Posted on 11/23/2004 9:31:31 PM PST by John Robertson
What's your favorite horror movie...and why? What fried your hair, and still makes it jump if you get a little too tired and you remember a sequence or two from something that scared the stuff out of you.
I've always dismissed horror movies as a waste of time, but the older I get, the more I realize they must serve some function--some cathartic function--because they are an enduring genre, and each generation likes to find its own favorite scary movies. Heard a commentator saying the other day, the reason the country is so preoccuppied with horror films right now is, it's a horror we can "handle," versus the real, terrorist kind of horror.
The show actually had the top 100. I wrote down the top 25 only because I had a bet that Exorcist was Number 1, of course I lost.
I agree with you there. I've never been one to get into the whole horror genre... I didn't get much out of "Halloween" or "Nightmare" or any of the sequels, but "Hellraiser" really scared the crap out of me.
Hellraiser rocks. But I'm still partial to the Evil Dead movies. I don't know why.
TuhRayZuh at the DNC convention. That a freak so terrifyingly detached from reality might well occupy OUR White House had me quaking.
In my later years, The Shining.
3 of the best camp/horror imho
cannibal campout
sorority babes in the slime-bowl-o-rama
stuff stephanie in the incinerator
these 3 deserved academy awards but didn't quite pique enough of the motion picture academy voting mamber's attention............or something like that.
28 Days Later... a virus spreads through Britain that turns people into cannibalistic psychos with glowing red eyes. Lots of good scares that make you jump, an icky subplot with some sex-starved soldiers that made my stomach sink... it's a good movie!
Hmmmm ... horror. I watch very few of those but I suppose Jaws was classified as horror and I sort of enjoyed those but I can't watch those weird horror like movies.
I will say that Harrison Ford's 'What Lies Beneath' was pretty scary - LOL
Saw "Alien" when it opened with a lady acquaintance. She darn near tore my arm off by twisting on it during the tenser moments.
I think The Ring was one of the best scary movies I've seen. I liked The Others too - the best scary movies are the ones where you don't see anything - but just let your imagination take over.
Eraserhead,Freaks
saw that a while back while in a hotel on business - a strange movie, but scary.
I think "The Exorcist 3" has the scene in the hospital where the nurse is walking thru around and the guy pops behind her with the knife. That one makes me jump out of my skin.
I do like "Halloween H20." Probably the setting more than the plot; that old school.
Currently, my daughter and I are into foreign horror. It is definitely different.
Seinfeld.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre--the term "unrelenting" applies here
Last Man on Earth/Dawn of the Dead (remake)--inpired (directly in the case of the first) by Matheson's "I Am Legend," these are visions of Hell on Earth that make one consider "If this goes on..." 'This' being whatever one thinks is a dangerous trend in society.
Session 9--A movie that does nothing for some people, it's the ONLY movie that ever actually scared me
also "hackenstein" was a cimematic masterpiece.
Creature from the Black Lagoon and Aliens.
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