Halloween Movies.

VG_Addict · #1

What movies do you watch to get in the Halloween mood?

Apollo the Just · #2

It's not a movie, but the series Over the Garden Wall toootally is a good beginning of October watch. Also Nightmare Before Christmas totally counts from Halloween through Christmas.

#3

I have Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas ready and I was just thinking I need to order this...

Apollo the Just · #4

I might watch Ju-On: The Grudge sometime next week if I want to actually creep myself out. We'll see whether I'm in the mood for actual scary Halloween, or PUMPKINS PUMPKINS PUMPKINS Halloween.

X-3 · #5

I don't like getting scared so I don't watch any movies.

Deepfake · #6

I love the Garfield Halloween Special. It's a classic. I also like the series of short clips, Disney's Halloween Treat. Mostly just for the Sleepy Hollow segment, though. They cut to the chase, literally.

Valigarmander · #7

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This cartoon always got me pumped for autumn.

#8

I like 'Ernest Scared Stupid'. I wouldn't call it a great movie, but it's fun.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #9

[QUOTE="BX-3lzebub, post: 1568840, member: 27765"]I don't like getting scared so I don't watch any movies.[/QUOTE]

Aside from jump scares, I never understood how a film can be frightening. Friend of mine really gets spooked by Exorcist, though, haha.

YouTube · #10

^Psychological terror. In seconds the sun is beating like drums in all hearts eat the ear of noise. The slow reveal of a monstrous threat. The nightmare is a dream to the nameless slug that wanders across minefield and the remains of deer and kings. The gradual stripping away of a person's reason & senses, until all the world becomes a deception. Endless suffering is the woe of ignorant men who never lack to seek the depth of their own hearts and only see the wealth of a poor world suffering to flay its own back in knife wounds of silver and brutal gladness.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number 058!"

Swordmaster Link · #11

Ugh. Jump scares are NOT frightening, it's just a cheap startle response that it produces. You can literally put anything on a screen and it'll startle you if it comes at an unexpected time with raised volume.

Anyway, what Capt said. This is why Halloween is a classic, for example. And Charlie Brown is great to get in the spirit, obviously.

#12

I don't know. I kind of think jump-scares get a bad rap. Like, you know, some horror movies don't have them at all ('Silence of the Lambs' got on fine without them, and so did 'The Shining'), but saying they are only startling is giving them too little credit. I mean, divorced from all context, nothing startling is truly scary. But most horror-movies build up an atmosphere of dread. Good ones make you care about the characters a bit (I know I didn't want to see Laurie Strode get butchered by Michael Myers), so there's an emotional investment. Ideally you should be peering into the dark anxiously with them, wondering what's coming next. Then the startlement happens, and in good horror, scary things continue happening. Jason Voorhees wouldn't be scary if he just jumped out from behind a corner, went 'boogy-boogy-boogy!' and ran off. He's scary because he kills lots of people and is a zombie-monster-guy.

I concede jump-scares can be overdone. Lot of these found-footage things got nothing else going for them. To be honest, the movies that creeped me out the most were ones that didn't have any jump-scares at all (is 'Dark City' considered a horror movie? man, that thing was messed, and super-good). But that doesn't make jump-scares worthless.

'Beetlejuice' is a fun movie to watch at Hallowe'en. (EDIT: Ooh, and the 'Addams Family' flicks. Really enjoyable, both of 'em.) (EDIT2: And hey, how about the 'Ghostbusters' movies, and 'Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein'?)

ScottyMcGee · #13

I always thought Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was a great movie to watch around Halloween.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #14

^ I'll never forget it gave me a weird nightmare. I was in Albertsons (a grocery store) with my family renting a game (which was a thing back then) and the friggin' ground itself opened up in the store but nobody cared, like it was normal. The my mom fell in and I was hysterically trying to save her and my dad's like basically, "That's that. Let's go, come on." Then I woke up.

ScottyMcGee · #15

KAAAALLIII MAAAAAAA

#16

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1569083, member: 17381"]'Beetlejuice' is a fun movie to watch at Hallowe'en. (EDIT: Ooh, and the 'Addams Family' flicks. Really enjoyable, both of 'em.) (EDIT2: And hey, how about the 'Ghostbusters' movies, and 'Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein'?)[/QUOTE]

Oh yeah... I really want to see The Addams Family movie!!

Bomby · #17

If you haven't seen Rosemary's Baby, you're really missing out. My favorite horror film I've seen.

The original Dawn of the Dead is a must watch as well.