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A Deep Dive Through Horror Movie Favorites
from Many Feathered Bird · #68
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
6 minTim and Ray run through a long list of horror and cult favorites—The Gate, The Ninth Gate, Jacob's Ladder, the Ring, Hostel, Cabin in the Woods, House of 1000 Corpses—riffing on gore, campiness, Giger's imagery, and joking about child actors being abused on old horror sets, before wandering into how long the old miniseries version of The Stand was.
- 3:36Tim recalls watching Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate about a book written by the devil, with Johnny Depp as an antique book collector sent to find it.
- 3:55Horror movies in the 90s often sent characters to Eastern Europe because Eastern Europeans are scary—pale and speak another language.
- 4:18Tim loved Jacob's Ladder with Tim Robbins and considers it a legitimately good movie, especially the asylum section.
- 4:40Francis Bacon and Joel P. Orwick's dark imagery inspired horror films, though the movies themselves often end up being crap despite cool visuals.
- 5:12Tim thought The Ring was great and found it fun, even though it was adapted from a Japanese film.
- 5:30Horror is probably the movie genre with the highest percentage of absolute dogshit films, which is why Tim used to say he didn't like horror movies at all.
- 5:47There are maybe only five or ten good horror movies out there, but snobbery about enjoying something like House of a Thousand Corpses misses the point.
- 6:15Jump scares don't work well watching horror at home with the lights on, unless you have a home theater system.
- 6:37Full Metal Jacket and The Shining are among the scariest movies, with the Vietnam documentary burns being particularly terrifying.
- 6:51Tim loves older Stephen King movies like Dolores Claiborne and Misery, though some require going back to watch them as they're extremely long.
horror moviesTim RobbinsThe ShiningRoman PolanskiMiseryDanny AielloJohnny DeppFrancis Bacon