I am too jealous Latchkey Princess. You met them? Oh man I wish my school would do anything like that. So jealous. I love Hostel (although really only the first one). It's really creepy; I always liked the odd comfortable-ness of the setting of the movie with all the creepy, creepy shizznizzle that was going down.
Has anyone seen Creepshow? I just remembered that one. It freaked me out the first time I saw it even though it's suppose to be one of those really cheesey horror movies.
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My fav horror movie of all time is A Nightmare on Elm St. 3 : The Dream Warriors. It was by far the BEST Nightmare movie of the bunch (even including the New Nightmare and Freddy vs. Jason). I also like classics like Nosferatu, and The Living Dead series. I actually met George A. Romero and Tom Savini (the makeup artist for most of the living dead movies) once, they came to my school! Also used to shop at the mall that the original Dawn of the Dead was filmed in. :-)
Other favs include Hostel (totally torture horror, but freaked me out for days!), Friday the 13th (original, not the remake), 28 Days Later and Quarantine. And any film based on a Stephen King book, altho Dreamcatcher kind of reeked. As for really bad horror movies, the worst one I ever saw was Terror Toons. So ridiculous, bad acting, bad plot, bad costumes, but hilarious for all that.
As for my kids watching horror movies, no way! Not until they're teenagers. At least, I'm hoping thats the way it works out. lol But I'd also like them to not date until they're 30, so obviously I'm chalk full of unrealistic expectations.
My favorites are all the Freddie movies and particularly fond of the one where Freddie plays a video game!! It's so bad it's great! I just crack up at that part.
It's funny though, as much as I love a good fake slasher movie, I have a really hard time with movies like The Jackal or Blackhawk down or Seven. I counted ceiling tiles while watching all three of those just to give myself a moment's pause from the gore.
And I am a big book nerd. If I know it's a book, I must read the book first before watching the movie and the book is always way better! But when it comes to Stephen King, I actually like his movies better! Weird.
And yes, I don't particularly want my children to have nightmares. They're not ready for Mom's horror films. But last year we watched "Monster House" and "Corpse Bride" (Tim Burton) for Halloween and had a lot of fun doing so. I'm looking forward to "Ghostbusters" and "Gremlins" with them. I highly recommend Monster House and Corpse Bride by the way. They're great for young tweens but I think too scary for the really young.
Yes, I saw the first one, it was awesome!! I have the second one but haven't watched it yet, I haven't been able to convince my SO to watch... I barely got him to watch the first one, LOL! I'll be watching them with OR without him next month, tho!!!
Does it seem like the the older horror movies where way more scarier without the blood and guts? Sometimes it was just a shadow of the bad guy or something and it would put goosebumps up my spine.
Or it could be that I was a kid when I watched them and didn't have anything to compare it to.
I won't watch them anymore but dh loves them. I can't sleep and every shadow and bump in the night has me hiding under the covers or turning on all the lights in the house to keep the boogy man away. I had to stop watching crime dramas for the same reason.
I know I was soooo lucky to meet Mr. Romero and Mr. Savini. They did a lecture on horror makeup paired with a lecture on horror films for the cosmetology and film classes at my school. It's mostly because the school was in PA and thats where Tom Savini's school is based. :-)
I love Creepshow! (of course I've seen it, it's a Stephen King movie, lol) The one with the cockroaches was the grossest most disgusting thing I've ever seen. I hate bugs, and that didn't help any! I've seen the second one too, but it wasn't as good. And I think there's a third one, but if there is I haven't seen it yet... Maybe it was just that there was talk of a third one... I dunno.
Anybody else remember the movie The Willies? I wanna say that was one of my first horror films... I wasn't allowed to watch most of them until I was like 16 because my parents were really strict (doesn't mean I did watch them, just wasn't supposed to). But The Willies creeped me out so bad!
I LOVE horror movies!!!
Christine is an all-time favorite.
Eliana, if you really like B-horror, you'll have to check out Night of the Lepus.... probably one of my all-time fave B-films. Also bad but a bit disturbing - It's Alive!, It Lives Again, and It's Alive 3 - Island of the Alive. Another is Motel ****.
Wow, I could go on and on and on!!
I LOVE CHRISTINE! And B-movies are the movies I watched in HS with my friends. Oh, man. Jack Frost 1 & 2 (not the family one, the psycho snowman killer one), Gingerdead man, Maximum Overdrive, IT, The Car, Teeth, The Dentist.... Man. We would go to Blockbuster in HS, after the football game, and all pick one movie that was the WORST one. Just last Christmas, I got my one best friend "ThanksKilling" and "Silent Night, Deadly Night".... and then we made our husbands watch them with us. SO FUN! (for us.... )
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CanadianCutie~ I used to watch MST3K with my dad and brother all the time. I was sad when it went off air. The show lost a little of it's appeal for me when they traded out Joel for Mike, but it was still hilarious. My favorite episode of that was The Incredible Melting Man. When Crow (I think it was Crow) yelled out "Go melt somewhere else you loser!" I almost fell off my seat laughing. It's also the only way to watch the old Godzilla movies without falling asleep. lol
OMG, I lovelovelove MST3K. They only played it in the middle of the night, so we would tape (oh, god, tape...) them and watch them over and over.. I loved the movie with "This Island Earth"... man. The hours we wasted inside watching that stuff.
