5 Best Horror Movies

[The_Return]

I really want to see the original Thing [from Another World], Carpenter's was amazing, completly amazing.

[Gojira]

Hi Amazing I remember when I first saw The Thing from another World or as fans would call it the Thing. Anyway all I ever heard was how good it the movie really was and then I saw it myself. It was ok not bad at all. The movie imo captures what the country was feeling back then. This movie really makes you wonder what would we do if an alien spacecraft did crash on Earth. I saw it years later in a colorized version the colorized version was just as good but it lacked the original feel a bit kind of how KingKong a masterpiece is awesome in B&W but that lacks when seen in color. Imo some movies just work better in B&W. If you get the chance check out the Thing. For a scifi movie it is still ranks as one of the best ever made.

[TheOmen]

I have seen both the B&W Hawks version, and the '82 version multiple times. And while I liked the first, it doesn't hold up today. You really think an 18 year old kid is going to relate to the analogies being drawn in the 'original?' The dialogue is old fashioned, and so is the alien. It is a good movie, but the Carpenter version is more effective as a thriller for me.

By the way, I'm not some punk kid, I'm old old old! I tells ya!

[Gojira]

Hi Omen I know what your saying about kids today not really caring for older movies because they dont have all the cool modern specail effects like todays movies. Thats really a shame because if the Thing was not such a good movie it would have never been remade in 1982 by John carpenter. Growning up I was not your regular teen I wanted to know who made the older horror movies and why.

I dont see many people like myself today who can appreciate the older and newer horror & scifi movies alike. A good example of movies that may have influenced other movies to be made is probley the 1958 scif movie titled It Terror from beyond space United Artists probley influenced the 1979 movie Alien to be made. Both movies seem to have the same basic plot. But how many young fans will take that in mind when watching the 1958 movie? Today we have director Peter Jackson remaking the 1933 classic KingKong and many are excited about this upcoming movie but how many like the original Kong movie in B&W? Btw Omen I am a bit older myself and I am in my mid 40s. At my age I think I was very lucky to have seen many of the classic movies fans talk about in forums like this. I kind of consider movies made in the 1980s to present recent lol.

[Tat2]

Originally posted by TheOmen
I have seen both the B&W Hawks version, and the '82 version multiple times. And while I liked the first, it doesn't hold up today. You really think an 18 year old kid is going to relate to the analogies being drawn in the 'original?' The dialogue is old fashioned, and so is the alien. It is a good movie, but the Carpenter version is more effective as a thriller for me.

By the way, I'm not some punk kid, I'm old old old! I tells ya!

While I'm not old, old, old...I am old, old, and I still like all eras of horror films. The old ones take all of us back to Horrors' roots (ie., how far would horror have gone if it wasn't for old movies like Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera, Nosferatu, The Wolfman, The Day the Eart Stood Still etc...) of course the dialogue is old fashioned...but it wasn't when the movie was made. I agree, that Carpenters Version is better (I have three copies of it) but you still gotta love the old style B&W's where they don't cuss and blood doesn't cover the set. I throughly enjoy watching the old fashioned ones as a matter of fact, I just watched The Wolfman a couple of days ago. I might have backed it up with Dawn of the Dead to get my daily quota of necessary gore, but I still like the Classics.

[Demonic Faces]

1. Halloween
2. Blair witch project
3. Hellraiser
4. Night of the living dead(origanal)
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Nemesis412]

I really love classics. I mean I love horror now but Classics just have that magic to them.

[Gojira]

Nemesis ever wonder why the classics have that magic?

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by Gojira
Nemesis ever wonder why the classics have that magic?

Don't get him started. LOL

[Gojira]

LOL Austin I just wonderd if Nemesis ever thought why that was. It would be easy for me to say why that is but I want to see who here also knows but Nemesis did ask a good question indeed.