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Popular Halloween movies?

Post by Horror Flicks » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:39 pm

What are your popular Halloween movies?

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Friday The 13th
The Howling
Poltergeist
A Nightmare Before Christmas
An American Werewolf In London
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Night Of The Living Dead
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Re: Popular Halloween movies?

Post by Pumpkin_Man » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:05 am

I'm a little more 'old school' when it comes to popular Halloween type movies,or movies that are part of "Halloween" tradition. Here's my list.

"Frainekstein" the original 1930s version
"Dracula" Bela Lugosi, who else???
"The Wolf Man" starring Lon Chaney Jr.
"Franidnstein Meets the Wolf Man"
"The Haunting" The original
"Dark Shadows" Any episode will fill the bill
"The Changeling"
"It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"
"Dracula" Dan Curtis version

And there are plenty of others, but tradtional classic horror is pretty much my main-stay on Halloween.

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Re: Popular Halloween movies?

Post by Horror Flicks » Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:02 pm

Me personelly, like Christopher Lee's Dracula movies. But they didn't show that much on television.

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Post by Pumpkin_Man » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:53 pm

Like I said, I still see "Bela Lugosi" as THE archytipical Count Dracula, but a very close 2nd is the Dan Curtis version of the "Dracula" story. I also like Christopher Lee as the Count, though.

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Post by iHaunt » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:21 pm

You know that Christopher Lee just turned 87 last month? I wasn't sure that he was celebrating his 87th Birthday in London, but what I read somewhere online news. :)

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Post by Pumpkin_Man » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:24 pm

You know who else has been around seemingly for ever? The guy who played Grandpa on the tv show "The Munsters." I don't remember his name, but he was interviewed on a popular local radio show a few years ago, and he was in his 90s.

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Post by hippieluvn » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:21 pm

During the month of October, I enjoy watching the following movies/programs:

Dracula (Bela Lugosi)
Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
The Wolfman (Lon Chaney)
House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)
The Last Man on Earth (Vincent Price)
Fright Night
The Blair Witch Project
Salem's Lot (Original & Remake)
Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Halloween (Rob Zombie)
Halloween III
Tales from the Darkside
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
The Haunted History of Halloween (History Ch)
Vampire Secrets (History Ch)
Hauntings (History Ch)

And any other great movies or programs that I get a chance to see during the season! Of course, I will soon be adding Trick R Treat to my list, too -- finally!!! :D

You can add to that several DVDs that I recently purchased and am anxiously awaiting:

Roseanne's Halloween Edition (Best Halloween episodes from the series on one DVD)
Fat Albert's Halloween Special
Love at First Bite
Transylvania 6-5000
Monster Squad
American Scary (documentary)

It's weird -- the older I get with this holiday, the more I love it and want to return to the simple, child-like Halloween of my youth. I guess that's why I'm watching less and less actual horror movies and more TV programs/cartoons, etc... Oh well, it's all fun times!!! :D

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Post by iHaunt » Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:36 pm

Resident Evil rocks!

I like some Masters Of Horror films:

Dream in Witch's House
Deer Lady
Haeckel's Tale
Jenifer
Valerie Under The Stairs

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Post by shanda » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:29 pm

I seem to love the new classics.

An American Warewolf in London (not Paris)
The Amitiville Horror (new and old)
Psyco
Halloween
Fright Night
Salem's Lot
Friday the 13th
The Strangers
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Most old Stephen King stuff.
I also love 13 Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill. Some think they are silly

My kids and I watch Hocus Pocus over and over and also the Disney Halloween Town shows. They are good.

And can't forget Tim Burton's
The Nightmare Before Christmas.
This is my all time fave. My ringtone is "This is Halloween".
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright,
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Post by hippieluvn » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:07 pm

I enjoy the Friday the 13th franchise -- especially parts 1-4, 6, Freddy vs. Jason, and the new remake. However, I don't care to watch these particular scary flicks in conjunction with my Halloween Horrorthon, because: 1) Halloween belongs to Michael, not Jason; and 2) the Friday flicks seem more like summertime flicks, not October (eve of winter)... Know what I mean? :twisted:

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Post by CannibalsOnCannabis » Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:17 am

I always enjoy watching all the Halloween flicks, and 25 Years of Terror, which is the greatest franchise documentary I've ever seen. Now that this board helped me discover The Haunted History of Halloween, I'm sure that will be on my must-watch list. Of course, The Great Pumpkin, and any Scooby Doo flicks I can find around. Hellraiser is a good one, as well as Pet Sematary. 'Salem's Lot, if I'm the mood for some serious cheese, and, of course, by October 27, Trick 'r Treat. Oh, and The Halloween Tree, which I can only find on youtube. Many others slipping my mine right now...

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Post by hippieluvn » Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:58 pm

Thanks for mentioning The Halloween Tree on YouTube. I'd been unable to find anything other than VHS copies out there in cyberspace, and never thought to look on YouTube, where should always look first... Thanks again!!! :D

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Post by CannibalsOnCannabis » Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:38 pm

Very happy to help!

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Post by metallica_87 » Mon Aug 03, 2009 12:21 pm

My favorite horror/halloween related movies to watch during the halloween season (in no particular order):

Movies:

Alice, Sweet Alice
Amityville Horrors I and II
American Werewolf In London
Army of Darkness
Black Christmas
The Bride of Frankenstein
Burnt Offerings
Carrie
Children of the Corn
Children of the Damned
Christine
Cujo
The Dark Half
Dawn of the Dead (original and the remake)
Dracula (With Lugosi)
Evil Dead
The Exorcist
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Friday the 13th 1-3, 6, Jason Takes Manhattan, Freddy vs Jason
Frankenstein
Halloween (The entire collection)
Hellraiser
The Hills Have Eyes
House of a Thousand Corpses
House on Haunted Hill (With Vincent Price)
It
Jaws
Land of the Dead
The Last House on the Left
They Live
Leprechaun I
The Mummy
Night of the Living Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street (Whole series)
The Ninth Gate
Nosferatu
The Omen
Poltergeist
Psycho
Re-Animator
Saw (Whole series)
The Shining
Shocker
Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Silver Bullet
Village of the Damned
The Wolfman
Wolf


Specials/TV:

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
Raggedy Ann and Andy: The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile
Mr. Boogedy
Black Beard's Ghost
The Worst Witch
The Canterville Ghost
Disney's Halloween Treat
A Disney Halloween
Casper's Halloween
Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
The Halloween Tree
Frankenweenie
Scooby Doo Meets The Boo Brothers
The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane
Bugs Bunny's Halloween Hijinks
Disney's Halloween Hall of Fame w/Jonathan Winters
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Mad Monster Party
Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
Wizards of Waverly Place (Yes, A halloween loving, heavy metal loving 22year old does watch this show, and thats me)
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Re: Popular Halloween movies?

Post by Pumpkin_Man » Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:36 pm

I truely wonder how much Halloween are we going to see on the main stream tv this year. It seems that as far as tv is concerned, Hallloween is not worth while any more. I'm sure they will at least air the "Charlie Brown" special, but I have that on DVD.

Of course, they already had several of the Halloween episodes of some of the old classic tv shows.

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