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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: sinkspur

My favorite is reall a sci-fi/horror movie. Alien (the first film) directed by Ridley Scott.


281 posted on 11/24/2004 6:38:09 AM PST by FrankRepublican (Boycott NBC & their parent company General Electric for smearing the USMC)
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To: John Robertson
The Fog. The Thing.

I forgot about "The Thing." I thought John Carpenter's version was an excellent thriller. My favorite scene is where they discover Wilford Brimley's spaceship under construction. "Looks like someone's been busy."

282 posted on 11/24/2004 6:38:53 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: sinkspur

The original Alien, it was dark, dank and claustrophobic as hell


283 posted on 11/24/2004 6:39:29 AM PST by StoneColdTaxHater
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Here's one for the future...I'm surprised nobody has made an attempt yet..."The Legend of Sawney Bean".

Mel....MEL!

284 posted on 11/24/2004 6:40:39 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: wallcrawlr; All
I am generally desensitized to most horror films...the gore does nothing for me, it has to be suspenseful.

I like movies like Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, (Red Dragon was ok), and most recently SAW.

In SAW there were a couple of scenes that had me bracing the armrest. One in particular was wherein a victim is racing against the clock to remove a spring loaded clamp wrapped around her head. Once the time runs out, the clamp will spring open, ripping her head to pieces. In order to open the clamp she must retrieve a key buried her cell mate's stomach. It was a pretty intense scene.

I also thought the way the movie ended was clever.

285 posted on 11/24/2004 6:41:23 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: Arkinsaw
"Boy..."


286 posted on 11/24/2004 6:42:53 AM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: John Robertson
I just remembered two more!
Rosemary's baby! And....the Ghost and Mr.Chicken! :o)

Also I cant believe nobody's mentioned..The legend of Boggy Creek.
287 posted on 11/24/2004 6:45:38 AM PST by BigCinBigD
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To: katdawg

I watched "Saw." It did have some moments that caused the audience to jump. The ending was a stretch, but overall it was a good movie. Reminded me of "Seven," only much more violent and gory.


288 posted on 11/24/2004 6:46:18 AM PST by LanPB01
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To: swilhelm73
I read "It" in about a week, IIRC. I just could not put the thousand page (?) book down. Wake, work, eat, read, repeat. :)

My wife was a Steven King fan and thought "It" was absolutely terrifying. Don't think I'm going to read it...

289 posted on 11/24/2004 6:47:34 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: John Robertson

Exorcist, Psycho, Alien, The Haunting and finally the Shining


290 posted on 11/24/2004 6:47:40 AM PST by LittleMoe
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Movie I was referring to in #278 is "The Leech Woman".

Not my favorite horror movie. Just a bizarre (albeit entertaining, imo,) one.


291 posted on 11/24/2004 6:48:45 AM PST by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: katykelly

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

Oh, yeah. The werewolves were rather badly made, but the movie had an atmosphere, especially in the first half.

My choice would be Donnie Darko.


292 posted on 11/24/2004 6:53:26 AM PST by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: katdawg
Anyone see the movie "Saw" that is playing now? I heard that was the scariest movie and was wanting other opinions!

SAW was good. The scenes were gory and suspenseful. I almost walked out at least a couple of times because of the gore and subject matter, which tells me its good flick :). I was a little disappointed with the writing through most of the movie because I thought I had the ending figured out. I was pleasantly surprised to find I was wrong.

293 posted on 11/24/2004 6:53:32 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: John Robertson

bump for later


294 posted on 11/24/2004 6:54:10 AM PST by Clink ("Government is not the solution, government is the problem".--Ronald Reagan)
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To: Keith

Guess I mught be a little older than you, but the 1951 original version of The Thing with James Arness is classic.
Maybe it's because I was still a kid when I saw it, but it still gives me the creeps.

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295 posted on 11/24/2004 6:54:37 AM PST by JimmyMc
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To: Atlantic Friend

Donnie Darko was a great movie. I plan to get it on DVD. Pretty decent website too. But I never thought of it as a horror movie.


296 posted on 11/24/2004 6:55:01 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: John Robertson

the original friday the 13th


297 posted on 11/24/2004 6:57:56 AM PST by freepatriot32 (http://chonlalonde.blogspot.com)
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To: John Robertson

Surely this has been mentioned already but, the 2004 Democratic Convention.


298 posted on 11/24/2004 6:58:58 AM PST by rabidralph (That melon is for display purposes only.)
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To: John Robertson
DAGON (2001)
Plot Summary for
Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of the macabre, Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh, a young man who discovers that the truth will not set him free instead it condemns him to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror. A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca looking for help. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul finds himself pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's dark secret: that they pray to Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea. And Dagon's unholy offspring are freakish half-human creatures on the loose in Imboca...


My comments - Very creepy movie made in Spain. It also has thee most realistic Mermaid scene I have ever seen in any movie, (hey I'm an old sailor, give me a break). Seriously this is one spooky movie that never fails to creep me out.
299 posted on 11/24/2004 7:02:38 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: John Robertson

The recent Democrap Convention from the Fleet (enema?) Center in Boston!


300 posted on 11/24/2004 7:02:40 AM PST by leprechaun9
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