I remember watching Christopher Lee play Rasputin when I was a kid. His portrayal was the gold standard. I haven't seen anyone else play that character so convincingly since. Obviously, Christopher Lee was a truly amazing actor to the end.
Absolutely loving this series through the decades. Another superb selection of titles, again including my favourite icons. Totally agree about The Devil Rides Out, also one of my favourite Hammer horror movies. Great video as always and very informative. Nice one. 👏👏👏
Another great list, HorrorHands. I've always thought of the 1960s as being a great decade for women in horror. You nailed some of the iconic characters with this list. Carnival of Souls and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane stand out for me.
Yes, I noticed a lot more stand out roles for women in this decade. Carnival of Souls and Baby Jane were both strong considerations for my list. Thanks for watching, Jack :)
Hi Bryn Great top ten there mate. All excellent horror characters. One of my favourite horror characters of this decade His Vincent price as Mathew Hopkins. Vincent price is excellent as the evil.,Witchfinder General. Look forward to the next decade. 😊
lol Oliver did have a beastliness about him! I still haven’t seen him as The Wolfman. It’s on my list. Such a great actor. He was great in The Brood and Burnt Offerings. Norman Bates! Brilliant character and actor! Awesome vid, amigo! 🎥🎥🎥🎥🦇🦇🦇🦇
Very pleased to see you included Peter Cushing's character Christopher Maitland. The skull is one of my favourite movies. Cracking list Bryn. I guessed the number one spot and had no doubt it would be Norman Bates. Loving this content series 👌
Yeah The Skull is a top top movie, you wouldn’t think so given the generic title but it’s so much fun. I almost included The Skull as one of my favourite characters in my list above.
I couldn't disagree with you about any of those choices, Bryn, as they were certainly ALL memborable characters, most of whom would probably have made my own list too. My No. 1 would DEFINITELY have been Norman Bates too, as that was such an iconic and unforgettable performance by the late, great Anthony Perkins. Great to see you give a mention to Melanie Daniels from The Birds, and yes, you certainly made a good point to chew over there when you said that could Mel's presence in the town have possibly triggered the bird attacks off? That is what I love so much about that movie, as its sheer ambiguity really keeps you guessing on possible causes for the bird attacks. Excellent. Two masterpiece movies there from Alfred Hitchcock. Other 60s horror characters that would have made my own list are: 1. Mary Henry from CARNIVAL OF SOULS; 2. Matthew Hopkins from WITHCHFINDER GENERAL; 3. Dracula from (of course!) DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE; 4. Professor Marus (Karloff) Monserrat from THE SORCERORS; 5. Carol Ledoux from REPULSION; and 6. Bruno (Lon Chaney Jr.) from SPIDER BABY. Of course, there are many, many more I could have included there. Always difficult narrowing down such lists to just 10. So yeah, another excellent video, Bryn. Am really looking forward to your next episode, the 70s, and I think I have a fairly good idea of the horror character who will probably make your No. 1 spot for that decade! If it is who I THINK it is, then that character is certainly the stuff of all nightmares! Say no more. Well done again on the video, Bryn. Really enjoyed it.
Thank you, Alan. Glad you agree with the number one and share my intrigue over Melanie in The Birds. Great suggestions there, I did consider Witchfinder General and Repulsion for my own list. The 1970’s list was very hard to put together and may surprise a few people!
Wow great picks love the witches 😍 one of my favourite hammer yes the ending is a bit mad 😅lol , also love rosemary s baby 👌🏻👌🏻 the skull Blu-ray is on its way to me 💿👈🏻, love Oliver reed I had him in my villains list bloody terrifying in Oliver as bill Sykes, great video mate 👍🏻 devil rides out is my favourite hammer film btw
Enjoying this series, buddy! Really solid list for the 60's. I have a feeling on who may make your no.1 for the 70's and 80's., I've got mine, and I'll def stay tuned to find out yours.. cheers!
