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Ghosted by Dawson @ 10/11/2008 10:11 PM EDT
Hi all, I am trying to pick out some more scary movies for our mini Halloween party we are having next week. My friends and I are not so much into the gore/slasher stuff. The movies we have so far to watch next weekend include: Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, The Crow, Underworld, Young Frankenstein. Any suggestions of more movies to add to this bunch we already have? Movies of a similar nature? Thanks in advance!!! Happy SNT!
Ghosted by crazy_mainer @ 10/11/2008 10:11 PM EDT
I need to catch up on some updates this week so the wife falling asleep early gives me the chance. We are horror movie festing till and probably through Halloween. So far last night we watched Frankenstein (with Karloff) tonight was the black cat (with Karloff and Lagosi). IF you like the old movies and have not seen that one it’s spectacular. It’s fun to watch the two icons together and the movie is just plain evil.
Ghosted by Thejyav @ 10/11/2008 10:11 PM EDT
Arr, sounds like another SNT with the compatriots. We’re staying with relatives till I find a job, and we just moved from my family to hers for awhile. SNT not being able to watch/do what you want sucks. Although if I get the DVD player, I brought Garfield and Peanuts Halloween specials to get me in that mood.
If you aren’t into gore, but like some terror, see Cube.
Ghosted by AJ @ 10/11/2008 10:16 PM EDT
I agree with Thejyav, the Black Cat is quite a good flick. I’m such a sucker for the classics. I just finished watching Gojira, from 1954. I just picked up Frankenstein Created Woman, staring Peter Cushing, I’m thinking that’ll finish off my evening nicely. Anyone see it?
Ghosted by Dawson @ 10/11/2008 10:17 PM EDT
I already know Tuesday will be a Blood for Dracula/Flesh for Frankenstein double feature.
Ghosted by AJ @ 10/11/2008 10:18 PM EDT
I have not Dawson and will admit I’m woefully inexperienced at at Hammer horror films but plan on correcting that this month.
I am all about the horror movies right now on a movie message board im on we do movie drafts and just finished up horror movies…so much stuff I need to see.
Ghosted by Thejyav @ 10/11/2008 10:19 PM EDT
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To this day, I will always say Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter is my favorite Hammer flick.
Ghosted by AJ @ 10/11/2008 10:21 PM EDT
Hihihi
Ghosted by Neg @ 10/11/2008 10:21 PM EDT
so far MMT is good and gory
Ghosted by Fox @ 10/11/2008 10:21 PM EDT
crazy_mainer: The ‘burbs. That is a perfect movie to watch for Halloween if you don’t want anything too gory or scary. Then again I’m probably a little biased towards the movie. I could literally watch it once a week. Happy SNT all. (BTW, does anyone else have trouble getting the bold button (or any of the buttons for that matter) to work in the new message posting area? Maybe it is because I am using Firefox. When I click them, nothing happens.
Ghosted by TF @ 10/11/2008 10:22 PM EDT
Midnight Meat Train was a disappointment. It blows its wad relatively early in the flick, and then you realize you couldn’t care less about the photographer.
@Goob: Yeah, I’m so used to typing out the basic HTML for italics and such. It’s just become second nature.
If you can see [REC], do it. Again, it’s the Spanish original of Quarantine. One hour, fifteen minutes long. I finished it ten minutes ago and am now stopping shaking. I haven’t seen a movie that actually scared me in ages. My dreams will be plagued tonight.
mysteryd8: The last ten minutes of [REC] will stay with me for the rest of my life. That is certainly a movie every horror fan should witness. I’ve heard they intended to make Quarantine as close to the original as possible, including hiring the same “actor” for the final scene.
Ghosted by TF @ 10/11/2008 10:29 PM EDT
Yeah, sorry about the HTML code issue, guys. I’ll have my coding buddy make it so it works both ways.
I re-watched The Sixth Sense this week, it has been a few years since I last saw it, and I had kinda hoped the interim would rekindle the movie. No such luck, it was like watching home videos or something. Hard to believe that its been so long since it came out.
Ghosted by Dawson @ 10/11/2008 10:31 PM EDT
oh man TF I could watch the burbs all day
Ghosted by Thejyav @ 10/11/2008 10:32 PM EDT
1992’s Columbia’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula is on here at the moment. I either forgot or never appreciated what a corker it is. It’s so very ’32’s Jekyll and Hyde with its in-camera trickery. That and Most Dangerous Game. Ooh, now Tom Waits is howling while hired hands with rat cages on their heads hose Bedlamesque twitchers down.
Ghosted by Ella Enchanted @ 10/11/2008 10:34 PM EDT
Congrats on the new baby, Mandi Shuan, I always get totally sick from the flu shot too!
Happy SNT all! Nice to see so many peeps around, how’s everybody doing tonight? Some of you might enjoy this, Betty White on Craig Ferguson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxL7MKsGoPo
I could have sworn I had IFC, but apparently it’s just in my cable lineup to tease me. I have Sundance Channel though, totally arbitrary.
crazy_mainer: American Werewolf in London and Death Becomes Her. And Ghostbusters, of course.
Crazy you need some lost boys in there if you want to go old school I’d say Creature from the black lagoon.
Ghosted by Thejyav @ 10/11/2008 10:41 PM EDT
Hmm…one more week til W. comes out!!! That is gonna be one hilarious film! I also wanna go see Nick and Nora’s infinite playlist. well…I will be here I guess for the night….
Ghosted by mandy_dancing skeleton _Reeves @ 10/11/2008 10:42 PM EDT
I bought the Charlie Brown “Prowling Pumpkin Patch” set they sell at CVS on Thursday, and just tried it for the first time.
