7daysinaweek Posted October 16, 2023 Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 With Halloween just around the corner the tv is going to be crammed with some festive horrors. I love a good horror, especially with some humor in it and growing up in the 70's onwards there were always plenty to watch, some great, some not too bad and some bloody awful. My favourites as follows: NIGHT OF THE DEMON (black and white) DR PHIBES ALL THE HAMMER HOUSE OF HORRORS DON'T LOOK NOW THE SHINING THE CREEPSHOW So what are your favourites??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen-H Posted October 16, 2023 Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) The return of the mother in law. It's a on going horror which i re live each week 😂 😂 Prefer the horror comedies myself but some of the old halloweens were good worst horror I watched was sinister. Edited October 16, 2023 by Stephen-H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billytheghillie Posted October 16, 2023 Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 The nightmare in Nurfuk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munzy Posted October 16, 2023 Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 Don’t Look Now Rosemary’s Baby The Exorcist Straw Dogs (the original, not supernatural but very unnerving) The Wicker Man Kill List (brilliant!) Scream Seven (also not supernatural but great!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen-H Posted October 16, 2023 Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 1 minute ago, Munzy said: Don’t Look Now Rosemary’s Baby The Exorcist Straw Dogs (the original, not supernatural but very unnerving) The Wicker Man Kill List (brilliant!) Scream Seven (also not supernatural but great!) " what's in the box " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted October 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 @Munzy Forgot about Don't Look Now. What a cracker and the ending scene used to give me the 'Heebie Jeebies' something terrible. Can't forget the Wicker Man with Edward Woodward getting a bit hot and bothered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 I don’t think I had ever heard of Halloween until I was about 21/22. Silly American thing which was never heard of in U.K. in my younger days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 3 hours ago, London Best said: I don’t think I had ever heard of Halloween until I was about 21/22. Silly American thing which was never heard of in U.K. in my younger days. Around well before the Yanks. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Halloween Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discobob Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 Our wedding video My mothers face needed a hockey mask on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 3 hours ago, Penelope said: Around well before the Yanks. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Halloween Perhaps Mummy and Daddy didn’t tell me about it in case I was scared. I was a sensitive child. Honestly, I had never heard of it. It certainly wasn’t ‘celebrated’ in our family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymondley Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 I love a good horror (you should see my ex wife). American werewolf in London. The wicker man. Dog soldiers. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film). Any Hammer/70s horror. Great post, there must be loads more, I'll have a think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted October 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 4 hours ago, Wymondley said: I love a good horror (you should see my ex wife). American werewolf in London. The wicker man. Dog soldiers. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film). Any Hammer/70s horror. Great post, there must be loads more, I'll have a think. Two more which I had forgotten about which are absolute classics. American werewolf was cutting edge cinematoghraphy for it's time. The sequel was bit naff though. Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins played great roles in Dracular as did Richard E Grant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strimmer_13 Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 Love actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 Good thread! The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a pretty recent good creepy. I am amazed now at how scared I was while watching the old Hammer films as a kid in the ‘70’s, but at the time no one did it better. Psycho still remains a favourite and the special effects in An American Werewolf in London just blew me away at the time. The Exorcist was about the scariest I saw as a kid; seriously scary stuff which unleashed a plethora of ‘possessed’ movies. The Sentinel was pretty good. There was a spate of slash/gore movies around in the late ‘70’s early ‘80’s which I just loved….I Spit on Your Grave, The Hills Have Eyes, Vamp, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and The Evil Dead. Great stuff! Sixth Sense is up there, as is Bram Stokers Dracula. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 Quite tame now, but The Mist is on Film 4 currently. Really enjoyed the book; part of a compendium of stories by Stephen King, of whom I was a big fan moons ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) I bet that no one else remembers The Trollenberg Terror, which terrified me as a kid. Edited October 17, 2023 by amateur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckandswing Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 I went through a phase in the 90’s of watching horror. Pet cemetery, hell raiser etc. I also enjoy dog soldiers. More into zombies now. There is a French film called La Horde which I remember enjoying. Also enjoy the Annabelle films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith 66 Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 A couple that freaked me out as a kid, Night of the demon that one gave me nightmares. The man with X ray eyes starring Ray milland, great ending, "If thine eyes offend thee, pluck them out!". The Ninth Gate Razorback, Aussie schlock horror about a gigantic man eating pig, Thoroughly recomended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted October 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 Plenty you guys have posted up that I had totally forgot about and have seen several times. I can say I would have to agree with Scully that watching the exorcist at about age 13 (on a pirate videotape) was the scariest thing I had ever experienced. Truthfully for weeks I would be terrified going to bed. It still gives me 'the willies'. 😬 Ahh the evil dead now there's a memory and the sixth sense was superb. Bruce Willis's somewhat earthly predicament caught me out of the blue. As said, all great stuff. I watched Hellraiser the other week after switching the tv over and the original was on. Old Pinhead himself, still as gory as ever but still a classic! The man with the xray eyes, have not seen it for years what a blast from the past. Another gooden ' The Dead Zone' with Christopher Walken and who can forget 'The Fog' with the clanking chains. @amateur Found it! Looks like my type of film. A classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strimmer_13 Posted October 18, 2023 Report Share Posted October 18, 2023 Brokeback mountain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmm243 Posted October 19, 2023 Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 I am not in any way religious but The Exorcist scares the daylights out of me for some reason. Is it the fear of the unknown? I don't know but last week I was wating for the washing machine to finish so I could hang up school shirts fir the next morning and the Exorcist was on TV. Not a chance I would watch it. Just flicked through it and saw a glimpse of the old priest arriving at the house in a swirl of mist. It was enough to bring me back to my youth when I first saw it. Love IT and most Stephen King adaptations. Remember watching Hammer Horror movies as a kid but the special effects are now pretty laughable. Still worth a watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted October 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 'BEEP BEEP BENNY' IT, WAS REALLY CREEPY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munzy Posted October 20, 2023 Report Share Posted October 20, 2023 The Excorcist is really unnerving, it terrified me as a kid when I saw it and still gives me the creeps now. The pea soup vomit and spinning heads are silly these days but it’s the less obvious bits that still get me. The weird start in the Middle East with the disorientating music, Arabic call to prayer and the flashes of dogs fighting in the desert. The split-second flashes of the devil with no context throughout the movie leaving you wondering if you had imagined it. The young priest’s mother in the asylum. The ice-cold bedroom and vulnerable little girl. And of course Tubular Bells - that and the Jaws theme are so powerful they get an instant reaction as soon as I hear them. Another I’ve just remembered which blew me away at the time was The Blair Witch Project. The internet had just become popular and they released this film with loads of fake “local news” websites which told the backstory of the Blair Witch legend. It was early days for search engines and so researching the Blair Witch inevitably landed you on a blog or community site which was completely fake but told of the rumours of witchcraft and the disappearance of some young people. The marketing was so innovative I remember going into the cinema thinking it actually was a true story. The way the movie was produced was again so different and visceral it felt like I was watching a snuff movie showing the actual final moments of the people in it. I remember being very scared watching it despite being in the middle of a packed cinema. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted October 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2023 Munzy. I couldn't have summed up the Exorcist better myself. The Blair Which gave me the 'jitters' but I thought the ending a bit naff. I cannot take that away from you in respect in the way the film was presented was pioneering at the time. The nineties were fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted October 22, 2023 Report Share Posted October 22, 2023 Not actually a 'Halloween' film, but Salems Lot, starring David Soul and James Mason has to be the best horror film I've watched. The first time I viewed it was on the Welsh TV channel S4C, I video taped the two part film then later, transferred it onto a DVD. It's an excellent film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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