Enough With Modern Horror Crap...Let's Compare Old-School Classics!

[Prognosticator]

I'm so sick of these lamey modern "horror" movie rehasks...

Let's go back the basics - the classics, if you will.

I've got a buddy from my old college town driving over Friday and we're going to have a marathon of horror movies...but we don't wanna watch the cliche-filled crapfest of modern cinema.

Help me render a FULL-COURSE list of classic horror movies from 2000 and before, but remember - the older, the better!

...GO!

 

[The Chairman]

I haven't seen a great deal of horror movies, I haven't even seen most of the ones I'm going to list, but if you want to have a complete and concise marathon of most if not all the most reverred horror classics, here you go:

The Shining (1980)
Jaws (1975)
Pyscho (1960)
Dracula (1931)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Fright Night (1985)
Nightmsre On Elm Street (1984)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986) (more action than horror, though)
Halloween (1978)
The Omen (1976)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Exorcist (1973)
Devil's Advocate (1997)
Any old Vincent Price movie
Scream (1996)
The Evil Dead (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)

 

[mister Lennon]

Great list. I would add some classics more:

Nosferatu
Frankenstein(1931)
Bride of Frankenstein
Freaks
The mummy (1932)
Doctor Jeckyll and mister Hyde( 1933)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The mummy (1959)
Curse of the Werewolfe
The howling
American Werewolfe in London
The falling of the Huser house
The fly(1958)
The fly( 1986)
The thing (1982)
The birds
the wax house (50s version)

 

[JLBats]

Peeping Tom

 

[Prognosticator]

Yes. Yes! great lists! keep em' coming for sure!

Last year my friend and I had several occasions when we watched some thematic movies around October...

Specifically from last year we caught The Fly (86'), Friday the 13th (original), They Live (87'), The Ring (03'), Hellraiser I (86?), Land of the Dead (04'), and a couple of others we didn't finish...

This year we're planning The Wicker Man (the old one w/Christopher Lee), The Thing (80'), and maybe From Dusk Till' Dawn (96'). Other than that, we really want to branch out with some OLDER stuff!

 

[hippie_hunter]

THE FLY

 

[Prognosticator]

Believe me, my friends and i are all BIG fans of the Evil Dead series! but we've watched it so many times, we think it'd be good to check out something else this time. Are there any horror/comedies that come to mind from the 80s or 90s?

 

[Joe Kerr]

DP


sorry!

 

[Joe Kerr]

Believe me, my friends and i are all BIG fans of the Evil Dead series! but we've watched it so many times, we think it'd be good to check out something else this time. Are there any horror/comedies that come to mind from the 80s or 90s?

Once Bitten, Teen Wolf

 

[Prognosticator]

Sick, Once Bitten is so bad!

But Teen Wolf...NiCCCCCe!

 

[Prognosticator]

Last year I bought "Elvira" at Wal-Mart in the 4.88 bin...I'm a BIG fan of hers for boobvious reasons!

But we couldn't even make it through the movie it was so bad

 

[The Shape]

Once Bitten, Teen Wolf

Teen Wolf may be a classic, but its hardly a horror classic.

And Once Bitten?

 

[DACrowe]

Ahem:

Nosferatu (1922)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (?)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Werewolf of London (1935)
The Mummy (1932)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941, the Spencer Tracy one)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1942)
Cat-People (1942)
The Body Snatcher (1944)
The Body Snatchers (195-?)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (195-?)
The War of the Worlds (1957)
Horror of Dracula (1958)

The more modern ones (Halloween, The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, Polterguise, Jaws, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Fly much better remake, etc.) I assume you know, but a certain character, named Alfred Hitchcock gets his own list (even if they are more suspense than horror):

Rebecca (1939)
Sabetour (1942)
A Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Notorious (1947)
Strangers on a Train (1948)
Dial M for Murder (195-?)
Rear Window (195-?)
North by Northwest (1956)
The Man who Knew Too Much (1957)
Rope (195-?)
Vertigo (1960?)
Psycho (1962)
The Birds (1963)
Frenzy (197-?)

AND FOR HORROR I CANNOT STRESS PSYCHO ENOUGH (maybe even The Birds, not one of my favorites but it is horror and vastly popular though).

And those are the best of "Hitch," amongst the greatest directors of all time.

 

[Joe Kerr]

Teen Wolf may be a classic, but its hardly a horror classic.

And Once Bitten?

he said 80's 90's Horror/Comedies!

 

[The Shape]

he said 80's 90's Horror/Comedies!

Oh, okay. I didn't see that you were responding to that post.

 

[Joe Kerr]

Oh, okay. I didn't see that you were responding to that post.

I should have quoted but my comps. kind of slow today, maybe its the hype, i dunno

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Reanimater
Day of the Dead

 

[Prognosticator]

We've been talking about Re-animater but I can't find it anywhere!

 

[Prognosticator]

I'm also on the look out for...(eerie music) The Last House on the Left, but I can't find that one anywhere either.

 

[Prognosticator]

So I've been looking all around and I can't seem to find very many of the older classics at all I was starting to gear myself up for some REAL oldies but they aren't anywhere!

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Last year I bought "Elvira" at Wal-Mart in the 4.88 bin...I'm a BIG fan of hers for boobvious reasons!

How can you face the Wal-Mart checkout person and buy something like that? How can you look them in the eye when you're purchasing such ****, and for such obvious reasons?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

One of the biggest reasons I hate modern horror and love old stuff is, now they only cast really good looking people.
It's scarier when it's more believable when the protagonists/victims seem like ordinary, unknown people.

I'm thinking of Fran and her dorky boyfriend in Dawn of the Dead, all the goons in Prince of Darkness, the DJ and her co-worker in TCM 2, everyone except Linda Blair in the Exorcist, the trio from Jaws......can you imagine how much Jaws would've sucked if it had been 3 GQ studs on the boat.

 

[Prognosticator]

Brilliant observation Wilhelm! It's just like how the guy over on the "new TCM" thread said he laughed whenever leatherface was on screen b/c it's the same roid-rager from Street Fighter?!?

I mean, I was looking at the original TCM at Target yesterday on my lunch break and all I could see was how "normal/ugly" looking the guy was who played leatherface in the original...same thing.

 

[Prognosticator]

Same reason we CHEER for the ****ty drugies to die, but fear for the so-so looking girl in Friday the 13th..."for chrissakes, she's already had a rough enough life looking like that!" ...We don't want her to die as well!

 

[mister Lennon]

Some other great old horror movies:

Phantom of the opera (1925)
Dont look now (1973)
The haunting (1958)
The innocents (1961)