Halloween film countdown number 12

[ahura_mazda]

The People Under the Stairs as suggested by untermensch

Everyone's seen this. The people under the stairs look like Slimelighters :D They really do. Not scary at all, but a couple of jump moments, and good fun!

6 / 10

Comments

[mark13]

There's a reason for that - they did! :)

It was written and directed by Dan O'Bannon, past master of doing things on a budget of next to nothing.

Return of the Living Dead 2 was awful though, but film three is also wonderful - a proper zombie love story (with a very hot lead)... :)

[zenithed]

The Tarman is still one of the best zombies I've ever seen.

Yeah, RotLD 3 is quite sweet isn't it? Definitely written by a piercing fetishist. We did a marathon of them all a few months back and it's diminishing returns after that though.

[mark13]

I never bothered with the ones after three, much like I gave up on Hellraiser after the dreadful fourth instalment - there just didn't seem a lot of point.

[zenithed]

I can't think of any franchises that keep it together after three films - by that point in the marathon they just become background noise while we drink beer and laugh at the rubbish bits.

[mark13]

Yeah, I certainly can't think any horror genre franchises that keep it together after number three - Alien Resurrection comes closest, being a decent cast and some great setpieces in search of a narrative point, but after that it's very thin on the ground.

There are a few in the broader film world - Star Trek films had their moments (especially as two of the first three were iffy anyway) and Connery managed five decent Bond films - but horror franchises, no.

[mark13]

Though Romero's later Dead films haven't been too bad - Land of the Dead is certainly not an insult to the series.

[zenithed]

Yeah, I certainly can't think any horror genre franchises that keep it together after number three

Apart from Leprechaun, obviously.

[mark13]

Was that ever together? :)