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.
My favorite is reall a sci-fi/horror movie. Alien (the first film) directed by Ridley Scott.
I forgot about "The Thing." I thought John Carpenter's version was an excellent thriller. My favorite scene is where they discover Wilford Brimley's spaceship under construction. "Looks like someone's been busy."
The original Alien, it was dark, dank and claustrophobic as hell
Mel....MEL!
I like movies like Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, (Red Dragon was ok), and most recently SAW.
In SAW there were a couple of scenes that had me bracing the armrest. One in particular was wherein a victim is racing against the clock to remove a spring loaded clamp wrapped around her head. Once the time runs out, the clamp will spring open, ripping her head to pieces. In order to open the clamp she must retrieve a key buried her cell mate's stomach. It was a pretty intense scene.
I also thought the way the movie ended was clever.
I watched "Saw." It did have some moments that caused the audience to jump. The ending was a stretch, but overall it was a good movie. Reminded me of "Seven," only much more violent and gory.
My wife was a Steven King fan and thought "It" was absolutely terrifying. Don't think I'm going to read it...
Exorcist, Psycho, Alien, The Haunting and finally the Shining
Movie I was referring to in #278 is "The Leech Woman".
Not my favorite horror movie. Just a bizarre (albeit entertaining, imo,) one.
"Dog Soldiers...B horror flick, brit actors, filmed in scottland."
Oh, yeah. The werewolves were rather badly made, but the movie had an atmosphere, especially in the first half.
My choice would be Donnie Darko.
SAW was good. The scenes were gory and suspenseful. I almost walked out at least a couple of times because of the gore and subject matter, which tells me its good flick :). I was a little disappointed with the writing through most of the movie because I thought I had the ending figured out. I was pleasantly surprised to find I was wrong.
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Guess I mught be a little older than you, but the 1951 original version of The Thing with James Arness is classic.
Maybe it's because I was still a kid when I saw it, but it still gives me the creeps.
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Donnie Darko was a great movie. I plan to get it on DVD. Pretty decent website too. But I never thought of it as a horror movie.
the original friday the 13th
Surely this has been mentioned already but, the 2004 Democratic Convention.
The recent Democrap Convention from the Fleet (enema?) Center in Boston!
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