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[shereads]

I haven't seen the original Haunting, but I'd like too. Didn't much care for the remake.

Talk about a let-down. When I heard there would be a high-budget remake of The Haunting, I could hardly wait. We were laughing in the theaters at the sheer cheesiness, and we weren't alone. The original is well worth seeing. It was also considered quite the naughty picture in its day because there's an implicit lesbian seduction going on between two of the characters.

 

[CharleyH]

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Jaws! *scream*

I get yucky chills just thinking about it. Ugh.

If I ply you with horses and Alpaca's, you wanna go swimming . . . in Lake Ontario . . do do do do do do

 

[Guest]

Speaking of Vincent Price, when I was a very young girl I saw "House of Wax" in a theatre. There's a scene where the lovely heroine is running from the 'monster', gets to her house and of course can't get the key in the door. To this day I think of that scene when I'm opening my door at night. I rewatched the movie on video hoping for some catharsis. It made me laugh but I still can't rid myself of that creepy feeling when getting home at night.

Perdita

p.s. Sher, yeah, Ruth Gordon. And to think Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow at that time. His ex, Ava Gardner, said, "I always knew Frank would end up with a boy."

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Talk about a let-down. When I heard there would be a high-budget remake of The Haunting, I could hardly wait. We were laughing in the theaters at the sheer cheesiness, and we weren't alone. The original is well worth seeing. It was also considered quite the naughty picture in its day because there's an implicit lesbian seduction going on between two of the characters.

I read part of the book, and remember that.

Haunted house stories are a genre unto themselves. I'm wondering how the remake of "Amityville Horror" is going to go.

 

[cloudy]

The original version of "The Haunting" was great, the remake, not so. It was a scary movie, as I remember....it's been a long time.

 

[CharleyH]

Yea, Sher! I love The Others. Didn't scare me for the beauty and sorrow though. Rosemary's Baby I saw when it came out, excellent horror, still watch it from time to time as a fillum .

Perdita

Polanski HOORAY! Repulsion was not scary, except no thanks to insanity. Thank god for pills Hm, I dont take any but ok, still, thank god 'Others' do

 

[CharleyH]

Back to issue. WHAT happened to horror? We can recount, but what made us scared, because I am not scared anymore. Is it age? Emotion? Is there no suspense?

 

[shereads]

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Jaws! *scream*

I get yucky chills just thinking about it. Ugh.

Ah. If we're going for killer-animal flicks, I recommend "The Ghost and the Darkness." Based on a true story about 2 man-eating lions that terrorized a British-run railroad camp in turn-of-the-century Africa. The natives decided that the lions were demons because they seemed to kill for sport - sneaking into the camp under or over whatever barriers were erected, just to show they could, until they had done in more than a hundred railroad workers and closed down the camp. The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago took them out of storage for a while after the movie came out. They were scrawny little things, not very threatening looking. But oh! The stealth. These lions even kept souvenirs from their kills in a cave up in the hills. Bracelets, femurs, shoes, etc.

 

[shereads]

Back to issue. WHAT happened to horror? We can recount, but what made us scared, because I am not scared anymore. Is it age? Emotion? Is there no suspense?

There have never been a lot of good horror movies out at any one time, have there? I think it just seems like it's getting worse because there are so many more horror films now, directed mostly at teenagers, who don't demand much more than a gimmick, like a hockey mask, and some spurting arteries.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Back to issue. WHAT happened to horror? We can recount, but what made us scared, because I am not scared anymore. Is it age? Emotion? Is there no suspense?

Because making a truly scary movie would probably not get the draw that movies are expected to get these days. Just my guess.

 

[shereads]

Speaking of Vincent Price, when I was a very young girl I saw "House of Wax" in a theatre. There's a scene where the lovely heroine is running from the 'monster', gets to her house and of course can't get the key in the door. To this day I think of that scene when I'm opening my door at night. I rewatched the movie on video hoping for some catharsis. It made me laugh but I still can't rid myself of that creepy feeling when getting home at night.

Perdita

p.s. Sher, yeah, Ruth Gordon. And to think Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow at that time. His ex, Ava Gardner, said, "I always knew Frank would end up with a boy." [/B]

I read Mia Farrow's autobiography. Frank was ticked off because she'd chosen to work with Roman Polanski instead of co-starring with him in one of his secret agent films. He didn't mention divorce until the day of her first scene for Rosemary's Baby, when he had her served with divorce papers on the set.

Looks like they were both with a boy.

