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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
"Storm of the Century" by Stephen King. 1999 TV movie with Tim Daly.

S-c-a-r-y.

361 posted on 11/24/2004 9:00:53 AM PST by floozy22 (ThunderThighs/Jabba 2008 - Bring It On!)
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To: new cruelty

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.


362 posted on 11/24/2004 9:02:56 AM PST by wallcrawlr
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To: Bob_Dobbs
That movie was outstanding!
363 posted on 11/24/2004 9:09:34 AM PST by 6323cd ("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
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To: new cruelty

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".


364 posted on 11/24/2004 9:11:05 AM PST by P.O.E. (Thank you, Vets!)
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To: wallcrawlr
ACK... Manhunter blew fat chunks! Well, maybe not, but I still didn't like it. I liked the more recent version, Red Dragon better.
365 posted on 11/24/2004 9:12:41 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: SteveMcKing
"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!!!"
366 posted on 11/24/2004 9:16:28 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©® - Dubya... F**K YEAH!!!)
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To: John Robertson

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.





367 posted on 11/24/2004 9:16:38 AM PST by P.O.E. (Thank you, Vets!)
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To: Xenalyte
it scared me so badly that I put the DVD in the garage.

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.

368 posted on 11/24/2004 9:16:51 AM PST by Alouette (When the wicked perish, there is jubilation! Proverbs 11:10)
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To: P.O.E.
Yeah I caught that. I may have been watching it with closed caption at the time but I remember the line.

In the DVD there are several commentaries, one in particular is a documentary like conversation between two representatives of Jim Cunningham's company (I forget the name of his company). At one point in their conversation, one of the reps starts to babble and becomes belligerent. I have no idea what that was about.
369 posted on 11/24/2004 9:17:16 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty

Your Ack does not faze me...i am immune to your display of gore.

;-)


370 posted on 11/24/2004 9:23:32 AM PST by wallcrawlr
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To: MarkL
I saw Alien on the Gridley back in 1979. It was showing on the mess decks, which was right below radio central. When the thing burst forth from the chest I said what you said - that's it. Got up and left. Later on I steeled myself to see the whole movie.

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.

371 posted on 11/24/2004 9:25:54 AM PST by 7thson (I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
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To: John Robertson
Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
372 posted on 11/24/2004 9:30:08 AM PST by fso301
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To: wallcrawlr
...i am immune to your display of gore.

Oh, you called down the thunder with that one...

BEHOLD!


373 posted on 11/24/2004 9:35:59 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty

HA HA....thats the worst case of Pun/Horror I've ever seen.

kudos to you!


374 posted on 11/24/2004 9:38:19 AM PST by wallcrawlr
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To: John Robertson
What's Your Favorite Horror Movie?

Fahrenheit 9/11 of course! And I haven't even seen it.

:D

375 posted on 11/24/2004 9:42:45 AM PST by Fruitbat
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To: Yaelle
No one has mentioned it yet but it has to be one of the scariest movies EVER.

"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.... ;^)

376 posted on 11/24/2004 9:53:55 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (You cannot stop me...... I'll just make...... a "move"........)
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To: John Robertson

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


377 posted on 11/24/2004 9:53:59 AM PST by SuzanneWeeks (>^..^<)
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To: SuzanneWeeks
The Exorcist (scared the living CARP out of me)

Here ya go. I found it.
378 posted on 11/24/2004 10:04:05 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: katdawg; graceofgod

There's one scene in Saw, where the saw is unseen. It's called the unseen saw scene.


379 posted on 11/24/2004 10:08:02 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (You cannot stop me...... I'll just make...... a "move"........)
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To: SuzanneWeeks
The Exorcist (scared the living CARP out of me)

I watch the Exorcist every now and then just for the halibut.


380 posted on 11/24/2004 10:09:34 AM PST by new cruelty
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