Great list Bryn - your knowledge of the period shines out as always. I watched the Japanese movie Onibaba recently - is it strictly a 60’s horror film? If so, I’d probably choose the mother actress Nobuko Otowa. The performances in that are amazing. There was a little known Horror movie starring Oliver Reed from the 60’s that was shown a few times in the 70s on telly. I caught it once or twice as a kid and it disturbed and psychologically stuck with me for years afterwards. Would love to watch it again but after over 40yrs it probably wouldn’t be so scary today. It was called The Shuttered Room and was about a young couple that inherit an old windmill and decide to renovate it against the wishes of the locals - but there’s something wicked locked inside an attic room that may scupper the couples plans.
I’ve never seen Kuroneko but want to for sure. Going in a bit of a Japanese horror trip at the moment. 👍🏻 I’ve probably overstated The Shuttered Room too much. It’s been 40yrs since I last saw it. Think it was near impossible to find on dvd or bluray a few years ago. Might still be. It had a bit of Hammer type feel to it. Probably doesn’t hold up well today but I’d love to see it again and anything with Oliver Reed in it can never be throw-away imho.
Movies aging badly is caused really by them becoming overused... so often films which are so good they become so overused, so they become cliche. It's more often seen in books (my degree was in literature) but it can be seen with movies especially. I find a lot of Stephen King stuff 'cliche', but that's really because they become super-popular and then just get 'homage-d' over decades. I'd say Salem's Lot is super-cliche, and even It, but they were really world changing at the time. I'd agree for sure with you: Rosemary's Baby and even Night of the Living Dead have become so referenced over time, that they seem cliched to us, but they really changed the world at the time of release. Interesting topic for sure!
Great selection! I love Ben from Night of the living dead. Great acting and movie. And of course, Tony Perkins on Psycho. By the way, i hope you can do a review of "The Jar" from 1984. I saw a new trailer by Terror Vision and I love it. Oh mate! Don"t forget the "Tales of tomorrow" serial!! There are some dvd releases. A great 1951 sci fi serial, Twilight Zone style. Keep the good work!! 😊
I know you don't like Rosemary's Baby but Sidney Blackmer's performance as Roman Castevet the cult leader is chilling.Vincent Price is superb as Matthew Hopkins in The Witchfinder General. I also like Maurice Evans as Dr Zaius in Planet of the Apes (1968)
Another super duper entry in the series. And several films here I haven't seen. The 60s really has become my sweet spot, but that's in the world of sci-fi, so I don't have much off the top of my head for my own list. Though I'm pretty sure Mr. Sardonicus would be on it. Dick Miller and/or Jack Nicholson from the Little Shop of Horrors. Vincent Price in The Last Man of Earth.
Thank you! I do think the 60s is an under-appreciated decade. I’m guilty of forgetting how many great movies came out then. Alway enjoy seeing Dick Miller pop up in a movie.
Hey mate , anther spot on top ten, I don't care for Rosemary's baby.eother, you know I never thouhjt about Melanie in the birds, maybe she has brought that frenzy with her. The skull is amazing mate , for me Oliver Reed is my favourite portrayal of the wolf man and curse is my favourite wolf man movie, everything else on the list is spot on mate, have a great week
Thank you, mate! Yeah, the birds never attacked until Melanie got there ????? Oliver Reed’s portrayal of the werewolf is fantastic. Have a great week too.
Saying that, I'd have put in Mary Henry from Carnival of Souls, played by Candace Hilligloss (who's pretty active on RUclips and Social Media, even now)... I love Carnival of Souls, even though that one has likely become cliche. The second (and third) 'woman in distress' character (yes another cliche now, lol) would be Deborah Kerr from The Innocents, and Alexandra Isles as Victoria Winters from Dark Shadows... essentially playing the same character as the heavily referenced Deborah Kerr role from 5 years earlier... there is no originality in art, lol.
Have you seen Viy? It's a great little weird soviet horror film from the 60s. I watched it on shudder a while back. I'd probably add the witch or the philosopher from Viy on a list of best 60s horror characters.
It's about a monk/philosopher who a accidentally kills a witch and flees the area. A few days later he is called to pray over the body of the witch by the townsfolk where the witch lived, who don't know he killed her. It's really good, quite ahead of it's time, and funny in places. Probably could be classed as a horror-comedy. I enjoyed it. @@Prof.CliffDavenport.
