Tastes like chicken.
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.
I found a cool site in Sweden where someone did full Nostromo deck plans (not up now). The Nostromo is one of the best sci-fi space ships ever invented.
http://www.planetavp.com/amr/films/a1/a1.html
His books are always better than the movies/mini-series.
I thought the best verson of his book was the mini-series "The Stand".
Read the book....the movie of "SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES" stinks. The book is almost poetry and far more frightening.
Haven't seen that one yet but I will as soon as it gets to the video stores.
Absolutely. Actually, it played a role in a recent direct-to-video release called "SAMHAIN", but it wasn't historical. It's indeed strange how no onwe's found that yet. It'd be truly horrifying.
One of the ones that sticks in my mind is a Vincent Price movie.
The Last Man on Earth. There's a virus that's turned everyone into vampires except Vincent Price. It's in black and white.
While I'm liked almost all the ones already mentioned I was holding off on chiming in to see if anyone would bring it up. Top notch suspense/horror movie. Could have been a Philip K. Dick story.
Others I haven't yet seen mentioned (haven't read everything yet):
For pure fun horror "Return of the Night of the Living Dead" and "Night of the Comet".
Doubt if it's held up but at the time Lifeforce struck me as a pretty good sci/fi horror flick. Not in the Alien category, but hey, I'll watch just about any scary movie.
I hear 'ya.
I've heard a few people say they didn't like it because they guessed the ending right off. I must be some kind of idiot because while my sister said half way throught the movie she thought she knew what the ending was I had no idea. I also liked it because there was no cussing and no sex and you just don't see that in any kind of movie these days.
I really DID NOT need that visual.
I loved The Tingler! Especially when everyone was sitting in the theater and the lights went out!
The other thing about the movie is that Jennifer Connelly is in it and plays the heros girl friend, a character based on the imagery of Berry Page.
I'll give you a teaser image, taken from the graphic novel that inspired the movie:
There are multiple web sites....
I love the movie.
The original LSoH was kind of funny in a (very) low budget way but mostly I wanted to ask if dry hair really is for squids...(hehe, loved Trancers!)
That movie still scares the hell out of me.
Uh . . . okay.
As I recall little Billy sent 'em to "the cornfield".
A very good episode.
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