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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:40 pm 
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With Halloween now less than 2 weeks away, I thought it would be fun to share what appropriate videos we've been watching.

The other night, I queued up a bunch of spooky episodes from my collection of TV shows:

Square Pegs: Halloween sleep-over party.
Odd Couple: Victor Buono exorcises a ghost from the air conditioner.
Monkees: The group spends the night in a haunted house.
Mork and Mindy: Mindy's old house is haunted/possessed.
F Troop: Vincent Price guests as suspected vampire Count Sforza; O'Rourke and Agarn leave the service to homestead a ghost town.
The Muppet Show: Alice Cooper guest stars.
SCTV: Count Floyd and other bits.
Simpsons: Assorted "Tree Houses of Horror"

Pretty scary, huh kids? So, what about you?

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:45 pm 
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We recently watched "The Happening" and "Joy Ride 2" on DVD. Last night we went out for some scares to Fright Dome - http://www.frightdome.com - and tonight I'll take a chance on a couple of DVD sequels, "Feast 2" and "Pulse 2".

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:40 pm 
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry refuses to give candy to two teenaged girls on Halloween and pays the predictable price. The scene between Larry and the cop is a classic.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:10 pm 
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I have the movie Shutters on tap. Plus I need to see John Carpenter's classic Halloween very soon.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:22 pm 
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That is the night to listen to the greatest single FZ concert ever 10/31/78

1978 10 31 - Palladium, New York, NY
230 min, Aud, B+
The Big One. With L. Shankar (*) and Warren Cucurullo (**).

Ancient Armaments [H], Dancin' Fool [H], Easy Meat, Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, Keep It Greasey, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Thirteen* [guitar solo on YCDTOSA6], Ms. X story**, fantasy from a girl from the audience, Dinah-Moe Humm, Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder / Little Rubber Girl [YCDTOSA4], The Idiot Bastard Son, Bobby Brown, Conehead*, Suicide Chump, Little House I Used To Live In* [incl. Zeets, H], Watermelon In Easter Hay*, Stinkfoot, Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance* [YCDTOSA6], Peaches En Regalia, Strictly Genteel, Sofa, Packard Goose*, Magic Fingers [parts on H], Yellow Snow Suite [incl. Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, H], Camarillo Brillo, Muffin Man, Black Napkins [H], The Deathless Horsie* [H]

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 Post subject: Halloween Viewing
PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:04 pm 
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great spine tingling ghost movies that will make your hair stand straight up:

The Changeling (w/George C. Scott) 1980
Ghost Story (w/Fred Astaire & John Houseman) 1981
The Woman in Black (w/Pauline Moran) 1989
The Innocents (w/Deborah Kerr) 1961
The Others (w/Nicole Kidman) 2001
The Haunting (w/Julie Harris) 1963

and since I'm a Dark Shadows nut I'll throw these in:
House of Dark Shadows 1970
Night of Dark Shadows 1971


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:48 pm 
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The Fog is my all-time favorite ghost story. I watch it every Halloween, as I do Halloween, Halloween II and for some weir-ass reason Halloween III.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:21 am 
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Location: Yankee Stadium in October
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on tap for the week of Halloween (now that baseball is over)

Mad Monster party
Elvira's movies
The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes series of movies
The 6 Universal famous monsters sets
The Howling and the sequels
The Exerocist
Rosemary's Baby
A&C Meet Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
Robot Monster
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Rocky Horror


Let's see how many I get in before the next FZ release November 25th

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:42 pm 
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Rokin Robin of Locksley wrote:
great spine tingling ghost movies that will make your hair stand straight up:

The Changeling (w/George C. Scott) 1980
Ghost Story (w/Fred Astaire & John Houseman) 1981
The Woman in Black (w/Pauline Moran) 1989
The Innocents (w/Deborah Kerr) 1961
The Others (w/Nicole Kidman) 2001
The Haunting (w/Julie Harris) 1963


Robin: nothing scares me like a good ghost story. The Haunting (1963) is the scariest movie I've ever seen--after countless viewings, it still gives me goosebumps.

