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supervike
10-24-2005, 10:17 AM
Halloween apparently isn't as big of a deal outside of the states, but I think it may be my favorite holiday. I love how excited my kids (ok and me too) putting up Halloween decorations around the house, and in the yard.

Its kind of become a tradition for our family to go out and get some pumpkins at the pumpkin farm and start watching scary movies. So what are your favorite 'Halloween' movies. I'll start...

The Nightmare Before Christmas (thats my favorite Christmas movie too!)
Van Helsing (ok, kinda cheesy, but very fun for Halloween)
Blair Witch (if you watch the version that has the 'behind the scenes' documentary, this movie is actually pretty cool)
The classics Frankenstien, Dracula, The Wolfman
vincegamer
10-24-2005, 10:32 AM
I'm one of an apparently small group who actually liked Punkinhead.
I think The Changeling is a good horror flic too - especially since it doesn't rely on gore or shock violence but hones to goodness horror and suspense, and stars the incomparable George C. Scott.
green stuff
10-24-2005, 10:41 AM
Halloween apparently isn't as big of a deal outside of the states, but I think it may be my favorite holiday.
Used to love it when I was in the States. However, in France, we don't have as many quiet suburbian neighborhoods (mostly appartments with door codes in the big cities) so it's not that easy for kids to go knocking at the doors. Also, Halloween is seen by a lot as another commercial holiday. And finally, we have on the 1st of November "All Saints Day" which is more to remember the ancestors than to mock the dead. We also have "Mardi Gras" to get dressed up. I'm not saying that Halloween is bad or anything (I loved it), it's just that since it's not as linked to religion as Christmas can be, countries tend to keep their own traditions for this one.

I went to see "The Corpse Bride". Not as comedy oriented as "The Nightmare Before Christmas" but it's still fun, technically better, and the story has more depth.

Otherwise, "28 Days Later" is great for the zombie lovers ;).
EricJ
10-24-2005, 11:24 AM
yep, 28 days later is about the best zombie movie made!

hmmm, other than that...I am drawing a blank :(

I'll figure something out though!
RedDawn
10-24-2005, 11:44 AM
I actually don't watch too many horror movies, suspenseful, but not horror. I get nightmares and tend to beat the crap out of Grumb in the middle of the night. If a movie looks the least bit scary, he watches it first and then tells me whether I should watch it or not.

I did just watch Constantine, with Kenau Reeves, this past weekend and it wasn't too scary - of course K.R. is great eye-candy and that's why I watched it! :goodbad:
LeadAsbestos
10-24-2005, 12:15 PM
Halloween - the first, and only the first one!
The Shining- I still look away when the creepy little girls come onscreen
Creepshow- fun and scary

The list goes on and on. I love Halloween and scary movies!
supervike
10-24-2005, 12:34 PM
Heh...Yeah, I am kind of on a 'lite' horror movie watching spree lately.

The reason...My oldest daughter and I went through a 'scary' movie phase together, and we watched "The Grudge". That damn movie gave me nightmares, I don't know why it struck me as so creepy, but it did. Even now, almost a year later, I will wake up in the middle of the night slightly freaked out....
RedDawn
10-24-2005, 12:37 PM
Heh...Yeah, I am kind of on a 'lite' horror movie watching spree lately.

The reason...My oldest daughter and I went through a 'scary' movie phase together, and we watched "The Grudge". That damn movie gave me nightmares, I don't know why it struck me as so creepy, but it did. Even now, almost a year later, I will wake up in the middle of the night slightly freaked out....

...DON'T watch "The Grudge"!!!!

Thanks for the tip SV! :thumb:
vincegamer
10-24-2005, 02:15 PM
I was listening to an interview with Anne Rice this weekend.
Turns out the characters in Interview With the Vampire are all based on her family members.
She and the interviewer discussed how all of the classic horror movies of the last 30 years circle around the failure of the family unit and the empowerment of children. The Shining, The Exorcist, Omen, Rosemary's Baby....
Even her own book centered around a twisted family unit.
gi6ers
10-24-2005, 02:55 PM
In no particular order:

Saw
Evil Dead series
Bubba Hotep
Return of the Living dead part 3
Alien
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Shaun of the Dead
anything by George Romero
Psycho
The Exorcist
The Hitcher

I'm sure there are loads more that I like......
Frustrated Father
10-24-2005, 03:46 PM
28 Days Later
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Bite Me
Freak Show
Freak Show II
The Grudge (ok, I don't really like that one, my wife watched it while I hid behind the pillows).
Transylvania 6-5000
Cursed
Halloween
Freddy Kruger (1st one)
Witches
Scooby Doo Halloween Special (heh)


