Shocktober
I love October so much, in no small part because Halloween has always prompted every TV station to start playing non-stop horror movies (or the present-day equivalent, where it makes it somewhat socially acceptable for me to buy up tons of horror movies on DVD all month) for me to enjoy. Just of the ones I've seen in my big ongoing marathon this month, some of my favorites have been the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original, ultra-creepy and not-as-violent-as-one-might-think classic), Let's Scare Jessica to Death (another super-creepy 70s horror - I think the art of making horror movies creepy and unsettling rather than loud and in-your-face has largely been lost over the years), Fortress (a great, somewhat low-key tale of a schoolteacher and her students in Australia who get kidnapped and have to fight their way to freedom, in a surprisingly brutal Lord of the Flies-ish climax), and Arachnophobia, which I've seen like a hundred times before and yet had never gotten around to getting on DVD before. So what are some of your favorite horror movies?
posted by Zach @ 1:20 PM
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Dude, I love Halloween! Too bad no one else is as gungho as me :(
I like watching scary movies and I don't. I'm such a chicken sh*t when it comes to it since I get creeped out really easily and will have nightmares for days. I normally end up closing my eyes throughout the entire movie in the long run. I know that when I was younger, my cousins (Emily & Kevin) and I would watch horror flicks like crazy and somehow back then, I wasn't scared! How'd I become such a scaredy cat as I aged??
I agree with you 100% though, old horror flicks used to be really creepy but now they're just so freaking gruesome and gory! It's really gross.
I've only see parts of the original Texas and I've seen the entire new one. Never saw the Jessica movie but I've heard about how this is a classic. I've seen the spider movie, though that is my nightmare since I'm so phobic about bugs. Did you ever see that new spider movie with David Arquette? It's so ridiculous!
I know I used to watch all the Halloween movies with the girls and we liked watching When A Stranger Calls. I don't think I really have a fave though, the new ones like The Ring & The Grudge scare the crap outta me as is.
Oooh, totally random. We used to watch The Leprechuan as kids (actually had Jennifer Aniston in it) and we scared the crap out of my cousin Kevin. We used to lock him in the basement and say "Lephrechuuuaaan" in a creepy voice and he'd cry. Yeah, we were such assh*les, I admit.
Ha, not only have I seen Eight Legged Freaks (the David Arquette movie), I am a proud owner of it. I don't know why, if I am as creeped out by spiders as much as I am, I love horror movies prominently featuring spiders as much as I do.
I was never that big a fan of the Leprechaun films (though apparently I stopped watching them right before they got all goofy -- I saw the first three, but somehow missed out on Leprechaun in Da Hood and Leprechaun in Space), but I was always a huge fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and, to a lesser extent, the Friday the 13th movies. Emmy would like this, but as the years have gone by, I've moved away from slasher movies somewhat and toward zombie movies like George Romero's classic Living Dead movies (Day of the Dead excluded), and towards the more ridiculously extreme graphicness of the recent Asian horrors, led by one of my new favorite directors, Takashi Miike (I say new, but I've been greedily snatching up all of his movies that I could since college).
Let me see, some of my other all-time favorites would have to include Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 70s version with Leonard Nimoy and Donald Sutherland), The Thing, some of Dario Argento's older movies like Suspiria and Opera, the Blair Witch Project, Kill Baby Kill!, Cannibal Holocaust, Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht, and the Wicker Man (the classic original, not the remake, which I didn't see but heard nothing good about). I really liked When a Stranger Calls also, though did you ever see When a Stranger Calls Back? There's one part at the end when the killer hides himself in plain view of the camera but is still impossible to spot until he starts moving, it's so creepy.
Niiice. I mean come on, spiders in a mall? A not-yet-womanly Scarlett Johansson?
I only saw the first original one. He was an ugly little man. What's the name of that movie with the lil troll like things that can come out of a mouse holes, and I think in the end, the cat killed it by swatting it into a fan? Why do I think that Drew Barrymore was a kid in that movie?
Yah, definitely when I was younger, me and the cuzs always watched Nightmare and it never used to scare me at all! He's actually a normal looking man, he was a professor in the movie Urban Legends. Did you ever watch that new Freddy vs. Jason movie? There are a lot of creepy Jap movies, my uncle has tons of those vcds and I just look at the covers and run away.
Dude I so saw When A Stranger Calls Back. I so KNOW what you're talking about how he looks like he's part of the brick wall. It is SOOOOO freaky! I was so creeped out by that. Not that the scene in the hospital where he starts punching her chest was any better. I think we all chuckled because we were so uncomfortable with that scene. I even saw the new Stranger one too, definitely not the same feel as the original.
I haven't seen the Drew Barrymore movie you're talking about, but going by IMDB I think it might be Cat's Eye, which was an anthology of three Stephen King stories, one of which had a little girl getting menaced by a tiny monster.
I certainly have seen Freddy vs. Jason a few times, and I still giggle like a dumbass every time they look up the dream suppressant on the Internet. It's not my favorite of the Nightmare movies (that honor would go to New Nightmare), but it may be the best film with Jason in it, even with the disturbing lack of naked women that normally accompany him.
I never saw the new Stranger, I haven't watched most of the newer remakes since the awfulness of the Texas remake. I think the only one I've seen outside of that was Dawn of the Dead, and that was mainly because they went out and showed the rather brilliant opening ten minutes on TV to promote the film.
Ooh, have you ever seen this one really unsettling movie called Lemora: a Child's Tale of the Supernatural? That was my big success random buy last Halloween, this incredibly creepy movie from the early 70s about a girl trying to find her father and getting taken in by vampires.
Yow, I haven't watched nearly as many scary movies as you guys! I can't really stomach slasher films. It's not so much the movie, but the aftermath--haunting nightmares. Zombies can be gorey, but they're also goofy and lovable. And isn't that what Halloween is all about? That warm, fuzzy feeling. Oh, wait, n/m it isn't. I'm a fan of the zombie movies, but I gotta say, I don't like my zombies intelligent, dexterious, agile, or fast. Seriously, rigamortis and decaying organs. Rececently deceased, then turned zombies, I'll give them a little bit of wiggle room and I guess they could be fast. Ok, yah, it's 2:20 Am, and I'm rambling again. Good nite! =)
Did you mind overly much the running zombies in Return of the Living Dead? Because I have movies with slower ones, have no fear.
I'm cool, but it's just a preference.
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