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Kevan
10-30-2006, 12:17 PM
Shaun of the Dead - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/
Russell
10-30-2006, 12:29 PM
Halloween; though The Devils Rejects is scarier.
Ozz
10-30-2006, 12:31 PM
"Audition"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/trivia
bozman
10-30-2006, 12:36 PM
I think the original Halloween movie is still the best.
SponsorsWanted
10-30-2006, 12:52 PM
The Exorcist bro...
davids
10-30-2006, 01:08 PM
Bambi Meets Godzilla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBkc2jK-6w)
Doc Hollywood
10-30-2006, 01:32 PM
The Great Pumpkin will Rise Again.

That classic line that Charlie Brown says after every house. "I got a rock".

Doc
pdxmech13
10-30-2006, 02:41 PM
John Carpenters FOG.
:eek:
wanderingwheel
10-30-2006, 03:07 PM
Arsenic and Old Lace

Sorry, never liked horror movies.
gasman
10-30-2006, 03:09 PM
Bambi Meets Godzilla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBkc2jK-6w)


Thanks David for posting that link. I haven't ssen that since around 1976.


Best movie though-Halloween. Jamie Lee imho
Kevan
10-30-2006, 03:10 PM
Arsenic and Old Lace

Sorry, never liked horror movies.

Shaun of the Dead. It's funny more than ghoulish. Not for kids, but for the tame of heart.
Jeff N.
10-30-2006, 03:13 PM
The Pit And The Pendulum, and The Fall Of The House Of Usher, both with Vincent Price. Scared the heck outa me as a kid. Still does. Masterpieces. Jeff N.
Keith A
10-30-2006, 03:38 PM
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJRQH5oZV20) How many times is CB going to fall for Lucy's football trick? :p
fiamme red
10-30-2006, 03:59 PM
For comedy/horror, this is my favorite:

The Old Dark House (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023293/)

Great film!
wanderingwheel
10-30-2006, 04:06 PM
Shaun of the Dead. It's funny more than ghoulish. Not for kids, but for the tame of heart.
It's OK, but any movie that purports to celebrate my birthday, yet spells my name wrong in the title can not be the best.

Sean (not Shaun)
bcm119
10-30-2006, 05:55 PM
The Shining is still my favorite horror movie because its genuinely creepy and very funny too.
72gmc
10-30-2006, 06:01 PM
I love the shining. I assume you've seen the bunny version (http://www.angryalien.com).
Fat Robert
10-30-2006, 06:15 PM
night of the living dead

i love it when the little girl offs and eats her mom in the basement
William
10-31-2006, 05:18 AM
The Shining is still my favorite horror movie because its genuinely creepy and very funny too.


Agreed (the Original). Jack was classic. Didn't like the ABC version, to schlocky for me.

John Carpenters "The Thing". ("You Gotta Be Effin Kidding!!!) Mrs William and I watched it last week and it still holds up today.




William
rnhood
10-31-2006, 06:12 AM
night of the living dead

i love it when the little girl offs and eats her mom in the basement


That is a classic scene. NOLD also gets my vote for the best horror movie.
Ozz
10-31-2006, 11:24 AM
That is a classic scene. NOLD also gets my vote for the best horror movie.
Sheriff - "If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy."

agreed....classic
pdxmech13
10-31-2006, 08:27 PM
the Mrs and i have been on a rant with carpenter and watched "The Thing". I aspire to have Kurt's haircut before I die. That score is awesome.
shinomaster
10-31-2006, 08:39 PM
http://www.pdxk.com/crankmychain/2006/10/cross-crusade-2006-cyclocross-race-4.html
shinomaster
10-31-2006, 08:44 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBtLqD3WyyE&mode=related&search=
vaxn8r
10-31-2006, 09:18 PM
Ernest Scared Stupid.
shinomaster
11-01-2006, 01:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owF6cbhESgM&NR
bikrt
11-01-2006, 04:38 PM
I think the original Halloween movie is still the best.
I'll 2nd that!
fiamme red
10-26-2007, 03:47 PM
Joy of Fright: Old Chillers That Should Scare (but Not Terrorize) the Kids:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/movies/26scar.html?8dpc=&_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
Your_Friend!
10-26-2007, 03:59 PM
Friends!


My Favorite

_Has_ To Be

Mary Poppins!



Love,
Your_Friend!
rwsaunders
10-26-2007, 04:53 PM
How did Your_Friend miss "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"?
Bruce K
10-26-2007, 05:20 PM
Not what I would call a Halloween movie but, "Alien" was one of the most frightening movies I have ever seen.

I would go with The Thing for a Halloween flick.

