With Halloween around the corner, I have decided to watch a couple of scary movies. What do you suggest I watch?
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pickersplock said on Oct 23, 2007....
Well, that depends.Do you like campy horror? If so, I suggest Evil Dead.Do you like slasher or gross horror? Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Nightmare on Elm StreetClassic horror? Psycho, Halloween, The Exorcist, or The OmenMilder, but still pretty creepy horror? Poltergeist -
DecayedMind said on Oct 23, 2007....
The new Halloween movie wasn't that bad (at least if you watch with lowered expectations anyway). House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects aren't bad.The Hills Have Eyes were good.If you want to watch something really scary...watch Peewee's Playhouse. Still have nightmares from that. -
silverwhisper said on Oct 24, 2007....
i'm not a fan of horror flicks myself, although now i'm thinking a marathon of bad movies meets the same theme... :D
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evil_twin said on Oct 24, 2007....
If you want to laugh a little bit along with your horror, try one of the Scream movies. I love those. If you want to be completely grossed out, any one of the Saw movies will do the trick. I have not seen them because I'm squeamish. I don't like disgusting things like that. But from what I hear, if you want gross out factor, watch those.
-evil_twin LA
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Eilan said on Oct 24, 2007....
It's not scary, but how about The Rocky Horror Picture Show? I'll be watching it with my friends next Wednesday. -
queenparanoia said on Oct 24, 2007....
i agree with the said movies they are scary!!!!!! -
princessbitch65 said on Oct 24, 2007....
Pickers- I saw all of those except "Evil Dead." I hear about that one, maybe I'll check them out. The first "Poltergeist" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" was good.Decayed- Welcome to my blog! The "Halloween" movies (except for the 3rd one) were great! It was like a huge mystery that was being pieced together with each movie. Those others you suggested might be a little to gory for me (man, I'm gettin old). My personal horror was having to sit through Teletubbies while I was babysitting. EEEKKK!!!!Silver- You're probably right about the bad movies; I've seen some really horrible ones myself !E_T- The "Scream" movies are AWESOME! I also liked "I Know What You Did Last Summer". I watched one of the "Saw" movies- thought it was going to be really gory but it was not as bad as I thought it was, I might try to watch the rest of those.Eilan- "Rocky Horror Picture Show"- its good but I am completely burnt out on that movie. Not to date myself but when I was in high school and college, we went every year. When I went back to college for the second time, I was in a co-ed frat that was involve in SAMS talent show and did "The Time Warp." -
princessbitch65 said on Oct 24, 2007....
I do have some suggestions of some movies I saw if anyone is looking for something to watch:
Jeepers Creepers I and II, Thirteen Ghosts, Skeleton Key, The Ring,The Grudge ,and an old favorite of mine: The Lost Boys.
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evil_twin said on Oct 24, 2007....
Princess, the Lost Boys is one of my all time favorites! I love that movie. I wanted to be a vampire after I saw that!
-evil_twin LA
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rupert7 said on Oct 25, 2007....
wINFERNO - released 1980. Got to be one of the most disturbing movies ever made. Does not rely on cheap gory thrills. Subtle.
Plot Summary: This lavishly colorful Argento work is his second entry to the “Three Mothers” trilogy. “Suspiria” was the first with ‘The Mother of Sighs’, (“Mater Suspiriorum”), who was destroyed by a young dance student, Suzy Bannion. In this surreal horror, poetess Elliot comes across “The Mother of Darkness” (“Mater Tenebrarum”), who she discovers is the owner of her New York apartment building. The sequence involving Miracle swimming through a sunken ballroom to retrieve her fallen keys is one of the most aesthetic, and yet simultaneously terrifying scenes ever produced. The third installment in the series concerning “The Mother of Tears”, (“Mater Lachrymarum”), who will be the most beautiful of the three witches and will control Rome, is yet to be made.*
Rupert says
This is a gut wrenching horror flick. No cheap thrills here! watched it with a group of friends and one of the girls(early 20's,not a kid) told me later that it gave her nightmares for weeks! I myself found it very disturbing.
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rupert7 said on Oct 25, 2007....
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Fallyn said on Oct 28, 2007....
*sigh* i really wish i could watch horror movies.
i still want to try with my guy.......he makes me braver than i've ever been in my life. we just haven't had the opportunity yet
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rupert7 said on Oct 28, 2007....
nferno (1980 film)
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Inferno
Italian 1-sheet theatrical poster Directed by Dario Argento Produced by Claudio Argento Written by Dario Argento Starring Irene Miracle
Leigh McCloskey
Eleonora Giorgi
Daria Nicolodi
Alida Valli Music by Keith Emerson Cinematography Romano Albani Distributed by Twentieth-Century Fox Release date(s) 1980; August 15, 1986 (U.S. theatrical; limited)[1] Running time 107 min Language English Budget US$ 3,000,000 Preceded by Suspiria Followed by The Mother of Tears All Movie Guide profileInferno is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, and Alida Valli. The cinematography was by Romano Albani, and Keith Emerson composed the film's thunderous musical score. The convoluted story concerns a young man's investigation into the disappearance of his sister, who had been living in a New York City apartment building that also served as a home for a powerful, centuries-old witch.
