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so anyone going to see the latest halloween films:

SAW 2 and THE FOG !!??

'Saw 2' is out in the UK this weekend, but 'The Fog' isn't out till next year !!

i really enjoyed the first 'Saw' not sure how this one will measure up !!??

and 'The Fog' was the 2nd HORROR film [ after the first 'HALLOWEEN' ] that i saw, and that [ at the time ] scared the hell out of me !!

again, not sure what the remake will be like, but i'll still go and see it, and it has TOM WELLING in it [ so that's an added bonus .....

Matthew.

I liked the original Fog. I haven't seen the
new one yet.

One of my favorite movies is Prince of
Darkness...

i will be checking out Saw 2, first one kicked ass. Hopefully i can talk my brother into going to it on halloween, he isnt really interested in seeing it, i'm waiting for him to say he hasnt seen the first one, which he has.

I want to see Saw 2, enjoyed the first one, but I have to wait until Caroline can't go with me since she is in no way interested in those types of horror films.

She has agreed to see the remake of the Fog and we just recently caught the original again on TV. I'm not expecting much out of it but hopefully it'll at least be fun.

As for what I like the most, give me the zombies any day. I grew up on horror films, my mom loved them. Late night triple feature at the drive-in in Pheonix seeing shows like The Devil's Rain, 2000 Maniacs, Blood Farmers. I don't watch them as much as I did growing up though. But I have been able to get Caroline to watch two zombie flicks and she's admitted to liking them, the remake of Dawn of the Dead and Romero's recent Land of the Dead.

boogeyman was a good movie, saw that in the summer and i was surprised at good i thought it was.
Some of the movies i remember from my younger years
Dawn of the Dead
Mothers Day
The Fog
The Thing-remake
boogeyman, i saw a movie in the early 80's, i dont remember anything about it but i know i liked it. I dont think the new boogeyman is a remake of it
Evil Dead
Dead Alive- i think thats what its called, really really good movie, at least when i was younger.

Quick little Hallowe'en video (ghost):

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=3008

LAB., Sorry, I don't agree with you about Boogeyman. I expected it to be a lot better than it was. I coulda/shoulda been a psychological thriller, but it ended up just being another cgi special effects yawn.

Bravo has been showing it's top 100 scariest movie moments show recently. Jaws is the #1 scariest movie. There are lots of great ones listed, of course. I have always been scared by The Exorcist.

I like scary movies but my wife does not. My kids are at the age where we are not sure if we should let them see certain movies, some we don't mind. None of us have seen Saw yet, but I want to. I think The Fog looks dumb.

Fiiiiiiinally...A thread about Horror Movies! I was going to start one myself but never got around to it.
I think Ive mentioned it elsewhere, but Im a tad obsessed with movies. I draw a fine line between Art and Trash. But I love trash...and Im generally not satisfied if I dont see a violent death within the first 15 minutes or at the very least some Boobies.
I agree with Sketch though. Boogeyman Sucked. Damn you Barry Watson! DAMN YOU!!! the "Boogyman" that Labradorian is talking about is most likely either "Stephen Kings' the Boogeyman" (1982) or 1980's "the Boogeyman", which is basically a bad "Halloween" Knockoff ((it also had 2 sequels, the last released in 94'...they didnt get any better))
Oddly enough "Halloween" is also known as "Boogeyman"

Now...on the Subject of Halloween. "Season of the Witch" ((#3)) aside, "Halloween" is one of my favoritest things in the World. fair enough, "Reserection" ((#9) was kinda Lame...But "Halloween : Retribution" , to be realesed in 2006 should be better. oh...and Something else else cool that I found out yesterday? Danielle Harris aka Jamie Lloyd does the Voice of Debbie in the "Wild Thornberries".

theres also Rumours of a "Freddy vs Jason vs Michael (Myers)" floating about. Which would be super-cooooool

ummmm....I have more to say on this subject...but I dont really have time to write any more. I might start a new thread.

Ah Hell....Ive got another couple of minutes.

"Saw" In my opinion, was a damn good movie. I took my sister to see it , knowing what it was, but not the Twist (thankfully) and I thouroughly enjoyed it. I mean C'MON! Dinah "Batgirl" Myer?!? Shawnee Smith?!? Frigging Cary "Westley" Elwes!?!? loved loved loved it. My Sister and I were the only other people in the theatre other then another couple. after it was over the guy in the couple...visibly shaken....told us that they didnt know what they were going to see as they'd just bought a Ticket for the first movie they could see. he then asked us if we were as "Freaked out" as they were...and Kate (my Sister) just sneered at him. heh.

