Horror Movie Fans, let's have discussions...

I own "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" on Blu-ray 3D. The creature's hand coming out of the screen was worth the price of the movie.

I love the Blob and that theme song is catchy.

"The Birds" is a Hitchcock classic.

The black and white original of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is the best.

Say, I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't done a remake on "Them."

 

I guess the Supreme Court has to decide if vampires, zombies and other reanimated persons can marry in the United States.
I'm sorry but I did not notice the inconsistent political correctness in Son of Dracula.

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I still can't get myself to say "Candyman" five consecutive times.

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The original "Night of the Living Dead" is still my favorite all time zombie movie.

 

A spine-tingling horror movie that one should not watch alone is the 1960 British horror movie, "The Tell-Tale Heart." This movie will freak you out!!

 

You need Wikipedia? You should have asked Mr. Wikipedia (myself).
I know about the Lizard by reading his first appearance (Spiderman 6) even before I knew how to read. Except for looking like a lizard, he was manlike and kept his clothes on because his size didn't change. Spiderman's raw strength was not clearly defined in the first few years, but he could win a fight with the Lizard quite easily as long as he could avoid being eaten.
The problem Parker had was that he immediately learns this is the nice Dr. Connors, a scientist with a wife and young son, so he doesn't want to hurt him.
It wasn't until 3 years later that Parker became his student in college and I don't know when Connors learned that Spiderman is Parker.
Parker is also tormented by the fact that he is linked to this man by also being the product of mixed biology. No film can ever adequately express the conflict within Parker as he battles many of his enemies.
After the apparent cure of Dr. Connors at the end of issue 6 the Lizard becomes much like the Hulk, turning when he faces great stress.
I still hope a future film will develop from issues 71-75 in which Connor's wife and son are taken hostage as an 80-year-old mob boss makes Dr. Connors decipher an ancient inscription and make the elixir of youth, not knowing Connors will change if he gets too upset.
In this case the Lizard is like the Hulk, with his literary ancestry in the Wolfman and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
In Marvel there is a Mr. Hyde (Dr. Calvin Strabo). I studied him closely in his 2nd through fifth appearances (Journey into Mystery 104-105 and 110-111).

 

This is one of the scariest movies of all time....I'm a horror movie fanatic...it's hard to choose the best because there are a few to choose from....but I'd have to say the Exorcist is it.

 

As much as I love Chainsaw and Halloween movies..the pairing up of Myers and Leatherface wouldn't work just as in the past with other horror movie "pair ups". It's not the same. Just imo.

 

The only combo I've seen that worked was House of Dracula (1945). Universal decided to retire Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman by having Dr. Ingelman cure the Wolfman, kill Dracula, start becoming a vampire himself but still human enough for Larry Talbot the cured Wolfman to kill him with lead bullets, and the Monster (for the second time) thrash around blindly and burn down a castle.
Using the numbering scheme now popular that would have been called Frankenstein 7, Dracula 5 Wolfman 4.
It has a moral: eliminate one monster at a time.

 

My favorites are more modern.....

Final Destination has an interesting concept. Death hunts down people. No physical killer.
Scream is great. Nothing more shocking then that.
Friday the 13th (the first movie) was very provocative for it's day. It delved into grief of Jason's mother and how far she would go to prevent the camp from opening.
Nightmare on Elm Street (the first movie) was just scary as hell.
Halloween was also a very interesting concept.

 

I too forgot about the movie(s) Final Destination but the first one was the best....and I agree it is an interesting concept. Imagine if death hunting down people is true to life? Being in the wrong place at the wrong time or is it fate?

 

Are you trying to write a book by spinning every horror-related theme off of those 2 movies?
Or are you promoting someone else's work in small doses?
I prefer Collinwood from the original Dark Shadows series, inhabited by ghosts from 10 generations of a family that just gets no peace. Whole wings are sometimes shut off because of strange things that happen there and once in each generation someone must spend a night in a cursed room.
The Bates house in Psycho is scary but attractive, with that stained glass window put to good use at times.
A terrible horror film called The House that dripped Blood is told by the unfortunate real estate agent who must try to rent or sell it as each occupant leaves dead or in very bad shape.
It uses the personality of the occupant to destroy them.
I lived in such a house from 2001-2007 and only later discovered I was the fourth victim. I haven't recovered yet.

 

It is too sweeping to claim that movies are responsible for the celebration of Hallowe'en and haunted houses. Hallowe'en was celebrated and haunted places were known about centuries before movies were even invented surely. It is believed that the custom of carving jack-o'-lanterns at Hallowe'en originated in Ireland, where turnips or beets were supposedly used.


