Your Halloween Movie List

[11B4V]

House of Wax

If you haven't already seen it, check out the original "Mystery of the Wax Museum."

I will

[Scipio]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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[CountDeMoney]

Not really much for horror.

Me neither. 
As far as Halloween goes, stick with just The Exorcist.  Satan 7, Georgetown Hoyas 0.

[Ideologue]

P.S. What's everyone's actual opinion of the '31 Dracula?  I'M VERY CURIOUS.

Get the version with the Philip Glass score if you can find it.  The first fifteen minutes are some of the best in 1931 film, the rest feels hopelessly stage bound.  Tod Browning really wasn't much of a sound director.

Spanish Dracula (¡El Blah!) is in most respects a better film.  It's shot on the same set, but George Melford put a lot more into generating atmosphere.  The principle problem with the film is that Conde Drácula is played by the completely forgettable Carlos Villarias.  Bela Lugosi may have been the person who could over-act with just his eyebrows, but he makes English Language Dracula.

Lugosi is spectacular, and the first act in Transylvania is spectacular (thanks Karl Freund), Dwight Frye is pretty rad, and the rest of it is not just stagey (though it is) but as a result is awful and dull.

The Mummy is like the exact same movie except much better, with Freund in total control.  It even has David Manners playing the exact same fay loser.  I wanted Imhotep to win.

I think the one I watched was the Phillip Glass/Kronos Quartet scored one.  Can't imagine I'd pass that up.  I remember it being really cool... again, for the first twenty minutes.

[Admiral Yi]

As far as Halloween goes, stick with just The Exorcist.  Satan 7, Georgetown Hoyas 0.

How can you possibly give that game to Beelzebub? 

[CountDeMoney]

As far as Halloween goes, stick with just The Exorcist.  Satan 7, Georgetown Hoyas 0.

How can you possibly give that game to Beelzebub? 

Flagrant foul on Father Karras took him out of the game for good.  Satan moved on in the tourney to fuck with Richard Burton.

[Queequeg]

Cronenberg's early stuff. Shivers, Rabid and The Brood are about as smart and disorientingly terrifying as movies get.

Also, just watched Witchfinder General. Why are late 60s Englishwomen so gorgeous? Why does East Anglia sound like Ireland?

[Queequeg]

Shivers in particular left a lasting impression. It's likely as influential as Night of the Living Dead but it's way too intellectual and, frankly, perverse to have that kind of broad cultural appeal. You couldn't really make a movie about rape-zombies (including gay men, lesbians, children and the elderly) serving their penis-poop parasite masters that starts with an old scientist brutally murdering and dissecting a teenage girl before killing himself after 1979.

[Ideologue]

The Invisible Man

I missed this.

I may have no love for Dracula, but this is like my fifth favorite movie.  I prefer to have two lists of favorite movies (one for pre-me, one for movies post-dating my birth) but this would be on a combined list.  Between the revolutionary, gold-standard visual effects, a star-making turn for Claude Raines, and the Invisible Man himself as the original cartoon supervillain (the word "fool" is used approximately infinity times in 71 minutes), it's just perfect.  It's the best, by far, of the eight that come in the Universal Horror set,* and on information and belief I feel comfortable saying it's the best of them all (though, people do seem to like the Phantom of the Opera that is not in Technicolor and not about the homosexual love that can develop between brother-husbands within a polyandrous relationship).

Have you considered just watching The Invisible Man 12 times?

*Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein are second best.  I somehow feel they wouldn't play nearly as well if watched years apart as they were actually made, though, rather than back to back.

[Ideologue]

Shivers in particular left a lasting impression. It's likely as influential as Night of the Living Dead but it's way too intellectual and, frankly, perverse to have that kind of broad cultural appeal. You couldn't really make a movie about rape-zombies (including gay men, lesbians, children and the elderly) serving their penis-poop parasite masters that starts with an old scientist brutally murdering and dissecting a teenage girl before killing himself after 1979.

Sold.

[Queequeg]

It's a weird, weird movie. Almost completely non-judgemental-rape zombies don't kill people, squares do-and while there's some semblance of a traditional arc it's really just the story of the parasite.

[Sophie Scholl]

Whatever TCM throws my way.  I'm pretty pissed I missed the silent that was on tonight, as I was working.  London After Midnight from '27.  http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/437290/London-After-Midnight/  I always love their dedication to restoring and unearthing classics, especially when they manage to track down rare ones for holidays.  As to the '31 Dracula, I liked it a lot.  I even own the Glass soundtrack on mp3.

Also: http://flavorwire.com/412888/20-of-the-greatest-silent-horror-films-you-can-watch-right-now

[Darth Wagtaros]

Forgot Beatlejuice.  That is another staple. Nightmare Before Christmas will be in a month or so.

[lustindarkness]

<---- The Nightmare Before Christmas has been a favorite of mine since it first came out, before the goth/emo kids found it cool. I watch it both as a Halloween and Christmas movie. IIRC it was released as a Halloween film.

[Brazen]

I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle, if nothing else than for the line, "I haven't had a cunt all night, Drinkstable."