Do you like horror films and TV shows?

I'm not a fan of horror films, but I did like The Changeling with George C Scott and Trish Van Devere.
I class that as more of a 'creepy' film.
A locked, boarded up door leading to a hidden attic bedroom, why would anyone want to go in there...:eek:
 

Of course I have seen a few horror movies. I don't like them. Except for Carrie, even though I nearly jumped out of my skin from the ending.
 

I read fiction stories, watch movies and even go to plays to be entertained. This includes scary movies, mysteries, sci-fi, and most all other forms of entertainment. "Horror" forms of entertainment are 'part' of what I enjoy.

I completely understand how others don't enjoy this type of entertainment. I think we all can agree that having the varieties of entertainment that we do today is exceptional and can add lots of pleasure in our lives.
 
squatting dog said:
No, that's a classically good movie. I'm talking atomic giant mutated crabs, ants, grasshoppers, octopuses, etc. :)
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Some of the special effects from that era and even well into the 60s were just so bad. I suppose we didn't realize it at the time but when you look back at the old stuff it's a hoot! Try watching an episode of the original "Lost in Space", oh man, the effects were comical!
 
KSav said:
I don't think I've really been scared by anything since 9/11.

That said, I love horror moviesā€”but only the ones with little or no blood, and I hate gore. I won't watch those movies. That cuts out a lot of them, leaving mostly the supernatural ones and Japanese horror films.

My kids all love scary movies, too. We had a great Thanksgiving one year all watching The Grudge together.

I'm also a devout Twilight Zone fan, have been for decades. Every year my kids and I would camp out in front of the couch for the New Years Eve marathon, even when they were older. We each have our favorite episodes.
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I don't consider the Twilight Zone horror at all. Just eerie. Love it.
 
Rich said:
Some of the special effects from that era and even well into the 60s were just so bad. I suppose we didn't realize it at the time but when you look back at the old stuff it's a hoot! Try watching an episode of the original "Lost in Space", oh man, the effects were comical!
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My favorite was the Attach of the Crab monster.

The crab monsters, made of fiberglass and operated by crew members like Ed Nelson (who admitted to being inside one), were notoriously clunky, with visible wires, wobbly legs, and, apparently, dozer tracks in some shots to help move them along. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Ed Nelson himself recalled a blooper where his feet were visible under the crab in a still photo shown in the film.
 
I am a fan of Stephen King. Heā€™s the rebirth of Alfred Hitchcock.
Also the old Twilight Zone shows by Rod Serling.
Boris Karloff was good at being a scary actor.

I once met Fred Gwynn onboard one of my flights. He lived outside of Baltimore, not far from where I was living at the time. He invited me to his home to have dinner with his wife and him. Of course, I accepted. My wife and I were there for almost 5 hours. He showed us numerous scrapbook type photos and told us some inside stuff about his career and who he didnā€™t get along with on the set, which was only a few people, which were only producers.

He told us he loved Yvonne De Carlo, but only in a professional manner. He also enjoyed a good relationship with Al Lewis on both shows they were on together. He also told my wife that him and his wife enjoy their privacy and seldom have guests over for dinner. He told us he often thought about taking flying lessons, but never could get the push to go do it. He did ask a lot of questions about flying.

He also spoke about his career in the Navy during WWII. It was a great night.
 
dobielvr said:
No, not a fan. And, I don't understand the fascination w/Dexter? Seems a lot of people were really in to that show. He'd pick up people to take them home and kill them??? I know there is a story behind the reason he does this, but I just can't go there.
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Dexter was a psychopathic serial killer. His father recognized this when he was a young boy and, knowing it wasn't a curable affliction, trained/taught Dexter to only murder people that really deserved to be killed. It made him a dangerous and yet sympathetic character.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I've noticed that these days a majority of movies in theaters, as well as streaming and tv shows, seem to be of the horror or thriller genre. I wonder why they are so popular now? I hate them, never watch them; the scariest movie I ever saw was The River Wild in which Meryl Streep and her family were attacked by lunatics. I'm really curious about this so I hope people will have insights.
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Horror movies have been with us since the very first silent movies. It's a genre that's an evergreen. People like to be scared in a safe environment (a movie). They're no more popular now, though it may appear that way.

In general, I ONLY watch horror movies. I like them. Which is not the same as saying they're al good. They're not. :D

I watch a lot of very very bad movies. Not intentionally, but that's the genre. I watch them because they're fun. Next for me is Sci-fi. Often, the worst of the genre is also the best.
 
I think as a Horror film , the 1973 version of the WICKER MAN is right up there as a fave of mine.

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Set in a time B.C. (Before Computers) the world was a much more different time then.
  • No - Inter-Web (and GPS thereof).
  • No - Mobile phones.
  • Isolated Villages - and remote island self-governing communities were real.
  • The chance of folk going missing, - both easily and forever held a distinct plausibility.
  • The storyline was one that had an air of theoretical possibility - of that time (far less likely nowadays).
  • The ending of deadly inevitability was unusual for it's time
The Wicker Man - Wikipedia

It is this where I feel lies the horror.
 
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Marcy Sheiner said:
I've noticed that these days a majority of movies in theaters, as well as streaming and tv shows, seem to be of the horror or thriller genre. I wonder why they are so popular now? I hate them, never watch them; the scariest movie I ever saw was The River Wild in which Meryl Streep and her family were attacked by lunatics. I'm really curious about this so I hope people will have insights.
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FYI, The River Wild, the 1994 version with Meryl Steep, was filmed mostly in my small home town in Western Montana, on the Kootenai River. They wanted to shoot it in Oregon, but ran into some environmental objections, so we were a second choice. They apparently used a couple of other rivers in Montana too, but most of the work was done about 9 miles from my house.

I had to see it of course, but knowing the location took something away, because there were so many river shots that were supposed create a feeling of miles and miles of river, but were all shot withing 2 miles of each other, I could identify all of those views, because I spent a lot of time on that river. One view at the start of the expedition was also used two or three other times in the film, supposedly representing new places many miles down stream. :)

The sequel was supposed to be on the same river, and the film mentioned nearby locations to me, but it was filmed in some other state.
 

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