The movie Phantasm should have become a comic

[shrunkenhead]

The Phantasm films don't really play it for laughs at all. Of course, I didn't think Re-Animator was funny either, unless you consider it whimsically arch, particularly with its infamous Barbara Crampton/severed head scene.

 

Huh!? Re-animator, not funny? Come on now, are you seriously writing a zombie book?

[shrunkenhead]

Oh hey, October, I would also recommend the films of Larry Cohen. He is without question the forgotten hero of the horror/comedy face-off. Top choices would be It's Alive, The Stuff, and God Told Me To. I'm not sure that the last one is a comedy, but it's totally weird and worth checking out. Where else will you get alien abduction, a hermaphroditic Christ, and serial murderers in one flick?

[Kramerica]

Didn't Cohen also do "Q"?

[shrunkenhead]

Didn't Cohen also do "Q"?

 

Yes! I forgot that one.

[october]

Oh hey, October, I would also recommend the films of Larry Cohen. He is without question the forgotten hero of the horror/comedy face-off. Top choices would be It's Alive, The Stuff, and God Told Me To. I'm not sure that the last one is a comedy, but it's totally weird and worth checking out. Where else will you get alien abduction, a hermaphroditic Christ, and serial murderers in one flick?

 

I knew I could count on you for good recommendations. I should just PM you directly next time I am interested in a specific genre.

[shrunkenhead]

I knew I could count on you for good recommendations. I should just PM you directly next time I am interested in a specific genre.

 

Sounds good. What can I say, I'm equal parts freak and geek.

[Rip]

"I kick for the lord"

Its also called "Braindead" Roughly same as the US version but another 15 min or so longer.

GREAT movie!!!

[shrunkenhead]

Its also called "Braindead" Roughly same as the US version but another 15 min or so longer.

 

That's true, I need to search that version down on ebay or something...

[deathlok]

 

Since I mentioned that Phantasm was one of my favorite horror movies. I tried to think of other movies I liked as a kid.

 

Anyone seen Laserblast (at least that they'll admit to seeing.)

 

[deathlok]

How about Saturn 3 (Ahhhh...Farrah Fawcett )

 

[deathlok]

Although this movie is cr@p, I thought it was cool back then.

 

[precodekeith]

How about Saturn 3 (Ahhhh...Farrah Fawcett )

 

 

I remember the trailer... "Something is wrong ...on Saturn 3."

[Sal]

How about Saturn 3 (Ahhhh...Farrah Fawcett )

 

 

I remember the trailer... "Something is wrong ...on Saturn 3."

 

that's what you remember about the flick?

 

i remember praying to God Farrah's spectacular bits would come flopping out of that jumpsuit and then being somewhat not happy when they failed to do so

[precodekeith]

How about Saturn 3 (Ahhhh...Farrah Fawcett )

 

 

I remember the trailer... "Something is wrong ...on Saturn 3."

 

that's what you remember about the flick?

 

i remember praying to God Farrah's spectacular bits would come flopping out of that jumpsuit and then being somewhat not happy when they failed to do so

 

I was too young to appreciate such things at the time.

[deathlok]

How about Saturn 3 (Ahhhh...Farrah Fawcett )

 

 

I remember the trailer... "Something is wrong ...on Saturn 3."

 

that's what you remember about the flick?

 

i remember praying to God Farrah's spectacular bits would come flopping out of that jumpsuit and then being somewhat not happy when they failed to do so

 

I was too young to appreciate such things at the time.

She did have a bit of "exposure" in the movie.

[Jayman]

Is it funny? I might have to rent it. I didn't much like the first Phantasm, but I do like movies that mix horror and comedy like Re-Animator, Evil Dead, John Carpenter films, ect. Anyone else have any recommendations in the same vein?

 

One of my favorites and highly recomended: Return of the Living Dead

Just the first movie not the sequals 2 or 3!

 

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Lots of great lines in this one along with a great soundtrack featuring music by the Cramps and others!

[thanos_oftitan]

With all this talk about Phantasm, I had to rent it for the weekend.

 

As far as movies becoming comics what about one of my favorites The Prophecy

 

It starred Christopher Walken.

[deathlok]

I almost forgot Zardoz, what a classic.

 

 

 

 

Although I was surprised to see Greggy provide costumes from his own collection.

 

 

[precodekeith]

One of my favorites and highly recomended: Return of the Living Dead

Just the first movie not the sequals 2 or 3!

 

 

While it was not even in the same league as the first film, I still found ROTLD 2 to be fun. Some genuinely laughable moments, it wallowed in it's own campness. I still have yet to view ROTLD 3 all the way through, though.

[Jayman]

One of my favorites and highly recomended: Return of the Living Dead

Just the first movie not the sequals 2 or 3!

 

 

While it was not even in the same league as the first film, I still found ROTLD 2 to be fun. Some genuinely laughable moments, it wallowed in it's own campness. I still have yet to view ROTLD 3 all the way through, though.

 

Yeah, it was a steady slide downward in quality in movies 2 and 3. Movie 2 did have its moments; when asked who was the president (to check if he was a zombie or not) the zombie answers Truman! Or was it Roosevelt, I forget but it was a funny scene.

Movie 3 actually got interesting just at the very end (last 5 minutes?) as we learn the military is trying to make war machines out of the zombies and fails!