It's that time of year. So far I've got:
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Dracula
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
The Mummy
House
Nosferatu
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Yeti: A love story (Thanks DSB)
The Invisible Man
The Old Dark House
Mystery of the Wax Museum
House of Wax
In my Netflix Queue; is anyone else gearing up?
Masque of the Red Death
Witchfinder General
For the kids:
Great pumpkin
The Garfield Halloween special.
Frankenstein
Nosferatu (both versions)
Horror of Dracula and Dracula Prince of Darkness
Dead of Night
Peeping Tom
The Exorcist
Don't Look Now
Rosemary's Baby
Halloween
Blood on Satan's Claw
Witchfinder General
The Wicker Man
I will also force this on my flatmates. I've made them watch Peeping Tom and Witchfinder General so far :w00t:
Edit: And I might rewatch Carrie, but I saw it recently at Somerset House in a double bill with Mean Girls. I think there was an Australian 'prom horror' after that but I didn't stay. Also didn't know that was a genre. May look that film up and get it involved too.
Edit: Also inclined to vote 70s in Queequeg's poll just on the perfection of that decade's American horror films :mmm:
Quote from: Sheilbh on October 17, 2013, 09:14:32 PM
Edit: And I might rewatch Carrie, but I saw it recently at Somerset House in a double bill with Mean Girls.
Now that's a theater that knows how to bill films.
None. When it comes to Halloween, I'm Ebenezer Scrooge.
Recently got Carpenter's Prince of Darkness in blu-ray so that's the first on the list.
I have not watched in in 15 years or so...
I can also rewatch Halloween too. ;)
If The Haunting is available, watch that. Yeah, its black-and-white, but that just makes it even spookier.
The Changeling.
The Iron Lady
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 18, 2013, 02:43:54 AM
None. When it comes to Halloween, I'm Ebenezer Scrooge.
In tonight's featured presentation The Ghost of Halloween Past will be played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
Quote from: Savonarola on October 18, 2013, 03:40:55 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 18, 2013, 02:43:54 AM
None. When it comes to Halloween, I'm Ebenezer Scrooge.
In tonight's featured presentation The Ghost of Halloween Past will be played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
Are you going to watch the 2007 remake for the ghost of Halloween "present"?
I plan to start tonight with Walking Dead, season 1, episode 1. Maybe I'll catch up by the end of this season. :unsure:
Nothing set in stone. I might see if I can work in some unseen James Whale, Ken Russel, and Dario Argento. And I do need to see The Haunting, so thanks grumbles for reminding me.
Quote from: DuqueRecently got Carpenter's Prince of Darkness in blu-ray so that's the first on the list.
Hell yeah. One of Carpenter's finest.
P.S. What's everyone's actual opinion of the '31 Dracula? I'M VERY CURIOUS.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 19, 2013, 12:22:01 AM
P.S. What's everyone's actual opinion of the '31 Dracula? I'M VERY CURIOUS.
"Actual" opinion?
I love it, in context of history of horror films it is good film, I will be one of those guys that says the Spanish language version is more fun.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist III
Halloween
Scream
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
A Better Tomorrow II
Death Becomes Her
Quote from: Ideologue on October 19, 2013, 12:22:01 AM
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.
Quote from: Scipio on October 19, 2013, 10:01:27 AM
The Exorcist
The Exorcist III
Halloween
Scream
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
A Better Tomorrow II
Dtheath Becomes Her
Yeah! :)
Sav, will advise, concur in substance.
When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?
Quote from: mongers on October 19, 2013, 04:05:53 PM
When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?
About the same tine every female costumed turned into a Slutty version of anything.
Quote from: sbr on October 19, 2013, 04:10:02 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 19, 2013, 04:05:53 PM
When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?
About the same tine every female costumed turned into a Slutty version of anything.
:cool:
Quote from: mongers on October 19, 2013, 04:05:53 PM
When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?
I believe Halloween came to North America with the Great Famine in Ireland; Maurice O'Sullivan (who lived on Blasket Island in the far west of Ireland) makes reference to Halloween parties in "Twenty Years a Growing."
Quote from: mongers on October 19, 2013, 04:05:53 PM
When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?
I assume it has to do with the marketing efforts of candy manufacters.
Quote from: mongers on October 19, 2013, 04:05:53 PM
When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?
Define here. Halloween's always been huge in Scotland and I'd guess trick-or-treating originated from guising. Characteristically in Scotland the children, traditionally, have to perform to get a reward - normally a poem, song, joke, dance or whatever - and they don't necessarily get anything.
I think it's also stronger in Catholic countries - dia de los muertos is a version of that - and All Hallows Eve and All Souls Day were major feast days in pre-Reformation England. I think a lot of the ceremony and tradition that went with that eventually slid into bonfire night.
America's Halloween is different, but I think England's an outlier, even in the UK, in not having a traditional Halloween celebration.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 19, 2013, 05:55:02 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 19, 2013, 04:05:53 PM
When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?
I assume it has to do with the marketing efforts of candy manufacters.
That, and I believe the first
Halloween movie really cemented the commercialization of Halloween in the early 80's.
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown just wasnt cutting it on its own.
Edit:
Goddamned iHipster
Disney Halloween Treat
The Worst Witch
Mister Boogety
Not really much for horror.
Any love for Young Frankenstein and Ghostbusters as Halloween movies?
And Dracula '31 is awesome.
Dracula
House of Wax
Salem's Lot ('79)
Excorcist
Quote from: Barrister on October 19, 2013, 08:33:05 PM
Any love for Young Frankenstein and Ghostbusters as Halloween movies?
And Dracula '31 is awesome.
For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Barrister Boy.I've added Son of Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, Ghostbusters and Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein to my queue.
Quote from: 11B4V on October 19, 2013, 08:53:36 PM
House of Wax
If you haven't already seen it, check out the original "Mystery of the Wax Museum."
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on October 19, 2013, 07:31:44 PM
Not really much for horror.
Me neither.
As far as Halloween goes, stick with just
The Exorcist. Satan 7, Georgetown Hoyas 0.
Quote from: Savonarola on October 19, 2013, 10:51:01 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 19, 2013, 12:22:01 AM
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. :D
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 19, 2013, 09:35:25 PM
As far as Halloween goes, stick with just The Exorcist. Satan 7, Georgetown Hoyas 0.
How can you possibly give that game to Beelzebub? :(
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 19, 2013, 10:07:57 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 19, 2013, 09:35:25 PM
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.
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?
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.
Quote from: Savonarola on October 17, 2013, 08:56:25 PM
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? :wub:
*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. :hmm:
Quote from: Queequeg on October 20, 2013, 01:32:08 AM
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.
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.
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/ (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. :cool:
Also: http://flavorwire.com/412888/20-of-the-greatest-silent-horror-films-you-can-watch-right-now (http://flavorwire.com/412888/20-of-the-greatest-silent-horror-films-you-can-watch-right-now)
Forgot Beatlejuice. That is another staple. Nightmare Before Christmas will be in a month or so.
<---- 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.
I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle, if nothing else than for the line, "I haven't had a cunt all night, Drinkstable."
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2013, 02:44:43 PM
<---- 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.
Does that make you a hipster? :P