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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:12:02 GMT
The original "Salem's Lot TV mini-series was far scarier than a lot of made-for-theater Stephen King adaptations. It was the first book of his I read, and the Danny Glick part of the story is where I realized what the book was about...vampires! Believe it or not, I had no idea until I read it within the novel. The library hardcover just had an old house on the cover and the book jacket was kinda cryptic, not giving away a thing. It was a glorious way to discover it, and Stephen King.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:17:47 GMT
Possibly the creepiest eyeball in horror history. I'm planning to watch The Grudge and it's sequels and maybe the Ju-on series too if I can find them all. There's a third sequel to The Grudge I never did see and not sure how many Ju-on movies there are, I've only ever seen the first one. Hi Lebowskidoo. Just to clarify, my image is from Black Christmas (1974), not from any of The Grudge movies. Oh, that OTHER CREEPIEST EYEBALL IN HORROR HISTORY! Now that you mention it, it's obvious. They do look alike though.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:21:10 GMT
Creepy old man from Poltergeist II, he was responsible for many nightmares I'm sure. It was like he was effortlessly creepy.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:27:17 GMT
I was very young. They showed us this cartoon of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in the 6th grade, I was afraid to walk home, not yet exposed to much horror, in fact, I avoided it as much as possible until I was 12 or 13.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 11, 2017 19:30:40 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:33:49 GMT
Great idea for a topic/thread, Lebowskidoo. The first image that popped up in my head was that of the true nightmarish face belonging to maybe the scariest looking vampire of them all, Kurt Barlow (Reggie Nalder) from the 1979 mini-series Salem's Lot. As a kid, here in Norway we had a magazine that was called (En gal, gal verden!) A crazy, crazy world! and I loved reading those, as they were full of kind of bizarre and freaky stories, and back then without relying upon the internet all the time, many of them ended up scaring the crap out of us kids, and we loved it even more. Of course, looking back, it was quite incredible that we "fell" for all these ridiculous and over-the-top stories, but I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that we really "wanted" it to be partly true, but nowdays, that magazine would have been ripped to shreds by 4 year olds along with their expensive new mobile phones and laptops, because 99,9 percent of what was published and written was total bullshit, and it would take a few seconds to look it up and realize it is all fake. But it worked back then and in a period of the late 80s (I was too young to remeber as far back then) and early 90s they were doing very well, but I guess when the computer become something everyone had in their home, it was harder and harder to sell these "fantastic!" stories and somewhere between 1993-1995 I think they more or less disappeared for good. Oh, well, now we still something far more frightening, real news stories along with the sleazy tabloids full of "who has beeped who?" and "what kind of plastic surgery have she or he done lately?" and, well I would rather have the old "Frankenstein lived under my bed for 5 years!" or "My next-door neighbor is a sex-starved alien from outer space!". Now thats what I call a great story. Ayway, back to the topic. The reason for all the above is that this image of Kurt Barlow I first saw in a magazine edition of A Crazy, Crazy World! back in 1993 or 94, and it was a very well written (and for a kid, a very scary story only made more effectivly as it all seemed to be true). Vampires are about to take control (or something like that) in Pennsylvania in America, and there was this huge picture of Kurt Barlow and it scared the living shit out of me. I was convinced, and that every line had to be true! That face kept following me, in dreams or more fittingly nightmares and it did not get any better when I by "accident" some years later finally found out were that image was taken from, and that was to be in Salem's Lot. Sure, Kurt is only in for a few minutes, but rarely have I seen someone with such an evil and almost "hypnotic" presence to them, and of course it helps having such a great actor as James Mason being involved, but Barlow is truly a terrifying sight to behold as he comes off as inhumane as they come, with weird and creepy movements and noises along with a face which alone should be more than enough to strike fear into most people. "Your faith against his faith... Could you do that? Is your faith enough?... Then do it... Throw away the cross. Face the master. Faith against faith."Please read my above response about 'Salem's Lot, which I love. I really feel for you if you thought Kurt Barlow was real! He truly did have that essence of evil, you truly feared him in his scenes. Here he is in Dracula's Dog, which I watched a few Halloweens ago, he's an intense looking guy even without the vampire makeup!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:36:12 GMT
Unless (like me) you obviously have been living in a cave and have no idea what movie it's from Sorry Bat, it's actually from ...
