The Last Drive-In |OT| Joe Bob Says Check It Out!
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If it's Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. That will be the first time I've seen it since like 93 I think.
My dad wears one from time to time. Personally not a hat person at all.
Love the soundtrack in this. Italian composers really on a different wavelength during this period of cinema.
If y'all haven't seen this before, it starts a little slow but it ramps up to a crazy ending. It's definitely one of the most underrated zombie films ever.
I love how the set up to this movie is this dude just decides he's gonna do all the driving in this strangers car & she's like, okay, I'll go to sleep.
I still can't get over how dope the soundtracks were in the Fulci double feature at the start of the season
I honestly love all of the Fulci films soundtracks. They're simple, cheesy, catchy, and awesome
Different time I guess but yeah far more trusting than almost anyone now.
On a side note, finally have my projector set up so this is a great pair of movies to start with.
I'd push back on "simple and cheesy", especially the Frizzi stuff. There's a great sense of utilizing soundscape in those compositions, the one for City of the Living Dead in particular is excellent and dripping with atmosphere. Lot of layers there.
Im not sure who actually wrote/performed it but the soundtrack on Zombi in particular really sets that movie in the right atmosphere in my opinion. That weird dissonance throughout is spooky as hell to me along with the primitive sounding drums and woodwinds.
Fabio Frizzi scored that one as well, him and Fulci were an amazing combo. He was on the first episode of this season as a guest (plus band!).
Going to have to agree with you there then. Zombi is definitely in the upper echelon of horror movie scores to me, I honestly think it should at least be mentioned in the same breath with the stuff Goblin did with Argento and Romero
Frizzi is the best. THE BEST
View: https://youtu.be/81Ro7vt_U8g
That part where it chills and the piano kicks in is so awesome. The song goes from overwhelming and menacing to melancholy and back.
View: https://youtu.be/81Ro7vt_U8g
That part where it chills and the piano kicks in is so awesome. The song goes from overwhelming and menacing to melancholy and back.
Oh I'd never speak ill of Frizzi's work. By simple I meant mostly stuff like the theme of Zombie and City of the Living Dead being so similar. City wouldn't have been nearly as effective as it was without that main theme.
I need to dive into Goblin's work more fully, they're legends in their own right for sure.
Ah, gotcha, and agreed!
Impetigo - Breakfast At The Manchester Morgue (Lyrics)
The bleak sun rises through the smog stained cloudsThe day begins in a very somber wayThe stench of the dead in the Manchester morgueThe stench of sterilized...
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Not to derail further from the feature but this track by Frizzi is so good, ya'll might recognize it from Kill Bill Vol. 1, Tarantino used it there during the scene where Beatrix is hiding under the hospital bed just before slashing Buck's ankle.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktxYRUD7MFY
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktxYRUD7MFY
Hey I had an excuse my SO was on the phone with her bro I had to turn the volume down lol. Proper focused now, promise!
Sadly this just wasn't possible until RE4 invented that strategy.
Probably Return of the Living Dead. Dawn of the Dead is really good too but I find my self watching Return of the Living Dead the most.
Picking one is so hard, but if pressed it'd probably be 28 Days Later. The Danny Boyle/Alex Garland/Cillian Murphy trifecta worked so unbelievably well there, and the way they realized post outbreak London plus the English countryside bits made for one of the most immersive films I've seen, zombie related or not.
Its hard to beat the OG Dawn of the Dead for the classics, but I've grown partial to Messiah of Evil even if that's kinda more vampiric in nature but it has a lot of zombie trope vibes in how the "infected" are presented.
Cabal Return is a good shout, that holds up as one of the best under rewatches. Its just so fun with the perfect amount of camp and great casting.
Its hard to beat the OG Dawn of the Dead for the classics, but I've grown partial to Messiah of Evil even if that's kinda more vampiric in nature but it has a lot of zombie trope vibes in how the "infected" are presented.
Cabal Return is a good shout, that holds up as one of the best under rewatches. Its just so fun with the perfect amount of camp and great casting.
Yeah it is probably Return for me too. I just never tire of it, though I REALLY like horror comedy
The ORIGINAL Dawn. Can't stand the Snyder version. Day is a close second, with Night Of the Creeps (I count it) in a close third.
I didn't grow up watching horror, so there's a special place in my heart for Zach Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. After The Ring, it was really the first film to make me realize (then just into my twenties) that I might like horror movies.
I've only ever seen the original Dawn in a muddy YouTube upload years ago. I keep hoping for a stateside release after the Second Sight release in the UK a couple years back, but no luck so far.
I like Snyder's Dawn just fine. It's not Romero's but I'm glad it's so different really.
Maybe import the original Dawn, I bought this 4k Blu-ray of it last year on Amazon US, the UK transfer is amazing, and it worked fine on my PS5
Seconding that 4K of the original Dawn. Absolutely gorgeous, and 4K discs have no region lock, so you can watch it on any 4K player.
Didn't know this, gonna have to go hunting for more limited release uhds like this. Bought the Kenneth Anger collection awhile ago and while that wasn't UHD it worked on my PS5 fine as well.
These letters really keep topping the prior segments in the sad, traumatic, and uplifting category. Wow :/
Oh no. Don't make me choose. If I had to choose one at this moment, I'd say Planet Terror. I have so many fond memories of watching that film with friends and it was the first film I'd seen at a drive in.
I was going to chastise you for that choice until you added the reasoning.
Holy crap that letter. It's incredible that JBB and Darcy has been such an positive influence and refuge for people over the years to share and express themselves.
For ones going for scary, 28 Days Later. Absolutely harrowing between moments of humanity and lead by the wonderful Cillian Murphy. Also slow zombies aren't scary for me at all. But in general, Shaun of the Dead is one of my top 5 movies overall so gotta go with that.
For ones going for scary, 28 Days Later. Absolutely harrowing between moments of humanity and lead by the wonderful Cillian Murphy. Also slow zombies aren't scary for me at all. But in general, Shaun of the Dead is one of my top 5 movies overall so gotta go with that.
Seeing that at a drive in must have been great. The first date I had with my SO was seeing Grindhouse with her at a college town theater, we both loved it. Great memory. Josh Brolin was perfectly cast, chews the scenery like none other. Watching Jeff Fahey's character obsess over his Texas bbq with Michael Bienn begging for the recipe throughout is hilarious. Such a fun movie.
Oh nothing. But Favorite would be a stretch for me.
BUT. When you get to enjoy it with friends at a drive in that's a whole different experience.