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Top 10 Horror Movies: Jean Saiz of Shroud Eater

Published

14 years ago

June 14, 2010

Recently, Bloody-Disgusting ran an interview with Jean Saiz, guitarist and vocalist of Miami, Florida stoner/noise rock band Shroud Eater. Jean was kind enough to send us a list of her Top 10 favorite horror films and I have to say that this woman knows her stuff! This is a list for lovers of some of the great classic films as well as some of the lesser known stuff. Check inside to see if your favorite is on the list!

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1. The Exorcist

This classic still freaks me out. As you are about to find out, I like my horror movies on the satanic side, and it doesn’t get nastier than this. Linda Blair is insanely good – she was like 13 years old or something when this was filmed, and her performance is incredible.

2. The Omen

“I did it for YOU, Damien! All for you!” The story of Damien Thorn, demon-child and aspiring anti-christ. Great movie, love Gregory Peck in it. The score is fucking amazing – the latin chant is embedded permanently in my brain, “sanguis bibimus!”

3. The Shining

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Jack Nicholson is brilliant – I can’t walk into a hotel with long hallways and not get immediate flashbacks to rivers of blood and freaky twin-sisters. I love Stanley Kubrick’s work, the surreal imagery in this one’s great, and an excellent portrayal of a man’s descent into madness.

4. Rosemary’s Baby

Another great one in the demon-child vein. A secret coven of witches in New York are waiting for Mia Farrow’s satanic love-child. Suspenseful and chilling with minimal gore or violence, great intense plot supported by impeccable acting.

5. Suspiria

The first Argento film I saw – his use of super vivid colors and intricate, elaborate murders are his signature style. Nightmarish and bizarre – much like the rest of his body of work.

6. Poltergeist

I was very young when I first saw this. The plot and eccentric cast of characters makes it a classic.

7. Hour of the Wolf

Ingmar Bergman’s signature style on this black & white psychological and supernatural slow-burner. It’s scary in a sombre, hallucinatory way. The scenes vary from the stark to the grotesquely grandiose – the cast of bizarre supernatural people/creatures take you to the depths of self-inflicted insanity – powerful.

8. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Classic gorey exploitation. Super violent deaths, deranged cannibals mockingly living out a typical family dinner – this is shit that fucks your head. A real classic with an incredible legacy.

9. Evil Dead

You can’t get any better than having a tree-demon rape a soon-to-be flesh eating zombie. Bruce Campbell’s Ash is a great character, the gore is hilarious, and just when you think your hero has prevailed, you’re left with the abrupt horror of his screams as he’s consumed by darkness. Brutal.

10. Blood Feast

Herschel Gordon Lewis’ so-bad-it’s-good gore-fest. This isn’t about good acting, good story, or good effects – it’s simply an absurdly fun romp through buckets-of-blood style campy film making. The film’s based in Miami, and the machete-wielding murderer carries a book called “Ancient Weird Religious Rituals”. There’s “nothing more appalling in the annals of horror!”

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…