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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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grumbler

Quote from: Malthus on September 26, 2019, 08:54:52 AM
Quote from: Josephus on September 26, 2019, 07:58:25 AM
Quote from: Malthus on September 25, 2019, 03:35:02 PM
Some of my favorite Halloween viewing:

1. The Changeling. A classic haunted house ghost story.



Amen to that. Low budget Canuck film with George C. Scott. Probably my favourite horror film. The wet ball dropping down the stairs gets me all the time.

The vision of the little boy rising from the well did it for me.

The Haunting (1963) is the best horror movie I've ever seen.    Really great cinematography and writing obviated the need for guys in rubber suits to create terror.
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Malthus

Quote from: grumbler on September 27, 2019, 09:34:01 AM
The Haunting (1963) is the best horror movie I've ever seen.    Really great cinematography and writing obviated the need for guys in rubber suits to create terror.

I haven't seen that one.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely try to hunt it down.  :)

I love horror movies that don't rely on jump scares and gore. 
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Josephus

Quote from: Malthus on September 27, 2019, 09:43:32 AM
Quote from: grumbler on September 27, 2019, 09:34:01 AM
The Haunting (1963) is the best horror movie I've ever seen.    Really great cinematography and writing obviated the need for guys in rubber suits to create terror.

I haven't seen that one.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely try to hunt it down.  :)

I love horror movies that don't rely on jump scares and gore.

That's what I miss about Blockbuster and video stores. Trying to track down old movies these days is tough. Netflix is great if you want stuff released five weeks ago... but otherwise ...
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Sheilbh

Nightmare on Elm Street. Weird how iconically scary this and Hellraiser were (meant to be) when I was a kid. Solid, with some lovely visual moments of horror. But actually not a patch on the other classic horrors I've watched recently.
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Quote from: Sheilbh on September 27, 2019, 02:29:14 PM
Nightmare on Elm Street. Weird how iconically scary this and Hellraiser were (meant to be) when I was a kid. Solid, with some lovely visual moments of horror. But actually not a patch on the other classic horrors I've watched recently.

Which other classics horrors? Hard to judge without the other films being compared.

Incidentally, I was watching the other night the Nightmare on Elm Street since I could not sleep.
Have not watched in a long while the Hellraiser movies.

Sheilbh

Friday the 13th, Halloween, Don't Look Now.
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Quote from: Sheilbh on September 27, 2019, 02:52:10 PM
Friday the 13th, Halloween, Don't Look Now.

Well, Friday the 13th, as a Halloween rip-off can't even compare to Nightmare on Elm Street. Sequels made Jason a boogeyman teenager idol but still way below Freddy Krueger. Jason can't talk for starters.
Halloween, now that's a seminal movie but it has aged more than I thought the last time I saw it in a Carpenter movie marathon. Unlike, say, the later Thing.
Don't look Now, I did not watch so I cannot comment.

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Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 26, 2019, 08:58:14 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 26, 2019, 08:11:59 PM
So I'm watching Trailer Park Boys.  Not as clever as I remember it

Takes backs.  Ep 3 is pretty funny.

Holy shit.  That's 13 year old Ellen Page.

Eddie Teach

The I-Land. It's like Lost, but only 7 episodes long and has an explanation.
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Watching The Untold History of the United States on Netflix. Wow America you suck :P
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Quote from: HVC on September 28, 2019, 07:51:57 AM
Watching The Untold History of the United States on Netflix. Wow America you suck :P

Well, Oliver Stone certainly thinks so.

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