aeneas
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The pipe smoking rose Gardner.
Haha that was probably on the cards.
OK 40:40
I’m stumped, so I’ll consult the DIY Giallo Generator:
Your Heart is a Sphinx with Teeth of Glass
Directed by
Ruggero Ruggeri
A young man is poisoned; his body then disappears, and turns up mutilated while wearing a mysterious amulet. A wealthy woman inadvertently picks up the one piece of evidence that will solve the the murder; and after several bloody murders, the crime turns out to have been a hoax calculated by her close colleague to drive her insane.
This would explain why hollywood kept renaming it!
It does look like a Giallo there, doesn’t it?
Is it that obscure? I thought this was pretty well known, and there are a few people you will have heard of behind the camera on the credits.
I just checked and if you google underrated horror movies it will appear as something on the first link :)
OK, 60:60
No :(
80:80
Perhaps slightly helpful if you look closely. 40:40 is still probably the most useful though.
Vampirism is a thing that happens in it, kind of! Getting close date wise.
Anyhow it occurs to me someone woulda got it by now if they were gonna.
It is
Dead of Night
AKA
Deathdream
Night Walk
The Night Andy Came Home
The Night Walker
The Veteran
Whispers
Tom Savini’s first gig on effects, directed by Bob Clark (porky’s, black christmas etc).
It is a low budget 70s horror that is about a million times smarter and better written than it really has any right to be. Very creepy when it wants to be. It’s basically The Monkey’s Paw mixed with an allegorical whiff of PTSD and heroin addiction in returning vietnam veterans.
Oh and - on reading the rules I’m not exactly sure what happens now, so anyone feel free to post the next 20:20.
Dude, good pick. I was just iterating down the lists of movies I found when I Googled “underrated horror movies.” I’m not a big horror fan, but that sounds like a good one.
As for the next turn, I’m pretty sure it’s yours, if you want it. You won the last round!
Yeah, it kind of sneaks up on you in multiple ways - go in expecting a straight monkey’s paw at the start, then an ordinary slasher, then a drama, then it becomes extremely creepy - that’s around when I went, wow this is actually pretty fucking cleverly done. It would be a quite good drama in its own right and it’s really one of the few examples I can think of where adding a supernatural element to a story heightens and compliments it rather than making it silly. At any rate, again, about a million times better movie than ‘low budget horror from the director of Porky’s and Baby Geniuses 2’ would ever suggest.
Alright I’ll go then. I know some of you will know this one and I am going to totally cheat and skip frames that have subtitles on them. It should hopefully remain distinctive enough to pick it.
Nice! I’ve been meaning to watch this.
It is at this point the list of films this could be narrows somewhat
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Looks like a Ferrante and Teicher video.
Now it clicked. Tokyo Drifter, of course.
Joelmurr wins!
Rather a hard movie to disguise…
Tokyo Drifter - that thing’s batshit insane and wonderful.
Here’s the next one. I reckon quite a few of you have seen this, because it’s been discussed on Qt3.
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Sweet. That 2020 shot is too good with the lead and a major location clear in it :)
This is quite obscure though I know both Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino are fans of it - as with a lot of similar movies I think it’s probably better known outside of australia. Again something of a forgotten movie but I highly recommend it if you can tolerate a bit of low budget short shoot goofiness mixed with some pretty heavy duty disquieting unease.
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