Good Horror Movie/s?

Hey--I dug a bit on this site. it was a TV movie. Here is one viewer's comments on it. Will go see if there are others......

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a frightening, errie experience, 27 September 2002
Author: (jakob@saturn.yzu.edu.tw) from Taiwan

I have a taped copy of this movie ...... somewhere. It is quite special, so I was surprised to find it unlisted in guidebooks such as Mauldin's. An important element involves a demonic force trying to seduce a young woman when she gazes into a mirror. Maybe it's just me, but the idea of an evil force from inside a mirror trying to distort your view of reality and control you seems particularly frightening --- of course one thinks of Dead of Night (1945), the old classic horror film. Also, the scenes where the demon is being summoned are quite disturbing --- the makers of the film seem to have had some special insight into demonology. Bradford Dillman is already dead for most of the movie, but he plays a great haunted spirit on both sides of the grave, and Louis Jourdan is good as the calm, rational psychiatrist trying to help the woman by any means possible, including unorthodox ones.

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The devil uses a mirror to possess souls!, 19 January 2006
9/10
Author: garrard from Camilla, GA

When first aired in 1969, this TV production was a ratings powerhouse for NBC. Starring the infrequently used Louis Jourdan as David Sorell, an L.A. psychiatrist with an interest in the occult, the film tells the story of a mirror that holds a demon that possesses the soul of newlywed Bradford Dillman. Lynda Day (the future wife of actor Christopher George) plays Dillman's hapless wife who herself is to be the next victim of the mirror's machinations. A pre-Archie Bunker Carroll O'Connor is on hand as Dillman's friend that's hiding a sinister secret. Veteran actress Marsha Hunt is on hand as Dillman's adoring and devoted mother. English stalwart Wilfred Hyde-White plays Jourdan's apparent mentor in things that go bump in the night.

The film has a nicely creepy feel, befitting the studio (Universal) that brought the world so many classic horror films during the 30's.

Also, the score by Billy Goldenberg is effectively spooky, especially the scene wherein the entranced George descends from the stairs to be "rejoined" with her deceased husband.

"Fear No Evil" yielded a sequel a year later, the somewhat weaker "Ritual of Evil" with Jourdan returning in the lead role.

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A creepy and creative suspense thriller, 28 January 2006
9/10
Author: billpane from United States

This hard to find made for TV movie is one of my all time favorites in the suspense department. The movie's plot is innovative and creepy without resorting to any of the hackneyed standard scare tactics that discredits so many other horror films. Outstanding performances by Carroll O'Connor and Louis Jourdan are a highlight and Marsha Hunt is also excellent as the mother who secretly does not have her son's fiancé best interests at heart. The movie's climax is also extremely well crafted and gripping as psychiatrist Louis Jourdan uses guile and creativity in his attempt to save Barbara from the antique mirror that seeks to possess her. I would recommend this movie to fans of the genre-if you can find it.
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a lasting impression..., 27 September 2004
Author: (lab41986@aol.com) from california

I remember seeing this as a kid and NEVER forgetting it. I found it haunting and also hauntingly beautiful in its way. I have tried to track down a copy but have never been able to find much at all about this movie. I remembered Lynda George and Bradford Dillman and through a bunch of searching finally located info. I am surprised it is so hard to locate unless I am only imagining how good it was. The film was poignant and I especially liked Lynda George's performance. If anyone knows how I can get a copy, please email me. It was one of my favorite movies long ago. I also liked the Borgia Stick and had these two confused in my mind. That movie is also nearly as obscure and hard

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Golden Age of Television, 22 May 2006
10/10
Author: sdesanctis from United States

