The Horror Thread - Part 3

[redhawk23]

Oh, Candy Man totally slipped my mind. That film is fantastic on many levels.

 

[Thundarr]

Alright guys! For the hell of it, I'm setting up an ultimate poll for all those interested.

I've got my Excel spreadsheets open, and I'm ready to get down to business.

I am going to compile SuperHeroHype's 100 Greatest Horror Films.

What YOU are to do for me is this:

Provide me with two lists.

List #1: Your 20 Favorite Horror Movies of All-Time. These are your 20 personal favorites, not necessarily in order - any way you like.

List #2: Give me what you BELIEVE to be the 20 Greatest Horror Movies of All-Time. These don't have to be your favorites... You don't even need to like them. Any order you like as well.

If you have movies repeated on both lists, this is A-okay. You do not necessarily have to give me a list of 40 separate films... just 2 lists of 20.

Once we have 20 people contribute to this, the polling will be closed, and I will tally up the winners and share the finished list, counting down from #100 all the way to #1.

Annnnnnnnd... BEGIN.

1) Halloween (original)
2) Halloween II (original)
3) Halloween: H20
4) Friday The 13th (original)
5) Friday The 13th Part 2
6) Friday The 13th 3D
7) Friday The 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter
8) A Nightmare On Elm Street
9) A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
10) A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors
11) The Exorcist
12) Carrie (original)
13) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
14) Black Christmas (original)
15) The Thing
16) Night Of The Living Dead (original)
17) Poltergeist
18) Evil Dead 2
19) Stephen King's IT
20) Scream

My list of greatest horror films of all time and my list of favorite horror films are pretty much the same, so you can consider the above list to be both.

 

[Thundarr]

I liked all parts of it, even the golf sequence a special edition of it was just released on blu-ray and DVD in the UK.

A movie that reminds me a bit of Dead of Night is "Three Cases of Murder". It's also scary, but not like today's horror movies. Orson Welles plays the badguy in the third and final story...he's suffering from nightmares. Some of them are pretty funnyt:

The best (and scariest) story is the first, about a guy that walks into a painting. I won't spoil it...t:

I wish more movies could be like Dead of Night and Three Cases of Murder. Ugly guys jumping at the screen and buckets of blood doesn't scare me. I try to stay away from movies like that, because they always disappoint me. I prefer strange and nightmarish tales of the supernatural...I'm not afraid of inbred cannibals when I take a walk in the woods, but the Blair Witch. The thing in my attic isn't a zombie, but a Japanese ghost lady.

Funny, but for the most part I'm the complete opposite. I'm more frightened of getting attacked by a crazed psycho killer than I am of getting attacked by a horde of flesh eating zombies, or of a little Japanese girl crawling out of my TV set. Movies about people being possessed by Satan or getting torn apart by werewolves or vampires don't scare me, because I find it hard to suspend my disbelief with something that I consider the work of fairy tales to begin with.

Don't get me wrong, not EVERY movie about psycho killers I find frightening. Only the ones that are done reasonably well, with plenty of suspense and tension leading up to the killings. The only supernatural movies I do find frightening are those about haunted houses, because I do believe in ghosts. I believe I have mentioned before that I grew up in a haunted house. Kinda hard to see the things I've seen and NOT believe in ghosts. But again, the ghost story has to be well told, like Poltergeist or The Conjuring. Otherwise I just won't find it scary.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Don't get me wrong, not EVERY movie about psycho killers I find frightening. Only the ones that are done reasonably well, with plenty of suspense and tension leading up to the killings. The only supernatural movies I do find frightening are those about haunted houses, because I do believe in ghosts. I believe I have mentioned before that I grew up in a haunted house. Kinda hard to see the things I've seen and NOT believe in ghosts. But again, the ghost story has to be well told, like Poltergeist or The Conjuring. Otherwise I just won't find it scary.

I'm sorry, but I can't respect your opinion. Prepare to die

Just kidding, of course. But now I'm curious...what did you see?t:

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Btw, I have creepy story...a true story.

When I was a little boy and played with some toys in my room, I experienced something strange. In the hallway outside, there was movement, and a strange sound (like someone talking while under water). It looked like the shadow of a man, raising his arms. It disappeared quickly. I always thought it was my imagination...

