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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 09 2005 : 3:14:25 PM
October is the month for horror flicks...What are your favorites? Nothing like a cold, rainy, windy fall night watching these old horror movies.... I like the old ones that leave the horror to one's own imagination...Psycho, Anthony Perkins in that roll was toooo chilling, The Lodger, 40's flick about Jack the Ripper rooming upstairs in a home YIKES!!!, THEM! Something about those giant ants attacking LA and their nests full of bones..., Nosferautu, a silent movie about Dracula, and he was not at all hunky in this one...those long creepy fingers made me sick,...Haunting of Hill House, 1963 with Claire Bloom and Julie Harris, knock, knock on the door.... also a psychodrama of sorts... What movies have jarred YOUR psyche over the years???? 
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Oct 18 2005 : 8:41:56 PM
I watched the Incredible Shrinking Man and I still had to close my eyes when he encountered the spider in the basement!!
GO WHITE SOX!!!! |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Oct 18 2005 : 5:23:47 PM
Oh My Gosh!! That movie brings back so many memories for me. Every December the merchants in our little town of Virden, IL would give away free movie tickets (the town actually had a movie theatre back then). When I was 7 my dad took my sister and I to the free movie and The Incredible Shrinking Man was playing!!! We both got so scared that we sat on my dad's lap the whole time!! I have to go turn on TCM!
GO WHITE SOX!!!! |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 18 2005 : 5:06:33 PM
Girls, Tonight ( right now) on TCM a b movie classic...The Incredible Shrinking Man!!! The itty bitty man has to hide in his kid's doll playhouse to keep the cat from eating him! A 50's sci fi thriller!!!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 6:31:14 PM
I dont watch horror flicks. The spookiest I go is Hocus Pocus. Never liked them. Michele
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
| asnedecor |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 4:05:55 PM
Not very scary, but has become a favorite of mine for Halloween is Sleepy Hollow. The newer version with Johnny Dep as Icabob (sp?) Crane. It is just scary enough - especially when the headless horseman comes out of the base of the tree. I love it.
"Second star to the right, straight on till morning" Peter Pan
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| bramble |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 2:22:30 PM
In high school I could not watch the Omen or the Exorcist, they were just too ...horrible! I am a scary movie wimp like alot of you but do remember some crazy movies I watched as a kid (though who knows why!) Vincent Price was ALWAYS creepy and Bucket of Blood and House of Wax were two really over the top weird ones. What about that movie that had the giant pods come to earth?! I like "War of the World's" broadcast with Orson Wells because it "happened " right near by. But the all-time freak me out movie was called "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and starred Kim Darby as a young married, pregnant woman who moved into a family house where the one stipulation was not to unboard a fireplace that was all closed up. Well you guessed it she does it anyway and what came out of it scared my 14 year old brain into never watching another creepy movie again! Years later my husband found it on tv and was laughing saying "This, this is what scared you?" , I took one look and ran from the room! I just have far too active an imagination to invite this creepy, horror, gloom and guts in the door.
Like Clare said... there's enough of that already going on!
Happy Hauntings !
with a happy heart |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 12:34:10 PM
Yep Kim...You are a mid-western farmgirl after my own heart sweetie...pumpkin beers and B movies and all...
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| Shirley |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 12:04:15 PM
My DH doesnt like any of those scary kinda movies either.
He doesnt trust me anymore about to pick the movie we might go to. gheez, only because when Cijo(DOG movie)came out I told him we were going to go see a DOG movie. Of course it starts with scary kinda music and thats a dead give away. So now he always wants to know all about the mmovie before we go. LOL
poor guy, but I dont want to go by myself. :(
happy halloween
shirley |
| Linda Houston |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 11:40:23 AM
OK, women ! I am sixty years old and can not watch the scary movies that you talked about. My grandchildren thrive the scarest but "Grammy" gets a book and goes to her room. (When they are watching them here)
The scarest movies to me are the ones that could be real----exam: beautiful setting, woman calmly washing dishes after dinner, everyone has left and she is alone. Then the camera scans to french doors and the music begins (you know some one not friendly is walking toward the door ) I turn off the TV and froget it !!!!!
