Anybody else like to spend the week before Halloween watching horror flicks?
In addition to Halloween (the original, not the remake), Dawn of the Dead, and The Exorcist — which I watch every year — here’s what I have lined up for this season of the witch (*never seen):
Bug — from William Friedkin*
28 Days Later*
Hostel II*
The Believers*
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman version)
The Hills Have Eyes (original)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — original and remake.
The Abandoned*
Black Sheep*
Sublime*
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dorks*
Add your suggestions. Or mock my choices. Like you mock my Rockies.
Heretics.
Carnival of Souls.
Freaks.
Nosferatu (original).
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.
The Innocents.
Hellraiser
Exorcist III. For the scene shot down the hospital corridor alone.
28 Days scared the hell out of me. I have a zombie thing.
“Bug”–very disturbing indeed. Plus: Ashley Judd nekkid!
Nightmare Before Christmas
The Towering Inferno (look, when I was 10, it made me sleepwalk to the back door and try to escape)
The Parent Trap (you didn’t say what kind of “scary”)
Oh, I forgot to mention this terrifying Catherine Gund classic towards which Andrew Breitbart steered me. Just when you thought it was safe to baste turkey again.
The Wolf Man
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things
Evil Dead
The Haunting (original)
Dracula (Langella version)
Motel Hell
I’ve Netflix’d these for the weekend with friends:
The Changeling
The Howling
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Watched ‘1408’ the other night. Was not impressed, actually found it pretty boring after the first act.
Lost Highway — “I’m in your house, call me” Brrrr.
The Grunge — I first saw it on DVD a bright sunny afternoon, still scared shitless!
The Ring — ’cause I like Naomi Watts.
Dan, I have Carnival of Souls around here somewhere, very eerie, must find it.
Pumpkinhead. I love that one. Has that Americana thing. Blair Witch screwed with me more though, for real, but I’m not sure you can rewatch that one.
Err, that’d be this Carnival of Souls: http://imdb.com/title/tt0055830/ (that airs in the middle of the night next Saturday on TCM) not the more recent Wes Craven one.
I don’t mock baseball teams. I mock baseball. I’m a meta-mocker.
Maggie, has no doubt, DVRd a number of really stange and obscure scary things.
If … starring Malcolm McDowell.
Cat People, starring Malcolm McDowell
Fright Night, Starring Roddy McDowell
Manhunter starring William Peterson
The first season of ‘Millenium’, before they got into that goofy Owl/Rooster crap, had some good pre-Halloween moments.
E.T.
John Kerry’s Acceptance Speech – ’04 Democratic National Convention
Games 5-7 of the ALCS
For some reason I think if I wanted to get in a Halloween mood I’d go for the classics. Frankenstein in the original Karloff. Dracula in the original Lugosi. Hillary in the original First Lady.
The Shining, Nicholson at his peak.
And now they’re your Rockies, eh? For a real-life horror show check out what’s going on with their online ticket sales. Some folks have been online all day waiting for the computers to come back up ‘maybe by late this afternoon’. I’ve hit “refresh” so many times today that carpel tunneling is setting in. And not a freakin’ peep from Rockies management and public relations since noon. Obviously, this is The Job That Would Have Eaten Their Brains, if they had any. Sigh.
Gotta love Saw: The Uncut Edition, but my all-time favorite is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Wouldn’t want some of those buggers jumping out of the closet at you. So to speak.
I seem to get more bang for the buck reading horror than watching someone else’s vision on screen.
It
The Shining
Anything by Poe
Helter Skelter
Pandagon
The Ring
Gotta save Frankenstein for next month’s “Karloff Birthday Blowout”. We are going to do the original, The Bride, and Son of…(all the ones with Karloff as the monster). And we had an early “Happy Birthday Bela” party this year so we already saw the ’31 Dracula.
The first half of the first Jeepers Creepers really worked for me. He got the brother/sister road trip home from college right, and that truck.
Yeah, I liked the first half of JC too, happyfeet.
