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)
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
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...
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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
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..
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 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
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)
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.
saintmaster22 he does that a lot. he gave away that a certain movie had a twist ending in another video which completely undermines the effect of you tell someone there's going to be a twist.
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.
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 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.
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.
I tried and failed to watch The Apple. I'm sorry, it was a pile a of garbage caught in the fins of a bloated dead whale, catching other fish and killing them too. It was really bad.
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!
+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....
Born to Fight is a remake by the same director, the original is far superior and by that I mean cheesier and more painful and badly dubbed and a totally different story.
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
many of these were straight to vhs
McGuirk
joey4track what do you mean you seen a few when you said you have not seen any or heard of any
Ex Assassin read it again. Slowly.
him and Tarantino probably has the same taste of trashy B movies
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)
Jack Torrance
isn't fistful of fingers his own short film? I haven't seen the vid yet. Pretty sure it's mentioned.
awesome420ication he mentions that it's his own film.
thank you!
thank u sweetheart
Point Blank is on streaming on Netflix.
Apaches is right here on RUclips.
Just for those interested...
John Hein thank you
You're welcome :)
Phase IV... Antman.
I JUST GOT WHY HE PICKED PHASE IV!!! Ohhhh Edgar you...
Jessica Portaro what did you get about it
+Ex Assassin Because ants........
Cause he wrote AntMan and they fucked him
Is it just me or does Edgar Wright look like Jon Snow from Game of Thrones?
but much more congenial
+Tugg Speedman You know nothing Jon Snow...
Edgar is the nerdy version of Jon Snow.
more like Joe Manganiello without a big muscle
A cuddlier Gael Garcia Bernal.
I love how at the end he's actually talking about himself haha.
You know the list is going to be great when Phase 4 is the first one out of the gate!
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
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.
Because he probably has 6 months to a year or more between films.
Cause if you love films you watch as many as possible
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...
my favorite director ever, i love his style in directing and framing
oh come on. grow up.
funkoxen what?
funkoxen grow up?? wtf
@@funkoxen oh cum on
Deez nuts
If you ever see an interview with Edgar and Tarantino stop, sit down and take notes. Combined I think they know everything on film!
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.
But do u know he got kicked off the project or since y avoided all production info did u not know that?
@@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.
Windy City Heat is the funniest movie of all fucking time. Long live the big 3
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)
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.
Christine Carr Was just thinking the same thing. Love both of them. It could also be that their both Geminis.
Ayoade wins the humor and fashion sense awards, while Wright wins my director and Great Film Taste awards.
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
+Adam Freedman It's one of the few Argentos I've never seen, so I may have to track it down on DVD, since Netflix doesn't have it.
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.
Holy crap, I never noticed it before, but The Apple has damn near the same plot as The Devil And Daniel Mouse, which came out two years earlier.
+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.
D.J.O. Beckwith
I've seen both, though oddly, I remember a lot more about the mouse one.
you know he would have put a homage to Phase IV in Antman. fucken disney.
If fistful of fingers were to come out on DVD I would get it as soon as possible
Mumfypython Hell yeah, first in line for that
Mumfypython it could also be awesome if it were a bonus on one of the cornetto movies dvd
I love Edgar Wright, make sure you go see BABY DRIVER while it's still in cinemas!! It's so good, esp on the big screen!!!!!!
Great tips as usual from handsome handsome Edgar.
windy city heat is the funniest movie ever made
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
Edgar Wright Is looking pretty John Wick here, before John Wick was John Wick.
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've actually seen one, Apaches. The Godfather & Citizen Kane of the farm safety public service film genre.
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..
Love the #11 shout out to one of my favorite horror films, The House that Screamed.
Edgar, I loved your mid-nineties work with Walliams and Lucas that you did for Paramount Comedy. Victoria Wouldn't was genius.
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've seen Phase IV,Who Can Kill a Child,Four Flies,and The Apple.
the only one of these he did was Fistful of Fingers (1995) . this was a total shit wast of time.
Windy City Heat is the greatest comedy of all time, and yes Perry DID knock over the table!
You think YOURSELF MARVELLOUS YOUR NOT U DONT OWN MARVEL MY LOVE ITS A FREE ENERGY ENTITY THE WAY U SEE AND I SEE IT VERY DIFFERENT INDEED.
Edgar Wright is my favourite director. He’s so underrated
I want my hair to be looks like that.