Hrmmm, that's about all I can think of now.
EricJ
10-24-2005, 04:15 PM
I nearly forgot! Dead Alive!!! (or Braindead for you Europeans)
Ritual
10-24-2005, 04:34 PM
Sleepy hollow! :proud:
Frustrated Father
10-24-2005, 05:14 PM
Resident Evil
Resident Evil II
gi6ers
10-24-2005, 05:53 PM
Beetlejuice
Fright Night
Hellraiser series
Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Nightmare on Elm St
American Werewolf in London/Paris
Ghostbusters 1
Mimic
Halloween
Friday the 13th
Poltergeist
Screamers

and Interview with the Vampire for the ladies :thumb:
RedDawn
10-24-2005, 07:09 PM
Oh Ritual, Sleepy Hollow is good! I think of it more as suspenseful than horror though.
RedDawn
10-24-2005, 10:27 PM
Just remembered - Scream 3, but only because it was filmed at my college! Just saw it on t.v. and it's weird watching it with men all over campus (it's a women's college)!

Boy that brings back memories - mainly of the first year Grumb and I dated. My dorm was a HUGE antebellum looking thing with a huge front porch and swings. He used to wait for me on one of the swings or on the front steps. OK, I feel better now - good memories vs. someone being killed in a van by a person wearing a Scream mask.... :)
RedDawn
10-24-2005, 10:48 PM
Sorry for the triple post, but tried to edit my other post and couldn't.

Anyway, since I don't ever watch scary movies I didn't realize the movie was Scream 2, not Scream 3. AND, the college is supposed to be in Ohio, but they actually filmed in Decatur, GA (suburb of Atlanta).

Yay, I love Tivo!
Frustrated Father
10-25-2005, 12:07 AM
Jeepers Creepers, part 1 and 2. :D
gi6ers
10-25-2005, 04:52 AM
The Blob
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Frankenstein
Dracula (Bela Lugosi)
LeadAsbestos
10-25-2005, 06:28 AM
Lifeforce is good for a laugh. The best naked-space-alien-vampire-zombie-end-of-the-world movie ever. Patrick Stewart pre-Star Trek too! (He's not the naked one...) :thumb:
gi6ers
10-25-2005, 08:11 AM
Lifeforce is good for a laugh. The best naked-space-alien-vampire-zombie-end-of-the-world movie ever. Patrick Stewart pre-Star Trek too! (He's not the naked one...) :thumb:

I'd have to agree, very good late night viewing - just add booze!
vincegamer
10-25-2005, 10:33 AM
Lost Boys
and for an added kick, I quite liked that Grace Jones vampire movie. I think it was called "Vamp".

As for good pre-star trek Patrick Stewart, watch the I Claudius mini series staring Derek Jacobi (who incidentally said it was hard to get work after that because no one wanted to hire an actor with a facial tic - Claudius had a tic! not Jacobi! His acting was too good).
Stewart plays the evil general Sajanus - and he has hair (though it might not be his....)
supervike
10-25-2005, 03:06 PM
another 'pre-trek' Stewart movie...

Excalibur. Stewart was 'Leondegrance'

Also has a young Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne as well.
vincegamer
10-26-2005, 02:50 PM
And as we keep moving ahead in time, Stewart played Gurney Hallek in the movie Dune.

Hmm. First he's in ancient Rome, then he's in Medieval Europe, then off to some distant future. The man for all time zones!

and currently he can be heard as a voice in Chicken Little.
supervike
10-26-2005, 03:55 PM
and in X-men he stars with the beautiful Famke Janssen (Jean Grey), who was a guest star in the Trek TNG Episode. "The Perfect Mate", which is one of my favorite episodes. Now, if you'd connect them with Kevin Bacon, in 6 degrees or less....
vincegamer
10-26-2005, 07:32 PM
That's easy.
Stewart & Schatner in Star Trek abillion
Schatner & Christian Slater in Start Trek abillion minus 1
Christian Slater and Kevin Bacon in Murder in the First.

ha. didn't even have to rely on Tom Cruise!
LeadAsbestos
10-26-2005, 09:13 PM
The point was that he wasn't the nekkid one, you ST dorks! :bird:
No one even asked who was the naked one...
supervike
10-26-2005, 09:44 PM
The point was that he wasn't the nekkid one, you ST dorks! :bird:
No one even asked who was the naked one...

I got so caught up revelling in my geekhood, I forgot!!

Ok...who was the naked one? (please be a girl, please be a girl)
LeadAsbestos
10-27-2005, 07:13 PM
Yes, a girl:
http://www.mrskin.com/Stars/00727/Mathilda_May.htm

I was too young to see this, I think... But it certainly had an effect!
Celtic Lilly
10-30-2005, 10:20 AM
Lost Boys is one of my favorites!!! I love 80's movies.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this last one with the girl from 7th Heaven. I can't ever remember her name.