According to IMDB, it's actually a Hong Kong/Singapore film. And it seems there's an Indian remake made before the American one.

What tinyE said still stands, though. The American remake sucks. As to the Indian remake, I haven't got a clue. Maybe I should check that one out? Hahaha!

Err, nevermind, ignore that. You/IMDB are correct. I refused to watch the American one since by then there were so many asian horror remakes (mostly Japanese) which sucked compared to the original that I knew to stay away.

The American version of Ju-on was not terrible. But that is the exception.

I like to be unsettled, but truly disturbed goes a bit too far for me in terms of entertainment. So I appreciate what you wrote about this, it's a good warning.

For movies which made me uncomfortable but still hovered at the edge of entertaining, I would include and [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450843/]Sheitan. Both excel at making you discomfited without completely alienating you.

Have anyone mentioned another timeless Lucio Fulci's classic Zombi 2 already? I used to watch promos of it from the tapes with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and The Incredible Hulk that mom used to get for me in video rental in my kindergarten years. I didn't watch the film until about ten years later when I was already in high school.

Zombi 2 hadn't been mentioned yet. Inexplicably, might I add. I guess I didn't mention it because I had already posted three of his movies.

I just finished watching Jean Rollin's Fascination followed by In a Cage Glass, and this is what I have to say to this small thread community: you guys rock. Thank you so very much, seriously!

Fascination is a fine example of early "Eurotica"-gore, with plenty of gratuitous exposition, a couple lesbian softcore scenes, lots of boobs and derrieres and buckets of red paint over clearly non-existent wounds. In other words, a masterpiece.

Tras el Cristal/In a Glass Cage... all I can think about this movie is "fuck!". I'm still in a somewhat state of mild shock. This movie is an art house film, rather than a full-fledged horror flick, but, heck!, it shocks you all the way. It never really shows you anything, per se, but it's one of those cases in which you wonder whether leaving what's unseen to the imagination is actually better. In a sense, it reminds me of some early horror movies (such as 1960's Horror Hotel/City of the Dead), as those films, too, relied more heavily on what they weren't showing. The themes, though... fuck. Just... holy fuck. Not a film I would recommend easily to more sensitive people, just like CrowTRobo said. A brilliant movie, but one you should be advised to watch at your own discretion.

It is? Shit, now that is just a tad embarrassing.

Just thought I'd share a few public domain oldies (some are all in the same website, I found this guy that conveniently collected them in one place, saving me the trouble of browsing extensively):

<span class="bold">Carnival of Souls</span> (1962)

<span class="bold">The Devil in a Convent</span> (1899)

<span class="bold">The Last Woman on Earth</span> (1960)

<span class="bold">The Last Man on Earth</span> (1964)

<span class="bold">The Screaming Skull</span> (1958)

<span class="bold">The Little Shop of Horrors</span> (1960)

<span class="bold">Kill, Baby, Kill (Operazione Paura)</span> (1966)

<span class="bold">Attack of the Giant Leeches</span> (1959)

<span class="bold">A Bucket of Blood</span> (1959)

I hope you enjoy some of those.

Carnival of Souls and Kill, Baby, Kill were way ahead of their time. The part in Kill, Baby, Kill where the lead protagonist starts dashing through halls and then realizes he's going through the same place over and over again, and then, suddenly, he starts chasing himself is nothing new by today's standards, but people claiming that David Lynch was the first to do it (in Twin Peaks) is just absurd.

Good list. Carnival Of Souls actually got a Criterion release if you are looking for a good version.

I did a quick check to see if Jack Hill's Spider Baby was public domain, but it doesn't seem to be. Good film, as is all his work with Pam Grier and Sid Haig (but that's an entirely different thread topic).

Unfortunately, the disc version is NTSC and won't run on my PAL DVD player. And it would seem I could watch it on Hulu, but just like Netflix, it doesn't work outside the US, Canada and UK.

Knowing that there are other people out there who love and appreciate the original "Carnival..." shows me that as bad as this race may seem at times, in the end we are a smart and worthy species.

I've got my copy on DVD with some other movie that I've never watched. The transfer is shit but WHO CARES!?

Also has anyone mentioned the original "Wizard of Gore"? Crispin Glover did a remake a few years ago which I haven't seen but I do own the original. I'm not going to lie, some parts of it are so bad/stupid that it reaches out of the screen and slaps you, but still a solid mention for this thread.

Speaking of Crispin Glover:

<span class="bold">Willard</span> (2003 version of the Stephen Gilbert's novella, Ratman's Notebooks, from which the 1971 <span class="bold">Willard</span> draws inspiration as well.)

Lord of Illusions is a great movie helmed by the legendary Clive Barker. You have no excuse not to own the Criterion release of Carnival of Souls, it carries worthy picture quality. The Wizard of Gore remake it disposable. It might be worth watching for the novelty of it but it won't stand out. Too bad the Suicide Girls weren't featured in more horror films, that might have been the most interesting gimmick about the remake but far too little.

Hell yes it is. As is Candyman. Whatever you think of Philip Glass (I love his stuff), that soundtrack is a masterpiece. Likewise Christopher Young's work on the first Hellraiser.