Thread: The "Mount Rushmore" of Horror

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Halloweiner,

I have not seen Thr3e, I've read about it but have never found it, to rent it. You say Moseley looks like Otis huh? Hmmm...sick thoughts, sick, sick thoughts...I'll find it, somewhere, somehow. Heeeheeehheeeee!

(It drives my husband crazy that I like Otis...BENEFIT!!!!!!)

Originally Posted by Boo_Dacious

. . .Now if we are talking Directors?..

Romero, Craven, Carpenter, Hooper

With a nice nod to James Whale simply for the classics that I love today.

Originally Posted by HalloweenBob

Let's not forget Alfred Hitchcock as a director. Some of the best suspense films ever made to this day.

If we're talking directors, how about William Castle? He's no Hitchcock, but his movies are a lot of fun. They scared the crap out of me when I was a kid (long, long ago). He even inspired some remakes.

I was wondering when someone would mention Alfred Hitchcock.
You can't have ghostface, Freddy or even Jason without Michael Meyers.
I like the idea of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman and the mummy the original classics. Modern classics would be....
Leatherface, Michael Meyers, Jason, Freddy Krueger. Those would be my two Rushmores.

Ok, if you are going to talk of a Mount Rushmore of Horror Directors I guess you would have to start with: Robert Kurtzman, director of an excellent little movie that some of you might remember - WISHMASTER. If you haven't seen it drive right over to Netflix and check out this sucker. You won't be disappointed.

For the second head on the monument I would have to go with: Michael Cooney, who some of you might know as the director of JACK FROST - not the awful Michael Keaton movie, but the classic icy horror masterpiece starring Scott MacDonald. Nuff said.

For the 3rd head I would go for either John Carpenter, director of the little seen classic GHOSTS OF MARS and the PRO-LIFE episode of the "Masters of Horror" series on HBO, or maybe Alfred Hitchcock who directed PSYCHO and BIRDS, a movie about birds that go crazy and kill people.

For the 4th head I would go for the director Michael Bay, who is directing a remake of that very same bird movie. If you know Michael Bay's work in the horror genre then you know this will be something to look forward to.

For the 5th head I would pick Michael Bay again, though it might look weird to have two heads of the same guy carved on the mountain. He is the director of TRANSFORMERS, which, while not a horror movie exactly, is the highest grossing movie of the Summer, and kicks all kind of giant robot ass.

If you include Christopher Lee, you HAVE to include Peter Cushing too.