@@horrorhands879 Yeah Mastodon are a great band. They actually bother to write great riffs and they all seem to have ago at doing vocals too. Their earlier stuff is much heavier but they went through a mellow period. Trev
You’ve got that tasty Friday 13th boxset behind you ❤. I wish I had bought that at the time. I knew I should have. Another great list. Love Rosemary’s Baby - I think you could have a case for including the creepy older couple who live in the apartment above. Especially the old lady 😱. Are you into folk horror at all ? The Wicker Man ? Witchfinder General ?
It’s a fantastic box set - I think it’s still available. Yes, the creepy old couple were very effective. Definitely love some folk horror and The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General are two of the best. Thanks for watching!
@@horrorhands879 if you like folk horror I recommend checking out the episode Baby from the anthology series Beasts. Its on YT - just search Beasts Baby. Beasts was a mini series from 1977 by Nigel Kneale who wrote Quatermass and The Pit. Each episode was standalone and the main gist was that each of the episodes featured various animals. Baby is really the only one worth watching. Its very eerie in places and a lot of people were freaked out by it at the time. Some of the acting is a bit flaky - its TV acting, and the direction is a bit flat compared to nowadays but it’s serviceable. The story is pretty good though and although it flags a bit in the middle its worth sticking with as the end is freaky. My sister had nightmares for weeks 😄. Anyway, just a recommendation. See how you get on.
Wait! I’m still thinking about the 50s list…. 😫 Okay, this list is far too hastily cobbled together to put them in order but here goes nothing: Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) - Came into his own in the 60s, Must Be Destroyed is where he goes full tilt bad guy and we start to see him at his best. Mocata (Charles Gray) - Love Mocata, as evil and smug as they come. Dr Charles Decker (Michael Gough) - Hilarious character, so villainous, so insane. Just an outright crazy b**tard. Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) - “The world shall hear from me again.” Coffin Joe (José Majica Marins) - Love the first three Coffin Joe films (particularly the first two) and he is a very interesting anti-hero. Sometimes the villain, sometimes the hero, always it seems self destructive due to his schemes. Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) - Vincent Price in total sh*t mode. Simply ruthless. Dr Adolphus Bedlo (Peter Lorre) - I really enjoy Lorre in The Raven, he’s great as the antagonistic, drunken old soak. Duc de Richleau (Christopher Lee) - Le Duc is a great character, I so wish they’d (Hammer) done all of Wheatley’s De Richleau novels back in the day. In particular Gateway To Hell, where Le Duc De Richleau is an old man in his 70s and comes up against a fiend akin to the antichrist, who is so powerful that he is attempting to open the titular portal in South America. A superior book to The Devil Rides Out IMO. Dracula (Christopher Lee) - Lee would’ve been in my 1950s list as Dracula too, he was excellent throughout both decades. Prof. Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Kier) - Kier was fab as Quatermass, better than the irascible Donlevy portrayal. I did like Morrell but preferred Kier. Special shout out to Father Sandor too. Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) - Mesmerising. I would’ve loved to include HAL 9000, Norman Bates, Princess Asa Vajda, Christopher Lee as Franklyn Marsh and Roddy McDowall as Pimm from It!. I could easily have included some TV characters too from things like The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone and The Munsters etc.
Fantastic list, Cliff! I’ve just got the Coffin Joe box set and am interested in checking out the films. Prof Quatermass almost made my list. HAL 9000 is a great suggestion - I was always unnerved by its cold, expressionless presentation.
@@horrorhands879 Cheers chief. You’re in for a real treat with Coffin Joe, I’d maybe even leave them now until nearer Halloween. You need to watch them when it’s pitch black outside and the wind is howling. HAL 9000 goes from being incidental, to noteworthy, to funny, to sinister, to chicken oriental with only so much as a tiny focus of its lens. Excellent character.
@@Prof.CliffDavenport. Thanks for the tip! I’ll be honest, he know very little about him and have never rushed to see his films. But I’ll get on them in October. Brilliant character appraisal of HAL!
