This year's Michigan game, though I would not call it a favorite.
OT: favorite horror movies?
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Just saw a tv verson/part not sop long ago. Probably nowhere as good as the movie considered a classic but still eerie...
She was great in that movie but it was more suspense than horror. If we're including movies like this you have to add When a Stranger Calls and Wait Until Dark.
Besides Jessica Walters will always be Gangy to me.
Besides Jessica Walters will always be Gangy to me.
lol - I thought that was a Clint Eastwood and after a IMDB search - it is!
Never saw it but will look it up!
Never saw it but will look it up!
there was a cablevision channel running this movie saturday, also had "the blob" "earth vs the flying saucers"
and the original "the thing"....all one after the other.....nice lineup
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all great flicks..... I bought Carnival of souls on line many years ago, it was a tough find back then
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a brilliant film. Almost no gore whatsoever but horrifying and disturbing. It doesn't get nearly enough credit on how well crafted it is.
What was that movie about? I was of mind that that movie was an early pseudo adult movie (maybe I was thinking of (" play with misty and me" ;>) )
Eastwood is a radio DJ and Jessica Walters is a stalker.
You're probably thinking of "On Golden Blond".
You're probably thinking of "On Golden Blond".
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Jessica Walters played the same roll as Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction 20 years earlier.
Inconvenient Truth
What a HORROR story, a fairy tale of things that never came.
And that Algore character was absolutely gory!
What a HORROR story, a fairy tale of things that never came.
And that Algore character was absolutely gory!
Giving the old man the job of trying to smash the girls head open with a hammer was one of the most disturbing moments in movie history.
Lee Ermey does a nice job in the remakes, he's also quite disturbing.
One of my oldest and closest friends was a model maker on the 1982......The Thing. He took me to the studio and showed me the models. They were scary enough. He also was the hands that came out from the wall in Signs.
My personal favorite is Stephen King's Storm of the Century. Something about blizzards and horror movies that I love.
My personal favorite is Stephen King's Storm of the Century. Something about blizzards and horror movies that I love.
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The standards for scariness were less demanding back them, imho..... there is the scene where the blob consumes a movie House, and since people were viewing it in a movie house, tries to make the viewer uneasy...
another movie, " the tingler" with Vincent price, pretty lame also by today's standards.
I viewed the original " night of the living dead" on a TV set a number of years ago with a college friend, and he thought it lame, while, at the time of its release, in a darkened theatre, could be unnerving
This dude from Poltergeist scared the hell out of me,...
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as did the pedo from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.....
I am still totally terrified by that old man. Wow. The actor was so thin because he was basically on his death bed during filming and passed shortly after.This dude from Poltergeist scared the hell out of me,...
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Cult classic - Race with the Devil (1975)
Peter Fonda, Loretta Swit, Warren Oates
Less than an hour and a half long
Odd, but interesting story line
No gore at all
Allegedly used real devil cult members as extras (certainly look that way, bad teeth and all)
Maintains paranoid tension the whole way
Utterly bizarre ending
100% worth your 88 minutes
Peter Fonda, Loretta Swit, Warren Oates
Less than an hour and a half long
Odd, but interesting story line
No gore at all
Allegedly used real devil cult members as extras (certainly look that way, bad teeth and all)
Maintains paranoid tension the whole way
Utterly bizarre ending
100% worth your 88 minutes
1. Halloween
2. The Shining
3. Carrie
4. Rosemarys Baby
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
6. Friday the 13th
7. Nightmare on Elm Street
8. Poltergeist
9. Dont Be Afraid of the Dark
10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Classic Movies
1. Tingler
2. The Blob
3. Creature From the Black Lagoon
4. Frankenstein
5. Fiend Without A Face
6. The Fly
7. The Crawling Eye
8. Attack of the Crab Monsters
9. Hunchback of Notre Dame
10. It Came From Hell
2. The Shining
3. Carrie
4. Rosemarys Baby
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
6. Friday the 13th
7. Nightmare on Elm Street
8. Poltergeist
9. Dont Be Afraid of the Dark
10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Classic Movies
1. Tingler
2. The Blob
3. Creature From the Black Lagoon
4. Frankenstein
5. Fiend Without A Face
6. The Fly
7. The Crawling Eye
8. Attack of the Crab Monsters
9. Hunchback of Notre Dame
10. It Came From Hell
Awwww... Bac. I can't believe decades later, it's still hard to look at this. Even worse, the audio. Ha! Still messes with my head. IIRC, it came on channel 11 (wpix). It would sometimes catch me off guard 'cause I'd be watching Star Trek or something. Then, when it was over, that damn Chiller Theater opening would come on.
If I have a nightmare tonight, it's on you! :scream:
Yup. Was filmed in South Pasadena and although it's Haddonfield, Illinois it was named after Haddonfield, New Jersey.
In no particular order - all more modern movies:
The Shining
The Omen (original with Gregory Peck) - maybe the scariest movie I ever saw.
The Thing - the 1982 version ... though that is really more a SciFi movie than a horror movie ... based on a GREAT SciFi short story.
Carrie - anyone who was not absolutely shocked scared at the ending is lying.
Poltergeist - the original.
There are some great classic oldies also - but so many are so creaky and primitive special effects, which lose their impact nowadays.
The Shining
The Omen (original with Gregory Peck) - maybe the scariest movie I ever saw.
The Thing - the 1982 version ... though that is really more a SciFi movie than a horror movie ... based on a GREAT SciFi short story.
Carrie - anyone who was not absolutely shocked scared at the ending is lying.
Poltergeist - the original.
There are some great classic oldies also - but so many are so creaky and primitive special effects, which lose their impact nowadays.
"Play Misty For Me" was a cool movie for its time. Never forget the playing of "The First Time" by Roberta Flack playing on the station. Still a favorite song to play during a still night.
Eastwood was good (but a terrible DJ) broadcasting from the cliffs of California. But Jessica Walters as a stalker of Eastwood might be one of the earliest of stalker-themed movies that I can remember. Any time my friends from RU and I reference some insane behavior going on by an individual in the news, we quietly end the conversation with.... Play Misty for Me.
Movie Trailer:
Scene with The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face:
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