have any suggestions for some good old 70's and 80's horror
movies that kind of have a "Night Gallery" feel to them?
(Kind of a dark, brooding terror that slowly builds). If anyone
saw the pilot to Night Gallery and saw the segment with Roddy
McDowall and the painting, that's the type of movie I'm looking for.


I've got:

Burnt Offerings
The Changeling
The Legend Of Hell House
The Night Stalker/Night Strangler


If anyone can recommend any others along these lines, I'd appreciate
it. Thanks!

umm not sure if this is relevant but 70's horror - try the two Dr Phibes
films and Theatre of Blood - humour horror!


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> Anyone have any suggestions for some good old 70's and 80's horror
> movies that kind of have a "Night Gallery" feel to them?
> (Kind of a dark, brooding terror that slowly builds). If anyone
> saw the pilot to Night Gallery and saw the segment with Roddy
> McDowall and the painting, that's the type of movie I'm looking for.
>
>
> I've got:
>
> Burnt Offerings
> The Changeling
> The Legend Of Hell House
> The Night Stalker/Night Strangler
>
>
> If anyone can recommend any others along these lines, I'd appreciate
> it. Thanks!
>

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:47:37 -0000, "Nick"
<> wrote:

>umm not sure if this is relevant but 70's horror - try the two Dr Phibes
>films and Theatre of Blood - humour horror!
>
>
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>> Anyone have any suggestions for some good old 70's and 80's horror
>> movies that kind of have a "Night Gallery" feel to them?
>> (Kind of a dark, brooding terror that slowly builds). If anyone
>> saw the pilot to Night Gallery and saw the segment with Roddy
>> McDowall and the painting, that's the type of movie I'm looking for.
>>
>>
>> I've got:
>>
>> Burnt Offerings
>> The Changeling
>> The Legend Of Hell House
>> The Night Stalker/Night Strangler
>>
>>
>> If anyone can recommend any others along these lines, I'd appreciate
>> it. Thanks!
>>
>
I saw The NightStalker at J&R. Are you in NYC?

> <> wrote in message
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>> Anyone have any suggestions for some good old 70's and 80's horror
>> movies that kind of have a "Night Gallery" feel to them?
>> (Kind of a dark, brooding terror that slowly builds). If anyone
>> saw the pilot to Night Gallery and saw the segment with Roddy
>> McDowall and the painting, that's the type of movie I'm looking for.
>>
>>
>> I've got:
>>
>> Burnt Offerings
>> The Changeling
>> The Legend Of Hell House
>> The Night Stalker/Night Strangler
>>
>>
>> If anyone can recommend any others along these lines, I'd appreciate
>> it. Thanks!

The 70s were awash with some great horror flicks with a growing sense of
dread/foreboding. Can't guarantee all of those listed are currently
available, but try:

The Mephisto Waltz
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
The Norliss Tapes
The Evil, aka House of Evil
Phase IV
The Keep
Trilogy of Terror
The Hearse
Something Evil
The Manitou
Haunted (1995)
Halloween 3: Season of The Witch
Dark Night of The Scarecrow
The Legacy
Death Ship
Daughters of Satan
Death at Love House
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Eye of The Cat
The Devil's Rain
The Haunting of Julia, aka Full Circle
The Car
Watcher in the Woods
Evil Stalks This House
Beyond Evil
Summer of Fear, aka Stranger in Our House
Ruby, (1977)
Deadly Blessing
The Lottery, (1969)
Satan's School for Girls, (1974)
The Initiation of Sarah
Unman, Wittering & Zigo
Don't Go To Sleep
Encounter With The Unknown, (1973)
The Spell
The Shout
The Medusa Touch

And a clutch of very eerie Australian Horror movies:

Patrick (197
The Long Weekend
The Last Wave
Picnic at Hanging Rock


Going back a little further, there's always:

Curse of the Demon, aka Night of the Demon
Night of the Eagle
Seconds
The Haunting (1963)
Rosemary's Baby


Good luck tracking some of these down!

Joe

Nick wrote:

>>Anyone have any suggestions for some good old 70's and 80's horror
>>movies that kind of have a "Night Gallery" feel to them?

(A....Night...) 0_o??

>>(Kind of a dark, brooding terror that slowly builds). If anyone
>>saw the pilot to Night Gallery and saw the segment with Roddy
>>McDowall and the painting, that's the type of movie I'm looking for.

(...OHHhhh!--Kinda confused us, there, since the series was a mess and
never got any better than the pilot movie--)

>>I've got:
>>
>>Burnt Offerings
>>The Changeling
>>The Legend Of Hell House
>>The Night Stalker/Night Strangler
>
> umm not sure if this is relevant but 70's horror - try the two Dr Phibes
> films and Theatre of Blood - humour horror!

Not exactly "dark", "brooding" or "slowly building", but highly
rentable.

