1. Alien
2. Excorcist(orig version)
3. Dracula (Langella)
4.Vampires
5. Night of the Living Dead (both versions)
6. RE-ANIMATOR
7. The Blob (remake)
8. American Werewolf in London
9. The Howling
10. Jurassic Park


AND FOR FUN........
11. Comedy of Terrors
12. Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein
13. Beetlejuice
14. Mars Attacks!
15. Young Frankenstein
16. Ghostbusters
17. Scary movie
18. Beast from 20 Thousand Fathoms
19. Earth vs the Flying Saucers
20. Manos-Hands of Fate(MST3K version)

The Shining with Jack Nicholson

This time of year really puts me in the mood for all the old Universal/ Val Lewton horror classics... movies like "Frankenstein," "Dracula," "The Wolfman," "The Bride of Frankenstein," "The Cat People," The Son of Frankenstein," "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," "Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman"...

You get the idea.

Fraility
Don't Look Now
The Fly (Cronenberg version)
Near Dark
Alien
Aliens
Halloween
Silence of the Lambs
Dawn of the Dead
War of the Worlds (Pal version)

Just for fun:
Valley of Gwangi
The Puppet Masters
Shaun of the Dead
Ed Wood

The World Beyond - Some TV movie from the 70's that scared me to death. Had some mud creature on this remote island. I still list that to this day as the scariest one I've ever seen.

Hush .. Hush .. Sweet Charlotte


for fun.....any of Rod Sterling's Night Gallery

Hush .. Hush .. Sweet Charlotte


for fun.....any of Rod Sterling's Night Gallery

Good ones!

"Night Gallery" may not have been as good as it coulda shoulda been, but a number of those episodes are genuinely creepy. Speaking of "N.G.," I recently stumbled across a very good fan site...

http://www.nightgallery.net/index.html?welcome.html&2

Best ending for a Horror/fantasy film is "Seconds" with Rock Hudson.

the Evil Dead?

and for fun

the Evil Dead 2; Dead by Dawn

A Nightmare on Elm Street! I watched it on video, it scared me so bad, I had to turn it off, and come back later to finish. Will never watch it again.

Annual October traditions:

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Dracula (Bela)
The Haunting

And a wide assortment of Universal/Hammer films. Chaney/Legosi/Karloff/Cushing and Lee.

I love anything horror related this time of year. Don't really have a top ten list, but most of those already mentioned are on my list of those I like and they're almost all towards the top! :)

Don't think I can bring ten to mind, but...

The Haunting
The Uninvited
The Blood on Satan's Claw
The Wicker Man
The Innocents
Any random Vincent Price/Poe film
Sleepy Hollow
From Hell

The scariest one not made, The Death of Polar lights. Oh the horror!

A screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the tradition at my house. I shiver with Antici.......

....pation!

This time of year really puts me in the mood for all the old Universal/ Val Lewton horror classics... movies like "Frankenstein," "Dracula," "The Wolfman," "The Bride of Frankenstein," "The Cat People," The Son of Frankenstein," "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," "Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman"...

You get the idea.

Absolutely!

Every year, during the last week of October, we play through the classic Universal chronology of monster pictures.

heck.....we can't forget the greatest classic......Charlie Brown in the Great Pumpkin !!.....for fun that is...

For fun.....

1) Elvira - Mistress of the Dark

and if they were available now
2) Vampirella - (the current bootleg copy on Amazon doesn't count)
3) Witchblade - saw the vhs version and it was a goodie

-The original "Invaders From Mars"
-"The First Wives Club"
-Any episode of "The Jeffersons"

"Dam Dam DAM!!!"

Great Halloween topic!

Roseanne had the BEST Halloween shows!

Showgirls!

Know what I'd love to see on DVD? A collection of all the Simpsons Halloween shows. Every one of 'em. I'd love that.

Know what I'd love to see on DVD? A collection of all the Simpsons Halloween shows. Every one of 'em. I'd love that.
They should do, maybe, five at a time. And, give PLENTY of extras, including alternate endings, interviews, storyline-based games, etc. Who knows, maybe they could make some money off that property...

Know what I'd love to see on DVD? A collection of all the Simpsons Halloween shows. Every one of 'em. I'd love that.

You mean something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Simpsons-Treehouse-Horror-Neil-Affleck/dp/B00009N80Z/sr=8-1/qid=1161609630/ref=sr_1_1/104-1174024-0346337?ie=UTF8&s=dvd



Maybe hosted by these guys?

http://www.shipbrook.com/karen/blog/images/kang.gif

Does anyone remember a stop-action animated movie or TV special from the 60s which featured an all-star monster cast, and the tune "The Monster Mash" at the end? I saw it several times on TV, and I thought it had a name like The Monster Mash, but I can't find any references to it.

Does anyone remember a stop-action animated movie or TV special from the 60s which featured an all-star monster cast, and the tune "The Monster Mash" at the end? I saw it several times on TV, and I thought it had a name like The Monster Mash, but I can't find any references to it.

