Remember the Classic Horror Movies?

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By the time I was old enough to enjoy such things they were on TV. In the mid-60's there was Creature Features, Chiller Theater, Tales from the Crypt...the crypt keeper puppet scared me too much to watch that. But all the great monster and horror movies! The Mummy and all it's offshoots, The Blob, The Birds-Alfred Hitchcock was a fine movie maker...but as a kid you can't appreciate art, The Wax Museum, Frankenstein, even the really cheesy ones.

Two that gave me nightmares for years...One was about a head transplant and at the end the villain's head is floating in a staircase. The other one was some weird story about brains and spinal cords getting free and flying around. Creature Features was special because my babysitter usually came on Saturday nights. I could stay up a whole half hour later to see the end. No wonder I was such a timid sleeper...jeez

But really those movies are timeless. They don't know how to make a good horror flick any more. What were your favorites?????
 

Oh yes I do! Saturday nights my Mom and I would make great big sandwiches and watch Zacherley and his sidekick Gasport. They were the host of the horror movies on TV.I think my Mom liked it even more than I did and that was going some. As I remember, Gasport was a big bag of some sort hanging from the ceiling.. I tried to duplicate him by filling a huge empty plastic pop corn bag with water and hanging it in our basement. I remember scaring my little cousin with it, Such fun. lol I got to see Zacherley when he came to a theater near us. He introduced a horror movie that was playing at the time. I don't remember which one. I loved all the Mummy movies best. If the movie didn't keep me awake the sandwich I ate did. You are right, there aren't any good horror movies anymore.
 
Zombie movies in the 40s and 50s. They were always in black and white.
 

I remember them, too! Some I liked, some I didn't. I guess Psycho was the scariest movie of all. I saw it in a theatre and for a while I was creeped out every time I got in the shower.

I still like scary movies (The Ring was scary), but do NOT like slasher type stuff or really gory stuff.
 
With great glee! We had two horror/monster/sci-fi hosts in my town, so it was scare-the-pee-outa-ya movies every Friday and Saturday night. I think I've seen them all.


We would make our poor long-suffering grandmother sit up with us and she couldn't go to sleep on the couch....no sirree....she had to sit upright with both eyes open with arms around as many granddaughters as she could reach.

One thing I could never understand: the Mummy had one arm bound to his chest and dragged one leg behind him but he could ALWAYS catch an able-bodied man running away from him. Oh, the imponderables....

What was your very favorite really, really bad monster movie? You know, the real stinkers. Mine was "Plan Nine from Outer Space"; I don't think there's a single other movie that has as many goof-ups as that one. I should know....I am an absolute connoisseur of bad horror/sci-fi movies.
 
Jujube, you're a good person to ask then...do you remember the brains and spinal cords flying around attacking things? I remember at one point somebody starts shooting them and they made this gloorpy noise as they shriveled up. What a horrible plotline...sounds like something you would see on brown acid:eek:nthego: Another one that scared the behootie out of me, The Invisible Man.
 
Can't sleep, so horror movies would probably be the right topic to start with :)Have never been a real fan, but I've quite enjoyed some of the Freddie Krueger movies I've watched with my son back in the day. Apart from that, I've never been much of a movie person. Started watching some newer ones, but still would take a book over TV any day. But I'm sure there are many classical horror movies I'd love to see if I just weren't that much of an ignoramus.
 
Boris Karlov

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Lon Chaney

Wolf man

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Dracula

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I was maybe 9 or 10 and my Dad took me to see The Wax Museum in 3D. Vincent Price was in my nightmares for a long time.
 
fureverywhere said:
By the time I was old enough to enjoy such things they were on TV. In the mid-60's there was Creature Features, Chiller Theater, Tales from the Crypt...the crypt keeper puppet scared me too much to watch that. But all the great monster and horror movies! The Mummy and all it's offshoots, The Blob, The Birds-Alfred Hitchcock was a fine movie maker...but as a kid you can't appreciate art, The Wax Museum, Frankenstein, even the really cheesy ones.

Two that gave me nightmares for years...One was about a head transplant and at the end the villain's head is floating in a staircase. The other one was some weird story about brains and spinal cords getting free and flying around. Creature Features was special because my babysitter usually came on Saturday nights. I could stay up a whole half hour later to see the end. No wonder I was such a timid sleeper...jeez

But really those movies are timeless. They don't know how to make a good horror flick any more. What were your favorites?????
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Elvira! https://www.elvira.com/


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One night I couldn't sleep and turned on the tv, ran across this scary, scary movie called Scarecrow(s). Based on a farm with corn fields and scarecrows and they were alive and killing people or maiming them as they passed.
Super creepy.
 
I remember a weird crush on Elvira but I didn't watch the show;) A funny story about horror movies. When the two middle kids were older they could pick out movies to watch after me and the baby went to bed. One night they picked something called "The Hills Have Eyes". I still have no idea what it was about...but I woke in the morning to a baby and cat on one side of the bed and two grown ones gathered on the other side. Bet they didn't watch that one again:p
 

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