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.
ROTFLMAO! Yessssss!
I remember seeing it in the theatre when it first came out! The theatre owners were instructed to turn off all of the lights in the seating area, and to now allow people to enter during the last 30 minutes of the movie, because it would ruin the movie for the viewers. I still remember the screams at the climactic scene where he jumps at her!
I believe it can happen so it really does things to my mind.
I saw "Blair Witch Project" in the theatre with my teenage daughter. It spooked the heck out of me, my daughter did't get it - especially the ending. "That's IT? Man that was LAME," I remember her saying to me. Ah well, must have been a generational thing.
Three more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
Three more days to Halloween
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One of my daughter's toys will play the tune and these words come into my head.
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Yeah but "Spaceballs" ruined that for me! "Hello, my baby! Hello, my honey! Hello, my Ragtime gal!" :-)
That's a GREAT flick.
Read about half the post so far and didnt see ALFRED HITCHCOCK!
Maybe its showing my age but "The Birds" scared me to death.
Just thinking about my top 3...I guess Excorsist and Jaws.....Still dont't go into the sea....Fat as I am I am just a big chunk of bait....
That's funny.
The first King book I read was The Stand, I was in the 8th Grade home with the flu, and read it overnight, in one sitting. Creeped the hell out of me.....Especially the Lincoln Tunnel part....
You're right, there is no visual horror, it's just that the very concept of the movie was terribly disturbing. I was totally bluffed by the way it ended, and I've been in love with Jules' "Mad World" song ever since.
In true horror genre, I'd say "The Thing" (the 1984 version). I really liked "Invasion of the Body snatchers", but like most 1970s-vintage movies it has not matured very well IMHO.
The best horror movie of all time has to be "The Bride of Frankenstein".
When I was a kid I watched the 1953 movie "Invaders from Mars" and it scared the bejeezus out of me! The drill which implanted a controlling device in the back of your neck? And that alien in the glass globe? Yikes.
Also known as "The Junior Senator from New York".
The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". When I was a child it scared me. As an adult I became enchanted with the 50s kitsch, and the fact the the four main characters smoke and drink their brains out through the whole movie.
The remake SUCKED turnips.
I have a lot of favorite horror movies, including "The Birds", but I always come back to "Body Snatchers" as Numero Uno. And it's always a pleasure to watch.
Seinfeld makes me cringe, remembering the under-pressure, life-in-a-beehive, hearing the neighbors through the walls, urine-soaked subways, glamorous city life it portrays rather accurately. Having seen a little of the dark underbelly of such communities, I am truly no fan.
Do like Costanza and the Soup Nazi...and Kramer was hilarious in Second City T.V.
And I see your point about horror as there was a litte visual horror in Darko. That rabbit mask gave me the creeps.
I too liked the Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But ideally, I prefer horror movies that expose the worst in humanity such as Se7en, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, Serpent and the Rainbow, Ed Gein, etc.
Then there are real-life horrors that stick in my head like the cult ritual slayings in Matamoros, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, et al. It is horrifying to think that people like that really exist.
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