Favorite Halloween movies

[hobie1dog]

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I love the classics. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street. Also, love rewatching Scream, definitely the best horror flick of the 90s. Gotta watch the Peanuts holiday movies every time one of them comes on.

 

[crazypipe]

King kong 1933

The beast from 20,000 fathoms 1953

Godzilla 1954 Creature from the black lagoon

The bride of frankenstein 1935

The mummy 1932 , just to name a few .

There are so many more i like here is one more Alien

 

[bentmike]

Yeah I think like crazy pipe; The old classics- black and white Dracula with Bela Lugosi and the original Frankenstien. In a bit more modern vein I like Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.

 

[crazypipe]

 

[crazypipe]

 

[photoman13]

I also like to watch Nosferatu. Which I believe is the oldest vampire movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxlJxDr26mM
My only problem with Halloween movies today is I don't like all the gore you see in movies. I want a horror movie that doesn't rely on that to scare the crap out of me.

 

[baronsamedi]

 

[baronsamedi]

 

[baronsamedi]

Hail to the King, Baby!

 

[lankfordjl]

@photoman

I'm watching Nosferatu now on Netflix.
After working as a mortician's assistant when I was in college, I don't prefer looking at gore in movies. I've seen enough in real life.

 

[crazypipe]

 

[photoman13]

Classy guy lankfordjl.

 

[baronsamedi]

Most of the older morticians I know could give a rip about horror movies. The younger ones see themselves as the first line of defense in the Zombie Apocalypse! :rofl:
A colleague of mine is writing a mortician's guide to killing zombies!

 

[photoman13]

Zombies are the only gore related films I do like. It isn't just about zombies but about the collapse of society and the terrible idea that you are alone on the planet.

 

[baronsamedi]

Every horror archetype has a real world parallel. Werewolves and Vampires have to do with human predators and uncontrolled rage/lust. Zombies are special because their parallel is really the average person.

 

[photoman13]

That is probably why it is so popular. I always found it interesting how each movie can have different kinds of zombies. Some move slow and some move fast, some are just undead people and some take on a more monsterous look for example. Fast zombies are a relatively new idea. The first film to include fast zombies was the return of the living dead in the 80's.

 

[photoman13]

How they are zombies have also changed over time with peoples view of the world. Zombies originally were believed to be made by witchcraft starting in Haiti but today that is unbelievable by the average person so they now are usually infected by a disease.

 

[lankfordjl]

@photoman and baron
This crazy zombie movie was just filmed in our town. Looks funny. Christmas with the Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbkL3CQSSMw&feature=youtu.be

 

[baronsamedi]

I think Return of the Living Dead influenced my interest in zombies even more than the Romero movies. It was as much a punk rock film as it was a horror movie and it was over the top and totally absurd, but in a very cool way.
May have had something to do with this scene, though. Throughout my yout I wanted a girlfriend like Trash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaaJC0v-atU