Horror Movies?

Keesha

Keesha

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Do you like them?
I have never been a fan of horror movies. I’m far too squeamish!
With Halloween coming up are any of you looking forward to watching them or did you outgrow them?
 

I doubt I will ever outgrow a good horror movie. I re watch old favorites and look forward to any new ones coming out. I like creepy,unexplainable, eerie, weird or thriller type horror movies. I'm not a huge fan of gratuitous slasher type movies like Saw (watched the first one, didn't like it). I've watched horror movies since I was a kid. i grew up with Hitchcock, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi. I've watched nearly every movie directed by Todd Browning and Roger Corman. I have a friend who also likes horror and sometimes we have movie marathons where we will watch non stop an entire set of movies like Friday the 13th, Halloween, Lake Placid, Planet of the Apes etc etc. or we will pick all M. Night Shyamalan movies or movies based on stories by Stephen King.
 

Not into gore.
I do love a good suspense.

The old horror movies make me laugh, however.

One scene, where a young woman is in a public restroom, fiddling with her makeup.
A hoary ogre is peering at her over a stall wall.
She senses something.
Looks.
The fiend quickly ducks down.

This happens a few times in succession.

Gave me a chuckle



I’m weird like that
 
Gary O' said:
The old horror movies make me laugh, however.

One scene, where a young woman is in a public restroom, fiddling with her makeup.
A hoary ogre is peering at her over a stall wall.
She senses something.
Looks.
The fiend quickly ducks down.

This happens a few times in succession.

Gave me a chuckle



I’m weird like that
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One of my favorite old ones that's good for a laugh is The Giant Claw.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Claw


Under the working title Mark of the Claw, principal photography took place at Griffith Park, subbing for the New York-Canada border, with interiors filmed at the Columbia Annex near Monogram Studios from February 1–20, 1957.[SUP][4][/SUP] Katzman originally planned to utilize stop motion effects by Ray Harryhausen, but due to budget constraints, he instead hired a low-budget special effects studio in Mexico City, Mexico to create the mythical creature that would be the showpiece of the production. The result, however, was a poorly made "marionette".[SUP][2][/SUP]

Morrow later confessed in an interview that no one in the film knew what the titular monster looked like until the film's premiere. Morrow himself first saw the film in his hometown, and hearing the audience laugh every time the monster appeared on screen, he left the theater early, embarrassed that anyone there might recognize him (he allegedly went home and began drinking).[SUP][5][/SUP]

Critical reception was very negative, with Bill Warren of The New York Times later commenting, "This would have been an ordinarily bad movie of its type, with a good performance by Jeff Morrow, if the special effects had been industry standard for the time. That, however, is not what happened. The Claw is not just badly rendered, it is hilariously rendered, resembling nothing so much as Warner Bros. cartoon-character Beaky Buzzard. Once seen, you will never forget this awesomely silly creation".[SUP][6][/SUP]

The Giant Claw has been mocked for the quality of its special effects.[SUP][7][/SUP] The menacing bird, in particular, is considered by many to be badly made, being a puppet with a very odd face. Film critic Leonard Maltin noted that the film disappointed for those reasons, "(a) lack of decent special effects ruins the running battle between colossal bird and fighter jets. Big bird is laughable".[SUP][8][/SUP] TV Guide panned the film, awarding it a score of 1 out of 4, criticizing the film's monster as "preposterous-looking".[SUP][9][/SUP]
Not all reviews of the film were negative. Allmovie gave the film a positive review, stating, "The Giant Claw has a terrible reputation that isn't entirely deserved – to be sure, producer Sam Katzman opted for the cheapest, worst-looking monster that one could imagine, a ridiculous-looking giant bird puppet that makes the movie seem ludicrous. But except for those moments when the title monster is on the screen, the movie isn't bad – so for the first 27 minutes, until it appears for the first time and evokes its first rounds of laughter, the picture is working just fine within the confines of its budget, script, and cast". Allmovie also complimented Morrow's performance as "the best thing in the picture".[SUP][10][/SUP]




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My wife hates horror movies and even dark (nighttime) suspense scenes, so we don't watch any horror movies and just a few tv shows, like Manifest, that can have dark suspense scenes in them.

As for myself, I absolutely loved the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee. The Dracula movie, with Gary Olden playing Dracula, was super creepy. The Chucky movies, The Exorcist (w/Linda Blair), Freddy Kruger (Nightmare On Elm Street) series and other are most definitely OUT. Absolutely no way!!

Love Star Wars though.
 
I have never much liked the gory, slasher, don't go in the basement horror films. I prefer suspense, or the mess with your head kind of movie. I still tell the story of 3 or 4 years back I wanted to watch "Stir of Echoes" with Kevin Bacon. So my husband and I sat down to watch. It messed with my head SO much that I jumped from my chair at the end and started yelling at HIM for "making" me watch the movie. He tried to be the voice of reason and remind me that I was the one who chose it.
Any way, those are the kind of movies I like. John Carpenters' "The Fog" is another good one. The original, from the 70's or 80s..with Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Leigh Curtis. I never saw the remake but my husband did, and he told me that knowing how much I liked the original I would not like the remake.
 
