Favorite movies you watch for Halloween (picture, Antonio Banderas, watching, David Bowie)
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Not necessarily Halloween themed movies but rather favorite movies you
watch for the Halloween season.
1. Halloween, the original (of course!).
2. Black Christmas, the original
3. Full Circle, Mia Farrow
4. Deep Red
5. The Innocents, Deborah Kerr
6. Reflections of Murder (a tv remake of Diabolique which I find to better than the original French movie).
All old movies but I like the classics.
Love you have a Dario Argento film listed!
My # 1 is Halloween 78 also. Michael scared me to no end as a kid. Night of the Living Dead original and Texas Chainsaw are up there also.
Leatherface scared me too, but not as much as Michael. I felt he was more like a dangerous animal you could avoid by just not going to the Sawyer house.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Still the funniest movie ever made.
HALLOWEEN. The 1978 original, which remains a flawed masterpiece.
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Great for both its Autumn ambience and scares.
TRICK 'R' TREAT. Not enough people love this movie. Their loss.
My like to watches for each Halloween season:
FRIGHT NIGHT. I far prefer the original, but the remake wasn't half bad.
FRIGHT NIGHT 2 (1988). Not as good as the original and not a great movie by any stretch, but still under-appreciated and still has one of the best vampire death scenes I have ever seen in a movie.
PSYCHO. Never gets old.
PSYCHO 2. Controversial statement, but I'm right: It's better than the first movie.
GINGER SNAPS and GINGER SNAPS 2. Despite the low budget and rather disappointing monster, the writing and acting save this movie. Still some of the bestest werewolf flicks ever made. GS2 is a great example of how to do a true sequel. It continues the story without being just a re-tread of its predecessor.
THE SECRET OF NIMH. Not a horror movie per se, but it definitely has some scary bits. The Great Owl is still one of the best movie monsters put onscreen --- and he's a good guy! And I would still put this movie on my list of all-time best movie sword fights.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. A Halloween movie? Yes! So much of the movie is taken up with the children's fear of "the monster down the street" in Boo Radley. But it turns out the real monster comes out after the Halloween play --- and Boo Radley turns out to be the hero. May be one of the best eucatastrophes in any story.
BeI posted this over at the last movie watched thread but now it's not the last movie that I have watched but I digress.
"Being it's Halloween, I watched the Return of Dr. X. It's largely forgettable except for seeing Humphrey Bogart grossly miscast as the ghoulish assistant Quesne/Dr. X.
Also, strange in that Bogie was 3rd billed in opening credits but is top billed in the closing one."
As an aside, I guess none of the regular horror actors (Lon Chaney, Karloff, or Lugosi) were available.
Heck, even Peter Lorre would have been a better pick.
Never been into horror movies regardless whether they're campy/silly or actually scary, old low tech, new hi tech. There are movies I find deliciously scary, but they don't tend to fit the horror genre and have nothing to do with vampires, amoral masked slashers wielding axes or chainsaws, zombies, skeletal children in wet nighties standing in the middle of roads, malicious houses with moldy wallpaper, werewolves and the like. Every TV or movie channel now seems to offer a horror themed category these days. I happen to like "science" or speculative fiction, but many programmers don't seem to know the difference between horror, sci fi, and fantasy. Halloween focused entertainment seems to be getting as bad as saccharine sweet Christmas programming. It saturates everything for months. Seems like every channel starts smothering audiences with Halloween horror beginning in September. By the time the actual night comes around the whole observance has been done to death IMHO. Don't get me wrong, there are reasons I love Halloween, Christmas and other holidays, but it isn't because of the movies associated with them.
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I watched Suspiria for the first time in early October. Great horror movie. And I must also state, this movie felt like the best haunted house attraction on film. With the lighting, music, camera work and edits, all reminded me of a haunted house. A good scary movie to watch on Halloween.
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