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Heston roles may surprise a lot of people as most always equated him with Moses, Ben Hur and great movies. Yet there was Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green,The Omega man, westerns, which I think he was quite good in especially Will Penny. I am sure there are a lot more I forgot.

 

Soylent green is people! Love that movie. As brief his role was, I also liked him in "In the Mouth of Madness".

 

Heston was good in everything he played.

 

My problem with that film is that the previews they showed before the film came out featured the rioters being scooped up into the front end loaders. That clip made it obvious to me that they became Soylent Green even though it is not obvious if you never saw the movie.
That too had great casting. Edward G. Robinson was united with him 15 years after the 10 Commandments. Joseph Cotton was murdered in the opening scene. The Rifleman Chuck Connors was put to good use. Best of all for me Whit Bissell played the President!

 

Not really into modern horror films too much. It's gone downhill since the great slasher films of the 70s and 80s (Dario Argenta and Lucio Fulci, anyone?). I LOVED splatter films and Fangoria magazine when I was a kid.

My favorites include The Romero zombie films, esp. Dawn of the Dead, Halloween (197, Phantasm, Alien(s), the "Firefly Family" Rob Zombie films, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead (original), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (197, My Little Eye and the original Saw, among others.

Should say "Nineteen-seventy-eight" above. Weird randomness that the sunglasses smiley guy was inserted instead of the numeral eight!

 

The Terminator movies after 1 and 2? Meh. I actually liked the 3rd one, but most didn't. I like anything like that that comes to fruition with regards to... like.... well, end of the world movies actually ending the world. Scares the crap out of me. Liked how Knowing actually pulled the trigger and ended the world.

But I hated 4 (the one with Christian Bale) and the reboot (Genisys) was tepid at best.

 

Conjuring 2 was one of the best movies this year for one reason, when the evil spirits openly did their evil tossing stuff at mom - the mom packed up the kids and RAN AWAY leaving the house. First time the adults weren't stupid. Of course the daughter was possessed so it didn't help but thank you for one movie where they did the normal thing right away. Annabel the movie and others with the evil object then why not try to destroy it first? It might not work but come on if I had the evil demon doll it would be in a garbage can, smothered in gas and lit up and then try other things to destroy it. Hello directors don't treat us like morons.

 

I'd vote "The Stone Tape" as one of the scariest ghost stories of all time, broadcast as a TV play in 1972 and was on youtube the last time I looked.
Basically a small high-tech electronics group rent an old English country house to work on their research projects, but discover the place has a resident ghost, so they switch all their activities into triggering and capturing it..

Another scary one is "Whistle and I'll Come to You" [1968] I think it's on youtube. A skeptical old professor on holiday doesn't believe in anything supernatural, then finds a flute half-buried in the sand dunes bearing the inscription "whistle and I'll come to you". He gives it a toot..

And another one is "Madhouse Mansion" (1974), a good serious ghost film despite the silly title (I think it was re-named "Ghost Story" in the USA). A young chap invites two of his college chums to stay at his country house. He and one of his chums know the place is reputed to be haunted, but they don't mention it to the other chum, preferring instead to see if he notices anything odd..

 

If you like Nightmare on Elm Street you will like Shocker. A lot of people missed it.

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In my opinion the worst horror movie, and worst movie of all time is Halloween 3.

 

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Yes, he usually played tough guys but in 'The War Lord' even though he's a brave medieval knight who's been "19 years in the wars", he falls in lovesickness with a village girl and we see a new side of him, weak, indecisive and dithering to such an extent that his brother (Guy Stockwell, below) loses all respect for him..

 

I don't think I seen that one. But it does sound very un-Heston like.

 

two of my favorite Halloween classics:



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The first Phantasm,
and
Christine.....

Anything with Bela Lagosi, Lon Chaney jr.
Boris Karloff, etc...
Or Vincent Price, The Fly.

 

Dark Shadows is still my favourite horror series of all time, and when Barnabas shows up, I never tire of watching that show !

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I think a horror film based on your actual life would be better than any horror film
ever made !

Very scary and bone chilling.

 

I have never heard of Dark Shadows and it look pretty stupid. In my opinion Johnny Depp is an utter homo and he chooses gay stuff to be in. And why does he dress like such a %$%$ing idiot? God I hate that %$%$. I like Eva Green though.

And my life? I do not think my life would make a very good horror movie.

edit - Tim Burton? Holy %$%$! Of course. Pass.

edit - The only thing I hate more than Tim Burton is Tim Burton fans. They make me want to vomit.

edit - Is Tim Burton %$%$ing Johhny Depp or something? And now I hate Eva Green. Thanks Tim Burton.. edit - She was also in another Tim Burton piece of %$% wasnt she. She can %$%$ off.

edit - Why does the CIA continue to employ Tim Burton? The guy is a %$%$ing retard. His movies suck $%$%. And who the hell is watching them? Look at the flop that was his last Alice in Wonderland thing - and I have never heard of this retarded series you just mentioned. Who cares about Tim Burton apart from the CIA and other retards?

The CIA are %$%$wits. Seriously. Can they make another Will Smith movie? Please? I am kidding. %$%$ me.

And they try to push stuff on us like that Hannibal junk that nobody liked or watched. They want to tell us that it has a cult following. Yeah right. It got cancelled because nobody liked it or watched it apart from the CIA apparently.

 

The original Dark Shadows was a daytime soap opera 1966-71. It had the usual love triangles, interrupted by ghosts at first but ended up with more monsters than humans, impossible time leaps, pathetic acting and every monster ripoff they could cram into the story.
It's still better than the 1991 tv reboot and that awful movie!
The way the original Doctor Hoffman loved Barnabus was more intense than any love story I've ever seen.

 

First movie was great about that. It did in effect end the world, but it wasn't beating you over the head with it, because the events in 1984 did not alter history, but rather fulfilled it. The destruction of civilisation and the future war were on the way as Sarah headed for safety to fulfil her destiny. Work of art, that movie.

Everything after it, including T2, is tripe.

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I'm watching through the Hammer horror films in the lead-up to Halloween. I've gotten through two Frankenstein films and two Dracula films. Taking them chronologically, pretty much.

 

His brother didn't really have any respect for him to begin with, wanting mainly to have the demesne for his own. He used his brother's lovesickness to undo him. The movie was actually unrealistic in that it was not uncommon for minor nobles to take peasant girls as concubines and was something the villagers, even the fiancé, would have approved and welcomed under most circumstances (though such relationships in the previous Lord's life, and their complications resulting in deaths, were hinted at in the stories beginning as one reason Christagon had gotten the demesne)

 

I was talking about the campy 1966 television series, not the Dorky movie which I have not seen and really have no desire to see.

 

As campy as it was, I still enjoy watching it, the errors and other stuff.
There was Mathew, he was scary as a nutcase obsessive loon.
Karlin as Willy Loomis was great, then later as Harvey, the husband in the NYPD Police seriocomedy, Cagney & Lacey.

 

Humbert Allen Astredo was compelling, but the Devil turned out to be too nice.

 

Haven't read through the entire thread, but has anyone listed some of the fantastic French horror movies?

Martyrs
Inside
Frontiers
High Tension

All are some of the most intense, and brutal films out there.

 

I just had a thought some of you might have thoughts about:
What's the most realistic scenes you ever saw involving a human bleeding?

 

Has anyone ever seen Session 9? This was the best part of the whole movie.