Carnival of Souls had its moments, but in the end it didn’t do much for me. Though on its budget, pretty impressive.
Of the ones mentioned here, I don’t have Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things and If…, both of which I might have to get.
I generally try to fit in The Thing (Kurt Russell) and Alien, but those are more sci-fi. Omen, if I have the time.
Simpsons halloween collection DVD.
Charlie Brown Halloween special (big kid at heart)
Original Frank and Vlad.
Young Frankentsein, and of course.. Rocky Horror..
I like to keep it lite…. or great taste, still deciding…
Another Halloween season here at PW, and yet again “I” have to bring up Prince of Darkness. Scariest. Movie. Ever.
Jeff, have you seen Slither? It’s a goodie.
Caspar (the Friendly Ghost)
Scobby Doo’s (all of the ones)
Ghost (WHoopi!)
Oooh. WOmen. Yeah, they ARE scary.
I don’t recall “Children Shouldn’t Play With . . .” with fondness – it’s not all that scary, don’t kill yourself finding it.
“Black Christmas” (the original, with crazy Superman-girlfriend lady as a sorority sister) – now that’s scary! And Christmasy!
I feel like you need an Argento on the list – try “Inferno”, “Phenomena” or “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage” if you’ve already seen “Suspiria.”
Yeah, I caught slither on one of the pay channels. Looked kinda funny. And Prince of Darkness is excellent.
I like some Argento, but for whatever reason, his stuff comes across as too stylized for me. I like grittier stuff — original TCM, Exorcist, those kind of films.
This is somewhat creepy.
I saw Sublime and thought it said Subprime.
Oh, I don’t think Phantasm has been mentioned.
Session 9 — Very atmospheric, and first time I saw it, left me guessing until the very end. I picked up a copy the other day, and the clerks agreed it’s a great movie. Don’t let the presence of David Caruso throw you off.
Of course, at the moment, the most horrific movie I can think of is “Chasing Amy”.
Dead Ringers – Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold (1988) – The most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen.
The Other – Uta Hagen, John Ritter (1972) – very creepy.
Burnt Offerings – Karen Black, Oliver Reed Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis (1976) – Got bad reviews but it scared me when I saw it in the theater.
The Exorcist – Director’s Cut with the spider walk scene.. nothin’ else even comes close..
..except maybe the time I rode my bike over to watch 2001:A Space Odyssey at the Cineramadome in L.A. on a four-way of vintage Owsley and the trip went south… To this very day, when I hear those three deep, rumbling notes well up I spontaneously pee my pants and drop to my knees humbled and shamed in the presence of God and all his Holy Angels…
:: shivers:: Flashbacks.. Tough to get those doors of perception shut again..
I’d highly recommend removing Hostel II from your list. It is torture porn without the torture or porn. It is a truly horrible movie.
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that should be “scary” things. I loves me some 60’s gothic crap. not really scary so much as strange and colorful.
Phantasm, that one does not hold up very well at all. I saw it last year and mostly just looked at the clothes.
Hellraiser
The Haunting with Julie Christie
Dracula (They recently released a new version of the movie with a brand-new soundtrack composed by Phillip Glass and recorded by the Kronos Quartet. I don’t normally like Glass’ work, but he really did a great job in this one).
The Mummy / The Mummy’s Tomb with Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney, Jr
The Mummy (the Hammer version)
Blackula
I figured I’d start with An Inconvenient Truth and wrap up with Fahrenheit 911. Oh wait, those are *documentaries*, not fictional horror.
In the 60’s I saw Psycho and it scared me shitless.. Last week I watched one of the recent crop of “horror” flick.. there was the poor nubile young victim screaming her lungs out.. Eyes wild with fear.. Covered in blood and gore as her entrails were ripped from her belly.. and I couldn’t stop myself from yawning..
Most modern filmmakers have substituted gallons of gore for any attempt at imagination.. We’ve seen it all and for the most part are desensitized..