We've seen quite an upturn in ghost movies since the success of Sixth Sense and the Asian-horror (and remakes) boom. Some of my all-time faves, old and new:

The Haunting (1963)
The Innocents
The Uninvited (1944)
Legend of Hell House
Poltergeist
The Shining
The Grudge
The Others
Stir of Echoes
The Abandoned
The Orphanage
The Fog (1980)
Devil's Backbone
The Ring

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:28 pm 
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I used to watch Rocky Horror each year when VH1 would run it on Halloween.

Now I watch Donny Darko.

Still this.


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 Post subject: Halloween Viewing
PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:38 pm 
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I always listen to Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast around this time of year. It really is a great listen.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:10 pm 
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I always watch Don Knott's "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken".


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:39 pm 
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Ron Rogers wrote:
I always watch Don Knott's "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken".


Watched that one last year on Halloween night. :thumbsup:

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:30 pm 
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Uninspired by tonight's ballgame, I decided to watch the Criterion DVD of the low-budget cult classic Carnival of Souls this evening. First time I've seen it in probably 20 years. Still delivers a fair amount of chills, although, even at a concise 87 mins., it drags in spots. Shot in atmospheric b&w with some truly nightmarish imagery, and oh that creepy organ music!

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:44 am 
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We watched The Paul Lynde Halloween Special last night on DVD. Not very spooky but a real time capsule back to what TV was like in 1976.

Shows like this were common back then, you'd never see it now. Corny jokes abound. Stars of that era (Pinky Tuscadero?) are everywhere.

KISS shows up and plays 3 songs (lip synching of course) but it nice to see them in their prime with the awesome costumes they had. Paul Lynde says to Gene "Boy thats alot of makeup" and Gene says menacingly "I don't wear makeup". Haha! :)

The print looks like a bad VHS tape by the way, only 2 channel stereo sound.

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 Post subject: Halloween Viewing
PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:32 am 
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Freaks and Geeks - Tricks and Treats
The geeks find out they are too old to dress up for Halloween while the freaks go on a vandalizing spree.
Nothing really scary about this one, but priceless if only for Bill Haverchuck dressing up as the Bionic Woman.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:37 pm 
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Two more favorites:

Young Frankenstein
Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:38 pm 
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JohnG wrote:
We watched The Paul Lynde Halloween Special last night on DVD. Not very spooky but a real time capsule back to what TV was like in 1976.

Shows like this were common back then, you'd never see it now. Corny jokes abound. Stars of that era (Pinky Tuscadero?) are everywhere.

KISS shows up and plays 3 songs (lip synching of course) but it nice to see them in their prime with the awesome costumes they had. Paul Lynde says to Gene "Boy thats alot of makeup" and Gene says menacingly "I don't wear makeup". Haha! :)

The print looks like a bad VHS tape by the way, only 2 channel stereo sound.


Colbert's upcoming Christmas Special will harken to this golden age...down to the sweater and the pipe...looking forward to it.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:54 pm 
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Usually it's the Zappa boot video or Rocky Horror. Not this year. I'll be watching my son in his first ice hockey season. If his skating catches up with his sense of the game, he'll be alright. Not bad considering that he's a high school freshman and hasn't skated too much (he's decent, but he won't make anyone forget Rob Brown).

Maybe this year I'll toss in Rocky or Young Frankenstein when I get home after the game.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:26 pm 
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Jimbo wrote:
Uninspired by tonight's ballgame, I decided to watch the Criterion DVD of the low-budget cult classic Carnival of Souls this evening. First time I've seen it in probably 20 years. Still delivers a fair amount of chills, although, even at a concise 87 mins., it drags in spots. Shot in atmospheric b&w with some truly nightmarish imagery, and oh that creepy organ music!

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I love that movie. Even with the awful acting, the organ music and the ghoulish pancake makeup really amp up the creepiness factor. This is one of the first movies (along with Psycho) that gave me nightmares after seeing it for the first time.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:41 pm 
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I can remember watching this made-for-tv film on Halloween night. It freaked me out at the time. I was maybe 9 or 10. I think it's pretty funny now, but in an awesome way. Dark Night of the Scarecrow!



It appears as though all the parts are on youtube, so I guess we can watch the whole thing

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:17 pm 
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Let's bump this baby one more time for Halloween...


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