In fact, the DVD's for MST are on my Christmas list this year!!
Who here like horror films? I'm a BAD horror film junky, and I mean the bad ones. The faker the better!
I love to watch these movies for Halloween.
I'm starting the kids out young. They're 8 and 10 and I just ordered Ghostbusters and Gremlins. I'm protective of what they watch, but the 8 year old already saw Gremlins at a friend's house. I was really angry about that because it seems to me that was worth a phone call to find out if my child was allowed to watch that movie. The answer would have been NO! But now that he's seen it, I figure why not. And of course the 10 year old wants to see it because his little brother had.
And for me?! Nightmare on Elm St. movies 1-4. I am giddy!
Now I just have to find someone who will watch them with me!! DH will not.
I love horror movies A LOT. Especially zombie movies. I remember there being a brief silence between my husband and I in one of our first conversations when I mentioned a favorite film of mine (Return of the Living Dead) and he was astounded because it was also his favorite film, and no one else he knew had ever heard of it. Same thing happened with Monster Squad.
Oh, and about your 8 year old watching Gremlins. That's a pretty tame movie. Much tamer than A Nightmare on Elm Street (which a daycare I went to before I ever started school showed us. They did send home permission slips, though). lol.
In my opinion, Saw (and its ilk) are a different kind of horror - more like torture-horror, which I just am not a fan of.
As far as traditional horror movies, The Ring really scared me! I was watching Paranormal Activity by myself and I nearly had to turn it off. I also liked The Ruins, but possibly because I was a huge fan of the book. The Descent also scared the bejesus out of me.
If you want a classic, I love The Changeling with George C. Scott.
The ring and paranormal activity did absolutely nothing for me.
I have very long hair, so when the ring craze was going around all of my friends kept calling me the name of the scary little girl, Samara, and that kind of ruined it for me.
Paranormal Activity really just bored me. I guess I'm desensitized or something. I did like the Descent, but not so much the monster part as the claustrophobia of the setting.
Oh, and about your 8 year old watching Gremlins. That's a pretty tame movie. Much tamer than A Nightmare on Elm Street (which a daycare I went to before I ever started school showed us. They did send home permission slips, though). lol.
Are you serious?! That would NEVER happen today! And thank goodness...movies like that send children to their parents' bedrooms for the next 10 years.
Paranormal Activity really just bored me. I guess I'm desensitized or something. I did like the Descent, but not so much the monster part as the claustrophobia of the setting.
you NEED to watch REC, it's a spanish horror film that's kind of like paranormal activity.. except not bad. Horror films usually don't scared me anymore, because i've just been watching them all my life, but this one made me scream like a little school girl. It's just a really f'ed up movie.
The descent was pretty good too, i'm not sure if i want to take the leap though and watch part 2. I hear it's not terrible.. but.. idk.
My son and his friend were on a search to find the cheesiest B horror movie ever. I think something called the Lair of the White Worm was the pick for the worst.
Myself I grew up watching horror movies, I don't care for the new genre of torture-horror as someone called it.
I also llike the funny movies played at Halloween..Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant and all the Abbot and Costello meet the different "monsters" like the Mummy, Dracula..etc..
i like horror movies, even though i get scared very easily.
My bf always yell at me that why would i watch them if i would cover my eyes whenever it's scary scene or mute the audio. LOL.
And my bf dislike horror movies so there's another reason why he nags me about them.
hehe.
I still like them <3 But would never watch them alone. Never.
I love B-horror. Horror and Comedy work so well together (hence my favorite, return of the living dead). I'm not huge on any recent franchise, though I do like SAW. I hated hostel, though. Now I'm more careful buying films that claim that they're "the scariest movie ever made".
They're not ready for Mom's horror films. But last year we watched "Monster House" and "Corpse Bride" (Tim Burton) for Halloween and had a lot of fun doing so. I'm looking forward to "Ghostbusters" and "Gremlins" with them. I highly recommend Monster House and Corpse Bride by the way. They're great for young tweens but I think too scary for the really young.
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I was really angry about that because it seems to me that was worth a phone call to find out if my child was allowed to watch that movie. The answer would have been NO! But now that he's seen it, I figure why not. And of course the 10 year old wants to see it because his little brother had.