Keeping within stated boundaries, for some odd reasons the '81 "Ghost
Story" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" were the only period titles
that came up for slow-cooked horror--
As for anything more recent...hey, I LIKED "Blair Witch Project"!--Be
interesting to see how it plays nowadays, with a generation that wasn't
in the "betrayed" '99 torches-and-pitchforks theater mob.

Derek Janssen (also, anything by M. Night Shamalyan that doesn't have
"Village" in the title)

"Derek Janssen" <> wrote in message
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> Nick wrote:
>
> >>Anyone have any suggestions for some good old 70's and 80's horror
> >>movies that kind of have a "Night Gallery" feel to them?
>
> (A....Night...) 0_o??
>
> >>(Kind of a dark, brooding terror that slowly builds). If anyone
> >>saw the pilot to Night Gallery and saw the segment with Roddy
> >>McDowall and the painting, that's the type of movie I'm looking for.
>
> (...OHHhhh!--Kinda confused us, there, since the series was a mess and
> never got any better than the pilot movie--)
>
> >>I've got:
> >>
> >>Burnt Offerings
> >>The Changeling

Always wanted to see The Changeling.


> >>The Legend Of Hell House
> >>The Night Stalker/Night Strangler

Kolchak, always a favorite. <g> Have "Night Stalker" on tape. I'll
have to check out the DVDs of all of these.


> > umm not sure if this is relevant but 70's horror - try the two Dr
Phibes
> > films and Theatre of Blood - humour horror!
>
> Not exactly "dark", "brooding" or "slowly building", but highly
> rentable.

Along those lines of humour horror... "Needful Things."


> Keeping within stated boundaries, for some odd reasons the '81 "Ghost
> Story" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" were the only period
titles
> that came up for slow-cooked horror--

Good ones. <g>

How about:

Salem's Lot (1979)

"Storm of the Century" (1999) (mini)
aka "Stephen King's Storm of the Century"



....and not really a "horror" story, but still a good "ghost" story

The Forgotten One (1990).
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0099601/usercomments


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"Joe McC" <> wrote in message
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> The 70s were awash with some great horror flicks with a growing sense
of
> dread/foreboding. Can't guarantee all of those listed are currently
> available, but try:

snip

> Halloween 3: Season of The Witch

You're kidding, right? That one was absolutely awful.


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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Gideon: I thought you said you don't hold a grudge.
Galen: I don't. I have no surviving enemies... at all.

"Brimstone" (199
The Devil: Nobody beats the Devil. Are you listening? Did you hear what
I said, Mr. Stone? Nobody beats the Devil.
Ezekiel Stone: So you keep telling me. <enjoying his Reggie Bar> Go to
Hell...<smiles and pushes the Down button on the elevator> ...please.

"Mac Breck" <> wrote in message
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> "Joe McC" <> wrote in message
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>
>> The 70s were awash with some great horror flicks with a growing sense
> of
>> dread/foreboding. Can't guarantee all of those listed are currently
>> available, but try:
>
> snip
>
>> Halloween 3: Season of The Witch
>
> You're kidding, right? That one was absolutely awful.

Heh heh, I assume since you snipped the other 40 odd movies listed that you
approve of those ones?

But yeah...deadly serious. That bloody haunting jingle, our heros thwarted
at every turn......and just what in the name of John Carpenter was actually
going on INSIDE those masks?

Watch it with fresh eyes & then tell me you don't think it had a sense of
dread about it. (cue jokes here).

Joe

wrote:
> Anyone have any suggestions for some good old 70's and 80's horror
> movies that kind of have a "Night Gallery" feel to them?
> (Kind of a dark, brooding terror that slowly builds). If anyone
> saw the pilot to Night Gallery and saw the segment with Roddy
> McDowall and the painting, that's the type of movie I'm looking for.
>
>
> I've got:
>
> Burnt Offerings
> The Changeling
> The Legend Of Hell House
> The Night Stalker/Night Strangler

Some picks that are probably close to what you're looking for:

The Dunwich Horror
The Manitou
Count Yorga (and the sequel)
Grave of the Vampire (hard to find on dvd but worth a look)
The Fury
The Amityville Horror
The Omen
To The Devil... A Daughter
Angel Heart
Ghost Story

T.B.

"Joe McC" <> wrote in message
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> "Mac Breck" <> wrote in message
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> > "Joe McC" <> wrote in message
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> >
> >> The 70s were awash with some great horror flicks with a growing
sense
> > of
> >> dread/foreboding. Can't guarantee all of those listed are currently
> >> available, but try:
> >
> > snip
> >
> >> Halloween 3: Season of The Witch
> >
> > You're kidding, right? That one was absolutely awful.
>
> Heh heh, I assume since you snipped the other 40 odd movies listed
that you
> approve of those ones?

