[The_Return]

Ok guys - I think I can manage this on my own, but I thought you guys might enjoy giving me a hand anyway.

My girlfriend is about as far as you can get from a horror fan. She has great taste in movies otherwise, but she's never really given horror it's day in court, aside from a couple semi-horror flicks that we watched together: Sleepy Hollow and Burton's Sweeney Todd, both of which she enjoyed.

Well, she is reluctantly willing to give horror a chance, because she knows how much I love it. Only I'm having some trouble deciding where I should start in order to really get her hooked...

I'm thinking I might go for some Universal stuff to start - maybe the big three: Dracula, Frankenstein + The Wolf Man.

She's a HUGE Phantom of the Opera fan, so maybe I'll try the Herbert Lom Hammer version...doubt she'd be ready for the Robert Englund one just yet.

Basically what I'm asking for is help suggesting some fairly light horror flicks that a new-commer to the genre might like. Some basic criteria:

- She's a HUGE romantic, so it would be nice if there were some kind of romantic aspect involved. Nothing major, but it'd be nice to have a bit of mushy stuff hanging around.

- Little-to-no gore. I'm sure she'd be fine with it eventually, but I'd rather ease her into it.

- Not overly heavy on plot....atmosphere is more important. I hope I don't need to explain why ;)


Anyway, thanks in advance! :)