Halloween Movies 🎃

LaurelinBearsFruit · Oct 30, 2023

Watched Beetlejuice last night, boy that's a fun movie. I've seen it many times before, but it never disappoints.

Also, that The Shining rebrand reminds me of this. Kind of a reverse situation:

Erestor Arcamen · Oct 30, 2023

These are fun

Server Room Gremlin · Oct 30, 2023

Erestor Arcamen said:
These are fun

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is low-key already a horror movie 🙃

Erestor Arcamen · Oct 30, 2023

Agreed, that tunnel sequence always scared me as a kid.

Deimos · Oct 30, 2023

LaurelinBearsFruit said:
Watched Beetlejuice last night, boy that's a fun movie. I've seen it many times before, but it never disappoints.

Yep, that's a hilarious "feel-good" movie... One of those "lightning captured in a bottle" movies that can never be improved upon. 😄

LaurelinBearsFruit · Oct 30, 2023

@Server Room Gremlin You took the thoughts right out of my head. I was thinking, "Huh. Willy Wonka as horror doesn't need to do much." I love how big of a community of Grandpa Joe haters there is too.

ZehnWaters · Oct 31, 2023

Here's one we always watch ON Halloween. I'm going to see if everyone wants to watch Werewolf by Night as well. For a show, I quite like the new Goosebumps as well.

Deimos · Oct 31, 2023

Going to watch "Night of the Demon" when I get home from class this evening.
I don't think I've watched it in the past 2 years, maybe longer.... Should be fun. 🙂

FWIW ... (and I may have posted this elsewhere)....
Martin Scorsese's favorite scary/horror movies.. 1) Order of listing dos not denote his preference of one over another, and 2) all are the original versions

The Haunting (1963)
Isle of the Dead ** (1945)
The Uninvited (1944)
The Entity (1982)
Dead of Night (1945, Ealing Studios-- "a British classic: four tales told by four strangers mysteriously gathered in a country house, each one extremely disquieting, climaxing with a montage in which elements from all the stories converge into a crescendo of madness.”)
The Changeling (1980)
The Shining (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
Night of the Demon** (1957)
The Innocents (1961)
Psycho (1960)

**Both of these are on the same DVD

Erestor Arcamen · Oct 31, 2023

Deimos said:
Going to watch "Night of the Demon" when I get home from class this evening.
I don't think I've watched it in the past 2 years, maybe longer.... Should be fun. 🙂

FWIW ... (and I may have posted this elsewhere)....
Martin Scorsese's favorite scary/horror movies.. 1) Order of listing dos not denote his preference of one over another, and 2) all are the original versions

The Haunting (1963)
Isle of the Dead ** (1945)
The Uninvited (1944)
The Entity (1982)
Dead of Night (1945, Ealing Studios-- "a British classic: four tales told by four strangers mysteriously gathered in a country house, each one extremely disquieting, climaxing with a montage in which elements from all the stories converge into a crescendo of madness.”)
The Changeling (1980)
The Shining (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
Night of the Demon** (1957)
The Innocents (1961)
Psycho (1960)

**Both of these are on the same DVD

Night of the Demon is an amazing movie. Those others on the list too. The Shining is on my list for tonight and then maybe something Hammer

Squint-eyed Southerner · Oct 31, 2023

Jacques Tourneur was against having the Demon appear in "Demon".

More graphic scares!

Rivendell_librarian · Oct 31, 2023

Well for my Halloween movie I just watched Hitchcock's Psycho. But is it a genuine Halloween movie or is it black comedy? A great film anyway. Maybe oddly I think the best part of the film is the lead up to Marion Crane pulling up outside the Bates Motel. How the music relates to Janet Leigh's increasing anxiety - and then there is an easing of tension in the music when she first meets harmless Norman. And it's so clever how the camera focusses on the money and then Norman casually throws it unknowing into the boot before dumping the car into the swamp.

Erestor Arcamen · Oct 31, 2023

First movie I went with tonight

Deimos · Nov 1, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Jacques Tourneur was against having the Demon appear in "Demon".

After seeing the actual Demon I was against having the Demon in the movie too.....totally unnecessary .

Rivendell_librarian · Nov 1, 2023

Rivendell_librarian said:
Well for my Halloween movie I just watched Hitchcock's Psycho. But is it a genuine Halloween movie or is it black comedy? A great film anyway. Maybe oddly I think the best part of the film is the lead up to Marion Crane pulling up outside the Bates Motel. How the music relates to Janet Leigh's increasing anxiety - and then there is an easing of tension in the music when she first meets harmless Norman. And it's so clever how the camera focusses on the money and then Norman casually throws it unknowing into the boot before dumping the car into the swamp.

I found this analysis on Youtube and thought it was very good at explaining the importance of the first part of the film - especially the close ups of Marion Crane as she drives from Phoenix.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Oct 5, 2024

Hey, it's that time of year again! How about a couple of low budget William Beaudine horror westerns from 1966?

Deimos · Oct 5, 2024

See my previous post... I stand by all the ones I've listed
My fav scary movies

TrackerOrc · Oct 7, 2024

Deimos said:
After seeing the actual Demon I was against having the Demon in the movie too.....totally unnecessary .

Couldn't agree more. The film is brilliantly atmospheric with really unsettling characters - the demon just doesn't work that well. Though I suppose for the time it may have been more effective?

Deimos · Oct 7, 2024

TrackerOrc said:
Couldn't agree more. The film is brilliantly atmospheric with really unsettling characters - the demon just doesn't work that well. Though I suppose for the time it may have been more effective?

The studio insisted on it because physical monsters were still the big draw for horror movies **
Night of the Demon was made in 1954...It thought the picture would flop without a monster.

** Some well known examples....
The Thing (1951)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Them (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Blob (1958)
Dracula with Chris Lee (1958)
The Fly (1958)
The Mummy (1959)

Go HERE for more horror movies of that era and see how many have "physical/material" monsters.

TrackerOrc · Oct 7, 2024

Deimos said:
The studio insisted on it because physical monsters were still the big draw for horror movies **
Night of the Demon was made in 1954...It thought the picture would flop without a monster.

** Some well known examples....
Dracula with Chris Lee (1958)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
The Thing (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Blob (1958)
Them (1954)

Go HERE for more horror movies of that era and see how many have "physical/material" monsters.

Always loved the Hammer Christopher Lee Draculas, though the sequels got a bit silly as time went on.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of my favourites - it shows the actual creature/demon/bad guy but also keeps up the atmospherics as well.

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