# Help! I need Halloween movies! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 1999, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428 "1999-10-07T19:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/21 "1999-10-08T01:00:00Z")
Try _Ghost in the Machine_. Serial killer dies in the MRI and his consciousness enters the computer. . . – Sylence * * * “The problem with reality is the lack of background music.” – Anon ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/22 "1999-10-08T01:04:00Z")
Thought of another one, Athena. I doubt it will scare many modern audiences, but I’ve always thought it was very stylish – of course it is based on Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw.” Watch “The Innocents.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/23 "1999-10-08T01:04:00Z")
Here are some off the top of my head. I chose ones that would be obscure or older. My preference goes to movies without a lot of gore, but interesting visuals and/or suspense and/or humour. I would urge you to try and look up these movies at [http://www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com) to see if you think they would be entertaining for your crowd. Movie/Director Freaks/Todd Browning Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Robert Wiene The Haunting/Robert Wise Nosferatu:Phantom der Nacht/Werner Herzog The Wicker Man/Robert Hardy La Maladicion de la Llorana, aka the Curse of the Crying Woman / Rafael Baledon Killer Tongue/Alberto Sciamma Phantasm/Don Coscarelli The Changeling/Peter Medak Suspiria/Dario Argento Dellamorte Dellamore/Michele Soavi * * * Jacques Kilchoer Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/24 "1999-10-08T02:11:00Z")
The Relic. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/25 "1999-10-08T05:27:00Z")
The Prophecy. Christopher Walken playing Gabrielle, The Angel of Death and Vigo Mortensen as Lucifer. Way Cool. _ **\ExTank** _\ _\“Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun.”_\ ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/26 "1999-10-08T05:32:00Z")
For a fun, campy horror film I would recommend “Evil Dead 2” and “Army of Darkness”, the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/27 "1999-10-08T07:13:00Z")
If you want to take a break from horror, try “Arsenic and Old Lace,” a wonderful comedy with Cary Grant, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre. It’s a scream. The strangest “scary” movie I’ve ever seen is “The Old Dark House,” made in 1932 with an all-star cast - Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, and Raymond Massey, directed by James Whale and written by J.B. Priestly. (If you’ve ever seen the very silly “Haunted Honeymoon” with Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder, you’ll find Dom Deluise’s speech, as he slides down the bannister, is a direct lift from “TODH.”) ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/28 "1999-10-08T13:58:00Z")
Chrisctp…what? You mean you’ve _seen_ it??? No, no copy, sorry.I love James Brolin! ---
**Author:** ![cmetzb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmetzb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmetzb)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/29 "1999-10-08T14:43:00Z")
Something Wicked This Way Comes A great scary film. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/30 "1999-10-08T15:45:00Z")
Hmmm… lots and lots to think about! I knew you guys would come through! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/31 "1999-10-09T05:00:00Z")
Got to back up JRK and aseymayo. CALIGARI and THE OLD DARK HOUSE would be on my top five list. Try ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) with Charles Laughton playing (overplaying?) Dr. Moreau, creator of man-animals on a steamy jungle island, and Kathleen Burke as a majorly sexy, only-in-Pre-Code-Hollywood, Panther Woman. What is the Law? Not to spill BLOOD, that is the Law! Are we not MEN? * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/32 "1999-10-09T05:30:00Z")
“An American Werewolf in London” \\AWB\\ ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/33 "1999-10-08T18:02:00Z")
Ike - yes! And Bela Lugosi as the Sayer of the Law. What is the Law? Not to walk on all fours, that is the Law! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/34 "1999-10-08T18:15:00Z")
[a sweeping bow to aseymayo] And just to finish off the trilogy, “Not to eat MEAT, that is the Law! Are we not MEN?” – Uke, clicking the “submit” button and turning back to his pastrami sandwich ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/35 "1999-10-09T02:54:00Z")
AWB: How in the **hell** did you do that? * * * Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together. —Red Green ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/36 "1999-10-09T07:15:00Z")
Another ‘party horror’ movie is “From Dusk Till Dawn”. Starts off as a typical, intense Tarantino film, then takes a right turn into strangeville. “Now, let’s kill that fucking band” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 1999, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/37 "1999-10-10T05:04:00Z")
Go the camp/high camp route. \

My suggestions: “Godzilla”(1950’s version) “King Kong”(1930’s) “Them!” “Attack of The Killer Tomatoes” “Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein” Any or all of the Poe films from Hammer studios, Starring Vincent Price\ * * * We have met the enemy, and He is Us.–Walt Kelly ---

**Author:** ![gary\_horaczek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@gary\_horaczek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gary_horaczek)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 1999, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/38 "1999-10-10T19:48:00Z")
You could intersperse the movies with a few of the original b&w Twilight Zone episodes. My choices would be: 1) The Hitchiker. The woman keeps seeing the same hitchiker as she is driving. 2)The old woman keeps getting phone calls and it turns out the phone line fell and landed on the grave. She was getting phone calls from beyond. 3) Lee Marvin as the gunslinger in the old west. He bets he can go to the grave and stick his knife in the grave and return because he wasn’t afraid. ---
**Author:** ![littlejohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@littlejohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/littlejohn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 1999, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/39 "1999-10-10T20:55:00Z")
The origina Halloween series. Nightmare on Elm street. Chucky. Scream. Friday the 13th. I know what you did last summer. Silence of the lambs. The puppet master. It Son of Sam. Rosemary’s baby. Birds, by Hitchcock. Psycho American werewolf in paris Dang, that’s all i can think of!. ---
**Author:** ![gary\_horaczek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@gary\_horaczek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gary_horaczek)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 1999, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428/40 "1999-10-13T00:06:00Z")
More suggestions: Tales From The Crypt and Vault Of Horror (the 2 1970’s films based on the EC horror comics stories); BloodFeast and/or 2000 Maniacs; Hillbilles In A Haunted House (how not to make a horror movie). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-need-halloween-movies/9428.md?page=3)