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Usually on these 'movies you've never seen/heard of' lists I've seen at least a few but I have neither seen or even heard of any of these. Leave it to Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright's list: Phase IV (1974) Who can Kill a Child? (1976) Born to Fight (2004) Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976) The Apple (1980) Windy City Heat (2003) Point Blank (2010) Apaches (1977) Fistful of Fingers (1995)
His overall demeanor reminds me so much of Richard Ayoade for some reason. Both very intelligent, insightful Brits yet it's something even more than that.
Aparently the budget was cut to Phase IV so the ending was a lot shorter than the director intended who wanted a sequence akin to 2001, as it stands it's still great and a quite an unsettling film
Phase IV is amazing for a film with such a premise, and if you search "Phase IV real ending" you get one of the most mystical sci fi sequences of all time (which the studio shamelessly cut)
How does he have the time to watch as many films as he has? And then remember them all so well? Most famous Directors publish a Top 10 or Top 20 films list, he published a Top 1000 films list. Seriously where does he find the time to watch all these and still work on a professional level? I work full time but I really try hard to watch as many films as I can but I still feel like I'm 100 years behind Edgar Wright.
1000 isn't that many really, you'll find most big directors have seen several thousand films at minimum. That's a large part of their training, learning from great directors. In many cases, it's before they ever make a movie in that period when they have a lot of free time. For instance, I remember Richard Linklater saying he probably saw around 6000 films in the 1980s when he was between the ages of 20 and 30...
Out of these movies, I've only seen Apaches. That film was SCARY as hell (specifically the scene where the little girl dies after unintentionally drinking weed killer), and to think, it was made to be shown to children in schools. It makes American PSA's look downright quaint. Despite that, it's actually very well made for what little they had to work with.
C.J. O'Dell Public Informations Films always had that cinematic documentary style that leaves people cold and uncomfortable. Each of them always had that direction style that Don't Look Now had. I like PSA's, however they always felt like commercials. Films like Apaches, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water and Robbie make the majority of modern horror movies nowadays lame into comparison.
I second Four Flies on Grey Velvet. I was able to see this luckily. Very cool Argento flick. Its early Argento and uses a lot of the tropes he is known for, but is not as over-the-top. And its cool to have a drummer as the main character
Completely agree. Best drummer-as-lead-character movie since Mickey Rooney's The Strip. Just kiddin', it's way better than The Strip. Certainly better than all the Argento movies from the mid-80s onward.
+AlexReynard ...then the same people that made "The Devil and Daniel Mouse" made a full length film in 1983 called "Rock & Rule" that is pretty much the same thing, but with Debbie Harry and Lou Reed doing the voices of the female singer and the satanic record producer.
Phase IV - I've been looking for that title for ages - In the 90's I used to sample late night TV movies for techno music, and that film has a great 5-4-3-2-1 countdown - and I've been trying to find out what the film was called for AGES! Fantastic.
Funny story. Knowing that Wright is a fan of Phase IV was the biggest reason I was looking forward to his Ant-Man and why I avoided any news on Ant-Mans production until after I saw it opening day. Needless to say, it was a disappointment.
@@benjaminsieur2709 Because I had avoided all news on production I did not know that he had left production. I walked in believing it was a Wright film.
Apaches scarred me for a very long time. We were shown it in school as kids living in a rural area. The paint thinner scene gave me a proper phobia of chemical cleaning products well into my teenage years!
Born to Fight is the only one I’ve seen. I bought it on DVD during my Eastern movie phase as a teenager, which pretty much started when I saw Ong Bak. Great pick, Edgar.
I am probably going to spell this wrong, since IMDb suddenly doesn't seem to be working. But the director of LA RESIDENCIA (aka THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED) was Narciso Ibanez Serrador, (this is what he meant about pronouncing the name.) He also made WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?, which is kind of a CHILDREN OF THE CORN-type film, (except it's on a Spanish island with no corn.) The recent remake was called COME OUT AND PLAY.
