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What's Your Favorite Horror Movie?
11.24.04 | JohnRobertson

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.


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KEYWORDS: liberaldemocrats; monsters; movies; zombies
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To: libertylass

>>Last, but surely not least, is a documentary off of Discovery or A&E called "A Haunting in Connecticut"

Oh my, that one also scared the beejeezers out of me. Esp when they showed the mental hospital (which was very close to where I went to HS) and I realized that this could have happened near my hometown for all I know.

They re-ran it around Halloween this year. I made the mistake of watching it. Another sleepless night.


521 posted on 11/24/2004 5:45:28 PM PST by Betis70 (I'm only Left Wing when I play hockey)
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To: John Robertson

The Hound of the Baskervilles, if you want a great, suspenseful movie without the modern gore


522 posted on 11/24/2004 5:48:35 PM PST by Old Phone Man
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To: Betis70
The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer really freaked me out.

You bet! I remember sitting in a car in the parking lot after the movie, waiting for my friend to come out to the car. He slapped my window as he walked by, and I jumped in my seat and screamed!

523 posted on 11/24/2004 6:44:41 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie.)
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To: John Robertson

"The Sound of Music"


524 posted on 11/24/2004 6:45:20 PM PST by Redcloak ("FOUR MORE BEERS! FOUR MORE BEERS! FOUR MORE BEERS!" -Teresa Heinz Kerry)
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To: MarkL
The "chest bursting" scene [in "Alien"] 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.

I don't think that were expecting anything other than a dinner scene going into that take. Watch Veronica Cartwright during the scene. She looks off camera at the crew for help while Hurt is choking and flopping around.

525 posted on 11/24/2004 6:53:26 PM PST by Redcloak ("FOUR MORE BEERS! FOUR MORE BEERS! FOUR MORE BEERS!" -Teresa Heinz Kerry)
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To: Redcloak

The scariest movie I EVER saw was The Way We Were. Streisand was terrifying. Gave me the Buckwheat/Willies for weeks afterwards!


526 posted on 11/24/2004 6:55:25 PM PST by MAWG (Arafat, Kerry and now Rather..... I'll drink to that!)
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To: finnman69

Wow, some great shots. Brought the movie back to life. I'm going to have to watch it again now....thanks!


527 posted on 11/24/2004 7:21:50 PM PST by TheLion
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To: finnman69

Ridley Scott also did "Black Rain" and "Thelma and Louise"...good films, all.


528 posted on 11/24/2004 7:28:05 PM PST by TheLion
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To: Betis70
"THAT movie scared me into prayer."

LOL - yeah, it was pretty intense.

Until I saw that movie, I had always believed that there was SOME good (God given 'spark of life') in everybody, no matter how bad they may have seemed.

After that, I realized that the possibility of true evil also existed in everyone, and that only our faith and choices allowed one or the other to thrive.

I believe that I probably began to truly understand the meaning of 'free will' then, and the power of faith.

529 posted on 11/24/2004 7:38:01 PM PST by RebelTex (Freedom is Everyone's Right... ...and Everyone's Responsibility!)
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To: nmh

I don't know. I guess the house...the woods at night.


530 posted on 11/24/2004 7:38:23 PM PST by Dallas59 ("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
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To: MarkL

If you haven't read "It" by King, I highly recommend it. A fabulous book, unlike the TV movie. Cujo is also a good read, the book is in large part told from the point of view of the dog.


531 posted on 11/24/2004 7:38:33 PM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: John Robertson

The Blob scared me when I saw it on TV when I was about 8.


532 posted on 11/24/2004 7:39:50 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: RebelTex

The old Werewolf movies always got to me when I was young. The old Gypsy woman always creeped me out.


533 posted on 11/24/2004 7:42:26 PM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: John Robertson

I'm not a big fan of horror movies, so I'm sure that true aficionados of the genre will think my list is lame, but FWIW:

The Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense (not really horror, but it's spooky)
Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)


534 posted on 11/24/2004 7:47:48 PM PST by Juana la Loca
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To: Atlantic Friend

To me, Donnie Darko was more a mystery to be solved. Didn't scare me, but an interesting flick.

"SAUSAGES"


535 posted on 11/24/2004 8:46:44 PM PST by katykelly
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To: Tiger6
"The Haunting of Hill House" which the movie was based on was even better.

Yes the book is by Shirley Jackson. The remake of the original movie was terrible. Glad someone else appreciates this oldie but goodie!

536 posted on 11/24/2004 9:07:00 PM PST by DestroytheDemocrats (My screen name has come true!!!! W whipped the Dems ! Yaaaaaay!!!)
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To: Proud_texan
billy mummy, huh...

THAT's THE GUY, THAT's the GUY, HIM, HIM HIM HIM, HE, HE (pointing very emphaticly), yep.....

Yep.

Billy Mummy. (hate, hate, hate, hate)

I don't dislike Billy Mummy, but, well - kicks the dirt a little, and looks coyly away - so what? [Shane come back!!!!] I dislike the the guy a little, its not like I'd KILL him. I'm not under suspicion am I inspector?

537 posted on 11/24/2004 9:08:25 PM PST by raygun (huh...)
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To: Liz
"The Innocents" starring Deborah Kerr, set in a mid-Victorian English countryside estate, based on Henry James' book "Turn of the Screw

I will check those out! I love novels set in the Victorian era. I even like all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Of course they are very tame by today's standards. But it 's fun to sit by the fire with Sherlock and Dr. Watson in their Baker Street flat.

538 posted on 11/24/2004 9:09:50 PM PST by DestroytheDemocrats (My screen name has come true!!!! W whipped the Dems ! Yaaaaaay!!!)
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To: libertylass

We did that one in "Read-a-movie-Lit" class...


539 posted on 11/24/2004 9:17:09 PM PST by raygun (huh...)
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To: John Robertson
(1) Rosemary's Baby - this still horrifies me because in a sick way I can see this really happening. I have this on video and still have to prepare myself to watch it like once a year, I'm compelled to. As the years pass Rosemary's Baby gets more horrible, what with our world getting so turned upside down morally.

(2) Intensity - probably a "thriller" but I still get chills. I cannot take my eyes off it.

(3) Child's Play - I have a special horror of evil talking dolls. Especially the first half of this movie creeps me out big time.

(4) The Others - I recently saw this on TV and was very surprised at how scary the end was to me. It is really something to think about. It may be a "thriller" also, but so be it.

(5) The Shining - the original with Jack Nicholson. I used to not think much of it but now even the music gives me the willies.
540 posted on 11/24/2004 9:21:23 PM PST by A knight without armor
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