Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Andybev01 » Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:56 pm

1. Poltergeist

2. Hocus Pocus

3. The Uninvited (1947)

4. The Innocents

5. Freaks
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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by iHaunt » Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:57 pm

How about these movies?


House Of 1000 Corpses
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Devil's Rejects
Silent Hill
Ghosts of Mars

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by writerpatrick » Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:01 pm

1. House on Haunted Hill (original of course)
2. Van Helsing
3. The Halloween Tree
4. Ghostbusters (although I've seen it so often I've lost a lot of interest in it)
5. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by donnawhite » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:28 am

1. Hocus Pocus
2. Cinderella
3. Halloween
4. Evil Dead
5. The Little Mermaid
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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Murfreesboro » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:25 am

Not sure I can put my favorite Halloween movies in any ranked order, but some I enjoy screening in October include

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Seriously, this one scares me more than The Exorcist)

Mary Reilly (Not sure why I love this one so much--I think maybe because it is atmospheric and sensual without really showing much. Plus, John Malkovich gets to me.)

An American Werewolf in London (What's to say? Wonderful, dark humor)

Ghostbusters (Classic comedy)

Hocus Pocus (It's got all the holiday motifs I love, and is great for viewing with kids.)

Sometimes I am in the mood for Rosemary's Baby, too.

I like many of the others you all mention, too. My favorite vampire is Barnabas Collins, though I don't have any Dark Shadows in my private video library. I just remember him so well from my adolescence. I think he was the original conflicted vampire.

Sometimes I will put on Sweeney Todd (1982 stage production, Lansbury/Hearne) during the Halloween season. Sometimes also I will screen the Phantom of the Opera (musical) at that time, even though some things about it disappointed me (chiefly, that the Phantom couldn't sing well, and he didn't look very scary when his mask was removed).

I guess I like romantic atmosphere over gore, and I enjoy laughing at the macabre sometimes.

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by jengraves86 » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:30 am


1.Halloween
2.Sleepy Hollow
3.Hocus Pocus (the universal Halloween favorite)
4.Halloweentown
5.Halloween 5

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Murfreesboro » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:15 pm

Another movie I like to watch during October is From Hell. Love Johnny Depp in that one.

I'm not sure I'd call it a Halloween movie, but for a romantic ghost story, it's hard to beat The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (black & white 1940s version with Rex Harrison as Captain Gregg).

I also enjoy the Tim Burton/Johny Depp Sleepy Hollow, although it is just a jazz riff on the original story. The best version I've ever seen for preserving the tone of the original story is actually the cartoon version narrated by Bing Crosby (Disney, I think). Because the Washington Irving short story is more comic than scary, really.

I kinda like the Wynona Ryder/Gary Oldman Dracula, too. The best part of it, IMO, is when the "young" Dracula comes to London as an 1890s dandy. I love the way they recreate that fin-de-siecle time, which was when the novel Dracula was written (and it does follow the story pretty well, except that the original doesn't have that part about Dracula's seeking his lost lover, IIRC).

To go in a completely different direction, I also find that Beowulf film from 4-5 years back (the one that was computer generated in 3-D) very effective. Lots of demons, darkness, and seduction going on in it. I'd say it could qualify as a Halloween movie, too.

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by witchy » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:31 pm

writerpatrick wrote:1. House on Haunted Hill (original of course)
2. Van Helsing
3. The Halloween Tree
4. Ghostbusters (although I've seen it so often I've lost a lot of interest in it)
5. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

I luv all these too!! :alien:
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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Castle » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:48 pm

1. Killer Klowns from Outer Space - Holds a near and dear place in my hear. Because it's ridiculously stupid.
2. Dog Soldiers/The Howling - My two favorite werewolf movies.
3. The Thing - One of my all-time favorite movies.
4. Carnosaur - I love dinosaurs and horror movies, so it's cool. A horrible movie by all accounts, but I like it. It's like if Jurassic Park was directed and acted out by kindergarden kids.
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street - My favorite of the slasher movie icons.
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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Pumpkin_Man » Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:29 pm

I know I already listed 5 favorites that Halloween wouldn't be Halloween without them, but I also screen "The Blair Witch Project" every October. That movie really puts me in the Halloween spirit.

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Murfreesboro » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:25 pm

I think that last scene of Blair Witch is really effective. I wish the college kids hadn't used the "f-word" every other word, though. I mean, I'm not prudish about language--believe me, I've heard it all--but it gets tiresome hearing that kind of vocabulary endlessly.

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by jengraves86 » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:45 am

Murfreesboro wrote:I think that last scene of Blair Witch is really effective. I wish the college kids hadn't used the "f-word" every other word, though. I mean, I'm not prudish about language--believe me, I've heard it all--but it gets tiresome hearing that kind of vocabulary endlessly.
Yeah, call me old-fashioned but I only use that kind of language when I'm really mad. It's very uncooth.
Anyway, for a fake documentary BWP is a pretty good movie. I liked the 2nd even more when it came out but after a few times it's like, eh, there's too many holes in that plot.

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Castle » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:53 pm

If I were bring chased and tormented by a ghost witch lady, I'd toss F bombs left and right because I'd be scared sh!tless.
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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by iHaunt » Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:07 am

Castle wrote:If I were bring chased and tormented by a ghost witch lady, I'd toss F bombs left and right because I'd be scared sh!tless.
Hey, I love F-bombs! :lol:

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Re: Top 5 Halloween Movies of All Time

Post by Murfreesboro » Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:12 am

Castle wrote:If I were bring chased and tormented by a ghost witch lady, I'd toss F bombs left and right because I'd be scared sh!tless.
:lol: :lol: :lol:


Honestly, if this were happening to me, for real? I think I'd be praying, not cursing.

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