100 Horrors

Tonight we explore the extent to which alcohol is an influencing factor on our rating system.  Clive Barker's Nightbreed is a hodgepodge of serial killer who-dun-it cliche, heavy handed Larbythian costume design and some of the quietest whisper acting ever committed to film. After watching this film through the lens of a couple of IPAs, one of us nearly gave this a seven. Is this the wake up call we've been looking for? Or is it actually a cry for help after watching almost 100 awful films? Tune in to this week's 100 Horrors to find out!

Episode 096 - Nosferatu (1922)

Vegans. I can’t help but feel they’re hiding something from us. Yes, they’re right that we as a species contribute to the suffering of animals for culinary gain. They’re also correct when they tell us that the land used to raise these animals is taken directly from land desperately needed for rainforests and that as meat eaters (particularly beef eaters) we’re destroying the planet. What I think they’re not telling us though, is that there’s a very real chance that one day Plants will be able to walk around at very slow speeds and will shoot stingers into us that will turn us green. Thank god we have a film like The Day of the Triffids to warn us of this! Papa Joe Fodor joins us this week to discuss the 1962 creature feature!

If you like your horror films without any of the frightening characters, settings, characters or horrific situations that you might expect in a genre text, then this might be the one for you. In actuality, it's not at all fair to call David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers a horror film at all. Quite why it was listed on the 100 Horrors poster is beyond us. It wasn't fair on the film to make us review it, and it wasn't fair on us to make us watch it. THANKS MENKIND. Only six to go!

Any race has the potential to turn into a death race, but one in which Silvester Stallone races a turbo charged fair ground ride against a Neo-Nazi, a naked lady and man who's sexual deviance will ultimately cost him his life has a higher potential than most. Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000 explores a world in which sport has evolved into knocking down pedestrians for points in a race across the U.S.A. It's crass and its bombastic and its incredibly entertaining, but it is NOT A HORROR FILM. Serious, why are we even discussing this one!? Tune in to this episode of 100 Horrors to find out!

This week's film features a group of women taking part in an activity known as "Spelunking", which is the act of exploring small (and often wet) holes. It has an all female cast and is rated a solid 18 by the BBFC. I can't help but feel that at least some people who read that description are going to be disappointed by the actual content of Neil Marshall's 2005 British horror classic The Descent, but for those of who can see past the equal parts clumsy and crass double entendres, you are in for an absolute treat.

This is without a doubt one of the scariest films on the 100 Horrors list, and that's saying something given we don't even get a hint of an antagonist until nearly an hour into the film. This week's guest is Mr Kingsley Hall, so naturally its a long one! That's not a bad thing though, surely, is it!?

Tune in to this episode of 100 Horrors to find out!

A quick Google search of "Don't Look Now" brings up a wealth of web articles offering to explain what the ending of the film means. Personally, I would love an article that explains what any of this film's one hour and fifty minute run time means. Infinitely loose and extremely ambiguous, Nick Roeg's Don't Look Now is widely regarded as one of the best British films (not even just one of the best British horror films) of all time. Naturally, we all hated it. Find out why, send your hate mail to the usual address. You get the drill by now. We've nearly done a hundred of these!

Look, just because something is the first of something, doesn't make it the best of something. If that were true we'd all still be walking around with mobile phones the size of house bricks and we'd be defecating over into in our back gardens. That does not detract from the fact that Romero's Night of the Living Dead is quite clearly a very important film, I'm just saying that its not the best film we've ever seen. Its not even the best zombie film we've ever seen. Its not even the best of Romero's zombie films we've ever seen. Tune in to this week's episode to boil your blood at how harshly we score another classic.

Braindead features a living, murderous pile of guts that tries to throttle the film's protagonist before it is eventually thrown into a blender. In one scene, a woman's sore bursts pus into a man's custard and then he eats it. Then her ear falls off and she eats that. Someone, somewhere, saw this and decided that the man that had directed this movie only 9 years prior, should be handed the reins to the $281,000,000 Lord of The Rings trilogy. Fair play I say. What is film making without a little risk? Join us this week as we poorly tackle Peter Jackson's Brain Dead!