I don't know why but I've got a strange feeling, you are a big fan of Cushing / Lee :} l would have stuck in miss pin cushion herself Barbara Steele from black sunday and love is all you need Bette Davis and Joan Crawford from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. oh! and those pesky kids from Village of the Damned. yeah Norman for number 1 Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood! :{
@@horrorhands879 Well, here's a request, then. Can we have a video, or videos, about great families of horror? The Barrymores, the Carradines, the Chaneys. . .not forgetting Janet Leigh & Jamie Lee Curtis! 😊
@@horrorhands879 No problem. Here's another! How about a video on the top ten heroines of the B's, such as Mary Henry? Then one on the top ten villainesses, like Wasp Woman? Then one on the top ten pairings of the two, like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (Crawford & Davis) & Die, Die My Darling (Bankhead & Powers). . .the latter a Hammer film! 🎞
Glad I'm not the only one who finds Rosemary's Baby an overrated piece of shit movie. The Omen did it soooooo much better. I have a confession to make - I'm coming up 50 next month, been watching horror since the age of 4, and have NEVER seen The Birds. A total blindspot which I should rectify.
Lol! Yeah, I always found it to be a weak movie. Repulsion is Polanski’s better film from the 60s. Oooh, definitely check out The Birds! Thanks for watching.
I feel that way about the Shining and the Exorcist, lol. Agree the Omen is far better than Rosemary's Baby...and the Exorcist, if I didn't make that clear already
My take on Melanie Daniels from The Birds is that she is helpless because she has no flock. She's pretty much without a family, adrift, alone. So when Life (symbolized by the birds) attacks her, she needs to find a flock, fast. Mitch has been held back from mating & increasing his own flock by a narcissistic mother. But the attacks teach her the error of her ways, & even she learns to lower her barriers. She & Melanie will bond, even as Melanie has done with Mitch & his little sister. Hitchcock always emphasized the importance of the male/female bond. Very romantic, Hitch was. ❤ "Alone bad. Friend good." 🔩
@@horrorhands879 Well, think of how the domesticated lovebirds brought Mitch & Melanie together to begin with, generously, gently. Then, when the two kept fencing, warily circling each other, the wild birds stepped up the pressure. Then consider the symbolic sacrifices of the man living alone, plus Annie Hayworth, who gave up on Mitch. Mother Nature will have her way, it seems. "You need each other, people. Get over yourselves!" 🦅 Well, that's my take, anyway. 😉
I remember watching Christopher Lee play Rasputin when I was a kid. His portrayal was the gold standard. I haven't seen anyone else play that character so convincingly since. Obviously, Christopher Lee was a truly amazing actor to the end.
Completely agree! 👍👍
Absolutely loving this series through the decades. Another superb selection of titles, again including my favourite icons. Totally agree about The Devil Rides Out, also one of my favourite Hammer horror movies. Great video as always and very informative. Nice one. 👏👏👏
Thank you, Paul! I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Another great list, HorrorHands. I've always thought of the 1960s as being a great decade for women in horror. You nailed some of the iconic characters with this list. Carnival of Souls and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane stand out for me.
Yes, I noticed a lot more stand out roles for women in this decade. Carnival of Souls and Baby Jane were both strong considerations for my list. Thanks for watching, Jack :)
Fantastic picks Bryn. Mia Farrow was great in RB. Love the Birds. Of course Vincent Price and Peter Cushing had to make the list.
Thank you, Jason. Glad you like the picks.
Cool series can't wait for the 70's 👍
Thank you! Should be a good one 👍
Hey Bryn, Great second video in this series!! I have never seen The Witches or Rasputin. You make them sound so good that I need to watch them.
They’re both really good, Tina. Thanks for watching!
Hi Bryn
Great top ten there mate.
All excellent horror characters.
One of my favourite horror characters of this decade
His Vincent price as Mathew Hopkins.
Vincent price is excellent as the evil.,Witchfinder General.
Look forward to the next decade.
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Thanks, Paul. Yeah, Witchfinder General! Still a pretty brutal film even now!
I can’t believe I forgot him off my list! Price has so many great roles. 👍
lol Oliver did have a beastliness about him! I still haven’t seen him as The Wolfman. It’s on my list. Such a great actor. He was great in The Brood and Burnt Offerings. Norman Bates! Brilliant character and actor! Awesome vid, amigo! 🎥🎥🎥🎥🦇🦇🦇🦇
Definitely check out Curse of the Werewolf. Thanks for watching, Max!
Very pleased to see you included Peter Cushing's character Christopher Maitland.
The skull is one of my favourite movies.
