42 horror movies everyone should see.: seanan

42 horror movies everyone should see.

So recently, I bought an issue of Maxim, only to discover that they had included their list of '200 movies everyone should see.' Naturally, I disagreed with a great many of their selections, especially the part where their horror movies seem to have been chosen through purely arbitrary measures, largely having to do with how much gore could be splattered on the screen. That doesn't work for me all that well, and so I have decided to present a better, more carefully considered list. IE, 'the horror movies I say everyone should see.'

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Seanan's List of Horror Movies Everyone Should See.

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Because there are a lot of these, I've divided them into types. You can thank me later. Also, you may find that certain categories have more entries than others. This is because I've tried to restrict myself to movies that I actually like. My biases. Let me show you them.

We begin!

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11 Zombie Moves Everyone Should See.

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Night of the Living Dead.
This movie essentially created the modern zombie movie genre. Every zombie flick that comes along these days is compared to this one...and frankly, a lot of them don't manage to stack up. It's scary, it's disturbing, and it creates a lot of the tropes that people have come to think of as cliches. Everyone should see this movie once, if only to understand where the genre comes from. Plus? "They're coming to get you, Barbara."

Dawn of the Dead (original).
You can argue that Romero lost his way when he got to Day of the Dead, and I won't disagree; there's a reason it isn't on this list. But Dawn of the Dead is social commentary of the highest order. It says something about the living, it says something about the dead, and best of all, it's a pretty kick-ass horror movie at the same time.

Dawn of the Dead (remake).
I admit, I have a crush on James Gunn that will not die. I make no efforts to conceal this fact. That said? This is a pretty bad-ass reimagining of the original, and it has some very new things to say about human nature, the need to strive, and all the crap that could go terribly wrong during a zombie apocalypse. I didn't care much for the ending, but I thought it was supported by the rest of the movie, and it's definitely worth seeing.

Land of the Dead.
When George Romero returns to the world of the living dead, you know that you live in a universe where sometimes, the good guys can win. Better, this movie makes a lot of the sweeping social statements that only Romero seems capable of using the dead to make, talking about isolationism, the evolution of society, the way we segregate ourselves, prejudice, class, and, of course, zombies. Check it out.

Night of the Comet.
You can blame much of my adult psyche on this movie; that makes it worth seeing, if only so you can understand exactly how I've ended up with the sort of worldview that completely allows for bouncy blondes in cheerleader uniforms picking up Uzis and sallying off to fight the zombie hordes. It's fun, it's sassy, it's inventive as hell, and it's part of the ouvre that eventually made Buffy the Vampire Slayer possible. Plus, it's finally out on DVD, which is a luxury many of us dreamed of for years. Check it out.

28 Days Later.
There are a lot of arguments over whether or not this counts as a 'zombie movie' -- after all, the so-called 'zombies' are actually living people infected with an incurable disease. That makes them sick people, not zombies. Plus, they're really, really fast, and that's contrary to the standard movie zombie. I can see the arguments. I even agree with a lot of them. That said? This is presented and framed as a work of zombie cinema, and it's chilling. Plus, Christopher Eccelston gets his evil funk on.

Resident Evil.
There is no planet on which I could make this list without including Resident Evil, which is one of my comfort movies. It's based on a video game, but don't hold that against it; I've never played the game, and I love this movie as I have loved very few others in my life. It's fun, it's creative, and it's smarter than a lot of people like to give it credit for. Plus? It is, as Matt says, 'a zombie chick flick.' Not a common beastie!

Resident Evil 2.
A sequel better than the original! Although, quite honestly, this movie won me from the second it started, when it cheerfully picked up exactly where the first movie left off. It was strong, it was smart, it didn't try to ignore any of the things that came before, and it has remained a solid favorite since the first time I saw it. I just pretend the third movie didn't happen, and I'm happier that way.

Shaun of the Dead.
This movie is one long love letter to zombie cinema, moving effortlessly from one trope to the next, never slowing down. At the same time, it's a romantic comedy that I would happily stack up against just about anything else in the genre, providing the person I'm trying to convince to watch it doesn't mind a little red in their romance. This movie made me so happy I named a Mason after it. Now there's love.