You're talking about "Mad Monster Party". It was released on DVD either last year or in '04. It was the last production for Boris Karloff and featured the voices of some of the sixties funnier people including Phyllis Diller.

For me, it has always been these shows for Halloween:

1. It's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Now 40 years old)
2. Return of the Vampire (Great Bela flick set during the blitz in London)
3. Dracula (Bela version)
4. Return of the Living Dead (funny and a great soundtrack)
5. Halloween (that scene where Michael is just standing by the house and Lori sees him from across the street still gets me...heebie jeebies)
6. Lady in White
7. Something wicked this way comes
8. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
9. Sleepy Hollow
10. Halloween 2 (The only sequel that mattered)

And for fun, you will hear the following music all week long around my house:

1. Rob Zombie-Hellbilly Deluxe and House of 1000 Corpses soundtrack (perfect halloween music)
2. Sleepy Hollow soundtrack
3. Dracula (Langella version) soundtrack
4. Return of the living dead soundtrack
5. Music for a darkened theater, vol. 1 & 2 (Danny Elfman's Greatest Hits)

You're talking about "Mad Monster Party". It was released on DVD either last year or in '04. It was the last production for Boris Karloff and featured the voices of some of the sixties funnier people including Phyllis Diller.
I think you nailed it! I watched the trailer on IMDb. I thought it was a full-length movie, but I don't remember its theatrical release. In L.A., it ran on T.V. quite a bit, at one time.

I'm not surprised to learn that the same people did the old "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" TV Xmas special, featuring the voice of Burl Ives. It had the same animation style.

-"Mad Monster Party". I forgot to say, I DO recommend it.
-"Open Water"

-"Mad Monster Party". I forgot to say, I DO recommend it.
-"Open Water"


Oh my God yessss...."Open Water" did scare the bejeesus outta me. Best open water film since Jaws.

I remember an odd girl-on-girl fight in Mad Monster Party. In spite of that, or maybe because of it, I'd like to add it to my DVD collection.

My must-watch movies this time of the year, in no particular order:

Start things off with 2 cartoons:
The Great Pumpkin and Disney's Legend of Sleepy Hollow animated short.

Then, depending on my mood:
Fright Night
The Changeling
John Carpenter's The Thing
Sleepy Hollow
Halloween
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
Shaun of the Dead (best zombie move ever, in my opinion)
Poltergeist
Ghostbusters
and I just saw The Others for the first time and really, really liked it.

- JJ

Phantasm 1 & 2
The Fog (Just for Houseman's introduction)
Halloween 1 & 2
The Nightmare before Christmas (I know it's really a Christmas film)
The Blob remake
The Thing
Dawn of the Dead remake
Day of the Dead (Romero)
Resident Evil

Jim

My guilty pleasure for Halloween each year is the original TV miniseries Salem's Lot. Still the scariest thing ever made for TV. I can't help but get chills when the little Glick boy starts scratching at the window. An excellent, if somewhat free, adaptation of the King novel.

My other viewing this year was a new, pristine transfer on DVD of an old favorite: The Other. A great tale of creeping horror set in the depression era. DON'T read the box, the marketing fools give away some of the key twists...

M.

P.S.: I'd also be a fan of Bram Stoker's Dracula if Coppola had bothered to actually put Stoker's Dracula into the movie. Talk about bait and switch! We have a very faithful retelling of the novel with the title character (a true monster in every sense) ripped out and replaced by an ill-starred romantic; a misunderstood victim who's only trying to find the long lost love. Pee-yew! What a waste of some very good cellluloid!

My guilty pleasure for Halloween each year is the original TV miniseries Salem's Lot. Still the scariest thing ever made for TV. I can't help but get chills when the little Glick boy starts scratching at the window. An excellent, if somewhat free, adaptation of the King novel.

My other viewing this year was a new, pristine transfer on DVD of an old favorite: The Other. A great tale of creeping horror set in the depression era. DON'T read the box, the marketing fools give away some of the key twists...

M.

P.S.: I'd also be a fan of Bram Stoker's Dracula if Coppola had bothered to actually put Stoker's Dracula into the movie. Talk about bait and switch! We have a very faithful retelling of the novel with the title character (a true monster in every sense) ripped out and replaced by an ill-starred romantic; a misunderstood victim who's only trying to find the long lost love. Pee-yew! What a waste of some very good cellluloid!

Pretty much agree on all points. Love Salem's Lot. Just purchased my copy of The Other on Tuesday and watched the movie for the first time in decades. Chilling! But Bram Stoker's Dracula is so gloriously over-the-top that it bears repeated viewing from me.

Ditto on Salem's Lot, that kid scratching at the window gives me the heebie-jeebies too, not to mention the first time Barlowe jumps on that kid from behind a tree at the beginning.

Jacque Tourneur and classic monstar fans might want to check out Columbia's Curse of the Demon/Night of the Demon DVD, despite the misleading "double-feature' splash on the DVD case, it's the same movie twice, though thankfully it includes the longer & seldom shown UK version. the transfer's not bad, and this movie made a HUGE impression on me as a kid. I still think this guys right up there with the creech in the "rubber monster suit" category:
http://www.worth1000.com/web/media/144771/curse_of_the_demon.jpg

Can't recommend Fraility strongly enough from the modern scary movies, Bill Paxton's directorial debut flopped with audiences despite excellent reviews. Cult vet Paxton is amazing as a normal hard-working single small-town Texan father of two boys, who reveals to them suddenly one night that God wants them to kill people on a list God provided. Paxton plays it straight in a role that could have easily veered into over-the-top Freddy Krueger territory, Powers Boothe has some nice moments too. Genuinely creepy with a surprisingly brave ending.

Speaking of horror, does anyone watch The History Channel?

Speaking of horror, does anyone watch The History Channel?

I do, just watched some shows on speculating what Revelations and Hell might turn out to be.

I also enjoy the WWII stuff. I've always been facinated by how less than .000001 percent of the worlds population can cause a world to go mad resulting in a world war.

I Just watched my videotape (old AMC taping) of Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein. By that time, all the schtick was well known, and the director was able to do lots of 'short-hand' for the various gags. Talbot turning int Wolfman was done a few times with just a pan from his shaven face-to the full moon- and then towards his furry hands and back to teh Wolfman face. i kept seeing Lugosi as portrayed by Martin Landau, and thinking of what a druggie Lugosi was. I also watched the dynamics of Bud & Lou and how much they disliked each other in real life.

I also enjoy the WWII stuff...
Yeah, nothing leads to human bonding, like warfare. Where would HobbyTalk be, without it? ;)

I Just watched my videotape (old AMC taping) of Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein. By that time, all the schtick was well known, and the director was able to do lots of 'short-hand' for the various gags. Talbot turning int Wolfman was done a few times with just a pan from his shaven face-to the full moon- and then towards his furry hands and back to teh Wolfman face. i kept seeing Lugosi as portrayed by Martin Landau, and thinking of what a druggie Lugosi was. I also watched the dynamics of Bud & Lou and how much they disliked each other in real life.

I know this movie is an absolute favorite among many here and on other modeling boards. I recorded it the other night off of TCM and just couldn't get with it at all (my first viewing). I agree that the "dislike" between Abbott & Costello is evident - which is a big problem.

Yeah, nothing leads to human bonding, like warfare. Where would HobbyTalk be, without it? ;)

I spoke to my father about this bonding once. He served on a destroyer in the Korean war. To this day, they (those still alive anyway) still keep in touch. Most of them only served on the actual ship for a few months but you'd think they were blood brothers for life before having met.

...I've always been facinated by how less than .000001 percent of the worlds population can cause a world to go mad resulting in a world war.

...I spoke to my father about this bonding once. He served on a destroyer in the Korean war. To this day, they (those still alive anyway) still keep in touch. Most of them only served on the actual ship for a few months but you'd think they were blood brothers for life before having met.

-The Fog of War

Just remembered another, which I never got the title of. Some guy gets in a car wreck which decapitates his girlfriend, and he keeps her head alive in a petrie dish.

Who could forget a title like THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE?

http://www.scifilm.org/images2/brainwouldntdie1.jpg

Who could forget a title like THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE?
LOL, that is a great title! Thanks. I never knew it in the first place, since I saw it on TV when I was a kid.

Does anyone remember a stop-action animated movie or TV special from the 60s which featured an all-star monster cast, and the tune "The Monster Mash" at the end? I saw it several times on TV, and I thought it had a name like The Monster Mash, but I can't find any references to it.You're talking about "Mad Monster Party". It was released on DVD either last year or in '04. It was the last production for Boris Karloff and featured the voices of some of the sixties funnier people including Phyllis Diller.Actually, it was the last American production for Boris Karloff; he did four films in Mexico after Mad Monster Party. And the only "celebrity voices" whose names are easily recognized were those of Karloff and Diller. Singer/actress Gale Garnett voiced Francesca; all other voices were provided by actor Allen Swift.

Back on topic, there are two classic horror films that haven't been mentioned yet--Tod Browning's Freaks, and the grand-daddy of all zombie films, White Zombie with Bela Lugosi, both from 1932.

My other viewing this year was a new, pristine transfer on DVD of an old favorite: The Other. A great tale of creeping horror set in the depression era.

It's worth noting that this eerie but uneven slice of Southern Gothic was directed by Robert Mulligan, the man who brought "To Kill a Mockingbird" (not to mention "The Summer of `42") to the screen.

Like many another gifted but underachieving director, Mulligan was a raging alcoholic. We can only imagine what his talents might have wrought under better circumstances. Ditto Tod Browning.

If you've never see "The Other" it's definitely worth a look.