Willow ,'Showtime'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I never saw that one either. Cool! Online polls keep putting The Shining at #1 but I didn't think it was that scary, especially compared to the book.
We just watched the director's cut of 1408. I'd only seen the last 45 minutes of the theatrical release and remembered it as being quite scary but I think it wasn't that great on rewatch and I really disliked what turns out to be the original ending.
So now we're trying to really frighten ourselves.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
oh yes. That's a good one.
quick poll: what's the scariest ghost movie you ever saw?
Poltergeist, The Haunting of Hill House (the original version, thankyouverymuch), or The Changeling. Scary enough that I have no urge to watch any of them, ever again.
We saw Wolfman last night. It was wonderful. Dear Hollywood, please make more atmospheric, "Victorian", Gothic with a capital G and ruined churches lit by torches, sorts of horror movies. Please. The next one should, ideally, have vampires.
what's the scariest ghost movie you ever saw?
Carnival of Souls.
Great. Now I can't stop thinking of Herk Harvey's creepy face floating behind the second story window. So much for going to sleep.
The Haunting of Hill House
That's the Shirley Jackson novel that was made into the movie The Haunting, right? I want to make sure you don't mean The Haunting at Hell House.
Is that the Roddy McDowall one?
I think Ju-On is my scariest ghost movie, though it's been so long since I saw Changeling that I can't be absolutely sure.
That's the Shirley Jackson novel that was made into the movie The Haunting
Yes. I always forget that the movie had a different title.
Yes. I always forget that the movie had a different title.
Cool cast, and Robert Wise consciously going back to his RKO Val Lewton roots (Cat People, etc.).
Claire Bloom (Philip Roth's lover of many years), Julie Harris, Russ Tamblyn (Amber's dad, Twin Peaks, West Side Story, 7 Brides...)
Jilli, I am mostly with you on Wolfman, although I could have done with a bit less "eeewwww" and "Startle!" during the wolfy sequences.