Scary Movies for Halloween?

I just saw a movie called "Curdled", produced by Quentin Tarantino. It definitely had the Q.T. vibe. It's about a cleaning woman who cleans up murder sites. Last week when I watched The Ring, I slept with with every light on in the house for 2 nights. Sheesh, such a wuss! I don't know if I have it in me to see the Japanese version. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rosemary's Baby or Nosferatu, spooky movies. Thanks for all the great ideas, you guys have given me a great list to start working on.

[ Edited by: DawnTiki on 2003-10-19 10:27 ]

I'm an old school scary movie kinda guy. I've seen the remake stuff like the Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers but I still like the originals better, Maybe its because I was a kid when I saw them and they scared the hell out of me. I suggest anything by Universal (American, pre 1942) or Hammer (England, pre 1965). Unpleasant Dreams! (as Elvira would say)

One of my oldtime faves is:
"The Beast With Five Fingers"

http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/beast-5-fingers.html

And yes that "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black has stuck in my head since I saw it back in the mid 70's. The scariest part about it was the little voodoo doll reminded me of my English teacher at the time. She was approx. 4 feet 9 inches tiny and a hardcore boozer who would get really nasty at times in class. I remember going to school after it showed and all the kids were laughing about that!
:D

(Came across this thread while looking for something entirely unrelated and figured it'd be a good time of year to bump it. And then U-MOD that it be moved to Beyond Tiki.)

I like scary movies but in general never find them genuinely scary. So I have none to suggest...Except maybe watch some old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries. People just disappearing one day and all they have to go on is "a gray van was seen leaving the neighborhood at high speed" or "he was last seen talking to two strangers" can be genuinely freaky.

I like more entertaining rather than scarey. So my picks are:

Psycho Beach Party

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original).

Universal Films like the original Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc.

Young Frankenstein

Creature from the Black Lagoon

The Birds

50's Scifi films

Sicko.

Well since the topic is movies I guess I better chime in,

The Mist-one of the better Stephen King movies in quite some time
John Carpenter's The Thing- still the best Creature Feature
Let the Right One In- a very good story
Descent-watch it in the dark
The Fly- Old Version & Cronenberg's version
Videodrome- more Cronenberg
Evil Dead 2- a classic
Dawn of the Dead- Zack Snyder version- Brains.....
(Old) Outer Limits
Val Lewton movies- Cat People,Isle of the Dead,The Ghost Ship & more-it's like Horror Noir, classics

I was really surprised by The Vampire's Assistant when I saw it a couple months ago. I'd never read the book(s) it was taken from and had assumed the studio was just trying to cash in on another built in audience situation.

I watched it again tonight and dug it as much as I did the first time. It's well acted, has a really cool look to the costumes and sets, and a nice twist on the standard vampire stuff. It's also go some genuinely creepy elements in it.

Nice topic, but why isn't this in Beyond Tiki. I know that less people go there, but its still beyond tiki.

It does belong in Beyond Tiki. Maybe if we whip up a little controversy we can get it moved. You jerk.*****

*****I don't actually think you're a jerk, I just thought that maybe if I started a dust up this thread would get moved to Beyond Tiki faster.

Taking dustup to next level:

Whatever Woofmutt, your mug collection is full of nothing but Harvey's bucket mugs. Put that in a Trader Dick's peanut mug and smoke it.

I love horror but my favorite flick depends on what specific genre we're talking about. Are we looking for smart horror, cheesecake, zombies, a classic, a splatter flick, torture porn, etc.
Of course the best are usually full of smarts AND splatter (Romero's Dawn of the Dead immediately comes to mind). But here are a few other favs:

Women's Studies
Demon Night
Insanitorium
Trick R Treat (I can't stress enough that people need to see this movie)
The original Night, Dawn, and Day of the Dead
The remake of Dawn of the Dead
Friday the 13th Parts 6,7, and 8
Hellraiser
House on Haunted Hill
House of 1000 corpses
Pumpkinhead
Waxwork
Curse of the Swamp Creature
Frankenstein
Evil Dead
Return of the Living Dead

Oh God, I could go on and on. These are just a few off the top of my head but I'm a total horror buff.

I saw The Frighteners for the first time in many years the other night and was reminded why it's such a great film: It was co-written and directed by Peter Jackson.

It has a good story, is one of Michael J. Fox's better roles, has a lot of classic horror movie elements to it, and it's even funny (or at least amusing).

I can not decide between Kevin home alone and Dirty Dancing. .... no, just kidding :)

Rosemary's Baby is my favorite.

I never miss the gothic horror movies from Roger Corman & Hammer Studios this time of year.

Mondo McGonzo,

I agree wholeheartedly about the film Trick 'r Treat. People really need to see that film. I think as the years go by it will increase in popularity as new viewers find it and love it, but we gotta get the word out.