The late 60's in the US produced some unforgettable TV-movies. 1967 had "Games" with Simon Signoret, 1969 gave us the strangely forgotten prize-winning "Male of the Species" with Anna Calder-Marshall & Sir Paul Scofield, and 1969 the erotic thriller "Fear No Evil". The casting was perfect, the writing intelligent, the direction impeccable. These were shows that didn't condescend to a TV audience nor pander to the lowest common denominator - all of these (note the latter 2 of the 3 sadly unavailable to date, and the former available as a used VHS at exorbitant prices) were examples of television that had the best of cinema, provoking, haunting, memorable, risk-taking, trail-blazing. In some ways the eroticism of these 3 TV shows was more daring than the X-rated "Midnight Cowboy". Hard to imagine network television today producing anything of comparable caliber, or to imagine people reminiscing and seeking out copies of the pap we are fed today 30-40 years from now. I would love to get my hands on these last 2, very different but equally entertaining and memorable shows, if only to explain to my offspring that once upon a time there was network television - and it was good. Bradford Dillman and Louis Jourdan were perfect opposites, both seductively charming opposite the virginal blonde beauty Lynda Day (later George), I can't imagine any other actors before or since taking this supernatural horror premise and making it so plausible. Excellent work by all -- so where is the DVD??? (an aside, did Louis Jourdan play Count Dracula before or after Fear No Evil? God, even RENFIELD was sexy in that one, in one memorable scene at least - although Frank Langella was also a honey - and the female star also played Claire in Zeffirelli's "Brother Sun Sister Moon". Must have been later, as he looked a lot older, and I had already left the States when it aired and didn't get to see it until the 80's)

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a frightening, errie experience, 27 September 2002
Author: (jakob@saturn.yzu.edu.tw) from Taiwan

I have a taped copy of this movie ...... somewhere. It is quite special, so I was surprised to find it unlisted in guidebooks such as Mauldin's. An important element involves a demonic force trying to seduce a young woman when she gazes into a mirror. Maybe it's just me, but the idea of an evil force from inside a mirror trying to distort your view of reality and control you seems particularly frightening --- of course one thinks of Dead of Night (1945), the old classic horror film. Also, the scenes where the demon is being summoned are quite disturbing --- the makers of the film seem to have had some special insight into demonology. Bradford Dillman is already dead for most of the movie, but he plays a great haunted spirit on both sides of the grave, and Louis Jourdan is good as the calm, rational psychiatrist trying to help the woman by any means possible, including unorthodox ones.
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Sophisticated blend of suggested horror and surprising sexual content for its time ('69) and place (tv)., 12 October 1999
8/10
Author: Anthony Ambrogio (anthonya@triadperform.com) from Grosse Pointe, MI (USA)

FEAR NO EVIL is a sophisticated blend of suggested horror and surprising sexual content for its time ('69) and place (tv). I haven't seen this movie since it was first broadcast, and I wish it were available on video so I could reconfirm my impressions about it. The opening scene, at a party, in which Louis Jourdan intrigues and frightens his friends about the contents of a box in his possession, sets the tone for the film and is a masterfully edited sequence of the unknown and unseen that scares the viewer without resorting to gore or cheap shocks.

The plot of the picture, dealing with passion from beyond the grave, is exceptionally well done and quite daring and bold for a late-sixties tv movie. Again, I wish I had the opportunity to re-view the movie to re-experience the pleasure it gave me, so that the story would be fresher in my mind and I could do it more justice here.

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Wellllllllllllllllllllll........Now I need to get a copy of this film! Seems an impossible task!

Gita

I looked on Blockbester and Amazon. They didn't have it. Netflix? Buy.com?

Then there is Jacob in Taiwan.......
In his comments (from 2002) he says he has a copy of this movie.....Hmmmmmm...
Maybe i should write him an e-mail. Seems to work for some school system, going by the e-mail he provided......Wonder if he is still there??.....

What do I have yo lose?

Gita

Nothing, except a few minutes. Let us know.

there was a t.v movie called "triology of terror" there were three parts to it and karen black was in one of them that really was scary.

the other movie i have in mind started michael cain as a twisted phycologist (sp) and who dressed like a woman and the female star was angie dickerson. that was a real thriller.

Oh, the little Zulu warrior! I can't keep my feet on the floor during that one! ☺

kwanjin---------

E-mail to Jacob has just been written and sent. If it does not come back as undeliverable in the next half hour--I will assume that it "went" to Taiwan.....

Holding my breath.......Gita

Holding mine, as well!

I love a good horror movie as well, and so many good ones were listed!
A few I didn't notice which might also fit the bill...

Identity
Ghost Ship
13 Ghosts
Rose Red
Grindhouse
Pan's Labyrinth
Whatever happened to Baby Jane
Freaks
Haunted
Insomnia
Dead Man's Shoes
Rosemary's Baby

The Resident Evil movies are also decent zombie flicks, but I think all bow before Shawn of the Dead.

