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Are there any other horror film fans here? (specifically hallowen 1&2) I absolutely adore horror (the exorcist, silence of the lambs etc.) and watched Halloween for the first time last year on DVD. Yes, it's pretty dated, but as the original teen-slasher type film it really gripped me (and the theme tune is so ver very eerie ). Halloween two is a great sequel, but then John Carpenter stopped and an independent company ruined the franchise in my opinion . So, any other Halloween nuts- or horror nuts- around?

I'm beginning to delve into the realm of horror movies. Haven't seen many classics of horror yet just the usual: Rosemary's Baby, The Omen 1,2,&3 and the new one, parts of halloween, part of magic (which involves a magician and a puppet starring anthony hopkins). House on haunted hill etc.

I've also seen newer movies, saw 1&2... Sweeney Todd (judge for yourself horror or not) The ring 1&2, a movie whose name escapes me, Sixth Sense, Jaws you know the usual.

I started a thread on Halloween requesting movie ideas to expand my portfolio.

So far I prefer older (50's - late 80's horror flicks).

Anyways that is what I can remember. I love movies, I also love gore and suspense so horror movies = good.

Yep, I'm a horror fan. I love watching horror films, even the bad ones that everyone else hates. I just can't get enough.

Halloween is a classic for good reason. The theme tune has been my mobile ring tone for a long time now. Some of the older horror films are pretty good; Dead of Night is one of my favourites. The Shining is another one I love. The Japanese also know how to make a film so scary it will make you poo your pants. So, yeah. I love 'em all, good and bad!

I love the shining...and Needful Things

Rob Zombie's Halloween is a pure wonder. Must be on the don't miss list of every aficionados.



But my all time favorites are:

- Tod Browning's Freaks
- The Mummy (Karl Freund version, 1932)
- Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
- Night/Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
- the Call of Cthulhu from the people behind cthulhulives.org
- Guy Maddin's Dracula (Pages tirées du journal d'une vierge). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PiCrHwbrnQ

Ooh - horror movies. Yes please!

Scariest film of all time is The Exorcist. When I was 16 I sneaked into a local cinema to see a double bill Exorcist 1 & 2. I slept with the lights on for two weeks after that I kid you not. It still gives me the willies now (BINGO!). I was talking to a shut eye medium about The Exorcist a few weeks ago and he reckoned that "something evil had been caught in the celluloid". So now you know.

Also Ring 1 & 2 (both US and Japanese versions, you must see both!) and likewise with Grudge 1 & 2 - see both US and Japanese versions. Also if you get the DVD of the US Ring 2, on disc 2 there's a short featurette that is great. You must see that also.

Apart from that, the usual - Halloween as mentioned, Nightmare on Elm Street (brilliant, all the sequels sucked though), Final Destination (see it, see it, see it!), John Carpenter's original The Fog (not the awful remake), and two films that smudge the horror/sci-fi divide - Alien and John Carpenter's (again) The Thing.

Not really horror by today's standard, but I love Hammer also. Can't beat a Saturday night in (can't really remember one of those) with a Chinese take away, a bottle of red, and a Hammer House of Horror box set.

I also adore horror spoofs from the golden era (not those awful Scarey Movie things). So Carry on Screaming is a real favourite and believe it or not my favourite film of all time is Abbot & Costello Meet the Monster. Go figure!

Horror freak? Step this way...

Yup, you can't beat a good Hammer classic can you? (their version of The Mummy is a cracker!!)Or those portmanteau films from the likes of Amicus and Corman's versions of Poe's work. Used to beg my mum to late me stay up late enough on a Saturday to watch the 'Horror Double Bill' on BBC2 (anyone of a certain age remember that?)

More recently I really enjoyed Slither and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Event Horizon also gave me a few jolts.... But for the most part I love the theatrics of a misty graveyard, creaking coffin lids and rubber bats on string!!

themagicwand wrote: Nightmare on Elm Street (brilliant, all the sequels sucked though), Final Destination (see it, see it, see it!),

Those are two I've also seen. Great movies except for the ending on elm street with the lady and the window, talk about cheesy.

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Ian the Mental-Ian wrote:

themagicwand wrote: Nightmare on Elm Street (brilliant, all the sequeGreat movies except for the ending on elm street with the lady and the window, talk about cheesy.

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I first saw Nightmare on Elm Street when I was ten, and hundreds of miles away from home... I don't think I would have slept that night were it not for that near the very end. The sight of an obviously-inanimate dummy being yanked through a window took the edge off it a little

themagicwand wrote:Scariest film of all time is The Exorcist. When I was 16 I sneaked into a local cinema to see a double bill Exorcist 1 & 2. I slept with the lights on for two weeks after that I kid you not. It still gives me the willies now (BINGO!). I was talking to a shut eye medium about The Exorcist a few weeks ago and he reckoned that "something evil had been caught in the celluloid". So now you know.

I've heard that The Exorcist is one of the few films that deliberately uses subliminals on the soundtrack to cause heightened fear. Apart from the usual scary music and sound effects, there are viscerally frightening noises like lions' roars mixed into the audio at sub-threshold level. Some background details (graffiti on walls, etc.) also arguably fall into the category of subliminals.

So if you find it scarier than it ought to be, that might be why.

I like horror films and stories, but I don't find many of them actually scary. (I've never seen The Exorcist, but my guess is that I know so much about it by now that it would lose a lot of impact.) The original Japanese version of The Ring was very good and spooky, if somewhat baffling. And I have to mention My Little Eye.

As far as books go, Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House is really disturbing. The recent movie The Haunting was vaguely based on it, but only vaguely, and doesn't come close.

themagicwand wrote:Scariest film of all time is The Exorcist. When I was 16 I sneaked into a local cinema to see a double bill Exorcist 1 & 2. I slept with the lights on for two weeks after that I kid you not. It still gives me the willies now (BINGO!). I was talking to a shut eye medium about The Exorcist a few weeks ago and he reckoned that "something evil had been caught in the celluloid". So now you know.

I first saw the exorcist when I was 12. We were on holiday in the Lake district and my Dad (who loves horror as much as me ) found an old video of it in a cupboard. I have never been so quiet in all of my life for the duration of that film- I didn't sleep for 3 nights afterwards!! The holiday in question turned out to be a pretty good one for horror- as well as my first viewing of the exorcist, I bought the silence of the lambs on video, bought the exorcist book, watched halloween 1 on DVD and saw the omen 2. I didn't sleep much over the course of that week

iv'e got the exhorsist box set 1-3 plus begining and prequal, may get around to watching it tonight.

I used to love horror as a teenager, went right off it and have re-discovered it in the last couple of years. The original Halloween was great. I still like the Shining and the Exorcist but they've dated.

I love a good Zombie film - they haven't been mentioned yet! I saw a Spanish zombie film called 'rec' the other day and I literally almost needed a change of underwear on at least 2 occasions (probably too much information given there). It's short but scary. I also recommend another Spanish film called the orphange - not a slasher but a good old fashioned ghost story and really spooky!

Best comedy horror? Has to be Shaun of the dead - gore and comedy!

Don't even get me STARTED on horror! I'm a huge horror buff. Especially the over-the-top gory movies. My favourites:

1. The Evil Dead
2. Scream
3. Brain Dead
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Evil Dead II