Best country for Euro horror
 

Seems like the foreign horror section is weighted a bit heavily towards the Asian side, so here's a thread for non-Asian foreign horror.

I vote Germany, with Italy being second

how many german horror films have there been - other than calgari and nosferatu ?

Italy gave us giallo and zombies.

with the success of the day/nightwatch films russia could be a new contender...

M, Faust, Waxworks, Der Golem, Hands of Orloc, Genuine, Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Experiment, 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

this is easy. Italy.

"Violence is an Italian art"
Lucio Fulci

ok .. thats 11



should i list the italian ones ?

that's 11 off the top of my head. Go ahead, list the Italian ones off the top of your head, but only the really good ones

who said anything about really good ?

that wasnt my criteria for why i loved italian cinema !

i can only think of a couple of good ones ..

Deep Red


ok, 1

Germany doesn't > Italy because of quantity. It's better because of quality. There's few Italian horror movies I can think of that would match up to what the German filmmakers were putting out in the silent era (yes, I know, The Experiment is fairly recent, but it's still damn good)

its extremely hard to measure films that diverse anyway ..

experimantal silent black and white vs modern italian film.

both extremely influencial and important in their own ways but really - apples and oranges ..

and although perhaps the experimental german films still have an influence felt today - not many people know they exist let alone have seen them.

I havent seen most of them .. anywhere ...

and the Italian schlock horror films AREN'T a niche market?

those 2 particular niches arent very comparable - exept for some pretty broad comparrisons ..

but they are both niche markets. You can't say "oh, but this one is a niche market" when the other one is as well

its funy but for some reson i dont think of the German silents as a niche market ... dont know why ..


but as for comparing them re. 'greatness ...

the German films are classics .. groundbreaking ..
like i said before their influence is still felt today.
(watch Calgari, then watch Edward Scissorhands)

A lot of Italian horror was influenced, more than influencing..
(although i'm sure their films influenced a lot of other filmmakers directly)
I dont know if Carpenter was influenced by Bay of Blood - but a lot of other filmmakers were influenced by Carpenter)

so niche or not i think you're comparing a small body of classic films to a huge body of mostly shlock films.
(there are some 'classic' italian horror films .. but not in the same classification of 'classic' as the german silents..

1. Italy - Fulci

2. France - Switchblade romance

In its current and recent state, I would have to with UK!

- 28 Days Later
- Dog Soldiers
- The Descent
- Creep
- Wilderness
- Broken
- Evil Aliens

I'd say its pretty hard to beat...

Goddamn English foreigners.

Anyway, I though this was the 'Japanese Horror' forum (incorporating Asia, specifically The Orient)?

ste has always felt that it was too exclusive for the forum

(despite the fact that at the time asian horror has been the biggest influence on the genre since the italian wave)

i personally feel that since this is more of an exploitation forum than just horror - and asians are probably the biggest producers of exploitation films (taking kick/samurai movies into consideration) - that it's entirely appropriate to have a piece of the forum devoted to asian films ..