If you really want to be shocked and horrified drop your remote and pick up a copy of De Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom”.. Not even “American Psycho” can compare to this. An exhausting celebration of cruelty and the grotesque in the way that nightmares were meant to be seen.. through your mind’s eye.
And I just realized I have the first season of Millenium in the basement, unopened. thanks for reminding me, BumperStickerist. Now if we can just get the TV fixed…
Has ANYONE ever made a good adaptation of an H. P. Lovecraft story?
“Day Of The Dead”.
Not so great uva (lazy Tomas) movie, but the Sargeant (Gary Klahr) is one of my favorite people. This is a man who we all would love to have a couple of beers with.
True raconteurs are hard to come by these days.
OMG! I think that was a dreaded “namedrop”!!
Oh, shit. I’m screwed! I promised my government that I woud never do that!
Or is it “Seargent”?
Or is it “Sargent”
Or is it “Sergeant”?
Or is it “Shut up Dog, you name dropping A-hole”?
“Burnt Offerings” scared the crap out me, too, Mark.
A movie was made about Ed Gein, the madman who inspired so many movies (Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc.) but I’ve heard it stunk.
Most modern filmmakers have substituted gallons of gore for any attempt at imagination..
Good god, YES! I can’t stand slash/n/gore stuff. Give me Wait until Dark or 1963’s The Haunting (based on the Shirley Jackson novel that has THE best opening paragraph of any novel) or The Sixth Sense
even 1973’s The Legend of Hell House had great moments (Pamela Franklin giggling maniacally after having sex with a ghost)
The Others was good, too.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space
A Boy and His Dog
One more.. If you can find the Blue Underground, uncut, remastered edition then by all means check out the infamous.. most horrifying movie ever made.. rated V for Violence.. and with its very own Vomit Bag.. Grand-daddy of all Torture-Porn (ok… soft porn..) Starring Udo Kier in his first major role. The one.. The only.
The Mark of the Devil (1970)
… after that tongue ripping scene.. everything else is wussy..
Of course if you just want hot babes and a little light sadism.. go with Udo’s other masterpiece, The Story of O..
Showtime’s “Masters of Horror” did a decent version of “The Dreams in the Witch House”.
I got my copy of CSPWDT out of the 5 dollar bin at the wallyworld–and it was worth every penny.
Weird cult of personality film company/hippie cult goes to a paupers cemetary on a deserted island and performs a black mass and attempts to raise the dead in grainy blown up 16mm with a theramin score.
It is perfect Saturday Creature Feature fare.
Dagon wasn’t great but the bit where they flayed the old guy’s face off was spectacular.
Ha!
Thought of another one;
“The Tomb of the Blind Dead”
The sequels all blow but the first one is great. Early 70’s Portugese horror flic. Accursed blind zombie Templars hunt their prey after dark.
You won’t be sorry watching 28 Days Later. I too have a ‘zombie thing.’
You will most assuredly be sorry for watching Sublime. Awful.
o The title makes it sound better than it is.
o The first time I became aware of it was when we were researching movie quotes for an online contest. “Get out of the grave, Alan” was too good to pass up.
o Anyone know where I can get a life? Mine sucks.
I have a ‘zombie thing’ also, but ’28 days Later’ really annoyed me. I perfer ‘Night of the Living dead’. I also like watch campy I plan to watch MST3000 ‘The Dead Talk Back’ or ‘Godzilla vs. Megalon’
— The Exorcist III is hugely underrated; without the studio interference that got the Exorcist callbacks grafted onto it — the only things that made it an Exorcist sequel at all — it would have been fantastic. The first two thirds still is.
— Every Dario Argento movie is, at the very least, fucking awesome. Phenomena, Inferno, and Deep Red don’t get namechecked much, but they’re incredibly weird and singular. Despite his supposed influence, the difference between his sensibilities and the post-’70s standards of horror is still striking. (The only American movie I can think of that really resembles his stuff is the original Black Christmas — which is also fucking awesome.)
