POLL: Favorite Halloween Movie?

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy 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

Comments

[melissagay.livejournal.com]

I'm a poll weenie and can't make up my mind!! Let me add to the list:

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! :)

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic list! Which version of Usher do you like best? I know there's one with Vincent Price, and one with Denholm Elliot. There was also one made in the 1980s with Martin Landau; I remember seeing that and being thoroughly creeped out by him! I can totally see how Forbidden Planet is creepy, as well. Awesome stuff! Thanks!

So, will your son be a little Cthulhu this year? I still crack up every time I think about that.

[melissagay.livejournal.com]

Well, I've seen and liked all the Ushers in various ways, but the first one I ever saw was the Martin Landau one and it kinda still takes the cake for me! :-)

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. :)