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Your definative horror film.

post #1 of 27
10/28/02 at 10:09pm
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Well? Even though my favorite horror movie is Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I'd have to say that the movie I grew up loving and still get into is "The Wolfman". Classic, just classic. Everything about it is just flawless.

So that's mine. Though it may not be my absolute fave, it's definately my most beloved horror film. It's one of my first and it got me to really want to explore the rest of the world of monster flicks.

- Fixxxer
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post #2 of 27
10/28/02 at 10:20pm
Jaws.
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post #3 of 27
10/28/02 at 10:25pm
Halloween

it has everything from my childhood
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post #4 of 27
10/28/02 at 10:34pm
I think that would have to be "The Fly" with Vincent Price. Or the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". These are the earliest horror movies that I can remember seeing. They planted the idea in my head that something could be scary and fun at the same time. Watching old horror movies was an event in my family. My cousins and I would watch them with my grandparents when we spent the night. They made popcorn and root beer floats, how can you not turn into a horror fan after that!
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post #5 of 27
10/28/02 at 10:42pm
thinking about it some more I would have to say The Blob

That movie scared me to high heaven
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post #6 of 27
10/28/02 at 11:12pm
One of the first horror movies I saw that truely got me into horror is John Carpenter's The Thing. So my most beloved and one of my favorite horror movies would be The Thing.
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post #7 of 27
10/28/02 at 11:59pm
I can't pick a definative horror movie because I break them down into catagories and some are better in certain aspect than other

scariest: exorcist

most disturbing: TCM

best character interaction: Jaws

most chilling: the ring

best looking: sleepy hollow

best monster: too tough to call
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post #8 of 27
10/29/02 at 12:19am
The Company Of Wolves.

The most beautiful horror
movie ever...

...close calls are "Day Of
The Dead", "Return Of The
Living Dead", "Halloween"
and "Nosferatu (1979)"

GHOULE
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post #9 of 27
10/29/02 at 7:48am
PSYCHO

More than 40 years later, it's still shocking, disturbing and effective ... The term "classic" even falls short ... Second place is a tough call, but PSYCHO is my choice ...
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post #10 of 27
10/29/02 at 2:22pm
Man, I have thrived on these films my entire life....

But only 1 has ever truly scared me. And nothing has ever truly scared me since.

The Exorcist.
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post #11 of 27
10/29/02 at 2:36pm
I have to agree with the thread starter: The Wolf Man. It was instantly my favorite movie EVAR when I first saw it as a tender 7 year old kid, and sparked the interest in horror movies and all things spooky that led me, inevitably, to the Corner boards. And no matter how many times I watch it, I still love it. I'm never bored. It's fabulous, was fabulous, will be fabulous, and will forever be fabulous. If you don't own it, your life is incomplete.

But obviously The Wolf Man isn't the scariest movie I ever saw, or the most horrifying. For those I'd have to go with Exorcist/Exorcist III (both great movies, in different ways--Dourif is an Evil God), or The Haunting (1963, natch)--still gives me chills, or Evil Dead, or Halloween, or the original Night of the Living Dead (the definitive modern horror flick), or Psycho (the definitive modern psycho flick)...I could go on for hours.

But I'm stickin' with the Wolf Man. Claude Rains, Chaney the Younger, Bela "The Shizznit" Lugosi, Jack "God" Pierce's makeup... It's probably the nostalgia talking, but I just can't do better than that.
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post #12 of 27
10/29/02 at 2:40pm
Dawn of the Dead. The perfect horror film. It has politcal satire, tension, and the scare the shit out of you moments that makes a horror film great.
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post #13 of 27
10/29/02 at 4:15pm
JC "THE THING"
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post #14 of 27
10/29/02 at 4:58pm
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post #15 of 27
10/29/02 at 5:03pm
Quote:
Dances With Chainsaws:
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That's sad Chainsaw but hey you're still one of my favorite ghouls.

