Italian horror/giallo/gore Appreciation

[fungalattack]

have you seen don't torture a duckling? that is fucli in his giallo prime filled with .... dare i say, child murders!!

[DarkAxel]

more importantly... what movie is your avatar from, fungalattack?

[fungalattack]

It is from the movie Begotten, which is a experimental film from 1990. The image in my avatar is god disemboweling himself. It is a truly haunting movie and so beautiful to look at. There is no dialogue and minimal music, just weird noises, wind blowing and crickets. I suggest turning off all the lights and watching this in the witching hours of the night. I had trouble embedding it but search up Begotten 1990 and you will find it in its entirety!

Brian from ss/bs is doing some custom artwork on my fuck od and it is going to be that image!! I am so excited. He was also enticed by the image and asked me where it is from. Me and my buddy would have band practice with this movie playing in the background for inspiration!

[DarkAxel]

thanks! it looks bloody haunting

[fungalattack]

thanks! it looks bloody haunting

no problemo. I hope you enjoy!

[Jwar]

I knew it! I FUCKING HATE BEGOTTEN! HATE!!!! Glad someone enjoyed it though.

[fungalattack]

ha why the hatred?

[Jwar]

I just thought it was terribly done. I used to be a member on the Rue Morgue message board and I remember people praising the shit out of it. So I watched it and was seriously underwhelmed. The visual effects were sub-par, the script is non existent...in fact. Did that movie even have a point really? If so, I failed to understand what it was. Just a terrible film IMO.

[fungalattack]

I thought for the visual effects alone, it is worth seeing. It was shot on black and white reversal film and each shot was rephotographed. I read that it took eight to ten hours to treat one minute of film! That is very meticulous and gritty work which I admire and appreciate. There is no dialogue but this movie is about the visuals. I can never forget a lot of the visuals from this movie - they will be forever burned into my cranial cavity. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but personally, I love the artistic vision and aesthetic of it. and from a technical standpoint it is quite impressive. There is a bunch of religious interpretations to it, but what I connected to was the constant struggle as a human to stay alive and remain positive. The point of the movie is in the eye of the beholder and without a script or words, the viewer can make of it what they want to.

[andtheLiquidmen]

anyone a Mario Bava fan? Movies like Black Sabbath, Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace, bay of blood, hatchet for the honeymoon? Argento got a lot of inspiration from the man.



kvlt~!!!

Bava is the man. My favorite of his movies by far isn't horror at all: Danger Diabolik: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTcGTEK0Q2g[/youtube]
Best soundtrack, best story, best style, best dialogue, best production value, best EVERYTHING.

Also, just a heads up for anyone in the NYC area, Film Forum is screening some fucking INCREDIBLE Spaghetti Westerns over the next few months, including one of my favorites, Death Rides a Horse (with the same star as Danger: Diabolik, John Phillip Law):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p17i0CoHBUU[/youtube]


Also, be sure to check out Giallos Flame. They're a band dedicated to continuing the style of music that was made popular in Italian giallo, crime, and horror movies.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU9QqLd3j4w[/youtube]

[fungalattack]

I am only familiar with Bava's horror but that trailer looks great. Looks like a real fun movie. I am going to check out that film festival since I live right outside of the city. Also, that band RULES! Thanks for opening my eyes to those sexy sounds for my ears. Listening to it makes me feel like I am in a giallo movie and a pair of black gloves is going to slash me open. YAH!

[andtheLiquidmen]

I am only familiar with Bava's horror but that trailer looks great. Looks like a real fun movie. I am going to check out that film festival since I live right outside of the city. Also, that band RULES! Thanks for opening my eyes to those sexy sounds for my ears. Listening to it makes me feel like I am in a giallo movie and a pair of black gloves is going to slash me open. YAH!

Glad to be of service

I'm seeing Death Rides a Horse at some point on the 21st. Let me know if you end up going to any screenings - I'd love to meet a fellow ILFer/genre-film fan.

[Chankgeez]

This ain't Italian, but it's something of a minor masterpiece:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN8S253SsU[/youtube]

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Necrobumb because of, uh, it's more than appropriate here. Erm.


Watched Joe D'amato movie Beyond The Darkness (Buio Omega 1979) and Lamberto Bavas Macabre (aka Frozen Terror, Macabro 1980).

I was lucky to stumble into them, without seeing cover art or having imdb and google spoil the gnarly parts for me. I strongly suggest You don't read too much about the movies before seeing those... since, I don't know perhaps it's the damn want to be consumer friendly but the dvd covers revealed far too much of the grim details.

Really bizarre stuff. No wonder there was no way to see these in the eighties video nasty era. Both movies play on all sorts of taboos and especially on necrophilia, necrophagia, murder of siblings and children... and still make it a mov.ie with a plot, instead of plain gore and repulse. Unlike Jörg Butgereits Necromantik which was also boring, making it just a showcase of bad taste.

Also, Buio Omega has this really funky original filmscore by the one and only Goblin.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Another necro bump because Italian giallo and gore are the right place to hump the dead thing that go bump in the night. Decided to add some pretty picts from the lovely movies Buio Omega and Macabre I pretty recently watched.

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My friend told me he got intrigued by what I told him about Buio Omega and he hunted them down from the Youtube. Seems to be the same bad old video nasty version of Beyond the Darkness I've seen.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WnNbDRiS7k[/youtube]

The Macabre is the original Italian version. A lot better, if the language barrier isn't killing it for You.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxCmRIgyCok[/youtube]

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