POLL: Favorite Halloween Movie?
Oct. 4th, 2005 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitHappy Tuesday!
One of my favorite parts of preparing for a proper Halloween is watching scary movies, from the early Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff films to the most recent flicks new on DVD or in the theaters. So, my question to you is this: what is your favorite Halloween film?
[Poll #582935]
And now, in honor of Halloween month, I will pick up where I left off yesterday with some macabre verse:
...I was old when the pharaohs first mounted
The jewel-decked throne by the Nile;
I was old in those epochs uncounted
When I, and I only, was vile;
And Man, yet untainted and happy, dwelt in bliss on the far Arctic isle.
Oh, great was the sin of my spirit,
And great is the reach of its doom;
Not the pity of Heaven can cheer it,
Nor can respite be found in the tomb:
Down the infinite aeons come beating the wings of unmerciful gloom.
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-mooned abysses of night,
I have lived o'er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight;
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.
from "Nemesis" by H.P. Lovecraft
One of my favorite parts of preparing for a proper Halloween is watching scary movies, from the early Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff films to the most recent flicks new on DVD or in the theaters. So, my question to you is this: what is your favorite Halloween film?
[Poll #582935]
And now, in honor of Halloween month, I will pick up where I left off yesterday with some macabre verse:
...I was old when the pharaohs first mounted
The jewel-decked throne by the Nile;
I was old in those epochs uncounted
When I, and I only, was vile;
And Man, yet untainted and happy, dwelt in bliss on the far Arctic isle.
Oh, great was the sin of my spirit,
And great is the reach of its doom;
Not the pity of Heaven can cheer it,
Nor can respite be found in the tomb:
Down the infinite aeons come beating the wings of unmerciful gloom.
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-mooned abysses of night,
I have lived o'er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight;
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.
from "Nemesis" by H.P. Lovecraft
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:07 pm (UTC)Stop reading my mind! ;-)
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Date: 2005-10-04 03:03 pm (UTC)Session 9
Don't Look Now
Q, The Winged Serpent
A Tale of Two Sisters
Ju-on (the Japanese version of The Grudge)
Pet Sematary
28 Days Later
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead
Serpent and the Rainbow
Halloween
The Devil's Backbone
Suspiria
The Evil Dead
and Shaun of the Dead for fun.
:-)
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:11 pm (UTC)Your icon is fantastic.
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:16 pm (UTC)The other film I was going to mention (but no room, no room!) is The Electric Grandmother. And of course the Harry Potter films, especially the last one released.
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Date: 2005-10-04 04:02 pm (UTC)The Fall of the House of Usher
Nosferatu
Lost Boys
Son of Frankenstein with Peter Cushing
Day of the Triffids
Forbidden Planet
And, speaking of which, I hear some folk make a tradition of Rocky Horror at Hallowween. ;)
You know what? Forbidden Planet scared me silly the first time I saw it and it still holds a special, creepy place in my heart. I think I'll go back and fill that one in! :)
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Date: 2005-10-04 05:19 pm (UTC)So, will your son be a little Cthulhu this year? I still crack up every time I think about that.
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Date: 2005-10-04 05:33 pm (UTC)And, yes, we're still going with the Baby Shoggoth idea for Brendan... although he might end up being a Plan 9 From Outer Space alien, since he's taken a real fancy to this silver-sequin dress of mine... Either way I have to start by making a big stuffed head-hat, so luckily we don't have to decide right away. :)
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Date: 2005-10-04 05:37 pm (UTC)("Fired up," heh heh)
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Date: 2005-10-04 05:00 pm (UTC)PPS. Tomorrow, Tolkien horror! :)
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Date: 2005-10-04 06:38 pm (UTC)Loved your poem.
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:38 am (UTC)Hmmmm
Date: 2005-10-04 08:22 pm (UTC)Then I saw the poll and got sucked in.
My favorite Halloween movie is _Carnival of Souls_ (not sure how to underline movie titles in LJ). It used to be, and still is, a cool cult movie and has recently been re-released on DVD. If you have a fetish for musicians, particularly ones who play organs, then this movie is for you.
Other movies that are high on my list:
_The Shining_ (the Jack Nicholson classic ... not the remake). Although, if you watch the trailer for it, you will get the sense it is a warm and fuzzy movie about family bonding. http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov
_It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown_: anything by Shultz is pure gold as far as I'm concerned).
There are a couple of others, but they are more conventional, and I'm sure they've been posted elsewhere, so I'll refrain from repeating them here.
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:40 am (UTC)Now I'm on a total nostalgia trip for It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:43 am (UTC)That movie scares the bajezus out of me. DD:
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