And I hate to pimp my stuff out, but if anyone's interested at all, every October on my personal blog I do articles about random Halloween/scary stuff. Some of it may not be interesting, but.. I don't know. Somebody reads it.

http://www.potatoblog.net

Another good, new movie that people ought to watch is House of the Devil, directed by Ti West. It was made a couple years ago, but it was purposefully filmed and directed like a late '70s, early '80s horror/suspense movie. And it works. Not like a nostalgia film, but really looks like it was filmed back then. Good stuff if you like that era.

On 2003-10-15 18:58, DawnTiki wrote:
Sorry Hanford, I started this in the wrong forum.

SEND IT TO BILGE!!!!

Why TC "old-timers" concerned about the watering down of TC have given this thread (and others like it) a blind eye is beyond me. I guess they selectively pick and choose their "beefs".

FYI, this thread dates back to the "good old days" of 2003.

But to add some Tiki significance to this thread, here's your Tiki Horror Movie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5d3YfMU2C4

It is truly horrifying. :)

Yes, it's already been established that this thread (like many threads) is living in the wrong place. U-mod it to Beyond Tiki. Maybe if we all believe real hard that U-Mod works then Tinkerbell will come back to life and threads such as this will get located where they belong.

Anyway, here's the IMDB link to Trick'r Treat.

Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband.

(I've never seen it, but now I want to. I like ensemble horror films. And I definitely like pert near any scary movie that isn't only about a group of people being killed one after the other in different twisted ways. Or isn't a "real" story made of fake hand held/hidden camera footage.)

I guess others have tried:

On 2010-10-13 23:58, SuperEight wrote:
Nice topic, but why isn't this in Beyond Tiki. I know that less people go there, but its still beyond tiki.

On 2010-10-14 00:11, woofmutt wrote:
It does belong in Beyond Tiki. Maybe if we whip up a little controversy we can get it moved. You jerk.*****

*****I don't actually think you're a jerk, I just thought that maybe if I started a dust up this thread would get moved to Beyond Tiki faster.

EDIT - Sorry Woof, I didn't see your last post

[ Edited by: MadDogMike 2010-10-22 09:24 ]

More Tiki Horror...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0BquU1GRE

And here's my personal favorite "Tiki" horror movie. I think Gilligan's Island was based on this Japanese movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRYjJoZfc

The starting question for this thread was "What's your favorite, ultimate scary movie?

I think that can be broadly taken to mean Post your recommendations for good scary movies.

I like this sort of threads as it seems most Tiki Centralites have broader and better taste than the world at large.

I genuinely value legitimate recommendations of films that people think are worth seeing and I especially appreciate detail as to why a film is worth seeing.

Fair enough.

I'm a BIG fan of 1930's Horror like:

Tod Browning's "Freaks"...

"The Island of Lost Souls"...

These Pre-code films were really twisted stuff.

Also this 1962 sleeper is a great favorite of mine. Many critics believe that "Carnival of Souls" was an inspiration for George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTz0EvfEiY

On 2009-09-20 01:44, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
Well since the topic is movies I guess I better chime in,

 The Mist-one of the better Stephen King movies in quite some time  
 John Carpenter's The Thing- still the best Creature Feature  
 Let the Right One In- a very good story  
 The Descent-watch it in the dark  
 The Fly- Old Version & Cronenberg version  
 Videodrome- more Cronenberg  
 Evil Dead 2- a classic  
 Dawn of the Dead- Zack Snyder version- Brains.....  
 (Old) Outer Limits  
 Val Lewton movies- Cat People,Isle of the Dead,The Ghost Ship & more-it's like Horror Noir, all classics!  

Did someone say "Beef" & "Dust up" well I'm your man! I am glad to see some of you pointing out the hypocrisy here on TC!
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Well its about that time of year & I think last years list still holds up, but I would like to add the great 1944 movie
"The Uninvited" with Ray Milland & Ruth Hussey, one of the best Ghost stories ever! sadly it is still not available on DVD.

On 2010-10-13 23:37, Milland wrote:
I was really surprised by The Vampire's Assistant when I saw it a couple months ago. I'd never read the book(s) it was taken from and had assumed the studio was just trying to cash in on another built in audience situation.

I watched it again tonight and dug it as much as I did the first time. It's well acted, has a really cool look to the costumes and sets, and a nice twist on the standard vampire stuff. It's also go some genuinely creepy elements in it.

The Vampire's Assistant really "sucked!" a real waste of some great actors all in secondary roles,lacking any real narrative, cheesy production values, The young leads could not keep a Disney sitcom audience interested for more then a few minutes. I give it one star.

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2010-10-22 15:00 ]

Dr Tongue's 3D House of Stewardess. Way ahead of the curve on the whole 3D thing.

