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My Gun
by JAPOV - 02/17/25 03:53 PM
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Never recovered from 'Daddy's Gone a Hunting' Released in 67 or 68. Based on title - my parents must have thought it was a nice Disney Movie, gave me 25 cents and sent me off to see Saturday matinee @ Kent theater - right down the block from where I grew up.
Movie turned out to be a psycho-thriller, something from which I never really recovered...and it ruined me from enjoying all the best horror flicks that followed! My loss... Cath You told me about that one  Man at least if you were with someone else that day you may have survived the experience. You can always work your way back into the genre, but SLOWLY with a thriller like Steven Spielberg's "Duel" then A "Race With The Devil" with Peter Fonda & Warren Oats. Then to a mellower Steven King like "Children Of The Corn" or "Maximum Overdrive" where vehicles go around trying to run over people  Very cool! or "Christine" the haunted car... Then eventually after a few years you can see the chainsaw wielding maniac Leather Face in a Texas Chainsaw Movie or watch a dozen zombies rip somebody apart alive and eat them LOL  Mikey
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Well, I finally read this post. A coupls of older films that could be considered Horror Films are REAR WINDOW, Hitchock, and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, Gene Barry. I have both versions of INVADERS FROM MARS on tape. When I was young I saw the Previews but never saw the film. Hi Ray Yes scary Sci Fi transcends right to horror very well especially monster & alien flicks. Like "The Thing"Hitchcock's Psycho is top rate all the way for any genre. Most of his stuff is really a physiological thriller based in a scare situation. Even the "Birds" is very light weight as a horror movie. There is so much dialogue and story and non creepiness. Most earlier movies have that, even though classics and great movies, but since the 70's the newer approach has left a lasting effect on previous horror flicks and even later some now who depend on effects and constant remakes and recycled ideas and stories... I loved all versions of "War Of The Worlds" that kind of unreality reality is always SCARY!! 
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LOL - I remember you looked it up online and the 1st thing we heard via audio was 'Caaathy' !!! I can laugh about that now - so that's progress. I survived ok.... but still no desire to have further contact with haunted cars!!! 
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LOL - I remember you looked it up online and the 1st thing we heard via audio was 'Caaathy' !!! I can laugh about that now - so that's progress. I survived ok.... but still no desire to have further contact with haunted cars!!! Ooops I didn't realize when mentioning Maxium Overdrive or Christine that you'd had already escaped a haunted car already for reals.... Then there was the no brakes episode  Mikey
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I stay away from horror films. They give me the creeps.
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I stay away from horror films. They give me the creeps. That's the point! But I really came here to say that I have to add another one to my list" The Cabin In the Woods This is a really great flick. I can't tell you much about it, but let's just say that it's so much more than you would think that it is. Loved. It.
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My most favorite has to be the entire Saw franchise because I love all of the movies. Also love Nosferatu (talk about scary creatures trying to scare the bones out of you), aswell as 28 Days Later (and 28 Weeks Later). Also seen Wrong Turn and Wrong Turn 2 (creepy as creepy can be without coming from another planet), and the Alien franchise (aswell as others)
For the non-English variety, yes, I have watched a few non-English horror films, and some of them are gruesome. Most memorable, though, would be Let The Right One In, which is a good movie.
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The Japanese are superb at horror movies. I've only seen one - 'The Grudge' - and plan never to see another.  Pop Todd, I've heard good things about 'Cabin in the Woods', but still can't quite bring myself to watch it.  An excellent series that I've been watching, though, is 'American Horror Story'. The first season was relatively gruesome (but quite bearable), though the second season was more psychological (albeit with a few body parts thrown in). Wonderful characters in both. One of my favourite all-time thriller movies is 'Don't Look Now', with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Amazing film. 'The Blair Witch Project' was pretty good as well in terms of suspense and emotional creepiness. The sequel, however, was absolutely terrible. I wish film-makers would leave well enough alone. UPDATE: Just watched 'The Cabin in the Woods'. Goodness, it wasn't scary at all!
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