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classic-esque Nosferatu Frankenstein gory-esque The Exorcist The Thing 82 crazy-esque Psycho Nightmare On Elm St funny-side-esque Ghostbusters Evil Dead 2 |
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An interesting question. I don't like to limit myself to arbitrary genre lines, so my list reflects this. I think my eight would be (not in this order):
Halloween (1978) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Psycho (1960) The Haunting (1963) Dracula (1931) Jaws (1975) The Howling (1981) Pet Sematary (1989) Those are some excellent films from a variety of genres that I think would give them a taste of the genre, if that doesn't work, I can always try more modern ones. Last edited by metternich1815; 11-01-2013 at 04:51 AM. |
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Night of the Living Dead The Shining Gory Dead Alive The Thing (original) crazy The Devil's Rejects Evil Dead 2 Funny Hatchet(Any of them) Shaun of the Dead |
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Bride of Frankenstein
Halloween the Exorcist Nude for Satan (one of my favorite euro-sleaze flicks) Evil Dead 2 Dawn of the Dead Black Sunday Curse of Frankenstein I guess I would just show them my favorites, being of the mindset, "If they don't like these, they don't like horror".
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1. Hitchcock's Psycho (A beautiful drama-thriller about a guy & his bit crazy mother) 2. The Exorcist (A slow-burn moving film about a troubled teen & a priest) 3. Carpenter's The Thing (A solid sci-fi suspense thriller) 4. Carpenter's Halloween (A sad little story about a girl & his long lost brother) 5. Rosemary's Baby (An emotionally moving tale depicting the tensions & fear of the first-time pregnancy for a newly-married woman) 6. TCM [Original] (Newly restored, a lost 'true-crime' film about a survival story of a group of teens 'rescued' by a poor-struggling family) 7. Let the Right One In (An everlasting children love-story) 8. Freaks (30's highly acclaimed classic film about the behind the stage struggling life of circus people)
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I see you didn't select Dracula 33 either. I liked Dracula 33, but it's not one of my favorites. It's a bit dry and slow. Probably would entertain intellectuals a bit more than non-intellectuals. I went with Nosferatu. Even though I had seen a ton of Hammer Dracula films and Dracula, I was still at the end of my seat for Nos. And surprisingly to me, I thought the special effects were better and more frightening than the former. Just checking... you mean The Thing 82 or 52? The 52 version is called The Thing from the other world, but usually referred to as The Thing, especially before the 82 version. Quote:
I enjoyed Freaks. But I don't know I would say it was particularly good, or important to horror. It may be a classic, because of the notoriety, which comes purely from the title, and the unique actors presented in a proper way (except, possibly, the last 15 mins; much of which was permanently cut). That is to say, if none of the actors were physically unique, and the characters were just trapeze, clowns and show girls, and it was released with the book title "Spurs", then we wouldn't be talking about it now. |
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But the actors are not trapeze artists, clowns and showgirls. They're pinheads, human torsos, living skeletons, dwarves... what the world at that time called Freaks, abominations, monsters. Amongst themselves they're normal, but the outside world fears them, and puts them on display to demean and control them. In the film their society is invaded and betrayed, and they exact their brutal revenge, and it's not the type of revenge you could find in a western. Their revenge is endemic to their place as society's freaks. They've been mocked and humiliated and have acted like the monsters outsiders believe them to be. Freaks is not only good, it's a masterpiece, and an important early example of the sympathetic monster(s) abused by an uncaring, cruel society. |
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It's hard to believe that the same guy who made Dracula made Freaks. Freaks is terrifically directed and imaginatively filmed, whereas Dracula is stagy and slow, even by the standards of its time. Lugosi and Dwight Fry are the only good things about Dracula for me. When it came out with a Philip Glass soundtrack, I had to laugh, because no film could be less suited for a Philip Glass soundtrack, but perhaps I should give it a chance; maybe it works as a study in contrasts. No offense, but I think the respect for Dracula is generally unwarranted and rests solely on Lugosi's great performance. Of the Universal horror films, it is my least favorite.
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