What can I say? I'm a chicken. |
| Park Avenue |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 10:30:42 AM
I'm with ya Shirley, I love the fun of halloween, the kids in cute costumes,the chocolate, the dressing up, um...did I mention the chocolate.
But i don't like the scarey stuff. Or the creepy stuff, like blood and gore, or the whole dark side.
Michele
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| Kim |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 09:15:33 AM
Yes, Yes, Plan 9 from Outer Space!! I have the video. I think I have seen Fearless Vampires also. I saw a thingo tv last week where you cano order 50 classic scary movies on 2 dvd's. I make have to get that. Halloween is my favorite time of year. I LOVED the Ed Wood movine with Johnny Depp. We must have been separated at birth Meadowlark!!
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
| KJD |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 07:57:30 AM
Oh, right - the Braukaufs! That wasn't our idea of Halloween, either, but that whole movie is so sweet, I got the feeling they weren't really out to hurt anyone. Although, burning other people's property in the street is pretty vandalous...Personally, I would do away with Halloween. Otherwise, I love Autumn! |
| sock_heaven |
Posted - Oct 16 2005 : 07:41:39 AM
KJD--"She killed the Braukoffs, single-handed!" I love "Meet Me in St. Louis", but that halloween scene always bugged me--maybe because it was so different (pagan?) from my childhood halloweens. All we did was dress up and ask for candy! :)
What would the world be, once bereft/Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;/Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. --Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 13 2005 : 09:46:41 AM
Hocus Pocus was awfully cute..I did like that one. Funny scary.
Jenny in Utah
Put all your eggs in one basket..and then watch that basket!! Mark Twain |
| Shirley |
Posted - Oct 12 2005 : 11:44:33 PM
I love Halloween and fall , all the pumpkins and colors off fall!!!
But dont like blood and guts and bloody hands coming out of the earth.they are so dumb
I love Hocus Pocus and I like ones like house on haunted hill, and
sixth sence, scarry with a little class LOL
shirley |
| KJD |
Posted - Oct 12 2005 : 5:38:33 PM
Hah! I'll probably watch Meet Me in St. Louis for Halloween, to forget about the date! Well, there is a Halloween scene in that one, too..."I killed Mr. Bronstein!" (or whatever his name is) |
| CityCat |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 8:32:51 PM
If you want creepy and weird, watch Japanese horror films. That remake, Dark Water starring Jennifer Connelly, wasn't all that scary: the original Japanese version gave me the creeps! And I'm the one who usually laughs through horror movies. Pet Cemetery was an utterly ridiculous movie, and I LOVED the book! I used to read horror books WAY past midnight, being the only one up in the house listening to the clock tick, tick, tick as I read the scary bits...
I LOVED Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. I howled through that one! The Exorcist was a good scary flick though. I saw that at a sleep-over way back when and it creeped us right out! This Halloween, I'll probably watch Sleepy Hollow, the Crow and Nightmare Before Christmas; all suitably Halloween-y fare. Although, I might be in the mood for some Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 7:52:26 PM
KIm!!! Do you mean Plan nine from Outer Space? I LOVED that one! It was that Ed Wood movie...the worst movie voted ever made in HollyWood! Did you ever see the movie Ed Wood with Johnny Depp? It was great.... He used trash can lids on wires for the flying saucers in Plan Nine!! I have never seen Night of the Living Dead...was it made in the 60's? Have you ever seen The Fearless Vampire Killers with Sharon tate and Roman Polanski? It was really stupid! The Thing was really creepy too, the one done in the 50's was better. As you can tell I am a real B movie buff. Marlene, What is a Samhein celebration?
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| Kim |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 7:43:46 PM
Planet 9, Night of the Livimg Dead, any "b" horror classics! I love Halloween!
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 6:52:48 PM
Anna, That sounds too cool to see Nosferautu in a big cathedral with organ music on Halloween night! That was such a ghastly vampire in that movie with the bald head and those sharp rat like teeth sticking out! EWWWWWW!!! I'm surprised a church would allow a showing of a halloween type horror movie!
