Favorite Halloween flicks

[ram]

Let's make this Halloween week at Glurpworld! Or not.

So, are there favorite scary movies you like to watch around Halloween?

I'm not a horror movie fan per se, but there are a few favorites I like coming back to. I also surf channels a lot, and that's how I've come to know some good scary movies that I otherwise would not have bothered to see. That's because I tend to think most horror flicks just aren't worth my money.

But I love a classic like Hitchcock's Psycho. I also like the Blair Witch movies. Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is another favorite. John Carpenter's original Halloween might be too obvious a choice, but I like it enough. A tad sluggish in places, but very creepy.

[thomasallencummins]

There are a few films I tend to watch just before and sometimes on Halloween. A yearly staple is the horror classic "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown". Truly terrifying. Then of course its nice to watch the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow. (I've never seen Blair Witch - just the parodies) I recently re watched "Halloween" and frankly I was bored silly for the first 3/4 of the film. Perhaps I'm becoming too acquainted with the "psycho killer appears near doorway, driveway, window, backyard, shrubbery etc., then when the protagonist turns in his direction he's no longer there" scenario. My favorite of the Halloween sequels is strangely enough "Halloween III" which it might be argued to be out of canon but what are ya gonna do?
The family likes to watch "A Nightmare Before Christmas" since it deals so much with Halloween. Strangely enough we also watch it as Christmas. ;D

[cleburne]

Sleey hollow is ones favorite when it comes to fun horror movies , the Scary movies are always good for a laugh, but as for the more gruesome horror movies I have a weak constitution when they are on and have never been a fan of them ,Maybe I scare easily ;D Some people are big into the SAW movies but I never seen one .

[ram]

"Fun horror" describes Sleepy Hollow perfectly, cleburne. I'm not into the really gruesome stuff like Hostel or the Saw movies either. "Torture porn" is how I've heard film critics describe them, and I don't want to sit through one just to see how accurate that description is.

As for Charlie Brown...well I always think of Lucy as being terrifying.

Heh, maybe I was being too generous about Carpenter's Halloween, atomic. It's considered such a classic of the genre that I didn't want to grouch. But you're right, the movie is set up in a such a way that you're waiting a while before something "happens." Also, the payoff at the end wasn't entirely satisfactory to me. I thought Halloween III was all right. I've only ever seen it and the original on commercial tv; I never bothered to buy them on DVD. Halloween III is refreshing since it's the only one that has nothing to do with Michael Myers. He was menacing in the original film, but how many times can one put up with Jamie Lee Curtis running away from him screaming her head off, before the whole thing just looks tired and stupid.

[cleburne]

Havent seen any of the Halloween movies to date Ill put it on my to do list . I had to laugh at atomics thread on KW where sgt.null gaves us a link to Charlie Brown and something to do with pumpkins ;D

[thomasallencummins]

Oct 29, 2008 9:22:33 GMT -5 cleburne said:

Havent seen any of the Halloween movies to date Ill put it on my to do list . I had to laugh at atomics thread on KW where sgt.null gaves us a link to Charlie Brown and something to do with pumpkins ;D

Heh. That was sooooooo coool. prorider is a big fan of Robot Chicken and she says that episode was the first one she watched and she was hooked after that.

For those that haven't seen it I'm placing a link here but be warned, its not appropriate for everyone.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv759Sfw8bY

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"We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

That's the thing about youtube vids: here today, gone tomorrow. But I've seen Robot Chicken and like the show.

[ram]

Never mind, last night on TV I caught the Robot Chicken episode with the Charlie Brown parody. Yeah, it was funny in the distinctive Robot Chicken way.


Then I ended up being awake until 5:00 AM watching Saw II. Yes, I said I didn't want to see the Saw movies, but I caught Saw II while channel surfing in the wee hours and decided to check it out for the hell of it, being Halloween and all.

Pretty disturbing stuff. Some of the images will stay in my mind for a while. That aside, Saw II was quite a compelling movie. One thing is for sure: you don't have to wait for something to happen, as the film throws you immediately into its nightmare story. It's one hellish predicament after another for the imprisoned characters as they try to survive the traps set by the masked mastermind known only as "Jigsaw." But for me, what makes the movie bearable is that it is a moral fable of sorts (okay, a twisted fable). Jigsaw doesn't just pluck random people off the street; instead, he seems to abduct only those who themselves have shown little regard for the lives of others. Basically he puts these people through his demented trials to test whether or not they at last appreciate what it means to be alive, and even announces those intentions to his "subjects" before the "game" begins.

[thomasallencummins]

Haven't watched any Saw films and frankly I think I'll pass. :-)

[ram]

I'm not exactly eager to sit through the other Saw films myself. I happened to catch Saw II, and that's more than enough for me right now. But next Halloween I might be in the right mood to catch another one. (Saw has become quite the franchise!)