Those old horror movies
 

This is a post about vintage and classic horror movies in general, not some particular movie.

I'm happy to some people still want to see old black-and-white horror movies. Somebody has observed that while we are living in a time when there is more opportunity than ever to watch old movies in good restorations, interest in old movies among the young is pretty low.

My friend Eloise says that when one of her children comes into the living room and finds her watching a movie, they just walk right out again.

Well, "Kids today have no appreciation for the finer things in life. Too bad for them." --Mr. Natural. Indeed, too bad for them. What a shame.

I think I'm one of the few younger people who actually likes some of the older movies and TV shows. Most people my age turn their noses up at that stuff, but I personally think that a lot of the new stuff that comes on TV nowadays is garbage.

I just don't get people who are around my age. They have bad taste in everything. ::roll eyes::

Well, if her children walk in to her watching a movie, and then walk out to family room and watch a different movie, that is sad (as opposed to the kids walking outside to play some ball, which is good exercise!) There's very few films I wouldn't watch with my mom, as I watched an awful lot with her. We know how to talk about the film even during the film, which is an acquired skill.

Ever watch a film with someone who talks during the film as if they have no sense whatsoever as to when one can comment or ask a question? Where they will just talk over the film at most inappropriate times? And of course with some friends we can laugh our butts off with really well timed comments during a film. It's an artform.

stupid me
 

Stupid me. I meant to write that the kids walk out when they see that the movie is in black and white.

I am encouraged by the replies, the way I am when I listen to a college radio station and realize that some kids really are interested in music that is not the latest pop crap.

I have to wonder... when the young people today are in their 40's and 50's is anybody really going to remember anything special about their generation? The only thing to really come out for them was the internet and smart phones.

Every other decade from the 1920's to the 1990's had something memorable about it. Great classics and impressive subcultures trying to make a statement.

But now all we get are crappy remakes of great classics, pop singers who can't sing worth a damn without voice enhancers, annoying reality TV shows on every channel, fake news that you can't trust, and hipster wannabes and posers.

::big grin:: I'm sorry, no, I got ya they were walking out because it was a black and white film; I was just going on my own tangent.

But yeah, lots of the films we watched were b/w. I always found them charming, I don't remember ever having a negative thought about them simply for being b/w. Of course from an early age I liked watching the old horror films on TV. More than that, I often watched films on our b/w TV, so there were films I assumed were b/w that were actually in color, like some Godzilla and some early Hammer films.

Sadly, VERY true. I always liked B/W films and it really didn't bother me...a good film is a good film, period!
Like You, Sculpt, my Mom and I watched all kinds of things which my wife and I do now. Our daughter likes many of the older titles as well.
A lot of younger viewers don't seem to know that CGI and ultra large budgets weren't always so prevalent and sometimes You had to make do with what You had.
I miss those days::sad::

I couldn't agree more!

Yeah I mean even the 1990's had something special! Some great TV shows and movies came out of that decade and that was THE decade to be a kid. The cartoons we had on channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network were fantastic unlike the crap that kids get today.

Video games were very fun and people didn't care about the graphics back then because they all looked terrible, and when people wanted to play video games with their buddies they hung out at each other's houses and played 2 player mode instead of playing games online.

We also had the pleasure of eating whatever we wanted and drinking soda plus going to McDonald's and Burger King without the parents and schools getting so uptight about the dangers of kids eating good-tasting junk food.

This was also a time when Japanese animation didn't seem as weird as it does now but because they actually edited it for kids which was OK because we didn't know about it. We also had pokemon cards and yugioh cards and all that fun stuff.

I really miss the 90's hahaha! ::sad::

Well, I was a kid in the 70s. No video games, but, lots of horror movies. On TV. VHS hadn't even been invented yet. LOL Yeah, I'm old.

I'm getting there. I already have grey in my hair lol!

Did they colorize horror movies?
 

It was a big controversy among fans of old movies, back in the 1980s, when TV networks began colorizing old classic movies. I don't recall any horror movies that were colorized, though. I wonder if there were any?

