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Tahoe 10-31-2007, 08:22 PM Top ten horror films according to...dangit forgot already. I'll edit this.
edit..HMV.com or something.
1. 'The Exorcist' (1973) - William Friedkin
2. 'The Shining' (1980) - Stanley Kubrick
3. 'Halloween' (1978)
4. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984) - Wes Craven
5. 'Ringu' - 'The Ring' (Japanese version) (1998) - Hideo Nakata
6. 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' (1974) - Tobe Hooper
7. 'The Omen' (1976) - Richard Donner
8. 'Stephen King's It' (1990) -
9. 'Hellraiser' (1987) - Clive Barker
10. 'Hostel' (2005) - Eli Roth
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/757/exhdspoe8.jpg
Uncle Mxy 10-31-2007, 11:14 PM Where's Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein and Shaun Of The Dead? :)
I've yet to see one list I remotely agree with, but that is better than most. I would move TCM way up, Omen way down, and throw Rosemary's Baby in there just off the top of my head. I like how Time Magazine had Bambi in their top 25, and when you consider that most kids see it an such a young age it does make a bit of sense.
Timone 11-01-2007, 05:39 AM I'm not really into horror flicks (not because I'm scared or anything) but I remember being too scared to walk around my house in the dark after seeing "IT" as a kid. Now looking back on it, that movie ranks up there with "Child's Play" as possibly the dumbest horror flick ever.
FillyCheezeSteak 11-01-2007, 07:49 AM Growing up I watched "The Shining" a few times and tried to give it a chance, but I don't really get why its a good "horror" movie. The movie has so many dry spells in the movie that I imagine most people fall asleep or go make a turkey sandwich during this point.
Glenn 11-01-2007, 08:26 AM While not really "horror" I watched "Cujo" on HBO as a kid and it was pretty terrifying.
Changed the way that I looked at St. Bernards, for sure.
Up until I saw that movie, St. Bernards were always just getting drunk out of that little barrell with "XXX" on it that they wore around their neck.
Big Swami 11-01-2007, 08:38 AM 1. The Exorcist is only scary if you really believe in demons and are afraid of the Devil. It's a well-crafted movie either way, though. The acting is really great, the visuals are obviously disturbing, and the sound is fantastic. I hear the director tried to convince the cast that he was mentally unbalanced during the filming, and in order to make them look really scared and disoriented, he occasionally would fire a pistol full of blanks directly at them from the director's chair. Ellen Burstyn swore she would never work with him again, and she never has.
2. The Shining is fucking awesome.
3. Halloween is boring. Typical mindless teen slasher flick. No plot whatsoever.
4. I actually really like A Nightmare On Elm Street, but Freddy is weak. That girl from the first movie is still cute.
5. The Ring is kind of a crappy idea for a movie, but it was done so well, and it is a little spooky. It's kind of the thing that kicked of the Japanese horror movie craze...and Audition was the movie that pretty much ended it. The Japanese have us beat on so much, but no one knew how fucking depraved they are.
6. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a movie I never got. I don't know why so many people dig it.
7. The Omen - again, only scary if you really do worry about the Antichrist being born on Earth. The only genuinely scary scene, imho, is the scene where Lee Remick has got the hospital gown covering her head and she gets thrown out the window by the nanny.
8. "It" was awful. It's not really possible to take a book like that and make it into a scary movie.
9. Hellraiser is one of the horror movies I really enthusiastically like. It's just so weird that I am fascinated how anyone ever came up with the idea.
10. Hostel was terrible. Gory as hell but not scary in the slightest, and the end of the movie was so implausible and ridiculous that I actually laughed over the last 15 minutes. Eli Roth is a hack.
I like suspense more than "horror". Haunted houses are "scary" because you know something is coming but you don't know when. Not because some 16 yr old is wearing a mask with a bunch of gross crap on it.
Cross 11-01-2007, 10:15 AM Exorcist is the only movie i eever walked out of. movie is fucked up. (the old one btw)
the pic scared the shit out of me.
Big Swami 11-01-2007, 10:22 AM Exorcist is the only movie i eever walked out of. movie is fucked up. (the old one btw)
the pic scared the shit out of me.
Hey Cross, I know exactly what you mean because
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x147/dspiewak/Exorcist.jpg
Wilfredo Ledezma 11-01-2007, 10:25 AM I have Encore, and they've been showing Silent Hill on there like the last month and I think that's a great Halloween-esque movie...the List is good to except where is the classic "Night of the Living Dead" the black and white version with the token black guy getting shot at the end of the movie even though he wasn't a zombie
MoTown 11-01-2007, 10:39 AM Silent Hill wasn't really a good movie, but it did creep me out. I never played the video game, however.
I agree with Swami on Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It seems really stupid to me.
The only thing that scares me is things to do with the Devil and possession. Movies like that will scare me long after I'm out of the movie theater.
DrRay11 11-01-2007, 10:50 AM Growing up I watched "The Shining" a few times and tried to give it a chance, but I don't really get why its a good "horror" movie. The movie has so many dry spells in the movie that I imagine most people fall asleep or go make a turkey sandwich during this point.
Yeah, I tried to watch it for the first time this year. Fucking boring, the book is way better.
Cross 11-01-2007, 11:11 AM Hey Cross, I know exactly what you mean because
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x147/dspiewak/Exorcist.jpg
shit fuck you fuck you
my heart skipped a beat.
for silent hill, I personally thought it sucked balls, not that realistic to me imo.
