Whats your Favorite Slasher, Ghost and Monster movie
Ashtonjazzyhorror123
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Mine are:
Slasher:
Scream
Child's Play
Halloween 4
Ghost:
The Conjuring 2
Paranormal activity 4
Monster:
The Meg
It
Jaws 1&4
Slasher:
Scream
Child's Play
Halloween 4
Ghost:
The Conjuring 2
Paranormal activity 4
Monster:
The Meg
It
Jaws 1&4
Comments
slasher: a nightmare on elm street (1984), halloween II (2009), halloween (1978)
ghost: poltergeist (1982), the ring, 13 ghosts (2001)
monsters: king kong (1933), creature from the black lagoon (1953), the howling (1981)
since horror crosses genres more than any other genre of film, let's include some more: howabout zombies, mad science, and animals attack?
zombies: night of the living dead, dawn of the dead, day of the dead (original, eh?)
mad science: bride of frankenstein, re-animator, the fly (1986)
animals attack: them, jaws, kingdom of the spiders
c'mon folks, add some more!
Ghost: The Changeling.
Sheri Moon Zombie actually played the same character in the Halloween 2 dream sequences as she did in Trevor Moorehouse Versus Undead Ponyblowers From Uranus. She was.....ba-dum-ding....what else? Queen mother of the undead ponyblowers.
Really though Halloween II (1981). That's my unheralded slasher. I saw the new Halloween and while it was efficient and polished enough, it had goofy shit like a little kid having the same oh shit reaction to the Shape as if his mom found weed and porno mags stashed under his bed. There was also Jamie Lee Curtis referring to the owner of the Jaguars as the new Loomis because that's totally something a real person would do and not a hollow contrived movie character. With that in mind, I'll keep my Halloween II where the Shape was charred to a crisp with his Ahab, Dr. Loomis; fuck you very much. Fuck you all. Very much.
Ghost- Poltergeist (original), the Haunting (original), the Legend of Hell House, Halloween: H20
Monster: Tremors, Tremors 2: aftershocks, Grabbers, the Burrowers, Splinter, John Carpenter's the Thing, Nightbreed, the Host (the Korean movie), Piranha (original), Creature from the Black Lagoon, Gojira (original), Gamara Guardian of the Universe
Session 9
Aliens
The Fog, Poltergeist
Jaws, Godzilla
A couple of major points brought up include the fact that if Michael Myers was just some fucker that murdered a couple of kids 40 years ago who had been confined ever since his capture, what exactly makes this 60-year old mute vegetable so special for these podcasters to take such a major interest in him? Why is it worth pulling $3,000 out of their asses to pay his survivor for an interview that ultimately goes nowhere?
Michael Myers would barely merit a side story episode on Last Podcast on The Left. Even if you throw in that he killed his sister when he was five, there's still dozens of real life serial killers out there with much more notorious killing sprees and interesting backstories. Surely there are other criminally insane killers that went mute while living out the rest of their days confined to a mental hospital. If there was a real one-off spree killer like Myers, I doubt he'd even have much of a cult following.
They should've just set it up where they were doing a documentary on a random mental hospital. The level of mystique and awe the podcasters treat Myers with is undue to this version of the character that only killed his sister and three other people during a killing spree and has been locked away for the past four decades. Shit, at least if they were going to go so heavy on the true crime documentary element, it should've been a couple of local idiots investigating where they'd at least have a reason for being so intrigued by an otherwise unremarkable spree killer.
It also probably hasn't been pointed out that the holy shit kill in this veers straight into Victor Crowley cartoon territory. A human being can't do that to another human being's skull where he stomps it into the consistency of a smashed pumpkin. That's some shit straight out of the remake.
Finally, even though the whole point of Sartain was that he was detached and clinical, maybe the movie would've been better served if the character was played an actor with an imposing sinister presence like Peter Stormare.
H40 is a valid dig because even if they removed the brother/sister link, the driving force is still Myers tracking down Laurie Strode decades later. It felt like they did a great job of establishing the trauma Strode has experienced ever since that night without ever really being able to recapture the original presence and aura of The Shape. It's just tough to recapture that same level of mystique for a killer that vegged out for 40 years in a nuthouse until he finally got the chance to finish the job on the only survivor of his original attacks. Myers' apparition-like qualities to roam and strike at will are kind of demystified when he's been imprisoned for 40 years before catching such a lucky break when he finally does escape.
Jury. Executioner. Judge.
Ghost: Burnt Offerings, Poltergeist, Amityville Horror, The Shining (Kubrick)
Monster/Creature:Hellraiser, The Howling, It Follows
Zombies: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Return of the Living Dead.
Mad Scientist: From Beyond, Re-Animator.
Monster - Alien, no better monster than that
Ghost - The Shining, easily