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st_swithin
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Nov 2002
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Those pants he used to wear are pretty scary...like the blind tranny harem reject.
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Tripledoc
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No one has mentioned any John Carpenter movies I think. You don't hear much about him now, but once he was a very respected direcor if horror movies.
The best one I think is THE THING. It is set in Antarctica on an American scientific station. They discover a stange distorted body on a Norwegian station, and take it back to base. What they don't know is that within that body an Alien lifeform, which is a sort of DNA parasite, has attached itself. It infects people, without changing them, so nobody knows who is infected and who is not. The only thing the monster is afraid of is fire. If it is exposed to it it will freak out and immediatley begin to morph into the most grotesque forms. Of course the men on the base turn increasingly paranoid.
Another good movie by a director I can't think of now is Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It has been made in three versions, where by far the best is the one made in the 70s with Donald Sutherland in the lead. It has a really psychodelic mood to it as it explores what happens to a number of bohemian types in San Fransisco who are exposed to yet another virus from outer space. Creepy.
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Dr Strangelove
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If you're asking about sheer terror, then I'd say Failsafe had to have been one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, since nuclear terroro was a very real phenomenon at the time the movie was released.
ANother very scary non-horror film was the TV movie about the limited strike hitting the midwest. I think it was entitled something like The Morning After orThe Day After .
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Rufus T. Firefly
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is one way of saying it, though I prefer "mensch"
Sep 2000
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quote:
Originally posted by Tripledoc
No one has mentioned any John Carpenter movies I think. You don't hear much about him now, but once he was a very respected direcor if horror movies. |
Bah! Carpenter's a hack who made 3 good movies in the 70's -- Dark Star, Assault on Presinct 13 and Haloween -- and has spent the rest of his career trying unsuccessfully to remember how he did it.
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Another good movie by a director I can't think of now is Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It has been made in three versions, where by far the best is the one made in the 70s with Donald Sutherland in the lead. It has a really psychodelic mood to it as it explores what happens to a number of bohemian types in San Fransisco who are exposed to yet another virus from outer space. Creepy. |
Philip Kaufman (Kauffman?), and as far as I know that was his one foray into horror. He's better known for more highbrow material like The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Most of my favorites have been named here -- The Haunting (original) would be at the top of the list -- but, out of curiosity: was I really the only one here who had the bejeesus scared out of him by The Others? I saw that thing at a 2:00 matinee, walked out into broad daylight afterward, and was nevertheless creeped out all the way home. Admittedly, I'm a complete sucker for ghost stories (1944's The Uninvited, anyone?), but that film really got to me.
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st_swithin
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10069
Nov 2002
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I forgot to mention the Sixth Sense, only because the little kid has a lock of hair that turned white, and I've got one of those. But instead of dead people, I see white people.
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