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

[enterthemadness]

The Thing(1982) Great movie. I want to watch it again...maybe this weekend? Nice score, acting, directing. Love this movie. Good script too.

The Shining. Good lord, this movie scared me! Well...a few scenes did anyway. Good...maybe almost great movie. Jack does a very good job acting in this movie.

Evil Dead. Bad acting...bad. But, the directing is good and the special effects are like *vomits*. Crude, but still effective. OKay, I didn't vomit, but the crude effects are very icky. I did give this movie a D+ but that was because the acting was that bad. When thinking it over, I should give this movie a solid B. It was good, just the acting was that bad. The story is okay along with music, but it is still an entertaining movie.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

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

I saw a copy at my local Circuit City, so presumably it's around.

 

[Prognosticator]

I was at Circuit City on Monday but they didn't have much to offer!

 

[Kevin Roegele]

can you imagine how much Jaws would've sucked if it had been 3 GQ studs on the boat.

Which it will be in the inevitable remake.

Along with Brody contacting Ellen from the boat on his laptop, and Quint grabbing the laptop and throwing it into the sea (instead of smashing up the phone with a baseball bat).

 

[trentoid]

the only reason modern horror has these cliches is because they attempt to copy the classics, friday the 13th had all these good looking teens who would get killed after having sex whilst running through the forest, same goes with nightmare on elm street, the only difference between the cliche's in modern horror and the cliches in the classics is because the classics did it first.

and also theres been some decent to good horrors in recent times which shouldn't be ignored because you think that all modern horrors are like the boogeyman, check out films like switchblade romance (aka high tension) and the hills have eyes remake and severance all made after 2000 and all are great horror movies...

and thats not even beginning to touch on the fantastic horror movies that come out of asia

 

[supzfan]

Mister Lennon hit all the "greats". I would also add "White Zombie" and "I Walked With a Zombie". I realy love "The Black Cat". A movie that's often missed is "Horror Express" with Chis Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas. Another "pip" is "Doctor Phibes" with Vincent Price. Did you mention "The Uninvited"?

 

[Cobb]

I'll go with some of my all time favorites.
Black Christmas
Freaks
The Blob (original)
Black Sunday
Gates of Hell
Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstien

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Which it will be in the inevitable remake.

Along with Brody contacting Ellen from the boat on his laptop, and Quint grabbing the laptop and throwing it into the sea (instead of smashing up the phone with a baseball bat).

You see into dark futures.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

the only reason modern horror has these cliches is because they attempt to copy the classics, friday the 13th had all these good looking teens who would get killed after having sex whilst running through the forest, same goes with nightmare on elm street, the only difference between the cliche's in modern horror and the cliches in the classics is because the classics did it first.

and also theres been some decent to good horrors in recent times which shouldn't be ignored because you think that all modern horrors are like the boogeyman, check out films like switchblade romance (aka high tension) and the hills have eyes remake and severance all made after 2000 and all are great horror movies...

and thats not even beginning to touch on the fantastic horror movies that come out of asia

Your point is good if applied to others but has no bearing on me as I loathe Friday the 13th and Freddy Krueger for a lot of the same reasons I loathe the s*** now.

I like Basket Case.
I like The Wicker Man
I like Dawn of the Dead
I like the Shining
I like the Exorcist
I like The Thing

I wouldn't put those in the same box as quip-making Freddy Krueger and dumb-ass teens endlessly running from a guy with an edged weapon.

 

[Prognosticator]

Nice comment, Cobb, on the Abbott and Costello/Frankenstein!

There's some truly GREAT scary comedies...I remember several Three Stooges shorts that were both frightening as a kid and mischievous in the way only the Stooges provide.

Also, Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein is comedy gold!

 

[Prognosticator]

...but you can't go wrong with horror when the movie involves Christopher Lee or Vincent Price, although I believe the Price original of The Fly is boring and possibly the most overrated "classic horror movie".