Agree with:

The Keep
Trilogy of Terror (think I have that on VHS, ...somewhere)

Haven't seen the rest, although "Something Evil" has Darren McGavin, so
it can't be all bad. Unfortunately, it's not available on anything
(DVD, VHS, or Laserdisc).


> But yeah...deadly serious. That bloody haunting jingle, our heros
thwarted
> at every turn......and just what in the name of John Carpenter was
actually
> going on INSIDE those masks?

It's tied for low point of John Carpenter's career (with Ghosts of Mars
(2001)). It's one of the few I gave a "1" (bad rating) on IMDb.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0085636/

For some background, here's my IMDb Vote History:

Sorted by Name, DVD, Highest to Lowest Score

My Vote, IMDb Avg.

Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999) (TV) 10, 6.6
Babylon 5: In the Beginning (199 (TV) 10, 7.2
Bill Cosby: Himself (1983) 10, 7.7
Blade Runner (1982) 10, 8.2
Christmas Vacation (1989) 10, 6.9
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) 10, 6.5
The Dead Zone (1983) 10, 7.2
Gladiator (2000) 10, 8.0
The Green Mile (1999) 10, 8.1
Halloween (197 10, 7.7
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 10, 8.0
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 10, 8.6
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 10, 8.8
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 10, 9.0
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 10, 8.8
The Matrix (1999) 10, 8.5
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (198 10, 7.4
The Patriot (2000) 10, 6.8
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) 10, 6.9
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 10, 8.6
Ronin (199 10, 7.0
Salem's Lot (1979) (TV) 10, 6.3
The Thing From Another World (1951) 10, 7.5
The Thing (1982) 10, 7.8
Young Frankenstein (1974) 10, 8.0
Always (1989) 9, 6.2
A Christmas Carol (193 9, 7.3
A Christmas Carol (1984/I) (TV) 9, 7.3
A Christmas Story (1983) 9, 8.1
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) 9, 4.6
Gleason (2002) (TV) 9, 6.4
The Last Samurai (2003) 9, 7.9
Needful Things (1993) 9, 5.7
One Magic Christmas (1985) 9, 5.8
The Replacement Killers (199 9, 5.8
Scrooge (1951) 9, 8.0
Scrooged (198 9, 6.5
What Lies Beneath (2000) 9, 6.6
X-Men (2000) 9, 7.3
Along Came a Spider (2001) 8, 6.1
Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993) (TV) 8, 6.1
Dead Bang (1989) 8, 5.3
The Forgotten One (1990) 8, 6.0
Guilty as Sin (1993) 8, 5.4
Halloween II (1981) 8, 5.6
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) 8, 4.8
Hexed (1993) 8, 4.5
The Hot Spot (1990/I) 8, 6.2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 8, 7.2
Mission to Mars (2000) 8, 4.9
Night of the Living Dead (1990) 8, 6.1
Payback (1999) 8, 6.8
Red Planet (2000) 8, 5.3
The Shipping News (2001) 8, 6.9
The Sum of All Fears (2002) 8, 6.6
Tremors (1990) 8, 6.9
"Battlestar Galactica" (2003) (mini) 7, 7.1
Hard Target (1993) 7, 5.4
Heartbreakers (2001) 7, 6.2
Last Action Hero (1993) 7, 5.4
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (199 (TV) 6, 6.0
Babylon 5: Thirdspace (199 (TV) 5, 6.3
Enterprise: Broken Bow (2001) (TV) 5, 6.3
American Beauty (1999) 4, 8.5
Dracula (1992) 4, 7.1
Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996) (V) 4, 5.2
American Pie (1999) 3, 6.8
Dark City (199 3, 7.6
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) (V) 3, 5.4
'Salem's Lot (2004) (TV) 2, 5.9
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight
(2002) (TV) 2, 5.4
Battlestar Galactica (197 (TV) 2, 5.8
Me, Myself & Irene (2000) 2, 6.0
Velocity Trap (1997) 2, 3.8
Dr. T & the Women (2000) 1, 4.9
Ghosts of Mars (2001) 1, 4.6
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) 1, 3.6
Interceptor Force 2 (2002) (TV) 1, 3.9
Interceptors (1999) 1, 3.6
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) 1, 7.0
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) 1, 4.8
Witchblade (2000) (TV) 1, 3.8


> Watch it with fresh eyes & then tell me you don't think it had a sense
of
> dread about it. (cue jokes here).

Think I got rid of it at Half Price Books & Music. Maybe not. I'll
have to check.

--
Mac Breck (KoshN) - from the desktop PC
-------------------------------
"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Gideon: I thought you said you don't hold a grudge.
Galen: I don't. I have no surviving enemies... at all.

"Brimstone" (199
The Devil: Nobody beats the Devil. Are you listening? Did you hear what
I said, Mr. Stone? Nobody beats the Devil.
Ezekiel Stone: So you keep telling me. <enjoying his Reggie Bar> Go to
Hell...<smiles and pushes the Down button on the elevator> ...please.