Night of the Creeps.
This is a gem, a classic, a wonder, and totally unavailable through any current, legal means, for which I am enormously sorry. I hope that one day, this glorious tale of college life, alien invasion, dead dates and zombie co-eds will be something you can find with ease at your local video store. Until then, I actually recommend tracking down someone with a bootleg. It's totally worth it.

SLiTHER.
I'm gonna be straight with you: this is my favorite movie in the world right now, and a lot of the reason for my crush on James Gunn, who both wrote and directed. It has zombies. It has guns. It has Nathan Fillion as Sherrif Bill Pardy. And it has some of the most beautifully clear rules in recent horror cinema. Please, check it out. If you like horror at all, you won't be sorry.

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3 Movies About Slimy Stuff That Everyone Should See.

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The Blob (original).
I very clearly remember being eleven years old and begging to stay up past midnight to watch this movie...for what must have been the sixth or seventh time. And this was in the age before DVD players or readily-available video horror movies, which tells you something about how much I adored it. It's a classic of the 'alien lifeform' genre, it's a good monster movie, and it's slime vs. the local teens. The special effects are bad by today's standards. I don't care.

The Blob (remake).
Because this remake was made in the 1980s, it's bloodier, it's nastier, it's got a much higher body-count, and it really seems to be about a giant lump of strawberry jam that decides to eat the world. I love it for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is its cheerful willingness to kill anybody dumb enough to go around prodding the alien meteor with a stick.

The Stuff.
This movie is the reason I have a phobia of pudding. I wish that I were kidding. Pudding was ruined for me forever by the horrible things this movie forces it to do. I highly recommend it, if only so you'll never try to feed me flan.

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7 Movies About Nasty Alien Things That Everyone Should See.

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Alien.
Often imitated, never duplicated, and very rarely equalled, this is a horror movie that doesn't screw around. It wants you to be scared. It wants you to be wetting yourself with fear. And it's very likely to get what it wants. The first time I saw this film, I was three years old, and that probably tells you a lot about my childhood.

Aliens.
Dismiss the rest of the trilogy if you want: this one is damn scary, damn effective, and damn likely to have you sleeping under as many covers as you can find for the foreseeable future. If one alien was scary, what would be worse? Yeah, exactly. Sigorney Weaver basically owns this film, and owns a place forever in the horror pantheon for making it.

The Thing.
I love this movie so hard that I can't really be reasonable about it. It's got everything it needs, from the high-quality acting to the innately claustrophobic setting. The effects are first-rate, the story is damn good, and if it doesn't scare the pants off you, well, you probably had your eyes shut through most of the nasty bits. So much love for this film.

The Faculty.
Hey, remember when the dude who later brought us Scream and Cursed still looked like he might have more than one idea rattling around inside his head? I do. I also remember when Chris brought this movie over on DVD and left me cheering. It's not terribly scary, but it's a great thrill-ride, and it has some really awesome aliens. I approve.

Jason X.
Oh, don't look at me like that. This movie is fun. I appreciate movies that enjoy doing what they do, and this one? Definitely enjoys itself. It knows it's a ludicrous installment in a franchise that refuses to die, and it holds nothing back. The acting is surprisingly good, the script is surprisingly witty, and the effects are refreshingly good. Plus, it's funny.

Critters.
Little porcupines from space eat absolutely everything that fits in their mouths. And since they have big mouths and travel in a swarm, really, that means 'absolutely everything.' This movie used to terrify me. Now that I'm a little older and the effects are a little more out of date, it just makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Like a nice blanket made of biting teeth.

Critters 2.
When I was a kid, I was totally planning to marry Scott Grimes, who plays the lead in the first two Critters movies. Now that I'm all grown-up, I realize this was very immature of me; after all, I really wanted to marry Brad Brown, the character he was playing. The sequel to Critters is more comic, more gory, and more fun. I highly recommend it.

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4 Movies About Dead Stuff (Not Necessarily Zombies) That Everyone Should See.

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The Fog (original).
Creepy. Sleepy. Scary as all hell. Pretty much designed to scare the pants off of you. Also a cautionary tale for the modern age, because while the original was a classic about five minutes after they finished editing the final print, the remake is a boring, gooey mess that I wouldn't foist on someone I actively disliked. Let that be a lesson to you! And beware the Elizabeth Dane...

