Fav Horror movie

[metalchurch]

I'm trying to think, but I know there's a couple off hand that I like such as
-Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects
-Rob Zombie's Halloween.

I really dig his movies for some reason, and I think he has a great vision on things. I also like the music he uses in his movies.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was another good one, especially the new version.

I'd love to see a remake of the 'Night of the Living Dead', that was good stuff back in it's time, which was 1967 or '68 I think?

What do you guys list as your fav's?

[Gallowglass]

I love all the Romero films a lot, except for Land of the Dead- it sucked. The new one, Diary of the Dead was pretty cool. I like some of his more obscure ones too, like The Crazies. Of all of them, I think Dawn of the Dead was probably the best. My friend Bill (the best bagpiper in Altoona!) was an extra in Day that Tom Savini shot in the Monroeville Mall and he fell down the escalator. Night was shot on my buddy John's Uncle's farm. The little girl in the basement that kills her parents is his cousin. I used to give his little brother guitar lessons and in the room was a gigantic NotLD poster with her on it. He never said anything about it (I knew he wanted to), but one day he just blurted out, "Do you know that girl is my cousin?". I told him that I already knew and he just laughed maniacally. I'm a big fan of a lot of "B" grade zombie films. BTW, Tom Savini did a remake of NotLD around 1990 or so. It was Ok.

I LOVE a lot of older Horror movies (way too many to list). Some of the newer ones leave me cold, though.

As for scariest, probably The Exorcist.

[Plastered Bastards]

Evil Dead (All of them)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2 (Tobe Hooper)

And I gotta go with Jason on The Exorcist. It scared the living bejezus out of me when I was a kid.

And the 70's movie Squirm,about killer worms. Brilliant

[Dark Soul]

I love a good horror flick. Unfortunately there aren't that many that are any good. A few I really like...

Hellraiser
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The Exorcist
(John Carpenter's) The Thing
Alien
Shadow Of The Vampire
The Shining
Misery
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola, 1992)

[MY_TURNING_POINT]

THE SHINING IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER.

[Dark Soul]

THE SHINING IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER.

Oh yes...absolutely. Stanley Kubrick was a genius of cinema. His movies are some of the finest films ever made (imho).

[metalchurch]

There's somelisted that I forgot about and some I haven't seen in a long time. I might have to grab a few of these when I'm out tomorrow.

[slackin@dabass]

dawn of the dead, day of the dead. both awsome. remakes suck. i hated the new tcm. and i didn't bother watching the new DotD. what's this new trend with fast zombies, anyway? aren't zombies supposed to be slow? don't these writers have the common courtesy to respect the laws of zombie as laid by the king of the genre, george romero?

seriously, sorry about the tangent this is a touchy subject for me!

[YankeeRose]

Timely, yearly topic.


"Psycho", "Halloween", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", the first "Friday the 13th", "Silent Rage", quite a few vampire ones and several B (1960s) horror flicks I only ever saw once (on Uncle Ted's Ghoul School), but won't ever forget the premise of OR some of the scenes. Ditto what has been said about remakes, can't stand 'em, and ditto also most modern horror movies. Imho, something is lost in movies with computerized special effects.

[CCdrums]

The original Frankenstein. It's not really scary, but Boris Karloff is so believable as the Frankenstein monster, it's really cool. It was made in 1936 and quite shocking for the time it was made. No one can ever be better at being Frankenstein than Boris Karloff IMO.

[witchhunt]

My friend Bill (the best bagpiper in Altoona!) was an extra in Day that Tom Savini shot in the Monroeville Mall and he fell down the escalator.

Dawn was shot in Monroeville, not Day. Day was shot in Fla.

[FBooth]

Yeah right Clint, you just told me last week that this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BwnCzpc4io
was your favorite scarry movie!

[mistikalvalkrie]

THE SHINING IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER.