Years later my mother told me that before I was born, she saw a dark man wearing a hat, standing in the hallway, in the exact same spot where I thought I saw something (this was before I told her of my experience).

She also told me that my room was their former bedroom. One night, many years ago, my father woke up, and saw a dark man, sitting in a chair...wearing a hat!

Not saying that it was a ghost or something. My mother says she was hallucinating because she was tired. But it is pretty strange...even stranger, I have read many similar stories about people encountering "the hatman". Nanananananana Hatman!!!t:

 

[Thundarr]

I'm sorry, but I can't respect your opinion. Prepare to die

Just kidding, of course. But now I'm curious...what did you see?t:

There have been a number of freaky things over the years. Once when I was little, I was in the basement playing with my Hotwheels cars. I saw three shadows pass by the light being cast by the basement window, people shaped as though three people just walked past the window. Curious as to who was in my backyard, I went to the door, went outside and looked around. The backyard was empty. My mom has a pretty big house, with a huge backyard. And the basement door is located very close to the backyard. Even if they were running, there is no way that three people could have gotten to the far end of the house and around the corner without me seeing them.

A number of times, I heard someone walking down the hall on the main floor of the house, even though I was home alone. My the floors of my mom's house creak and groan with every step taken. You can tell exactly where in the house someone is just by the sound of the floor squeaking, creaking, and groaning. Even if we had a pet large enough to make the floors make noise, there's a noticeable difference between human footsteps and dog footsteps. These were human, but there was no one there.

As a teenager, I saw the TV turn on and off by itself, while the remote was sitting on the coffee table far from anyone's reach.

And while it's not a specific instance of tangible evidence (sight, sound, etc), whenever I go downstairs in my mom's house, I always feel like I'm being watched.

My sister has some stories of being in Mom's house as well. When we were kids, she woke up one night to find our uncle sitting at the edge of her bed, smiling sadly at her. The next morning she asked Mom why our uncle was in her room. Mom told her our uncle had passed away that earlier evening.

As an adult, she and her husband moved into the basement. Mike (her husband) is a skilled carpenter and was turning the basement into a livable basement suite that Mom could later rent out to tenants. He was busy turning my dad's old workshop into a nursery for my niece (my sister was pregnant at the time) when my sister brought him some lunch. Just as she walked into the room, the A frame step ladder, which was in the middle of the floor and nowhere near either of them, just slid a couple of feet across the floor. Mike's jaw dropped and he said "Did you just see that?" My sister, who was used to this kind of thing by now, just shrugged and said "Yeah, that was the ghost."

When we were kids, our grandmother used to live with us. She would babysit us while our parents were at work. We had a spare bedroom for her set up in the basement. After we grew up, and the basement was turned into a livable basement suite, Nanny's room (we called our grandma "Nanny") became my nephew's room. The day Nanny died, Val & Mike came home from shopping. As they were taking their shoes off, Mike looked downstairs and saw who he thought was my mom. He asked Valerie, "Why is your mom downstairs?" But when Val looked, there was no one there. They went downstairs and found the hall door closed and locked (they had left it open). They opened it and looked around. There was no one else downstairs. What's more, someone had cleaned up my nephew's room and put all of his toys away (he was at that age where he left his toys scattered all over the floor, all the time). Later they asked Mom if she had cleaned Niel's room. She said no, and it's then that they learned of Nanny's passing.

So yeah, freaky s**t happens in my mom's house. So stories about angry/vengeful ghosts? Scary. Stories about little girls peeing on the floor and puking split pea soup? Not so much.

 

[Daywalker89]

There have been a number of freaky things over the years. Once when I was little, I was in the basement playing with my Hotwheels cars. I saw three shadows pass by the light being cast by the basement window, people shaped as though three people just walked past the window. Curious as to who was in my backyard, I went to the door, went outside and looked around. The backyard was empty. My mom has a pretty big house, with a huge backyard. And the basement door is located very close to the backyard. Even if they were running, there is no way that three people could have gotten to the far end of the house and around the corner without me seeing them.

