Your 2010 Halloween movie pics.

[Il Duce]

In all seriousness though

Rosemary's Baby

Suspiria

Repulsion

[Guest jackdm3]

I decided to really be the caring husband the day I saw "Paranormal" on DVD (wouldn't see it in theaters), all the while knowing I'd hate as much as I hated "Blair Bitch." Really, I wanted to hurt someone immediately after "Blair." I never get pissed off in a movie theater. There was no way a friend would just stand there and let another friend get killed like that. Nor would any of us let ourselves get lost in the forest while being unarmed!!! So with "Paranormal" it was as I expected. The only thing I appreciated was how little they spent to make it on videotape. I'm all for that sort of business sense. Same with "Blair" but GRRRRRRRRR!

[Punisher84]

Man I loved Blair Witch on so many levels. I think probably because when it came out I was in theater and doing alot of amateur film making stuff and that was a great example of how to hype your film.

I wonder how many here have ever seen Bad Moon? It was a made for tv werewolf flick based on a book but its one of my favorites. Awesome werewolf effects too.

[Guest jackdm3]

Like I said, I appreciated the production scam. That's my H.S. and MTSU training. The only time I liked Blair was when the soundguy started cracking up and said he "kicked that (map) @#!+ to the curb!" Otherwise, I felt manipulated.

[SHbicycle]

This thread got me to thinking and I am going to introduce my kids to John Carpenters The Thing for Halloween. I remember going to see it at the theater and thinking that was the first and only movie that ever got under my skin. When the head fell of the table and sprouted legs made me want to get up and find the light switch. I really thought about building a flame thrower after that movie.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

I'm not much into horror movies. Mainly SF. There are movies you can't un-watch. Some movies are so disgusting you can't even un-read the synopsis. Ferinstance, it is not a good idea to even read the synopsis of "The Human Centipede".

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is great!

Night of the Living Dead flicks

Shaun of the Dead

The Thing, new or old version.

The Body Snatchers, new or old version.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes

Alien 1 and 2

Edited October 12, 2010 by Lester Weevils

[Guest jackdm3]

Just finished "The Omen" with the awesome Gregory Peck.

[JAB]

My favorite may well be Return of the Living Dead. Not because it is very scary or a very well made movie (although I do like the movie) but largely because the scene where Linnea Quigley does a striptease in the graveyard still affects me the same, today, as it did the first time I saw the movie back in the '80s.

Fright Night is the first feature film I remember owning. On VHS. When VHS was still cool.

I liked the first Nightmare on Elm Street. I met Robert Englund in person at a Dragon Con in Atlanta back in the mid 1980s when he was probably still known as much for playing 'Willie' on the original 'V' series as for being Freddie. Funny thing, he seemed like a heck of a nice guy who didn't have the, "I just wish these people would leave me alone" attitude that some actors seem to have. Made it even more impressive, to me, that he could pull off being so 'evil' as Freddie. Somewhere, although I am not quite sure where, I think I still have an autographed picture of him as Freddie.

A new favorite, although more of a comedy, is Zombieland. Probably one of my favorite movies, ever. Even my wife (who usually hates horror/zombie type movies) loved it. We saw it three times in the theater and have it on DVD. In the same vein, I also enjoyed Evil Dead 2, the third Evil Dead film (Army of Darkness) and Bubbahotep.

The only horror movie that has 'messed' with me as an adult was The Ring. You know that some dead chick can't come crawling out of your television just because you answer the telephone but something about that movie makes you half expect it will happen for at least a couple of days after watching it.

Personally, I am looking forward to "The Walking Dead" miniseries that begins Halloween night on AMC.

Edited October 13, 2010 by JAB

[Guest jackdm3]

She was the best part of it for me, too. Supertight! I wish more had discovered "Bubbahotep" and "Army."

[Guest Jamie]

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Vamp (1986)

And most any of the old Hammer productions are entertaining, especially the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee.

There's a list of 'em here, I think: The Hammer Horror Crypt

[daddyo]

30 Days of Night

The Grudge

Carrie (with Sissy Spacek)

[Guest jackdm3]

The audio on "Exorcist" and "Poltergeist" freak me out more than any other thing in horror. Somebody should have received Oscars for audio on those.

[Guest mustangdave]

For true scary movies...you have to go with the old black and whites...UNIVERSAL Studios films...The Mummy...Frankenstein...Dracula...the classics for the 30's & 40's....good back up films are the HAMMER Films from England from the 60's...The original OMEN...not the remake...The Shinning....Heeeeere's Johnny!...Halloween comedy: Young Frankenstein...Hocus Pocus...and Disney's Mr. Boogety...and no it's not Darrel Waltrip's auto biography. I'm not that into the ultra REALISM... gore for gores sake movies that come out now at this time of year...that just desensitizes you...I like suspense and being scared outa my seat....the stuff now a days is almost predictable.

[Punisher84]

She was the best part of it for me, too. Supertight! I wish more had discovered "Bubbahotep" and "Army."

^^^^This.

Shop smart! Shop S-Mart.

[Il Duce]

i swear i could put out a scarier movie than what is out today

[memphismason]

I try to watch all of the classics over again.

I do have "Children of the Corn" coming to me on Netflix. I also have "Saw 4" on it's way. I stopped watching the Saw series after 3 and decided it was about time to catch up.

[Armed Aviator]

What about Hostel Freaked me out!

[memphismason]

What about Hostel Freaked me out!

Hostel was pretty cool.

[Guest Jamie]

Just went through our DVD collection to see what else might be of interest...

How 'bout:

Stephen King's Rose Red?

The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp...

Below... a WWII submarine movie that's billed as "U-571 meets Poltergeist".

1408, with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson... ( This is a seriously f-ed up movie... )

And The Order, with Heath Ledger.

I've intentionally left out the Mummy series of movies, as well as Van Helsing, Underworld, Constantine, etc, since they're more action/adventure than Horror.

[Punisher84]

Just went through our DVD collection to see what else might be of interest...

How 'bout:

Stephen King's Rose Red?

The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp...

Below... a WWII submarine movie that's billed as "U-571 meets Poltergeist".

1408, with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson... ( This is a seriously f-ed up movie... )

And The Order, with Heath Ledger.

I've intentionally left out the Mummy series of movies, as well as Van Helsing, Underworld, Constantine, etc, since they're more action/adventure than Horror.

Man I was talking about 1408 to my buddy at work the other night. The only movie that could make The Carpenters f'ing scary!

[JAB]

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Vamp (1986)

And most any of the old Hammer productions are entertaining, especially the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee.

There's a list of 'em here, I think: The Hammer Horror Crypt

Sidebar: My fiction writing professor at UT, Jon Manchip White, did some work for Hammer (he was the writer for The Camp on Blood Island, which I have never seen.) He was an interesting guy and had also worked for the BBC, Disney's European Productions branch and even wrote one episode of one of the greatest television series of all time (IMO), The Avengers. He had been in the Royal Navy and then the Welsh Guard during WWII, was a graduate of Cambridge and a heck of a nice guy.

There is even a Wiki and an IMDB entry for him:

Jon Manchip White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jon Manchip White - IMDb

Tim Lucas Video WatchBlog: Fear and Loathing on Blood Island

Edited October 29, 2010 by JAB