Preach on brother...this is probably the only horror movie that has actually ever scared me enough that I had to stop watching it about half way through so of course its my number one.
The Omen (the original, of course!!!), the Evil Dead Trilogy, Psycho, Bram Stoker's Dracula AND the Tod Browning Dracula from 1939 (think Bela Lugosi), the first Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween (original and Rob Zombie version), Nosferatu, Misery, Sleepy Hollow, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (number 2 is good too even though its mostly a comdy) anything with Vincent Price, Night of the Living Dead (I saw some of the rest of the series and didn't think much of it, honestly), Shaun of the Dead (what? it had zombies...lol), the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and I have a special place in my heart for classic horror movies from the 40's through the 60's like the Wolfman, or the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Did anyone ever see the movie "Killer Clowns from Outer Space"? I gotta say it sucked donkey balls, but I give it credit for originality...lol

[Gallowglass]

My friend Bill (the best bagpiper in Altoona!) was an extra in Day that Tom Savini shot in the Monroeville Mall and he fell down the escalator.

Dawn was shot in Monroeville, not Day. Day was shot in Fla.

Oops, sorry for the typo slip. Thanks for the correction. You're always on the ball.

[UncleScabby]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is my favorite movie of all time--Silence of the Lambs, Dead Alive, Night/Dawn/Day of the dead, Return of the Living Dead, Critters, The Last Man on Earth, Lucio Fulci's Zombie (a zombie fighting a shark underwater?! And that eye/wood splinter gouging scene still gets me), Night of the Lepus, and all the Friday the 13th series (even F vs J). I actually really loved the remake of Dawn of the Dead too. I'm a huge zombie fan and it was great to see them with a budget. I also think Rob Zombie really got it with The Devil's Rejects. I've gotta give a little credit to Hatchet. It'll never be a favorite, but it made me happy to see a return to the slasher flick when torture films have become such a fad--plus Kane Hodder is pretty much the man when it comes to chopping a man's head off with farming tools.

Has anyone ever gone to Horrorfind Weekend in Maryland? I went one year, it was a pretty good time.

BTW Joe they did remake night of the Living Dead in color in the 90's with Tom Savini at the reins. It was pretty much the exact same script just filmed with modern technology, and they added a few details at the end. Overall I'd say its worth a watch.

[bfoust]

The Ring
The Shining
HO1C & Devils Rejects
TCM Remake and sequel
Stir of Echoes
The Sixth Sense
The Blair Witch Project
Halloween (original)

[CCdrums]

Yeah right Clint, you just told me last week that this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BwnCzpc4io
was your favorite scarry movie!

LOL.....good one Joe!

[Naga]

The Shining, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bram Stoker's The Mummy, Dee Snyder's Strangeland, the entire Nightmare On Elm Street series, the entire Friday The Thirteenth series (minus Jason X, that movie SUCKED!!!), the Hellraiser series, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (yes, 2 animes in that list, because they're both well designed for the list), the Saw series (haven't seen 4 yet), Halloween (both the old, and Rob Zombie's remake), and Hostel are a small list of some of my favorite horror movies. I also wanna add Dracula: Dead And Loving It into that list. It's not horror either, but it relates, and is HILARIOUS!!!

I'll probably have to find a bunch of old horror movies and watch them again for a refresher course though. I haven't seen the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet, and can't remember a damn thing about the original

[witchhunt]

My friend Bill (the best bagpiper in Altoona!) was an extra in Day that Tom Savini shot in the Monroeville Mall and he fell down the escalator.

Dawn was shot in Monroeville, not Day. Day was shot in Fla.

Oops, sorry for the typo slip. Thanks for the correction. You're always on the ball.

No, just that Day was my fav Romero. The characters were believable and good actors. Dawn was good but the zombies had a terrible gray color and the blood looked like the red paint from grade school art class.

