I’m a traditionalist, too, and love the old classic horror films. We watched Frankenstein on TCM a couple of weeks ago. However, I had no luck finding the 1931 classic version of Dracula, though I searched and searched the future programming on our DVR. Then we thought of youtube, and found it right away. We watched it last night, and it’s still creepy and perverse after all these years.
As an aside, I watched this same Dracula on broadcast television a few years ago, and some yahoo thought he’d be clever and dub in music to fill all the emptiness. Jerk. The weird cold silences are what helps to make the movie as strange and hypnotic as it is.
Usually it is a double feature of Nightmare Before Christmas and Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, although this year I am expecting the discs of Gormenghast from Netflix, so I might substitute that.
We have been doing a marathon lately of the newer computer/stop-motion animation stuff. Nightmare Befor Christmas Coraline Paranorman Frankenweenie Monster House
Huh. I’m surprised to be the first to say Rocky Horror Picture Show. There’s always at least one nearby live show, along with midnight showings of the movie.
Hope they didn’t colorize it as well! (Sssshhhh…don’t give them any ideas.)
Have you seen the Spanish version? It was shot at the same time as the English version, on the same sets. They shot the English version during the day and the Spanish at night with a Spanish speaking cast and a different director. Many people consider the Spanish version to be better. It’s included in the box set I have but I can’t say I found it to be superior. Maybe I am just biased to the version I grew up with.
The first 3 Halloween movies. That includes Halloween III, Season of the Witch.
The first 3 Friday the 13th movies.
The original Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Invisible Man.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
Fredric March version of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde.
I also like to sprinkle in several B movie horror films.
I like to watch multiple versions of some horror classic. I’ve watched marathon screenings of different versions of Dracula in two different years, and of Frankenstein.
I could do The Phantom of the Opera, or the Wolfman, or Beowulf with Grendel this year. I own multiple versions of each.
I always watch the Halloween episode of Freaks and Geeks (Tricks and Treats) every year. And I try to watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” when I can find our DVD of it (which I couldn’t last night!)
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It’s a bad movie, but I like it. Probably helps that it was the first Halloween I saw, and I had no idea who Michael Meyers was at the time, so the total lack of connection to 1 and 2 didn’t affect me at all.
I spent too many years performing the show to want to go see it anymore.
I always try to watch Arsenic and Old Lace every year. One of my teachers sat us down to watch it for Halloween in junior high or so, and it’s become one of my absolute favorites. This year, I’ve also managed to sit down and watch The Mummy, The Wolf Man, and House on Haunted Hill. I was going to watch Dracula last night, but I totally fell asleep.
I am a huge fan of terrible horror flicks, so I watch them year-round. I save the good ones for Halloween season.
The Crow is my one definite Halloween must-see, with The Nightmare Before Christmas a close second. Others I’ve made a point to see include Carpenter’s original Halloween (obviously, I guess), and the more recent entries Trick 'r Treat, and May.
It’s not a Halloween movie as much as it’s a movie that occurs on Halloween. And where else do you get a 3 foot alien doing a dead-on impression of Jack Nicholson?
We like to catch the 60s version of The Haunting, along with classics like The Exorcist, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. We also watch whatever horror happens to be on TV, along with renting a few DVDs (right now we have the Dr. Phibes set waiting for us).
Plus, we try to catch whatever classics the local theaters are showing. This year we seem to be limited to the Riff Trax version of NOTLD. This is all in addition to the various streaming things we can find.
It’s just not Halloween without The Rocky Horror Picture Show. (and Elvira, god, I miss Elvira - I could put on Elvira, Mistress of the Dark! It’s not scary, though). These are on while handing out candy at the door. Later on, if I could, I would watch The Haunting, Isle of the Dead, or (and this one seriously does scare me) the 1922 Nosferatu.