A number of times, I heard someone walking down the hall on the main floor of the house, even though I was home alone. My the floors of my mom's house creak and groan with every step taken. You can tell exactly where in the house someone is just by the sound of the floor squeaking, creaking, and groaning. Even if we had a pet large enough to make the floors make noise, there's a noticeable difference between human footsteps and dog footsteps. These were human, but there was no one there.

As a teenager, I saw the TV turn on and off by itself, while the remote was sitting on the coffee table far from anyone's reach.

And while it's not a specific instance of tangible evidence (sight, sound, etc), whenever I go downstairs in my mom's house, I always feel like I'm being watched.

My sister has some stories of being in Mom's house as well. When we were kids, she woke up one night to find our uncle sitting at the edge of her bed, smiling sadly at her. The next morning she asked Mom why our uncle was in her room. Mom told her our uncle had passed away that earlier evening.

As an adult, she and her husband moved into the basement. Mike (her husband) is a skilled carpenter and was turning the basement into a livable basement suite that Mom could later rent out to tenants. He was busy turning my dad's old workshop into a nursery for my niece (my sister was pregnant at the time) when my sister brought him some lunch. Just as she walked into the room, the A frame step ladder, which was in the middle of the floor and nowhere near either of them, just slid a couple of feet across the floor. Mike's jaw dropped and he said "Did you just see that?" My sister, who was used to this kind of thing by now, just shrugged and said "Yeah, that was the ghost."

When we were kids, our grandmother used to live with us. She would babysit us while our parents were at work. We had a spare bedroom for her set up in the basement. After we grew up, and the basement was turned into a livable basement suite, Nanny's room (we called our grandma "Nanny") became my nephew's room. The day Nanny died, Val & Mike came home from shopping. As they were taking their shoes off, Mike looked downstairs and saw who he thought was my mom. He asked Valerie, "Why is your mom downstairs?" But when Val looked, there was no one there. They went downstairs and found the hall door closed and locked (they had left it open). They opened it and looked around. There was no one else downstairs. What's more, someone had cleaned up my nephew's room and put all of his toys away (he was at that age where he left his toys scattered all over the floor, all the time). Later they asked Mom if she had cleaned Niel's room. She said no, and it's then that they learned of Nanny's passing.

So yeah, freaky s**t happens in my mom's house. So stories about angry/vengeful ghosts? Scary. Stories about little girls peeing on the floor and puking split pea soup? Not so much.

Wow this was great reading. So basically these experiences have left you immune to those typical ghost films. Which is understandable of course. I personally believe in paronormal activity. I just think theres different realms of of how we as humans see things and people,i also believe in afterlife. I dont want to go off topic but some of the stuff ive researched left me in a mindboggled state. It has left me in a different mindframe as a person.

 

[Thundarr]

Wow this was great reading. So basically these experiences have left you immune to those typical ghost films. Which is understandable of course. I personally believe in paronormal activity. I just think theres different realms of of how we as humans see things and people,i also believe in afterlife. I dont want to go off topic but some of the stuff ive researched left me in a mindboggled state. It has left me in a different mindframe as a person.

I wouldn't say they left me immune to ghost stories. More like I'm more affected by ghost stories (or at least well told ones). I've been lucky in that every ghost that has made their presence known in my mom's house have been harmless. They just pop up and say "Howdy" every once in a while. I've never consulted an actual paranormal investigator before, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say my mom's house was built on a doorway between our world and the afterlife. Whenever a paranormal activity occurs, it's the spirit of a recently deceased making his/her way to the here after.

But because I know there are harmless spirits walking the Earth, I know that there could be some malevolent spirits hanging about too. That's why I find movies like The Conjuring and Poltergeist so disturbing. Knowing that there are people who want to do you harm for no reason, and you can't stop them because they're already dead? Now that's creepy.

And again, psycho killers are real so movies about psycho killers I find scary. In Vancouver alone we have Willie Pikton, who killed an estimated 50+ women over the last several years. And there's "The Beast Of BC" Clifford Olsen, who is like a real life Freddy Krueger having raped and killed numerous children and knows absolutely no remorse (in fact, he's perversely proud of his actions). The fact that there's people like that actually in the world today (and not all of whom are behind bars) is scary beyond imagining.

