Danse Macabre: The 2025 Halloween Horror Thread

[Areala-chan]

I'm not British, but I've spent the last three years being alternatingly entertained and horrified by Dave Lawrence and Stephen Brotherstone's three-book series, "Scarred For Life", which documents all of the weird, bizarre, and terrifying things that children of the Gen X age would have been witness to in popular culture as well as daily life.

I mean, "Worzel Gummidge"?

"Lonely Water"?!

Are you freaking kidding me?!

The success of the books (each of which are 600+ page tomes) has led to the creation of a podcast bearing the same name, where they discuss childhood horrors and the experience of growing up in the Cold War era with a different guest each episode.

I seriously cannot sing the praises of these books and this podcast enough. Even if (maybe especially if) you didn't grow up in the UK, there is tons of entertainment to be had as these guys look at television shows, safety films, books, board games, films, comics, music, and real-life history that shaped an entire generation throughout the 1970s and 80s.

I read these with one eye on the page and another eye on my screen, because every two pages you'll want to jump on YouTube and watch a Public Information Film, a tv teaser, a music video, or a commercial for yourself.

And while we're talking about things that wrecked us as kids, we can't forget the incredible resource that is Kindertrauma!

 

[lovecraft68]

I still prefer the silly stuff like High Spirits and Beetlejuice.

Here's some you can check out

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Considering the thread title, does anybody remember the old Skeleton Dance cartoon?


https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/...12-SWL4CS0ISASZ6ETKA43R/maxresdefault+(9).jpg



https://www.thedisneyclassics.com/blog/the-skeleton-dance



https://facts.net/wp-content/upload...t-the-movie-the-skeleton-dance-1697304248.jpg


https://facts.net/movie/45-facts-about-the-movie-the-skeleton-dance/

.

 

[lovecraft68]

Considering the thread title, does anybody remember the old Skeleton Dance cartoon?


https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/...12-SWL4CS0ISASZ6ETKA43R/maxresdefault+(9).jpg



https://www.thedisneyclassics.com/blog/the-skeleton-dance



https://facts.net/wp-content/upload...t-the-movie-the-skeleton-dance-1697304248.jpg


https://facts.net/movie/45-facts-about-the-movie-the-skeleton-dance/

.

Hell yeah, my younger daughter loved this when she was little, still does LOL.

 

[lovecraft68]

One of the most brutal movies made and the horror element being it could-and sadly most likely has-happened.

I spit on your Grave, the original, aka Day of the woman and one of the 'video nasty' dwellers on most lists, banned in many places upon release.

I saw this movie at way too young of an age and after having seen my father and uncles do horrible things to my mother and aunts. It enraged me and still can if I make the mistake of watching it. This movie solidified my hatred of men and in the defense class I teach, I've brought up how all the sequels and remakes it inspired make the rape scene more and more graphic because that's what they want the attention paid to, just like the trash Last House on the Left remake. Why? because rape and abuse of women has and always will be treated like a joke in society and no woman should ever not be aware of that.

Thank you I spit on your grave for forty years of anger. Seriously, I wouldn't be who I am without it and as most men who know me don't like me? Good job.

 

[Erozetta]

One of the most brutal movies made and the horror element being it could-and sadly most likely has-happened.

I spit on your Grave, the original, aka Day of the woman and one of the 'video nasty' dwellers on most lists, banned in many places upon release.

I saw this movie at way too young of an age and after having seen my father and uncles do horrible things to my mother and aunts. It enraged me and still can if I make the mistake of watching it. This movie solidified my hatred of men and in the defense class I teach, I've brought up how all the sequels and remakes it inspired make the rape scene more and more graphic because that's what they want the attention paid to, just like the trash Last House on the Left remake. Why? because rape and abuse of women has and always will be treated like a joke in society and no woman should ever not be aware of that.

Thank you I spit on your grave for forty years of anger. Seriously, I wouldn't be who I am without it and as most men who know me don't like me? Good job.

View attachment 2568009

I have to admit that the bathtub scene in this movie was inspiration for a real life interaction for me. Minus the follow through. For clarity's sake, I did not cut off anyone's dick even though I really wanted to.

 

[lovecraft68]

A movie doesn't have to be in the horror genre to be horror. There's not decent trailers for this so I went with a recap video from TY

The Movie Requiem for a Dream is a horror, the horror of addiction, of broken and ruined lives and the absolute depravity and self harm people will sink to for drugs.

The last few minutes of this movie is as disturbing-and sad-as you'll find

 

[BryanRichardson]

When I was a kid I saw a horror comic that honestly scared me to death. It was a long time ago, and i don't remember the title or anything.

A young family moved near a swamp and the swamp monster captures the daughter. Then, with a tentacle connected to her back used the daughter as bait to call the mother in and capture her as well. Then the mother and daughter call out to the dad and capture him as well.

My fuzzy memory tells me it scared me for months or maybe even a year or two before I stole it from my older brothers collection and burned it in the back yard.

I’m trying not to think about it very hard right now. I still don’t really want to remember it…

 

[Erozetta]

I am trying to think of something that actually got to me as a kid, but fuck, I can't come up with anything.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Anybody ever see Lipstick?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_(1976_film)

 

[MillieDynamite]

Not much in movies has scared me, probably because of the time I spent on the street. My father claims the only movie that ever frightened him was Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte..

 

[crookedletter]

Far and away the thing that scared the most crap out of me as a kid was sister Zelda from Pet Sematary.

 

[lovecraft68]

Far and away the thing that scared the most crap out of me as a kid was sister Zelda from Pet Sematary.

Hell yeah, Zelda was frigging nightmare fuel. "Never get out bed again!" Ugh....

 

[lovecraft68]

Come Join the Murder; few songs are meant as horror, but the melancholy sound of this is haunting, its about crows who are often omens of death. The video is clips of the end of Son's of Anarchy where Jax meets his end on his terms. For those who don't know it, the homeless woman near the end appears a few times during the show and you find out represents death in a Banshee like role.