Scary Halloween Movies

Boris_Badenov · Oct 26, 2008

What movies are you watching this Halloween? Which ones are your favs? Which one scares you the most?I've been watching the 2004 version of Stephen Kings "Salem's Lot" & it's the best version I've seen made of this movie. It's well acted & the directing is absolutely excellent. It rare that I've seen a movie that has captured the truely creepy quality of a book like this one has.  <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div> </div>

vogon13 · Oct 26, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>What movies are you watching this Halloween? Which ones are your favs? Which one scares you the most?I've been watching the 2004 version of Stephen Kings "Salem's Lot" & it's the best version I've seen made of this movie. It's well acted & the directing is absolutely excellent. It rare that I've seen a movie that has captured the truely creepy quality of a book like this one has.  Posted by boris1961</DIV> "I Spit on Your Grave" with it's 45 minute long sexual assault scene is a perennial favorite.    <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!So many people, so few recipes !!Let's clean up this stinkhole !! </div>

Boris_Badenov · Oct 26, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'> "I Spit on Your Grave" with it's 45 minute long sexual assault scene is a perennial favorite.    Posted by vogon13</DIV>It looks like their gonna release a remake next year. Yikes!!! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div> </div>

vogon13 · Oct 26, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>It looks like their gonna release a remake next year. Yikes!!! Posted by boris1961</DIV> Here is where casting could make or break a movie.  Paris Hilton  could not pull that role off succesfully.  Hannah Montana on the other hand . . .    <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!So many people, so few recipes !!Let's clean up this stinkhole !! </div>

weeman · Oct 26, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'> Here is where casting could make or break a movie.  Paris Hilton  could not pull that role off succesfully.  Hannah Montana on the other hand . . .    Posted by vogon13</DIV> ....must we forget Lindsay Lohan!? I don't watch many scary movies, yet "IT" scared me the most when I was a young lad <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Techies: We do it in the dark. "Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein </div>

a_lost_packet_ · Oct 26, 2008

I think "Prince of Darkness" has to rank up there pretty high on my "scary" meter.  There was something there that was a bit unnerving.A list (Use a few to compile this one)"Prince of Darkness" - Unnerving "Rosemary's Baby" - Uh.. kind of say's it all."Event Horizon"  -  Just a great mix of sci-fi, pop culture and the occult.. way weird.  Sorta like a "Hellraiser" in space."The Exorcist" - It's probably the King of all Scary Movies.  Wonderfully done.  "The Exorcist III" is pretty awesome too. "Jaws" - Yeah, not your typical "scary" movie.  But, for suspense, pulse quickening "boo" moments, it's just plain awesome."Alien" - Another great, untypical, Halloween movie.  Yeah, it's sci-fi.  But, it's more a sci-fright monster movie than anything else."Halloween" - A can't miss flick.  Michael Myers does NOT play Austin Powers in this one.  Teen scream dream movie. "The Thing" - I've seen it too many times to be shocked by it.  But, many put it close to the top for scare factor.  It's a 10/10 any way you can think about it.I haven't seen many horror movies lately.  The ones that normally get under my skin are the ones that are just unnerving.  You know, the ones that just make you feel creepy?  "Scary" doesn't count for much with me unless the tale-teller can get in my head.  Then, that's when it gets fun.

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weeman · Oct 28, 2008

Ah yes, Event Horizon is a good one! I haven't seen it in quite some time. I was always spooked by the scene when they guy is out in space with no helmet and the blood is pouring out of his eyes! <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-sealed.gif" border="0" alt="Sealed" title="Sealed" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Techies: We do it in the dark. "Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein </div>

