Your Fave Halloween Movies

[maelstrom0370]

LOL
I rememebr my parents going to see all sorts of horror movies at the Drive-In and I was supposed to be asleep in the back seat....Amazing what you can see when your parents car has bucket seats!

[Taffy Saltwater]

Poltergeist for the shiver factor; Hocus Pocus for the Bette Midler in beestung lipstick factor (she'll put a spell on you!); It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for the nostalgia factor; and Motel Hell for the cheese factor.

[Rani Zemirah]

Ooooh, YURK!!! Motel hell was gross...  LOL

And it wasn't cheese... it was SAUSAGE!!!

[Anna Iram]

The only things that have ever really "stuck" with me, and give me the flat out creeps to this day are the crab-walk scene and the head spinning scene in Exocrcist.
My GOD!! I get the chilly-willies EVERY time I watch that movie!!

I was too focused on my first date to be very scared, but I was really impressed by the head spinning, I must admit...

Hahah! My slightly older sister saw the Exorcist on a date. I swear she cried for a week after that she was so freaked. I went out and bought a 45 of "Tubular Bells" and would play it just to get her going. 

Yep, I remember the Drive In movies when we were supose to be asleep. Day of the Triffids. Now it just seems silly, but then...omg!!

Nicki, is "Baby Jane" where your mother picked up her idea for her meatloaf? 

[maelstrom0370]

and Motel Hell for the cheese factor.

Oh c'mon now!!  How can ya go wrong with pig heads, cannibalism and chainsaws??

[Cloverpogue]

~The Black Cat (1934), the first Legosi/Karloff joint effort in film. Creepy, I saw it in 9th grade on Halloween. I liked it.

~ Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein~

~Horror Of Dracula(1958), Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

~Legend of Sleepy Hollow(1958), I think one of the scariest animated Disney movies. I loved this movie, I want to own it.

~Sleepy Hollow(1999) Oh, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton. I adore this movie.

~Phantom of the Opera~ Gerard Butler, I dvr'd it and need to finish seeing it again.

~The Carnival of Souls(1963)

[Lady Nicolette]

Nicki, is "Baby Jane" where your mother picked up her idea for her meatloaf? 

Could have been!

I also saw The Exorcist on a date (with my first husband, the first year we were dating).  We walked home from the movie through the pea soup Palos Verdes fog.  I still have nightmares with the subliminal stuff from it from time to time.  But I have to say that I still like "Tubular Bells."  The recording that launched Virgin Records.  And Mike Oldfield's sister, Sally Oldfield, made a beautiful recording called "Waterbearer," similar in style to her brother's. 

Still enjoy scary movies, but much prefer the subtler ones than mere bloodfests.

[Lady Nicolette]

Speaking of rats... anyone remember "Ben"... or "Willard"
eeeewwwww ... cccreeeeeppyyyy

I do!  I do!  I felt kinda sorry for the Willard guy, though.

[Welsh Wench]

I agree with Lady Nicolette.

I can forgo the slasher pics in favor of a good psychological thriller with a good twist at the end that you never saw coming.

One that comes to mind is Johnny Depp in Secret Window.
Spouses all over the nation took an avid interest in gardening. 

Or how about Buried Alive with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Matheson.
Psychological thriller at its best.

Those kinds of movies to me are even more scary.
Because crazy people are among us.
Some even closer than you realize.

[Anna Iram]

Ain't that the truth! 



That was Hitchcock's premise: that crazy people were far more frightening than "monsters". Perhaps because someone could actually become a Norman Bates with little provocation. It really could (and does) happen.

While wer'e on the subject of Hitch's thrillers, Frenzy has to be one of my favorites. The camera as it follows the killer and his victim to the top of the stair and then slowly backs down again as the door shuts behind them. You don't seee a thing...but you just know. *shudder*.

Or the scene as the headlights of the car spot the back of the potato truck and just an arm (well some body part...I forget) is seen poking out. Ah sweetness.

I still like movies like Chainsaw Massacre though. ZZZZZZZZZZZ!!

[Rani Zemirah]

The Birds...

[Anna Iram]

*Anna looks up at the sky in terror and begins waving her arms about in fright.*

Where...WHERE!!!!!???

[NoBill Lurker]

What about "Phantasm" 

Or maybe "The Hitcher"   Got to love Rutger Hauer in that one. 

[Blackbead]

My all-time favorite Halloween movie is still the original "The Haunting."

"And remember, we who walk here, walk alone."

I also like "The Black Scorpion" for the nostalgia effect.  And I do watch "The Uninvited" on some Halloween evenings.

[Rani Zemirah]

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