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Drucker wrote:How does Ruling Class keep coming up? This is at least the second, possibly third time.

swo17 wrote:

Drucker wrote:How does Ruling Class keep coming up? This is at least the second, possibly third time.

Statistics. Some films are bound to keep popping up like this. It's the same concept at work that says that if there are just 23 people together in a room, there's a 50-50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday.

Actually though, this particular film had a recent advantage because it happened to come up during each of the two "faith list" rounds. Each of those times it had about a 17% chance of being up for voting, whereas in a normal round it's more like 0.5%.

cinematic poem to try and capture the life of human beings struggling like ants against the forces of nature

colinr0380 wrote:I've tried to go for a range of relatively recognisable titles (Though I feel that we've covered Life Force a bit on the forum and Lord of Illusions was close to getting picked, but I think domino has done a great job of highlighting that film elsewhere. So I thought that I would rest these titles for now!) and nothing too extreme or gross (though From Beyond may test people!) which should help to illustrate the range of Scream Factory's releases. I also wanted to go for films that were as much thought provoking in all sorts of different ways as much as just being horrific!

Cat People is a fascinating film that straddles graphic horror and arthouse, with the subtle implications of the original Lewton film sexed up and made much more explicit, with interesting results! From Beyond is a strange fusion of Lovecraft, goofy comedy, sci-fi, sex and some of the gooiest and icky but untouchably bizarre images that have ever been produced. I thought about Halloween III: Season of the Witch partly because of the season that the Film Club is taking place in but also because despite the title it is a standalone film in the Halloween series and would benefit from being considered as its own thing outside of the series. Plus it is also weird and strange! I wouldn't have much more to add to the discussion than the previous post I made about it, but it is the kind of film that it would be great to hear different people's responses to!

The People Under The Stairs is a great Wes Craven film that inside its fairytale atmosphere tackles issues of race, class and money head on, and has a great performance from Brandon Adams as the young boy trapped inside a maze of a mansion! This would be my choice in tribute to Wes Craven as well.

And a wildcard entry is Without Warning, which is a film that I have not actually seen myself yet (though I have the disc somewhere in my to watch pile in case it wins the vote), but from what I gather is about an alien hunter stalking humans on Earth film that pre-dates Predator by a number of years (and actually features Kevin Peter Hall in the alien suit, who went on to wear the predator costumes in those films!). It was apparently extremely hard to track down before this Scream Factory release (according to the 42nd Street Forever commentators over the trailer for it, the film had not been released on VHS), which is strange considering the starry named cast of Hollywood names who surround the teens at the centre of the drama, including Martin Landau, Jack Palance, Ralph Meeker, Neville Brand and Cameron Mitchell. So this could be either a hidden gem or rightly overlooked, but it should be interesting to figure out which it is!