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15-10-2008, 06:45 PM
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Just wondered what your top ten horror films might be, since it's the season to be jolly!!?
1. Treerat Festival - a compilation of guess what (not horror for me but...!)   
2. The Wickerman (uncut, original version)
3. The Omen (Uncut, original version)
4. ''The Italian Exorcist'' (can't remember it's name but made ithe '70's)
5. Dr Who and the Green Death (remembered from childhood - though I also used to put books on the toilet seat to stop Darleks invading via the sewerage system!!!  )
6. Dracula 1972 AD
7. Quatamass and the Pitt
8. The Old Edgar Allen Poe films
9. Carry on Screaming
10. The unmade Python horror movies !!!!
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15-10-2008, 06:50 PM
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For sheer weirdness, David Lynch's "Eraserhead" is head and shoulders above anything else!
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15-10-2008, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Ford  For sheer weirdness, David Lynch's "Eraserhead" is head and shoulders above anything else!
Jim |  OMG, I was made to watch that after sharing 'plant life' with some fellow students while in uni ........ absolutley horrible 
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15-10-2008, 07:16 PM
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I would have to go with .........
1 Salem's Lot the tv series with David Soul. Now joined as a fillm on dvd, dated a little but some really disturbing scenes in it. Like Danny Glib scratching the window
2 Nosforatu, again dated, (1927 I beleive lol) but some really spooky pieces there.
3 Sixth Sense
4 The omen
5 The grudge
6 Frankenstein with boris karloff
7 Storm of the century ...... amazing
8 The skeleton key
9 The stand, yep another stephen king  
10 The birds
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15-10-2008, 07:20 PM
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I'd forgotten about the Birds - that's in the top 10 somewhere too ..never could count!!!
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15-10-2008, 07:40 PM
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I like the original Halloween, the music is great!! 
The Omen (original) is good too. |
15-10-2008, 08:17 PM
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One of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) . Classic. Scared me to death when I was a kid |
15-10-2008, 11:15 PM
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In no particular order: (tho any Stephen King film )
The Shining
The Exorcist (love Tubular Bells)
The Stand
The Wickerman
Halloween No 1
It
and probably a whole lot more if I thought about it and could remember their names - love horror - in fiction and film - but if given a choice I would rather read it than watch it - I think my imagination is far better with a story than watching a film!!!
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15-10-2008, 11:46 PM
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I agree Pauline, Stephen Kings books are excellent but I have to say that I LOVE James Herbert! I think I have got every single one of his books but not sure if he has released any new ones lately. |
16-10-2008, 12:38 AM
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oooh... none of those for me.. am not a horror person... am the sort that had to have someone to stay in the house to watch Day of the Triffids series. I remember being glued to my chair when watching the film with my first inlaws... and couldnt move till after the news and adverts. I am a mega scaredycat when it comes to fictional horror.
I am not good at reading it either.. I have too active an imagination for it. Its strange as I am not bothered by noises in the night... must come from years of single living!
Jaki
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16-10-2008, 12:48 AM
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My girlfriend doesn't like crimewatch, it scares the life out of her!!!!!
As for "horror" films she thinks The Mummy is absolutely terrifying, she was not too happy when I showed her The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! |
16-10-2008, 01:12 PM
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I don't bother with horror movies there's no really scary ones out there although i enjoyed watching the Saw movies
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16-10-2008, 01:18 PM
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Anybody seen "Black Christmas" - came out in the '70's? |
16-10-2008, 01:24 PM
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I'm not sure what date it was (70's I think) but the original version of 'The Vanishing' is pure genius. I'm sure it's Belgian, and the fact that the whole movie is so ordinary makes for a more interesting and real experience.
Then 'Hollywood' remade it and it was all happy ending Bruce Willis style- a load of balls. |
16-10-2008, 01:26 PM
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre had me cringeing a few times when I first saw it.
And one from the deep dark past was an episode of "The Outer Limits" which I saw as a child in the early sixties. I think it was called something like the Zanti (or Zante) Misfits, and revolved around an invading plague of alien foot long ant like creatures with humanoid faces - gave me the heeby jeebies for weeks afterwards.
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16-10-2008, 03:10 PM
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I just remebered:
Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' is one of the most unsettling and atmospheric films I've seen, although nothing unpleasant actually happens. Highly recommended!
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16-10-2008, 04:14 PM
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That film of Mrs. Thatcher's "The lady's not for turning" speech! Sheer horror at the casual cruelty. |
16-10-2008, 04:21 PM
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Man Bites Dog is pretty good, It's a subtitled black and white Belgian film I think? It's also quite funny in a strange sort of way!! |
16-10-2008, 04:55 PM
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Mine are pretty tame...I have nightmares ..lol
Blade..Wesley Snipes
Van Helsing
Underworld
Dracula...Vincent Price
Dawn of the dead..Classic 1978
Panic room
The Silence of the Lambs
Sweeney Todd
Frankenstein
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16-10-2008, 07:51 PM
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I'm not a huge horror fan but I quite like zombie films. They make me laugh . I found "The ring" and "The grudge" really frightening, don't think I slept for a week .
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16-10-2008, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by meta Menardi that Film Of Mrs. Thatcher's "the Lady's Not For Turning" Speech! Sheer Horror At The Casual Cruelty. | :d:d:d:d:d
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16-10-2008, 10:53 PM
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Oh - and I must not forget " The Signalman" (1976, Ghost Story for Christmas BBC TV series, starred Denholm Elliot.) This short story is scarier than the book by Charles Dickens! I remember watching it with tears running down my cheeks.....does that happen to anyone else when they see, read or hear about something really creepy? The only other person I know that it happens to is my Dad! That night we both sat there watching The Signalman, looking for all the world as though we were crying our eyes out!
We loved it really
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16-10-2008, 11:04 PM
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I never really like the Blairwitch project as a whole, however, I think the scene where they're in their tents in the dark and the bit when they wake up with those twig formations outside are absolutely terrifying
Mind you, I was in a massive multi screen complex but sat completely on my own in one of them
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17-10-2008, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim Ford I just remebered:
Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' is one of the most unsettling and atmospheric films I've seen, although nothing unpleasant actually happens. Highly recommended!
Jim | I saw this years ago. The people I saw it with hated it. I loved it and recommended it to everyone else. They hated it. It completely wiped my reputation as a film critic. I still think it's a great film though for full effect you need to see it on a cinema screen. Certainly the best film he made. It's not a horror film it's about one's journey through life and the search for one's heart's desire and full of images and ideas. But long, no sex, no car chase, no shoot up so "boring" is the stock response.
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17-10-2008, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Dutchess Oh - and I must not forget " The Signalman" (1976, Ghost Story for Christmas BBC TV series, starred Denholm Elliot.) This short story is scarier than the book by Charles Dickens! I remember watching it with tears running down my cheeks.....does that happen to anyone else when they see, read or hear about something really creepy? The only other person I know that it happens to is my Dad! That night we both sat there watching The Signalman, looking for all the world as though we were crying our eyes out!
We loved it really
D. | I remember that watched it at christmas and again a few years ago I think.
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