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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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KEYWORDS: liberaldemocrats; monsters; movies; zombies
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To: Keith
John Carpenter's "The Thing"...that sprouted head freaked me out...I thought it was cute.
The original story 'Who goes there?' by John W. Campbell, Jr. was badly adapted to the silver screen, twice. It's much scarier in it's own quiet way...
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:11:56 PM PST
by
null and void
(They killed three thousand Americans and now they're going to die.)
To: John Robertson
"The Shining" was my favorite for many years. The character played by Jack Nicholson seemed like a genuine psycho. One of the most terrifying scenes though is when Danny was riding his big-wheel through the halls of the empty Hotel and runs right into a vision of the two murdered little girls. The music was perfect and the voice of the little girls too, saying, "Come play with us Danny, come play with us.. forever.. and ever.. and ever."
When I rented that many years ago I had a new Sony VCR with the frame by frame feature, and was playing with the feature going frame by frame around that very scene that was spooking me out, and unless I had a defective tape, there was just one frame of those little girls before he actually see's them in the film that is not visible to the naked eye when you're watching the film in normal speed. Maybe that's why it spooked me out a little more than it would have.
To: John Robertson
Generally I can't suspend disbelief enough to be taken in by a horror movie. (Jason has a weedwacker- eek, eek, zzzz!) However, Silence of the Lambs scared the hell out of me. Most horror movies I can dismiss by saying that isn't real. SotL had me thinking "There are people out there like that. I need to buy more ammo."
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:14:27 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
To: Zarro
I read "It" in about a week, IIRC. I just could not put the thousand page (?) book down. Wake, work, eat, read, repeat. :)
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:14:43 PM PST
by
swilhelm73
(Dowd wrote that Kerry was defeated by a "jihad" of Christians...Finally – a jihad liberals oppose!)
To: Chad Fairbanks
If they could have stretched Ghost Ship's first 5 minutes throughout the entire movie, it would have been the greatest horror film ever made.
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:14:53 PM PST
by
asgardshill
(November 2004 - The Month That Just Kept On Giving)
To: DestroytheDemocrats; John Robertson
The Haunting with Julie Harris, Claire Bloom and Rus Tamblin. The book on which the movie is based, Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House," is even scarier than the movie.
One of my fave scary movies ---sometimes shown on PBS ----is "The Innocents" starring Deborah Kerr, set in a mid-Victorian English countryside estate, based on Henry James' book "Turn of the Screw."
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:15:28 PM PST
by
Liz
To: graceofgod; John Robertson
I'm with you but would put The Shining second on my list with Silence of the Lambs #1. I know it's not really supposed to be horror per se, but both my husband and I were glad we went to a matinee and exited the theater in full daylight.
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11/23/2004 10:15:48 PM PST
by
Spyder
To: asgardshill
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11/23/2004 10:16:15 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
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To: Chad Fairbanks
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:17:07 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
So, what horror movie scared YOU the most? :0)
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:17:41 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
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To: John Robertson
The Bone Collector by Stephen King I think......... shiver.
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:17:41 PM PST
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: John Robertson
Now's A good time of year to check out "Black Christmas" a lesser known but GREAT horror movie from the 70's. very creepy! Just check out some of the user reviews on IMDB.COM
and you'll race out and rent it. You won't believe that this movie is Directed and produced by Bob Clark, The man who also brought us "A Christmas Story". Talk about Christmas extremes!!
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:18:44 PM PST
by
mowowie
To: OOPisforLiberals
LOL!
I saw Alien when it first came out. At the Hollywood Egyptian Theater. Odd theater, the projection booth is low, so the center isle jogs around it. On the second turn I abruptly turned around, shoved my spread hand into the face of the stranger behind me and screamed eeeahh!!!
Turned out to be a black kid, he visibly blanched and said in a quavering voice, "Don't DO that, man!!!
He's probably still trying to find me...
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:18:53 PM PST
by
null and void
(They killed three thousand Americans and now they're going to die.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Hmmmmm...anything with a Democrat in the Oval Office. : )
To: null and void
Oh man. Heart attack time. You'd get sued for that these days ;)
To: John Robertson
Some of you are confusing science fiction with Horror. Aliens was science fiction. Texas chainsaw Massacre was horror.
The "best" horror movie of all time is easy.........HALLOWEEN! The end where the doctor shoots Michael and he falls out the window. Then Jamie asks him.
"Was that the Boogie man"? and he says"As a matter of fact...It was" Then they look out the window and he's gone!
Gives me chills to this day. Speaking of horror shows. I must no go and scrape the number 8 off my Cowboys jersey and iron on a number 7. I endeavor to preserver!
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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11/23/2004 10:23:05 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
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To: Chad Fairbanks
But I'm still partial to the Evil Dead movies. I don't know why.'Cause they're great?
To: John Robertson
"The Hitcher" (1986) scared the bejeezus out of me. About a hitchhiker-killer (Rutgar Hauer) who stalks a young man who gives him a ride.
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posted on
11/23/2004 10:24:53 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie.)
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