Cracking list Bryn. I guessed the number one spot and had no doubt it would be Norman Bates.
Loving this content series 👌
Yeah, I’ve always really liked The Skull. Well done guessing Norman Bates! Thanks for watching, mate!
Yeah The Skull is a top top movie, you wouldn’t think so given the generic title but it’s so much fun. I almost included The Skull as one of my favourite characters in my list above.
I couldn't disagree with you about any of those choices, Bryn, as they were certainly ALL memborable characters, most of whom would probably have made my own list too. My No. 1 would DEFINITELY have been Norman Bates too, as that was such an iconic and unforgettable performance by the late, great Anthony Perkins. Great to see you give a mention to Melanie Daniels from The Birds, and yes, you certainly made a good point to chew over there when you said that could Mel's presence in the town have possibly triggered the bird attacks off? That is what I love so much about that movie, as its sheer ambiguity really keeps you guessing on possible causes for the bird attacks. Excellent. Two masterpiece movies there from Alfred Hitchcock. Other 60s horror characters that would have made my own list are: 1. Mary Henry from CARNIVAL OF SOULS; 2. Matthew Hopkins from WITHCHFINDER GENERAL; 3. Dracula from (of course!) DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE; 4. Professor Marus (Karloff) Monserrat from THE SORCERORS; 5. Carol Ledoux from REPULSION; and 6. Bruno (Lon Chaney Jr.) from SPIDER BABY. Of course, there are many, many more I could have included there. Always difficult narrowing down such lists to just 10. So yeah, another excellent video, Bryn. Am really looking forward to your next episode, the 70s, and I think I have a fairly good idea of the horror character who will probably make your No. 1 spot for that decade! If it is who I THINK it is, then that character is certainly the stuff of all nightmares! Say no more. Well done again on the video, Bryn. Really enjoyed it.
Thank you, Alan. Glad you agree with the number one and share my intrigue over Melanie in The Birds. Great suggestions there, I did consider Witchfinder General and Repulsion for my own list. The 1970’s list was very hard to put together and may surprise a few people!
It’s a great collection you choose ❤ really love the old ones
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
Thank You for ANOTHER Great List and Video ✅
No problem 👍
Wow great picks love the witches 😍 one of my favourite hammer yes the ending is a bit mad 😅lol , also love rosemary s baby 👌🏻👌🏻 the skull Blu-ray is on its way to me 💿👈🏻, love Oliver reed I had him in my villains list bloody terrifying in Oliver as bill Sykes, great video mate 👍🏻 devil rides out is my favourite hammer film btw
Thanks, mate. Yes, The Witches and The Devil Rides Out are both great Hammer movies. Hope you enjoy The Skull.
Enjoying this series, buddy! Really solid list for the 60's. I have a feeling on who may make your no.1 for the 70's and 80's., I've got mine, and I'll def stay tuned to find out yours.. cheers!
Glad you’re enjoying the series! I have a few curveball picks for those decades but hopefully you’ll still dig the video!
Excellent list! Love your channel. Please keep the videos coming!
Thanks so much, mate. Got plenty more vids planned 👍
I enjoy watching your videos.
Glad to hear it! Thanks 🙂
I haven't found many big horror people like me since I have been in Sweden.
@@vmhvampir Well, it’s nice to have you on board!
Awesome list. I COMPLETELY agree about Rosemary's Baby. It wasn't BAD but I just don't really see what the fuss is about.
Yeah, it doesn’t hold up very well. Thanks for watching!
Great list Bryn - your knowledge of the period shines out as always.
I watched the Japanese movie Onibaba recently - is it strictly a 60’s horror film? If so, I’d probably choose the mother actress Nobuko Otowa. The performances in that are amazing.
There was a little known
Horror movie starring Oliver Reed from the 60’s that was shown a few times in the 70s on telly. I caught it once or twice as a kid and it disturbed and psychologically stuck with me for years afterwards. Would love to watch it again but after over 40yrs it probably wouldn’t be so scary today. It was called The Shuttered Room and was about a young couple that inherit an old windmill and decide to renovate it against the wishes of the locals - but there’s something wicked locked inside an attic room that may scupper the couples plans.
Thanks, Lee. I enjoyed Onibaba, but much preferred Kuroneko, have you seen that. The Shuttered Room sounds great, I’ll look that up.
