Favorite Top 5 Classic Horror Films

[dan bailey]

And I like being one of the youngest members of this clan too. I can carry on the legacy!

I'm concerned about your apparent lack of curmudgeonly inclinations, young one.

I suppose there's still time ...

For practice, I'd like you to sit down with your kids (2, IIRC?) for at least an hour every day & berate them for not liking exactly the same things you do.

[dan bailey]

Try this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074323/

Finally got around to watching it on VHS a couple of years ago. Very fun.

[adam_warlock_2099]

I'm concerned about your apparent lack of curmudgeonly inclinations, young one.

I suppose there's still time ...

For practice, I'd like you to sit down with your kids (2, IIRC?) for at least an hour every day & berate them for not liking exactly the same things you do.

Oh god thank you for that dan. That was a true lol (laugh out loud for you old timers).

I do question that while my son enjoys all the original Godzilla films he still likes the American version. But then he watches Them!, Valley of Gwangi, Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and the original King Kong. He does however take after his mother in musical tastes, which are far from mine.

Also, you remember how many children I have better than people I see on a daily basis. Alzheimer's hasn't set in yet. 8-)

[dan bailey]

Oh god thank you for that dan. That was a true lol (laugh out loud for you old timers).

That's what I'm here for. (I certainly can't think of any other reasons.)

I do question that while my son enjoys all the original Godzilla films he still likes the American version.

All I've ever seen is the Raymond Burr version of the first one. Accordingly, your son is wise beyond his years.

But then he watches Them!, Valley of Gwangi, Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and the original King Kong.

Your son is even wiser beyond his years than I thought. (In a comparable vein, if he's not yet been introduced to the likes of Gorgo, The Black Scorpion, Beast from Hollow Mountain, The Giant Behemoth, The Deadly Mantis, The Giant Claw [widely derided for its silly "flying turkey" of a monster, but when I was 9 or 10 it spooked me quite nicely], Attack of the Crab Monsters, Monster from Green Hell, The Beginning of the End, The Monster That Challenged the World & a few others not coming to mind at the moment, you have a lot to look forward to in introducing him to them ... not to mention, of course, just about everything else Harryhausen ever did that he might not have seen. I'm not sure how many of those I've listed are available on DVD, though the fact that I paid somewhat dearly to obtain several on DVD-R because there was no legit version at the time almost certainly ensures that they're now readily available from the usual outlets for just about free, of course.)

He does however take after his mother in musical tastes, which are far from mine.

There you go! Lock him up in a closet for the next several years, feeding him only tepid, stale water & petrified crusts of bread, communicating with him only to yell abuse.

That's how I was raised, & I turned out just fine.

*ahem*

Also, you remember how many children I have better than people I see on a daily basis. Alzheimer's hasn't set in yet. 8-)

Wait ... who are you? What were we talking about? Where am I? What am I doing?

[Brian Gravity]

1. Troll 2 (1990)- all time favorite movie, period.
2. The Thing (1982) - amazing (and very creepy) special effects for it's time.
3. Halloween (1978) - king of the slashers imo.
4. The Birds (1963) - living near bodega bay and seeing the same exact playground the birds wrecked havoc at raised a higher level of terror from this movie for me.
5. Se7en (1995) - one of the most horrific endings I've ever seen (although it doesn't hold a candle to the ending of Sleepaway Camp).

[Reptisaurus!]

Try this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074323/

Ahh. That looks cool. I need to watch more giant monster movies.

1. Troll 2 (1990)- all time favorite movie, period.

I quite enjoyed the documentary about the movie.

[dan bailey]

I quite enjoyed the documentary about the movie.

I saw it here with the guy who played the family's father in attendance (he's a dentist not too terribly far from Montgomery); he took questions afterward. Really nice guy.

[Jezebel Bond]

The creepiest would probably be The Changeling from 1979. I just find it that extra spooky when the ghosts are dead kids. Like those two little girls who just stand there staring in The Shining. The original one...not that ABC shitfest.

Also my current Top 5 would include some French nasties like High Tension, Martyrs...

Then there are my top 5 shock films that put your average rated R movie flisck to shame....with the top of the list going to Aftermath.

From wiki...

Aftermath is a short horror film by the Spanish director Nacho Cerdà made in 1994. It follows a pair of morticians performing graphic autopsies on a pair of corpses. After one leaves for the night, the second begins working on a third body, a young woman identified as Marta Arnau Marti, killed in a car crash. He first mutilates the corpse, then uses it for necrophiliac purposes while taking photographs. After he finishes, he removes the woman's heart and completes the autopsy, then takes her heart home and blends it into a fine pulp. The film ends as he feeds his dog the heart while he relaxes and watches TV.

There is no spoken dialogue for the duration of the film.

Speaking about horror...why do all current editions of The Fog by James Herbert have such a boring cover? There was one in the 80s with a woman's head...instant eye-catcher...

[mrc1214]

And I like being one of the youngest members of this clan too. I can carry on the legacy!

I really I can too. I am 25 right now and I love the classic boards. Ive learned so much on here and its been here for me when Ive gone through some really terrible times. I always knew the CBR classics board would cheer me up or I guess that I felt like I belonged to something. I've made some real friends on here and if they needed me tomorrow I would be there no matter how far the trip. Work and a new girlfriend have kept me pretty bust but I sweat I think about posting here alot. The Classics board is never far from my mind. I hope when I am 50 this board is still around.

