Post by Rictras Shard on Jul 14, 2015 17:05:07 GMT -4
For the next few days, I'm going to be listing my favourite horror movies in each decade of my life. I'll include some personal notes for each, and when possible I'll include the trailer for that movie. My criteria for each is that it has to be listed as a horror movie on Wikipedia, and I have to have seen it. As always, I welcome your feedback, and invite you to list some of your favourites. So, in order of release date, here are my favourite five from the seventies.
1975) Jaws
I first saw this more than thirty years ago while trapped at school because of a severe winter storm. Despite the passage of time and the many terrible things I've seen in movies since then, few others have affected me like it did. I still find sharks to be very scary, and I am hesitant to get in the water on the rare occasion I am at the beach. It is a well acted and very suspenseful film, and that speech by Quint about three quarters of the way through still gives me shivers.
1978} Dawn of the Dead
In my opinion, this is the definitive zombie movie. It is as gory as most other flicks you will see, but it also has a lot of heart. You can feel the despair of the main characters, and that they know they are in a hopeless situation. They realize that they're screwed, and they're just trying to enjoy whatever time they have left. I first saw this movie shortly after everybody had been living with the fear that we were all going to be annihilated by nuclear war, so I had some idea of how they felt.
1978) Halloween
This is one of the earliest horror movies I ever watched. It was on tv one night, and it scared the hell out of me. As much as I like the Friday the 13th movies, I've always considered Jason to be a rip-off of Michael Myers. There is surprisingly little gore, the film mainly relies on suspense. The audience knows things the characters don't know, and we're sitting on the edge of our seats, wishing we could warn them. This movie also launched Jamie Lee Curtis' rise to fame.
1979) Alien
I loved this movie long before I ever saw it. Thorakor had the official movie guide. It had detailed pictures of what happened in that famous scene. If you've seen the movie, you know what I am talking about. I stayed over at his place one night and we looked through that book. I remember those pictures traumatized me and fascinated me at the same time. As for the rest of the movie, imagine that you are trapped somewhere with a terrible creature that is hunting you. There is not much room to run away, and nobody will be coming to save you.
1979) Phantasm
There could be a movie that just has Angus Scrimm standing around, shouting 'Boooyyy!" every couple of minutes, and it would still be creepy. And as if he wasn't scary enough by himself, those flying spheres want a piece of you too. Watching this movie is like watching somebody's nightmare. It has one of the best atmospheres I've ever seen on the screen.
1975) Jaws
I first saw this more than thirty years ago while trapped at school because of a severe winter storm. Despite the passage of time and the many terrible things I've seen in movies since then, few others have affected me like it did. I still find sharks to be very scary, and I am hesitant to get in the water on the rare occasion I am at the beach. It is a well acted and very suspenseful film, and that speech by Quint about three quarters of the way through still gives me shivers.
1978} Dawn of the Dead
In my opinion, this is the definitive zombie movie. It is as gory as most other flicks you will see, but it also has a lot of heart. You can feel the despair of the main characters, and that they know they are in a hopeless situation. They realize that they're screwed, and they're just trying to enjoy whatever time they have left. I first saw this movie shortly after everybody had been living with the fear that we were all going to be annihilated by nuclear war, so I had some idea of how they felt.
1978) Halloween
This is one of the earliest horror movies I ever watched. It was on tv one night, and it scared the hell out of me. As much as I like the Friday the 13th movies, I've always considered Jason to be a rip-off of Michael Myers. There is surprisingly little gore, the film mainly relies on suspense. The audience knows things the characters don't know, and we're sitting on the edge of our seats, wishing we could warn them. This movie also launched Jamie Lee Curtis' rise to fame.
1979) Alien
I loved this movie long before I ever saw it. Thorakor had the official movie guide. It had detailed pictures of what happened in that famous scene. If you've seen the movie, you know what I am talking about. I stayed over at his place one night and we looked through that book. I remember those pictures traumatized me and fascinated me at the same time. As for the rest of the movie, imagine that you are trapped somewhere with a terrible creature that is hunting you. There is not much room to run away, and nobody will be coming to save you.
1979) Phantasm
There could be a movie that just has Angus Scrimm standing around, shouting 'Boooyyy!" every couple of minutes, and it would still be creepy. And as if he wasn't scary enough by himself, those flying spheres want a piece of you too. Watching this movie is like watching somebody's nightmare. It has one of the best atmospheres I've ever seen on the screen.