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Last edited by Fido (2012-09-23 16:43:18)

I bolded the movies from Dorkman's list that I'd suggest, and added a little reasoning for suggesting them.

Consider my interest gauged.

And since fcw is right that Halloween is as much for the kids as it is for the scary, maybe some kids-accessible movies or nostalgic movies would be interesting? The Gate is fantastic and not enough people know of it. You've also got Halloweentown, Halloween Tree, Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Monster Squad, ParaNorman, Corpse Bride (what went wrong here that went so right in Nightmare Before Christmas?), Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Coraline, The Addams Family/The Addams Family Values, Monster House (Dan Harmon and Rob Scrab, hooray for Community nerds!), The Goonies, The Lost Boys, and Labyrinth

It seems I've accidentally suggested enough movies for a few decades' worth of Octobers. At some point I stopped even trying to give reasons. I think I just like listing movie titles.

Maybe an Intermission on the horror genre in general too?

That's because you have very little taste in movies and are only 12 year old.

Just kidding. Halloween is a well made movie, it's tense, scary and unpredictable at times, it's a masterpiece of horror film-making.......although it has been ruined somewhat by movies made since as well as its own remake and the sequel to that. I can fully understand why someone who wasn't around at the time or who didn't grow up with it doesn't like it. I know you're not a horror fan, but at least you've seen enough to know that by 'today's standards' Halloween isn't 'scary'. I hope you will appreciate, though, the impact it had on viewers back in the day when we didn't have all that torture porn nonsense. a found footage film released once a month

Last edited by Jimmy B (2012-09-23 18:33:05)

If Teague and Michael have opposing views on halloween, then I say do that one.  Adversarial commentaries are fun to listen to sometimes.

Would you guys ever consider the texas chainsaw massacre?  If so, which would you be more inclined to do?  The original or the remake?

Ah, now I'm going to be an Opposing Olly and say I don't like the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. That is one film I never got the appeal of

(but, yeah, it's still better than the remake)

Last edited by Jimmy B (2012-09-23 18:45:47)

Diff'rent Strokes for different folks, I guess. But I'm sure if you guys DiF it you'll get an earful.

If I had a movie discussion podcast I'd go through it shot-by-shot, explaining how each one builds tension with extreme economy, how the script makes the interesting and influential decision to have Michael be pure, unexplainable evil rather than a simple murderer while effectively riding the line between plausible and fully supernatural - Freddy turning into a phone isn't scary, but Michael Myers getting stabbed, shot, falling out of a window, then disappearing is - and actually fleshes out the characters on a human level (Laurie is responsible, but that isolates her. She's conflicted about being a prude vs going out with whatshisface. She's stuck babysitting, but she's good with the kids and even seems to take solace in retreating to something safe that she's good at instead of  risking embarrassment by going out - okay, the other characters aren't nearly as well defined but this is Laurie's story so that shouldn't matter much, and we do get the flavor of small town family life in scenes with the parents/cops.), etc... But then, I don't have a movie discussion podcast and all this stuff has been said a million times before and way better than I can say it here. You can even buy books on the subject ( http://goo.gl/TuONJ , http://goo.gl/qCdKP , http://goo.gl/VXcoa )

I think you could be misreading the fact that Halloween was made in the 70s on a low budget and isn't production designed, color timed, and retouched within an inch of its life like basically all modern movies as poor quality.

Of course the fact that every single beat of the movie has been ripped off so many times that it's nearly reached the level of ritual performance (as Cabin in the Woods made its thing) probably doesn't help a first-time viewer in 2012, but I first saw Halloween in 2011 and was completely engrossed. In fact it was one of the films in a class I was taking at the time, so I had to rewatch it in that class less than a week later and it pulled me in again. (For some reason, I never checked the schedule to see what we were watching so - like an idiot - I'd watched it independently without realizing that we'd be forced to watch it later. I did the same thing with Rosemary's Baby the next week.)

I guess ultimately I don't need to tell you why Halloween is good, the world at large does that already and you can find those arguments elsewhere. Since you're the one with the minority opinion it probably falls to you to explain it:

Why you don't like this masterpiece and all-around beloved horror classic, Teague?

Aww hells, yes!

I would have said In The Mouth Of Madness more so as it actually pays tribute to Lovecraft. And it's a very underrated film, in my opinion. I'd also say it's the last great film Carpenter made.

Oh, right. It's basically just one long homage to Lovecraft. Hope you enjoy it  when you get to see it

I'll re-phrase, it's the last film Carpenter made that I personally think is great.

Although Vampires has its moments, I really don't like Escape From LA.

Last edited by Jimmy B (2012-09-23 22:44:17)

I've never found it scary, disturbing yes, but not scary. I don't find The Exorcist scary either.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has unsettling moments but none of it made me jump or look through my fingers. The dinner party scene made me feel uncomfortable but I wasn't scared.

To be honest I don't really find many films scary these days. When I was a kid I found almost everything scary, mabve if I saw it when I was younger I'd feel differently.