I watched colorized versions of Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls of DVD. I personally think the black and white versions had a more nightmarish feel to them.

Black and white vs. color
 

Yes, usually black and white horror movies are more atmospheric than the ones in color. (This could start such a flamewar!) I thought that the original Castle of Blood was a lot more a atmospheric than Web of the Spider, the director's remake of his own movie.

What's wrong with my memory? In order to remember what the original movie was named, I had to go to imdb.com, enter Barbara Steele, and scroll down her filmography until I found it. What would we do without imdb.com?

Lesson from the movie: Don't accept a bet to spend the night in a haunted house if all the ones before you who took the bet died.

When you are in a horror movie you make poor choices. It's what you do! ::big grin::

poor choices
 

Poor choices. I see. It's like "there's a killer monster in the house. Let's all run upstairs and separate!" I think the tv show In Living Color did a skit about that.

Slaughter of the vampires is a movie I like, but in the scene where they are hunting on the grounds for vampires and the vampire expert says "Now it's best we separate." I thought "Why?"

Its not something stupid, but it reminds me of how the girl is running away from the mummy, and she is running fast, and he is just shambling along, and he always catches her.

Sometimes the vampire hunters lose because of undermining. Don't go into the haunted house with 5 people. Go with 50 people, so that you can split up into teams and not be alone.

In slaughter of the vampires, the vampire expert says "They act with cunning, and we must be just as clever" and then both sides act like idiots.

It's obvious that the characters always "split up" so that the unimportant ones can be killed before the hero or heroine defeats the monster in the end. ::big grin::

You hit the nail on the head! There will be nothing memorable about today's generation. Except maybe greed, stupidity,fat bodies & dumb haircuts.

Yes! A lot of the really old black and white horror films are some of the best ever at times! The list of examples can really go on forever, but some of my favorites would be the original black and white "Village Of The Damned," "Children Of The Damned," "Return Of The Vampire," the original black and white King Kong, the original black and white Godzilla, the original black and white Gamera, the silent "Phantom Of The Opera" with Lon Chaney, sr. "Creature From The Black Lagoon," "The Wolfman" with Lon Chaney, jr., "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman," the original "Carnival Of Souls," "I Eat Your Flesh," "The Black Cat" from 1934 with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, "Them," the original "Night Of The Living Dead," "White Zombie," the original "House On Haunted Hill" with Vincent Price, "The Last Man On Earth," "The Mummy's Ghost," the original "Little Shop Of Horrors", "Terrified," "The Devil's Claw," "Sadist," "Tarantula," "The Bat" with Vincent Price, the silent "Headless Horseman," the silent "Frankenstein" from Thomas Edison, to name a few. ::devil::

You mean the Man Bun?

Anyone here have the Man Bun? Why do you like it?

I have a nephew who has long hair... and so that doesn't look unusual in a "bun", as opposed to a pony tail, because the bun has functionality that a pony tail does not.

But the man bun where the hair is short, especially less than 3"... yeah, that's a 'style' without any function for sure.

whats the best parts from Headless Horseman 1922?

Did you see that one? I'm not giving away too many spoilers.

Here's a link to see it for free in its entirety! ::devil::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LHXrqLpFUA

I scanned through the Headless Horseman on youtube, but I never catch a glimpse of the Headless Horseman. I probably won't watch the entire thing, so that's why I was asking you where the good parts are?

Haunted House/House Of Ghosts
 

Here's a short silent film from around 1905 through 1908 called "A Haunted House," aka "House Of Ghosts"! It doesn't look quite that old, and it's overall better than a lot of stuff that came after it! The ghosts, goblins, witches, and ghouls in this one are something else! ::danger::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo2EKNRIQlE

Thanks for posting!

classic
 

I enjoyed "Haxan, a history of witchcraft through the ages". It's a silent film from 1921 -1922 I think. You have to read the sub-titles, that's actually kind of cool. The imagery in this film probably couldn't be used today.