Horror Buff

[AEA Stage Manager]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 9:37pm

Hello out there...
so yes I love musicals/plays but lord I love a good ol horror movie also. Just wondering if there are any other horror fans out there that would want to talk movies. Its always nice to find other theatre lovers with the same interests.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 9:42pm

Horror is my favorite film genre and I teach musical theater. I only wish there were more successful horror musicals. That's a hard mix to get right but a very powerful one when it comes together.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:05pm

I enjoy old Universal and Hammer films.I not a fan of slasher movies.Slice and dice ain't for me.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:19pm

The only thing I love more than the Muppets and theatre is horror!

[AEA Stage Manager]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:29pm

My netlfix que is quite odd
Muppets,
Horror,
Disney
Musicals..

AS for horror I love them all. Very partial to 80's Italian Horror. Always so surreal and amazing.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:31pm

My favorite genre.

There's quite a few of us horror buffs here!

[AEA Stage Manager]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 11:01pm

Nice to know, Jordon. ( by the way you have cracked my **** up over the years )
Anyone have a love 70-80's? Susipria, Phantom of Paradise, Demons, my list goes on and on.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/7/13 at 11:03pm

As much as I love those, my first love will always be American 80s horror. From GHOULIES to SLEEPAWAY CAMP, that was my childhood.

[AEA Stage Manager]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:39am

Have you heard any of the music to Sleepaway Camp the musical?
Love me some 80's also.. Ghoulies, Gremlins ( still my favorite Christmas movie ), The Gate, Silent Night series... I worked in a video store all through my high school years, me and and my coworkers would always be playing some horror movie on the back tv ( out of sight of customers ) while we played Hocus Pocus and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on a endless loop out front.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 6:42am

Have you seen the trailer for the movie Mama? GAH! lol I love movies like that.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 8:04am

I'm a huge horror fan. There are a bunch of us on here and we do occasionally have some pretty awesome discussions about our beloved genre.

On a side note I just that Synapse is going to release Bava's Demons in BD for region 1 this year.

And yes Jersey, Mama does look good.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:31am

There's a big group here on bww who are horror buffs, me included.
I was going to come in the morning and start an "Eraserhead" thread, as I just started looking more into it after being creeped out the first time I saw it in the early 80s. Not a genuine horror film, but that is in the eye of the beholder, imo.

Taz has encyclopedic knowledge.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:36am

I prefer the subtler kind of horror like Eraserhead, Rosemary's Baby, Devil's Advocate, for instance, than out and out blood and gore, like Evil Dead Part 2. But I like both.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:40am

I would consider Eraserhead a genuine horror film. I haven't had cornish hen since I saw it in college.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:43am

Funny, but "In Heaven" was the creepiest part for me. I hate and love the girl in the radiator in equal parts. Her "dance" is almost as creepy. I love that it was played by Holly Near's sister, Laurel, something I didnt realize before.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 10:29am

I snuck into Eraserhead when I was far too young to see it. It goes with out saying that I didn't understand any of it (hell, I still don't) but the mutant baby and the radiator girl have haunted my dreams ever since.

Jane, speaking of Ploanski, Criterion is releasing The Tenant on BD this year. Along with Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion this concludes his so called "Apartment Trilogy".

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 11:01am

I think ERASERHEAD defies classification into genre. It really is sui generis. Still David Lynch's best film, the one I watch over and over again. There are some horror elements, I guess, to be fair.

The scene that always creeps me out is the awful sequence set on the radiator stage, where Henry's head falls off and the tree starts bleeding and the baby starts screaming and it is the most profound mind-f*ck in movies.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 11:39am

Does the baby ever stop screaming? (serious question - I recall it being ever present background noise)

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 11:58am

The baby is silent occasionally, especially during the visit from the Woman From Across The Hall. The baby cries a lot, but in that one ghastly radiator scene the crying reaches real scream levels.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:12pm

I agree that the film is genre-less which is part of why it's brilliant.

I know it all defies explanation, but why the makeup on the girl in the radiator?

[tazber]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:21pm

To cover he damaged cheeks.

Which begs the question: why does the Radiator Girl have such bad skin?

And the answer is (probably): why not?

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:43pm

There's a fine line betw. horror and surrealism. Eraserhead is more surreal to me than horror.

Also, the one sound which I notice is constant throughout the entire film is the mechanical breathing of the heavy industrial equipment on the outside.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:54pm

I'm not really a horror buff, I guess. There are horror movies I like, there are horror movies I don't like. I tend to avoid the current stuff, largely due my my doubtless stereotyped notion that they're all just fountains of blood and mangled flesh. The last horror movie I paid to see was THE OTHERS which I liked a good deal, one of Ms. Kidman's best performances.

That said, the original films of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD are among my favorites, so go figure.

[AEA Stage Manager]

Posted: 1/9/13 at 1:38am

I do love the surreal.. but give me a good ol blood bath with odd weapons any day! :)

[east side story]

Posted: 1/9/13 at 6:46am

Few things in this world are as magical and sinfully entertaining as 80's horror.