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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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To: PoorMuttly
Seinfeld.

"Nothing" scares you?
..or is it Costanza's parents?

101 posted on 11/23/2004 10:25:05 PM PST by GraceofGod
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To: BigCinBigD

Some science fiction can be horror - and at least in my opinion, any sci-fi movie that is Ugly Nasty Acid Salivating Creature Killing Everything Versus People Who Can't Escape It can be considered horror ;0)


102 posted on 11/23/2004 10:25:30 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100)
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To: BigCinBigD

I dunno. At the very least, you'd have to call Alien a hybrid horror/sci-fi movie (maybe the first ever of it's kind). Aliens, the sequel is more properly a classic sci-fi action flick. Alien 3 returned to the horror aspect.

You have no idea how many arguments I've gotten into work about how good Alien 3 actually is. People just can't see past the (most excellent) action bonanza of Aliens.


103 posted on 11/23/2004 10:25:47 PM PST by OOPisforLiberals
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To: Chad Fairbanks

I believe you mean 01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100 01001101 01000001 01001111 00001101 00001010.


104 posted on 11/23/2004 10:25:57 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (03984 70295 95899 37592 019356 (ROTFL))
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

That could be it, yes LOL... "Excuse me ma'am. I'm going to have to ask you to leave the store." Click Click BOOM!


105 posted on 11/23/2004 10:26:11 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100)
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To: John Robertson
The Karen Black short about the voodoo doll that had a chain around its neck. Somehow the chain was broken and the doll came alive. Anyways, if you've never seen it, I don't want to spoiler it for ya, but the end was positively breathtaking. And she was perfect for the part (especially the end).
106 posted on 11/23/2004 10:26:35 PM PST by raygun (huh...)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Bambi?


107 posted on 11/23/2004 10:26:58 PM PST by woofie
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To: John Robertson

Dog Soldiers...B horror flick, brit actors, filmed in scottland.


108 posted on 11/23/2004 10:27:29 PM PST by katykelly
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To: John Robertson

"The Sound of Music"..the thought of having to take the kids to see it for the 5th or 6th time scared the hell out of me.....


109 posted on 11/23/2004 10:27:49 PM PST by ken5050
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To: Chad Fairbanks

LOL


110 posted on 11/23/2004 10:28:05 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (03984 70295 95899 37592 019356 (ROTFL))
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To: OOPisforLiberals

You had to be there. It was a classic moment.


111 posted on 11/23/2004 10:28:18 PM PST by null and void (They killed three thousand Americans and now they're going to die.)
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To: John Robertson
The Blob did it for me too. Heh. But the most frightening moment was in 'Pyscho.' Not the woman in the shower scene, but when Norman turned his mother around in the chair and the light was moving back and forth.

A scene in the first "Alien" movie, when the critter burst from the guy's chest was gripping.

"Jacob's Ladder" had a few moments in it that spooked me. Here's a quick list I found on Google you might be interested in reading:

"TOP TEN SPOOKY MOVIES"

112 posted on 11/23/2004 10:28:19 PM PST by Eastbound ("Neither a Scrooge nor a Patsy be")
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To: woofie

That one still scares me. I had a dream once where I ran over Thumper with my car...


113 posted on 11/23/2004 10:28:58 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Thump!


114 posted on 11/23/2004 10:30:11 PM PST by null and void (They killed three thousand Americans and now they're going to die.)
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To: null and void

Thumper... Bumper... Any Questions?


115 posted on 11/23/2004 10:30:30 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

Yes, that's what I meant.


116 posted on 11/23/2004 10:30:50 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Yo She-bitch... let's go.

117 posted on 11/23/2004 10:31:33 PM PST by StoneFury (The only thing hippies understand is the fist)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
There are 10 kinds of people in this world....

Those that read binary code and those that don't.....

118 posted on 11/23/2004 10:31:35 PM PST by cincinnati65 (Just up the road a piece.......)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

I shoulda said ThumpThump!


119 posted on 11/23/2004 10:31:52 PM PST by null and void (They killed three thousand Americans and now they're going to die.)
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To: John Robertson

Wow... Good post, John:

"Horror" takes many forms. So, here would be a few of my choices.

"Threads": A BBC TV Documentary-style movie during the Reagan Administration about WWIII. A nuclear attack on the UK and its aftermath.

"The Wannasee Conference": Another Documentary-style German film about the afternoon luncheon metting that laid the groundwork for "The Final Solution". A later, tamer HBO remake with Ken Brannagh, titled "Conspiracy" is also available. Though look for "Conference". The cast is dead on physically and the script was lifted from the actual notes taken during the confernce. In German. With subtitles.

"The Thing From Another World" Howard Hawk's Cold War/Red Scare/Sci-Fi Classic. Nothing touches it for mood, music, calustrophobia and dialog!

"The Night Of The Living Dead": George Romero's original B&W Masterpiece. Often duplicated. Never improved upon.

"The Wicker Man": A superb little known gem with Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt and Michael Woodward.

"Wait Until Dark" Audrey Hepburn in a very un-Audrey Hepburn role. A doll full of heroin. And Alan Arkin as slime personified; Harry Roat Jr, from Scarsdale.

"The Brood" Early classic Cronenburg about divorce and the odd and deadly manifestations of hate and rage.

Jack.


120 posted on 11/23/2004 10:31:54 PM PST by Jack Deth (When In Doubt.... Empty The Magazine!)
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