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Top 10 Horror Movies: Jonathan Cabana of Blind Witness

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14 years ago

June 16, 2010

Bloody-Disgusting is pleased to present yet another Top 10 Horror movie list for you readers. This time, we’ve got Jonathan Cabana, vocalist of Blind Witness, sending in his top picks. Bear with him a little as English is not his first language. Check them out after the jump!

The new Blind Witness album, ‘A Nightmare on Providence St.’, is out and available now! Check out their MySpace for more information.

1) Halloween 6

Halloween 6 is the first horror movie I ever watched! I was probably 9 or 10 when I saw it. This movie scared me so much I remember I couldn’t sleep without a light in my room for years after I saw this movie, haha. But even if I was super scared I wanted to know why Micheal Myers wanted to kill his sister. So I rented all the halloween movies and watched them all. Thats what made me become a horror movie fan! The killings in these movies are super good. Theres like 10 kills in the first 30 minutes or so! Its amazing to see how Michael is always walking, but he always catches people even if they are running.

2) Halloween

The first Halloween of all time, I was so stoked to see it. I called every movie rental store in my town and I couldn’t find it and one day I saw it for sale somewhere and I bought it right away. The movie is really slow but it’s the reason why I love it so much. The acting of Jamie Lee Curtis is awesome. The music in the movie is super good, it’s scary. Plus it was the first time I heard the official Halloween theme song.

3) Halloween (Rob Zombie 2007)

Rob Zombie is an amazing movie producer. I love every single one of his movies. He has the best ideas ever. Like in this Halloween remake he had the idea of showing the young Michael more then in the original movie which makes a big difference cause you finally learn more about Michael Myers. It’s also a lot more violent then the first one, the killing scenes are more brutal and it’s the first Halloween where Michael Myers is super tall and huge, which makes the character more scary.

4) Devils Rejects

It’s the sequel to House of 1000 corpses. I really like this movie cause the characters are super bizarre, there’s stylized violence and eclectic dialogue.Its an awesome horror/action movie, plus Rob’s wife is so hot in this movie!!

5) A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Usually remakes are never good but this one is, trust me. It’s probably the best of all the Freddy’s. I’m a huge Freddy Krueger fan, I love the whole series Nightmare on Elm Street! This remake is really good cause it’s realistic. The kids are trying to stay awake drinking redbull and pills, the artistic work is insane, and the violence level is really high and not to mention the visual effect are unreal!!!

6) Freddy’s Dead, The Final Nightmare

It’s a really weird Freddy Krueger movie…but I like it a lot. The end is good. You finally see the end of Freddy!!

7) Funny game

When I rented this movie I didnt know what to expect from it at all. I watched this movie with my girlfriend I thought it was a soft suspense movie. The movie started with beautiful music and I was like, “oh well thats gonna be a boring movie”, and then boom! the sweet music switched to a grindtrash metal noise music haha. The action comes in late. The two bad characters look like two angels wearing white outfits. The scene with eggs is absolutely fantastic.

8) Strangeland

I was with a bunch of my friends who were into horror movies too. We were at my friend’s house who lives in the smallest town ever. There was a movie rental place there with a total of maybe 4 movies there. I told the guys that I wanted to choose the movie. At the very bottom in the horror section I see Strangeland. I read the back, and I’m like ”Yeah that looks cool”. We went back to my friend’s house, we all went in his room, watched the movie and after the movie we were all scared to death haha. In this movie the killer lures teens through the internet. It’s weird cause the internet was kinda new for all of us cause we were all super young, and we were like ”Ohh man imagine if something like that happen to us” haha. Plus it was the first sadist horror movie I saw.

9) Last House On The Left (2009)

I saw this movie in a movie theater. This remake is so good. I’ve watched the original after the remake though. But the remake is unbelievable. It’s a lot scarier cause there’s no costume, no mask, nothing, it makes it more real!! The rape scene is fucked up!!! I didnt know what to think after I saw that scene. I was really shocked.. but the revenge part makes you feel better, haha.

10) The Shining

This movie is based on a Stephan King novel. The Shining is a fucked up horror movie. Stanley Kubrick sure knows how to make something super normal, into something super scary! The room 237 story, the redrum thing, the visual effect with all the blood, the little clip where you see the little girls all chopped up, the axe and the door scene, and finally the labyrinth scene make this movie one of the best horror movie I’ve seen. Plus it was so cool to see Slipknot making a video based on this movie!!!

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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…