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Date Posted: 11:55:05 10/22/02 Tue
Author: Synn
Subject: Halloween Films...........................
Hello to all,
As Halloween/Samhain is fast approaching, and as it is a favorite holiday for many rennies, here's a question: What is/are your favorite scary movie/s? I know many of you have seen some really obscure films so I thought this might be interesting. The last film to really freak me out was the first Nightmare on Elm St, but that was way back in 84' and the film hasn't aged that well. Anyway, my Halloween triple feature this year will be Return of the Living Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Dead Alive. None are really scary, but they are all over the top and darkly hilarious. Last question:is Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? I can't decide....
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Cabin Buoy, still afraid of the dark..., 12:59:17 10/22/02 Tue
...after watching an obscure Italian import, "Terror in the Crypt", with Christopher Lee. One of the scariest scenes ever, as the dead housekeeper points to her murderer...plot: the curse of a burned witch is driving a young lady to murder--or think she is--in an isolated 19th century castle...
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Frank, 13:06:33 10/22/02 Tue
The original Halloween scared the hell out of me. It's hard to remember it now, but it was the first movie with a silent, stalking killer that didn't have a motive, other than wanting to kill.
That was the second scariest movie I've ever seen.
The first was my wedding video. (shudder).
My vote: Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie.
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Mike, master of the macabre, 13:20:20 10/22/02 Tue
For me the best Halloween filmfests are the Evil Dead Trilogy (although Army of Darkness isn't horror per se), John Carpenter's Halloween, The Fog, and The Thing, and George Romero's Living Dead trilogy (which is especially fun if you know Taso).
Morbid Mike, who also digs the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror specials and has all the Simpsons Burger King Halloween toys (nyah nyah, Frank)
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Synn, 13:30:17 10/22/02 Tue
Hey yeah! The Taso years at KRF, that was when KRF rocked! I still miss his goofy-ass dragon! And yes, it is fun watching Tom Savini kill off people you know on screen.
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Mike, 14:37:53 10/22/02 Tue
I don't miss that damn dragon puppet at all...I ran the wings on that thing and almost got a flaming shield to the head for my efforts (which, admittedly, was my own fault because I said, "Hey, you know what would be cool? If the dragon set a knight's shield on fire!" within earshot of Kent...stupid me...)
Mike, former wingman on Team Dragon
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Frank, who is 2/5 of the way there, 15:08:44 10/22/02 Tue
Re: Your acquisition of all 10 Burger King Simpsons Halloween Toys: I hate you.
Re: My own acquisition of all 10 Burger King Simpsons Halloween Toys: I have Homer, Marge, Kang and Flanders
Re: The remaining toys needed to make a complete set: My birthday is Nov 1 and the toys are a very cheap gift.
Re: Those who did not get the previous hint: Here is a brick to the head.
Frank
PS: I said "Brick", Brian.
Sheesh!
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Re: Halloween Films (bit o' trivia) -- Paul V Ruggeri, 14:37:47 10/22/02 Tue
And who can forget the following line from my favorite movie befitting this time of year:
"Wait!! Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!"
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Re: Halloween Films (bit o' trivia) -- Synn, 15:23:58 10/22/02 Tue
One of Gene Hackmans greatest roles....Young Frank!
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- LeGarde, 16:53:20 10/22/02 Tue
Yup, I have to agree with Mike on the movie pics. I must also add the first Alien movie and John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Rob, 16:55:54 10/22/02 Tue
The most frightening thing I think I've seen recently was when I stumbled across the finals of "American Idol" while channel-surfing (well, that was more nauseating, really). But I can think of a few films that gave me the occasional chill when I first saw them: "Nightmare on Elm St.", "The Shining", "Hellraiser", "Nosferatu" (the original silent version, though the 70's remake isn't bad), and "The Exorcist". And of course we mustn't forget the timeless horror classic "Tortured Hearts", which features such terrifying sights as Dean Calusian disembowelled, Artie (aka "Saucy Biscuits") as an evil jester, and Paul as Pagliacci...
- Rob
Oh, and "Nightmare Before Christmas" gets my vote as a Hallowe'en movie, albeit a cute one.
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Gaelic-celt, 18:05:21 10/22/02 Tue
I remember the scariest scene I had ever scene, (which really freak me out at the time), was the warewolf transformation in "An American Warewolf in London".
p.s. - am I spelling "warewolf" right? looks funny ...
