SHOCKtober: 788-761
Well well, we meet again. What say we take a peek at some more list, hmm? Each of the following films received one vote! (Spoiler alert we are going to be in The Land of the Single Vote for quite some time.)
788. Tower of Evil – 1972, Jim O'Connolly
787. Tourist Trap – 1979, David Schmoeller
786. Torso – 1973, Sergio Martino
785. Tombs of the Blind Dead – 1972, Amando de Ossorio
784. To Die For – 1988, Deran Sarafian
783. Thundercrack! – 1975, Curt McDowell
782. Three...Extremes – 2004, Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, and Takashi Miike
781. This House Possessed – 1981, William Wiard
780. Thelma – 2017, Joachim Trier
779. The Wolf House – 2018, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León
778. The Witches – 1990, Nicolas Roeg
777. The Witch Who Came from the Sea – 1976, Matt Cimber
776. The Witch (aka La bruja) – 1954, Chano Urueta
775. The Whisperer in Darkness – 2011, Sean Branney
774. The Void – 2016, Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski
773. The Victim – 1972, Herschel Daugherty
772. The Vast of Night – 2019, Andrew Patterson
771. The Unknown – 1927, Tod Browning
770. The Undertaker and His Pals – 1966, T.L.P. Swicegood
769. The Uncanny – 1977, Denis Héroux
768. The Twilight Zone: The Movie – 1983, Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, and Steven Spielberg
767. The Thing That Couldn't Die – 1958, Will Cowan
766. The Thing from Another World – 1951, Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks
765. The 10th Victim – Elio Petri
764. The Strangers – 2008, Bryan Bertino
763. The Stone Tape – 1972, Peter Sasdy
762. The Stepfather – 2009, Nelson McCormick
761. The Skeleton of Mrs Morales – 1960, Rogelio A. González
- Ooh Tombs of the Blind Dead! I...haven't seen it. But I have seen the third Blind Dead film, The Ghost Galleon, and lawdy I loved it. The aesthetics (and the gay) are right up my alley, and after seeing The Ghost Galleon I immediately wanted to inject all those shuffling, crusty Knights Templar films into my eyeballs. So why haven't I? Because I am waiting for the world to grace us with a Blu-ray box set. Has it been announced or even hinted at? No. But I have convinced myself that it will come to fruition one day, so I wait. It just makes sense, right? That DVD box set in the coffin-shaped package is long out of print. The movies seem scattered amongst different distributors and a couple have gotten modern-day releases. Anyone who is reading my Chilling Classics Cthursday series knows that pretty much every garbage movie has been reissued in like 10000k. So where are my Blind Deads in a box? WHERE? I'M WAITING.
- Thank you for letting me get my Tombs of the Blind Dead feelings out.
- Hey, The Uncanny! I just mentioned that yesterday. What a world.
- A reader on The Thing That Couldn't Die: "Taut little potboiler has more simmering under the surface than simply a disembodied head trying to find its body."
- The Victim is terrific: A made-for-TV film starring Elizabeth Montgomery, what more could you ask for?
- BESIDES A TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD BOX SET I MEAN
- Some of you imposed a ruleset on your submitted list: no "classics," all made-for-TV, that kind of thing. One reader included a shitton of Mexican horror films to get them some representation; I'd only seen a couple of them but they all sound intriguing and I'm fixin' to dive in. (Everybody knows that Mexican horror from all eras is lit and legit.) A couple of those titles appear in today's chunk o' list, so I guess it's time to start my homework.
