Posted on 12/01/2012 6:31:00 PM PST by MNDude
What are your three favorite horror movies?
The Blair Witch Project
The Shining
Cube
My wife & I saw The Ring as our first “date movie”.
Hell. I had problems swimming in pools for years after.
Carie
Aliens
Christine
I’m impressed! You are exactly right.
Psycho
The Other
Nightmare On Elm Street
Passions of the Christ...
17 years old... At a all night horrorshow at a drive-in...
Me and my 3 buds were drinking mad dog and eatng drive-in pizza.... I was all right until the little girl was munchin on her dead dad.....I up-chucked all over the door and speaker...
HaHaHa, that was a pretty cool flick. Great sausage.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).
"You must become Caligari!"
“2016 Obama’s America”, hands down
30 posts before Rosemary’s Baby
40 before Jaws
Nobody else thought The Birds
Guess I am out of touch and did not see many of them!
Yentl.
It still creeps me out.
It helps to subdivide horror movies.
With “Republican” horror movies, the monster is outside of us. With “Democrat” horror movies, the monster is inside of us.
Alfred Hitchcock was a firm believer that suspense is far more unnerving than shock. So there is a suspense to shock ratio in horror movies. It is a good way to analyze them.
An uncertain or indeterminate end to a horror movie may be far scarier than tying up all the loose ends. Hollywood hates that, though. They even try to “stupid down” endings that are too cerebral.
Situational horror, such as post-apocalyptic and dystopian settings often play off the idea of horror being normal, with people adapting or not. Normalcy can also be twisted by the “they’re doing it wrong” idea, turning something normal into something horrible.
In any event, for my personal faves, I would like to start with:
The Call of Cthulhu (2005), the best horror movie that very few people saw. Truly worth finding on DVD, and true to Lovecraft.
Cronos (1993), a superbly written Mexican horror movie, with tragic and sympathetic characters.
Re-Animator (1985), whoever did the screenplay truly understood university academics and administrators and made great sport of them.
Phantasm (1978), best reviewed by Roger Ebert. “The Silver Sphere is about twice the size of a billiard ball. It has a couple of very sharp hooks built into it. It flies through the air, attaches itself to your forehead, and digs in. Then a drill comes out and pierces your skull just above the bridge of the nose, while blood spurts out the other end. I hate it when that happens.”
I lived across from a drive in, in Concord Cal and remember watching that movie. And I loved it as a kid. It was so disturbing. There was one I saw in as a kid Hells rain or something. That movie scared me. Shining and Exorcist got me. I didn’t even see the Exorcist till I was 36 and it scared me to death. Having 2 teenage daughters didn’t help. Every time one of them started acting weird I wanted to call a priest. My wife said I was over reacting but I had out priest on speed dial.
I think I saw that as a kid, too, but I'm not sure. Was the creature finally vanquished by hungry house cats?
Roger Carpenter's The Thing
Original Dawn of the Dead
and for pure campy pleasure, any Hammer film with Christopher Lee as Dracula
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