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
The plot of that Apple movie reminded me of Interstella 5555
I'm not really taking in anything he says but I do like listening to him
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)
He technically is the Star of a movie right
Love Born To Fight
I saw PHASE IV just last year - pretty odd but cool. APACHES is available on YT - and it is pretty horrific.
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.
he just told me the ending of the apple as i was searching for the movie
the fuck dude
saintmaster22 he does that a lot. he gave away that a certain movie had a twist ending in another video which completely undermines the effect of you tell someone there's going to be a twist.
Likes a horror/sci-fi flick about ants, steps down from directing Ant-Man because of "creative differences." I wonder what his vision was... XD
I've heard of three of them
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.
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.
Phase IV is about super intelligent ants well that's a painful memory
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.
Nice work Mr Camera Man, direct reflection behind Edgar Wright. Poor show.
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.
A fistfull of fingers is absolute AMAZING, looks like a no budget lost Monty Python's sketch! Love your films Mr. Wright, thanks for the list
these are way too niche
Barve and Ken meant son.
I've seen half of these, very good, but thank you as always, charming Eggdoor.
Seen Apaches, heard of Who Can Kill A Child? Well done, Edgar. Well done.
@Total Film: 13:50 FYI -- it's actually really easy to filter sirens out of an audio track. You can use Adobe Audition for that.
One of the best...❤️
I tried and failed to watch The Apple. I'm sorry, it was a pile a of garbage caught in the fins of a bloated dead whale, catching other fish and killing them too. It was really bad.
A Tony Jaa film I've never seen or heard of. Thank you Edgar Wright!
Edgar Wrights One amazing movie I will never See: His Ant-Man
Love Edgar and his work. How many times does he say the world "like" in this interview?
Whuhu, I have actually seen one of those movies. "Phase 4", it is really cool and kind of scarry.
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!
The original french title of POINT BLANK is A BOUT PORTANT. Director is Fred Cavayé.
+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.
+yanndick There is also a Korean remake called The Target.
+Survivor2002 The film you're thinking of is Ne le dis a personne which is a similar film to Point Blank. Both films are really good.
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....
As soon as I heard him say "Who Can Kill a Child?" I loudly said YES. That movie has been a favorite for a long time and I want everyone to see it
Ha, Edgar is such a dude. I've only seen one, Point Blank, but I thought it was pretty good
when i interviewed Richard Stanley he said his fav. Argento film was also Grey Flies.
I came here to see if there'd be any familiar movies... I am not sure why I expected that.
It's actually called "Born a man, Die like a Cop"
You can actually find Apaches right here on youtube. Just type it in and it should be the first one.
I saw Phase IV on MST3K and I was really intrigued by it, all the sots of the ants are great and very artfully done.
I see where Xfiles got the idea for an eye of a murder victim recording their murder
Born to fight is fucking epic. do recommend also
ahahaha!.
I saw fistful of fingers at the edgar wright takeover in London. It was brilliant!
who can kill a couple got a south park parody
Watch Edgar Wrights interview on his director award for The Worlds End Movie
Fistful Of Fingers, oh Edgar. You would choose your own film. Oh you.
I love your channel. Do you do or feature any indie work?
"Yellow" in Italian. It's thriller/suspense genre with some specific qualities made in Italy in the 70's. Check it out, lots of good stuff there.
i love this man. i can listen to him talk about films for hours. Please be my film lecture tqqqq
Dude starts with Phase 4 and I'm all "Aww, I knew I had a reason to be a fan of that guy."
Damn. Jon Snow sure knows a lot about films
I saw that Ant horror movie when I was a kid. It's very good.
yep... I've never heard of them. he's better at his job than me
Yes he is, in Marvel Phase 3, he is going to direct the movie.
Lol I remember seeing Born To Fight on the Ong-Bak special features
this man loves his ants is he attached to direct Antman
I'm the other person who saw Phase IV in the theater..
This is great. U can tell he know his stuff!
Great list! I have only heard of one of these, guess I need to up my game.
Point Blank is amazing stuff
i saw born to fight!!!! great movie!!!!!
The Beadle abides.
My mum remembers The Apaches. She made me watch it.
Born to Fight is a remake by the same director, the original is far superior and by that I mean cheesier and more painful and badly dubbed and a totally different story.
Paul Round You don't have to watch it dubbed