I guess there is no accounting for taste is there. wink

Cheers!
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post #16 of 27
10/29/02 at 7:12pm
C'mon, it's my favorite movie. I can't help it. I have sooo much love for this series. Cannibal rednecks that wear other peoples skin, and hunt down victims with a chainsaw. You gotta love that. Oh well, everyone's a critic.
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post #17 of 27
10/29/02 at 11:36pm
Well...I think the definition of Horror for me is Night of the Living Dead. The original grand daddy of them all...

But definition of Scary Horror...The Haunting of Hill House...THAT movie is the scariest movie I have ever seen.

That and The Changeling.
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post #18 of 27
10/29/02 at 11:48pm
I'm with krankyboy.

Alien

all the way.
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post #19 of 27
10/30/02 at 12:38am
Halloween. Grew up watching it, and my admiration for it has only grown with time.
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post #20 of 27
10/30/02 at 2:28am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Scott Standridge IS Larry Talbot:
But I'm stickin' with the Wolf Man. Claude Rains, Chaney the Younger, Bela "The Shizznit" Lugosi, Jack "God" Pierce's makeup... It's probably the nostalgia talking, but I just can't do better than that.
No nostalgia in that. I don't know the name of the Gypsy woman, but to this day when I hear her lines, especially her lines in the last few scenes, I still get chills down my spine. Lon Chaney Jr just kicks ass as the tormented Larry. You can't help but feel bad for the guy. You want things to work out for him so bad, but you know the moment his father takes the silver caine(sp) and goes out to hunt the wolf, Larry is doomed. Great atmosphere, acting, and make-up.

If it is nostalgia, then I got a bad case of it too.

- Fixxxer
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post #21 of 27
10/30/02 at 12:56pm
Maria Ouspenskaya (sp?)--and yes, she's fabulous too. Fixxer, have you watched all the extras on the Wolf Man DVD? Great stuff--really cool documentary, and the film historian's commentary is the most entertaining of the Universal DVD series. Lots of cool anecdotes and fun stories he throws in there. This dvd should be in every Corner-Creature's collection. wink
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post #22 of 27
10/30/02 at 7:11pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Scott Standridge IS Larry Talbot:
This dvd should be in every Corner-Creature's collection. wink
I totally agree, but unfortunately, I don't have the DVD yet. I've been holding off because I want to get the Universal Classic monster box set, and I haven't had the $$ to get it, but Christmas is around the corner, so I should be able to get it soon.

- Fixxxer
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post #23 of 27
11/4/02 at 8:05pm
I'm gonna have to go with JC's The Thing, but Evil Dead gets a serious nod in my book. These are two of my favorite horror movies (although Thing is more of a suspense character-driven movie).
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post #24 of 27
11/4/02 at 8:27pm
If I absolutely had to pick just one, Night of the Living Dead really brings it all together right.

Genuinely scary: NotLD, TCM, Blair Witch Project. Halloween, too, I guess.

Mix of scares and humor: Evil Dead, Creepshow, American Werewolf in London, Theatre of Blood. (and Buffy, even though it's a TV show)

Artisticly great: Nosferatu, The Haunting, The Shining.

Just plain Iconic: Black Sunday, and the Universal classics.
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post #25 of 27
11/4/02 at 10:55pm
My parents let me watch the Night Stalker series (OK not a movie) when I was 5 years old and I instantly fell in love with the genre. I try not to watch it much now, because it takes away from my memory of it (although Darren McGavin is PERFECT as Carl Kolchak).

Night of the Living Dead was the first horryifying film I ever saw and I still remember everything about that night to this day. What a film.
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post #26 of 27
11/5/02 at 1:13am
For me, the first movie that drove me to repeated viewings would be "Carrie." As an overweight kid in school I really identified with the isolation she felt. And while my stepmother wasn't a religious fanatic (quite the opposite actually) she was certainly zealous about making my youth a miserable experience. To this day I refer to her as my stepmonster. But she's taking a dirt nap and I'm still here, so I guess it all works out in the end.

But "Carrie" was definitely my choice for definitive horror film.

mahduk
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post #27 of 27
11/5/02 at 1:24am
Uzumaki for me, please!
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