Comments on: Halloween Horror Movie Salute

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:57:41 +0000

“The old style terror/suspense films”

… are old-style films — they have an intelligent script, an actual plot that's being followed!

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:16:38 +0000

Lots of good stuff in that genre, all the way from Donnie Darko to Aliens. Don't have much use for gratuitious gore though, at least not when it's humans getting the worst of it. Don't have much use for gratuitous partisanship either, especially when it's obsessive to the point of idiocy.

By: roro80

roro80 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:16:29 +0000

I guess a good horror flick has no political party. I just don't like the ones that are too gorey without being cartoony — like the Saw series — or things where it's just mostly-naked chicks getting cut into little pieces (“horror porn”). Make it silly-scary, and I'm all over it. The old style terror/suspense films are also pretty awesome, like Rosemary's Baby or The Omen or The Shining.

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:55:18 +0000

“I love scary movies. My favorites are zombie movies.”

My quiet, sweet colleague and friend in LA, who arrived from Vietnam as a “boat person” and went on to become a fully-assimilated Fox stereotype (complete with US flag displayed at her cubicle, back in the 1980s, before the Fox phenomenon ever developed), sweet, kind, unassuming gentle “S,” was a horror movie fan. (I didn't ask her what she thought of “Apocalypse Now.”)

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:51:51 +0000

Leftists can have Al Gore and his extremism-celebrity enviro-idiocy. I'll take Halloween Candy Rosemary.

By: roro80

roro80 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:30 +0000

Ok, thanks, Jazz. I was just thinking it might be considered off topic or threadjacking.

Since it's not, here's a couple of suggestions for anyone's Halloween playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOn1037ZLwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92HjH1GG3ro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxyJLxV0_-8

Suggestions? Anyone?

By: roro80

roro80 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:20 +0000

By: Father_Time

Father_Time — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:29:13 +0000

Scoff*

October is not about Halloween and candy.

It's about Octoberfest and Beer.

At least for adults.

By: Jazz

Jazz — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:28:44 +0000

We actually have a category here for arts and entertainment. Not everything has to be politics.

By: roro80

roro80 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:02 +0000

Ooh! I love scary movies. My favorites are zombie movies. Really, I love the whole Halloween aesthetic.

If this is inappropriate, let me know, mods (and I'll edit down this comment), but I'd love to ask the TMV community for suggestions on songs for a Holloween playlist.

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