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Started by Savonarola, October 02, 2016, 06:51:32 PM

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Savonarola

October 02, 2016, 06:51:32 PM
Christmas decorations have been up in Wal-Mart for a month now, so it must be time to get the movie queue for Halloween together.  This year, in honor of Gene Wilder, I plan on watching:

Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
House of Frankenstein
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein

I'll also plan to see "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and "The Phantom Carriage."  What's on your list?
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CountDeMoney

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October 02, 2016, 07:02:18 PM
I don't dig on horror movies.  Although, if I want to truly experience terror, I might spool up a Lars von Trier flick.

11B4V

#2
October 02, 2016, 07:25:32 PM
Alien
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Ed Anger

#3
October 02, 2016, 07:33:25 PM
masque of the red death.

That's it. Might catch Constantine just for the bit at the end with Satan.
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Sophie Scholl

#4
October 02, 2016, 08:01:49 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 02, 2016, 06:51:32 PM
Christmas decorations have been up in Wal-Mart for a month now, so it must be time to get the movie queue for Halloween together.  This year, in honor of Gene Wilder, I plan on watching:

Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
House of Frankenstein
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein

I'll also plan to see "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and "The Phantom Carriage."  What's on your list?
I think all of those are on Turner Classic Movies coming up in the next 2 weeks.  Frankenstein is the "featured monster" this October.
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Josephus

#5
October 03, 2016, 07:30:14 AM
Is the new Blair Witch any good?
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Syt

#6
October 03, 2016, 07:35:17 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 02, 2016, 07:02:18 PM
I don't dig on horror movies.  Although, if I want to truly experience terror, I might spool up a Lars von Trier flick.

Melnacholia? Though I guess that's better suited to family holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas. :P
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Syt

#7
October 03, 2016, 07:42:56 AM
If I were celebrating Halloween, my shortlist would probably be
It
Friday 13th 1-4
Braindead aka Dead Alive
Evil Dead 1&2 + Army of Darkness
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Duque de Bragança

#8
October 03, 2016, 07:53:22 AM
Quote from: Josephus on October 03, 2016, 07:30:14 AM
Is the new Blair Witch any good?

Cannot be as good as the original cannibal found footage movie it ripped off.

Syt

#9
October 03, 2016, 07:55:30 AM
It's been a while since I watched Cannibal Holocaust. Need to check if it holds up. Which reminds me that I missed the Slash Filmfestival last week where Ruggero Deodato presented his new movie. :(

I do whistle the beautiful theme from Cannibal Holocaust from time to time, though. :wub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1Vt6r-sj8
(Safe for work)
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Malthus

#10
October 03, 2016, 08:41:18 AM
My favorite old-fashioned horror movie remains The Changeling.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Darth Wagtaros

#11
October 03, 2016, 10:20:54 AM
The Worst Witch, a Disney Halloween Treat, The Halloween that Almost Wasn't, The Good witch,
PDH!

CountDeMoney

#12
October 03, 2016, 11:37:33 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 03, 2016, 07:35:17 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 02, 2016, 07:02:18 PM
I don't dig on horror movies.  Although, if I want to truly experience terror, I might spool up a Lars von Trier flick.

Melnacholia? Though I guess that's better suited to family holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas. :P

Nah, I'm just as big a pussy now when it comes to horror movies as I was when I was 5. :blush:

Syt

#13
October 03, 2016, 11:44:38 AM
I meant the LvT flick Melancholia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia_(2011_film)
:P
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#14
October 03, 2016, 11:52:29 AM
I had a bit of a transformation when it comes to horror. When I was 4 or 5 my parents watched Blob, the old Steve McQueen version, and I was scared as shit. When I was 9 I secretly tried to watch Poltergeist on late night TV, but I only watched bits and pieces, because it was too scary.  :blush:

At age 11, I watched Jaws at a friends. That wasn't so bad. Then we watched Aliens together. That was what good me over the hump, and at age 16 we watched with friends a VHS copy of "Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh & Blood" which was basically a simulated snuff movie which was gruesome, but also dull, because no plot besides detailed dismemberment of a young woman.

Now I can watch most horror, though some movies really shook me - Martyrs, Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, are a few examples. Others are just a big laugh (Dead Snow, Evil Dead, Jason, Fredddie, etc.). I still think the best movies are the ones that rely on tension, little gore and the imagination of the viewers - the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre which had almost no blood, or Rosemary's Baby come to mind.

Movies that give me a real hard time are the likes of The Girl Next Door (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Next_Door_(2007_film) - based on a true story). :weep:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.
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