A thematic sequel to Suspiria (1977), the film is the second part of Argento's proposed "The Three Mothers Trilogy". The long-delayed concluding entry, The Mother of Tears, is scheduled to be released in 2007. All three films are partially derived from the concept of "Our Ladies of Sorrow" (Mater Lachrymarum, Mater Suspiriorum, and Mater Tenebrarum) originally devised by Thomas de Quincey in his book Suspiria de Profundis (1845).
Unlike Suspiria, Inferno received a very limited theatrical release and the film was unable to match the box-office success of its predecessor. While the initial critical response to the film was mostly negative, its reputation has improved considerably over the years. Kim Newman has called it "...perhaps the most underrated horror movie of the 1980’s.”[2] In 2005, the magazine Total Film named Inferno one of the 50 greatest horror films of all time.[3]
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Rose Elliot (Miracle), a poet living alone in New York City, discovers an ancient book called The Three Mothers. It tells of the existence of three evil sisters who rule the world with sorrow, tears, and darkness. The book, written by an architect named Varelli, reveals that the three dwell inside separate homes that had been specially designed and built for them by the architect in Rome, Freiburg, and New York. Rose suspects that she is living in one of the buildings and writes to her brother Mark (McCloskey), a music student in Rome, urging him to visit her. Using clues provided in Varelli's book as a guide, Rose searches the cellar of her building and discovers a hole in the floor which leads to a water-filled ballroom. After accidentally dropping her keys into the water, she enters the flooded room. Swimming under the surface, she sees a portrait bearing the words "Mater Tenebrarum" and is able to reclaim the keys. A putrid corpse suddenly rises from the depths, frightening her. She escapes, although a shadowy figure watches her leave the basement.
In Rome, Mark attempts to read Rose's letter during class. He is distracted by the intense gaze of a beautiful student (Ania Pieroni). When the class ends she leaves suddenly; Mark follows, leaving the letter behind. His friend Sara (Eleonora Giorgi) picks up the letter, and eventually reads it. Horrified by the letter's contents, she takes a taxi to a library and locates a copy of The Three Mothers. While looking for an exit, Sara is attacked by a monstrous figure who recognizes the book. She throws the book to the ground and escapes. Later that night, she seeks the company of a neighbor (Gabriele Lavia) and both are stabbed to death by a gloved killer. Mark discovers the bodies and two torn fragments from Rose's letter. After the police arrive, he walks out of Sara's apartment and sees a taxi slowly driving by. In it is the music student, staring at him intently once again.
Mark telephones Rose but is unable to hear her clearly. He promises to visit just before the connection fails. Cut off, Rose sees two shadowy figures preparing to enter her apartment. She leaves through a back door, but is followed. In a decrepit room, she is grabbed from behind by a clawed assailant and brutally murdered.
Ania Pieroni as the music student.Upon arriving in New York, Mark meets some of the residents of Rose's building, including a nurse (Veronica Lazar) who is caring for the elderly Professor Arnold (Feodor Chaliapin), a wheelchair-bound mute. Mark learns from the sickly Countess Elise (Nicolodi) that Rose has disappeared. Elise explains how Rose had been acting strangely. After the two find blood on the carpet outside Rose's room, Mark follows the stains. He suddenly becomes ill and falls unconscious. Elise sees a black-robed figure dragging Mark away, but the figure suddenly stops and gives chase to Elise. She is attacked by dozens of cats, who bite and claw at her flesh. The hooded figure then stabs her to death. Mark staggers to the house's foyer where the nurse and caretaker (Valli) put him to bed.
The next day, Mark asks Kazanian (Sacha Pitoëff), the antique dealer who sold Rose The Three Mothers, about Rose. However, the man provides no information. That night, Kazanian drowns several cats in a Central Park pond and accidentally falls into the water. Hundreds of rats from a nearby drain crawl all over him, gnawing his flesh. A hot dog vendor hears Kazanian's cries and rushes over. The man kills Kazanian with a knife.
Carol, the caretaker, discovers the horribly mutilated corpse of Elise's butler (Leopoldo Mastelloni) in the Countess' apartment. Shocked, she drops a lit candle which starts a fire. Attempting to put out the flames, she becomes entangled in burning draperies and falls from a window to her death. Meanwhile, Mark uses a clue from Rose's letter to discover that beneath each floor is a secret crawl space. He follows the hidden passages to a suite of rooms where he finds Professor Arnold. The old man reveals, via a mechanical voice generator, that he is in fact Varelli. He tries to kill Mark with a hypodermic injection. During the struggle, Varelli's neck becomes caught in his vocal apparatus, choking him. Mark frees him, only to be told by the dying man, "Even now you are being watched." Mark follows a shadowy figure watching him from the doorway to a lavishly furnished chamber, where he finds Varelli's nurse. Laughing maniacally, she explains to him with growing intensity that she is Mater Tenebrarum. She suddenly transforms into Death Personified. However, the fire that has consumed much of the building enables Mark's escape from the witch's den. As the structural integrity of Tenebrarum's home fails, debris crashes down on the fiend, destroying her.
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rupert7 said on Oct 28, 2007....
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Fallyn said on Oct 29, 2007....
i don't know that you'd call it horror.....possibly horror/comedy.......but we watched hot fuzz last night.....it's DEFINITELY a halloween movie.......but it's not scary at all. sooo funny.
