Thread: Halloween-Type Movies

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I ADORE the Simpsons Halloween episodes.

---A Vampyre Laydee--- "My BITE is worse than my signature!"

SHAME ON ME!!! How could I have forgotten ST. Louis's own Vincent Price! I think he was more twisted than his movies.




A question from your O.C.C.O.C.P. If you leave something in your refrigerator so long it stops stinking does it classify as a prop or jerky?

Probably the best film (when I was a kid)to scare me was the first King Kong.The best scene is where K.K. & the T.Rex were fighting and the big boy ripped open the dino's jaw.Another one was Walt Disney's Fantasia,The Night On Bald Mountain.Thirdly was Dawn of the Dead.

rod spain

My list of the top five fright flicks for Halloween night has pretty much remained consistant for years. First is the old black and white shocker, "The Wolfman" with Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney considered his role as the pathos-ridden lycanthrope the pinnacle of his career, and his enthusam for the role still shows. Besides, I thought the wolfman was just plain cool when I was a kid. Next is John Carpenter's stylish slasher, "Halloween." Everything from the William Castle-type premise to the associations of the teens to Michaels Willam Shatner mask to Carpenter's haunting music is cool. Besides, it takes place, unlike a lot of fright fare, on Halloween night. Likewise for a hard to find, 1985 made for television flick called "The Midnight Hour," in which a bunch of teens unloosen a curse on Halloween night that brings back all the demons of hell. There are werewolves, vampires, zombies, a song and dance number called "Get Dead" by Shari Belefonte and even an "American Graffitti" style appearence by Wolfman Jack. This one's hard to find even on video (although I did once find a professional copy) but it's definitely worth the search. Next is one almost no one likes but me, "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark"...the first film, not her tradgic later film, "Haunted Hills." Here you have evil sorcerers, spells gone awry, Cassandra Peterson at the top of her game and enough double entendres to fill a D cup. The flick reminds me of all the big-budget stage shows the Mistress of the Dark did at Knott's Scary Farm's Halloween Haunt each year, so the association on Halloween night only natural. Last on the list is the George Romero, Stephen King comic book collaboration, "Creepshow." With this one it isn't so much that it's a great horror movie...it isn't, although it does have it's moments. With this one, once again, it's the personal association, that being the incredible priemere I attended at the old South Bay Drive in theater hosted by L.A.s finest (although now long gone) rock and roll radio station, KMET. The party was so intense that I had to go back into the theater when the film was released a week later to see what I'd missed. And then it sort of seemed like deja vu.

Creepshow rocked!!!as did "Halloween"....however....I think the other three were....hmmmm...."cheesy"? maybe I'm not as OLD and savy as you beachbum, but ...come on ....wasnt that lycanthrope really cheesy? Never hrd of " The Midnight Hour"(although I will look it up)...And last, but not least....ELVIRA? Please!!!! Other than a great set of....hmmmmmmm....teeth(heehehehe) ,what does she really have going for her?Not humor...not horror....just them big ole nice
t(eeth)'s.
ciao,

nosta

I agree about the haunting music in Halloween. It made a great movie even better.

Hey redneck...I liked the cheesy lychanthrope!!! And I didn't say Elvira was great cinema...it just had great associations with Halloween for me. Did I ever tell you that I got the opportunity to scare the devil out of the Mistress of the Dark when she and her entourage went through the Shipwreck mazes? It was the pinnacle of my monster career that year! She said it was only fair that I should scare her, tit for tat. I immediately asked who tat was.
But that's just me!!!

Love is the most awesome magic of all -- just ask us!

LOL....I can't believe it....David actually made me laugh. I can actually envision you using the tit for tat line.

Hey Nosta,was it it Tit for Tat or Tat for...oh never mind.

rod spain

Spookies - Pumpkinhead - The Gate - Monster in the Closet - Fright Show, and of course, Creature FTBL . . . . no horror collection is complete without them, nor is a horror "buff" just that having not viewed them . .