Despite the American Cast, Saw is Actually an Australian Film, and the fact that it was so good pleases me as prior to the release of Saw, the only notable Horror releases from Australia over the past couple of years were the So-So "Cut" starring Molly Ringwald (uh-huh_ and Kylie Minogue (look! how sweet! she thinks she can act!) - A "Scream" alike about a Cursed Movie that a group of Uni Students attempt to finish 20 years after the death of its director. The Monster comes alive, Molly Ringwald wears bad clothes, Hijinks ensue - AND "CubbyHouse" Staring Josh "Blair Witch" Leonard...about a demonic Cubbyhouse. uh-huh. ((Im not sure if Cubbyhouse is a purely Australian Term...but its basically a childs Fort..or playhouse))...if you get thet chance to see it, Dont.

Wait...Im forgetting "Undead". If you get a chance to see Undead...Do. It trails off abit towards the end but its pretty good....and it has Zombies. So yay.

just a quick sidenote...Leigh Whanell, Who stared in "Saw" as Adam and also Co-Wrote it, has been the Grunge Generations' Movie Review Guy...he was originally a part of the Saturday morning youth-orientated "Recovery" and then as Movie Review guy on various shows, magazines etc over the years. Its good to see him actually making the movies these days.


oh yeah..."Wolf Creek"

Now thats what I call good Australian Horror.

Try not to throw up/leave the cinema.

In that scariest movie moments show, they list "The Audition" as a super freaky movie. I guess this adorably sweet young woman tortures a guy in utterly ghastly ways. Just hearing about the things she does makes me uncomfortable. In fact, I don't think I even want to rent it. Maybe I do? I dunno. Heh...

I wonder if Bravo actually lists all the movies on their website? They seem like a bunch of "must sees."

Here's the list....
100. 28 Days Later
99. Creepshow
98. Zombie
97. Cat People
96. The Birds
95. Jurassic Park
94. Child's Play
93. Pacific Heights
92. Village of the Damned
91. Shallow Grave
90. Night of the Hunter
89. Alice Sweet Alice
88. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
87. Black Christmas
86. Wizard of Oz
85. Blood & Black Lace
84. Blue Velvet
83. The Others
82. Terminator
81. The Howling
80. Poltergeist
79. Dracula
78. The Brood
77. Signs
76. Evil Dead
75. Candyman
74. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
73. Blood Simple
72. Them!
71. The Sixth Sense
70. The Stepfather
69. Re-Animator
68. The Black Cat
67. Duel
66. The Tenant
65. Marathon Man
64. Near Dark
63. Deliverance
62. The Wolf Man
61. The Devil's Backbone
60. The Beyond
59. Fatal Attraction
58. Cujo
57. House of Wax
56. Single White Female
55. The Vanishing
54. The Changeling
53. Demons
52. The Phantom of the Opera
51. The Dead Zone
50. The Last House on the Left
49. Diabolique
48. The Thing
47. Nosferatu
46. The Sentinel
45. The Wicker Man
44. The Game
43. It's Alive!
42. An American Werewolf in London
41. The Hills Have Eyes
40. Black Sunday
39. Dawn of the Dead
38. Peeping Tom
37. House on Haunted Hill
36. Cape Fear
35. Aliens
34. The Hitcher
33. The Fly
32. Pet Sematary
31. Friday the 13th
30. Blair Witch Project
29. Serpent and the Rainbow
28. When a Stranger Calls
27. Frankenstein
26. Seven
25. Phantasm
24. Suspiria
23. Rosemary's Baby
22. Don't Look Now
21. Jacob's Ladder
20. The Ring
19. Hellraiser
18. The Haunting
17. A Nightmare on Elm Street
16. The Omen
15. Freaks
14. Halloween
13. Scream
12. Misery
11. Audition
10. Wait Until Dark
9. Night of the Living Dead
8. Carrie
7. Silence of the Lambs
6. Shining
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Psycho
3. Exorcist
2. Alien
1. Jaws

i just rented out UNDEAD, i was also going to get DOMINION, which is i guess, the original remake of the exorcist but was scrapped.
Gotta get LAND OF THE DEAD too!
and the new HELLRAISER AND PROPHECY SEQUALS

I saw that special twice and have been enjoying it. I, of course, don't necessarily agree with the order, but I love seeing these types of horror lists.

