All-time best Gore Director
jean
H.G. Lewis was great - that beach bunny a-go-go look with bloody
entrails just can't be beat.
Romero, of course - but where is he now?
Peter Jackson - funny, for sure... mayhe too funny?...
Lucio Fulci - he was the man, in my book. A tad more stylized than most
Italio-Espana splatter directors, but still willing to make ya ralph.
jean
"people can be so judgmental about evil" - Pearl Forrester
john sullivan
jean (sti...@msmisp.com) wrote:
: Romero, of course - but where is he now?
You may not believe this, but last time I checked, Romero was doing
some work on that kids show "Goosebumps."
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john sullivan (gai...@bu.edu) wrote:
: --john
now that *IS* scary!
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Joe
Lewis & Fulci both produced cheesy, inferior looking films -- strictly
Grade Z stuff. Romero remains the all-time *best* gore director in my
book. The director of "Return of the Living Dead, Part III" & "Bride
of the Re-animator" also is an *excellent* filmaker.
joe
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:21:13 -0500, jean <sti...@msmisp.com> wrote:
>H.G. Lewis was great - that beach bunny a-go-go look with bloody
>entrails just can't be beat.
>
>Romero, of course - but where is he now?
>
Michel S.
Romero and Craven
Mark
George Romero
Stuart Gordon
Peter Jackson
Herschell Gordon Lewis
David Cronenberg
Just some of my favorites.
Mark
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john sullivan wrote:
> jean (sti...@msmisp.com) wrote:
> : Romero, of course - but where is he now?
Mark
OK, I got to stick up for Fulci and Lewis here! Lewis was pretty much the
first in this field and special effects for gore was pretty much
non-existent. Considering the budgets of his films and the experience of
doing documentaries and nudie films these gore films are great. Now Fulci on
the other hand has some pretty impressive special effects. I honestly do not
have any IDEA how those Italians make the gore look so great with such small
budgets. Sure a lot of these films suffer from bad dubbing and censors
cutting up their films, but otherwise they are incredible films. From giallo
films of Dario Argento to straightedge gore of Fulci, to the many Italian
Zombie and Cannibal films like Doctor Butcher M.D. I love them all!
Mark
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Joe wrote:
> Lewis & Fulci both produced cheesy, inferior looking films -- strictly
> Grade Z stuff. Romero remains the all-time *best* gore director in my
> book. The director of "Return of the Living Dead, Part III" & "Bride
> of the Re-animator" also is an *excellent* filmaker.
>
> joe
>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:21:13 -0500, jean <sti...@msmisp.com> wrote:
>
> >H.G. Lewis was great - that beach bunny a-go-go look with bloody
> >entrails just can't be beat.
> >
> >Romero, of course - but where is he now?
> >
Josh Hurtado
jean wrote:
> H.G. Lewis was great - that beach bunny a-go-go look with bloody
> entrails just can't be beat.
>
> Romero, of course - but where is he now?
I'd have to agree with this one with one caveat: His stuff was very
innovative when it came out, but now seems silly, I'd like to see what he
could do nowadays as well.
>
>
> Peter Jackson - funny, for sure... mayhe too funny?...
Peter Jackson is one of my favorite fillmmakers period, gore or not, he is
definitely the best one out there doing it now in my opinion, even though he
seems to have gone mainstream for the moment. My other faves are Sam Raimi,
John Waters, Martin Scorcese, the Coen Brothers, and Hitchcock, duh
Also in this list if for nothing else than Nekromantik is Jorg Buttgereit,
who recently did special effects on Killer Condom, one of my favorite new
movies.
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Michel S. wrote:
> Romero and Craven
Craven? What kinda crack are you smokin?
Josh Hurtado
Mark wrote:
> George Romero
> Stuart Gordon
> Peter Jackson
> Herschell Gordon Lewis
> David Cronenberg
>
I dont know about cronenburg, weird maybe, but not necessarily gory
Josh
> Just some of my favorites.
> Mark
> http://www.concentric.net/~cultcuts
> New CULT CUTS MOVIE MAGAZINE
>
> john sullivan wrote:
>
> > jean (sti...@msmisp.com) wrote:
> > : Romero, of course - but where is he now?
> >
> > You may not believe this, but last time I checked, Romero was doing
> > some work on that kids show "Goosebumps."
> >
> > --john
--
Mark
I read in a H.G. Lewis interview that he was offered a 10million dollar budget
for a remake of Blood Feast but he turned it down replying that there were
others more qualified nowadays for the film and that he was retired. He now
deals with Real Estate and has a couple of books out on China Plate Collecting.