CalliArcale · Oct 28, 2008

CRAP!!!!  I lost my whole list!  I accidentally clicked on a link.*pouts*Okay, here goes again."Something Wicked This Way Comes" - suitable for most children; screenplay by Ray Bradbury, loosely based on his book of the same name; stars Jonathon Pryce as the spine-tingling villain Mr Dark"Watcher in the Woods" - another kid-suitable Disney flick, but very creepy, with the recurrent image of a blindfolded girl trapped in a mirror world, pleading desperately for help, while the only girl who can see her tries to make sense of the strange clues she's finding, and her sister becomes possessed. "The Shining" - wonderfully good thriller; who can forget Jack Nicholson in this one?"M" - an early talkie by Fritz Lang, this features Peter Lorre as a recently-released psychopathic pedophile.  He's supposedly been cured.  He hasn't.   Little girls start to go missing, and so much police pressure is brought to bear that the organized criminal underworld decides to catch the guy."Nosferatu" - talking of old German movies, this silent by F W Murnau is very creepy indeed, and has surprisingly good SFX.  Though Bram Stoker's widow succeeded in getting the movie's name changed from "Dracula", she didn't quite succeed in getting all prints destroyed -- so we get to enjoy it today.  ;-)"Shadow of the Vampire" - a sort of fictional "making of Nosferatu", this black comedy/thriller starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe tells a fantastical story of Nosferatu's filming -- but with the added claim that the strange actor playing "Count Orlock", Max Schreck, might actually have been a vampire himself!"Silence of the Lambs" - Anthony Hopkins is totally believable as this brilliantly psychopathic killer, and although his character doesn't kill very many people (and indeed, the killings being investigated are the fault of a different psychopath), his intense, captivating performance is what makes the movie so effective.  He makes your skin crawl. "Army of Darkness" - this is just plain silly; the third Evil Dead installment is a romp parodying the entire B-movie slasher/horror genre, but it's a riot.  Highly recommended.  ;-) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff." -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink" </div>

crazyeddie · Oct 28, 2008

My favorite is the 1963 film "The Haunting", starring Julie Harris and Claire Bloom.  It's often is ranked among the "top 20" scariest films of all time.  One of the cool things about it is it accomplishes an extraordinary level of suspense and horror without a single drop of blood in the entire film.  There has never been a better flick about a haunted house, in my opinion!<h2 style="color:black;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip:initial;-webkit-background-origin:initial;background-color:initial;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#aaaaaa;margin-bottom:0.6em">Plot</h2>Eleanor Lance, Theodora, and Luke Sanderson accompany Dr. John Markway during an investigation into theparanormal. Markway believes that an old mansion with a sinister past called Hill House will provide him with the proof he seeks of the existence of the supernatural. Luke is the next in line to inherit the house, and is volunteered by the current owner to join Markway both as a skeptic and overseer. Eleanor and Theodora are the only responders to an invitation Markway sent out to various people who had come in contact with the supernatural at some point in their lives. After the four meet up in Hill House, strange things begin to happen, most of which seems centered on Eleanor. Eleanor finds that she enjoys the attention the house affords her, and becomes drawn deeper and deeper in by the forces within the house.  <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/0/12/50413708-83cc-4eb4-bcba-00355d39d904.Medium.jpg" alt="" />    <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

jim48 · Oct 28, 2008

Hi, folks. Jim here. I was telling Boris that I recently watched The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler on YouTube. Remember Kolchak? I remember those two made-for-television movies when they first aired in 1972-73. Darren McGavin was terrific! Just found a hard-to-find CD containing music from both by Robert Colbert, who did all of the Dan Curtis productions. I'm also fond of Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds radio show, 70th anniversary this year. What do y'all think? Love to hear from you. That was no Martian, it's Halloween! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

neuvik · Oct 29, 2008

Army of Darkness Hahaha!  Nice pick Calli!Event Horizon was awesome.   "You won't need eyes where we're going."The Thing was also great!I like Leviathan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/ Horrible infected cargo causes mutations to the glee of totaly desensitiezed people like me.Oh Phantasm is a good one. http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=phantasm  So good, I really can't explain it.  Just watch it.Not really halloween movies, but they are definatly good. Ofcourse there is always zombie movies.  And modern day ones come with even less plot!   I pretty much laugh during the theaters, its a movie I know.  But if your dumb enough to go up to some bleeding deranged screaming person that is foaming from the mouth to ask if their okay, well you deserve to be riped apart an eaten.   If I saw something like that I would immediatly inact zombie defense mode, if your bleeding, guess what, you die.    <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> I don't think I'm alone when I say, "I hope more planets fall under the ruthless domination of Earth!"SDC Boards: Power by PLuck - Ph**king Luck </div>