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Re: Halloween Films.................Dave's Faves -- Dave, 19:29:51 10/22/02 Tue
The Scariest Movies are -in this long time horror fans opinion:
Creepy/scary-
Carnival of Souls
Island of the Lost Souls(1933)
The Exorcist
The Other(1970's -with Uta Hegen)
Near Dark
The "Dead"trilogy
Fulci's Zombie(or Zombie 2 in America)
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Blair Witch Project
Really cool/classic
Brides of Dracula
The Black Cat
Theater of Blood
Bride of Frankenstein
Witchfinder General
Curse of the Demon
The Mummy(1959)
Dracula(Louis Jordan)
The Devil Rides Out
White Zombie
The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1939)
The first three "Omens"
Trilogy of Terror(just the third segment with the Zuni warrior)
Frankenstein, the True Story( the noise when Jane Seymour gets her head pulled off is just horrifying)
Don't be Afraid of the Dark(Kim Darby)
The Night Stalker
Fright Night
and almost any of the "Golden Age" Universal movies with Dracula , Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolfman
Funny Horror-
Young Frankenstein
Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein
Army of Darkness
and of course, Plan Nine From Outer Space
I'm sure there are a bunch more -but those are the ones I love off the top of my head
Happy Halloween!
Dave
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Re: Halloween Films.................Dave's Faves -- True, 20:03:10 10/22/02 Tue
The Blair Witch Project needs an honorable mention from me. I knew what the movie was all about when I rented it and I watched it by myself. I found it to be successfully atmospheric and the end really creeped me out even though I had already been told what happened.
Cheers,
True
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Re: Halloween Films.................Dave's Faves -- Frank, 11:25:13 10/24/02 Thu
I may be mistaken, but I think it was Tomb of the Blind Dead that had a particularly creepy scene at the end, where a train pulls into a station and all the people aboard, including a crying little girl, are being eaten by undead apprentices...I mean zombies.
The kid being eaten gave me the creeps more than anything. It's similar to the way people can watch all manner of violence against other people, but put a child or animal at risk and people freak out.
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Re: Halloween Films.................Dave's Faves -- Darth Gumby, 13:57:13 10/24/02 Thu
All part of the master plan Frank, All part of your.. er THE master plan.
Soon toothpaste will be sold in plastic dispensers and wine will come in a box.
Watch for the signs Frank... The signs!!
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Re: Trilogy of Terror -- Cabin Buoy, won't reach under a couch either, 19:42:41 10/22/02 Tue
That little warrior doll scared the *crap* out of me and my friends--we watched the movie while on a band trip to Atlantic City, drunk/stoned out of our skulls in a hotel and completely paranoid...yipe!!
And Theatre of Blood is another goodie...
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Re: Trilogy of Terror -- Craftywench, 18:27:18 10/24/02 Thu
I read and watched all kinds of horror as an "innocent" child and was never really affected by anything until that Zuni Fetish... holy crap, I STILL have nightmares with that dammned doll in it!!
another one that scared the bejeezus out of me (although not really of the 'horror' genre) was The Day After, post nuclear holocaust, early 80's I think...
I SO love a good scare, lol!
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- True, 19:52:48 10/22/02 Tue
Nightmare before Xmas is a Halloween thru Dec movie *chuckles*. It's really a two holiday movie, imo.
Scariest movies...well that's difficult. I remember Fire in the Sky as the last movie to really scare me to the point where I didn't sleep well and that was about 10ish years ago. Other than that I recall parts of films that were scary...Scream's first scene and the hooded killer in the insane asylum from one of the Exorcist sequals. I read the Exorcist when I was about 11 and was too terrifed to watch the movie so I'm assuming if I had seen it that would be in my top 5 *chuckles*. Other movies like Alien, Aliens, Nightmare on Elm Street and The Thing all spooked me a bit although I'm immune to Aliens now.
Cheers,
True
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Re: Halloween Films (and books!) -- Mike, 16:01:06 10/23/02 Wed
I'm among the pro-Blair Witch contingent. That thing actually freaked me out, the first horror flick to do so in several years.
Dave's reference to the Zuni Fetish segment of Trilogy of Terror got me thinking: that segment was based on a Richard Matheson short story...over the summer I read that very story, which was included in a very fine edition of Matheson's "I Am Legend." If you've never read this book, read it. I was absolutely engrossed...in terms of addiction this thing is up there with the Harry Potter novels.
But if you're lazy and just want to see a film version, check out either Omega Man with Charleton Heston (cheesy but fun) or The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price (creepy and pretty close to the book). You can find the latter on DVD for $8 along with Price's House on Haunted Hill.
Mike
PS: TNN is running a Friday the 13th marathon on Halloween and AMC is doing a Backstory on the original Halloween. Yee-haw!
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Branwyn,, 16:39:48 10/24/02 Thu
does anyone one remember April Fool's Day?
Staring Griffin O'Neal.. (Scarry.. Very Scarry.. )
actually a good Plot twist..
Branwyn, the Impish Wench
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Re: Halloween Films........................... -- Synn, 11:52:15 10/25/02 Fri
I still love that movie. It just came out on DVD by the way. Everytime I see that ending, I think about how much fun it would be to have a hotel like that. Very cool film, nice variation on the slasher genre.
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