[Nifster]

I don’t know for me the thirties version of Dracula with Bela was really scary and still is. Nosteraufu is also

[Hot Tabasco]

Halloween is nothing but an end of the season fun fest where kids dress up in costumes, people carve pumpkins and set out bales of hay in their front yards.

Any attempt to portray it more than that is pathological...........

Kudos to your fun fest vanity tho.................

[SoCal Pubbie]

I still have all my old copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland.

[OttawaFreeper]

You can talk about how scary movies like “The Exorcist” or “Carrie” or “Halloween” or even “The Changeling” are. But I can remember the “Happy Days” episode “Haunted”, featuring the old Simpson house. Even on into my teens (after seeing it numerous times) I found it just that bit difficult to go to bed afterwards as it still scared me a little.

[Artemis Webb]

When I was a kid there was a movie theater on the public square that, for their Saturday matinee, would show either Japanese Monster movies (Godzilla, Rodan, King Kong) or Hammer vampire films. I LOVED Hammer!

[OttawaFreeper]

You can talk about how scary movies like “The Exorcist” or “Carrie” or “Halloween” or even “The Changeling” are. But I can remember the “Happy Days” episode “Haunted”, featuring the old Simpson house. Even on into my teens (after seeing it numerous times) I found it just that bit difficult to go to bed afterwards as it still scared me a little.

[Snickering Hound]

‘Fright Night’ (the 80’s original, not the lousy recent remake) and ‘Salems Lot’ with David Soul.

That rocking chair scene in ‘Salems Lot’ is still gold.

[OttawaFreeper]

I have the Dan Curtis DVD box set with his version of Dracula as well as “The Turn of the Screw” and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (done in 1968 on videotape). All very well done productions. Has anyone here seen the Dan Curtis production of “Frankenstein”? I would like to see that one sometime.

[real saxophonist]

In college, four of us went as ‘The Young Ones’. I was VyVyan. Wish I had a picture.

[OttawaFreeper]

I have the 1953 “House of Wax” on DVD. I know that it was originally released in 3-D and I would not mind seeing it in that original way sometime. Has anyone here seen it that way?

[miss marmelstein]

Did everyone miss the post from Jim??

[Sans-Culotte]

I love the Universal horror films of the 30’s and 40’s as well as Hammer’s 60’s versions. I also fondly remember Forrest Ackerman’s Famous Monsters magazine.

[Donglalinger]

The Fly 1958 version freaked me out

[Daffynition]

BTTT

The Net Nanny Wet Blanket has arrived.

[Donglalinger]

Anybody from central NY remember this?

[Donglalinger]

[rockrr]

I prefer SciFi (even b-grade!) to “monster movies” and LOVE the old stuff. The 1950’s seems to have been the zenith for “classic Sci-Fi” and everything since has been derivative.

[Donglalinger]

[RandallFlagg]

Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland

I loved those magazines. I remember one with Godzilla (1954) on the cover chewing on a Japanese train.

My last days off -to get into the season- I watched all of the Romero, "Living Dead," movies. I had most of them on DVD, but haven't yet seen, "Diary," or, "Survival." So, I rented those two on iTunes.

Yeah. They sucked. Stick with the original trilogy.

[ifinnegan]

Freepers who grew up in Northern California may remember Bob Wilkins and Creature Features.