Halloween Movies 🎃

[Sons of the Woodland King]

I love horror/Halloween movies despite being a massive chicken. Alas, I had to give it up ever since I had kids because I cannot afford to compromise my ability to get out of bed at night with fears of murder clowns and killer ghosts.

That being said, the last two scary movies that I watched and loved were Haunting of Hill House (Netflix series) and the remake of It. I sadly have had to pass on It 2 because of the reasons mentioned above.

Maybe someday soon I can return to it!

 

[Sons of the Woodland King]

In addition, our household's Halloween movie feature has been reduced to repeat plays of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". (Which I actually love, but come on.) Yay parenthood!

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

My kid is only 2 so after she's in bed around 7ish I can watch whatever . I definitely don't like super gory movies, which is another reason I prefer the older ones. They don't need that to be spooky and fun to watch.

 

[Ent]

I confess I like a LOT of the older ones.
The Brain from the Planet Arous. The Attack of the 60 Foot Woman. Them. The Crab Monsters. Kaltiki, the Immortal Monster. The Blob.
The originals of The Werewolf, Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mummy, etc. of course.
And moving a little forward, The Night of the Lepus, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Jaws (and offshoots), quite a few things of Vincent Price...

These are those that vie with RoP now for my "background shows" that require little attention and no brains to keep up with.

 

[ZehnWaters]

In addition, our household's Halloween movie feature has been reduced to repeat plays of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". (Which I actually love, but come on.) Yay parenthood!

Mix it up with Garfield Halloween Adventure and Halloween Night is Grinch Night.

Double Double Toil and Trouble (Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen), Mr. Boogedy, & Bride of Boogedy are all good too but could be considered darker.

 

[Ent]

Yay parenthood!

Enjoy it while you can, young one. Trust an unhastily aging Ent... you will long for "these days" again when "those days" ahead have come..! Yet the Great Pumpkin, though you may forget him for a time in the intervening years, will once again bring great joy - of a somewhat different kind.

 

[ZehnWaters]

Mix it up with Garfield Halloween Adventure and Halloween Night is Grinch Night.

Double Double Toil and Trouble (Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen), Mr. Boogedy, & Bride of Boogedy are all good too but could be considered darker.

Boo to You to Winnie the Pooh. There's a lot of Disney Mickey/Minnie/Donald/etc. shorts too. Bugs Bunny ones (though I never did get them on home video). There's more but I can't think of them right now. I'll post them when I do.

The Attack of the 60 Foot Woman.

I liked that one. The graphics made her look translucent though, which always made me laugh. A new power!

The originals of The Werewolf, Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mummy, etc. of course.

Classic.

And moving a little forward, The Night of the Lepus,

lol I have the Rifftrax copy. Deforest Kelly!

Watcher in the Woods is a good thriller, though a bit...dark in places. I liked the original theatrical ending better than the wide-release theatrical ending.
The Witches (the original) terrified me as a child but it's a pretty good film. It's hard to go wrong with Anjelica Huston.
I've heard good things about Little Monsters & Fright Night, though both are rated R.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Two horror classics from France are on YouTube:

Both inspired other filmmakers, and both are highly recommended, if you haven't seen them.

 

[CheriptheRipper]

I've watched Hellraiser, great movie.
Wanna watch the two newest Halloween movies because I'm lacking behind, but apparently both are just so-so. Wouldn't mind someone else's opinion on them.
Also wanna watch Smile and especially that Terrifier 2 because I love me some gore, and it looks crazy unnerving and funny in a way. Maybe still even get around to the Invisible Man movie.
Might watch some shows as well, The Terror/ash vs evil dead/Chapelwaite.

 

[Ent]

I love me some gore

I'd like to be able to say I'm not a lover of gore, but well... back in the day there were those Orcs I stom... oh never mind.

 

[Deimos]

I confess I like a LOT of the older ones.
The Brain from the Planet Arous. The Attack of the 60 Foot Woman. Them. The Crab Monsters. Kaltiki, the Immortal Monster. The Blob.
The originals of The Werewolf, Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mummy, etc. of course.
And moving a little forward, The Night of the Lepus, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Jaws (and offshoots), quite a few things of Vincent Price...

These are those that vie with RoP now for my "background shows" that require little attention and no brains to keep up with.

They vie with RoP? I thought RoP was a Horror Movie... Oh, wait.... maybe it was just a horror.

 

[Ent]

Oh, wait.... maybe it was just a horro

Nope. They vie with it as primo "doesn't need any attention" and "is perfectly mindless" fare.
When I"m working I don't want anything going that will distract me. RoP works as well as they do for that..!
Of course... I've seen those tons of times, and RoP only once. What does that mean? Why are they in the same general 'this is how/when I'll watch them" category??

 

[Deimos]

Bram Stoker's Dracula (dir. F.F. Coppola ) redux... "A Grand and Glorious Folly"
HA! Vindicated! (sort of 😉)

 

[Deimos]

Nope. They vie with it as primo "doesn't need any attention" and "is perfectly mindless" fare.
When I"m working I don't want anything going that will distract me. RoP works as well as they do for that..!
Of course... I've seen those tons of times, and RoP only once. What does that mean? Why are they in the same general 'this is how/when I'll watch them" category??

Ummm... I was making a joke, but perhaps it was too subtle. 😕

 

[Ent]

it was too subtle

apparently so for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Not a movie, but if you're in the mood for a spooky 30-second story, here's one from the inimitable Edgar Oliver:

And in case you think that's just a "stage voice":

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

If anyone likes those, and has another quarter of an hour or so to spare, I recommend this one too:

"Are you from Transylvania?"

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Apologies for posting three in a row, but hey, time's running out, so here's a little quiz:

I was listening to a discussion of horror movies on the radio yesterday, and was surprised when one panelist said the jump scare was "a relatively recent phenomenon". Strange, given that a jump scare in a famous film from many years ago made such an impression that the technique came to be named for the incident in that movie, and was called so for decades afterward. What was the movie?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Apologies for posting three in a row, but hey, time's running out, so here's a little quiz:

I was listening to a discussion of horror movies on the radio yesterday, and was surprised when one panelist said the jump scare was "a relatively recent phenomenon". Strange, given that a jump scare in a famous film from many years ago made such an impression that the technique came to be named for the incident in that movie, and was called so for decades afterward. What was the movie?

The Tingler? When they had the "monster" crawl on the audience's backs?

 

[Ealdwyn]

Apologies for posting three in a row, but hey, time's running out, so here's a little quiz:

I was listening to a discussion of horror movies on the radio yesterday, and was surprised when one panelist said the jump scare was "a relatively recent phenomenon". Strange, given that a jump scare in a famous film from many years ago made such an impression that the technique came to be named for the incident in that movie, and was called so for decades afterward. What was the movie?

Hmmm.... I don't know about the first one, but I was watching Cat People (1942) a few weeks ago, which has quite a nice example. So it's definitely not a "recent" phenomenon