tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post6435162893612238562..comments2024-03-28T03:10:19.013-07:00Comments on Fraggmented: Essential Halloween ViewingJohn Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-65266069063561759772008-10-27T08:56:00.000-07:002008-10-27T08:56:00.000-07:00Ha! My buddy and I LOVE Jason X! A few years ago w...Ha! My buddy and I LOVE Jason X! A few years ago we made a point to watch all the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th movies. Jason X was easily our favorite.<BR/><BR/>It's scary, funny, not afraid to take itself too seriously, contains a smidgen of gratuitous nudity (a must for a slasher flick like this, I believe)and (a rarity in these movies) you actually care about some of the characters and hope they make it. Plus, it wins for that holodeck scene you mentioned alone. <BR/><BR/>But you already love it, so why am I trying to convince you? What other horror movies do I love? Well, I enjoy Halloween's "everything's normal, except for this creepy guy standing by the clothes line in broad daylight" schtick, but you already shot that one down...<BR/><BR/>How about the Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow? It's not really a horror movie, but it is a great "Halloween" movie, if you know what I mean, with a fantastic atmosphere to makeup for some of the more "Hollywood-y" plot elements. I try to watch it at some point every October.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-83009523698849903072008-10-23T13:53:00.000-07:002008-10-23T13:53:00.000-07:00'The Thing'. Probably a bit slow for your tastes, ...'The Thing'. Probably a bit slow for your tastes, but chilling, claustrophobic, really good effects for the time and it's really freaking scary!<BR/>The film version of Silent Hill isn't bad, though I mainly rate it because it's one of the only half decent films based on a video game ever made.<BR/><BR/>Of course, for me, the most frightening and traumatising film ever made was the film of 'Watership Down', the book was pretty scary for a children's book about bunnies. Add a trippy near death experience and horrifically graphic depictions of rabbits tearing into each other and getting buried alive and you've got some pretty scary stuff there.Kate Holdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239736467728498841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-23623919573541434082008-10-23T07:34:00.000-07:002008-10-23T07:34:00.000-07:00I will never watch the Exorcist again, but I recom...I will never watch the Exorcist again, but I recommend it as the best evil movie ever (notice I said "evil" and not "horror"). I also get really spooked watching the original Poltergeist(Carol Anne, midget lady, haunted tv, evil toys, a neighborhood built on a grave yard! That stuff wrote itself, I'm sure!) and The Shining(a masterful mood setter!). And if you're looking for the creepy mood sans the mayhem you JUST have to see Rosemary's Baby. I always feel sorry for Mia Farrow's character; her vulnerability just sucks me in every time to the point I want to throw Bibles at the screen and give her a big hug (especially the scene where she's trying to call the doctor on the payphone, don't even get me started).<BR/><BR/>Favorite Modern Horror Films: The Ring, Saw (all of them), and 30 Days Of Night.<BR/><BR/>---Jon M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com