— The wooden acting, ham-fisted foreshadowing, crappy photography, and totally unconvincing sets — to the degree that it’s almost Dadaist — of Horror Hotel somehow combine to make it legitimately creepy in a way that no good movie is. Kind of like David Lynch’s horror moments, actually — but accidentally like that. The tone is so consistently wrong, it’s unsettling. Highly recommended for late-night no-lights viewing. In the daylight — or even distant night-light light — it’s just stupid.
* “Return of the Living Dead” (It’s a Linnea Quigley thing, not to mention the best ending of any horror movie. Joe Bob Briggs would approve…)
* Evil Dead 2 (“Groovy!”)
* Shaun of the Dead (Zombie Method Acting…)
An Inconvenient Truth. Scariest shit, ever!
Mark and Jeffersonian beat me to “Burnt Offerings.” Forget reviews, it was and remains spooky.
For real chills read or re-read King’s Salem’s Lot. I think for sheer fright it beats The Shining by a mile. You should wake for a dark and stormy night after Mrs. G and Satch have gone to bed.
“wake”…”wait”…”whatever”…
I was reminded, while watching Dracula 2000 last night (shsh, don’t tell me, I went to bed with a half-hour left), that I really enjoyed The Frighteners.
As for Zombie movies, most of them get two thumbs WAY up, except that last monstrosity with whats-his-face. Dennis Hopper. Unwatchable. I don’t think I made it to the halfway point.
And, not Horror related, but I AGAIN tried to watch Crash and I get to the part with the evil (white) cop feeling up the chick, and I just can’t stand it.
That’s because you watched the wrong Crash.. Next time pick up the 1996 David Cronenberg version… It fits a little better with the Halloween spirit anyway..
Don’t bother with Hostel. It is horrific but more in a “why the hell am I watching this” as opposed to “OMG I”M SO SCARED”.
I liked 1408 though I’d have to agree the last 15 minutes were lousy. Also, for true horror and grotesque nudity, I recommend the latest Code Pink video.
I tend to go for creepy over gore some of these may sound lame, but have great atmosphere.
I’ll second The Haunting with Julie Christie
Salem’s Lot – David Soul
Dracula (1979) with Olivier and Donald Pleasence
I’ll second or third Exorcist 3
The Watcher in the Woods – The second scariest movie Disney ever made
The Night of The Hunter – not so much horror, but it scared the crap out of me when I was a kid…still does.
The Sentinel – 1977
My favorite slasher flick is “My Bloody Valentine” I guess you could watch it for Halloween.
I’d like to ditto “The Other.” I saw it in high school and it scared the crap out of me.
While edging into Sci-Fi “Alien” scared me more than any movie I have ever seen. Also “Altered States” for weird scared.
“Sean of the Dead” is a must for scary comic relief as is any of Bruce Campbell’s trilogy.
I loves me the horror flicks, especially this time of year. For some more recent flicks that have not yet made this list, I’d recommend:
The Devil’s Backbone
Wrong Turn
The Descent
Not much a horror flick, but Carpenter’s first movie, Dark Star, is worth a look. Comedic nuance, at the absurdist level.
Any movie that features this ditty has makings of an underappreciated classic.
Not much a horror flick, but Carpenter’s first movie, Dark Star, is worth a look. Comedic nuance, at the absurdist level.
Any movie that features this time-warped ditty has makings of an underappreciated classic.
Somebody upthread mentioned The Changeling. Very much underrated/ignored. George C. Scott, as always, is great. and there’s always something very creepy about antique wheelchairs moving on their own.
Cant believe no one’s mentioned Rosemary’s Baby…
Rosemary Woodhouse: What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!
Roman Castevet: He has his father’s eyes.
Being a toonhead in good standing, I wouldn’t recommend any-and-all of Scooby-Doo. But if the season just doesn’t feel complete without everyone’s favorite cannabis-fueled Great Dane, the one you want is the first in the current-gen direct-to-video series, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
If for no other reason than to see the look on Freddy’s face when he tries to unmask one of the zombies, and its entire freakin’ head comes off. Hot potato!
