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Top 10 Horror Movies: Jon Dobyns of Twitch The Ripper

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14 years ago

July 15, 2010

Jon Dobyns of the electronic band Twitch The Ripper has sent us his Top 10 Horror Films and, well, all I can say is wow! This is a true horror fan that has some very obscure and very important picks listed below. Make sure to check out their website to hear stream two songs off of their upcoming debut LP ‘Bodiless’. The album does not have an official release date yet but expect it later this year, sometime in the fall. You can also sign up to receive a FREE sampler from the band. The sampler has two songs off of the ‘Bodiless’ LP and 15 lucky packages will contain a free Twitch The Ripper t-shirt! Honestly, how can you go wrong? No matter what, you get free stuff. Gotta love it. But anyways, make sure to check after the jump for this incredible Top 10 Horror Movie list from Jon Dobyns of Twitch The Ripper!

1) Freaks

It’s hard to choose an all time favorite film, but if I had to I’d choose Tod Browning’s “Freaks”. Nothing is scarier than real life horror. A true, classic exploitation film from 1932 that uses real circus folk. I’m sure the cinematography and the era add to its genuine creepiness, but you can’t deny the long lasting effect it has left. The scene at the wedding ceremony when they try initiating Cleopatra is completely unsettling. I love this movie so much, TTR made a shirt based on what they did to Cleopatra as they turned her into half duck.

2) Buio Omega

One of my all time favorite horror films, also known as Beyond The Darkness. We’ve watched this film at rehearsal and during studio sessions hundreds of times. The story of a taxidermist and his wife is secretly killed by his crazy housekeeper. This is a movie you have to see. There is one scene where he is in bed with a woman, and he lifts up the covers on the other bed to make his wife visible, to stare at her ( he dug up his wife after her burial, drained her body of her organs and keeps her in the house ). And he and his house keeper chop up someone and throw them in an acid bath!

3) Frankenstein

Not just one of the best horror films, one of the best films in cinema. The scene where the Frankenstein monster picks up the little girl, throws her in the pond as if she would float like a flower, then kills her, still holds an immense amount of power.

4) Black Sunday

The Mario Bava movie. Black Sunday is nothing short of a masterpiece. This is my comfort movie. The gothic airiness that was captured on this film will never be replicated.

5) Blood And Black Lace

I love giallos, and this is the giallo. Mario Bava has an amazing eye for color, whether it be the brilliant lighting or the clothing on all 60’s models. This is a stylish masterpiece. I would love to recreate the tub scene for a video one day.

6) The Howling

Picking my favorite werewolf movie was difficult. The Wolfman and An American Werewolf in London are both timeless in my eyes, but I will have to go with The Howling. I prefer the dark, brooding atmosphere and it has Dee Wallace and Tom Atkins! Top notch transformation for the time, and it has a great story with the underground community of wolves trying to co exist. If you disagree, then go watch Teen Wolf on ABC Family.

7) Maniac

If you haven’t seen this film, go buy it right now from blue-underground.com. Tom Savini does all make up and special effects so you know what you are getting into. This movie has the infamous shotgun to face explosion scene. Stellar acting job by Joe Spinell. He plays a creep better than anyone. Taking the scalps from his victims and putting them on his mannequins, and speaks to them as if they were his mother. Just buy it and thank me later.

8) Tenebrae

One of my favorite giallos. I know when Argento Fans talk about their favorite films it’s either Deep Red or Suspiria, but I choose Tenebrae. Great trick ending and personally think it’s his most violent, gory film. This movie poster was also a TTR shirt at one time. Did I mention John Saxon is one of the stars?

9) A Blade in The Dark

By far the best Lamberto Bava film. There is something about the atmosphere in this movie that makes me feel uneasy after it has ended. The bathroom scene with the knife through the hand and the bag over the head is a work of art, even though those ideas were derived from his father.

10) House on the Edge of the Park

This movie is one of the most wild movies I have ever seen. You know Director Ruggero Deodato from Cannibal Holocaust, but I think House On The Edge Of The Park is more twisted. Actor David Hess steps up his maniacal duties and makes his performance in Last House on The Left seem PG. There are still I scenes that make me say, “Oh my god”. The great clothes, and music from the late 70’s/early 80’s atmosphere is an added plus.

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

Published

1 week 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…