Re: Horror, Sci-Fi, Films 1930 - 2013 - CORRECTION -- The Music of Universal Horror and Drama Films

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Date Posted: 06:29:33 08/22/13 Thu
Author: DAN
Subject: Re: Horror, Sci-Fi, Films 1930 - 2013 - CORRECTION
In reply to: DAN 's message, "Horror, Sci-Fi, Films 1930 - 2013" on 17:07:02 08/21/13 Wed

When I made the last post, I didn't take the time to proof read it and I found some mistakes.

At the start of the previous post I said my favorite Horror/Scifi films are from the 30s and 40s. then the 60s and 70s.
Well actually the next best would be the 50s and then the 60s and then the 70s.

Also at the end of the last post...I meant I heard the new "Fright Night" movie WASN'T that good.

And the reason I went to see all the "Friday the 13th and Halloween and Chucky flicks was because my wife liked those kinds of movies and wnated me to go.

But I absolutely refused to go see the Nightmare on Elm Street films and all those Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, etc. ZOMBIE flicks.

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[> [> Re: Horror, Sci-Fi, Films 1930 - 2013 - CORRECTION -- Tim, 19:40:22 08/23/13 Fri [1]

Like Dan, my favorite horror films are from the 1930s and 1940s, followed by the 1950s and 1960s.

1930s
The Universal classics including DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, THE BLACK CAT, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. Other studios released ISLAND OF LOST SOULS and KING KONG.

1940s
Universal's THE WOLF MAN and HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, among others. Also some excellent pictures produced by Val Lewton, such as CAT PEOPLE and THE BODY SNATCHER.

1950s
Lots of great horror and science fiction films, and Hammer horror gets going. Dan's list pretty much covers my favorites from the era.

1960s
Hammer's heyday, the Roger Corman series of Poe films starring Vincent Price, BLACK SUNDAY, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and so much more. An amazing decade.

1970s
Hammer was still around but on the wane. THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES and its sequel still hold up today. THE EXORCIST was a well-made movie but had more gore than scares IMO. I would say the best horror movie of the decade was HALLOWEEN, followed by ALIEN. Frank Langella did a good job in DRACULA, but the film lacked the magic of the classics.

1980s
HALLOWEEN 3 was an interesting movie, with a story unrelated to the rest of the series. FRIGHT NIGHT was a fun vampire picture. Although I generally don't care for gore or modern zombie films, I liked RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. I haven't liked any zombie movies since then.

1990s
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA was interesting, but nothing spectacular. WOLF was the best horror movie of the 1990s, IMO. The worst was the Gus Van Sant remake of PSYCHO.

2000s
I haven't seen many horror movies made in the last 10 or 12 years, including the HALLOWEEN reboots.

Tim

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[> [> [> Re: Horror, Sci-Fi, Films 1930 - 2013 -- Tim, 19:46:50 08/23/13 Fri [1]

I forgot to drop the CORRECTION from the message subject.

Also I would like to add ROSEMARY'S BABY to my list of 1960s favorites. Like THE EXORCIST, it was a big "mainstream" box office hit, but I thought it had more scares than the gorier EXORCIST did five years later.

Tim

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