I like more of the psychological scary type horror movies these days, but in earlier years did enjoy some of the slasher movies to a degree. The slashers weren't my favorite gener, but they were fun to watch with friends. I went to see a movie called "Candy Man" back in 90s with some of friends the movies scared the begeesus out of me. It probably wouldn't be as scary to me today, probably, but then, I don't plan to watch it.



Then a more modern movie I enjoyed though it isn't without its flaws

But the movies that were great and the one horror movie from eons ago which caused me nightmares for a longtime. I admit, just now watching the trailer, I laughed like never before when seeing this movie. I still think if I watched the actual movie, I'd have to do it in the daytime. Vincent Price movies were the best. I think I was around six when I saw this, evidently they were still showing this in theaters many years after it first came out.
 
I love horror movies! But not the blood and guts kind of thing. My favorite "horror" movie is The Haunting with Julie Harris. You never see one ghost or anything. It's all from the reaction of the characters in the movie and their psychologies. I really love that one.

I haven't watched any really lately, although I did the Ananbelle series. Those are okay. Oh, and those Japanese movies like "The Ring".
 
Aunt Bea said:
I like the old horror movies that kept you on the edge of your seat with very little blood and gore.

I also like the old horror/comedy films.

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Which were more suspense thrillers. There was plenty left to the imagination.
Horror movies now are so explicit that I can’t watch them as I find them too disturbing.
Since we don’t get Netflix my husband and I rent movies free from the library and I got a horror movie by mistake.
I scream loud! Lol
 
Call me a Wimp. I don't like being scared. When I was a kid I saw The House of Wax in 3d. Scared the heck out of me. I still can't watch the original version of The Thing. It gave me nightmares.

Don
 
I luv em'....the weirdness and creativity that goes into making them is awesome....just cant watch any with little kids and dolls...
creeps me out too much...the zombie movies are the best and yes I'm a Walking Dead fan :)
 
I have made it a tradition to watch a couple of scary or creepy movies each Friday night in October. Coming up this Friday night is Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and The Exorcist. I don't like "slasher" type of horror movies but I do make sure to watch the original Halloween this time of year. To me, it captures the feel of Halloween perfectly even though it was shot in Southern California.
 
I was thinking about the many horror movies I've watched throughout the years. I think a really good horror movie kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. My granddaughter and I took vacation together this summer and in every motel room she'd poke all the mirrors. I asked her what she was doing. She watched some kind of creepy movie involving a two way mirror. She said the cop on the movie put his finger on the mirror. If there was a gap between your finger and the reflection then it was a one way mirror. One room had a big mirror that she put her finger on it and the reflection was right up against the tip of her finger. She would not go to bed because she was convinced someone was watching us. I finally got my roll of paper towels and duct tape out of the car and covered the entire mirror. I remembered Psycho so then I was checking all the walls to make sure there weren't any peepholes. lol

Hitchcock was superb considering there weren't any computer effects back then. The starlings and crows are starting to show up in Kansas. I watched Hitchcocks "The Birds" when I was a kid and even today when I see birds hanging around in large groups, I get a little chill that goes down my spine. Here's a picture of some of them in the parking lot. Creeeeeeepy!!!


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dkay said:
I was thinking about the many horror movies I've watched throughout the years. I think a really good horror movie kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. My granddaughter and I took vacation together this summer and in every motel room she'd poke all the mirrors. I asked her what she was doing. She watched some kind of creepy movie involving a two way mirror. She said the cop on the movie put his finger on the mirror. If there was a gap between your finger and the reflection then it was a one way mirror. One room had a big mirror that she put her finger on it and the reflection was right up against the tip of her finger. She would not go to bed because she was convinced someone was watching us. I finally got my roll of paper towels and duct tape out of the car and covered the entire mirror. I remembered Psycho so then I was checking all the walls to make sure there weren't any peepholes. lol

Hitchcock was superb considering there weren't any computer effects back then. The starlings and crows are starting to show up in Kansas. I watched Hitchcocks "The Birds" when I was a kid and even today when I see birds hanging around in large groups, I get a little chill that goes down my spine. Here's a picture of some of them in the parking lot. Creeeeeeepy!!!


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I do the same when I see a large flock of birds forming and that creepy song the kids were singing in the classroom enters my mind. Hitchcock is still trolling us after all these years !
 
In the creepy people category: I just finished watching M. Night Shyamalan's "The Visit". Two kids get sent to spend some time with their beyond creepy grandparents. It was actually a rather entertaining movie with some suspense, some unexpected twists and turns.

I look forward to seeing the new Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis. She has the absolute best scream ever.
 
I saw the original Psycho movie in a theatre when I was in high school. It was terrifying. I took baths instead of showers for I don't know how long after that.
 

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