Spooky Season viewings

[Thesunmaid]

Hello all!

So its that time of year again, It is my personal favorite time of year seriously...this is basically my Christmas.(Halloween is also my wedding anniversary lol) I love all things dark, spooky and scary and that includes Movies and Tv shows.

I grew up watching horror movies. Waaaay back in the 80's I saw my first horror movie...the first, nightmare on elm street movie. My older brother and his friends rented it (yes I am that old VHS was a thing) They thought hehehe lets scare little sunny by letting her watch it. He was baby sitting tiny lil me and I of course being the annoying younger sibling wanted to hang out with the big kids. So..they let me watch and honestly instead of being scared...I thought it was fucking amazing. I mean seriously...a guy getting sucked into a bed and then blood poured flowed up to the ceiling? I found out later how they did that and even knowing how it was still awesome. I suppose you never forget your first.

Through the years I chewed through books and ghost stories and all things scary. My mom had to tell my local library to let me take out any book I wanted because they were not going to let me read the "big kid" books. Which of course to my childhood mind was a great injustice as well as in 4th grade my (substitute) teacher asked us all what we wanted to be when we grew up. ( I am guessing so she could kill time) I said a parapsychologist. The teacher tried to tell me that was not a real thing and I proceeded to argue with her and explain about Ed and Lorraine Warren and any other cases I could thing of because I basically chewed through all the books I could find on the supernatural like Shaggy from scooby doo with his sandwiches.

It resulted in a parent teacher conference because the teacher was shocked that I was allowed to read such things to which my mother told the teacher. "I don't care what she reads...she is reading. We want kids to read to leave her alone about it." My mom is pretty awesome. She is still that feisty in her 70's.

But with that..I was wondering if anyone has favorite movies. tv shows and or books. Hell even comic books that they would like to recommend in the way of scary or spooky. Personally I cannot recommend enough the streaming service Shudder. Its basically like netflix for Horror.

I have always had a soft spot for Stephan King even his mini series (oh langoliers how many chuckles you got out of me. I mean how can you not love Balki from perfect strangers yelling and acting like a maniac.) So the creep show movies I loved,(there is a creep show tv series on shudder and it really has the old creep show movies feel. I highly recommend.)

I love anything Freddy Kruger...yes even the stupid Freddy vs Jason and new nightmare. I do love Jackie Earle Haley but his version of Freddy was just...weak? It was like the wish version of Krueger, Sorry Robert Englund all the way. I always found that Freddy was my favorite slasher because I can't really get behind a slasher that lurches about and kills...sorry Jason I like my slashers to talk not just loom and somehow transport in front of people when they are tripping over air while they run away? Also Jason did not take manhatten...it should have been called Jason on a boat.

I also like Zombie movies. My favorite is called Dead alive...yes it had pretty cheesy effects in places but one scene...hoo...they take a lawnmower pick it up and literally mow through a crowd of zombies coming at him. Bwa hahaha. Yes I love me some 80's and 90's gore fests.

I also dearly love the psychological thrillers...Like I love the thing, (give me all the body horror) as well as there is one called the stuff. Its about a new "treat" that would basically take over peoples minds. As well as the house movies. And of course Silence of the lambs give me all the Hannibal Lector.

I love supernatural and Buffy (can we talk about how fucking scary the gentleman were..come on..just yikes) I also love any ghost hunting shows. (i know they are fake...leave me alone about my stupid ghost shows. I liked them it makes me giggle to watch grown men and woman running about going there's a cold spot! Of course there's a cold spot you numpty...its a 100 year old abandoned building..) But they tend to have a lot of cool history about the places so I like that too.

Its not just old movies I love. I also like modern ones too...although stop with the fucking jump scares and just write an actual good movie please..but..one I loved and its a sequel, Dr sleep. Its a sequel of the shining. (if you have not seen the mini series oh my god watch it sooo funny) But yes Dr. sleep is really good...and there is another one I highly recommend Before I wake. (2016 movie)

You know how you have movies that you go huh I wonder what the origin of the monster in that movie is? Before I wake actually explains it and I was like wow...ok...that was...wow. Big fan of that movie.

As you can see I can ramble on about horror movies and tv shows and books...but I would dearly love to hear from you guys what if your favorites...or hell what ones do you hate and why? Or is there any movies you think are both terrible but you still love them. I myself can appreciate a so bad its good movie. So yes please guys lets hear it...I would love to hear them.

