i was just wondering what some classic movies are that ya'll watch on halloween (that is if your not at a party or something). tricksters are coming around my house thursday and friday, so thursday i'll be watching my favorite halloween flick. my special edition of Night of the Living Dead, the one with romero's commentary on it. and night of the living bread.
any others that are a tradition.
I watch "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"
I don't really have any traditional movies for certain days.
I do watch the entire GODFATHER saga at least once a year, but there isn't any particular time of year when I do this.
Around Christmas, I always watch SCROOGE (with Albert Finney), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (with Alistair Sim) and A CHRISTMAS STORY (with Peter Billingsley). This usually happens during December, but not on any special day. (This year I have all 3 on DVD for the first time ever!)
One of my buddies watches ANIMAL HOUSE and MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL with his brothers every year before the Superbowl starts.
My holloween week always involves some combo of
"Night of the living dead" or "Dawn of the dead" The one don't watch I watch around X-mas
then
One of the "Planet of the Apes" movies
and
a true "Bad" monster or slasher film such as Creepazoids or
Sleepaway Camp II
Also I'll catch parts of the TCM and AMC movie fests.
Gonna watch 28 Days Later and The Ring,so can someone phone me around 1:00 am and tell me I've got a virus and will die in 7 days!
i'm not too sure yet, i think i might show some friends the Ebola Syndrome, a nice Hong Kong shocker.
The Gary Larson Halloween special (taped it off TV the one time it was broadcast); and
The Nightmare Before Christmas
I'm gonna watch Escape from New York (I know not very holloween like) then Zomibe 4:After Death.
-the first rule of fat club-
i watched alien.. twas fun
"Crossroads" (2002), starring Britney Spears. Scary or not? But chances are that they won't have a DVD copy at my local rental store, so I'll end watching "Anatomy 2", a german horror film. The original had Franka Potente and was pretty good.
On Halloween Night I watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre....I'd already watched Night of the Living Dead leading up to that. I didn't really like any of the stuff that was playing on most of the cable channels, though I did see TENEBRE on IFC.
What's really cool is that IFC is playing horror films every night over the weekend...unfortunately they aren't saying what they are beforehand so you have to tune in. Most have been lame, but last night they played MANIAC and I don't think I've ever seen that on television. But they ruin it by playing a lot of lame Nineties stuff. Still, I wonder what they'll play tonight....
Halloween: Alien (classic horror), Lair of the White Worm (Wonderfully camp and repulsive!), Jacobs Ladder (the only movie to truely freak me out)
New Year: For some strange reason I always end up watching Bladerunner at some point in my drunken meanderings
Christmas: A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sims of course!), sometimes Scrooged but NEVER, NOT IN A MILLION EFFING YEARS will I watch It's a Wonderful Life, a larger load of crap I never did see.
I spent halloween night in Austin in a hotel room watching "Psycho", not my ideal but what can you do.
The funny part was later that night I managed to lock myself out of my own bathroom, quite embarassing to explain to the hotel staff. (especially since earlier i had to switch rooms because the first room's a/c was broken so I really hate being "that woman in 101 again")
Before opening the bathroom door with his power drill he glanced up at me with a raised eyebrow and asked "There isn't anybody in there....is there?" I'm thinking yeah - a man dressed as his mother holding a big butcher knife as the Pyscho music is echoing from the tv in the other room.
I was also beginning to think my room was haunted. The tv in the bedroom mysteriously turned on twice by itself and both times it happened I was leaving the room.
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I showed a few people the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I think it sucks that now when I talk about TCM I have to actually specify the "original"). Then we saw the Beyond, Happy Hell Night, Opera, and about 20 minutes of Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies before passing out.
On Christmas, I always watch Christmas Evil, Silent Night, Deadly Night 1,2, and 4, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and that old Santa Claus movie done by the guy who did a lot of Santo movies.
Friday night, after the kids stopped coming to the door, we had a few friends over for a double bill of Dead Alive and The Abominable Dr. Phibes. We were able to get the video projector again and set it up in the living room, with stereo sound, chips, dips and beer. A fun evening. Even those who didn't like horror could appreciate Jackson's twisted sense of humour. However, one thing I didn't account for was a guest who was four months pregnant and had never watched horror films. She had fun, but between the zombie baby and the final scene with Lionel and Mum, I'm not sure what might have been going through her mind. Oops.
Hopefully, I can make this an annual gathering.
I watched Halloween 1 and 2 - best sequel IMHO for the horror genre.
Mike Jones wrote:
> Christmas: A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sims of course!),
> sometimes Scrooged but NEVER, NOT IN A MILLION EFFING YEARS
> will I watch It's a Wonderful Life, a larger load of crap I
> never did see.
I watched Life once. It was ok, but not, um, wonderful. My brother-in-law, who's Jewish and not fond of Christmas does watch this every year. My favorite Christmas Carol is with George C. Scott. There's a lot I hate about that story, but his performance is just amazing. The last couple of years though, they've been showing Captain Picard's version.
This year I watched The Devil Bat with Bela Lugosi and another Bela one where he kidnaps & kills brides on their wedding day in order to keep his wife alive (title has slipped my mind) Wonderful old movies
>My favorite Christmas Carol is with George C. Scott.
What was the one where the ghost of Christmas future was actually a skeleton under the robe? I never saw it, but something I was watching once, showed a scene from it. The ghost points at the grave and it's a skeletal hand, then he gets a look inside the hood and sees a skull. Every version I've watched has either not shown the actual ghost, or just had a grim-faced guy. BTW, this would have been an older version, no later than say the mid-1980's or before.
IIRC, I don't think Scott's version showed the face. It may have shown a skeletal hand, but I'm pretty sure no face.
And why use the grim reaper as the face of the future? Shouldn't the future show promise, not death?
Why show a face at all? The spirit is shrouded because the future is a mystery. Sure, he's giving Scrooge a little peek, but the spirit should keep himself hidden. Besides, he's scarier that way than if they start giving him bony hands and crap. I said it in another post - the unknown is scary.
>Why show a face at all? The spirit is shrouded because the future is a mystery.
>Sure, he's giving Scrooge a little peek, but the spirit should keep himself hidden.
>Besides, he's scarier that way than if they start giving him bony hands and crap. I
>said it in another post - the unknown is scary.
Maybe so, I didn't really mean to start a debate about which is better, I'm just curious what version it is that shows the future ghost as a skeleton.
My big Halloween tradition is listening to the original Orson Wells' broadcast of "The War of the Worlds." (Have it on CD.) Despite all the years between then and now and my exposure to hundreds of horror films, it actually has some very gripping moments.