Audition looks terrifying and now I'm interested. I never heard of it before but holy moley, the two second preview itself creeped me out!

JoeBoy, I've posted this before, but the "Halloween" movies have been a major favorite of mine since I was about 8 and snucked my friend's copy of Halloween 5 into my house and watched it. I've been loving them ever since, no matter how bad they get (the latest ones have actually been the weakest IMO).

I love cheap B-grade Horror. Love, love, love it. The Phantasm films are big favorites.

I've gotten my brother and g/f into horror too, and actually just borrowed Saw and the Ring from her (great Valentine's day gifts ) so my bro can watch them, since he's never seen either. Ring was a great movie, though not necessarily scary, and Saw was very creepy and good. I also might watch the original "Night of the Living Dead" in honor of Halloween weekend.

What I try to do when I have a horror movie night (which I don't do nearly as much as my roomates and I did in college) is try to mix an older movie with a gory 60/70's movie, and an 80's slasher/modern horror movie. Currently, I'm trying to watch the Hammer Horror films of the late 50's/60's, most of which I've never seen. The more Christopher Lee (now my favorite Dracula of all time) the better.

Oh I dont know...I kinda liked H20.

but Jaws...meh. does nothing for me.

"KIRI!KIRI!KIRI!"...yes...Auditon is pretty creepy.

Im surprised "Battle Royale" didnt make the list...or "Cube"...or "Catwoman"

I think everything from H20 forward has been lame

My favorite is Halloween 4

C'moooooon....H20 is great if you like that 90's teen post-modern horror kinda thing. It stuck to the formula perfectly...even had the "Big Name Star" death in the first 15 minutes. though Im not sure Joseph Gordon-Levitt qualifies as a Big Name anymore....though he was in 98'.

Has anyone seen the rare-bootleg "Directors Cut" of Halloween 6? its a completely different movie..makes abit more sense even

And Joy of Joys H20 is on TV tonight. Taste the Radness.

wouldnt that make it only one movie past H2O, halloween resurrection( i think)

yep. which in a sense is true. Resurrection was Lame. Silly Silly Tyra Banks.

they're working on #9 now....Halloween : Retribution

I do however have Tyra Banks' Single on my Ipod. But I also have Paris Hilton's "Screwed" Single. So thats saying something (though Im not sure what)

Matt, my favorites are 4, 5 & 6. Despite any cheesiness, these are the most fun and creepiest IMO. I can't stress how much I LOVE these films.

H2O didn't really do it for me and the last one was crap. No way Busta Rhymes should be talking smack to Michael Myers...they should have had him get decapitated or something awful.

The late 90's post-modern bit was cool in Scream I thought, but damn that got really tired after awhile. I don't even mind "I know what you did last summer" or "Urban Legend", but I'm glad that formula is done with for the time being.

Directors Cut for Halloween 6? What in the name of all that's gory...? I have *got* to find this! Tell me more!

"The more Christopher Lee (now my favorite Dracula of all time) the better."

I have all of these on tape. Love some of 'em, enjoy others despite themselves (heehee). One unfortunate problem there seems to have been at Hammer was, they had several well-written vampire films, but most of Chris Lee's Dracula films are not among them. It makes me think they had a budget for a good script-- OR Chris Lee-- but not both!

When I saw Lee's cameo in SLEEPY HOLLOW, it made me dearly WISH he could be in a Dracula movie with that level of production, and that intelligent of a script! (My favorite recent STAR WARS moment was in Episode 2, where you got to see the sword-fight-- between "Miss Piggy" and "Count Dracula"!)

I'm a little partial to the original Halloween movie. It was the first horror movie I ever watched. I was 12 to 14 years old, at home, alone, on Halloween night (my step mother wouldn't let us kids go trick or treating... something about not recognizing the devil's holiday, I think my sisters snuck out anyway which is why I was home alone).

I watched that movie by myself and it scared the crap out of me. After the movie, but before I went upstairs to bed... I had to check the patio door to make sure it was locked. Pulling the drapes back was probably the bravest thing I've ever done in my life. Some twenty years later, I look back on the viewing experience for the great atmosphere that it was (If only I had grown up in Haddonfield, Illinois instead of Fort Wayne, Indiana), but I was scared to death when I watched it as a kid. No movie compares to how scary that movie in that setting was... no movie. Although Showgirls is pretty scary too.

Theres other Sites out there that go into more detail but this is just the first One I clicked on.