Am I alone in having hated those Vincent Price films? They were all about torture done with glee. I've never been able to sit through something where people are happily torturing others, as if they're at play; too conscious that it's a real facet to human existence, and it makes me physically ill.

 

[shereads]

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Says the chick in ever tightening chains

But, right The Others was a good surprise.

These chains aren't that tight. And any bloodletting done will be inflicted on the person who ruined this brand-new fishnet bodystocking.

 

[shereads]

Because making a truly scary movie would probably not get the draw that movies are expected to get these days. Just my guess.

Truly scary movies are hard to make. Slasher flicks fill the same seats with a lot less effort.

 

[CharleyH]

There have never been a lot of good horror movies out at any one time, have there? I think it just seems like it's getting worse because there are so many more horror films now, directed mostly at teenagers, who don't demand much more than a gimmick, like a hockey mask, and some spurting arteries.

Maybe just the right audience to feed off of? When I saw AlienS, the audience was hyped. Best cinema expeience I have had.

With Terminator 2, it was more the suspense, you know it cant end in an hour, but you are suspended with what new thing could happen, you were awed by the CGI.

JAWS, no one knew, there was the music. OTHERS I liked for reasons P said, and same with 6th Sense. M KNIGHT Shamawhatever . . . can he top his own tour de force? In the 80's, I was scared by Halloween, by Freddy Krugar. Am I? Are we, immune now? The Forgotten is the only film that took me by surprise recently - but the ending SUCKED major, for example

 

[tolyk]

I enjoyed Stephen King's "It" movie version.

Scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it, don't remember how old I was, rather young though I do believe.

THe clown wasn't scary, the spider was.. heh.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I enjoyed Stephen King's "It" movie version.

Scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it, don't remember how old I was, rather young though I do believe.

THe clown wasn't scary, the spider was.. heh.

I saw it about 6 months ago and it creeped me out but the book scared me half to death.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

I saw it about 6 months ago and it creeped me out but the book scared me half to death.

Strangely, my favorite movie based on a Stephen King story was "the Shawshank Redemption," one of his non-horror stories.

 

[carsonshepherd]

That was a damn good movie. I'm not a King fan but I have to admit... Salem's Lot scared the bejesus out of me. Both book and movie. OhMissScarlett laughs at me but the cheesy 1970's movie gave me nightmares, and every now and then I still have them. Nosferatu! Now that was a scary movie. Anything with scary vampires in it gives me the creeps. (Sexy vampires are okay, but scary ones freak me out.)

 

[Evil Alpaca]

That was a damn good movie. I'm not a King fan but I have to admit... Salem's Lot scared the bejesus out of me. Both book and movie. OhMissScarlett laughs at me but the cheesy 1970's movie gave me nightmares, and every now and then I still have them. Nosferatu! Now that was a scary movie. Anything with scary vampires in it gives me the creeps. (Sexy vampires are okay, but scary ones freak me out.)

One of my favorie vampire flicks is still "Lost Boys." Not scary, but fun. And I would kill for that gray outfit Gary Oldman wore in that rendition of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

 

[Guest]

Aye, dios mio - Gary Oldman's prince.

swooning, Perdita

 

[carsonshepherd]

One of my favorie vampire flicks is still "Lost Boys." Not scary, but fun. And I would kill for that gray outfit Gary Oldman wore in that rendition of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Geek.

And yes... Jason Patrick is smokin' in Lost Boys...

 

[tolyk]

I'm not much of a Stephen King reader myself, in all honesty I have only ever read one of his works of Fantasy, but I did enjoy that.

"The Dragon's Eye" or something like that.. good book.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Geek.

And yes... Jason Patrick is smokin' in Lost Boys...

Just a bit. But scary or not, I'm a horror movie fan. I was the only one I know who was actually waiting 10 years for Freddy vs. Jason. I have the ENTIRE Friday the 13th series on DVD. Have I mentioned recently that I need help?

 

[CharleyH]

I enjoyed Stephen King's "It" movie version.

Scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it, don't remember how old I was, rather young though I do believe.

THe clown wasn't scary, the spider was.. heh.

Thanks for your opp Tolyk. Personally, I go to these things, and more guys grab me than the gals I'd like. LOL what is wrong with this conventional pic?

Shereads: apparently the chains can be tightened when one demands expensive stockings off :| (god damn no straight faced emote)

Evil: I just watched Shawshank two days ago (dare I say tape) excellent film, enjoyable for the third time

 

[carsonshepherd]

Have I mentioned recently that I need help?

You don't need to mention it, everyone knows