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Essential Horror Movies

In honor of the month and upcoming holiday (if I have to say which one, shame on you), post your favorite horror movies. Those who post more obscure movies (that still hold merit, of course) get bonus points and fresh-baked brownies. B-movies, black and whites, silents, made-for-TV movies (no Lifetime, please), or your run-of-the-mill big-budget Hollywood you-have-no-idea-how-large-the-carbon-footprint-of-this-is movies are all fair game. If you're willing, include some info about your movies (other than the plot, that is) to keep the thread interesting and include why you personally like it.

This one should go without saying, but watch The Excorcist if you haven't already. It's definitely seated in the history of cinema comfortably; as Wikipedia states, "If adjusted for inflation, this would be the top-grossing R-rated film of all time." And it's damn scary.

Also, Nosferatu is a pretty interesting silent movie from way back when. Well, it may not be interesting by modern standards, but Count Orlock is the best vampire of cinema. The movie is basically Dracula. However, since they couldn't get rights to the story, they edited names and such, but it's a blatant ripoff. The only thing that's all that different is the vampire; Orlock puts Dracula, in all of his forms, to shame. He is modelled more after vampires of folklore than the ones we think of today, and he's all the better (or worse?) for it. Google him for the images; he's neato.

To give you an idea of how important The Exorcist and Nosferatu are to horror, they are 188 and 157 on IMDb's top 250 movies respectively.

And you?

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Last edited by Sykil, October 6th, 2006 10:03 AM (Edited 3 times)

Nosferatu, now that is a classic. Right up there with Boris Karloff and Vince Price.

When I was a kid my mother took me and my siblings to the downtown theatre to see two movies. The first one was Hush Hush Sweet Charolette and the other one I cant recall the name but it was the scarier of the two. Maybe you know the title.
I would call it a classic B movie. It was done rather well thou.

Its about these two sisters whos parents were into pagan arts. In a time when paganist were hung, crossed and or burned. They live in the country.
Any how the sisters grow up with paganist traditions and in their teens their family is found out. One sister isnt at home when the lynch mob comes. the rest of the family is set on fire. The other sister who didnt get away, they tied her to a tree and set her on fire. As she burned she envoked a curse on all who stood there. All of them were males.
As the sky began to turn black all the people who stood there fled in fear. The sister who was away, returns home just in time to put her sister out and save her life. However she is scared for life.
Threw magic her appearance is changed to the beautiful girl she once was.
Her and her sister plot revenge. First they put a spell on the town to wipe them from their memory so its like they never met them before. Slowly the burnt sister lures all the males, one by one, into the house where she reveals her true form. the male freaks, they kill him and burn him up at night on this alter.
Eventually the powers of magic fade for the burnt girl as she rids the town of all the males and she dies leaving her sister alone. She is buried under the tree where the people had tried to kill her.
A few months later the sister goes into town and sees this male standing at the counter of the local store. She begins talking with him, finds he's new to the area and visiting his aunt in town. Says he might go to college there while he's helping his aunt out. Says his uncle and cousin just disappeared, never to be found. Oh says the girl. I never heard about that. Theyre around the same age so she asks him to come over for lunch and she can fill him in on things. Give him some college stuff. They set a date for the following day and depart.
She goes home and gets out this white dress and white hair tie and sets out all her clothes. The movie fades out with her going to bed and fades back into the next day with him driving up to the house. And as the camera zooms out you see the tree coming into view. and there under it, beside the grave, sits the remaining siter all dressed in white with her hair done up in this white bow.

Hush Hush Sweet Charolette is about this woman who thinks shes killed her husband but its a plot by the husband and his mistress to drive her nuts so she will commit suicide and leave them all her cash. rather spooky when he keeps coming back.
Bette Davis was the woman. She a terrific horror actress when she plays one.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000012/

And of course who could leave Jason & Freddy from halloween and nightmare on elm street.

hmm, interesting thread..

I'm not a fan at all of horror movies.. I have trouble watching Scream without having to change over.. Its just not somethign that grabs me..

I dont really see the point in choosing to watch a movie just to get scared, i'd much rather choose to watch a movie to laugh for example...

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I agree with Harry.

I think it was when I was a kid that I realized all horror flicks were fake and pointless that made me dislike them. A couple years ago I finally watched Evil Dead and I realized that zombie flicks weren't necessarily meant to be scary but funny too. Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorites.

But, I've never been scared by a movie. Unless you count Supersize Me.

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Originally posted by Rider:

I agree with Harry.

I think it was when I was a kid that I realized all horror flicks were fake and pointless that made me dislike them. A couple years ago I finally watched Evil Dead and I realized that zombie flicks weren't necessarily meant to be scary but funny too. Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorites.

But, I've never been scared by a movie. Unless you count Supersize Me.

haha,
Shaun of the Dead is pretty good

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Don't Look Now.
The glass roof scene...my favorite death out of any horror film ever!

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Last edited by kobs, October 6th, 2006 09:16 PM (Edited 1 times)

Originally posted by kobs:

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Plot Outline: The gruesome tapestry of psychological manifestations of a nineteen year old bulimic runaway stripper-turned prostitute as she descends into a hellish pit of satanic nightmares and hallucinations.

Holy crap... that description is impenetrable.

Oh, and Lexykon, check out Public Domain Torrents' horror category; it has a few of Price's films.

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Last edited by Sykil, October 7th, 2006 03:19 AM (Edited 1 times)

okay, Sykil. thanks!
funny you mention him cause this morning I was watching 'the hillarious house of frankenstein'. he did bit parts in that show after retiring from hollywood.
he has one of those really diabolical voices.
Alice Cooper used him for the intro to ' Black Widow'
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Black-Widow- ... E10748256C4800091B20