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 did not see it, but "Fahrenheit 9/11" would fall into this category, would it not? Oh - I forgot - it would be fiction."
Haha. Horror or just plain boring movie!
ok...good point...almost peed myself.
Arachniphobia scared the hell out of me!
"Somethings crawling up my walls... Black and Hairy, very small..."
Sounds like a resonable set of distinctions.
what about the 8 types who prefer octal?
Anyone see the movie "Saw" that is playing now? I heard that was the scariest movie and was wanting other opinions!
The Changling --with George C Scott. It's a really good ghost movie.
And Aliens...Action/Horror hybrid.
A STAR IS BORN the 1978 Barbara Streisand version.
"IT" was the SK book that really did it for me. Took me three tries to read it. I finally finished by only reading it during the light of day, and only with other people in the house.
I haven't read him since "Tommyknockers" which disappointed the hell outta me.
Clive Barker's my favorite.
I used to love to sit in the dark, with just a book light, and read Stephen King and other horror writers... Feet curled up under me... My parents out for the night... alone in our house out in the boonies...
"Jessica"---one of my favorite movies only because my first teenage crush, Zohra Lampert ,was in it, and she was at the peak of her exotic beauty. Very underrated actress.
When Walken is telling Penn "what.. you wanna hear me say i love you? i love you"... and in response Penn fires a round at Walken... classic facial expression there..
ping obscure but good movie reference
I never saw Saw, but my daughter saw Saw, and said I should see Saw.
Alien certainly qualifies as a horror film. The focus of the move was to scare you rather than wow you. The remoteness of space and the H.R. Geiger designs just added to the terror.
For anyone afraid of clowns, Steven King's "It" would probably be somewhat freaky.
I stood and screamed, "Get her, get her!"
My sweet daughter, who was sixteen at the time, stood on the sofa screaming at the Kathy Bate's character, "Hit her, hit her, kill her." She's now a pastor's wife expecting her second little one.
One of my sons entered the room and asked, "Have you two gone crazy?"
Then he flopped down on the other sofa to watch the show in the living room -- featuring his crazy mom and sister.
Karen Black is a woman tormented by evil in three horrific tales of terror including one in which she is chased around her apartment by an ankle-high voodoo doll wielding a butcher knife.
That was one wicked movie and she was utterly perfect for the movie (especially the ending).
"Saw "Alien" when it opened with a lady acquaintance. She darn near tore my arm off by twisting on it during the tenser moments."
Tell me about it.
My wife is normally quiet and an animal lover. She would run the car off the road to miss a squirrel or rabbit.
During the part where Ripley is looking for the cat after setting the self-destruct timer, and the Alien is looking for her, my wife says she remembers someone standing and yelling at the screen, "Forget the damn cat. Get the hell out of there."
She looked around and realized it was her!
My problem was, it was so out of character for her, that I couldn't stop snickering for the rest of the movie.
I think the rest of the audience thought we were both nuts.
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