Have a happy spooky season my dears.

 

[Velle_]

Mmm. I didn't watch horror as a kid because my mom was a very strict christian.

Love John Carpenter movies, but that's not news to anyone who knows me at all. Films made from Stephen King books can be hit or miss, but I adored the original The Stand miniseries.

I've been watching a lot of Netflix. Love love love their Dracula (with Claes Bang), Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club.

Love vampire movies and shows in general, barring the Twilight stuff. Interview with the Vampire (the movie, and its sequels) is particularly good, despite Tom Cruise being in them. (I'm *trying* to get into the Interview with the Vampire TV series, but it's not quite gripping me. Ditto Mayfair Witches.)

Vampire-o-rama: Nosferatu (the original), Last Lovers Left Alive, The Hunger, Let the Right One In (the Swedish version), What We Do In the Shadows, From Dusk Till Dawn, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie and the series), Bram Stoker's Dracula (mainly for Gary Oldman in purple specs), The Lost Boys, 'Salem's Lot (the 1979 miniseries), and probably a whole lot of others I'm forgetting.

TV stuff that's not vampires 24/7? The X Files, Millenium, Angel, Grimm.

YouTube: Marble Hornets, videos by Captain Valor interpreting in ASL the Jonathan Coulton songs "Re Your Brains" and "Blue Sunny Day."

I'm probably forgetting a lot and will need to add to this. 🕷

 

[CuriousJInLA]

Mmm. I didn't watch horror as a kid because my mom was a very strict christian.

Love John Carpenter movies, but that's not news to anyone who knows me at all.

I've been watching a lot of Netflix. Love love love their Dracula (with Claes Bang), Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club.

Love vampire movies in general, barring the Twilight stuff. Interview with the Vampire (the movie, and its sequels) is particularly good, despite Tom Cruise being in them. (I'm *trying* to get into the Interview with the Vampire TV series, but it's not quite gripping me. Ditto Mayfair Witches.)

Vampire-o-rama: Nosferatu, Last Lovers Left Alive, The Hunger, Let the Right One In (the Swedish version), What We Do In the Shadows, From Dusk Till Dawn,

Also really like vampire-related movies, I think because I was fascinated with Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I mentioned this in another thread but Abigail is really good if you haven’t seen it yet

 

[Thesunmaid]

Also really like vampire-related movies, I think because I was fascinated with Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I mentioned this in another thread but Abigail is really good if you haven’t seen it yet

I did see it a few weeks ago and my husband and I were like oh...please kill the frat boy dude bro...we both hated him soo much. lol

 

[CuriousJInLA]

I did see it a few weeks ago and my husband and I were like oh...please kill the frat boy dude bro...we both hated him soo much. lol

Yeah I think everyone hated him. But the movie I loved

 

[Massacre_]

I was traumatized by Thirteen Ghosts when I was like 7 and haven't been able to watch anything scary since. Prior to that, I would watch movies like Hell House, House on Haunted Hill, The Others, The Haunting and generally be okay. But then, "scary" is quite subjective..

 

[Amalinda]

I am terribly vanilla when it comes to horror. I agree with Sunny that The Gentlemen are frankly the most awful things ever shown on a PG TV series (the hands, the smiles, the floating) ...but Buffy is maybe the best of all monster of the week and vampire series out there. The Lost Boys has a special place in my heart.

I have always loved a young adult book called The Ghost Belonged to Me, a ghost story that ends in New Orleans. Grown up books...The Turn of the Screw and The Woman in White caused many a sleepless night.

I love Beetlejuice and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which I have just seen, but the best in that field for me is The Frighteners with Micheal J Fox

The offspring has made me watch far too much Korean horror (from behind a cushion) ..the Tale of Two Sisters was easily the guts to ice film

Thriller the video was pretty chilling when us innocents first saw it...we had not had seen much like it before

And I must mention An American Werewolf in London.

I really enjoyed American Horror Story Asylum but not so much the others. The Haunting of Bylthe Manor and Midnight Mass were masterful.

I wish you all a thrilling and magical All Hallow's Eve

 

[jjhall5150]

Personally, my favorite horror film is Phantasm (The original)

Like Velle, I’m a huge John Carpenter fan.

I don’t like torture horror at all though, won’t watch it. Never seen Saw or any of those films.

Most of my horror influences were from the 70s and 80s, so I’ve seen most of those