Re-Animator is a good take on Lovecraft.
Jeffery Coombs for the win!
Other picks:
Aliens
The Thing (Carpenter version)
The Night Stalker
The People Under The Stairs
Salem’s Lot
Carrie
Dead Alive! (aka Braindead) (Peter Jackson pre LOTR!)
Poltergeist
I’m not a big horror fan in general, but I was very impressed with Saw 2 (especially given my low expectations). And it’s the first movie since Dawn of the Dead at age 13 that gave me a nightmare.
I then went on to watch Saw 1, which was also good but not quite so good as 2, which has a fantastic twist ending.
The way Jigsaw forces his victims to choose between death and murder, or death and self-maiming, makes my skin crawl, much more so than a standard boogeyman does.
If you allow for the sci-fi edge, a great one is Event Horizon. It managed to freak me out when many other movies have failed. Also, don’t forget The Children of the Corn for pure 80’s horror.
Do yourself a favor and switch out Sublime for “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”
Sublime is a waste of time, trust me.
Ahhh, Techie. One of the goriest movies ever made. Does it not have the scene with the priest in the graveyard, covered in blood, who turns to face the undead and yells, “I kick ass for the Lord!”
Shakespearean in its approach. :-)
In the mouth of madness with Sam Neill is a good also.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/
Gigli. Your small intestine will leap up and strangle you for your own good. Oh the horror.
BJ:
Raise you a “Your mother ate my dog! Not all of it….”
Seven. So disturbing, my wife was crying after the movie.
It was more of a psychological thriller than a true horror film, but Angel Dust, a Japanese film from the mid 1990s, was interesting and very creepy.
Get “The Devil’s Rain”
Any movie that stars Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Oliver Douglas from Green Acres (Eddie Albert) and a young John Travolta is downright terrifying…
I always push the original Black Christmas, but it’s something I like to watch while everyone else is watching Miracle on 34th Street. Yin/yang.
And the Sentinel is truly creepy.
As for Exorcist III, it has some fantastic moments (the confessional scene comes to mind). But I just can’t make the leap when a new actor portrays a character so familiar to me. Not that George C Scott is bad — on the contrary. Just that, well, he’s not Kinderman.
Just as Juliette Moore is not Clarice Staring — though Hopkins became Hannibal Lecter, Brian Cox nothwithstanding.
Ed Norton, though? No William Peterson. And give me the tall albino looking dude over Ralph Fiennes.
My ‘classical’ favorite comedy/horror:
“The Abominable Dr. Phibes” and
“Dr. Phibes Rises Again”
with helper ‘Vulnavia’ (love that name!)
Several have mentioned “The Changeling”. Hard to find, but a must see for any Denver dweller, Jeff. The inside scoop is the man who wrote it (who my father met) based it on his experiences living in a house facing Cheesman Park. No blood or gore just George C Scott with a look of horror on his face. My favorite!!!!
Something Wicked this way Comes
Lost Boys
Near Dark
Alien
Nightbreed
The Hunger
EVIL DEAD II – Ah, what a great movie. It seems to me that most characters in horror films adjust too easily the extraordinary situations they find themselves in. Evil Dead II departs from this pattern in that the main character goes quite mad for a bit. It is one of my favorite movies to watch during the Halloween season.
Joel, I hated The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Boring.
IMO Ed Norton is a far better actor on a bad day than William Peterson is on his best. In Primal Fear, he’s absolutely convincing as a weak, stammering simp, while in American History X he’s equally convincing as an angry, aggressive skinhead.
Peterson’s best work, on the other hand, is CSI. He’s good, but he’s nearly a walking self-caricature. Deliberately, to be sure, but the character is somewhat limited.
Short, but excellent: “The Screwfly Solution” episode from the “Masters of Horror” TV show.
I think Christopher Walkin’s The Continental character is terrifying.
