Favourite genre

[Scorpio]

Hello all, my name is Chris and i am a "Northern Monkey" (in the words of the late Lenny McClean in Lock Stock) and i love films......so much so that they have dictated my life for 28 or so years (since i was 6 and got my first rental.......Hawk the Slayer)

i love all genres, with horror being my favourite and texas chainsaw massacre, exorcist, shining and some of the new foreign horrors being my favourotes of the genre.........i also collected vhs and beta banned film for 20 years (mad, i know)

i have posted most of this in the right area for us newbies, but thought i would repeat so anyone who does not frequent there will know a quick snapshot about me...............

so, as an ice breaker for me (as i know noone ).......can i ask what everyones favourite genre is and what films that love from that style.........i know this will have been done to the death, but it will help the new fish get to know the bretheren of the boards

[Timmy_Lea]

Porn parody, my favourite being. . .

[Scorpio]

ha ha, never seen that before

[jaycad]

British Horror ('Dead of Night','The Innocents',Hammer,Amicus etc) and I'm partial to the odd American Mafia film too.

[Scorpio]

i have the cross dvd hammer box set - it is brilliant.......as is hound of the baskervilles (a great adaption)

[jaycad]

i have the cross dvd hammer box set - it is brilliant.......as is hound of the baskervilles (a great adaption)

It is a good version,my favourite Hammer is the 1958 'Dracula',I'm also a big fan of the Amicus Portmanteau films-however cheesy!

[Scorpio]

It is a good version,my favourite Hammer is the 1958 'Dracula',I'm also a big fan of the Amicus Portmanteau films-however cheesy!

nothing wrong with cheesy.......

i collect the original banned films which created the 1984 furore (vhs and beta versions) and believe me, they are a band of weird movies, which all would have gotten a yawning acceptance nowadays.......just shows you how desensitised and accepting we have become, as a viewing public

[GRAEME]

Musicals. Horror. Westerns. SF. Gangster. War. Comedy. Drama.

In fact the only ones I really don't like are Fantasy and Soap. But there are individual films in those genres that I do like...

[Fellwanderer]

Welcome scorpio.

It's individual films that I like rather than any particular genre - almost entirely British films and from the period c1936 to 1970 plus anything with the lady

[CaptainWaggett]

nothing wrong with cheesy.......

i collect the original banned films which created the 1984 furore (vhs and beta versions) and believe me, they are a band of weird movies, which all would have gotten a yawning acceptance nowadays.......just shows you how desensitised and accepting we have become, as a viewing public

Not my thing at all but you'll be interested in this thread

[cassidy]

Hi Scopio,
British noir and "B" films, Amrerican noir, Early Hammer and similar horror films,Classic and "B" Westerns. Also early TV detective series, Dial 999, Fabian,
Highway Patrol etc.
By the way, welcome. cassidy.

[TimR]

That's an easy one - Historical drama and/or epics, from any nation or time period. That does cover a very wide variety, from Khartoum to Nicholas and Alexandra and Lawrence of Arabia and from The Railway Children to Ivanhoe and The Shooting Party.

The British happen to do this sort of film better than anyone else - so the majority of them, but by no means all, are British.


Also:

US screwball comedies from the 30s and 40s
US and British war-themed films
British comedies of the 40s and 50s
Documentaries
German and Russian silent films
Classic French and Italian drama

Genres I tend to avoid:

Horror, with almost no exceptions
Musicals, with a half dozen exceptions
Mysteries, with a dozen or so exceptions
Crime dramas made after 1960
Animation
Sequels

[Scorpio]

That's an easy one - Historical drama and/or epics, from any nation or time period. That does cover a very wide variety, from Khartoum to Nicholas and Alexandra and Lawrence of Arabia and from The Railway Children to Ivanhoe and The Shooting Party.

The British happen to do this sort of film better than anyone else - so the majority of them, but by no means all, are British.


Also:

US screwball comedies from the 30s and 40s
US and British war-themed films
British comedies of the 40s and 50s
Documentaries
German and Russian silent films
Classic French and Italian drama

Genres I tend to avoid:

Horror, with almost no exceptions
Musicals, with a half dozen exceptions
Mysteries, with a dozen or so exceptions
Crime dramas made after 1960
Animation
Sequels

i did my degree in history, so can certainly see the appeal matey..........especially the history of the empire

[Scorpio]

Not my thing at all but you'll be interested in this thread

thanks for that

[TimR]

i did my degree in history, so can certainly see the appeal matey..........especially the history of the empire

Absolutely

I even enjoyed the flops like Waterloo and Alfred the Great.

If only they made them more often now! The peak was when I was a boy in the late 60s and 70s and those films were shown in our large roadshow theaters in NYC - perfect for the large screen. Those were the days.

[TimR]

By the way - what's a 'Northern Monkey'?

[wadsy]

Hi Scopio,
British noir and "B" films, Amrerican noir, Early Hammer and similar horror films,Classic and "B" Westerns. Also early TV detective series, Dial 999, Fabian,
Highway Patrol etc.
By the way, welcome. cassidy.

Same here, I do like a good Mystery. I also have a fondness for the "Peplum" Italian epics of the early 60's & Japanese & Korean films.

Just about anything really!!!

[wadsy]

Duplicate post!

[Scorpio]

Absolutely

I even enjoyed the flops like Waterloo and Alfred the Great.

If only they made them more often now! The peak was when I was a boy in the late 60s and 70s and those films were shown in our large roadshow theaters in NYC - perfect for the large screen. Those were the days.

i have started enjoying films about the Romans etc etc................and anything to do with early battles

ironclad
centurion
eagle
henry of navarre
arn: the knight templar
troy
gladiator
robin hood

a mix up of titles, but some are very good

[Scorpio]

By the way - what's a 'Northern Monkey'?

a term used by the Baptist in Lock Stock for people who live up north.................i myself am from Sunderland