Horror Marathon Ideas
 

So, due to school being cancelled this Friday and Monday, I have an extra long weekend. Extra time translates into... a horror marathon!

Now, I'm not an expert in the genre, nor do I know anyone WITH TASTE to reccomend me films (my friends hate CRASH, love DOOM - what does THAT tell you?) so I was wondering if anyone could suggest me a few films to watch.

I'm looking for anything good, whatever the era. Anything you might think I'd enjoy (which is pretty much anything half-decent).

A big thing for me is atmosphere. Films with that dark, gritty setting, silence, edge-of-your-seat tension. Stuff like that.

The Blair Witch, Wolf Creek, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and House of 1000 Corpses are all examples of films I liked due to this reason.

I like smart movies, psychological movies. Movies that make you think, and have multiple twists. Movies that jerk you around and leave you with your mouth hanging open. I can say I am a big fan of SAW & SAW II, take that how you will. Not saying it's smart, but it fills the other category.

What I hate mainly is slashers. A film with an "icon" that kills a person here, a person there, and another person a little ways over there. One character lives, escapes, and the killer survives. I cannot express how much this bores me to death. I turn most of them off. Friday the 13th just got pointless halfway through the series.

I'm planning to rent two or three, if I don't already have them in my "unwatched" collection. So reccomend away. And thanks. :)



Oh, and I haven't seen a LOT of the popular ones. The Omen, original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (*) ... etc :(

* Order it off ebay, and low and behold I ended up getting a burnt DVD-R with coppy video, blockage going on left right and center, and fuzzed audio. It was unwatchable to all degrees.

PS - I'm also wondering if kairo / Pulse is availible on DVD. Really want to see it.

Re: Horror Marathon Ideas
 

Yes it is.

Try:

Dead Birds, Creepshow, The Devil's Rejects, Freaks, Eraserhead, The Evil Dead, Night of the Living Dead.

Try this thread...I had alot of fun with it, but Im kind of running out of ideas.


http://www.horror.com/forum/showthre...threadid=13310

Sounds like you'd really enjoy Session 9.

I like the ranty sort of quality of the original post in this thread. It's early in the morning here, and I like a good rant with my breakfast.

I think zombie movies make a great marathon--but I think they must be carefully chosen. And preferably by experts who have seen all zombie movies or most of them, so that the marathon is sort of a fine blended cocktail of many subtle flavors.

Oh yeah AND...

If you're having a generic horror fest and need to throw in a couple of things for spooky laughs, you could do no better IMO than "Mad Monster Party" (1967) and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948).

"Meet Frankenstein" is especially clever because it manages to balance its great comedy with an effectively creepy storyline. It runs circles around most horror comedies made since.

one of my all time faves ..

it has my favorite movie line :

'you dont understand, when the moon is full i turn into a wolf !"

"yeah, you and a million other guys"

And it's got that Lenore Aubert...

meow wow!

Haha, great line. I first heard that on the Abbott and Costello Show (radio) with Lon Chaney Jr. as the guest star.

You pretty muched nailed my favourites right on the head with those suggestions.
Loved Creepshow, The Devil's Rejects, The Evil Dead and Night of the Living Dead.
I'll be trusting your suggests in the future. :)

Isn't Freaks a shockumentary? The 1930's one?
I heard Dead Birds was amazing, too. Will ask my friend for that DVD, since she just bought it last week. I had watched part of Eraserhead with a friend, and found it quite bizzare. A very silent film, with little dialogue.

The_Return, your HOHH and TCM suggestions seem like a good idea too, I've seen the others you have suggested. :)

Thanks for the ideas! :)