I second Near Dark, great modern vampire flick… when they get caught in the sun, great visuals.. and don’t forget spitting up bullets.. shot at you… classic.
Killer clowns I also second, for the comic gore releif… with “Dean Wormer” (from Animal house) as a hand puppet… and the shadow puppet scene… very cool… campy but very fun.
Damn. I know I’m on the right track when I have about 90% of all the titles mentioned sitting right there on the old livingroom shelf. Got to get a copy of “The Changeling” though.
As far as recommendations go, everyone else has pretty much covered all the possibilities, so I’ll wander a bit off the track and recommend some classic 80’s ‘horror’ and say get a copy of “Night of the Comet”. And for straightup horror, “Ju-on”. Not the U.S. remake with Sarah Michelle Gellar and definitely not the crappy sequels. Get the original.
Trilogy of Terror, featuring Karen Black
From Beyond (a decent enough Lovecraft movie)
Here’s some REALLY horrible pics for you:
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“Pigmata”
Interesting that no one has mentioned Scream, Friday the 13th, or Nightmare on Elm Street all of which I consider horror classics.
Slart —
I like Norton very much in both those flicks. I meant only in his role from Red Dragon (Brett Ratner’s remake of Michael Mann’s superior Manhunter).
And Peterson in To Live and Die in LA? Awesome. In fact, now I’m going to have to watch that today.
Ed,all good picks, but I think we’re trying to go with some that others may not be familiar with. Everyone’s heard of those.
Have to second Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, genuinely creepy. When I was a kid, the TV movie Trilogy of Terror scared the crap out of me, as did the TV show Kolchak the Nightstalker. Not so much now though.
Cronenberg’s entire 80’s catalogue. Videodrone, Scanners, Dead Ringers etc.
Oh, and Tetsuo. It’s the Japanese “Iron Man” movie. Scared my sack back up into my body.
Yeah, I couldn’t imagine him in that role. So I didn’t see it. Peterson did a good job, there. Ralph Fiennes was a horrible choice for Dolarhyde, too. He just wasn’t imposing enough.
He was a thoroughly dislikable hero, all right. I liked Willem Dafoe quite a lot in that movie, too. I even liked Willem Dafoe in Streets of Fire, which without him would have sucked completely.
But yes, some parts you can’t give to just any actor. Dafoe was John Clark in Clear and Present Danger, and that was just awful casting, as anyone who read the book ought to be able to tell you.
To Live and Die in LA, though, reminds me of a time when I liked Wang Chung, so I tend to avoid it.
Did no one notice that we got a visit from Witheld in #24?
Yo, ‘held! Luv UR guts and all, but your parodic services are no longer needed. The Left provides it for us, only without the irony.
But no one has mentioned the ultimate horror flick: Manos: The Hands of Fate
Frightening on so many levels except for the one on which it was intended.
The Bad Santa
The original Freddy Krueger movie
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I loved Frailty. I am not a big fan of Bill Paxton but he did a great job as Director/Actor. It has a Hitchcock feel to it that I love. Powers Boothe and Matthew McConaughey did a fansastic job as well.
Also Army of Darkness is a freakin’ classic and is a must watch in my house around this time.
“Gimme some sugga baby!”
As a Dodgers fan I would normally Mock the Rockies but as a Denver Native I find myself rooting for them. Their pitching has really played well this post season, their defense is one of the best in the league and they bat very well as a team. They make you throw strikes and then make you pay for it.
Rockies in 6!
Momentum was not necessarily scary, just kind of eerie. Seven was also not really scary, but truly disturbing.
I’ll second From Beyond,I liked it better than Re-Animator.
Creepy Japanese horror,check out Audition.
Obscure,The Folks At Red Wolf Inn was probably the original killer,cannibal,inbred killer hillbilly movie.The original R version of course.
“Sean of the Dead,” of course.
The Blob- Steve Mcqueen
I was only only comfortable doing my fifth grade paper route at 5:30 am when it dropped below freezing in November. The blob was every where.
