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Best films to watch on Halloween

abetarrush · 2006-10-09 00:35:20

I think Hocus Pocus and the Halloweentown movies are actually really good [yes, im a big kid!] For horrors, ye gotta go with the classics, Halloween and NOES Halloween is so scary on Halloween, even though ive seen it abt 10 times Any others?

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I think Hocus Pocus and the Halloweentown movies are actually really good
[yes, im a big kid!]

For horrors, ye gotta go with the classics, Halloween and NOES

Halloween is so scary on Halloween, even though ive seen it abt 10 times

Any others?

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#2 09-10-2006 12:36am

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It's a Wonderful Life. Nothing scarier that being reminded how close to Christmas all those marketing people want us to think it is.

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#3 09-10-2006 12:38am

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A thread here from All Things Retro might be some help. Some that could be lumped in with Halloween in there. Plenty of classics. Hocus Pocus would be up there for me.

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#4 09-10-2006 4:19am

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I love Hocus Pocus. I've never seen many other Halloween movies, but one year, some of my friends and I all went to see "The Ring" in theaters. That was a fun night.

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#5 09-10-2006 5:23am

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Apocalypse Now

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#6 09-10-2006 5:29am

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Aunt Betsies holdiay video, swimsuit edition.... the horror :eek:

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#7 09-10-2006 12:44pm

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How about "Halloween"? Still an excellent film after all these years.
Stay away from the sequels though.

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#8 09-10-2006 2:18pm

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The Shining, The Exorcist or The Thing.

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#9 09-10-2006 2:21pm

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Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar...

.. terror at it's most terrifying! :eek: :eek: :eek:

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#10 09-10-2006 2:28pm

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Leprechaun. (Hilarious)
Halloween.
NOES.
Ring (Japanese).
Night of the living dead.
Dawn/day/land of the dead.
Evil Dead Trilogy.

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#11 09-10-2006 2:47pm

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I'll add a vote for The Thing

Great show.

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#12 09-10-2006 3:29pm

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abetarrush wrote:

Hocus Pocus and the Halloweentown...

Heh heh, best movies ever. A (very) young Thora Birch only sweetens the deal. Oh my yes. *Skeezy*

DaBreno wrote:

How about "Halloween"?... Stay away from the sequels though.

Sam-HANE!

I've found that Christine and Carrie are both good to watch on Halloween. Actually come to think of it, almost all Stephen King films are great on Halloween: The Shining, Thinner, Apt Pupil, The Green Mile, The Lawnmower man, etc. I haven't seen Children Of The Corn but I'd say that's perfect too.

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#13 09-10-2006 3:32pm

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I hafta actually check whats on Channel 4 on Halloween, cos they play The Omen on Xmas day

hugh hefner wrote:

I haven't seen Children Of The Corn but I'd say that's perfect too

Ah yeah, ye cant beat kids goin around hackin people to death

I dunno why but was never mad about Christine, the whole killer car diddly

Carrie is class, well freaky. Ha, I always say that about the film, so once I had a dream I saw her in town cover in blood sayin "I'm not freaky!!!"

Hope they play the first Halloween eps of Buffy, where everyone turns into wha they're dressed as. Dat was well class

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#14 09-10-2006 3:32pm

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"The Fog" used to do it for me when I was a kid.

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#15 09-10-2006 3:39pm

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The Thing
Hallowe'en
Friday 13th
Hocus Pocus
Evil Dead
Donnie Darko

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#16 09-10-2006 4:14pm

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Robert Wise's 1963 The Haunting, a wonderful movie and a great psychological scare

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#17 09-10-2006 4:14pm

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'The Incredible Hulk' tv show. Dunno why I associated that with hallowe'en. Guess it's a childhood thing.

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#18 09-10-2006 6:04pm

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I gotta say 'Evil Dead 2',because it is the only horror film I've ever enjoyed.

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#19 09-10-2006 6:06pm

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Any of the Evil Deads, the Descent or Eraserhead (scares the holy bejesus out of me)

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#20 09-10-2006 6:11pm

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Give "The exorcism of Emily Rose" a shot, you won't be disappointed.

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#21 09-10-2006 6:22pm

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Is Constantine a horror? Well I plan to watch it on Halloween anyway, in between answering the door to the neighborhood youngsters while dressed in my Mary Harney costume.

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#22 09-10-2006 6:23pm

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Lurk wrote:

Is Constantine a horror? Well I plan to watch it on Halloween anyway, in between answering the door to the neighborhood youngsters while dressed in my Mary Harney costume.

Hah, more sweeties for you so.

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#23 09-10-2006 6:40pm

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Ruu wrote:

Hah, more sweeties for you so.

(Perhaps I'll just let them knock away )

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#24 09-10-2006 7:14pm

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Forgot about Texas Chainsaw Massacre original. Not scary per se, but if a banger went off nearby during some of the chase sequences you could have a heart attack.

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Eraserhead

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I.t.

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#27 10-10-2006 4:11pm

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skywalker wrote:

I.t.

Yes.. the world of software development is a frightening place! :eek:

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#28 10-10-2006 4:42pm

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Hugh Hefner wrote:

Sam-HANE!

Didn't know what you were on about, so I "did a google".

