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"Region 1 cult loveliness"

That's the beauty of liking old classics, a lot of people forget about them/have never seen them so I can pick up R1 niceness for £9 each

The Hitcher - If you haven't seen this then you probably don't appreciate blacker than night cinema experience. Bleak, unrelenting, grim and relentless. And Rutget Haur being better than he was in Blade Runner.
Kid picks up hitchiker to keep him awake as he drives across country to deliver a car. Hitchiker is 100% psycho and pursues him for no reason at all other than "I want you to stop me". Genius film.

Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Fred Ward. Alec is Junior, a newly released con that kills a Hari Krishna in an airport for touching him. Moves in with Leigh, a former prostitute and is investigated by Fred Ward. Has "Spirit in The Sky" as the title music, Fred Ward getting beaten up and his teeth stolen and Baldwin's fingers getting chopped off by a fat pawnbroker woman that keeps a massive shotgun wielding Mexican in a back room for protection. Superb film.
"He stole your teeth? You're pathetic Mosely. And you look like an old man slept on you"

Southern Comfort - Fred Ward, Powers Booth, Keith Carradine, Brion James and a bunch of others.
Louisiana National Guardsmen on practices in the swamps shoot at Cajuns for amusement using blanks. Cajuns dont like this and spend the next 90 mins hunting them down in the Louisiana swamps. Directed by Walter Hill and the best movie music ever provided by Ry Cooder and his slide-guitar delta blues atmosphere. Includes an onscreen pig-gutting, punji stakes, Cajuns being mental and Brion James as a one-armed Cajun shouting "Keeeel 'iiiim"

See, I even thought "John Carpenter's Vampires" was cool.
Havent bothered watching Ghost of Mars - because it has Ice Cube in it.

Hmm, I guess The Thing is so good I listed it twice ;)

Shame about the more recent John Carpenter movies being naff, but I also like most of his movies. The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing and The Fog are favs, but I've never got around to seeing Prince of Darkness but no doubt will one day.

I also quite like his electro music, the theme tunes to Escape From New York and Assault on Precinct 13 are cool...in an electro 70's German disco kinda way.

I think one of the main reason I dind't like Prince of Darkness was because Alice Cooper was in it. Pleasance was good as usual though.

Speaking of Donald Pleasance films, anyone seen Treasure of the Amazon?

Saw it at the weekend on an imported DVD. It's basically Indiana Jones with tons of complimentary gore, oh and it's got Pleasance in it. Suprisingly enjoyable for a film i'd never heard of before.

Hmm...*scratches head*

One of my favs. I wonder what makes a film good to one person and not good to another?
I like it because Alice Cooper is a zombie, the Chinese Professor with the mad eye, the guy in the closet screaming and hacking his way through the wall, the giggling zombie black dude, the whole mirror thing and Donald Pleasance.

Goatboy wrote:

> And it goes without saying that John Carpenter movies all rock.

I wouldn't say Prince of Darkness rocks. But other than that yes, yes they do.

UHF - one of the funniest spoof films I've ever seen, and it's a weird Al Yankovic platform

Well, seeing as I bought "Carpenter", a collection of his soundtracks I can't really comment on that!
Personally I love his music.

The only problem I have with John Carpenter is that he insists on doing the soundtrack for all his films. Apart from that, they all rock!

Yeah I got "Koyanisqaatsi" on R1 DVD along with the 'sequel' from play for £14.
Superb, although I wouldn't really call it a film...but you know that already.
The Warriors is cool, I'm not really a Walter Hill fan as much as I am a Ry Cooder. I heard the title track for "Southern Comfort" on a soundtrack CD I got of him and it led me to the film.

And it goes without saying that John Carpenter movies all rock.
Welcome to the forums Primal, nice to talk to another movie buff.