And as I live and breathe, if Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and The Wizard of Oz are not the scariest movies of all time, I do not know what is.
“Manos: The Hands of Fate”
Urf!
Friday 13th movies are more for…well, a Friday 13th, not Halloween.
If you like zombies pretty much any of the Fulci movies will get it done. If you want kind of an off beat take on them the Val Lewton “I Walked with a Zombie” is pretty good. It has one of my favorite voodoo celebration scenes ever. The music is great and the atmosphere terrific. And the walk through the cane field to the home fort is classic.
I don’t know if Satch is old enough for it yet, but the Bing Crosby narrated “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is good Halloween stuff for little kids.
I have it on good authority that some of the people who worked on that film had, as of the late ’90s, no idea the film had achieved the fame it had.
Just watched The Reaping.. Came out a week ago on DVD.. Not too bad at all… Nothing truly new and unique but well made.. Decent story.. nice little twist..kinda creepy in parts.. and Hillary Swank is kinda hot.. I dont care what anyone says.. Hey, I have a thing for big mouths and oversized teeth.. so sue me.
Mario Bava’s work shouldn’t be overlooked, he was a significant influence on Tim Burton, David Lynch, and Dario Argento among others. Black Sunday is probably his signature work, and also benefits from the presence of Barbara Steele. Blood and Black Lace is an acceptable alternative.
Blood Feast fom Herschel Gordon Lewis is arguably the first gore film and belongs in any Halloween film fest.
To get the full flavor of Wes Craven The Last House on the Left should be seen once.
Going further afield (but still with Udo Kier) would be Docteur Jekyll et les femmes (aka Blood of Dr Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde) from Walerian Borowzyk. Softcore in the uncut version but still a very detailed and atmospheric work.
For an actual degenerate experience consider Der Todesking by Jorg Buttgereit. Seven vignettes of suicide, shot on 8mm. Truly disturbing.
And for the look-where-it-all-began feature consider the eponymous Bad Taste by none other than LOTR’s Peter Jackson.
Every Halloween I watch all three Evil Dead movies back-to-back-to-back.
Just thought of another one that I haven’t seen mentioned:
“Thirteen Ghosts”
I thougt parts of this flick were pretty creepy.
Yeah, I have to second Shaun of the Dead–a great comedy and a great zombie flick. And I loved 28 Days Later and suggest that you follow it up directly with 28 Weeks Later. There is one major disconnect between the two movies–if you see them, you’ll know what I’m talking about–but I absolutely love the damned things.
I might also add the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake to the list, even going so far as to schedule it right before the showing of Shaun of the Dead. It’s a remake, but I was surprised by how much I liked it.
Then you should ditch the horror and watch Elf. It isn’t scary at all, but, damn, I have a thing for Zooey Deschanel.
Ok, totally forgot Candyman.
And I was one of those people who were totally freaked out by Blair witch. But I had been psyching myself up on the website for like a month before I saw it. They did a fantastic job on that.
Then trick to enjoying “Blair Witch” is to make sure you watch the Sci-Fi channel psuedo-documentary first. Watch ’em back to back and you got one pretty good movie.
A caveat about the “Blind Dead” movie I mentioned earlier-make sure you get the version with the subtitles. The english dubbed version was edited differently and has several scenes out of order from the original and it kind of blows.
Silver Bullet. It’s a solid werewolf flick adapted from a Steven King book. It’s been a while since I saw it, but from memory it should hold up to scrutiny.
I stumbled on DeNiro as Frankenstein’s monster (1994) and had to stop watching because I could tell they were getting too close to the scene where he inadvertently kills the little girl, and the film seemed to be more or less faithful to the original story. One advantage, of sorts, for the gothic-style movies is you don’t get quite so sympathetic for the monster.
Someday I’ll have to try to watch that 1994 movie, but I wasn’t ready for it today.
I thought Stir of Echoes was pretty terrifying, if you’re going for the extra Kevin Bacon connection.
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