 

[Daywalker89]

I wouldn't say they left me immune to ghost stories. More like I'm more affected by ghost stories (or at least well told ones). I've been lucky in that every ghost that has made their presence known in my mom's house have been harmless. They just pop up and say "Howdy" every once in a while. I've never consulted an actual paranormal investigator before, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say my mom's house was built on a doorway between our world and the afterlife. Whenever a paranormal activity occurs, it's the spirit of a recently deceased making his/her way to the here after.

But because I know there are harmless spirits walking the Earth, I know that there could be some malevolent spirits hanging about too. That's why I find movies like The Conjuring and Poltergeist so disturbing. Knowing that there are people who want to do you harm for no reason, and you can't stop them because they're already dead? Now that's creepy.

And again, psycho killers are real so movies about psycho killers I find scary. In Vancouver alone we have Willie Pikton, who killed an estimated 50+ women over the last several years. And there's "The Beast Of BC" Clifford Olsen, who is like a real life Freddy Krueger having raped and killed numerous children and knows absolutely no remorse (in fact, he's perversely proud of his actions). The fact that there's people like that actually in the world today (and not all of whom are behind bars) is scary beyond imagining.

Wow more affected ok, i misread that you seemed to be more towards that direction. The second paragraph knocked a personal cord with with me afterall there are good and bad people on this planet and i think the same applies in the spirit world. It irks me because of the possibility of what the darker side are capable of . In realife as you have mentioned there are some truly gruesome/devilish behaviour out there. Too me they are inhuman capable of evil and personally not from this realm. People need to realise this is a big world and there alot of unexplained things in certain parts of this world. Certain people can zone out of this human realm and realise that for example. If you can see a chair in a empty room. Someone else will see the chair but may see a obscure projection of that chair. I believe there are people on this earth who are zoned out from the human condition and are controlled by something else in a different realm .

 

[PalmerTheThing]

I think the golden age of horror is done.

And to me that was 1960-1990.

Those 30 years introduced so much classic horror, that we will never come close to that.

1991-2014 has been pretty bland. I miss my classic bros like Freddy, Jason, Chucky, Michael, and Pinhead.

 

[Ant-manic]

Btw, I have creepy story...a true story.

When I was a little boy and played with some toys in my room, I experienced something strange. In the hallway outside, there was movement, and a strange sound (like someone talking while under water). It looked like the shadow of a man, raising his arms. It disappeared quickly. I always thought it was my imagination...

Years later my mother told me that before I was born, she saw a dark man wearing a hat, standing in the hallway, in the exact same spot where I thought I saw something (this was before I told her of my experience).

She also told me that my room was their former bedroom. One night, many years ago, my father woke up, and saw a dark man, sitting in a chair...wearing a hat!

Not saying that it was a ghost or something. My mother says she was hallucinating because she was tired. But it is pretty strange...even stranger, I have read many similar stories about people encountering "the hatman". Nanananananana Hatman!!!t:

great story. it kind of makes me miss my childhood; at least the part of it that allowed me to be more imaginative. but I never encountered the Hat Man. I did spend a lot of nights awake in the hopes that monsters would show up. I was obsessed with befriending them/hanging out; used to sleep beneath my bed and in the closet for that reason.

anyways, I do remember having a dream once that the monsters did show up and that we were running around the house; doing what kids do. and, strangely enough, I woke up not in my bed but on a couch in the basement. I must have done some serious sleepwalking, that night.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

I've seen the original C.H.U.D. a ton of times and I love it,but only just got around to seeing the sequel the other day.
What a terrible piece of ****.
I mean,I pretty much expected it to be,which is why I put off seeing it for so long,but I was still surprised by how awful it was.

 

[Motown Marvel]

have y'alls seen In Fear? A british horror movie that came out last year over seas that has received really good reviews.



I may watch it tonight. Either that or Dolls.

 

[Ant-manic]

have y'alls seen In Fear? A british horror movie that came out last year over seas that has received really good reviews.



I may watch it tonight. Either that or Dolls.

i'll look out for it. thanks!

 

[Ant-manic]

I've seen the original C.H.U.D. a ton of times and I love it,but only just got around to seeing the sequel the other day.
What a terrible piece of ****.
I mean,I pretty much expected it to be,which is why I put off seeing it for so long,but I was still surprised by how awful it was.

ha! you fell for it. Bud the Chud. it really is hard to get through. and it has nothing in common with the original.

