Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Tuesday Talkback: Halloween

This week being Halloween, I have only one - albeit obvious - question for all my readers, admittedly stolen from Scream.

What's your favorite scary movie?

(Anyone who lists any of the "SCARY MOVIE" series as a favorite is too stupid to live. The only thing scary about those movies is the fact that people find them funny.)

15 comments:

  1. Either The Haunting, or Ring, or maybe Dead of Night. One of those three.

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  2. Though I'm RIGHT there with ATL Flick Chick, I'd have to go with "Halloween" (1978) in a slight nod over "28 Days Later." Both freaked the shit out of me -- albeit for different reasons.

    - E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

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  3. Jesus Camp, Yes! That is way scarier knowing it is real.
    I love 28 Days Later, but for Halloween I like the classics from the late 70's/early 80's when gore was starting to become a science.
    Original Dawn of the Dead or Day of the Dead.

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  4. Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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  5. Emily wins. But only because fundementalists scare the shit out of me.

    If we're talking straight-up horror, SCREAM probably stands as my favorite. (I didn't see Halloween until college and while I respect it, so many imitators had followed that it lost it's impact.) I have a hard time coming up with a horror movie that really scared me, though. Psycho's secret was ruined for me long before I saw it, and The Exorcist was hurt by the terrible crowd I saw it with when it was re-released to theatres. Both great movies, though.

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  6. Haha Jesus Camp...

    Event Horizon has a special place in my heart. In high school some friends and I went to the theaters, and one friend was all "Oh this has cool scifi, let's watch it". No one expected a super gory psychological thriller. It was intense, and now holds a special place in my heart.

    In the Mouth of Madness always creeped me out too.

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  7. For Halloween I always gotta go w/ John Carpenter's "The Thing". There's a reason they call Raytheon's station down there "MacReady Town".

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  8. I had to check out the trailer for Jesus Camp out of curiosity and holy crap! That would be scary. But I liked Religulous so does that make me biased? :) Nice site. I finally ventured over from my own to check out others lol

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  9. Thanks Kristy! I just recently discovered your site and snagged a few scripts from there. It was the source of the Barbarella script I discussed on Monday.

    Readers, if you haven't checked out Matriarchal Script Paradigm, do yourself a favor and wander over.

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  10. I was just thinking about Event Horizon, glad to see someone else to appreciated it as none of my friends did. I thought that movie was very well acted and scary as hell, a great example of how devastatingly scary the isolation of space or the middle of the ocean can be.
    If anyone wants to team up and write a period piece about some horror on the open sea, let me know. I dont think this has been done well yet

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  11. just remembered loving Dead Calm, it has been done fairly well, but I would definitely like to considering doing something that takes place hundreds of years ago when the sea was truly terrfying to an uneducated population

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