The Blair Witch Project.
You have to buy into this movie for it to work. If you don't have a good suspension of disbelief, don't bother. It was incredibly well-served by its marketing campaign, which left a lot of people wondering whether it really was a true story (as it claimed). Also, if you can't handle shaky-cam, stay away. But if these aren't problems for you? Scariest damn thing ever.

Evil Dead.
The original wasn't a comedy. Did you know that? It was a dead-serious, dead-scary piece about what happens when you open the wrong book, read the wrong chant, and it was so sincere that it was scary enough to make you cry. The effects are terrible and it was clearly shot on a shoestring...but so was Night of the Living Dead. Beware. Beware the evil dead.

Army of Darkness.
This is only a horror movie by the broadest of definitions, but it was part of a horror franchise, and dammit, it's good. This is really where Ash comes all the way into his own, and where Bruce 'The Chin' Campbell reigns supreme above all others. It's just plain fun. And you can watch it with people who aren't horror fans, which makes it a great gateway drug.

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3 Movies About Freddy Kruger That Everyone Should See.

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Nightmare on Elm Street.
I love this entire series -- yes, even II, VI, and Freddy vs. Jason -- and so I really recommend them all. But at the end of the day, the ones I'm recommending here are the ones you need to see. The first gives us Freddy, gives us Nancy, and gives us a blazingly bitter tale of the sins of the father and what they mean for our children. It was a revelation.

Nightmare on Elm Street III.
This return engagement for the original movie's core cast remembers what really made Nightmare great: the feeling that Freddy was actually up against people who stood a chance. The series hadn't finished sliding down the slope into farce yet, and what chills were left were well-handled by this smart, imaginative, well-directed sequel. All hail Wes Craven.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
...and this is the movie that makes it all worth your while. I'm serious. The entire series is practically background research for a film about the very nature of reality and what it means to tell a story, and this final installment in the 'official' Freddy canon is scary enough to leave you gasping. I really recommend watching all seven back-to-back. And then sleeping with the lights on.

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6 Monster Movies That Everyone Should See.

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An American Werewolf in London.
When this movie came out, it was state of the art scary. Even now, over twenty years later, it has a realism, a solidity, and a pathos that's damn hard to touch. You can't look at the things that happen in this film and just dismiss them. It's no one's fault. It's everyone's problem. This is a truly brilliant piece of filmmaking.

Cloverfield.
Much like The Blair Witch Project, you can't handle this movie if you can't handle shaky-cam. Don't try, you'll be very, very sad if you do. But it's a gorgeous monster movie, it's sad and it's very real, and the very normal-ness of our protagonists is what makes it so incredibly easy to buy into. I found it incredibly refreshing. And heartbreaking.

Descent.
This is not a good movie for the claustrophobic. Honestly, the darkness is practically the real villain of the piece, and it's jarring and unsettling and very, very effective. I hated the ending, but it was brilliant enough up until then to make this list without a second thought. Definitely a director to watch. Also, I will not go spelunking with you.

Feast.
Hee hee hee hee. Just trust me.

The Fly.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a tragedy, pure and simple, and every time I watch it, I wish that -- just once -- the film would turn out differently, and things would work out for the characters. It never happens, but I keep hoping. It's brilliantly acted, written, directed and filmed, and the effects are just as shocking now as they were twenty years ago. A favorite.

Tremors.
Nothing says 'love' like giant graboid worms that spawned a series of increasingly lousy sequels, but started out as the subjects of a reasonably serious horror/comedy. Be careful where you put your feet.

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1 Genre Commentary That Everyone Should See.

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Scream.
The whole series is fun, but the first was an epiphany. Go forth, and understand.

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2 Anthology Films That Everyone Should See.

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Creepshow.
Possibly the best movie ever made from the works of Stephen King. Check it out.

Creepshow 2.
Possibly the second-best movie ever made from the works of Stephen King. The segment 'The Raft' still gives me the heebie-jeebies, even though I definitely prefer the short story it was based on.

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2 Movies That Everyone Should See, But Not While Eating.

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Cabin Fever.
It's disgusting, it's demoralizing, it's nasty, it's claustrophobic, and it's surprisingly good, for all of that. I recommend it. But not while you're eating, and definitely not while you're eating soup.

