Esoteric Moving Picture Thread for 'Movie Heads'

Proof that Roger Moore used to look saucy dressed as a Nazi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Pzm3iWpTc

I think the thought they had another 'Kelly's Heroes' in the bag when they made this. Unfortunately it's a lot closer to Michael Crawford's 'Condorman' ....which Oliver Reed was also in, Gawd bless 'im.

Couple of Australian oddities in full...

**'Dead-End Drive In' **(1986)

Couple get trapped in a drive in/prison built for unruly teens, it's even more amazing than it sounds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxqI9I6gqKQ

'Patrick' (1978)

Guy has a spazz and kills his parents then falls into a coma where he decides he is going to control stuff with his mind and only communicate by spitting at people because thats just how he rollz yo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5R_bzoNVE

Patrick - weid as you like that film. Couple of decent efforts from New Zealand now: -

Cracking Last Man on Earth type effort (this is how it should be done Will fucking Smith), The Quiet Earth

YouTube - The Quiet Earth trailer (Cannon Films)

and comedy road movie, Goodbye Pork Pie

YouTube - Goodbye Pork Pie - Wellington Chase

Ah man!

'The Quiet Earth' - Soooo good. One of the best end of the world films ever. Did you see the Australian TVM remake of 'On The Beach'? Have a massive soft spot for that as well although it has a high element of kitsch to it. Quiet Earth though....

Not seen 'Goodbye Porkpie' but definitely on my 'to do' list now...

Wait, isn't that 'Partrick' in 'Goodbye Porkpie?'

Also, you ever see Patrick 2, I think it was made in Italy.

Bringing it back home for Saturday...

The epic** 'Threads**' (1984), starring Reece Dinsdale and a cast of thousands... well definitely hundreds. Cited as one of the most depressing celluloid outings in history and not just because it's set in 80's Sheffield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ

...And the equally amazing PIF film, the one that started it all 'Say No To Strangers'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8ZOiDyINk&feature=related

And to end on 'Ghostwatch'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPTDHEeLI0A

This is the one they aired on Halloween in 1992 and it freaked a lot of people out, one kid so much that he hanged himself...

if there are any Gasper Noe fans / voyeurs heres his new offering YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

if there are any Gasper Noe fans / voyeurs heres his new offering YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

easier to follow trailer here http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2532115993/

Wonderful thread. Some great ideas for new films to watch and good to see some old horror-zombie faves

Used to run a little cinema club showing eoterics. Launched it with Suspiria, that visceral primary coloured fear fest by giallo supremo dario argento

YouTube - MOVIE : SUSPIRIA [1977]

in a double bill with with the surreal sleazefest that is Borowcyk's the Beast

YouTube - THE BEAST (LA BETE)

Used to go to the festival of fantastic films and may go this year

Hellz Yeah!

I did a dissertation on Argento years ago, Suspiria is amazing. Still need to see the cleaned up print they put out a few years back. For a long time I was watching a third gen. VHS copy. My favorite part is at the beginning where she goes from the calm serenity of the airport out the door and into the storm...

The Beast - For some reason I picked this and 'Spring and Port Wine' for a second date night, no idea what I was thinking. Possible contender for best prosthetic member in cinematic history though.

Where was your cinema club? It sounds awesome.

Hellz Yeah!

I did a dissertation on Argento years ago, Suspiria is amazing. Still need to see the cleaned up print they put out a few years back. For a long time I was watching a third gen. VHS copy. My favorite part is at the beginning where she goes from the calm serenity of the airport out the door and into the storm...

The Beast - For some reason I picked this and 'Spring and Port Wine' for a second date night, no idea what I was thinking. Possible contender for best prosthetic member in cinematic history though.

Where was your cinema club? It sounds awesome.

It was in Newington Green in early 90s. bi-Monthly . Showed european sleaze and horror. Zombies, Soft-europorn-vampires, tinto brass, cafe flesh, and some matesand my own short films.

(Got DVD of suspiria if you want to borrow yesnogame.) The goblin soundtrack was amazingly spooky epecially in that opening scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i49BFgziggQ

Got Black Sunday on DVD too made by Argentos mentor Mario Bava

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-s6oTscJuc

Remember the scala at kings cross with their themed all nighters? It closed because they were sued for screening clockwork orange. Saw a memorably disturbing night of Makavjev films there. Montenegro, mysteries of the organism and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCO3HEylRk

That sounds great. I never went but I do remember the Scala nights and it being all over the papers when it got shut down. I think they used to show the Stones film 'Cocksucker Blues' there as well.

Mask of Satan I haven't seen in years.

That Makavejev chap looks very interesting as well. Will have to do a proper investigation there.

This is great!

....Found this though if you're in the mood for a bit of war

**'Come And See' **(1985)

Checked the sinc and it's fine and the subs are readable.

