Favorite CLASSIC horror-film?
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…I mean early 80s or prior. No video-game or TV adaptations, and no mall-cineplex-filler.
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Well, I dislike watching stuff at the computer and can't be fucked to burn torrented DVD's to watch from my DVD player. I also can't afford to order a ton of videos/DVD's, and I don't like going out in public in general. I basically have to rely on what I find on TV, in second hand shops, or what friends/relatives show me when it comes to discovering films of any genre.
Point is, I don't have a vast knowledge of film from any genre, so I'm not working from a huge library of choices when I say my favorite cult classic/non-"mall-cineplex-filler" (whatever that means) horror film is probably Night of the Living Dead. It's one of the earliest horror films I can remember watching as a kid. It was one of the few, perhaps only, horror films my parents owned instead of renting, and it made a strong impression on me back then.
As apathetic about or uninvolved with film fandom as I am, I even bought a NOTLD poster from Suncoast back when we still had one here… Too bad everything there was so expensive, especially on my unemployed teenager's salary.
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Good choice! I think that was one of the first horror-films to challenge racism.
I say my favorite cult classic/non-"mall-cineplex-filler" (whatever that means) horror film is probably Night of the Living Dead.
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Quite possibly, at least in terms of "mainstream" (meaning not abysmally obscure) cinema. The social/political subtext in Romero's films is definitely one of the things I like about them. That said, I also appreciate that it's relatively subtle and indirect. In other words, it doesn't come across as preachy or contrived.
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The Exorcist
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Yes, and he manages to cover many social-issues even via using many standard concepts. Have you ever seen MARTIN?
Quite possibly, at least in terms of "mainstream" (meaning not abysmally obscure) cinema. The social/political subtext in Romero's films is definitely one of the things I like about them. That said, I also appreciate that it's relatively subtle and indirect. In other words, it doesn't come across as preachy or contrived.
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Made for TV Movie Salem's Lot (Uncut) 1979
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It was good, but the novel was quite a bit better.
Made for TV Movie Salem's Lot (Uncut) 1979
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Alice, Sweet Alice
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05/25/1979: The classic Gothic horror film genre leaves its Earth-bound environs for a neighboring solar system.
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Carrie!
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The Legend of Hell House with Roddy McDowell. 1973
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DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS
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Duh!
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Suspiria (1977). A beautiful nightmare in technicolor. The best and most scary 15 minutes I have ever seen in a movie, and an amazing perfect end.
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Inferno.
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For sure for me: A Nightmare on Elm Street, with Freddy Kruger
I love all the different parts!
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