Yo She-bitch... let's go.
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.
"Nothing" scares you?
..or is it Costanza's parents?
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)
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.
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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!
Bambi?
Dog Soldiers...B horror flick, brit actors, filmed in scottland.
"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.....
LOL
You had to be there. It was a classic moment.
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:
That one still scares me. I had a dream once where I ran over Thumper with my car...
Thump!
Thumper... Bumper... Any Questions?
Yes, that's what I meant.
Yo She-bitch... let's go.
Those that read binary code and those that don't.....
I shoulda said ThumpThump!
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.
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