[witchhunt]

OK, I'll have to say The Exorcist. If you're Catholic it's much scarier. I liked Exorcist 3 also. As far as vampires, I really like 30 Days of Night. Cool concept and some of the best looking vampires ever. From Dusk Til Dawn kicked ass from the first scene till the last. House of Dark Shadows gets a nod. Gotta love Barnabus Collins. Any of the Christopher Lee Hammer Dracula films were good, too. Zombies? Hell, yeah. I like NOTLD just for getting the ball rolling. Day is my fav, though. The original. Then you have the all time masterpiece...Halloween. Cheers to all 3 Zombie movies. May he keep up the good work. Can't wait for T-Rex. Gotta mention this, too. I saw Jaws, opening week at the Duke and Duchess theaters in the "new" Richland Mall. Two scenes fucked me up. Of course when Brody was chumming and the shark jumped out of the water. The other was when Dreyfuss' character (anyone remember his name) was digging the tooth out of the hole in the boat and the head came out. I jumped back so hard that the row of seats pulled half out of the concrete floor.

[slackin@dabass]

My friend Bill (the best bagpiper in Altoona!) was an extra in Day that Tom Savini shot in the Monroeville Mall and he fell down the escalator.

Dawn was shot in Monroeville, not Day. Day was shot in Fla.

just the abandoned city scenes were in florida, the rest was shot in PA. there really are no limestone mines in florida. i don't think they can in a state that's water level, no offense!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/locations

even then the elevator scenes were shot in monroeville. sorry for the smart-assedness, i love me some george romero flicks

[YankeeRose]

Yeah Witchhunt, love those old Lee, Cushing vampire flicks. We discussed the 2 Dark Shadows flicks before.
As I said above, there are 2 B zombie ones out there somewhere I would like to see again. Not certain which country this one was filmed in (and it appeared from the 1960s), but the premise involved a film crew making a vampire movie in an old house. They used an ancient book in a scene, recited some of the words and PRESTO, bodies buried in an old graveyard on the property started rising up! The second one had to be British and involved several young men and women, the dudes were in a motorcycle gang (as much as Brits could be in a bike gang the 1960s ). One dude in particular lived on an estate with his Mum or Aunt. Any way, one of the group died, somehow they discovered (perhaps a book again, or a potion) a way to become immortal. Some scenes I will never forget: one of the group calmly dropping off a traffic bridge to their death, and one dude driving up out of his grave on his bike. There was something with a frog of all things, too. It's been 30 plus years since I've seen those 2 strange movies, but even if I never do view either one again, I'll never forget 'em!




MistikalV, no I never did see 'Killer Clowns From Outer Space', (Sounds like a trip of a flick to watch slightly toasted!), but the title reminds me of an episode of 'Angry Beavers' wherein they watched bad B movies, ate junk food, fell asleep and had a nightmare re: radioactive Viking vampire women from Venus.

[Dark Soul]

Did anyone ever see the movie "Killer Clowns from Outer Space"? I gotta say it sucked donkey balls, but I give it credit for originality...lol

Uh oh...I'm gonna be subjected to this soon, aren't I? LOL!

[witchhunt]

My friend Bill (the best bagpiper in Altoona!) was an extra in Day that Tom Savini shot in the Monroeville Mall and he fell down the escalator.

Dawn was shot in Monroeville, not Day. Day was shot in Fla.

just the abandoned city scenes were in florida, the rest was shot in PA. there really are no limestone mines in florida. i don't think they can in a state that's water level, no offense!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/locations

even then the elevator scenes were shot in monroeville. sorry for the smart-assedness, i love me some george romero flicks

Yeah, I read about the Nike Missile site in PA before but also read about all the filming done in Fla. The site even had pics of the chain link fence area where the elevator and the gravestones would have been. And there was supposed to be an underground facility where a lot of footage was shot. Who knows?

[slackin@dabass]

Dawn was shot in Monroeville, not Day. Day was shot in Fla.

just the abandoned city scenes were in florida, the rest was shot in PA. there really are no limestone mines in florida. i don't think they can in a state that's water level, no offense!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/locations

even then the elevator scenes were shot in monroeville. sorry for the smart-assedness, i love me some george romero flicks

Yeah, I read about the Nike Missile site in PA before but also read about all the filming done in Fla. The site even had pics of the chain link fence area where the elevator and the gravestones would have been. And there was supposed to be an underground facility where a lot of footage was shot. Who knows?

i read it was all shot in an abandoned limestone mine near johnstown. i dunno. i just meant that you can't go under ground in florida, they don't even have basements down there. being ocean level will do that to ya!