Your Oct/Halloween movie list

[Bezzerkerr]

Those long shots of micheal in the shadows staring at you, so awesome.

For me, those are the shots that put this film over the edge.

Rob Zombie can give us all the bllod in the world, but it will never top Carpenter's simple eerieness

 

[the angry orc]

For me, those are the shots that put this film over the edge.

Rob Zombie can give us all the bllod in the world, but it will never top Carpenter's simple eerieness

100% truth. carpenter made, imo, the perfect horror film.

 

[Bezzerkerr]

100% truth. carpenter made, imo, the perfect horror film.

with little to no gore.

 

[PhilboBaggins]

Halloween 1-3
Friday the 13th 1-3
Poltergeist
The Shining
Monster Squad
The Fog (original)
Hocus Pocus
Garfield Halloween special
Trick R Treat
Creepshow 1 & 2
Fright NIght
April fools Day (original)
My Bloody Valentine (original)
Scream
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ghostbusters 1&2
Rosemarys Baby
Amittyville Horror (original)
A Werewolf in London
Mr. Boogedy
Bride of Boogedy
Return of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
I work from home so I just pop in a movie as soon as I wake up and roll through them all day.

 

[the angry orc]

with little to no gore.

yah, it reminds me a little of the way hooper did texas chainsaw massacre. there is very little actual gore shown but people think they have seen a ton. so much better a lot of times when the viewer gets to imagine/imply, etc. cause sometimes effects might tend to look goofy or fake and ruin the 'moment'. stephen king mentioned something like it in 'dance macabre'. he said you always want to hold off showing the monster, etc. in full as long as you can because as soon as you do people start looking for the zipper in the back of the suit. or something along those lines.

 

[Bezzerkerr]

Halloween 1-3
Friday the 13th 1-3
Poltergeist
The Shining
Monster Squad
The Fog (original)
Hocus Pocus
Garfield Halloween special
Trick R Treat
Creepshow 1 & 2
Fright NIght
April fools Day (original)
My Bloody Valentine (original)
Scream
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ghostbusters 1&2
Rosemarys Baby
Amittyville Horror (original)
A Werewolf in London
Mr. Boogedy
Bride of Boogedy
Return of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
I work from home so I just pop in a movie as soon as I wake up and roll through them all day.

Hocus Pocus...haaaa. remember when i brought this DVD home a couple of years back my brother said, "WTF?"

I agree, it doesn't really fit in my collection but it's a good family/kids halloween movie. Not everyone has to be a barn burner!

 

[PhilboBaggins]

Hocus Pocus...haaaa. remember when i brought this DVD home a couple of years back my brother said, "WTF?"

I agree, it doesn't really fit in my collection but it's a good family/kids halloween movie. Not everyone has to be a barn burner!

Yeah I know its a big ball of cheese and Bette Midler in the movie kind of looks like my mother in law but still it has a good holiday feel to it. Plus I have good memories of catching a double feature of it and Son in Law when I was a kid.

 

[Bezzerkerr]

yah, it reminds me a little of the way hooper did texas chainsaw massacre. there is very little actual gore shown but people think they have seen a ton. so much better a lot of times when the viewer gets to imagine/imply, etc. cause sometimes effects might tend to look goofy or fake and ruin the 'moment'. stephen king mentioned something like it in 'dance macabre'. he said you always want to hold off showing the monster, etc. in full as long as you can because as soon as you do people start looking for the zipper in the back of the suit. or something along those lines.

That's the only way to do things. Hollywood has been spoiling the audience as of late ...specifically the SAW & HOSTEL films where people look forward to the gore and shock value a film brings to the table...this is the wrong way to do things...what's next Horror-porn?

Back when I was in college I showed my buddies countless Horror Classics and they were not impressed because they were used to seeing films like SAW 2 and Hostel, that showed the blood & guts and traditional creepy tactics like long shots, eerie music was not enough.

Hitchcock was the master of suspense. He tortured the audience, showing them the absolute minimum and his films have stood the test of time. He believed the human imagination was the best weapon of all .... if his audience doesn't see what they're looking for, their imagination will run rampant and create a monster/villian much worse than he could ever create.

When it comes to film making, torture the audience, earn their respect and bring along for a ride they won't forget

 

[Bezzerkerr]

Yeah I know its a big ball of cheese and Bette Midler in the movie kind of looks like my mother in law but still it has a good holiday feel to it. Plus I have good memories of catching a double feature of it and Son in Law when I was a kid.