The Ruins.
Best adaptation of a horror novel made in the last ten years. Do not watch while eating anything. Not salad, not steak, not anything. I am so serious here, you have no idea.

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3 Horror Comedies or Musicals That Everyone Should See.

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Little Shop of Horrors.
Less horror, more comedy and musical, but still, this movie is very much a child of the horror genre, and I have loved it for most of my life. So I couldn't possibly have made this list without it.

Dead and Breakfast.
Line. Dancing. Zombies. Just trust me.

The Midnight Hour.
For years, I thought this movie was the fever-dream of a little girl kept home sick on Halloween night. Then I found it on DVD, and discovered that I wasn't all that far wrong. Huge fun, huge silliness, and I can see the ghost of Rose Marshall in the female lead. Check it out.

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What did I miss?

apocalypticbob

June 9 2008, 18:29:36 UTC 9 years ago Edited: June 9 2008, 18:29:53 UTC

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Cabin Fever.
It's disgusting, it's demoralizing, it's nasty, it's claustrophobic, and it's surprisingly good, for all of that. I recommend it. But not while you're eating, and definitely not while you're eating soup.

Or shaving. Don't watch this while shaving. I couldn't shave my legs for three weeks after watching this one!

*shudders*

seanan_mcguire

June 14 2008, 14:18:13 UTC 9 years ago

I actually put off watching it for a long time because I'd heard about that scene, and I was worried. It turned out to be less horrible than I had feared. But yes: if you're a girl? Waxing is gonna seem like such a good idea after this movie...

spectralbovine

June 9 2008, 18:39:16 UTC 9 years ago

You know, I feel quite proud that I've seen a fair bunch of these! And I would like to see most of the rest.

June 14 2008, 14:18:32 UTC 9 years ago

I have most of these on DVD. We could totally have a party.

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soberloki

June 11 2008, 18:30:19 UTC 9 years ago

Regarding Lake Placid - Betty White as the foul-mouthed year-rounder who feeds the giant croc is awesome as well. I love her.

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redaxe

June 9 2008, 19:02:14 UTC 9 years ago Edited: June 9 2008, 19:03:00 UTC

I assume you mean the original version of The Fly, with Vincent Price. Well worth seeing; it gave me nightmares as a child. (So, too, did Donovan'ts Brain, but I'm not certain I'd advocate that it make this list.) Likewise The Thing; wonderful, don't-go-to-sleep-right-after stuff.

I would definitely advocate adding Jaws to this list. Despite effects that are laughable by today's standards, the story and the emotion stand up to modern scrutiny.

I gather vampires and variations on Frankenstein's monster don't make the cut. Or is it that monster movies are only tangentially horror flicks, with some few overlapping well? Certainly, Sturgeon's Law applies here -- and then some -- but that still leaves a few of them as worth seeing. I'm partial to Christopher Lee, though I understand people holding out for Bela. And Young Frankenstein clearly deserves space in your ultimate category.

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June 14 2008, 14:21:55 UTC 9 years ago

I actually mean the remake, with Jeff Goldblum. At the end of the day, I'm a child of the 1980s, and I think my taste in horror really demonstrates that. And you're right about Jaws; the sequels may be largely crap, but there's good reason that the original spawned a sub-genre of horror.

It's not that they didn't make the cut as much as, well, this is My List Of Awesome, and I've never really watched that many of them. Looking at the list now, I should have included The Lost Boys and From Dusk Until Dawn, definitely.

theodosia

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gaaneden

June 9 2008, 21:25:08 UTC 9 years ago

I've seen all of these but two of them.

June 14 2008, 14:22:02 UTC 9 years ago

Which two?

vixyish

June 9 2008, 21:28:48 UTC 9 years ago

Additional warning on The Blair Witch Project: If you *want* to be able to buy into it, don't watch it with anyone who regularly goes camping or hiking. Both Fishy and Xia's reaction to the movie was essentially a disgusted "who let these idiots out into the woods so totally unprepared in the first place?? Jesus Christ, get a compass." :)

tibicina

June 10 2008, 10:09:08 UTC 9 years ago

See, I have met idiot college student documentarians. I was therefore /perfectly willing to believe/ that they'd wander off into the woods with no clue as to basic survival skills.