 

[War Party]

Um, Dead Alive. Great horror comedy by Peter Jackson and probably the goriest movie ever made.

 

[mister Lennon]

...but you can't go wrong with horror when the movie involves Christopher Lee or Vincent Price, although I believe the Price original of The Fly is boring and possibly the most overrated "classic horror movie".

Desagree. The original fly was very disturbing and impressing for its time. See some scenes like the first time when we see the man with the fly head and hand, the eyes of the monster seeing several images of his wife , like a real fly, really scary. Or the last scene with the fly with human head and hand dieng at the spider web, with the little voice saying "help meeeee, help meeeee" , really amazing. It was so impressing and good as the remake.

 

[hippie_hunter]

The Fly from 1986 is not getting enough respect here

 

[mister Lennon]

Mister Lennon hit all the "greats". I would also add "White Zombie" and "I Walked With a Zombie". I realy love "The Black Cat". A movie that's often missed is "Horror Express" with Chis Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas. Another "pip" is "Doctor Phibes" with Vincent Price. Did you mention "The Uninvited"?

Not, but great choice. The univinted was one of the most terryfing movies from the 40s, it was great. And if you want to see some Karloff-Lugosi movies, see also the crow or the body snatcher or the invisible ray, great movies. Also, the movies directed by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price based on Edgard Allan Poes work were all amazing movies.

Horror express was a spanish movie with Chris Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savallas, was good but not as good as the hammer movies with Cushing and Lee. I suggest too another non hammer movie starring Cushing and Lee, plus Donald Shuterland and Michael Gough called doctor terror. It was superberb.


Also, night's hour starring Michael Reedgrave is pretty good. Is a movie with several terror stories and one of them is about a mad ventroloquist with his evil dummy. Really scary.

 

[mister Lennon]

The 1986 version of the fly was very, very good. Probably Cronemberg's best movie, but the original movie was as good as it was.

 

[superkong 500]

Okay my favorite horror movies in order:
The exorcist
The shinning
Halloween
The thing(carpenter version)
Friday the 13th parts 3& 1
night of the living dead(original)
TCM(original)
Rosemary's baby
suspiria
The fly(Cronenberg version)
The phantasm
Dawn of the dead(remake)
Evil dead
an american werewolf in london
Dont look now
Last house on the left
Terror train
black christmas
The funhouse
I have more but don't remember them all right now

 

[Kevin Roegele]

The Fly from 1986 is not getting enough respect here

Superb movie. Perfectly paced.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

In retrospect, Halloween does not hold up especially well and seems quite mild compared to the slashers of the last decade.

 

[Joe Kerr]

In retrospect, Halloween does not hold up especially well and seems quite mild compared to the slashers of the last decade.

Halloween is my Favorite horror movie...

 

[Majik1387]

Night of the Living Dead.


Both versions.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Halloween is my Favorite horror movie...

No, really....?

 

[Prognosticator]

So my college friend (who's still living campus life) finally made it over to my "new" appt in the "city" on Friday and we had an AWESOME night!

We drove around to a few Halloween stores to check out some stuff before we went to BestBuy. Drew had a gift card so he dropped $65 like that on horror movies and CDs...

Then we went by a KILLER wing shop and FEASTED on hotwings of various sorts. The food was PERFECT!

Then we watched the original "Wicker Man", and it was Creepy!

After that we took a break for about an hour and smoked a couple of cigars out on my balcony. I found this sweet cigar shop near the wings store, and it was the BEST cigar I've ever had! AMAZING!!!

So we go back in and start up another horror movie. We watched "The Last House on the Left" and it was creep-city! Yikes; very disturbing...

Then he left @ 2am and drove home for work the next morning.

What can I say, a very successful evening for old horror classics!

 

[Joe Kerr]

that night sounds like it was missing the perfect ingredient which would of fit perfectly between best buy and the wings....it rhymes with seed

BUUUUNNG...

 

[Joe Kerr]

No you idiot.... *sigh*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOTCH...

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