Apparently an old passion and hobby of his.
Josh Hurtado wrote:
> jean wrote:
>
> > H.G. Lewis was great - that beach bunny a-go-go look with bloody
> > entrails just can't be beat.
> >
> > Romero, of course - but where is he now?
>
> I'd have to agree with this one with one caveat: His stuff was very
> innovative when it came out, but now seems silly, I'd like to see what he
> could do nowadays as well.
>
> >
> >
> > Peter Jackson - funny, for sure... mayhe too funny?...
>
> Peter Jackson is one of my favorite fillmmakers period, gore or not, he is
> definitely the best one out there doing it now in my opinion, even though he
> seems to have gone mainstream for the moment. My other faves are Sam Raimi,
> John Waters, Martin Scorcese, the Coen Brothers, and Hitchcock, duh
>
> Also in this list if for nothing else than Nekromantik is Jorg Buttgereit,
> who recently did special effects on Killer Condom, one of my favorite new
> movies.
>
> Josh
Mark
hmm, point on Cronenberg taken except for his earlier works. Look at
Embryo licking in The Brood, Gut spilling in Videodrome, Brainsplitting in
Videodrome, Sexual gore in They Come From Within, Insect Goo in The Fly,
Sperm drugs and creature rape in Naked Lunch, rabie zombie gore in Rabid,
not to mention the phallic like syringe in her armpit made me itch my pits
in uncomfort! His later films like Dead Ringers, M Butterfly, and Crash
are lacking in the goremeter, but in many ways he was pretty daring in his
earlier days.
Josh Hurtado wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>
> > George Romero
> > Stuart Gordon
> > Peter Jackson
> > Herschell Gordon Lewis
> > David Cronenberg
> >
>
> I dont know about cronenburg, weird maybe, but not necessarily gory
>
> Josh
>
> > Just some of my favorites.
> > Mark
> > http://www.concentric.net/~cultcuts
> > New CULT CUTS MOVIE MAGAZINE
> >
> > john sullivan wrote:
> >
> > > jean (sti...@msmisp.com) wrote:
> > > : Romero, of course - but where is he now?
> > >
> > > You may not believe this, but last time I checked, Romero was doing
> > > some work on that kids show "Goosebumps."
> > >
> > > --john
>
Josh Hurtado
Point well taken, but I still don't think that he qualifies for an "all time"
greatest list in this category. Especially when there have been a lot more
who've made it their career who do it so well without recognition.
Josh
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How about Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci?
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In article <34F5B2...@msmisp.com>, jean <sti...@msmisp.com> wrote:
>H.G. Lewis was great - that beach bunny a-go-go look with bloody
>entrails just can't be beat.
>
>
>
>Italio-Espana splatter directors, but still willing to make ya ralph.
>
>
>jean
>
>"people can be so judgmental about evil" - Pearl Forrester
Mario Landi directed some brutal gore classic that rank right
up there with the best of them-
"Giallo A Venizia" and "Patrick Viva Ancora"
T.Luster
Shannon Robert Burge
I'm sorry to say that Fulci has been sadly overrated. After years of
anticipation, I finally got my hands on The Gates of Hell last
Halloween...and it sucked! This is a splatter classic? I only remember
three scenes of gore. The lame zombies kept disappearing and reappearing
(and none got shot in the head...that's just *wrong*), and they killed
everyone the *exact same way*! Fulci isn't that stylish, he's just an
average director making drive-in exploitation. Zooming in on every gore
effect doesn't count as style in my book, it just makes everything hard to
see in cropped video versions.
And don't get me started on that ending!
SRB
Josh Hurtado
Sorry, this is off topic, but I like the way you write. You crack me up.
Rock on soul brother.
Josh
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Shannon Robert Burge <f79...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
[...]
> Fulci isn't that stylish, he's just an
>average director making drive-in exploitation. Zooming in on every gore
>effect doesn't count as style in my book, it just makes everything hard to
>see in cropped video versions.[...]
Agreed. I saw Zombi 2/Zombi Flesh Eaters and House by the Cemetery and they
are very very bad. There is some gore, a lot, especially in the first movie,
but no ability in filmmaking. The editing is terrible, the direction is
terrible. There's a scene in Zombi 2 in which zombies are set on fire by
home-made molotov cocktails, and we get to se some 4 or 5 shots in a row, and
the fire allways starts with each one. And it's supposed to be different
bombs. The scene with the underwater zombie is utterly ridicullous my god!
Maybe he's made some great movies, but I think it's offensive to put his name
in the same sentence as Argento, Romero or even Soavi.
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