I’ve never seen Kuroneko but want to for sure. Going in a bit of a Japanese horror trip at the moment. 👍🏻
I’ve probably overstated The Shuttered Room too much. It’s been 40yrs since I last saw it. Think it was near impossible to find on dvd or bluray a few years ago. Might still be. It had a bit of Hammer type feel to it. Probably doesn’t hold up well today but I’d love to see it again and anything with Oliver Reed in it can never be throw-away imho.
@@eelponna3145 Totally agree with you about THE SHUTTERED ROOM. An excellent film.
Movies aging badly is caused really by them becoming overused... so often films which are so good they become so overused, so they become cliche. It's more often seen in books (my degree was in literature) but it can be seen with movies especially. I find a lot of Stephen King stuff 'cliche', but that's really because they become super-popular and then just get 'homage-d' over decades. I'd say Salem's Lot is super-cliche, and even It, but they were really world changing at the time.
I'd agree for sure with you: Rosemary's Baby and even Night of the Living Dead have become so referenced over time, that they seem cliched to us, but they really changed the world at the time of release.
Interesting topic for sure!
Great point! Sometimes you forget how original they were back in the day!
Great selection! I love Ben from Night of the living dead. Great acting and movie. And of course, Tony Perkins on Psycho.
By the way, i hope you can do a review of "The Jar" from 1984. I saw a new trailer by Terror Vision and I love it.
Oh mate! Don"t forget the "Tales of tomorrow" serial!! There are some dvd releases. A great 1951 sci fi serial, Twilight Zone style.
Keep the good work!! 😊
Thank you! I recently watched The Jar - very strange movie, I’ll see if I can cover it in some way. Never seen Tales of Tomorrow so will look it up 👍
I know you don't like Rosemary's Baby but Sidney Blackmer's performance as Roman Castevet the cult leader is chilling.Vincent Price is superb as Matthew Hopkins in The Witchfinder General. I also like Maurice Evans as Dr Zaius in Planet of the Apes (1968)
Yes, there’s definitely some good performances in it. Witchfinder General is a great suggestion and Planet of the Apes is excellent 👍
Another super duper entry in the series. And several films here I haven't seen. The 60s really has become my sweet spot, but that's in the world of sci-fi, so I don't have much off the top of my head for my own list. Though I'm pretty sure Mr. Sardonicus would be on it. Dick Miller and/or Jack Nicholson from the Little Shop of Horrors. Vincent Price in The Last Man of Earth.
Thank you! I do think the 60s is an under-appreciated decade. I’m guilty of forgetting how many great movies came out then. Alway enjoy seeing Dick Miller pop up in a movie.
@@horrorhands879 If this series does well, and you enjoy doing it, a 1940s entry would be very cool from you as well.
Can you please do another look at your entire horror movie collection?
Yes! I am planning on getting around to that 👍
Good video Brynn, enjoyed it very much, good commentary on each movie. Well done, love the 60s. Cheers.
Thanks, Jamie! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hey mate , anther spot on top ten, I don't care for Rosemary's baby.eother, you know I never thouhjt about Melanie in the birds, maybe she has brought that frenzy with her. The skull is amazing mate , for me Oliver Reed is my favourite portrayal of the wolf man and curse is my favourite wolf man movie, everything else on the list is spot on mate, have a great week
Thank you, mate! Yeah, the birds never attacked until Melanie got there ????? Oliver Reed’s portrayal of the werewolf is fantastic. Have a great week too.
Saying that, I'd have put in Mary Henry from Carnival of Souls, played by Candace Hilligloss (who's pretty active on RUclips and Social Media, even now)... I love Carnival of Souls, even though that one has likely become cliche.
The second (and third) 'woman in distress' character (yes another cliche now, lol) would be Deborah Kerr from The Innocents, and Alexandra Isles as Victoria Winters from Dark Shadows... essentially playing the same character as the heavily referenced Deborah Kerr role from 5 years earlier... there is no originality in art, lol.
Great suggestions! Carnival of Souls is excellent.
Have you seen Viy? It's a great little weird soviet horror film from the 60s. I watched it on shudder a while back. I'd probably add the witch or the philosopher from Viy on a list of best 60s horror characters.
