i have to return some video tapes...
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.
Dont know if it qualifies as Horror, but "Signs" is outstanding with the building suspense.
I'm with you: Alien, it is.
The second one was as frightful as the first.
The Haunting with Julie Harris, Claire Bloom and Rus Tamblin.
Punkinhead. I've watched nearly every horror movie out, and enjoyed plenty of them, but this one was so scary to me that I've actually forgotten most of it. So I have no idea why it made such an impression, thankfully.
I was about 4 or 5 when Jaws came out, and I saw it in the theatre - when that head fell out of the boat, I about crapped my pants, was tugging on my mom's arm demanding to go home...then I stopped, and watched the rest of the movie, and at the end I wanted to see it again. It took forever for me to conider going into water where I couldn't see the bottom clearly... Shudder...
My brother and I watched it on KTVU's Creature Features, hosted by Bob Wilkins.
It was pouring down rain, lots of thunder and lightning. Of course, we armed ourselves with baseball bats and kitchen knives, you know, just in case there really were zombies out there.
I'll second "The Ring" as a recent scary movie. More creepy than anything. When that girl crawls out of the well and TV...
I had the exact same reaction to the original "Alien" movie, in the theaters. I went in with a few friends to see a midnight showing of the movie, and on a really big screen, that was the most stress filled movie I had ever seen! In fact, in the scene where the cat jumps out of the storage locker, I said "That's it!" got up, and walked out!
The "chest bursting" scene was one of the wildest I had ever seen up till that point! If you think that the people around that table were amazing actors during that scene, it's because only the crew and John Hurt knew what was going to be happening! The other actors thought that he was just going to be having a seizure.
Mark
I didn't care for The Ring either.
Some of the images almost seemed demonic to me.
I saw the Grudge recently - didn't care for that either.
I don't like to have bad images in my mind when I am home at night.
I did like Interview With a Vampire. I have seen that about 3 times.
It was kinda scary - but not in a way that it bothered me.
Also, Young Frankenstine. That was not too scary at all. I liked the comedy in it.
"I" had all my underbosses over for a sleep and we were enthralled watching Bela Lugosi, in one or another of his roles.
(sidline)..............MOM made the popcorn, etc.
MoM shut off the table lamp,(at the exact perfect moment), and scared the hell out of the underbosses.............did I mention my Dad owned a Funeral Home!:)
MoM is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Out the door I went when the family was on the boat. I just can't take that movie because of the tension.
Gore doesn't bother me. I was an embalmer as my summer job in college.
Yes, The Others was excellent. I like surprise endings.
Sixth Sense was another good one.
Muleteam1
i have to return some video tapes...
Have you ever read the Stephen King book "Misery"? The movie didn't even come close to capturing the tension, the atmosphere, imho...
Another good M. Night Shamilan (sp?) movie was The Village.
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