19th century Irish jack-o'-lantern

 

Abishai (or anyone) please answer a simple question.
If Michael Myers had killed his sister first, what would he have done thereafter?
The answer seems simple for most others.
Jason Voorhes stops when all counselors are dead and the camp is closed.
Dracula needs blood from someone but thinks a happy marriage will allow him to retire.
The Mummy kills people who invaded his tomb.
The Wolfman must kill one person each full moon or he's stuck with a grumpy mood that affects his human self.
The Blob eats another animal as soon as he digests the last one.
I think if someone looked real hard, they'd find out Godzilla was controlled remotely by Harry Truman.
I haven't seen the Leatherface movies, but I was told he uses the meat for his chili.
If you think some special viciousness compels him to kill all visitors whether he's understocked or not I'd like to know the source of it.
In Motel hell and Sweeney Todd, murder and cannibalism are just business strategies not unlike corporate America.

 

I used to love horror movies when I was a kid (Halloween, Friday The 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Silent Night Deadly Night, Creep Show etc)... As an adult they all suck, I know some have nostalgia, but I don't (perhaps I do with Creep Show & Creep Show II and Halloween III)....

I think real life is far more scarier than "horror movies"..

I'm pretty "thick skinned" so....

I will say, I do enjoy the "Paranormal Activity" movies - only the first time I watch them because they are creepy and indeed make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up..

The only other horror movie that was creepy enough to creep me out was V/H/S & V/H/S 2...

 

You brought up an interesting point as to why Americans like horror movies? Sometimes people will ask me why I like them. I will retort that no horror movie ever showed a mother drowning her five children in a bathtub that happened in real life. Her name was Andrea Yates.

 

I've got one, "X-the Man with the X-ray eyes" Great movie with some of Ray Milland's better performance. Horror is heightened by having a sort of sf underpinning and a philosophical basis, especially at the end. Roger Corman shows once again that you don't need money for great art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X:_The_Man_with_the_X-ray_Eyes

 

It's good because the film is about coping with a superpower. He wants to use it for simple good deeds: telling people if they have cancer. The problem is he can't control it and it controls his mind.
The Don Rickles character is more practical. He wants to look at naked women or make money off of it.
Milland survives the movie of course. I want a sequel.
He can still see a bit because the optic nerve still has the influence temporarily. He has to face trial for killing the other doctor of course and some crazed politician wants the death penalty while a shrink demands insanity.
The judge requires a trial so he can get famous, hoping for a federal judgeship.
A reporter helps Don Rickles search for his notes and gives them to a mad scientist who might further develop the formula.
The mad scientist gets kidnapped by foreign government, hoping to develop a set of soldiers with the ability.
Superman creators Siegel and Shuster try to sue Milland for copyright infringement.
A US spy learns the mad scientist was captured, so the Mission Impossible team extract Milland from prison and a hypnotist gets him to reveal the formula.
After talking to the reporter the nurse hires Ironside to investigate.
His search takes him to Japan just as Godzilla attacks.
Then we learn that it was North Korea that had captured the mad scientist. They send a rocket that sprays the formula in Godzilla's eyes.
Confused, Godzilla thrashes around and accidentally decapitates himself.
The Gemera attacks North Korea.
Thankful for the assistance Japan helps North Korea capture Gemera and keep it in chains.
The attraction of seeing Gemera makes North Korea a prominent tourist attraction, ending its financial woes and making it a capitalist but not nice country.
The mad scientist by now is happy there and helps tame Gemera.
By then the US has determined the military uses for the formula are of no value and Milland has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
They keep Milland alive by attaching his head to Rosie Grier, but he's not really useful to anyone.
It is now the 1990s and Kim Jung-Un decides to make himself more popular with the US by doing them a favor.
That sets up the next movie:
Samddam and Gemera!

 

I saw that movie when I was a kid on Shock Theater.

 

Great Movies!

I own "Creature from the Black Lagoon" on 3D Blu-ray. I enjoy the depth presented in that film and the make-up was great. I saw "The Blob" when I was a kid in the movie theater and I must have been feeling underneath my bed for about a week. I saw "The Birds" at a movie theater and thought it was amazing.

 

I remember standing in cold weather in a long line back in March 1974 to see "The Exorcist."

 

No movie can scare me....

I love being creeped out tho..... Those paranormal activity movies are good. Now that is creepy.

V/H/S is a good creepy one too.

 

I'm still waiting for that horror movie that will make me run out of the theater.

 

And at the risk of repeating myself - they can't run fast enough to catch any would-be victims either!

 

I ran out of the cinema when I was watching The Wizard of Oz - the Wicked Witch of the West scared the bejesus outta me!