Timone 11-01-2007, 11:13 AM Swami, that was rotten.
http://www.muntedmess.com/images/posts/high-five-1.jpg
Big Swami 11-01-2007, 01:33 PM Hee hee, I saw that movie when I was 8 years old and it scared the living shit out of me for like 5 straight years, and nothing scared me as a kid. It gave me a complex. I admit that's still a terrifying image.
Glenn 11-01-2007, 01:50 PM speaking of halloween...
a bunch of people brought in their extra candy that didn't get handed out last night and put it out as community
I am so fucking buzzed right now
Zip Goshboots 11-01-2007, 03:43 PM Any Top Ten horror list that doesn't have this movie on it is totally fuckered in the ass
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/adc/10101655A~Bela-Lugosi-Dracula-Posters.jpg
Tahoe 11-01-2007, 03:52 PM My brother in-law (phd) use to tell me that gummy bears and all those half sticky, half hard candies will lock up the digestive track of an elephant. I don't know cuz I don't eat them.
Also, I'm kind of wondering why I just posted that.
Glenn 11-01-2007, 03:58 PM My brother in-law (phd) use to tell me that gummy bears and all those half sticky, half hard candies will lock up the digestive track of an elephant. I don't know cuz I don't eat them.
Also, I'm kind of wondering why I just posted that.
Does he read Smithsonian and/or Harper's?
Tahoe 11-01-2007, 04:06 PM His degree is NOT from MSU. No Harpers for him. He is not intellectually curious either.
Timone 11-01-2007, 04:13 PM Does he know who Norman Podhoretz is or what the PNAC is?
Tahoe 11-01-2007, 04:14 PM LOL
Glenn 10-31-2008, 04:29 PM bump
GIMMIE SOME CANDY
Tahoe 10-31-2008, 10:02 PM So we just moved this summer and I asked a neighbor lady how man ToTreaters she had last year. She said 400. Holy crap.
Call me the grinch of Halloween or something. We bought 2 bags of candy and the lights go out.
MoTown 11-01-2008, 09:14 AM It was a good night for our house last night. We were able to kidnap 4 kids.
So I'm a lazy halloweener. I bought a batman hooded sweatshirt costume. Simple, easy, and kinda cool lookin'. I don't know if any of you watch The Office, but they joked about how many Jokers there would be out there.
Well we went out to the bar/club and I counted 11 in a little over an hour. Anyways one particular wasted Joker kept coming up and harassing me because I was Batman. When he wasn't in my face he was across the room, glaring at me. He really hated me and if I was drunk there probably would've been a fight.
Glenn 10-30-2009, 12:35 PM I thinking about being Billy Mays.
Too soon?
Tahoe 11-02-2009, 10:54 PM WATCH PSYCHO!
DrRay11 11-02-2009, 11:00 PM I thinking about being Billy Mays.
Too soon?
I thought about doing that about two weeks after he died, but then decided I didn't want to wake up with my voice lost.
So no.
Glenn 10-31-2013, 10:14 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0r2xpGT4fQ
Glenn 10-31-2013, 10:18 AM miss u swami
DrRay11 10-31-2013, 10:27 AM miss u swami
i cry everytim
Glenn 10-31-2013, 11:24 AM @the_ironsheik
Happy Halloween to everyone accept the Justin Bieber Happy let me beat the fuck out of you braek your neck you cocksucker day #TrickOrTreat
Timone 10-31-2013, 07:41 PM Everyday is Halloween ftw
Tahoe 11-01-2013, 02:33 AM I really love my friends kids. They are so amped about stuff like haloween and shit like that. I wish I had kids. You youngsters have kids. My biggest regret in life is not having kids.
Timone 11-01-2013, 03:16 AM I really love my friends kids. They are so amped about stuff like haloween and shit like that. I wish I had kids. You youngsters have kids. My biggest regret in life is not having kids.
I thought you had a son? You lied about that too?
Timone 11-01-2013, 03:17 AM Is your real name even Tahoe?!?!
Tahoe 11-01-2013, 02:11 PM I thought you had a son? You lied about that too?
No. Yes.
Tahoe 11-01-2013, 02:12 PM Is your real name even Tahoe?!?!
Yes. Tahoe T. Tahoe Full name.
Glenn 11-01-2013, 05:25 PM Wow, all of that "the boy" stuff was just made up?
No disrespect, but that's effed up.
lol
Timone 11-01-2013, 05:27 PM http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v610/gotkrypto/Board/stunned.gif
Timone 11-01-2013, 05:27 PM Wouldn't surprise me if he actually voted for Obama both times now.
Timone 11-01-2013, 05:28 PM Probably owns a Stafford jersey.
Tahoe 11-01-2013, 08:48 PM I got really busy for a lil while and my buddy used to post for me or I let him have my password. He has a son. So he talked about him. When I came back I just carried on with it. It's not like I was lying or anything like that.
Timone 11-01-2013, 08:59 PM Suuuure.
Uncle Mxy 11-04-2013, 11:51 AM Yes. Tahoe T. Tahoe Full name.
Any relation to Lester L. Lester?
Tahoe 11-04-2013, 03:11 PM cuz
Mr. Oobir 10-31-2017, 08:29 PM Not much activity today. Half of them were uncostumed teenagers, too.
Uncle Mxy 11-01-2017, 12:57 AM Deena Centofani as Catwoman -- this one's for Glan:
https://i.imgur.com/1bfM1Xr.jpg
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