[adam_warlock_2099]

Your son is even wiser beyond his years than I thought. (In a comparable vein, if he's not yet been introduced to the likes of Gorgo, The Black Scorpion, Beast from Hollow Mountain, The Giant Behemoth, The Deadly Mantis, The Giant Claw [widely derided for its silly "flying turkey" of a monster, but when I was 9 or 10 it spooked me quite nicely], Attack of the Crab Monsters, Monster from Green Hell, The Beginning of the End, The Monster That Challenged the World & a few others not coming to mind at the moment, you have a lot to look forward to in introducing him to them ... not to mention, of course, just about everything else Harryhausen ever did that he might not have seen. I'm not sure how many of those I've listed are available on DVD, though the fact that I paid somewhat dearly to obtain several on DVD-R because there was no legit version at the time almost certainly ensures that they're now readily available from the usual outlets for just about free, of course.)

I have Gorgo and The Monster That Challenged The World somewhere here on VHS. I'm fairly certain that he has Gorgo, but not sure. I'll have to dig it out of the closet. I am not even sure that I have seen most of the ones that you have listed. I think I've seen The Black Scorpion, but not sure. Anyways, I'll check them out if I can find them. I enjoy 50's and 60's monster movies.

1. Troll 2 (1990)- all time favorite movie, period.
2. The Thing (1982) - amazing (and very creepy) special effects for it's time.
3. Halloween (1978) - king of the slashers imo.
4. The Birds (1963) - living near bodega bay and seeing the same exact playground the birds wrecked havoc at raised a higher level of terror from this movie for me.
5. Se7en (1995) - one of the most horrific endings I've ever seen (although it doesn't hold a candle to the ending of Sleepaway Camp).

This is available on netflix, I think. I may have to give it a viewing if it available. I never though of Se7en as a horror flick, but it does end very surprisingly and sad. I didn't see it coming the first time I watched it.

I really I can too. I am 25 right now and I love the classic boards. Ive learned so much on here and its been here for me when Ive gone through some really terrible times. I always knew the CBR classics board would cheer me up or I guess that I felt like I belonged to something. I've made some real friends on here and if they needed me tomorrow I would be there no matter how far the trip. Work and a new girlfriend have kept me pretty bust but I sweat I think about posting here alot. The Classics board is never far from my mind. I hope when I am 50 this board is still around.

This is one of the best places on the internet.

[dan bailey]

*sigh* I realized last night that I forgot to list Tarantula & the original Earth vs. the Spider. Clearly, I wasn't locked in the closet & shouted at for nearly long enough as a kid.

A lot of the movies I listed was lucky enough to catch either large swathes of or in their entirety on the after-school movie out of, I think, the ABC station in Shreveport when I was in grade school. At least one, Monster That Challenged the World, left my very young mind scarred with certain indelible images from before I ever started first grade (no such thing as a non-private kindergarten back then, at least in backwoods Arkansas) ... as was also true of Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Flame Barrier (though I wondered about that film's identity for decades till I came across the tell-tale scene on a DVD-R a few years ago), The Return of Dracula (ditto, except much more recently & on legit release via Netflix), Monster on the Campus & The Hideous Sun Demon. What sheer, horrifying bliss for a 4- or 5-year-old!

[Aziz Abbasi]

Because, clannish as it sounds, we tend to keep to our own.

OK

We also fear outsiders. Who told you about this board??

My uncle Bob, he was a stone cutter

[adam_warlock_2099]

*sigh* I realized last night that I forgot to list Tarantula & the original Earth vs. the Spider. Clearly, I wasn't locked in the closet & shouted at for nearly long enough as a kid.

A lot of the movies I listed was lucky enough to catch either large swathes of or in their entirety on the after-school movie out of, I think, the ABC station in Shreveport when I was in grade school. At least one, Monster That Challenged the World, left my very young mind scarred with certain indelible images from before I ever started first grade (no such thing as a non-private kindergarten back then, at least in backwoods Arkansas) ... as was also true of Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Flame Barrier (though I wondered about that film's identity for decades till I came across the tell-tale scene on a DVD-R a few years ago), The Return of Dracula (ditto, except much more recently & on legit release via Netflix), Monster on the Campus & The Hideous Sun Demon. What sheer, horrifying bliss for a 4- or 5-year-old!

Despite being arachnophobic (though that is many times a misnomer as most people are afraid of spiders, not all arachnids, as is my case), I love spider movies. I have seen Tarantula and Earth vs the Spider. It also reminds me of a William Shatner movie, Kingdom of the Spiders, which I think I watched pre-teen or so. I remember a specific scene that to me was horrific, and now as a father with children makes me wonder how much of my fear I could overcome if it were for their sake.

I like The Creature From the Black Lagoon fairly well. I don't think I own it, but it would probably be a movie my would like.

[pakehafulla]

Hmmmmmm in no particular order...

Alien
Rec
Rec 2
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
An American Werewolf in London

I have a fondness for Horror/Comedy if done right as in Reanimator, or Shaun of the Dead. Love Zombie movies, but those sprinting zombies in the Dawn remake make me crap my pants(so I love 28 Days later as well). The original Alien works as one of the greatest Horror OR SF movies for me so gets votes in both. And finally those REC films (or is that [rec] ?), oh my fucking god they scared the hell out of me, excuse my french there, but holy crap, most definitely frightening.

[Oskar Von Strange]

Ugh! This list is always changing for me. I'm big fan of horror/b-movies that putting 5 favs drives me nuts!!

The Thing
Dracula(w/ Philip Glass score)
Night of The Living Dead
Frankenstein
Phantom of The Opera(Chaney)

I'm happy to see Carnival of Souls getting some love.