Halloween's approaching- Your top ten scary flicks?

[cableguy]

Being a tad on the "Freaky-Weird" side of the fence....
Burnt Offerings
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks
Session Nine
Dead Ringers
VideoDrome
Nightbreed
They Live
In the Mouth of Madness

to name a few....


Bill

[ponderbear]

Originally Posted by cableguy

Being a tad on the "Freaky-Weird" side of the fence....
Burnt Offerings
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks
Session Nine
Dead Ringers
VideoDrome
Nightbreed
They Live
In the Mouth of Madness

to name a few....


Bill

I was going to say Eraserhead, but the pace of that movie is so incredibly slow, by the time they show the hideous little baby thing, you don't really care anymore.

I love David Lynch otherwise. When things were finally coming together on Twin Peaks, I thought that was some scary stuff. But when Lynch summed it all up in Fire Walk With Me, it was spooky and weird but it didn't scare me nearly as much.

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by ponderbear

I was going to say Eraserhead, but the pace of that movie is so incredibly slow, by the time they show the hideous little baby thing, you don't really care anymore.

Who wouldn't be intrigued by -

"Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child." (taken from IMDB)

Unfortunately and despite the great promise of the above, I just didn't feel it in in 1982 when I saw it. Neither did my GF at the time who stayed with me in spite of my suggestion to go see it at all. Eventually she became my wife and "Eraserhead" still comes up once in awhile. I just asked her what she thought of it knowing what her answer would be (as I've heard it many times over the years)......"I thought it was a jumble of images that might eventually get better and make some sense. I thought that right up until it was over." I know it is on most everyone's must see cult film list but I'll take "Harold & Maude" any day. (Which should have made my list initially!) A better effort from Lynch would be "Blue Velvet" which certainly makes you uneasy enough to work at an adult Halloween party. "He put his disease in me................"