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.
"Blair Witch Project was spooky. I slept that night with the bathroom light on. Alien would be my all time fav.."
I tried to watch the Blair Witch Project twice. I thought it was the most boring movie I'd ever tried to watch. What in the world was spooky about it?
I thought Alien was good but really, what was good about Blair Witch?
Charles Griffith. (and I answered that without having to look at the IMDB.)
The original Roger Corman "Little Shop Of Horrors" was written by Jonathan Haze (Who also played Stanley Krelboyn)... Jack.
Charles Griffith. Not Haze.
How about Shawshank (SP?) Redemption or Stand By Me?
yep.
lol love it!
I must admit Sesson 9 did nothing for me. I had it pegged 20 minutes in. Maybe that was it.
The Rocketeer is a great feel good movie. Oh yea and it has Jennifer in it.
Like many, I enjoy an evening consisting of dinner and a movie. When my favorite Italian restaurant was exceptionally crowded one fine Saturday evening, I asked my then-girl friend if she would mind going to the movies first. She agreed, and we went to the cinema BEFORE dinner. The movie of choice? ALIEN. The scene with the android really killed off my fettuccine alfredo cravings in a real hurry!
Charles Griffith. Not Haze.
To clarify....Haze did play Seymore Krelboin (not Stanley). Charles Griffith wrote Little Shop of horrors,
"I tried to watch the Blair Witch Project twice. I thought it was the most boring movie I'd ever tried to watch."
---I'm with you!! BWP to me was one of the stupidest movies I've seen. There were so many things the characters did that defied common sense logic. Example: in the movie when they were lost and kept going in circles ending up back at that stream when common sense would tell you to follow the stream instead of jumping over it and going in circles. Or perhaps follow the sun -- rises in the east sets in the west.
Example 2: at the end when whoever it was that went into the deserted and dark house and then down to the basement. HELLO!!!! No way in hell would I go into a deserted house in the middle of no where in which people were screaming!!!!!
I think everyone who watched it had it pegged 20 minutes in, in terms of it being about a spirit possessing a particular character. What was effective about it was the atmosphere, and the growing sense of unease.
read the book "Jaws" while on my sailboat in the Carib; didn't get in the water for a week...
read "the exorcist" in a snow bound cabin high up in the Sierras, no one around for miles....wind blowing the limbs of trees against the cabin, the only contact with people the radio...darker than hell...... didn't sleep well for a week.
Yep, you guessed it, I read "The Shining" here at the ranch during the long winter days....Man, did this old house have a lot of creaks and groans...
Those were both outstanding movies.
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet (I'm only up to post 100 on the thread) but "The Hitcher" with Rutger Hauer really freaked me out.
-- The original black and white King Kong, especially when you saw him for the first time
-- Jurassic Park
-- Terminator II -- great chase scenes
-- Poltergeist
-- Some old movie probably from the 1960's that I've forgotten the title to, but some kids were walking in the woods on a hill, there was eerie singing music, and they fell down in a sinkhole to an alien ship underground
-- Sinbad, because of the Cyclops scenes (the rest stank)
-- Another old movie I've forgotten the title to, but there was a BIG BIG BLACK SPIDER that stomped around, threatening to obliterate whole cities
Read your post right after I hit "Post" for #514.
>>I saw the Exorcist with a group of friends that included an Hispanic Catholic. He came unglued during the movie.
I can empathize with your buddy. My brother and I watched maybe 20 minutes of it before we shut it off (our eldest brother watched the whole thing). I've never seen it again and really have no desire to.
THAT movie scared me into prayer. No other movie has done that.
>>I tried to watch the Blair Witch Project twice. I thought it was the most boring movie I'd ever tried to watch.
As avid hiker and backpacker I thought those people in that movie were idiots. Just couldn't get past that to enjoy the movie.
I didn't know that King did Shawshank Redemption, and I haven't read those books. I can't compare books to the shows. They were both great movies!
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