Horror Movies?

[jujube]

I grew up on the great "classic" horror movies. Every Friday night would find us in the living room, huddled behind the couch, watching some old black-and-white gore-fest.

I never understood how The Mummy, who had one arm wrapped to his body and dragging one leg behind him could always chase an able-bodied man through the swamp/desert/tomb, catch him and strangle him. But then, there were a lot of things you had to accept on faith.

I haven't outgrown my love for those movies, especially the really hokey ones. I do appreciate a particularly-dreadful Grade B.

 

[dkay]

I just finished up a whole weekend of horror movies. Some of them used to be kind of frightening but I think I must be developing a somewhat sexist attitude against screamy females.. What's with all the annoying screaming anyway? The girls are standing in the background screaming constantly while they are surrounded by pitchforks, guns, knives etc. and do they grab anything for a weapon to use on the creepy dude. Nooooo! They just stand there and scream while their boyfriends are getting murdered. Good grief, after an hour or two of all that screaming, I was actually starting to cheer for the bad guy.

 

[C'est Moi]

LOL. It's always the same kind of stuff... they hear a noise all alone in the dark and instead of leaving, they have to go see what it is. I'd be like "bye now." :wave: But that would be a really short movie so I guess my plot wouldn't work out well.

 

[Sassycakes]

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

It seems like we have something in common. When I was really young my Mother made my older sister take me to a Saturday afternoon matinee. My sister didn't want to take me because she was going with her friends and she didn't want me tagging along. Well the movie was the House of Wax and after a few minutes watching it I was sitting on her lap scared to death. Needless to say she never took me to a movie again and I must admit I wouldn't have gone with her anyway.

 

[jerry old]

Do not watch 'Freaks' produced in 1932; the studio cut out 30 minutes due to graphic gore. They used a dozen or so freaks...I saw it at
age 9 or 10, shouldn't have. Do not watch it, probably not available this day and age. Saw it again this year on TCM.
So, if there were freaks in 1932, where did they go? We do not like to be disturbed, will watch fake freaks, have not been to circus side show since 1953. If there were freaks readily available in 1932, where are they? I don't think I would like the answer.

2. Frankenstein, scary movie or art, the original with the cigar smoking and the girl with the flower who is thrown into a well.
I vote for art over scary, the two scenes above stay with you.

3. 'The Hunchback of Notre Dane,' another film released as horror film-no, it was art film.