I’ve not seen it, is it decent? What’s it about?
It's about a monk/philosopher who a accidentally kills a witch and flees the area. A few days later he is called to pray over the body of the witch by the townsfolk where the witch lived, who don't know he killed her. It's really good, quite ahead of it's time, and funny in places. Probably could be classed as a horror-comedy. I enjoyed it. @@Prof.CliffDavenport.
I have it in the All The Haunts Be Ours box set but still need to watch it. It sounds good!
I watched that recently. Sort of Russian folk horror. Enjoyable.
That's a pretty strong list there Bryn. Mastodon did a song called The Czar about Rasputin which is really cool. I wonder what you'd think of it?
Trev
Thank you, Trev! Just checked out that sound and it's pretty cool :)
@@horrorhands879 Yeah Mastodon are a great band. They actually bother to write great riffs and they all seem to have ago at doing vocals too. Their earlier stuff is much heavier but they went through a mellow period.
Trev
This fellow is quite good!
Why, thank you!
@@horrorhands879 How amazing! I just wrote that an hour ago and here is your response! I am honoured!
No worries! I always reply when someone takes the time to comment :)
You’ve got that tasty Friday 13th boxset behind you ❤. I wish I had bought that at the time. I knew I should have.
Another great list.
Love Rosemary’s Baby - I think you could have a case for including the creepy older couple who live in the apartment above. Especially the old lady 😱.
Are you into folk horror at all ? The Wicker Man ? Witchfinder General ?
It’s a fantastic box set - I think it’s still available.
Yes, the creepy old couple were very effective.
Definitely love some folk horror and The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General are two of the best.
Thanks for watching!
@@horrorhands879 if you like folk horror I recommend checking out the episode Baby from the anthology series Beasts. Its on YT - just search Beasts Baby.
Beasts was a mini series from 1977 by Nigel Kneale who wrote Quatermass and The Pit. Each episode was standalone and the main gist was that each of the episodes featured various animals.
Baby is really the only one worth watching. Its very eerie in places and a lot of people were freaked out by it at the time. Some of the acting is a bit flaky - its TV acting, and the direction is a bit flat compared to nowadays but it’s serviceable. The story is pretty good though and although it flags a bit in the middle its worth sticking with as the end is freaky. My sister had nightmares for weeks 😄.
Anyway, just a recommendation. See how you get on.
Thank you for the recommendation, I will look that up :)
Did you know, Bryn, that Sir Christopher was introduced in his youth to Prince Yusupov & Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, assassins of Rasputin? 🗡
I don’t think I’ve heard that but it doesn’t surprise me. He was an incredible guy!
@@horrorhands879
He touched on every amazing thing of his time. We'll not see his like again. 😔
Wait! I’m still thinking about the 50s list…. 😫
Okay, this list is far too hastily cobbled together to put them in order but here goes nothing:
Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) - Came into his own in the 60s, Must Be Destroyed is where he goes full tilt bad guy and we start to see him at his best.
Mocata (Charles Gray) - Love Mocata, as evil and smug as they come.
Dr Charles Decker (Michael Gough) - Hilarious character, so villainous, so insane. Just an outright crazy b**tard.
Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) - “The world shall hear from me again.”
Coffin Joe (José Majica Marins) - Love the first three Coffin Joe films (particularly the first two) and he is a very interesting anti-hero. Sometimes the villain, sometimes the hero, always it seems self destructive due to his schemes.
Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) - Vincent Price in total sh*t mode. Simply ruthless.
Dr Adolphus Bedlo (Peter Lorre) - I really enjoy Lorre in The Raven, he’s great as the antagonistic, drunken old soak.
Duc de Richleau (Christopher Lee) - Le Duc is a great character, I so wish they’d (Hammer) done all of Wheatley’s De Richleau novels back in the day. In particular Gateway To Hell, where Le Duc De Richleau is an old man in his 70s and comes up against a fiend akin to the antichrist, who is so powerful that he is attempting to open the titular portal in South America. A superior book to The Devil Rides Out IMO.
Dracula (Christopher Lee) - Lee would’ve been in my 1950s list as Dracula too, he was excellent throughout both decades.