Though I believe the woods were also supposed to be possibly supernaturally confusing and possibly just 'the idiots got themselves lost in the woods and didn't bring a compass and don't know how to read their map' confusing.

June 9 2008, 21:37:23 UTC 9 years ago

I've seen 10 of these in their entirety, and bits and pieces of another 4 of them, peeked at while someone else was watching it in another room (or while it was on at a party and I mostly wasn't paying attention) and so I don't remember the sequence of events clearly.

That's... probably way too many for someone who claims not to do horror. :) But really, it's always been either that I'm usually too curious for my own good-- especially when I was little and had to go to bed and wasn't allowed to see what the grown-ups were staying up to watch-- or that I was a teenager and that's what the rest of the group was doing, and I could either go along, or not be with them.

The way the memories some of them affect me even now, years after I last saw them, is pretty much the reason I don't do horror anymore.

Though I was not traumatized by Little Shop of Horrors. :)

My thoughts on Tremors: It was fun to see Reba McIntyre kicking ass. :)

June 14 2008, 14:30:41 UTC 9 years ago

And this is why I don't try to make you do horror. Except for SLiTHER. But I try to make everyone do that one.

elucreh

June 9 2008, 21:42:04 UTC 9 years ago

The thing is, I really cannot handle horror. I read two Goosebumps books when I was eight and had nightmares about them until I was sixteen.

(Don't ask me to explain my love of Supernatural. My love of Supernatural is beyond explaining...and also the fault of somebody who didn't tell me it was horror until I was already in love.)

Either they give me vivid, horrible nightmares, or else I cannot help but laugh and laugh and laugh at them, which is not generally appreciated by anybody I watch them with. (I was never invited to my friends' RA's dorm for movie night again after Nightmare on Elm Street.)

That being said?

This list kinda makes me wanna watch.

June 14 2008, 14:31:35 UTC 9 years ago

If you like Supernatural -- which I know you do -- you may enjoy SLiTHER anyway. Because it's very much a horror-comedy, and it doesn't really wallow in the gore as much as some of the things on the list.

June 10 2008, 10:06:41 UTC 9 years ago

I find it interesting that you count Slither as a zombie movie rather than an alien movie.

June 14 2008, 14:32:13 UTC 9 years ago

They shamble, they shuffle, and it, like Night of the Creeps is part of the time-honored 'zombies from space' sub-genre.

trektone

June 11 2008, 18:58:53 UTC 9 years ago

The only ones I haven't seen are Feast and The Ruins, but I know about them.

Interesting. No vampires.

Here are some additions based on 10 minutes' thought:

Love At First Bite
The Haunting (with Julie Harris)
Hellraiser
Cronos (by del Toro)
Ringu

(And for uber-silliness, Curse of the Queerwolf)

June 14 2008, 14:32:47 UTC 9 years ago

I definitely second Love at First Bite and Hellraiser. Mmmmmmmmmm, cenobites.

June 11 2008, 19:00:39 UTC 9 years ago

Fright Night is kind of meta/commentary ...

June 14 2008, 14:33:02 UTC 9 years ago

True! And it is MADE OF WIN.

ceosanna

June 11 2008, 19:00:53 UTC 9 years ago

>Descent...I hated the ending...

Which ending did you watch - the original or the Americanized version?

June 14 2008, 14:33:42 UTC 9 years ago

Both. I disliked the original less than I disliked the American.

I'm sadly not sure there was a way it could have ended that would have made me happy. I don't know.

June 11 2008, 19:01:31 UTC 9 years ago

The Incredible Shrinking Man ... must stop now.

mrgoodwraith

June 11 2008, 19:04:30 UTC 9 years ago

The Stuff is, unfortunately, on my short list of The Worst Movies of All Time, just a couple of spots behind "Virus" a.k.a. "Night of the Zombies" (1980), the only film that has ever actually made me physically ill (and not from the blood and gore, either).

One tremendously stupid zombie movie that is nonetheless very fun to watch: Zomhies on Broadway (1945). Brown & Carney, the lousiest wannabe Abbott & Costello pairing in history, mix it up with a trained monkey and Bela Lugosi on his way down. So bad it's hysterical.

Right with you on The Fog and its remake. However clunky, the original is -- as you might have guessed from my "Elizabeth Dane" song -- one of my all-time faves.

