halloween movies
 

so whats your favourite halloween movie of all time?

in my case and in no particular order:

sleepy hollow - i really have a thing for this movie. the imagery, actions, humour. i love it. nevermind the butchering of the original story.
the haunting - the original, mind, not the crappy remake. this movie was a head trip from start to finish and it still scares the bejeezus out of me.
the exorcist - yeesh. i cant watch this one often
the others - this one kind of reminds me of the haunting. this movie has the atmosphere a remake should have had. i like how the others relies on sound to make otherwise tame sets seem creepy. (i just noticed while getting the url from imbd for this movie, it seems to be based on an old english tv show. id like to see that sometime)
the keep - campy, with a soundtrack by tangerine dream, whats not to like? this movie is awful, but fun.

~james

Spoorloos - aka "The Vanishing". Don't read anything about it. Just watch it. It'll make you ill.

Speaking of The Others, I saw that movie and it scared the hell out of me, then I was talking to one of my friends and she said she didn't get even a shiver from that movie. Then she went on to say that Thirteen Ghosts was a scary movie, personally I found Thirteen Ghost quite funny. It'st odd how people view suspense and horror, one person finds gore scary the other find atmosphere and suspense creepy.

Oh yeah, I should probably answer your question


It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Greatest Halloween movie ever. :)

Also,

When A Stranger Calls - it mostly sucks, but the beginning is superb. SUPERB. Watch the first 15 or 20 minutes and then take the DVD back to Blockbuster :)

cam - i agree. gore doesnt do it for me, skulls and zombies dont send a shiver up my spine. freddy? jason? pfeh. pure comedy. but an abandoned house, whispers from disembodied voices, the crack of thunder and flash of lightning revealing all those shadows just out of the light? ill sleep with the lights on. :)

~james

Then you'll dig the two movies that I posted. Spoorloos is just <b>disturbing</b>, and without any blood. When A Stranger Calls is... mother fuckin' scary. :)

so this really isnt related to the thread (well, it is but just barely and its open to argument) but its my thread and ill post whatever i want. :)

http://www.aboyd.com/monsters/sideshow12.html

~james

Not so much a Halloween movie, but The Nightmare Before Christmas fits more than one holiday.

How 'bout Beetlejuice.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Oh, and pretty much any classic, black and white monster movie ... Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy ...

And while I'm thinking of it ... any and all of the Hammer films ... and anything by William Castle (especially Mr. Sardonicus).

I really LIKE halloween/horror movies.

yeah! i totally forgot that one. its been years since ive seen that.

has anyone gone to see the ring yet?

~james