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Favorite movie monster/ maniac?
10/24/2006 | Me

Posted on 10/24/2006 6:25:19 AM PDT by Chewie84

Since we're nearing Halloween, I was wondering, for those of us here who are fans of scary movies, who's your favorite movie monster/killer? And, no, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Al Gore, and Barbra Streisand DON'T count (Though Moore does look like a hideous cross between the Wolfman and the Blob)!


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KEYWORDS: halloween; maniac; scarymovie
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To: kimmie7

MMMMMYeeeeess?


41 posted on 10/24/2006 8:42:55 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: Chewie84
The Salem's Lot vampire had a cool look

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42 posted on 10/24/2006 8:45:31 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Maceman

I won't allow that movie in my house. I scrolled past that picture before it was fully downloaded. We went to see it when it was released, in the early 70's. I left the theater and walked around till it ended. Hubby stayed to the end.


43 posted on 10/24/2006 8:46:22 AM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them)
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To: theFIRMbss
You want to see a cool site? Click the pic.

44 posted on 10/24/2006 8:48:20 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: Chewie84

Everyone seems to be naming the modern "booga-booga!" movies. For me, the classics are still the most effective. Make some popcorn and put any of these into the VCR or DVD for a great evening:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
The Golem (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) - the John Barrymore version
Nosferatu (1922)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Bat (1926)
The Lodger (1926; one of Hitchcock's first films)
The Great Gabbo (1929 - Erich von Stroheim - the first "ventriloquist controlled by his dummy" story, and that theme just creeps me out)
The Bat Whispers (1930) - not a sequel to the 1926 one
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
M (1931)
The Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Freaks (1932) - this one is really pretty tough to take, even today.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
The very stylish and amusing Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Werewolf of London (1935)
Things to Come (aka The Shape of Things to Come) (1936)
Dr. Cyclops (1939)
The Body Snatcher (1943)
Dead of Night (1945)
Bedlam (1946)
Night of the Hunter (1955)

I'm sure I've forgotten several, those are just some of my favorites. I've heard that a lot of younger people won't watch movies in black and white these days; they're missing a lot.


45 posted on 10/24/2006 8:50:53 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: Chewie84
Favorite movie monster/ maniac?

Al Gore, in "An Inconvenient Truth." ;)

46 posted on 10/24/2006 8:51:22 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Sax
That "cool look" was copied directly from F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922), one of the favorites I listed in my long post.
47 posted on 10/24/2006 8:54:08 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: linda_22003

I've seen that one too, in fact I had considered posting them side by side.


48 posted on 10/24/2006 8:55:31 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Chewie84
The Alien Leader from Plan 9 from Outer Space.


49 posted on 10/24/2006 9:03:33 AM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (Clockwatcher Extraordinaire)
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To: lesser_satan
Personally, I really liked Devil's Rejects better than 1000 Corpses, but I might have to watch it again. I liked Otis better than Dr. Satan.

Speaking of Mr. Gumm, a few years back, I had just given my daughter a bath when I blurted out, in a perfect imitation of Ted Levine, "She puts the lotion on the baby or else she gets the hose, yes she does..."

Not realizing, of course, that I'd been overheard by my inlaws. They treated me REALLY strange for the rest of the day, they sure did.

Of course, recently, I've gotten my daughter to say, "RedRum!" For some reason, my side of the family is considered a bunch of southern weirdos...

50 posted on 10/24/2006 9:03:40 AM PDT by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: RepoGirl
Personally, I really liked Devil's Rejects better than 1000 Corpses, but I might have to watch it again.

As a whole, I liked Rejects better as well. The ending where they're driving toward the roadblock with Freebird playing was awesome, and I liked Captain Spalding's larger role.

Of course, recently, I've gotten my daughter to say, "RedRum!" For some reason, my side of the family is considered a bunch of southern weirdos...

I taught my neice to whisper "I see dead people" to various adults, much to my sister's chagrin. (My neice is a morbid little thing, I'm sure she'll be a goth-chick by age 12)

51 posted on 10/24/2006 9:15:25 AM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: Chewie84

Agreed... I can't believe I watched that movie in it's entirety! LOL...

Night Gallery also had some pretty scarry segments, but then again Rod Serling is one of the Classics!


52 posted on 10/24/2006 9:59:50 AM PDT by TaraP
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To: lesser_satan
You are correct, sir. The ending of Devil's was a thing of beauty. Have you heard that Mr. Zombie is "re-imagining" the film Halloween? I just found this out last night, and its slated for release in 2007. I don't know what he could do to make the original better, since the original is an awesome film. But, Zombie is such a good filmmaker, I'm curious as to what he'll do.

By the way, I like your neice already. The other night, my friends, who are freaks like myself, taught my daughter to say, "What's wrong with his eyes!" in an hommage to Rosemary's Baby (since her unfortunate run in with home hair cutting, my daughter looks like a three year old Mia Farrow these days, complete with orange pixie cut.)

53 posted on 10/24/2006 9:59:57 AM PDT by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: RandallFlagg

lol
Knew you'd turn up.YOU don't scare me! ;-)


54 posted on 10/24/2006 10:41:33 AM PDT by kimmie7 (Liberals embrace the sin......Christians embrace the sinner.)
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To: RandallFlagg
>You want to see a cool site?

Wow! Thanks for the link.
Looks like the most up-to-date
horror site I've seen.

55 posted on 10/24/2006 11:43:41 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Chewie84
The Zombies from Night of The Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead (and from Fulci's Zombi)

Frankenstein's Monster

56 posted on 10/24/2006 3:22:36 PM PDT by lowbridge (DNC - "We support our troops! Ummm.....what do they look like again?")
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To: Chewie84

The mutants from The Hills Have Eyes


57 posted on 10/24/2006 3:24:30 PM PDT by lowbridge (DNC - "We support our troops! Ummm.....what do they look like again?")
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To: Cyclopean Squid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Breckinridge
58 posted on 10/24/2006 3:28:54 PM PDT by lowbridge (DNC - "We support our troops! Ummm.....what do they look like again?")
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To: Chewie84

Stephen King's It. I still can't make it through the beginning of the film. I can watch the last part of it though, which is kinda weird.
59 posted on 10/24/2006 3:48:45 PM PDT by baker_girl
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To: baker_girl
Good call, I forgot about Pennywise from "It." He's DEFINITELY towards the top of my list. That movie scared the crap out of me when I first saw it as a kid(Though the end of Part 2 is kind of stupid), and still kind of freaks me out in certain parts. What's especially scary is that even though I've seen Tim Curry (The actor who played Pennywise) many, many times in other films, there are only a couple brief parts of "It" where you can tell it's him, I'm not sure if it's due more to the makeup or Curry's performance. In my freshman year of college, in one of my English classes, we had to do an essay on one of a range of topics. One possible topic, was something like "Describe a horror film you once saw. What kind of effect did it have on you?" I chose that topic, wrote it about "It," and got an A.
60 posted on 10/24/2006 4:10:33 PM PDT by Chewie84
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