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I'm a horror movie and book fiend...er, I mean fan, so since it's halloween today (trick or treat? Where's my candy?) I will be watching my favorite horror movie tonight with a friend. It's "Silent Hill" - very unusual and creepy. They are coming out with a new Silent Hill in 3-D. What's your favorite horror movie - or do you hate them all?
rosarugosa
10-31-12, 8:12pm
Oh I love them all, and like candy, I can't choose just one favorite!
I love the old Universal Films: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman & The Mummy.
I love the cult classics like Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Psycho, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
My more contemporary favorites (my idea of contemporary is made in color) include Saw and The Ring.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never seen Nightmare on Elm Street, which I need to rectify!:devil:
I'll probably think of a dozen more as soon as I hit submit!
Simplemind
10-31-12, 8:56pm
To this day the Exorcist still scares the bejesus out of me.
Anything from Hammer Horror is always campy fun. Most can be found on Youtube.
My personal favorite is Dracula: AD 1972
Anything zombie. I have seen everything in our library consortium, so sad. My son-in-law just gave me a membership to Netfix, which I will use as soon as I figure out to set my sound stuff. I bought speakers, but cannot get voices.
Mighty Frugal
10-31-12, 9:52pm
Exorcist is my favourite scary movie. Not that I'll actually WATCH it anymore (way too scaredy-cat) but it's the best! The Omen is great too...brrr..getting chills!
Haven't seen the Ring or Saw or Paranormal Activity or any other new ones-see note above about being a scaredy-cat:~)
I'll stick to the Halloween chocolates, you can have the movies
Without a doubt, it has to be "Night of the Living Dead."
The shining. I have a hard time really believing in zombies or strange men with scissor hands chasing me, but my husband? Losing his mind, little by little and then coming after us? THAT"S SCARY! to me.
rosarugosa
11-1-12, 8:21am
Tiam: Yes, the original version of The Shining is a favorite of mine. I just love those dead little girls saying "Come and play with us, Danny!" And the moment when the wife sees the content of her husband's manuscript and realizes he is stark raving mad, and they're trapped with him - yikes!
I also really enjoyed Zombieland from a few years ago.
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THE BIRDS! Those less gruesome references to horror are still my favorites.
You can tell it's been forever since I've seen one...Rosemary's Baby (one of my favorite movies/books of all time), and The Sentinel, 1977 version.
Don't "do" horror movies -- bug-eyed monsters, aliens, vampires, living-dead, etc. -- yuk. Don't see the attraction. Do like mysteries/suspense, tho.
Gardenarian
11-1-12, 1:31pm
I love Hitchcock - I think "Psycho" is my favorite of his horror movies.
I also liked "Scream" and it's sequel.
I've been wanting to see "The Blair Witch Project" for a long time - I've heard it's great.
rosarugosa
11-1-12, 1:52pm
Jane: Thumbs up for Rosemary's Baby!
Gardenarian: I wanted to see the Blair Witch Project for the longest time, and I ended up hating it. I also got a headache, and I almost never get headaches. It is presented as though someone is filming from a handheld video camera that keeps jumping around. I was rooting for all the characters to die so the movie would be over!
Here's some more: The Bad Seed, Deliverance, and an obscure movie called Of Unknown Origin, which was a terrific rat movie!
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Jane: Thumbs up for Rosemary's Baby!
Gardenarian: I wanted to see the Blair Witch Project for the longest time, and I ended up hating it. I also got a headache, and I almost never get headaches. It is presented as though someone is filming from a handheld video camera that keeps jumping around. I was rooting for all the characters to die so the movie would be over!
Here's some more: The Bad Seed, Deliverance, and an obscure movie called Of Unknown Origin, which was a terrific rat movie!
That was my reaction to the Blair Witch Project. Hoped the whiney brats would just...well...die. Where's Jason and Freddie and Michael Myers when you need some obnoxious teens whacked :-)!
I also thought "The Ring" and "The Grudge" where pretty spooky. And as Stephen King's number one fan (just like the lady from "Misery") I thought they did a good job making the movie of "The Shining". Who else but Jack Nickleson to go all out pyscho-killer.
That was my reaction to the Blair Witch Project. Hoped the whiney brats would just...well...die. Where's Jason and Freddie and Michael Myers when you need some obnoxious teens whacked :-)!
Alright, I'm going to argue for Blair Witch. Yes, you're right, it can give you a headache. But if you watch it on a small screen (say, you're laptop) it's a lot easier to take. Yes, they were whiny brats and you did want them to die. However, I liked the fact that it is the one horror movie that I think I've ever seen that made me put myself in the main character's place and actually wonder what I would have done and if I could have saved myself.
The Ring was really creepy. I also enjoyed The Others, which wasn't really a horror movie, but creepy/suspenseful. And Shawn of the Dead, a funny horror movie.
Anyone else like the Scary Movie series? They're great if you've seen the movies they spoof. Also, the Final Destination series---how do they come up with those crazy deaths??
The Ring for sure. My Dad was in it too. His part got cut from the main movie; it's in the extras. It was filmed partially in WA state.
ToomuchStuff
11-3-12, 1:56am
Not really my genre. While Nightmare on Elm street, or Dreamscape may at some point be considered horror, I never thought of a thriller as horror. (thrillers seemed to be popular when I was a kid, just thought of them more as slasher/supernatural movies). I thought of horror as something that had a sense of reality about it. Without saying what could be or seemed real, the two that spring to my mind as horror, are:
The Changling, with George C Scott, and Ghost Story, with Fred Astaire.
Then there is music, which gets used quite a bit in horror. Bing Crosby's, Did you ever see a dream walking, gets used in the Lady in White, quite effectively. However it has such a different dimension when it plays in the Green Mile.
I love Hitchcock - I think "Psycho" is my favorite of his horror movies.
I also liked "Scream" and it's sequel.
I've been wanting to see "The Blair Witch Project" for a long time - I've heard it's great.
We saw Blair Witch when it was new in the theater and for the most part I did not get caught up in it. But it was such a phenomena that we soon after held a Blair Witch camp out in our yard. We sent invitations by placing piles of sticks on people's front porches (you have to see the film to relate.) The invitation had a photo of DH and I in hats with out faces lite up by flashlights (another reference to the film) and we told people to be sure to bring enough damn cigarettes! The college kids in the film keep running out of damn cigarettes.
Not in the genre, but I can't help but think that a wonderful/horrific fantasy mixed with real is Pan's Labyrinth, brilliant, atmospheric, and evocative. It's on my top ten list but I will only watch it once, never again. It's not a fun horror film so probably I shouldn't even bring it up on this list.
Some subtle horror films that take place in the world of the supernatural are The Orphanage (same director as Pan's Labyrinth) and The Others with Nicole Kidman.
, I liked the fact that it is the one horror movie that I think I've ever seen that made me put myself in the main character's place and actually wonder what I would have done and if I could have saved myself.
Ha Ha - true! However if I was the girl with the camera searching for my friends I'd be pointing the light away from me instead of in my face to see what was out there to get me! or at least to avoid stepping in something nasty in the dark.
I do recommend "Silent Hill" to others after watching it again on Halloween. Tres creepy and with an unusal ending (is it good? or is it bad? Or is it just confusing?).
Well, both versions of Let the Right One In (either the Swedish or the American) are really fab films. The Swedish one is probably in my top ten list of all time, for sure it's in my top 20. The American version was decent. It's about a vampire, but it is very moving. Then speaking of vampires, Shadow of the Vampire is really really creepy.
Now I'm going to look for Silent Hillat the library.
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