Not really scary but occasionally creepy the New Zealand film Black Sheep is comedy gore film worth seeing. It's about genetically altered flesh eating sheep.

It's extremely realistically gory yet pretty funny. My friends and I were frequently laughing our heads off while people were being eaten alive and blood was flying everywhere.

The special effects are really good and the gore is really gross. (I am not a gore film fan, in fact I hate how plot-less killing and torture and gallons of blood have taken over the horror genre.)

Despite Black Sheep being a far fetched comedy I won't ever look at sheep looking blankly back at me the same way again.

On 2010-10-21 19:59, Potato. wrote:
Mondo McGonzo,

I agree wholeheartedly about the film Trick 'r Treat. People really need to see that film. I think as the years go by it will increase in popularity as new viewers find it and love it, but we gotta get the word out.

And I hate to pimp my stuff out, but if anyone's interested at all, every October on my personal blog I do articles about random Halloween/scary stuff. Some of it may not be interesting, but.. I don't know. Somebody reads it.

http://www.potatoblog.net

I just checked out the blog, a few months late but I love reading about Halloween all year round! It's nice to know I'm not the only one completely disapointed in this year's McBoo pals. I actually collect the old Halloween McNugget toys as well. Pretty much anything that brings nostalgia from childhood Halloweens I have a collection of!

I just saw The Island which is a far better film than I had assumed it would be. (When The Island was released in 2005 the ads made it seem like it'd be something along the lines of Minority Reprt.)

The Island definitely falls into the sci-fi action category and though it doesn't deal with ghosts or monsters I found the premise its based on to be far creepier than any thing going bump in the night.

The Island may be too slick and Hollywood for some but I think it's a good example of how decent a big budget sci-fi explosion film can be. And it's disturbing enough to make it a good Halloween season pick. (Especially if you like guns, explosions, and chase scenes.)

My halloween film set this year is going to be Bride of Frankenstein followed by Son of Frankenstein. I could watch those films a million time - Bride because it is near perfect and Son for the great Bela Legosi performace as Ygor. I always skip the first one because it puts me to sleep which is hard for an movie that is just over an hour.

I usually do the slasher thing on halloween (Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, Friday the 13th etc) but I'm going to class it up this year. I have a great fan copy of the Joe Bob Briggs Friday the 13th marathon that did the duty last year.

gabbahey

I don't like slasher films. I prefer the classic monster flicks and Hitchcock.

I prefer the stuff from the thirties and forties,the Bmonster from 50's and 60's.Dracula's daughter is good older one if tired of the usual Universal classics.An excellent modern one -The Audition is almost guaranteed to make You squirm.A good/ bad one from the 50's Voodoo Island has both Karloff and a score by Baxter.

[ Edited by: azomb478 2011-10-19 20:32 ]

A little trivia question: What was the first "Slasher" Film?

On 2011-10-19 21:05, Chuck Tatum is Tiki wrote:
A little trivia question: What was the first "Slasher" Film?

Hitchcock's Psycho?

Hakalugi wins it!

You could easily make the argument that either Psycho or Peeping Tom got things started. Certainly enough italian filmakers saw those two films and spun off into their own versions of them. From a more modern point of view of what is typically associated with slasher films, you could make an argument for the original Black Christmas.

I agree..Trick R Treat is one of the best and most underrated Halloween movies out there. Worth watching foor sure!

I grew up in the 50s-60s, so I always go back there for my horror movies. The original Thing and It Came from Outer Space etc. Don't care for Slasher movies.

For Halloween, I am big into William Castle's original 13 Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill from the 1960's. They are both a little silly and tongue in cheek but legitimately spooky and fun.

Both were remade a few years ago, and I didn't like the remakes at all. They were too vicious and not fun to watch.

Last year while looking for something decent and Halloweeny to watch I came across The Ray Bradbury Theater Vol. I in a bargain bin.

It's standard low budget TV horror/scifi/fantasy stuff (like Monsters or Tales from the Dark Side) but it's generally enjoyable with some nicely creepy stories such as The Playground and The Town Where No One Got Off. Considering the low price it's not a bad acquisition for the fan of SF/F short stories and/or TV.

Bridesmaids.

A new entry for this year: "The Cabin in the Woods"

For the classic movie lovers out there, TCM is showing them all month
I DVRed "Curse of the Demon" & "The Uninvited" (Best ghost story ever!)
and we will watch them on Halloween night.

The Dr Phibes series

A New Zealand double feature of Black Sheep and Dead Alive is good for zombie comedy. There are definitely some very realistic effects in those movies. They are Peter Jackson's first and second movies he directed.
Village of the Damned (1960) is scary because it has blond haired, blue eyed children that will kill you if they don't get their way.
It-Reading the book kept me up all night and it was the last Stephen King book I ever read. The movie just put additional pictures in my head. Pennywise the clown coming out of a gutter would be a good Halloween decoration.