"there was a time when i saw a good looking woman and thought about what she'd be like in bed... now i imagine what her head would look like on my bedpost!!!"
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.
S-c-a-r-y.
I'll wait for it (SAW) on dvd. sounds good.
I thought SOTL was lame...it did nothing for me. I own Manhunter and its better...also I though Hannibal was better than SOTL. Better in a story sense...it gave more depth to the Dr. than was previously known.
Friend of mine had the closed captioning on watching Donnie Darko.
The last line in the movie (easy to miss on audio), is the police scanner saying "Return to base frequency".
"there was a time when i saw a good looking woman and thought about what she'd be like in bed... now i imagine what her head would look like on my bedpost!!!"
Carnival of Souls creeps me out.
Night of the Living Dead (original).
Black Sabbath.
Just bought "Suspiria" this weekend.
Dracula (original).
The Hammer series.
The Other.
Did you remember to make a copy of it? No? Now you're gonna die!
My bad. You said garage not garbage.
I returned the DVD to Blockbuster.
Your Ack does not faze me...i am immune to your display of gore.
;-)
I thought Aliens was a lot better - maybe more of an action flick than horror. I saw the Exorcist when I was 13-14 years old and it did nothing. Same for The Shining w/Nicholson. If both were made like the books were, they would have been better.
The first Halloween movie was very scary. I do not think there is hardly any blood - if at all. The scene where Jamie Lee has stabbed Michael in the eye and he is dead on the ground. She is comforting the children and behind her you see him get up. That was scary to me!
This was not a movie but who remembers Night Stalker, the made for tv movie. That was suspenseful and scary.
Oh, you called down the thunder with that one...
BEHOLD!
HA HA....thats the worst case of Pun/Horror I've ever seen.
kudos to you!
Fahrenheit 9/11 of course! And I haven't even seen it.
:D
"The Apartment" made by Roman Polanski, who stars in the film. Peerless for its mood and psychological thrill
OMG! I was just reading through the thread, thinking that mine would be "Alien" and somewhat gratified to see all the other "Alien" comments and then I saw your post!
You are right! I think I was so freaked out by "The Apartment" when I saw it, that I had completely blocked it out of my memory. Probably because at that time in my life I was living in an Apartment similar to that one....
I'm running away now to try to forget about it again.... ;^)
The Ring (only watched the 2nd half and didn't sleep for days)
The Exorcist (scared the living CARP out of me)
Children of the Corn ( I was young and stupid, has no effect now.... )
The Omen
The 1st Nightmare on Elm Street ( One, two he's coming for you....CREEPY)
1st Halloween
1st Friday the 13th, for some reason sequels do not scare me.
13 Ghosts (the remake, never saw the orginal)
Oddly enough, I LOVE these movies
Silence of the Lambs
Seven
Hannibal
The Red Dragon
and I can not wait to see Saw.
Happy Turkey Day!
Suzanne
There's one scene in Saw, where the saw is unseen. It's called the unseen saw scene.
I watch the Exorcist every now and then just for the halibut.
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