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.
That's where I lost all respect for the Gibson character in Signs. What self-respecting farmer doesn't have a shot gun? If he cares that little for the safety and protection of his land and children, why should we care? He's got something messing up his crops, so he cowers in the basement!
I had the same reaction.
HAH. I thought you were just being polite by not spelling CRAP.
Get the original version, the new directors cut added unnecessary and somewhat silly scenes (although I viewed the new scenes in my 30's rather than my teens when I first saw this movie)
Heck the blood was not even red (although the movie is in black and white). This movie uses your imagination more than the hatchet in the forehead. A true classic.
Dagon was one of the better Lovecraft movies. The flashback story of the town was one of the best representations of a lovecraft story ever put on film. And it doesn't sell out at the end.
It was insane. I understand he was a priest. But a shotgun on a farm is a tool. Rabid animals,pests all need to be taken care of. We know from the film the aliens could be harmed. (chopped off fingers)
And I understand barricading in the basement. But come on.
Plus the brother acted either doped up or retarded. ;o)
DAWN OF THE DEAD IS out now on dvd .oh my you should take a look.
I don't know if anyone mentioned "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (so many posts, so little time). While it's not technically a horror flick, what they did to the Jack Nicholson character haunted me for weeks.
Actually, it's scary that Pauly Shore ever found work!
I think I will pass on Ringu in that case. The Ring was bad enough. It took me a while to get those images out of my mind..
He's right up there with Rob Schneider.
Now that SECOND picture...THAT is scary.
The Shining (the actors make it great, especially the actress who plays Jack Nicholson's wife. I forget her name, but she also played Olive Oyl in Popeye. The scene of her goofy face running with the knife out of the house/hotel into the night is all time)
Hitchcock's The Birds (great scenes of the California along the coast highway)
The original The Thing (not Carpenter's, which is horrible)
That is hilliarious!
I must mention The Secret Window - I got a kick out of that one.
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