Halloween Viewing Suggestions?

Eirebear

Help me out guys, seeing as we cant afford to go out anywhere over the Halloween weekend, me and the Mrs have decided to do the old fashioned "scary movies" night.

Unfortunately im at a loss for films we would both enjoy, tension is a must, gore is good but not out and out gore as the mrs would get bored.

Films like [REC], A Tale of Two Sisters, Audition and the like feature as the type of films we enjoy.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Inglorious

The Orphanage

The Grudge

Shutter

Session 9

Them

... immediately spring to mind as being high on tension without the over-gratuitous use of gore.

The original Halloween is on tonight (12.30) on BBC1, by the bye.

Eirebear

Inglorious wrote: »

The Orphanage

The Grudge

Shutter

Session 9

Them

... immediately spring to mind as being high on tension without the over-gratuitous use of gore.

The original Halloween is on tonight (12.30) on BBC1, by the bye.

Out of those the only one i havnt see is Session 9, cheers ill give that a go if i can get hold of it.

Otis Driftwood

Inglorious wrote: »

The original Halloween is on tonight (12.30) on BBC1, by the bye.

That was the TV version.Goddamnit is made a balls of the movie IMHO.

Edit

For those that dont know what I mean please see below.

Several versions of Halloween exist today. The original 91-minute version is the most widely known and seen. A modified television version released in 1980 that aired on NBC runs for 101 minutes and features re-shoot scenes not included in the initial 1978 cut. This edition was released in 2001 on DVD as Halloween: The Extended Version. In 1998, for the 20th anniversary of the film's release, new sound effects were added to the film's audio track with John Carpenter’s approval. Both versions were released on VHS and DVD.

Television rights to Halloween were sold to NBC in 1980 for $4 million. After a debate among John Carpenter, Debra Hill and NBC's Standards & Practices over censoring of certain scenes, Halloween appeared on television for the first time.[9] To fill the two-hour time slot, Carpenter filmed twelve minutes of additional material that include Dr. Loomis at a hospital board review of Myers and Dr. Loomis talking to six-year-old Michael at Smith's Grove, telling him, "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me." Another extra scene features Dr. Loomis at Smith's Grove examining Michael's abandoned cell and seeing the word "Sister" scratched into the door. Finally, a scene was added in which Lynda comes over to Laurie's house to borrow a silk blouse before Laurie leaves to babysit, just as Annie telephones asking to borrow the same blouse.

The new scene had Laurie's hair hidden by a towel, since Jamie Lee Curtis was now wearing a much shorter hairstyle than she had worn in 1978. The new scenes were shot during production of Halloween II. An extended cut of the television version was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2001 as Halloween: Extended Version, which was actually the same as the second disc from the 1999 limited edition DVD.[

The extra 10 minutes make a mess of it and completly fcuk up the continuity.

Otis Driftwood

Good Halloween movies should be made up of the classics that you have most likely already seen.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
The Prowler
The Burning

homerun_homer

The Descent

Inglorious

nedtheshed wrote: »

That was the TV version.

Em... no, it wasn't. BBC showed the original cut of Halloween. It had none of the additional scenes and ran for an hour and a half. I watched it...

homerun_homer wrote: »

The Descent

+1
Good call.

unreggd

homerun_homer wrote: »

The Descent

+a bajillion

Nichololas

Eh, probably going to go for The Thing, even though I watched it a couple of months ago. Such a classic

Eirebear

Yeah, i would generally go for the classics.

The issue here is that over the last 3 years i have been educating the Mrs that there are a lot of good Horror films out there (she hadnt even seen Halloween before meeting me :eek:) so we watch these films on a very regular basis.

wezzopalooza

Exorcist, The Shining, Don't Look Now, Nightmare on Elm Street, Childs Play, Halloween, Candyman, and Hellraiser for me....Thats my horror marathon for Friday sorted then!!!

Eirebear

OK so far I've got Night/Dawn/Day of the (living) Dead lined up.

Session 9 and The Descent are possibles.

Still lacking on new ideas other than session 9 though

Soby

go cinema so your night in wont be ruined by little feckers ringing your bell every 2 minutes

randomchild

2 words: hocus pocus

SIBHCHEVIE

I would have to recommend the oldies. Nightmare on elm street (1st one), Halloween (any of these would be good except for the new ones), Hellraiser (1st one), the omen, salems lot and i'd throw in the original ring trilogy (jap version) for good measure. Good cheesy 80's for a laugh would be fright night one and two and the lost boys. Most recent horror film I would suggest is 30 days of night, excellent film.

vincenzo1975

The one and only Salems Lot, the original uncut version.

Lights off, get a tap dripping in the kitchen, a window slightly ajar and the doors slightly open for creaking purposes.

then get a crucifix to keep you safe.:eek::eek::eek::eek:

K4t

Budget 09

Eirebear

Thanks for the suggestions folks.

Unfortunately i cant find Session 9 anywhere, and i want to veer away from the classics this time, as the aforementioned "education" ive been giving the Mrs in Horror has reinvigorated my own enthusiasm for a good scare.

Ive scrapped the zombie films as they can be watched anytime by the pair of us, so its looking like.

1. The Descent, ive never seen it and it seems to have a pretty good following.
2. Them, top class tension.

(Interval for half an hour to watch the last installment of dead set)

3. Eraserhead, its always nice to go to bed on a complete mind****.

I think that should round us off nicely, if we need more i have The Devil's Rejects (I really enjoyed House of 1000 Corpses, but never got round to this one) and Gozu (another mind****) that ive been meaning to watch for ages.

Nichololas

Eirebear wrote: »

I think that should round us off nicely, if we need more i have The Devil's Rejects (I really enjoyed House of 1000 Corpses, but never got round to this one) and Gozu (another mind****) that ive been meaning to watch for ages.