BK
Kevan
10-26-2007, 06:19 PM
I was just talking movies with the fam. Rotten weekends call for rotten movies so we're thinking of testing this "Cross the Universe" film tomorrow night. NYT's review loved it, but I think it ends up being a love/hate film for most viewers. The missus and I enjoyed "Moulin Rouge" so there's a possibility we'll like this one too. If not, scratch it up as a horror flick.

Funny to see this thread bounce back to life, zombie-style.

Alien was the first movie I was willing to walk out on. Suspense drives me freakin' nutz!!!!
rePhil
10-26-2007, 06:23 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/

It had the distinction of being the bloodiest movie ever made.
maunahaole
10-26-2007, 06:25 PM
Reanimator
thejen12
10-26-2007, 06:32 PM
I always like watching this one around Halloween time.

Jenn
72gmc
10-26-2007, 06:33 PM
I also enjoy a quiet evening at home with Evil Dead 2.

"Who's in my fruit cellar?"
Dave B
10-26-2007, 07:09 PM
Serpent and the Rainbow (based on a true story)

I posted it earlier, but "The Number 23" is flat out creepy. Not getcha scary, but creeeeepy!

Nightmare on Elm street freaked the snot out of me when I was little. Scared to go to bed for a week.
Louis
10-26-2007, 07:24 PM
Serpent and the Rainbow (based on a true story)

I was born and grew up down there. At night you could hear the drums and singing from the Voodoo temple just down the street.
bironi
10-26-2007, 07:33 PM
:beer: ................................
Dave B
10-26-2007, 07:48 PM
I was born and grew up down there. At night you could hear the drums and singing from the Voodoo temple just down the street.


How did that not scare the ba-jeepers out of you?

Man, that was a messed up movie. I cannot imagine actually being near the story.

Yeee-ikes.
rounder
10-26-2007, 07:51 PM
Ghostbusters!!
Louis
10-26-2007, 10:05 PM
How did that not scare the ba-jeepers out of you?

An analogy: When you grow up drinking the water it's no big deal. You're body is used to it. Stuff that might freak out some is just part of the scenery. Plus, it's not as if they chased after little kids to turn them into zombies, or anything. (Although, of course you heard stories...)
Elefantino
10-26-2007, 10:12 PM
Love At First Bite.

Tried to make an aging Susan St. James look like an ingenue. Really scary stuff. Still gives me nightmares.
Michael Maddox
10-27-2007, 08:32 AM
My odd personal favorites:

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

Although many who saw this probably didn't care much for it, I liked its unusual premise: Judeo-Christian biblical history is 1) true, and 2) not what the church has made it out to be.

Thus, a group of academics and grad students spend a weekend in a mission, coming to grips with the imminent return of a being that once walked the earth. You might call him Satan, but that's probably a little too simplistic.

Lots of good intellectual bits: 2000-year old calculus books (that's a bit before Newton and Leibniz), dreams incited in sleepers by a strange future broadcast (tachyons, of course), and that aura of blasphemy that surrounds all good religious horror--even if you're not particularly religious. Oh, and Alice Cooper's in it, too.

Once the killin' starts, it gets a little less interesting, but luckily, the film is saved by the final couple of minutes. You'll never look at mirrors the same way again.

Another John Carpenter flick:

In the Mouth of Madness pays homage to the wonderful horror of H.P. Lovecraft.

An insurance investigator (Sam Neill) is sent to a small town (i.e., like those favorites of Stephen King) to examine the disappearance of a best-selling author. When he gets there, he finds strange things afoot, and books that seem to have the power to change their readers. But not in the manner to which we're normally accustomed.

Minus a few points for not using a Lovecraft plot, but plus a few for filming few explicit monster scenes. Part of the magic of Lovecraft is the inability to actually visualize the beings he describes. Thus, much of the horror comes from "what the...!?" moments in the movie rather than cheesy effects.

All in all, an enjoyable homage to Lovecraft. It doesn't drag down his work, and it's a pleasant enough scare.

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch

More John Carpenter in this one, but no Michael Myers. Instead, it's a romp through Corporate America. Instead of profits, however, the bad guys are reviving human sacrifice a la Samhain. A bit of obscure Celtic stuff, some modern-day "witches," and wind-up toys that do a bit more than stumble around--it's all good fun without a lot of gore.

Although critically panned, it has a few things that stick in your head. And that MAKES a horror movie.

These are three movies that do a pretty good job with "ancient evil," which is my favorite sort. No slashers or other things that might actually be stopped simply with a few well-placed double-taps. Somehow, awakening something is always better than something new simply popping up. All really cool evil, as you know, is old.