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 SUSPIRIA.
It had the most bizarre soundtrack (music by the Goblins).
Did you know when Alien was first written Ripley was a male character?
I agree with you. The Haunting was one of the best. No major special effects, but it left everything to your imagination. The book "The Haunting of Hill House" which the movie was based on was even better.
The Man From Hope....
Halloween
Halloween III season of the witch
Psycho
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Jaws
Special mention
***Friday 13th
*** A nightmare before Christmas
***Midnight Express
***Hannibal
***Assault on Precinct 13
***Breakdown
***The Exorcist
The first, "Halloween", by John Carpenter.
"Dance with me you little toad"
The Tingler and The Blob...rank up there for me......!!!
I bought the book-(when it came out in the early 70's)...The Exorcist...and midway through it was so spooked out and horrified at the direction it was going....
..I tore up the book in tiny pieces, and refused to see the movie and warned my family not to see it either!
Suspiria is truly scary.....sequence after sequence of eery, inexplicable horror. Terrifying.
In a class by itself....nothing like it before or since.....the work of a very talented (or disturbed) individual.
Love the ending when the Invisible Man lights up
a smoke and introduces himself.
Hi John,
Here are a few of my favorites, in no particular order:
Horror of Dracula--1958 Christopher Lee
The Body Snatcher--1945 Boris Karloff
Paperhouse---1988 (Very intelligent and spooky)
Exorcist III--1990 George C. Scott (very scary!)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein--1948
Jaws--1975
The Sixth Sense--1999
Brides of Dracula--1960 Peter Cushing
Aliens--1986 what a pure adrenaline rush!
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman--1943 (OK, so it's not a great movie...however, the opening scene in the crypt is the stuff of nightmares)
Vincent Price as "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" also really scared me as a kid!
Brian
No doubt, the scariest movie ever, the only one that ever really scared me, not just startled, but scared, was the exorcist. I would not reccomend it to anyone.
Although I already said Alien, the movie which literally kept me up all night was Nightmare on Elm Street.
I dare anyone to watch that movie late at night and then try to go to sleep telling yourself "it's only a movie".
I agree. I can watch the first two parts of that movie, but I still can't watch that third part, the one with the voodoo doll.
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
Farenheit 911.
Perzactly! 3 of my favorites!
Saw that years ago - my mother rented it on VHS when it came out. It was the first and only time in my life where I got to see my mother vomit... I don't know if it was the movie, my sick commentary, or a mixture of the two... but it was pretty funny to watch...
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