Gozu is ****ing weird, but in a good way. The Devil's Rejects was so-so, I thought. Watchable, though.

calahans

Blair witch
Descent
Aliens
The exorcist
Event Horizon
Evil Dead 2
Nightmare on Elm Street
Hellraiser
Rec
Videodrome (head f*ck)

randomchild

Eirebear wrote: »

3. Eraserhead, its always nice to go to bed on a complete mind****.

If you want a mind ****, watch inland empire (also David Lynch). Couldn't even go to bed for days...

Eirebear

randomchild wrote: »

If you want a mind ****, watch inland empire (also David Lynch). Couldn't even go to bed for days...

Only watched it the other night, fantastic movie. (not that i have a clue what happened! but it left me with a smile on my face for some reason)

Auvers

I direct your attention to this thread

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055391923

Otis Driftwood

Eirebear wrote: »

I think that should round us off nicely, if we need more i have The Devil's Rejects (I really enjoyed House of 1000 Corpses, but never got round to this one) and Gozu (another mind****) that ive been meaning to watch for ages.

Devils Rejects is 10 times the movie house of 1000 corpses is.As for Gozu,I thought it was rubbish.Weird as hell but total snoozefest IMO.

callaway92

Saw 1 - 4

Eirebear

callaway92 wrote: »

Saw 1 - 4

Meh!

And it doesnt really fit into the non-overuse of gore category...

Raekwon

The Omen
Rosemary's Baby
Suspiria
Poltergeist (I & II)
Jacob's Ladder
Children of the Corn

Nick_oliveri

I know tastes are tastes, and some people loved it, but i just really have to say, house of 1000 corpses was one of the worst movies ive ever seen. Just rubbish.

+1 for poltergeist and the thing.

Eirebear

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

I know tastes are tastes, and some people loved it, but i just really have to say, house of 1000 corpses was one of the worst movies ive ever seen. Just rubbish.

+1 for poltergeist and the thing.

I just thought it was a bit of fun really, ive sat through countless mundane slasher films where the bad guy was unintentionally the one you wanted to see win through, so this time it was nice to see it from their point of view.
The ending did let it down a bit though.

Eirebear

Just watched "Dont Look Now"

I have to say im dissapointed in myself that i had never seen it before, what a fantastic movie.
And i have to admit it gave me a little fright towards the end.

Next up (after Dead Set) "Them"

Eirebear

Ok just watched Them, and ive just scraped my wife off of my arm which she melded with aput 20 minutes in!
Didnt realise it was set in Bucharest (r just outside) im going there next week :eek:

Great little move, uses every slasher cliche in the book...yet stays effective.

Next up....Dumplings (Or how i learned to love eating the poor)

callaway92

Wolf Creek

Eirebear

Im quite happy with the three films we watched last night, all three sit quite comfortably under the banner of "horror" IMO but all three were completely different in terms of style and content.

G-Bal

If you don't mind subtitles, the following two French films are quite good-- high on suspense and tension (but a little extreme in terms of content):

* Inside (a heavily pregnant woman is sieged in her home on Christmas Eve, by some sort of female madman!... Despite my frivolous synopsis, it is actually really creepy, and not for the faint of heart, and is- to my mind- one of the more disturbing films I've seen in the last few years.)

* Switchblade Romance/Haute Tension (a jumpsuit-clad psychopath goes on a rampage in a small rural farmhouse, killing the inhabitants, and abducting a young woman. Her friend evades capture and follows the psycho, hoping to save her. Bucketloads of suspense, but quite gory, again, I should stress.)

Eirebear

G-Bal wrote: »

If you don't mind subtitles, the following two French films are quite good-- high on suspense and tension (but a little extreme in terms of content):

* Inside (a heavily pregnant woman is sieged in her home on Christmas Eve, by some sort of female madman!... Despite my frivolous synopsis, it is actually really creepy, and not for the faint of heart, and is- to my mind- one of the more disturbing films I've seen in the last few years.)

* Switchblade Romance/Haute Tension (a jumpsuit-clad psychopath goes on a rampage in a small rural farmhouse, killing the inhabitants, and abducting a young woman. Her friend evades capture and follows the psycho, hoping to save her. Bucketloads of suspense, but quite gory, again, I should stress.)

I think i saw Switchblade Romance in the cinema a few years ago Did:

The friend not turn out to be the phsyco or something like that?

If its the same film i didnt particularly enjoy it at the time.

Inside though i havnt seen, ill give it a go, cheers!

Otis Driftwood

Eirebear wrote: »

I think i saw Switchblade Romance in the cinema a few years ago Did:

The friend not turn out to be the phsyco or something like that?

If its the same film i didnt particularly enjoy it at the time.

Inside though i havnt seen, ill give it a go, cheers!

Thats the 1 alright.Inside is awesome but I would suggest you view it yourself before subjecting your wife to it.I found it pretty heavy going and Im one of the most jaded horror movie fans I know.Inside gets under womens skin alot more than mens,when you watch it you will know why.Heres a link to buy it.Its gone up in price by €5 since I bought it for some reason.

http://www.cdwow.ie/Inside-Unrated/product/view/2642022

Ann22

After 'Dead Set' on Hallowe'en night I watched 'The Birds' and 'Psycho'. Enjoyed the latter a lot. What a performance Perkins gives!The way his eyes change when the detective asks him if he slept with Marion, then when he looks into the camera at the end...pure madness.
The original 'Salem's Lot' was in a league of it's own for me. Those little fcukers scraping at the window stayed with me for a long time:eek:. The head vampire was the most frightening character I've ever seen in a movie. Stephen King has a life sized model of him in his house.