Hi

[Team Transylvania]

[Possessed]

Hey there!
It seems you like some horror by your name and post.
If so you might like Mausoleum.
The Zombie Cult welcomes all horror film fanatics!!!

[witchhunt]

Hell yeah. Lee was the greatest Dracula ever. Also liked Frid as Barnabas Collins. BTW Drac's castle in Transylvania is for sale as we speak.

[rug]

Mausoleum......it's been a while but doesn't some lady's boobs turn into monsters/demons in that flick???

[songsmith]

I saw Jack Palance as Dracula once (Jack did mostly westerns, and eventually hosted Believe It Or Not on TV). He was really good, great accent and very dark and scary. I think the movie was The Vampire Killers from the 60's but it's been many years so I could be wrong.
Barnabas Collins used to scare the living sh*t out of me when I was a kid. I had to hide under a blanket, and my mother would turn the TV off.

As for horror movies, I prefer pre-1980. When the slasher movies started, horror movies just became slasher movies, and it became more about grossing you out than actually scaring you. Also, I prefer low-budget horror... if it's good, digital effects aren't necessary. Hell, I've creeped out by Steven King books, and the visual there's all in my mind. They used to play a movie on CBS late nights in the early 70's called The Black Scorpion, that used to give me piss-shivers... I saw it later on and realized the effects were the worst I've ever seen... they just filmed real scorpions reacting to, I don't know, somebody poking them with a pencil or something, then green-screened the actors in. So it's all in your head anyway.--------->JMS

[BDR]

I can remember being scared out of my skull the first time I saw "Salem's Lot" — you know, the scene where the vampire appears out of the mist and scratches at the window. I think I was probably 7 or 8 when I saw that and couldn't sleep for about 3 weeks.

Of course, seeing it today, it's not scary. Not even a little.

Slashers suck. Psychological thrillers are the shizzle, but they have to be well written and directed.

r:>)

[YankeeRose]

Hello!
If there was a vampire movie ever made, good or bad, I most likely saw it, and Lee was the absolute best. I believe Palance was Dracula in more than one, and besides Lugosi, there is one other I always forget.
I saw every episode of Dark Shadows several times over. I also had the Dark Shadows board game complete with plastic teeth, and saw the Dark Shadows movies waaaay back when they first were in the theaters. (:shock: Songsmith, you were such a wuss! LMAO)

[songsmith]

I am NOT a wuss.
Sh*t, did you hear that noise? What was that? ----->JMS

[Charltor]

Yeah Lee was an awesome Dracula in his day, Lucas has said those roles were a major decision in him casting him as Lord Tyrannus aka Count Dooku in the Star Wars Prequels which I thought he was pretty good in.

[YankeeRose]

Peter CUSHING I believe is the one I keep forgetting. Most likely because he also used to portray a doctor/vampire killer in some of those flicks.
Songsmith, I said you WERE such a wuss, not that you still are, but hey... Bwoahahahaha!

[Charltor]

Peter CUSHING I believe is the one I keep forgetting. Most likely because he also used to portray a doctor/vampire killer in some of those flicks.
Songsmith, I said you WERE such a wuss, not that you still are, but hey... Bwoahahahaha!

yeah Peter Cushing was also Grand Moff Tarkin in the orignal Star Wars.
Evil child molesting looking guy.

[witchhunt]

Hello!
If there was a vampire movie ever made, good or bad, I most likely saw it, and Lee was the absolute best. I believe Palance was Dracula in more than one, and besides Lugosi, there is one other I always forget.
I saw every episode of Dark Shadows several times over. I also had the Dark Shadows board game complete with plastic teeth, and saw the Dark Shadows movies waaaay back when they first were in the theaters. (:shock: Songsmith, you were such a wuss! LMAO)

Yeah, I remember the board game and the fangs. I remember the movies, too. House was great but Night stunk. Another cool vampire was the one in Kolchak...The Night Stalker. He kept someone tied up and kept giving her transfusions. Great idea.

[YankeeRose]

Yeah, I remember the board game and the fangs. I remember the movies, too. House was great but Night stunk. Another cool vampire was the one in Kolchak...The Night Stalker. He kept someone tied up and kept giving her transfusions. Great idea.

Plastic fangs, not simply teeth, yes. That game might still be in my mom's basement, sans fangs after all these years. One of the things I recall about which ever Dark Shadows movie it was we all went to see, was a woman dead on a round sofa thingy in a huge foyer, throat all bloody, and me telling my horrified younger cousin "it's only ketchup water".

[RobTheDrummer]

The original Nosferatu is still fuckin freaky.

[witchhunt]

The Game. Wanna play YankeeRose?

[YankeeRose]

The Game. Wanna play YankeeRose?

Sure! It's funny you posted that, as I spoke to my mom this afternoon and actually asked her if it was called Barnabas Collins or Dark Shadows. .
She doesn't even remember the game, but is going to see if it's still on one of the shelves in the closet under the basement steps where all the board games were...unless one of my nephews or even 1 of my 3 kids got to it in all these years, then never mind!
Btw, needing transfusions and your blood type isn't available really bites, no pun intended!

[Quail Whale]

Those 70's vampire movies are the reason I still to this day cannot go to sleep unless the covers are pulled up and covering my neck. What do you think about Blacula? That one scared me a lot, but I saw it a few years ago & it was cool...I wonder if they'd ever think about doing THAT at the Cresson Playhouse? haha

[HarleyRo1]

I have to vote for Braham Stoker's Dracula...Anthony Hopkins was great it in. A good twist on a thriller.

I can also remember watching Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as a little kid at my grandmas. Those Grandmas - always letting the kiddos watch the horror flicks - that movie gave me nightmares for years and years.

[Baceman Spiff]

Peter CUSHING I believe is the one I keep forgetting. Most likely because he also used to portray a doctor/vampire killer in some of those flicks.
Songsmith, I said you WERE such a wuss, not that you still are, but hey... Bwoahahahaha!

yeah Peter Cushing was also Grand Moff Tarkin in the orignal Star Wars.
Evil child molesting looking guy.

Dave you're just trying like hell to turn this into a Star Wars thread aint ya?

I liked Gary Oldman's portrayal of Dracula. Not saying he was any better than the rest, but I think he's worth an honorable mention.

Speaking of pre-80's horror flicks...Does anyone remember the show "SHOCK THEATRE" that was on TV10 back in the late 70's? I think was saturday night after the news. They would have a double feature of 'B' horror movies. The opening used to scare the bajeebus out of me when I was a little kid. But I'd watch anyway. It was always scarrier than the movies.

[BDR]

Yeah Lee was an awesome Dracula in his day, Lucas has said those roles were a major decision in him casting him as Lord Tyrannus aka Count Dooku in the Star Wars Prequels which I thought he was pretty good in.

Lucas has been quoted as confirming that the name, "Count Dooku" is a definite spinoff of Count Dracula.

Chris Lee is the shizzle. Even as an 85-year-old man, he scares the bajesus out of me, whether he's about to eff someone up with his lightsaber or whether he's joining forces with the evil Sauron (his portrayal of Saruman was menacing but I'm glad Gandalf handed him his a$$. It's in the book ... it had to happen).

r:>)