You probably know it but if not it's up there... In a massively emotionally draining and graphic Russian WWII film kind of way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj77lutpgn0&feature=related

I have to say this is one of the best films made...so grim and utterly real...I watched it with a ukranian friend along with 'Stalker' and various others and we had such a good week of films...

Well done for posting it, everyone should try and watch it.

I also saw the queit earth film as a kid....that was damned good too.

Ahh, Threads. Quite possibly the most depressing and hopeless film ever made, and not the only time Sheffield has doubled as a scene of post-apocalyptic devastation.

YouTube - The Last Train

As for PIFs, this is one of scariest. Donald Pleasance doing the voiceover for Death.

YouTube - Lonely Water (1973) - UK Public Information Film

Cheers Wingedangel, massively moving film that... 'Stalker' and 'Come and See' in the same weekend, that's pretty heavy! Did you use some vintage Morcambe and Wise to try and level out?

Manc Ronnie!!! Cheers mate. Been wondering what 'the one about the train that get's caught in the tunnel and then there's a war and everybody died' was called for ages.... Oh and they should have turned 'Lonely Water' into a feature.

Not exactly related, don't suppose anybody's got a link to the Captain Harlock feature length 'Arcadia of my Youth''?

Three for today...

'Elvis in Jarrow': This was an Arena special from 1992. It's about a post modern genius/talentless delusional care in the community type from Jarrow who is visited by 'The King', the King proceeds to tell him to go out and sing so he does, at the expense of his family. What's really interesting here is how quickly and successfully he is exploited. Absolute must see TV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8U2J8SQQIQ

Unrelated but because I'm in Germany right now... 'Tin Drum' (1979), trailer only unfortunately. Truly great and massively unusual pre-war yarn about a scary midget kid with a high-pitch voice and a tin-drum... it's ctually much better than I made it sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ewzWkFZOFk

And finally, for no reason other than we have somehow avoided mentioning his name - Herschell Gordon Lewis'** 'Wizard of Gore'**(1970), complete and uncut! When I got a 4th generation copy of 'Gore Gore Girls' aged 13 I wanted to BE this guy... H.G.Lewis that is, not the massively fucked up Montag the Magnificent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlMhtLrG7Uk

Happy fucking days!

ahh yes the Tin Drum with that sex scene, powerful stuff as was freaks the grandaddy of strange films "one of us one of us"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

and some russ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQr8CC0jiIU

Nice! References to The Ramones and The Cramps.

So, by far the most ridiculous film I've seen in ages 'Hausu' (1977). The trailer really doesn't do it justice, it's fucking nuts.

The best description I've heard is if Argento directed a live action episode of Scooby Doo, even that doesn't explain quite how totally insane this film is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN0HVJ5tkIM

Oh, and because this thread isn't complete without it...

Q.E.E.D's finest moment: 'John's Not Mad' (1989). It's the documentary about John, John has Tourettes Fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FaeQ8pOkQo

And holy shit...

Just found this. The ultimate document of the WxC Hardcore scene

'The Decline of Western Civilization'(1980) in it's entirety!!!

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The house looks amazingly freaky...

remember Tetsuo?
remember the member (@47s)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROMTzJsfOI

and something more seriously subtly erotic from japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_NRQ0tEx-Y&feature=related

It's Friday...

And that means for no apparent reason an episode of the 'Double Deckers'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ex0vMmLLDo

One of the best recent documentaries 'Paradise Lost 2:Revelations' About the 'West Alabama 3' who were wrongly sentenced for multiple child murders because they wore black and listened to Metallica. Genuinely stunning documentary, it plays like fiction...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5witm15yck

And 'Planet of the Vampires' a slice of Mario Bava awesomeness from 1965. All 3 are complete.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7PvTwYF3E

'Yes we seem to have landed on a planet of Vampires but at least we look totally awesome.'

Just watched a dvd with two short films on it. The London nobody knows (45min doc with James Mason) 1967 & Les bicyclettes de Belsize 1968.

19 of these 144 original films have been remastered by BFI
wierd and wonderful stuff

YouTube - Peas and Cues (1930)

Bringing it back home for Saturday...

The epic** 'Threads**' (1984), starring Reece Dinsdale and a cast of thousands... well definitely hundreds. Cited as one of the most depressing celluloid outings in history and not just because it's set in 80's Sheffield.

around the same time we were shown a post apocalypse video at school about a family in a welsh valley who escaped the blast. i can remember dead sheep, yellow vomit and them drinking water from the stream even though it was contaminated.

not something primary school children should watch imho.

this is fucked up too. not seen it yet but Herzog is one of my favorite directors

http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/22777/even-dwarfs-started-small-trailer

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Unrelated but because I'm in Germany right now... 'Tin Drum' (1979), trailer only unfortunately. Truly great and massively unusual pre-war yarn about a scary midget kid with a high-pitch voice and a tin-drum... it's ctually much better than I made it sound.

http://www.freehdmovie.net/2010/07/tin-drum-1979.html