To all my fellow X-E Halloween worshippers, I highly recommend you pick one of these up for yourselves. It’s really cute, and you get a lot of value for $20. I realize it was reviewed in last year’s Countdown, but for anyone who missed it, this is what it is:
You get a nicely detailed pumpkin patch base, two dead trees that plug into the base, and four cool little figures: Snoopy crouching down in WWI Flying Ace attire, Linus, Lucy in witch costume and Charlie Brown. But it’s not just Charlie Brown–as an extra accessory, you also get his “full of holes” ghost costume, which fits over the figure.
It also has Snoopy’s doghouse, which doesn’t really belong in a pumpkin patch, but it’s a push-button that star the thing running. Push the doghouse, and the figures twirl in a circle around the base while a rather loud version of “Lins & Lucy” plays from a built-in speaker.
A nice base, two trees, four great little figures (five if you count the ghost costume separately), twirling “prowl” action, and the theme song, all for $20. What’s not to love?
Get thee to a CVS and pick up one of these things. It’ll bring a smile to your face!
(And if anyone cares, tonight I shall be viewing Disney’s Halloween Treat. I got a DVD on eBay. Haven’t seen it in probably 10 years or more, but I used to love it as a kid. Yippee, Halloween!)
Ghosted by Flush it all away @ 10/11/2008 10:48 PM EDT
I would like to recommend “Phenomena”. Jennifer Connelly when she was like 12 talking to insects, Donald Pleasance, deformed kids, and a killer monkey. Pretty good.
Ghosted by Admiral Backbar @ 10/11/2008 10:49 PM EDT
I forgot to mention if you want to go older you can’t go wrong with all things Vincent Price
Ghosted by Thejyav @ 10/11/2008 10:52 PM EDT
You guys rock, thank you so much for the suggestions, many of these movies I have never heard of!
Ghosted by crazy_mainer @ 10/11/2008 10:52 PM EDT
@Crazy:
You totally need to check out The Changeling, a 1980 ghost story starring George C. Scott.
Nobody knows who Fart X is. I am a mystery of enormous proportions. Fart X strikes again!
Ghosted by Fart X @ 10/11/2008 10:57 PM EDT
Oh and for a real trip, check out Jacob’s Ladder.
Ghosted by AJ @ 10/11/2008 10:58 PM EDT
Yeah, Crazy, The Changeling is a wonderfully frightening film staring Scott in an amazing role. Very li’l gore, but lots of atmosphere. Great call, Mysteryd8.
Ghosted by Dawson @ 10/11/2008 10:58 PM EDT
How about “Magic”? Sir Anthony Hopkins and a psycho dummy!
Ghosted by Admiral Backbar @ 10/11/2008 11:02 PM EDT
Safely in a house and off the roads again. Unfortunately, am not feeling great. I didn’t even get a flu shot! (They always totally make me sick, too).
Have been in the process of trying to talk my non-horror-movie-watching husband into watching the original “Nightmare on Elm Street” for a week, but the big fraidy cat won’t do it, so I’m horror marathon-ing it all on my lonesome…
But not tonight. Hope you cats have lots of fun… I’m getting loads of rest instead. Blech.
Ghosted by Reni @ 10/11/2008 11:05 PM EDT
Grilled steaks tonight. Weird grilling in a heavy coat.
didn’t care. Tasted great.
Oh, and I’m having hostess’ “Scary” cakes for dessert!
Matt enjoy the wine.
Ghosted by Razzy the Cat @ 10/11/2008 11:05 PM EDT
Nope, far from it. I reside in Youngstown, Ohio. Knoxville is a nice place though, Mysteryd8.
Ghosted by Dawson @ 10/11/2008 11:07 PM EDT
Let’s not forget “The worst Witch.”
Ghosted by Razzy the Cat @ 10/11/2008 11:09 PM EDT
My co workers and I had a pretty good learning experience tonight: Don’t do IHOP takeout. Long story, but I was one of the fortunate ones that got out of it. I only got Original Syrup when I requested Blueberry. It didn’t matter, it was still good syrup.
Also, their omelettes are HUGE. It was one of the rare times where I couldn’t finish something. I blame the fact that I also ate the 3 pancakes that came with it.
Ghosted by mandy_dancing skeleton _Reeves @ 10/11/2008 11:11 PM EDT
Here is my list of things I have and or am getting through netflix and while I probably wont get them all in now will watch sooner than later
All original Dracula, Franekstein, Creature, Mummy, werewolf movies.
All Saw movies, The Hills have eyes, Don’t look now, carrie, the blob, monster squad, horror of dracula, high tension, cat people, eyes without a face, hostel, suspria, wicker man, jacobs ladder, Texas chain saw, dawn of the dead, invasion of the body snatchers, frighteners, last house on the left, M, I walked with a zombi, blood and black lace, count dracula, the fly, abominal Dr. Phibes, Dr. Jeckle Mr. Hyde, hellraiser, hellraiser II, Carnival of souls, the devil’s backbone, Mruder in Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Raven, House on Haunted Hill….think thats about it
Ghosted by Thejyav @ 10/11/2008 11:13 PM EDT
I know I watched Bubba Ho Tep like years ago, and I remember it being gorey, but also funny. Curious if any other X-E readers have seen this movie as well? For Bruce Campbell, I will just shut my eyes during the gorey parts…lol. Love that man.
Ghosted by crazy_mainer @ 10/11/2008 11:20 PM EDT
Just got back from New Paltz. Drove all the way there to go to the haunted hayride but couldn’t get in. Didn’t by tickets in advance. Rev. Back It On Up 13 is a WINNAR everybody.
So we had pie in a diner and drove home. SNT is my world right now. Make my world wonderful.
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Shuan, I always get totally sick from the flu shot too! 
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