 

[Motown Marvel]

i'll look out for it. thanks!

Just got done watching it. it was pretty good at building intensity, but the pay off at the end was pretty weak.

 

[KevanG]

That's how I felt about Session 9. It had a great build up to the end then just kinda trailed off before the credits. Funny thing is that it had two people from CSI in it, Paul Guilfoyle and David Caruso.

 

[chamber-music]

New Trailer for Deliver Us From Evil that was previously titled Beware the Night.

The films stars Eric Bana, Olivia Munn, Joel McHale, Edgar Ramirez and Sean Harris.

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There is another spoiler looking international trailer which I won't post.

The story of Ralph Sarchie, a New York cop who meets a renegade priest when he is pulled into a case which the priest convinces him, against the officer's religious beliefs, is demonic related. Together they work to solve the case and combat the paranormal forces working against them

Sean Harris sure loves playing prosthetic covered monsters in Horror films. Creep, Promethues and now this film.

 

[Heretic]

Fear Clinic has a trailer! Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund is giving me a bit of an Ian McKellen vibe here. A friend of mine is one of the stars of this, so I'm STOKED!!! Corey Taylor from Slipknot and Fiona Dourif (Curse of Chucky) are also in it. Check it out!

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[Thundarr]

Btw, I have creepy story...a true story.

When I was a little boy and played with some toys in my room, I experienced something strange. In the hallway outside, there was movement, and a strange sound (like someone talking while under water). It looked like the shadow of a man, raising his arms. It disappeared quickly. I always thought it was my imagination...

Years later my mother told me that before I was born, she saw a dark man wearing a hat, standing in the hallway, in the exact same spot where I thought I saw something (this was before I told her of my experience).

She also told me that my room was their former bedroom. One night, many years ago, my father woke up, and saw a dark man, sitting in a chair...wearing a hat!

Not saying that it was a ghost or something. My mother says she was hallucinating because she was tired. But it is pretty strange...even stranger, I have read many similar stories about people encountering "the hatman". Nanananananana Hatman!!!t:

"I am The Shadow Man. I will never harm the person under whose bed I live. But I am The Shadow Man from under someone else's bed!"

 

[Thundarr]

Btw, I have creepy story...a true story.

When I was a little boy and played with some toys in my room, I experienced something strange. In the hallway outside, there was movement, and a strange sound (like someone talking while under water). It looked like the shadow of a man, raising his arms. It disappeared quickly. I always thought it was my imagination...

Years later my mother told me that before I was born, she saw a dark man wearing a hat, standing in the hallway, in the exact same spot where I thought I saw something (this was before I told her of my experience).

She also told me that my room was their former bedroom. One night, many years ago, my father woke up, and saw a dark man, sitting in a chair...wearing a hat!

Not saying that it was a ghost or something. My mother says she was hallucinating because she was tired. But it is pretty strange...even stranger, I have read many similar stories about people encountering "the hatman". Nanananananana Hatman!!!t:

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[chamber-music]

have y'alls seen In Fear? A british horror movie that came out last year over seas that has received really good reviews.



I may watch it tonight. Either that or Dolls.

I watched In Fear. If you like The Hitcher, Duel, Wolf Creek or Joy Ride you will probably like this film.

Personally it wasn't my cup of tea.

 

[Teelie]

I just saw The Last Days on Mars. A movie with much potential and not enough fulfilled. It had [blackout]space zombies[/blackout] but even that wasn't enough to save it.

 

[<(o_o)>]

I've seen the original C.H.U.D. a ton of times and I love it,but only just got around to seeing the sequel the other day.
What a terrible piece of ****.
I mean,I pretty much expected it to be,which is why I put off seeing it for so long,but I was still surprised by how awful it was.

I found Chud 2 very entertaining when I was younger. Had a big crush on Tricia Leigh Fisher as Katie in the movie.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Interesting post, Thundarr

Used to be a hard core skeptic when it came to stuff like that. But I have experienced so many weird things myself over the last three years...things that can't be explained away as coincidences/hallucinations/selective memory etc.

I laughed at people who told me that they had experienced something weird/supernatural. Now I know how they feelt: