Best Halloween Movies to rent?

[Pirate1974]

If you want to see something that will really creep you out, try to find a copy of the uncut version of Tod Browning's "Freaks."

While not technically a horror movie, I guess, it is disturbingly weird. Made in 1932 with real carnival "freaks," it has never been officially released on video and the only copies out there are bootlegs. It's surprising this movie ever got made 70 years ago.

Seeing The Living Torso is enough to give you the creeps.

[def59]

There's always the Patriot Act, that should scare any reasonable person.

[Tom Strange]

I gotta agree with the pirate... Freaks is it!

I'd tell you what it was about but I was on acid when I saw it and all I remember is thinking... "I gotta get outta here now!"... it's not a pleasant movie to watch on window pane!

... I've been here and I've been there and I've been in between...

[RottieGrrrl]

I saw Freaks years ago, don't remember much, I do remember the torso though. Seeing it on windowpane would be an experience.

I never read Lovecrafts stories, I always mean too. I saw those 2 movies based on his works, Re-Animator, and From Beyond.

Just got done watching "The Ring" btw. Creepy movie! Dark, moody, good Halloween movie. I just love happy endings like that too.

[Tom Strange]

we go to at least one haunted house every year!

they're lotsafun!

... I've been here and I've been there and I've been in between...

[FutureSoBright]

My faves are "The Ring" and "28 Days Later." They both made the hair on the back of my neck stand up!!!

[TheInvisibleDan]

"The Frighteners" - I actually saw this for the first time the other evening. Very entertaining. Directed by Peter Jackson ("Lord of the Rings")

"Dagon" - an adaptation of a couple H.P. Lovecraft stories. By the director of "Re-animator".

"The Wicker Man" - Christian cop (star of the "Equalizer" series) investigates missing person case on a pagan island.

"Horror Hotel" - starring Christopher Lee.

"Ghost Story" - Starring Fred Astaire, and a bunch of other old-now-deceased actors. Very well done.

"House on Haunted Hill" - the original version with Vincent Price, without whom Halloween would not be complete.

Any of the classic Universal flicks, "Frankenstein", "Dracula" and "Wolfman".

[sirguessalot]

"The Evil Dead" - tacky creepy chills from the days of claymation. Its amazing how low budgets seem to make movies freakier.

And speaking of window panes. "Little Shop of Horrors" was actually a frightening trip. ;)-->

And of course, my favorite haunted house ghost story was the one that was not in a movie (I've told the story here before). Too bad the house was flattened. It'd make a fitting place for one freaky halloween slumber party.

Oh yeah, I just saw the movie version of the novel "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King. Will make you scared of toilets.

[This message was edited by sirguessalot on October 31, 2003 at 17:48.]

[George Aar]

On National People's Radio I heard a film guru flogging the re-release of a classic French horror film "Eyes Without a Face".

It's subtitled (bummer), but he (David Biencoulie?) seemed to think it was the best ever of the genre.

Anybody seen it?

geo.

[SocketCreep]

I liked "What Lies Beneath". It was just plain scary, not bloody.

And don't forget "The Birds"

Y3K -- Start Early

[Seth]

I just rented and watched "Dream Catcher" was surprisingly scarey and good. With Morgan Freeman and Jason Lee how can you go wrong?

Seth

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." ~~~ Herbert Spencer

[johniam]

Didn't have to rent last night; Turner classic movies channel was showing all these really old Frankenstein movies. Boris Karloff was awesome.

[Raf]

I forgot about Ghost Story and What Lies Beneath. I agree, they're great spooky movies.