Prof. Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Kier) - Kier was fab as Quatermass, better than the irascible Donlevy portrayal. I did like Morrell but preferred Kier. Special shout out to Father Sandor too.
Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) - Mesmerising.
I would’ve loved to include HAL 9000, Norman Bates, Princess Asa Vajda, Christopher Lee as Franklyn Marsh and Roddy McDowall as Pimm from It!.
I could easily have included some TV characters too from things like The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone and The Munsters etc.
Fantastic list, Cliff! I’ve just got the Coffin Joe box set and am interested in checking out the films. Prof Quatermass almost made my list. HAL 9000 is a great suggestion - I was always unnerved by its cold, expressionless presentation.
@@horrorhands879 Cheers chief.
You’re in for a real treat with Coffin Joe, I’d maybe even leave them now until nearer Halloween. You need to watch them when it’s pitch black outside and the wind is howling.
HAL 9000 goes from being incidental, to noteworthy, to funny, to sinister, to chicken oriental with only so much as a tiny focus of its lens. Excellent character.
@@Prof.CliffDavenport. Thanks for the tip! I’ll be honest, he know very little about him and have never rushed to see his films. But I’ll get on them in October. Brilliant character appraisal of HAL!
I don't know why but I've got a strange feeling, you are a big fan of Cushing / Lee :} l would have stuck in miss pin cushion herself Barbara Steele from black sunday and love is all you need Bette Davis and Joan Crawford from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. oh! and those pesky kids from Village of the Damned. yeah Norman for number 1 Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood! :{
Cushing? Lee? Never heard of them. Great suggestions, glad you agree with number 1!
l also agree on Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 : }
Are you taking the piss? The 60s were awesome for horror!!!
For example?
Yeah, it was a fantastic decade. For me, nothing beats the 80s, but the 60s definitely had some gems. Thanks for watching.
Made three comments, but they've disappeared. Did you see them, Bryn? 😢
Got this one but didn’t see the others. RUclips being weird again! Sorry.
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Well, here's a request, then. Can we have a video, or videos, about great families of horror? The Barrymores, the Carradines, the Chaneys. . .not forgetting Janet Leigh & Jamie Lee Curtis! 😊
@@h.calvert3165 Thank you for the request, H!
@@horrorhands879
No problem. Here's another! How about a video on the top ten heroines of the B's, such as Mary Henry? Then one on the top ten villainesses, like Wasp Woman? Then one on the top ten pairings of the two, like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (Crawford & Davis) & Die, Die My Darling (Bankhead & Powers). . .the latter a Hammer film! 🎞
Glad I'm not the only one who finds Rosemary's Baby an overrated piece of shit movie.
The Omen did it soooooo much better.
I have a confession to make - I'm coming up 50 next month, been watching horror since the age of 4, and have NEVER seen The Birds.
A total blindspot which I should rectify.
Lol! Yeah, I always found it to be a weak movie. Repulsion is Polanski’s better film from the 60s. Oooh, definitely check out The Birds! Thanks for watching.
I feel that way about the Shining and the Exorcist, lol. Agree the Omen is far better than Rosemary's Baby...and the Exorcist, if I didn't make that clear already
Who glued that piece of plastic on top of
Your head ???
They told me it’s the latest fashion ???? 😅
My take on Melanie Daniels from The Birds is that she is helpless because she has no flock. She's pretty much without a family, adrift, alone. So when Life (symbolized by the birds) attacks her, she needs to find a flock, fast. Mitch has been held back from mating & increasing his own flock by a narcissistic mother. But the attacks teach her the error of her ways, & even she learns to lower her barriers. She & Melanie will bond, even as Melanie has done with Mitch & his little sister. Hitchcock always emphasized the importance of the male/female bond. Very romantic, Hitch was. ❤
"Alone bad. Friend good." 🔩
What a fantastic analysis! Thank you for that, H!
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Well, think of how the domesticated lovebirds brought Mitch & Melanie together to begin with, generously, gently. Then, when the two kept fencing, warily circling each other, the wild birds stepped up the pressure. Then consider the symbolic sacrifices of the man living alone, plus Annie Hayworth, who gave up on Mitch. Mother Nature will have her way, it seems. "You need each other, people. Get over yourselves!" 🦅
Well, that's my take, anyway. 😉