A little something for halloween...

I cannot post a link but I recommend my two favorites... The Dunwich Horror (original 1970 version) and a movie I bought and absolutely wore out. I watched this movie WAY more than any other movie ever.. I don't know, somehow it really hooked me... PHANTASM from 1979. I think they are on Amazon Prime and probably on HULU but I have neither. Perhaps I should try one...
 
What are your favorite Halloween/horror movies?
 
I'll NEVER forget the first horror movie I saw. I was a kid, under 10 but I don't remember exactly how old, I was 8 or 9 yrs old I think. We were on vacation at Jekyll Island and went to a drive-in theater and saw The Brides of Dracula. The one where he burns up in a windmill.
That night, back at the hotel, I had to sleep between mom and dad and from that time until I was at least 18 yrs old I slept with the covers wrapped tight around my neck, like a turtle neck sweater, really. Every night. It really scared me. These days I like an occasional horror movie but I prefer the weird, I really don't care for "slasher" movies. Except, there was Blood Feast and 2001 Maniacs.... but I prefer the weird or supernatural. We went on a road trip vacation the year that Rosemary's Baby came out. 1968 I think, I remember because my cousin was with me and on that same vacation we went to San Francisco and it was the year after "The Summer of Love". The parents let us out at the corner of Height and Ashbury so we coud walk around and pretend to be hippies. They picked us up a few hours later. I was 17 yo then. I wish I had known what to look for, what to buy... but all I ended up with were some copies of The Berkely Barb. I remember a store with a huge LSD across the front. It was called two things... Lou's Swinging Den / Love, Sex, Desire... all the letters other than LSD were small the letters LSD were huge... but I didn't know about it..
Anyway we hit Vegas on the way back and since my cuz and I were too young for the casinos we went to a movie and saw Rosemary's Baby. It wasn't scary. I always sort of liked the Pinhead (Hellraiser) movies... weird stuff.
I bet if Bubba did  movie I would LOVE it!!
 
J
 
 
 

I thought Phantasm 2 was quite a bit better than the first one. Loved that black 'Cuda! May I also suggest, for the ultimate in comedy horror, "Evil Dead 2" and "Army of Darkness"? Bruce Campbell was hilarious in those movies!

My favourite ghost story, 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' by M. R. James, beautifully directed by Jonathan Miller and with a wonderful performance by Michael Hordern.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4MAzQiTxE

jamesg1213
My favourite ghost story, 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' by M. R. James, beautifully directed by Jonathan Miller and with a wonderful performance by Michael Hordern.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4MAzQiTxE

I will warch it. That link to Eraserhead is the entire movie too. It was filmed in black in 1977.

My friend thought his first wife was an alien...

Alien was very good...

The gory horror movies really don't do anything for me.  I enjoy suspensful movies such as the Alien franchise.  The scariest things, to me, are the things that aren't really supposed to be horrifying.
 
Actually, the most terrifying thing I ever saw in movies or on TV was a cartoon I saw when I was a kid.  Yes, I mean it.  I think I've actually mentioned it here on this forum sometime in the last couple of years. 
 
Anyway, it was a Woody Woodpecker cartoon.  Woody was up against a tree surgeon.  The tree surgeon was annoyed with all the damage Woody was doing to his trees, so the two of them battled in the usual manner.  It proceeded normally until the end.  Woody managed to inject the doctor with one of the syringes the doc had been using on the trees.  To his horror, the tree doctor sprouted roots, branches and leaves.  Frozen in place, helpless to defend himself, he screamed in terror as Woody landed on his nose, aimed his beak at the tree surgeon's eyeball, laughed, and started to attack.
 
I was traumatized.  This stupid cartoon scene scared me more than any other visual image over the years.  I felt that tree surgeon's fear deep in my bones.  I had nightmares about it. 
 
I guess that I spent so much of my childhood scared out of my mind that most fake horror just didn't matter to me.  One notable exception might be the end of Phantasm.  ("Boy!")  I could relate to that part.
 
Otherwise, many of them just seemed lame.  It seems to me that once someone encounters real monsters, they're just not frightened of imitations anymore.  I'm sure that the vast majority of the population feels differently than I do, but I just can't get into most horror movies.  I'll find something else to do.