weeman · Oct 30, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Army of Darkness Hahaha!  Nice pick Calli!Event Horizon was awesome.   "You won't need eyes where we're going."The Thing was also great!I like Leviathan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/ Horrible infected cargo causes mutations to the glee of totaly desensitiezed people like me.Oh Phantasm is a good one. http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=phantasm So good, I really can't explain it.  Just watch it.Not really halloween movies, but they are definatly good. Ofcourse there is always zombie movies.  And modern day ones come with even less plot!   I pretty much laugh during the theaters, its a movie I know.  But if your dumb enough to go up to some bleeding deranged screaming person that is foaming from the mouth to ask if their okay, well you deserve to be riped apart an eaten.   If I saw something like that I would immediatly inact zombie defense mode, if your bleeding, guess what, you die.    Posted by neuvik</DIV> Ok I have one, House of Wax!Actually, I usually just fast forward to the scene with Paris Hilton getting impaled through the head! My fast forwarding to this scene is then followed by me rewinding to the beginning of the scene multiple times, all the while milk is shooting out of my nose from uncontrollable laughter! <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" title="Laughing" /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" title="Laughing" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Techies: We do it in the dark. "Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein </div>

neuvik · Oct 30, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Ok I have one, House of Wax!Actually, I usually just fast forward to the scene with Paris Hilton getting impaled through the head! My fast forwarding to this scene is then followed by me rewinding to the beginning of the scene multiple times, all the while milk is shooting out of my nose from uncontrollable laughter! Posted by weeman</DIV> hahaah good!  We sometimes use an auditorium at school to play movies...since it has a good projector, sound, and theater like seats.   I remember when we were watching that scene, the entire room of like 300 people just erupted in a roar of cheers ahaha. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> I don't think I'm alone when I say, "I hope more planets fall under the ruthless domination of Earth!"SDC Boards: Power by PLuck - Ph**king Luck </div>

a_lost_packet_ · Oct 31, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>         Hi, folks. Jim here. I was telling Boris that I recently watched The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler on YouTube. Remember Kolchak? I remember those two made-for-television movies when they first aired in 1972-73. Darren McGavin was terrific! Just found a hard-to-find CD containing music from both by Robert Colbert, who did all of the Dan Curtis productions. I'm also fond of Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds radio show, 70th anniversary this year. What do y'all think? Love to hear from you. That was no Martian, it's Halloween! Posted by jim48</DIV>I've got a few VHS tapes with "The Night Stalker" episodes on them!  I loved that show when I was growing up.  Sadly, I don't think those VHS tapes are going to hold up for very long.  I need to get them on DVD.  The Orson Wells War of the World's production was fantastic.  I've never listened to the entire radio broadcast though.  I've heard bits and pieces of it.  Still, it was such a creative and groundbreaking bit of work for its time!  Wells was truly a master storyteller.  "Citizen Kane" is proof enough to guarrantee his legacy for all time. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> I put on my robe and wizard hat... </div>

warpfactor999 · Nov 9, 2008

A stupid "B" movie from the sixties ruined me when I was a kid..."Two on a Gullitine". Had a very hard time going up attic stairs for some time after that one. Another old movie wrecked my son for a while..."The Blob"....hard to figure. And does anyone remember "The Day of the Triffids"? The alien trees are out to get you...unless there is an ocean nearby!!

docm · Nov 9, 2008

'Day Of The Triffids' deserves a remake much closer to the John Wyndham book IMO.  IIRC Marvel did a graphic novel that was pretty darned good so maybe they could take a whack at it.All of the above are in my collection either as DVD or 'backed up' to DVD tapes.  Anyone mention 'Willard' yet?  How about 'Night of the Living Dead' & its sequels?'Basket Case'?'Ghost Story' - based on Peter Straub's novel? Quote (Eva/Alma):  I will take you places you've never been. I will show you things that you have never seen and I will see the life run out of you....  <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

jim48 · Nov 16, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I've got a few VHS tapes with "The Night Stalker" episodes on them!  I loved that show when I was growing up.  Sadly, I don't think those VHS tapes are going to hold up for very long.  I need to get them on DVD.  The Orson Wells War of the World's production was fantastic.  I've never listened to the entire radio broadcast though.  I've heard bits and pieces of it.  Still, it was such a creative and groundbreaking bit of work for its time!  Wells was truly a master storyteller.  "Citizen Kane" is proof enough to guarrantee his legacy for all time. Posted by a_lost_packet_</DIV> Yeah, VHS has gone the way of 8 track, my friend. You can listen to Orson Welles radio shows on YouTube, and not just War of the Worlds. I have decided that I will be Kolchak on some Halloween. There's a site that sells replicas of the pork-pie hat, a seeksucker suit is easy to find but I'll have to head to E-Bay to find mid-'70s vintage small cassette recorder and strobe film camera. I also want press credentials, Carl Kolchak, INS. What a fun Halloween that will be! Lots of Kolchak on YouTube, by the way. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

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