Samhain is pronounced either as ’sow-in’ (in Ireland), ’sow-een’ (in Wales), ’sav-en’ (in Scotland), or ’sam-hane’ (in America)

http://www.studyenglishtoday.net/halloween.html#samhain

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#29 10-10-2006 9:30pm

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Aye. That's it. The American one is so, so wrong that when the psychiatrist shouts, "Sam-HANE!" in Halloween 2 I laughed my ass off for 5 minutes.

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#30 12-10-2006 3:14pm

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Start the evening off with a few eps of Sapphire and Steel (children signing "I thought I saw a man today; a man who wasnt there. He wasnt there again today I wish that man would go away")

Then:

The fog.
Eraserhead.
My wedding video (esp the bit with me signing with the band).
Salem's Lot (for some reason)
The Grudge.

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#31 13-10-2006 11:18am

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basquille wrote:

Yes.. the world of software development is a frightening place! :eek:

Lol. Amazing the difference one extra full stop will make.

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#32 14-10-2006 12:13pm

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last yr i watched the japanise ring,battle royale 1 and 2[not REALLY horers but still pretty scary] and halloween.........cant beat michael myres!!!!!

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#33 14-10-2006 12:17pm

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the thing
the gruge
exorcisim of emily rose
any of the candy man films
not too sure about the name but i think it was the scarecrow or somthing
stephen kings It

im forgetting loads of class horrars i know it but there the ones that spring to mind.

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#34 14-10-2006 12:26pm

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is htere any way i can find out tv listings for holloween this yr?terriestal AND/OR sky?
and what horrer films will be in the cinema at halloween?

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#35 14-10-2006 12:32pm

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Evil dead 2

has that been said yet?

Edit/ it has numerous times. New suggestion: The Changeling. It'll scare the pants off of ya.

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#36 14-10-2006 1:05pm

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Is it me, or has anyone else noticed that there are less and less scary films on tv on halloween night these past few years... You might get the odd scary film on in the early hours but that's about it afai recall.

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#37 14-10-2006 1:35pm

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Fright Night. Very 80's and a bit chesesy but I allways enjoy it when it's on.

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#38 15-10-2006 1:11pm

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LundiMardi wrote:

Is it me, or has anyone else noticed that there are less and less scary films on tv on halloween night these past few years... You might get the odd scary film on in the early hours but that's about it afai recall.

i concur, halloween is becoming less of a scare holiday and more an excuse for time off work.

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#39 15-10-2006 7:04pm

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Its cos they show the scary ones on Christmas day

How about that

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johnny_ultimate wrote:

Forgot about Texas Chainsaw Massacre original. Not scary per se, but if a banger went off nearby during some of the chase sequences you could have a heart attack.

I find the Texas Chainsaw Massacre terrifying, the buildups are absolutly excellent. I watched it for the first time in about 3 years a few weeks back. When the first guy went into the house I was sh*tting a brick waiting for Leatherface to appear. I love that film

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#41 16-10-2006 4:53am

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R-Point, a korean horror film set during the Vietnam war.
Its definetly woth checking out.

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#42 16-10-2006 7:02am

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saw The Descent last night, was actually good. Dog Soldiers by the same director was also pretty good. Evil Dead 1 & 2 are definitely worth a look, and maybe 28 days later! Alot of people i know where also quite freaked out by Event Horizon!

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#43 16-10-2006 7:43pm

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sam rami[spiderman]did evil dead,right?whats the plot[beyond the title]

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#44 17-10-2006 6:55am

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qwertplaywert wrote:

sam rami[spiderman]did evil dead,right?whats the plot[beyond the title]

bunch of teenagers go to stay in cabin in the woods where they stumble across an evil book (necronomicon) & a recording made by the previous cabin owner, whereby they unleash an evil spirit. Much gore & violence ensues (plenty of peter gabriel-esque 80s stop motion stuff, no CGI back then!!!) all of which is thoroughly entertaining! Pulus its got bruce campbell in it, so you're onto a winner there!

more here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/

As an aside, check out Bubba Ho Tep. its another bruce campbell movie and possibly the greatest movie of all time*

*possible slight exaggeration

more on it here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/

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#45 17-10-2006 1:45pm

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If you want to get you're fright on-
Alien.
The Thing.
The Ring (Japanese one).
The Haunting (60's original).

Or for more lighthearted fun-
Bad Taste.
Brain Dead.
Evil Dead films.

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#46 17-10-2006 3:20pm

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IT CANT be the greatest!!!!!Serenity is the greatest!!!!

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#47 17-10-2006 4:42pm

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28 Days Later. Nearly forgot about that.

Mind you, there aren't really that many genuinely good horror films about these days.

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#48 19-10-2006 11:39am

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TCM
Salem's Lot (Soul version)
Ringu
Ichi the Killer (some light hearted fun)
topped off with
Hostel
Warning!
Watching all the above films in a row may involve you getting medieval on a poor unsuspecting puca when you open the front door for them..

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#49 19-10-2006 12:06pm

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spacecoyote wrote:

As an aside, check out Bubba Ho Tep. its another bruce campbell movie and possibly the greatest movie of all time*

*possible slight exaggeration

more on it here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/

Takin Care o' Business
TCB baby TCB
poor Ossie Davis who does a great turn as a black JFK in Bubba Ho Tep died during the year

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#50 19-10-2006 7:28pm

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so.....exersist is on sci-fi on halloween night at 10pm this year[saw an ad for it]
i wonder will it be the uncut or cut version........

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