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What's your favourite creepy/scary/frightening/spooky music video & why?
Meli (We Show Up On Radar): There isn't one in particular but I get easily scared by atmospheres and contexts as opposed to graphic stuff. Blood and zombies make me laugh before they make me startle. UNKLE and Fever Ray have some pretty eerie videos and Chris Cunningham and Andreas Nilsson are pretty good at directing that kind of videos too. Last year, The Golden Filter released a viral video called Open Your Eyes which was essentially a woman dressed in red walking in the distance towards a hill. It lasts for about 50 seconds but in the very last frame she is right in front of the camera. I had nightmares for about a week.
Matt Fleetwood (The Cusp): Health We Are Water. If you like to see a damsel in distress chased through a forest and a stick to the groin of a machete-wielding madman, with a consequential splattering of the red stuff, then look no further.
Nick (Hello Thor): That mental one that Joss Stone funded herself, directed by her brother. It's the most terrifyingly unstable thing I've ever seen. Still gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
Anders (Hello Thor): Thriller did terrify me a bit when I was a kid. The thought that Jacko was genuinely evil did my little head in. Nightmare On My Street by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a pretty terrifying rap narrative with an equally cinematic video too!
Joey Bell (Music Exchange DJ): Total Eclipse Of The Heart by Bonnie Tyler. This video is absolutely terrifying. What were they thinking? It’s like being trapped in a 80s nightmare , they took "turn around bright eyes" literally and came up with some horrific images. The glowing eyes remind me of The Boogeyman - that film was placed on to the Video Nasties list. I dare anyone to watch this on their own in the dark and repeat the curse "Bright Eyes, Bright Eyes, Bright Eyes", but whatever you do, don't turn around…
Dan (Moscow Youth Cult): Thriller because of John Landis, Rick Baker & Vincent Price.
Jon (Moscow Youth Cult): That one where Michael Jackson dresses up as big, grey fox and performs a routine with some homeless dancers. Not sure why but his bemused girlfriend at the end really cheers me up.
What's your favourite horror movie and why?
Meli (WSUOR): I'm more scared by the psychological side of things so something like The Orphanage kept me awake for weeks. My favourite "horror" films of all times are The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Nosferatu. I think they are a lot scarier than 95% of films claiming to be horror today. There is something very beautiful about them that somehow makes the horror side very attractive - and when you're attracted to what is going to kill, that's when you should be scared.
Matt (The Cusp): The Thing - John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Ennio Morricone are just three reasons why. Wiki Trivia: "The Thing is typically viewed by members of the winter crew at the U.S. South Pole station after the last flight out."
Joey Bell: Possession by Andrzej Zulawski. If you feel like being mentally tortured and left confused, delirious and scared then you should check out this superior horror. Intense film with even more unhinged and intense performances from Sam Neil and Isabelle Adjani. This film was definitely an inspiration to Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist (another pleasant view) and features a throbbing, tentacled, gruesome creature designed by Carlo Rambaldi who designed E.T. This film will stay with you for a long time.
Jon (MYC): Hausu because of its utter inventiveness. Also Suspiria - the whole aesthetic influences us greatly.
Dan (MYC): The first sixty seconds of Just Before Dawn. Probably the greatest opening to any of the slasher clones from that period - the nature photography combined with Brad Fiedel's creepy score creates a strange ambiance that is unmatched. The rest of the film is pretty unremarkable. Also Zombie Flesh Eaters – a zombie classic which features one of our favourite themes by Fabio Frizzi. We love it so much that we’ve covered it for our forthcoming EP and will be playing it on the night of Hello Gore III.
Nick (Hello Thor): Gasoline Blood - a short zombie movie, made just outside of Nottingham. I was an extra in it (along with various members of the HT family) - the world's worst zombie, in a duffel coat. Chilling.
Anders (Hello Thor): Halloween III really stuck in my memory from when I was little. The music, the masks….it’s pretty mega. I tend not to like horror flicks though as I’m a wuss. Final Destination is about my level (cough – loser!)
What's your best ever Halloween memory?
Matt (The Cusp): Halloween is the one time every year where I can take off my man suit and just be myself for a day. Y'know? So I'd say every year is a real highlight. But at a push I'd probably have to say...the time we ate all those children at the park. That was a nice day.
Dan (MYC): I remember a boy coming to our door wearing a cardboard box that he’d clearly just found and then seriously expecting some kind of trick/treat transaction. He received nothing.
Joey Bell: I really love Halloween and I love any excuse to dress up. I really loved last year’s Hello Gore and was very proud to be part of it [performing as part of Black Powder] and see so many people making an effort. It has to be my favorite day of the year...even Christmas.
Nick (Hello Thor): Hello Gore II last year was pretty mega. I almost lost my mind with joy when Black Powder played They Live By Night by the Make-Up. Although it did take 40 minutes to get served at the bar, and getting the night bus at 4am, dressed as a mummy, tired and emotional, wasn't that cool.
Anders (Hello Thor): A recent non-Hello Gore related one (don’t want to be a big head like Nick!) was heading to a party on the train in London covered in fake blood and zombie make-up swigging a bottle of Limoncello with a bunch of similarly undead mates.
Jon (MYC): Michael Parkinson pretending to be possessed at the end of Ghostwatch. Genuinely upsetting.
Hello Gore III with live music from Cuban Crimewave, The Cusp, I Am Lono, Joey Chickenskin, Moscow Youth Cult and We Show Up On Radar plus DJ sets from Tom Whalley (6Music) and Joey Bell & Sue Starstruck (Selectadisc / The Music Exchange) takes place at One Thoresby Street on Saturday 29 October 2011.
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