Night of hte living Dead .. Dawn of the Dead .. etc...

Cactus Col

Does anybody actually find George Romero's originals frightening?

watched Dawn of the Dead recently enough ... and it was a fairly boring film.

there

I said it.

ObeyGiant

Dawn can be pretty scary. There's a lot of humour in that film, but it's always got this hint of terror right behind it, and the last 10 minutes or so are pretty tense.

I still find Day very scary. The zombies aren't really what gives the film its scares. To me, they're just a plot device. The scares come from how people react in the face of a global, inescapable catastrophe. And the first scene, with the hands bursting through the walls, still scares the bejesus out of me every time.

I never found the original Night of the Living Dead particularly scary. Although I found Tom Savini's remake to be pretty good for that. And the photo montage at the end of the remake is just badass.

mobile04

about 3 different versions of it
i got a laserdisc of it italian import extra 20 mins . really gorry ,
story line sucks
if youre looking for scary mabye not the romero titles

try another director . lenzi or the likes ........
cat o 9 tails .......freaky scary flick

moviemadness@oceanfree.net this guy finds movies hard to get and deleted stuff.

muttleys_girl

watched them wen i was a kid and they scared the bej*sus out of me...but so did a nightmare on elm street back then!!!
saw them recently and i think they're still pretty good....not so much scary but interesting in a "what would i do....not that anyway" kind of way.
the new dawn of the dead is pretty scary.....well the bit with the kid at the start.. :eek:
as for the remake of night of the living dead....i thought that was just a waste of time to be honest!
another movie that everyone said is scary but actually isn't is the original texas chainsaw massacre.....its a bit freaky is all...think the killings are just a bit too quick....allright movie overall though.

Basq

I think Romero's 'Dawn Of The Dead' is a work of pure genius!

It's just got the right amount of gore and black humour intertwined.

PS - just noticed we've got some new smilies! :eek: :rolleyes: ..... OK, i'll stop now!

Cactus Col

I was so disappointed with Dawn of the Dead ... absolutely boring, sure the satirical elements were alright, but not enough to make up for the rest, ... and Day of the Dead ... my God .... cheap cheap and crap.

The remake of Dawn was very good though.

mobile04

if you want to watch scary
if you can find faces of death vol 1 to 4 .

now thats scary search on google real footage and i never will forget the impact on me a movie or doucumentry had on me

dawn of the dead is a classic youre right black comedy and gore to beat the band

WhiteWashMan

mobile04 wrote:

if you want to watch scary
if you can find faces of death vol 1 to 4 .

now thats scary search on google real footage and i never will forget the impact on me a movie or doucumentry had on me

dawn of the dead is a classic youre right black comedy and gore to beat the band

tell me more about these faces of death because they currently have them in virgin.
are they supposed to be actual footage of death scenes or what?

Basically real life gore...accidents, plane crashes, murders etc

Tusky

WhiteWashMan wrote:

tell me more about these faces of death because they currently have them in virgin.
are they supposed to be actual footage of death scenes or what?

They couldnt have them in Virgin.... they are people being murdered , commiting suicide and being eaten alive by animals ETC...

mobile04

i got them on dvd
all 4 discs
i dont think there in virgin
theres a few rip off versions going round ie,, the real faces of death etc
but i asure you these dvds are the dogs bolxxx real and really pack a punch
frightened the be- jasus out of me
still does

Xcom2

Lifting the mask from 'Faces of Death'

Halloween is the right time for director John Schwartz to haunt audiences with tales of his scary film saga. The good news about the horrifying scenes it offers: They aren't entirely as real as the advertising claims.
By MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH

© St. Petersburg Times, published October 26, 2000

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Most adolescent slumber parties in the '80s began or ended with a video screening of the cult classic, pseudo-snuff flick Faces of Death. After the movie, no slumber came, only nightmares and debate.

"Did those people really beat that monkey to death and eat its brains?"

"How did they get that footage of the flesh-eating cult?"

"Is that electric chair execution real?"

Is any of Faces of Death real? What does the man who made it say?

"I'll never forget: All of a sudden on the news one night they're talking about Faces of Death!" says John Schwartz, who directed and wrote the movie and its sequels I through IV (there are now eight Faces of Death movies). The flick was intended as a Japanese-only release in 1979, but found its way to the United States, and the national news, a couple of years later.

"I almost fell out of my chair," says Schwartz in a phone interview. "Dan Rather on CBS was talking about these "incredibly horrible videos.' 'Cause everybody thought they were real!"

If anybody thinks Faces of Death is footage of actual deaths, it's because it says so on the video's box, right under the cheesy drawing of the hooded skull with the forked tongue and fangs. Schwartz and company did film real footage of slaughterhouses and autopsy rooms, but any other "real" deaths came from file footage.

"We traveled to all these different film libraries to see what we could find about death and disaster," says Schwartz. "I found this footage of this woman jumping off a building, and it was just incredible footage. But the part of the footage we didn't have was the aftermath. So we (filmed) inserts into the actual footage to match it."

Then how did Schwartz and company acquire the more bizarre footage? "I was the leader of the flesh-eating cult," Schwart admits. "I had scenes in each of these movies. . . . I'm the crazy, drugged-out killer. . . . I play this freaky rapist in the courtroom scene, and they show the rape on video, and it just so happens that the girl (in the rape scene) was this girl I was dating at the time."

You mean, the famous electric chair scene was fake? But the guy was foaming at the mouth and everything!

"We built a cell in a friend's loft, and we lined the guy's mouth with toothpaste," says Schwartz, laughing. "My research material for that: I happened to pick up a Hustler magazine and there was this great article about electrocution that really detailed how a person is executed. . . . And that's what I used as my basis."

Schwartz is listed in Faces of Death credits as "Alan Black." "My middle name is Alan, and schwarz means black in German."

He used the fake name to prevent bias at his other jobs, writing for TV shows such as Night Rider, Street Hawk and The Fall Guy as well as original movies for HBO and Showtime. But to date, the original Faces of Death has grossed over $30-million. It cost $450,000 to make. These days, Schwartz proudly includes Faces of Death on his resume when cashing in on the "reality" entertainment trend which he helped pioneer.

He's currently working for ABC's Totally Out of Control Videos series. "I created Totally Out of Control Love and Totally Out of Control Vacation . . . real stories of people who got married jumping off cliffs and underwater and, you know, weird stuff."

http://www.sptimes.com/News/102600/Weekend/Lifting_the_mask_from.shtml


http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/E-H/faces_of_death.html

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Tusky

serious ? :eek: I have seen a good few scenes from faces of death and the ones I saw were definately real... One was of a man being eaten alive by a lion and there was NO WAY it was fake...

Xcom2

I cant talk about the lion eating man scene as I have only bothered watching the first one but it is widely accepted that most of the human footage is faked in these movies.

http://www.eofftv.com/f/fac/faces_of_death_main.htm

http://www.sexgoremutants.f9.co.uk/facesuk.html

http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=1902

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mobile04

i read up on a more brutal dvd floating around called traces of death its doucumentry style also but harsher


any one got it id be interested in looking at it.

im not sick just curious lol..