I liked Nightmare on Elm Street IV almost as much as III. Too bad V went so utterly, irretrievably off the rails.

Other horror flicks I'd recommend:

The original Cat People (1942) -- One of the top pieces of noir horror ever.

The Uninvited (1944) -- Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey shine in this movie about a couple who move into a house that is, in a way, still occupied...

Psycho (1960) -- Still holds up as one of the all-time great psychological thrillers.

Carnival of Souls (1962) -- A classic (despite its last-strip-of-shoestring budget) does Final Destination *correctly*. Mary Henry survives a terrible accident, but maybe she wasn't *supposed* to. The carnival beckons...

Paranoiac (1963) -- Odd and creepy little Hammer film, possibly pitched on Psycho's coattails but is good in its own right. Unstable Simon Ashby has been coddled by his auntie for a long time, but one day his brother shows up. Which is strange, because his brother's been dead for years...

The original Halloween (1978) -- Yes, I know, there's so very much dumb about this movie. But between John Carpenter's music and Donald Pleasence's dialogue, I still get a kick out of it.

The Legacy (1978) -- Deliciously creepy and mysterious, with an assortment of extremely disturbing death scenes as the heirs of a man with tremendous occult and/or psychic powers see which of them will survive to inherit. Great performances by Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott, and (sorry for the spoiler, but I have to) Roger Daltrey gets fried. Literally.

The first House (1980) is a strange but likable mix of the genuinely creepy, the badly cheesy, and the very funny. William Katt is great as a famous writer and Vietnam vet who moves into his suicided mother's profoundly haunted house, and George Wendt is tee-riffic as his concerned, confused fan of a neighbor.

I'm sure I'll come up with some more...I've watched *so many* of these over the years...

June 11 2008, 19:09:11 UTC 9 years ago

Oops, House is from 1986. And agreed with

trektone on the enjoyability and meta-value of Fright Night (the same way I feel about Lost Boys), although the famous speech that Roddy McDowell gives -- "All they want to see is slashers running around in ski masks hacking up young virgins" -- is slightly off; in my experience with slasher movies, the virgins are the only ones who *survive*.

striogi

June 11 2008, 19:22:33 UTC 9 years ago

when you mention The Thing, do you mean the John Carpenter version or the masterful The Thing from Another World (1951). Carpenter's was a remake of the '51 version. I've seen both and was actually rather disappointed with Carpenter's interpretation, despite his shiny special effects and Kurt "Snake Pliskin" Russell.

and while on the topic of Carpenter's flicks, Into the Mouth of Madness is a fantastic one with a strong Lovecraftian feel to it with a sprinkle of Stephen King.

Also, The Mist. THAT was a horror movie.

madhouse51

June 11 2008, 19:45:22 UTC 9 years ago

Love Into the Mouth of Madness. Huge HP Lovecraft fan and that movie had Cthulhu horror written all over it! Need to see Mist still. Loved the original story by King.

greenmansgrove

wendyzski

June 11 2008, 19:32:01 UTC 9 years ago

The shakeycam issues on Cloverfield are much lessened by DVD, though also some of the sheer OMG IT'S HUGE AUGGGGGHHHHH is lessened as well.

But I covet the BlueRay DVD that has the :special investigations mode: with LOTS more info - we now know what happens to Travis for example.
http://www.cloverfieldmovieforum.com/f29/usgx-special-investigation-website-4904/

June 11 2008, 19:53:47 UTC 9 years ago

I don't actually have shakey-cam issues, thankfully; I just sit there and embrace. I think this connects to the fact that I can (and do) happily read in moving vehicles.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, more Cloverfield goodies.

3 films of Asian creation

June 11 2008, 19:43:53 UTC 9 years ago

The Ring (I have to confess that I haven't seen the original yet). My favorite line was at the end when the kid looks at his mom and, horrified, exclaimed "You let her OUT?!!!"

The Grudge (same as above, no context of the origninal) because what's not to like about watching Buffy get the snot scared our of her by a screaming kid. Favorite line, again toward the end of the film, "Luckily, we were able to save the house"

The Eye (this one is just the opposite of the above, haven't seen the Jessica Alba version) directed by the Pang brothers. Just. Plain. Creepy!