There are more, so many more, but my free time is over now .... have fun.

Ah-ha! I was looking for this thread earlier, but I thought it was in the movies and TV thread. Anywhoo . . .

I saw One Missed Call the other night. It was horrible.

lol, I will check those out. Thank you so much!
I need to watch that shawn of the dead, heard alot of people like it.

Horrible good...or horrible dont bother watching it?

Horrible...you have to see it to believe it! Funniest zombie movie ever...EVER!!!

crimson, if you were asking me, I meant horrible as is "super-cheese" as my son says. Just watch Final Destination since One Missed call tries (and fails) to rip that series off. Just don't watch the third one. It was "the suck".

hehehehe, gotta love those bad ones!

I just watched, "My Dead Girlfriend."

I liked it a lot, it was cheesy and poorly filmed but it was pretty sweet and loving in a disqustingly endearing way, LOL.

Hehe, gotta love cheese :)

Did you see Bug or Vacancy?

Nope, Im waiting for them to be shipped to me from netflix. It will take a while because we have a loooooooooong list LOL!

Hehe, they were good after a few drinks ; )

Cloverfield was good and is out now.

oh yeah i need to do that one too. LOL

Just have some Dramamine handy. I heard the entore movie, but only saw about 10 minutes of it. I got seriously sick to my stomach with all the hand-held-camera silliness.

Oh I cant handle a choppy movie, I get sick too lol. And a little annoyed... its like " dude, a tripod is under a 100.00, BUY ONE!!!"
LOL!

It's gets better as the movie progresses. I've seen it twice. At home. I don't know how it would be at the theater. I liked it. ☺

My hubby and two teens liked Cloverfield.
I had an article a few yrs ago (Probably a Time mag at the doctors office) about a super cheap horror movie called something like- Manos-the Hands of (something) how helpful is that? Supposedly a popular for its cheesiness cheap flick.

Manos: The Hand of Fate.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Manos: Hands of Fate

I'll add these to my Queue. there's alot of them LOL!!

Oh boy, MST3K...a whole new genre! I have LOTS of those.

Thanks!!

Im getting excited now LOL.
This on top of my irises blooming, YAY!!
Here, Mr.Bug says he likes MST too.

LOL That's neat!

Here's my chives blooming.

Ohh I like those lol.

They're perennial, too! They've come back the last three years without fail. Well, maybe annuals. But they come up in the exact spot year after year.

Sounds like a perennial to me LOL. If it comes back a second year I call it a perennial in my gardens LOL.

LOL Me, too.

Pretty flowers!

Here's a good 'scary' one!

One of the scariest movies I have ever seen was "Black Christmas". Saw it sometime in the 70s. It was about a sorority house full of girls with a housemother. They were getting ready to go on Christmas break, when the phone started ringing. One by one, they were picked off by different methods and the bodies hidden. Each time the phone would ring and there would be silence from the other end of the line. Finally there was only one girl left and she stumbles across the bodies, she has hysterics, the police come and do their thing, the dr. gave her a shot and left her in bed and everyone leaves. The camera pulls back from her lying on the bed until the camera shot is showing the outside of the house and - THE PHONE RINGS. The police det. is coming back to the house to wake her up and get her out of there because the calls are from coming from inside the house. The end.

There was a remake of it in the 80's, but it was not as good as the original. What suspense. LIZ

It's creepy, knolan! Is it a pitcher plant of some kind? Or maybe it grew out of whatever that was on the PNW thread about some goo in the yard.

Black Christmas was re-made again last year and came out at Chrsitmas time (of course).

You're good, Kwanjin! Aristolchia fimbriata! I have 'trilobata' as well but I recently transplanted it and it's not a happy spook. Sure is creepy when it is, though.

You missed my last year's 'Stinky Squid Stinkhorn Fungus'. I have to show ya'll because it is particularly 'disgusting'. Let me see if I can find a link to the old thread. It's hilarious how we came about the discovery of what it actually was. Maybe I should post this on our 'Spooks' thread.....I think everyone from both threads will get a kick.

Looking forward to it! LOL