+Survivor2002 You spelled it perfectly (except for the 'n' where it should be 'ñ', but I bet your keyboard doesn't have that). Here in Spain he was best known as "Chicho" Ibañez Serrador, and for directing TV game shows, specially "Un, Dos, Tres" a really mithyc show in spanish TV history, but I always thought that he could have been a great filmmaker if he kept making movies. He also wrote (with the pseudonym "Luis Peñafiel") & directed a good number of episodes for the TV show "Historias para no dormir" and many of those were really good, specially for their time and (almost non-existent) budget. Worth the look. Excuse my english, I'm quite rusty. xD
That “Apaches” film was an urban legend in my school for years, many people had claimed to have been shown that in class but I think most were lying. I had no idea it actually existed.
It took me a while but finally i managed to track a copy of Phase IV that was not overpriced. I loved every minute of that film. It has a great premise, amazing electrónic music, psychedelic visuals and elements of nature documentar y which Is like almost everything i love. And it's only like 80 minutes. Thank you Edgar
+yanndick The poster looked familiar. I think that here in the States, it also went by the title DON'T TELL A SOUL. I may have to track that one down now, no matter what it's called.
And adding to the confusion, _À bout portant_ is the french title for Don Siegel's The Killers (another 60s crime movie starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson).
@@mg2001o You're right . And Siegel's is a very good one too ! French titles for foreign movies are often a mess since too many years, especially when they give a "english" title for french title to a movie the original actual english title is very different, for instance VERY BAD TRIP for THE HANGOVER....
Who Can Kill A Child is absolutely The Birds (with children), and The Birds story by Daphne du Maurier is a reworking of The Terror by Arthur Machen, only in his story it's not birds but everything. Apaches? and the one with the Sports Day on a Railway Line
I like italian horror flicks like fulci and such so I figured I'd watch Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man. Having watched a few cop flicks by italian directors whose horror movies I can say while the gore and vilolence is good, the rest is eh. Feels winded to me. Not bad, just....the horror flicks have more soul and feeling in them, while the cop flicks seem like they were fun to make and such, and maybe good films to have on in the background, but they just don't translate as well as the horror flicks. Just compare Zombi 2 and Contraband, both Fulci, both good, but one is a masterpiece and one is a somewhat fun violent crime flick that kinda lags
This is the only list where I've never seen any of the films, the only one I thought I saw was Point Blank but it's not that Point Blank lol. Checking them out soon.
I saw half of the first 6 (who can kill a child, four flies, The Apple) and thought it would continue that way just for him to mention 4 movies I've never heard of.
Who Can Kill A Child is really good for people like me who loved the premise and atmosphere of Children of the Corn but were hugely disappointed by the elements of 80s camp and terrible third act that ruined it. I only discovered it after seeing the remake, 2012's Come Out And Play (which was critically panned, though I quite enjoyed it- however, I would definitely recommend the original a lot more). I saw the 2019 American remake of Point Blank with Frank Grillo when it came out on Netflix and it made absolutely no impression on me at all (to the point where I'd struggle to recount a single plot point now), but I'll definitely give the original a chance.
For me... CHILDHOOD MOVIE: Toy Story WESTERN: Blazing Saddles SCI-FI: Men in Black (1997) HORROR: Child's Play franchise (1988 - 2004, don't like the new entries like "Curse" and "Cult") COP FILM: Your film Edgar- Hot Fuzz (or for that matter) RoboCop (1987) ITALIAN CINEMA: Volere volare (an Italian "Roger Rabbit" but racier) GIALLO: (n/a) MARTIAL ARTS: The Raid 1 & 2 / Rush Hour (trilogy) SO BAD IT'S GOOD: Happytime Murders (or) Without A Paddle COMEDY (LIVE-ACTION): Mr. Bean's Holiday THRILLER: Falling Down (Michael Douglas film)
The movies are Phase IV, Who Can Kill a Child? Born to Fight, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Live Like a Cop Die Like a Man, The Apple, Windy City Heat, Point Blank, Apaches, Fistful of Fingers. Good choices.
In the late forties early 50's I believe the Americans made a film for small towns about actual ways children die on farms. It has a horrific scene with a child jumping into a pile of hay from the second floor of the barn...he is impaled on a pitchfork handle..very Horrific, but happened enough film makers were paid to make a "don't do this" educational video..