Son In Law, haaaa ... I loved when he fed the barn yard animals by cutting holes in the bottom of the bag, and roller blading down hill ... filling all the troughs, vintage Paulie Shore

Tiffany-Amber Thiessan

 

[Morbach]

Tonight for me is Halloween 2.

 

[JGouse0498]

Tonight was The Blob. Recorded it on Chiller Monday night. It wasn't a half-bad movie. Short and to the point. I'll have to grab it on DVD for next October.

 

[Morbach]

Tonight was The Blob. Recorded it on Chiller Monday night. It wasn't a half-bad movie. Short and to the point. I'll have to grab it on DVD for next October.

My mall sells it for $5.99 so I got it. Great price for a good flick.

 

[JGouse0498]

My mall sells it for $5.99 so I got it. Great price for a good flick.

Yeah, I'm always seeing it dirt cheap, but I always remembered it as a stupid movie. However, it's actually pretty decent. I'm glad I decided to record it on Monday.

 

[DarkArtist81]

That's the only way to do things. Hollywood has been spoiling the audience as of late ...specifically the SAW & HOSTEL films where people look forward to the gore and shock value a film brings to the table...this is the wrong way to do things...what's next Horror-porn?

Back when I was in college I showed my buddies countless Horror Classics and they were not impressed because they were used to seeing films like SAW 2 and Hostel, that showed the blood & guts and traditional creepy tactics like long shots, eerie music was not enough.

Hitchcock was the master of suspense. He tortured the audience, showing them the absolute minimum and his films have stood the test of time. He believed the human imagination was the best weapon of all .... if his audience doesn't see what they're looking for, their imagination will run rampant and create a monster/villian much worse than he could ever create.

When it comes to film making, torture the audience, earn their respect and bring along for a ride they won't forget

Totally agree man. One of the most PERFECT suspenseful horror scenes to me was from the original Alien. Dallas is in the tubes, the monster is basically just a blip on a tracking screen as he slowly crawls through the dark and humid tunnels in search of the Alien. The soundtrack and the thump of the radar help heighten the tension, along with the screams of his crew.. as they ask for him to get out.

And Scott waits until the last possible moment to have Dallas turn his flashlight to an outreached Alien as he closes for the kill. That moment is STILL amazing to this day, you cannot watch that scene without your heart beating faster and the anticipation mounting. It's excellently crafted.

Modern horror seems to have forgotten these Hitchcockian techniques in favor of buckets of blood and fast editing.

 

[Bezzerkerr]

Modern horror seems to have forgotten these Hitchcockian techniques in favor of buckets of blood and fast editing.

I commend Sam Raimi's efforts with his "Drag me to Hell"

first NEW film i've seen in years that gave me the creeps, tactical scares

 

[Bloodsport]

Modern horror movies is all about connecting with young people by having the characters smoking weed, drinking, cursing, having sex, etc. Also showing every little detail of why the horror is happening and leaving nothing to our imagination and of course it have to be very gory. Im a gorehound myself but what modern horror lacks is a certain charm that even a 80's slasher movie had. The early Friday the 13th film had a certain charm, well you actually like some of the characters in the film and they're not forgettable. Nowadays you watch a horror movie and when its over you're like "wtf", is that it? I can make a better movie myself.

Back on topic My picks John Carpenter's The Thing, The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Pieces, and Nightbreed.

 

[Morbach]

I also like gore. Re-Animator and The Evil Dead trilogy are some of my all-time favs and they are gorey. Even though Army Of Darkness didn't have hardly any gore. But I am a horror fan through and through so I like any and all kinds of horror. But I miss the suspense and chills that new movies lack. That's why 70-80's slasher films are some of my favorites ever. To new generations our taste is out dated and old. Maybe we're just old then.

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

My girlfriend hates modern horror films, so all month I've been introducing her to the world of Universal (and friends!) So far we've watched:

The Mummy
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
The Invisible Man
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Wolf Man
Freaks

I also plan on us watching Creature From the Black Lagoon and Browning's Dracula just to finish up Universal's main eight. I really wanna find time to sequeeze in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Mummy (1999) before the week's over.

I really wish I could introduce her to Hammer Horror, but there aren't enough days in the month!

 

[Voorhees27]

Yes its true that modern horror caters to the taste of young teens. This can only mean one thing. Todays teens are ****** bags. REAL horror started with Hitchcock, perfected in the 70's and died in the 80's. It was a nice little reign.

The Japanese have come close but its also not of any lasting quality.

 

[ScorpionDeadman]

This can only mean one thing. Todays teens are ****** bags.

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