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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: John Robertson
There was something like this on local tv this past Halloween. It was a "Scariest Movie" of all time type special. Exorcist was Number 3, Alien was Number 2 and JAWS was number 1.....Huh??

The show actually had the top 100. I wrote down the top 25 only because I had a bet that Exorcist was Number 1, of course I lost.

21 posted on 11/23/2004 9:44:59 PM PST by PISANO (Never Forget 911!! & 911's 1st Heroes..... "Beamer, Glick, Bingham & Bennett.")
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To: OOPisforLiberals

I agree with you there. I've never been one to get into the whole horror genre... I didn't get much out of "Halloween" or "Nightmare" or any of the sequels, but "Hellraiser" really scared the crap out of me.


22 posted on 11/23/2004 9:45:04 PM PST by Ramius (Time? What time do you think we have?)
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To: OOPisforLiberals

Hellraiser rocks. But I'm still partial to the Evil Dead movies. I don't know why.


23 posted on 11/23/2004 9:45:52 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100)
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To: John Robertson

TuhRayZuh at the DNC convention. That a freak so terrifyingly detached from reality might well occupy OUR White House had me quaking.


24 posted on 11/23/2004 9:46:04 PM PST by getitright (GWB is winning wars, not popularity contests.)
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To: John Robertson
The original Dracula with Bela Lugosi. I remember staying up to watch it as a kid. And wrapping a blanket around my neck.

In my later years, The Shining.

25 posted on 11/23/2004 9:46:27 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: OOPisforLiberals; John Robertson
A good one for me : Hellraiser....Oh! forgot that good one. :P
26 posted on 11/23/2004 9:46:44 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
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To: John Robertson
Wait Until Dark is a great movie, but isn't is more of a "thriller"?

Maybe so, I was 10 when I saw it and no movie I have ever seen since ever scared me as much as that one. I laughed at Alien.
27 posted on 11/23/2004 9:46:57 PM PST by microgood
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To: John Robertson
Any list of great horror movies has to include "The Haunting". The Robert Wise version of course, not that piece of crap with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Sets the standard for atmosphere.
28 posted on 11/23/2004 9:47:09 PM PST by Redcat
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To: John Robertson

3 of the best camp/horror imho

cannibal campout

sorority babes in the slime-bowl-o-rama

stuff stephanie in the incinerator

these 3 deserved academy awards but didn't quite pique enough of the motion picture academy voting mamber's attention............or something like that.


29 posted on 11/23/2004 9:47:22 PM PST by cvn76
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To: John Robertson

28 Days Later... a virus spreads through Britain that turns people into cannibalistic psychos with glowing red eyes. Lots of good scares that make you jump, an icky subplot with some sex-starved soldiers that made my stomach sink... it's a good movie!


30 posted on 11/23/2004 9:47:25 PM PST by wizardoz (Arafat's funeral was the Wellstone memorial, with guns.)
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To: John Robertson

Hmmmm ... horror. I watch very few of those but I suppose Jaws was classified as horror and I sort of enjoyed those but I can't watch those weird horror like movies.

I will say that Harrison Ford's 'What Lies Beneath' was pretty scary - LOL


31 posted on 11/23/2004 9:47:25 PM PST by No Dems 2004
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To: Dallas59

Saw "Alien" when it opened with a lady acquaintance. She darn near tore my arm off by twisting on it during the tenser moments.


32 posted on 11/23/2004 9:47:53 PM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: CobaltBlue

I think The Ring was one of the best scary movies I've seen. I liked The Others too - the best scary movies are the ones where you don't see anything - but just let your imagination take over.


33 posted on 11/23/2004 9:47:58 PM PST by TightyRighty
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To: John Robertson

Eraserhead,Freaks


34 posted on 11/23/2004 9:48:01 PM PST by woofie
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To: wizardoz

saw that a while back while in a hotel on business - a strange movie, but scary.


35 posted on 11/23/2004 9:48:46 PM PST by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: John Robertson

I think "The Exorcist 3" has the scene in the hospital where the nurse is walking thru around and the guy pops behind her with the knife. That one makes me jump out of my skin.

I do like "Halloween H20." Probably the setting more than the plot; that old school.

Currently, my daughter and I are into foreign horror. It is definitely different.


36 posted on 11/23/2004 9:48:47 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: John Robertson

Seinfeld.


37 posted on 11/23/2004 9:48:57 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("The right of the People to be Muttly shall not be infringed,")
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To: John Robertson
Alien--in terms of your comments on the cathartic uses of horror, one elements seldom mentioned in commentary about this one is that the climax is all about self-reliance--there simply is no way anyone is going to help Ripley, so she must find the courage to confront her opponent.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre--the term "unrelenting" applies here

Last Man on Earth/Dawn of the Dead (remake)--inpired (directly in the case of the first) by Matheson's "I Am Legend," these are visions of Hell on Earth that make one consider "If this goes on..." 'This' being whatever one thinks is a dangerous trend in society.

Session 9--A movie that does nothing for some people, it's the ONLY movie that ever actually scared me

38 posted on 11/23/2004 9:49:08 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Enough with the Blue/Red State stuff already, it's inaccurate, lazy thinking.)
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To: cvn76

also "hackenstein" was a cimematic masterpiece.


39 posted on 11/23/2004 9:49:46 PM PST by cvn76
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To: John Robertson

Creature from the Black Lagoon and Aliens.


40 posted on 11/23/2004 9:50:27 PM PST by Swede Girl
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