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The Terror - Jack Nicholson 8)

Cabin Fever? Great premise, bad execution. Quit it with the T & A will ya?
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Pet Semetary. My son was Gage's age at the time so when I tell you I was majorly creeped out by this movie - believe it! I still find it difficult to watch.

Evil Dead. I loved all three, something I cannot honestly say about the others.

If I wanted realistic endings all the time, I'd just live my life and never have to go to the movies at all. 8) Sappy???? Not to me.

First, thanks splat for the Orson Welles broadcast link. I never tire of hearing it. On road trips, my family and I have often listened to old radio shows bought at Cracker Barrell :lol: A lost medium these days of so much visuals. :(

Secondly, HG is one of my favorite authors. I still have my War of the Worlds book which I purchased, for about $.95 in 1968 when I was 12. Taped up and with that sweet old book smell. With the cover illustrating the 1953 George Pal masterpiece. Which brings me to

point 3: I'm so undecided. LOL I've always thought highly of Steven Spielberg as a masterful storyteller, much as I view Stephen King the same way. I have viewed them as original in their presentations. Now what? Is this remake full of "sound and fury, signifying nothing"? Does the fact that I think Tom Cruise is now unwatchable to me without wanting to smack him count? :lol:

Help!

:above:

mommy, daddy...who's that? *points to Seka* :lol: :lol:

1. House on Haunted Hill
2. The Uninvited - creepy with a nice twist, plus Ray Milland!)
3. The Haunting

Masque of the Red Death...why? Glad you asked...

I have studied and worshipped Poe :oops: extensively (an English major).I first saw The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) in the theatre at age 5 or 6. I began to read voracioulsy at that point! :lol:

Adoring Mr. Corman for loving Poe as much as I, Masque of the Red Death was Mr. Corman's most insightful, provacative interpretation of Poe and his "gothicness" that has rarely been equalled by other diretors!

Sorry, I gush... :oops:

Shaun of the Dead!!!!!!


If I may add my opinion, Shaun is the most provovative, witty, well-written, acted, staged, etc. novel most g-d entertaining movie I have seen in many,many years. And hell, I've been watching horror movies for over 40 years!! :valuerockr:

House of Dark Shadows

I've always been a huge fan of DS. Yes I actually watched it when it originally ran. :old:

Damn difficult choice!

But merely judging by the proliferation of his horror movies, (and because he's at the top of my list of people I'm planning on asking St. Peter to meet)...

My darling Vincent Price! :)

Bela # 1

followed by Louis Jourdan's TV performance of Count Dracula

:cry: :cry: :cry:

But I have the feeling that if St. Louis wins, they mop the floor with the Sox.

(how's that for sour grapes? :lol: )

Trilogy of Terror.

I remember watching this way back then on TV. A Dan Curtis production (Dark Shadows), written by Richard Matheson, starring Karen Black and featuring one of the reasons I've always been terrified of dolls.

After amost 30 years, I can still see that Zuni warrior doll in my mind's eye! :twisted:

I'm batty for vampires- why? Bela Lugosi in Draula

Bela's Romanian accent and the subsequent strange English phonetics, his long sensuous fingers, his regal bearing...transported me to a believable, if wickedly, wonderful place.

I've never left, really. :lol:

Phibes followed by Pit & the Pendulum - my first horror movie seen in the theatre when I was about 5 or 6! :lol:

of the ones listed, I have to say House on Haunted Hill

Get ready...48, turning 49 in January. Almost in the Twilight Zone according to the results of this poll. :lol:

You may think I have one foot in the grave, but I've always been an advocate of that's where all horror fans belong, regardless of age! :wink:

The Sixth Sense - I really never saw it coming. Followed by Stir of Echoes

John Carpenter's Vampires

I just love James Woods. I loved the humor in this movie:

Jack: "When you were hitting that vampire earlier did you get a little wood?

Padre: Mahogany.

Jack: What?

Padre: Ebony.

Jack: Huh?

Padre: Teak.


Jack: Padre!

Padre: Major Chubby.

Jack: Language, padre, language!" :lol:

since I'm quite a bit past the trick or treating age and don't like Metallica, and have a vested interest in the "couch potatoes who watch horror stuff" club, I have to go with watching The Horror Channel! :f13: :frankenstein: :freddyk: :pennywise: :kolchak: :leatherface: :pinhead: :wolfman: :mam: :schlitzie: :creeper: :barnabas: :alien: :zombie: :trilogy: :exorcist: :mummy: :slayer: :tallman: :creature: :f13pt2:

Sorry, I just love these emoticons. LOL