BEB, The party treats sound dang good to me! I am planning on sending you a little birthday surprise next week and will include my recipe for my HI POWER EXPLOSIVELY GOOD TEX MEX CHILI with a disclaimer...not to be eaten or digested near an open flame A cauldron of magical mystical authentic Kansas chili....yep I like that! I guarantee it'll "blow" everyones socks off!!! As for the "head"...she was always perfectly coiffed (if she wasn't wearing her turban bandage) beearringed and lips and brows done nicely... I think eventually her hubby disconnected the two electrodes to her brain so she had more mobility and was able to follow him around the room by turning her neck...she then started to play "mind" games on him...by which he would throw a towel on her head temporarily silencing her...except for her sinister little cackle.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| BlueEggBabe |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 6:13:40 PM
I am still contemplating the party treats. Definitely a cauldron of, what?.....CHILI over the fire!! Hmm, who might have a good chili recipe?? I already bought the five spice powder!
I have a huge cast iron pot with feet on it that I will use. That's all the further I got. I was thinking standard hockey-boy fare of nachos/quesadillas/salad and maybe a taco dip with a rubber hand or some lizards crawling out.
This is a potluck too, so maybe another mom will bring something creative. I want to make at least one batch of MJ marshmallows for smores.They are so yummy.
Spinning my gears thinking mostly of outdoor decorations since we are having a bonfire.
Scarecrows, spiderwebs, jack-o-lanterns, some surprises....
I will have help decorating from 2 moms who are taking the day off work and bringing stuff to decorate with so it should be interesting!!
Was trying to think of at least one game to play, but forgot about bobbing for apples. The big galvanized tub usually holds the "beverages" but I might have to rethink that..(Not!)
OH, and the "HEAD" ....she looks so glamourous with her earrings and red lipstick...can't wait to see that one!!
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"If more of us valued good food, cheer and song above hoarded gold,the world would be a merrier place."
J.J.R.Tolkien |
| mdotterer |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 4:05:36 PM
I'm in the wimpy category. I just won't go near these things. I did see the Sixth Sense and I had trouble sleeping for a while. I saw stigmata, but it was too stupid to give me nightmares. Besides, it had Gabriel Byrnes - far too comforting to scare me.
I do love Halloween, though! I just leave out the gory stuff. I'm more into the old Samhain celebration. I'd rather be a real witch than one of those ugly Hollywood things!
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| Anna |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 2:51:13 PM
When I was in high school there was a cathedral in Spokane that would show Nosferatu around Halloween on a huge screen accompanied by a live organ...it was so creepy to see that movie in this huge cathedral with booming organ music! I love being scared, though, and my friends and I always had a blast. :^)
The Sewing Girl at MaryJanesFarm :^) |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 2:04:05 PM
The Head That Wouldn't Die was definitely pre-women's lib era. I think that is when a scientists wife is in a terrible car crash and he saves her head and keeps it alive in his labratory...talk about being under a man's thumb!!!! Only she ends up being the more powerful because it's just her "head" doin the talking and not her body, if ya know what I mean (no cute aprons in this 50's flick) Another from that era was The Tingler, about some kind of giant centipede looking thing that gets in peoples spine and makes them do weird things. The Tingler liked to hang out in dark movie theatres and strike people as they were enjoying their popcorn and Saturday night movie on dates...YUK! It would crawl on the ailes and then snake it's way up some poor guys pants. Then he changes into a murderous sociopath and strangles his poor date later on. Hey, I better stop rambling or I will let the "tingler" outta the bag... Your party sounds cool, what treats will you be serving? Bobbing for apples in an old washtub on the leaf strewn stone front porch as a hoot owl hoots in the distance? I can only imagine Pennsylvannia ( rhymes with Trannsylvannia) farms are so cool and quaint and atmospheric around All Hallows Eve...BOO!!!! BTW Did you know there is a Transylvannia University somewhere back east?
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| BlueEggBabe |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 1:47:03 PM
oh no....
somebody told me today that Walmart has even more selection for $1!!
I got the "Head that wouldn't Die" and "How Awful about Allen" with Anthony Perkins....the others escape me at the moment.
Gonna have to go to Walmart to see what is there.
I will watch Casper and Friends ASAP and send it off to you.
This all started because I was looking for a SPOOKY SOUNDS CD...never did get one. Found these instead!
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"If more of us valued good food, cheer and song above hoarded gold,the world would be a merrier place."
J.J.R.Tolkien |
