Pre Halloween Horror Movie Discussion Thread

[vi5]

What's your favorite?
Scariest Scenes?
Most disturbing horror movie you've ever seen?

Of course every year around this time I'll post something similar and inevitably get the "There's so much suffering and horror in every day life so I can't watch anything like that and I don't know how you can either" finger wagging lecture or the inevitable Farenheit 9/11-Jesus Camp-Left Behind wiseass answers.

But each year I'm hopeful that a new fan of the genre might have joined DU. So I'll give it another shot.

[Lautremont]

1. Big horror movie fan here.

But I can never answer questions like those, or at least not without some thought. I'll have to get back to you, probably.

I will say that a list of my all-time favourites would include I Walked With A Zombie, The Thing (82), Curse of the Demon, The Brood, The Black Cat (the one with Karloff & Lugosi), and the first Halloween, naturally.

I'm most disturbed by Italian horror movies featuring manifestly real animal cruelty, like Cannibal Holocaust. That is actually a good movie, but I'd like to punch out the guy who made it for slicing up that turtle.

[vi5]

3. Torture/cruelty is where I get squeamish...

I can watch movies with it but it is the truly disturbing line that I rarely cross by choice when picking out horror movies to watch. I've never been able to bring myself to watch Cannibal Holocaust or Salo or Man Behind the Sun or any of those movies which are supposedly filled to the brim with that stuff.

The Brood is such a slept on movie. So good yet you don't hear many people talking about it in the same reverential tones reserved for other movies of that time.

[redqueen]

2. The Exorcist scares me to this day.

I'm not proud of it, but there it is.

I'm a big horror movie buff... and that's my all time favorite / scariest movie.

The scariest scene is any scene with her demon-possessed face in it. I can't take that face.

As for most disturbing... hmm... I guess I'm not sure. I haven't seen any of the controversial ones like Cannibal Holocaust, so... :shrug:

[Roon]

4. I don't watch horror movies

I haven't seen a horror movie (outside of Blair Witch) in approx. 25 years. I don't like to see people suffer. I don't like to see it for real, I don't like to see it simulated. It literally makes me sick.

[vi5]

6. And there it is...

...as predicted.

[av8rdave]

5. Not a horror fan, but the original Halloween was pretty good

[azmouse]

7. I love some of the old horror movies from the '50s.

Dracula (Bela Lugosi version)
Frankenstein (Boris Karloff version)
The Mummy (1959 with Christopher Lee)
The Werewolf
The Thing From Another World
House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)