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:43:59 GMT
Ok, so its not a "true" horror movie, however very few films have had such a deep and lasting impact on me, as The Terminator (1984). And it was to be quite an introduction when I finally saw it, as I had started up seeing T2: Judgement Day (1991) back in 1993 or 94, as a kid and gotten used to having Arnie as the stand-up and save the day, good guy, and all I knew of the original was from seeing an terrifying image of the nightmarish endoskeleton of the T-101 model in a movie magazine and even that was more then enough to tell me that this would be something of a different kind of movie experience. Move on forward to the end of 1997, and a Norwegian TV-channel finally decided to show the 1984 orginal, very late at night, and this time I had not the comfort of watching it with my dad or any of my friends. I was all alone in the dark, and while I will always look back on it with some great and fond memories of seeing the lovely Linda Hamilton in a certain hot 'n steamy love scene, but the rest of the film was very far away of what I had "expected" going in and it took some viewings and time, but it would eventually go on to become not only my favorite Terminator movie, but an alltime favorite of mine. Still, this movie scared me bad or should I say almost traumatized me as this bleak and horrible look of a possible future was more than I could handle back then, and it took a while before I got the nerves to see it again, alone. I think by going in a second time, knowing what lied beneath the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask or layer of skin, made it even more scary the second time around. Ok, enough of that, back to the topic. That image is once again of a completely inhumane and just down right pure killing machine, that even before I saw the movie, had striked fear into me and would also without mine approval go on to have several cameos in my dreams or nightmares, for years to come. Once again, when I finally saw the real deal for the firs time, there was and still is something truly horrible about its weird movements and creepy metallic noises along with those red, calculating eyes of death staring directly at you without any mercy or compassion. Sadly, most of what would come afterwards of Terminator machines in the newer "sequels" would have them being dumbed down from unstoppable walking futuristic nightmares to end up being outwitted and beaten with few problems by little kids. Now had they faced the real Terminator and not some watered down MCGI version that is the useless Throwminator, they would probably be sitting down in some dark and nasty hellhole like the rest of the human species, praying their hearts out that the new rulers of planet earth will not find them, which leads me up to next image from the very same movie: Another fearsome image, this time by one of Arnie's best pals, Franco Colombo who did one hell of a job as an infiltrating unit who is sent into one of the humans last standing safe-houses or so they thought, as it ends up as a total massacre where women and children cries their hearts out as this metallic beast kills everything in sight, all while a helpless Kyle Reese can only look on at this unstoppable enemy that has been created with just one purpose, and that is to kill off as many humans as possible. This scene and picture makes it very powerful yet scary as it shows the humans at their aboslute lowest, living like rats and their situation seems all the more hopeless when coming up against those calculating red and evil eyes, looming into the dark, along with the sounds of people screaming and crying all around, now that is sheer horror. Although not horror, The Terminator definitely had some horror elements, being chased relentlessly by an unstoppable killer and nuclear annihilation. The first viewing was so intense, it kept coming, just when you thought it was dead! It's got it's flesh burned off...and kept coming! And those evil red robotic eyes...
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 19:59:49 GMT
Another "handsome" devil to add to this collection is the gruesome creature that is Tarman from Return of the Living Dead (1985). I remember very well watching it with a friend of mine for the first time as a kid along with his older brothers, and while they laughed their heads off, I was completely terrfied. I can see the comedy side of it now, but as a kid, that was scary as hell. That introduction with Tarman taking a bite of the leader punks head like it was an apple, followed by the sounds and his movements, then the screams, now that really did traumatize me. It took months before I kind of felt "safe" again. And as a little extra "bonus" of sitting through the entire film and seeing all that crazy and nasty things happening, when I walked home that same evening, it started to rain. I have never felt as small and frighten from having to walk a meager 5 minutes back home, but it felt more like 5 years. I was sure that Tarman was living under the stairs down to the basement, and to make matters worse, every night I had to go up to the second floor, as the bathroom next to my bedroom was under construction or re-building it, so for a period of several weeks, those stairs felt mighty long to go up and down every night to take a piss, all with my fantasy making it up as good ol' Tarman would be down there waiting for me. I love Tarman, he seems so genuinely happy to be out and eating brains again. The Return of the Living Dead is one of my all time favorites, had it on VHS in the 80's and watched it endlessly. Another scene that I never forgot and always remember when watching other zombie movies is this one that they capture and interview. She explains that they eat brains because it eases "the pain...the pain of being dead!"
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 20:04:45 GMT
Hey gbone, what movie is this from?
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 20:07:40 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 11, 2017 20:16:17 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 11, 2017 20:26:46 GMT
Unless (like me) you obviously have been living in a cave and have no idea what movie it's from Granted you have to see the film. Its the Blair Witch Project.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 11, 2017 20:30:24 GMT
FridayOnElmStreet Granted you have to see the film.
I TRIED really I did. Must not have made it to that scene. The less I say about that film the better
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 11, 2017 20:45:08 GMT
FridayOnElmStreet Granted you have to see the film.
I TRIED really I did. Must not have made it to that scene. The less I say about that film the better Its a very diverse film. Many like myself called it a masterpiece of terror while so many other could not get into it and hated it.
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Post by Marv on Oct 11, 2017 22:05:45 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞Salems Lot is one of my favorite King novels. Definitely top 5 and I've read most of em. I knew what to expect tho. I think I saw the TV movie from the 70s beforehand. Still tho, you can see Kings ensemble cast of characters on full display here and I remember feeing a great sense of loneliness toward the end once Barlow has all but taken over. Literally becomes a ghost town.
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Post by gbone on Oct 12, 2017 11:56:28 GMT
Hey gbone , what movie is this from?
The Descent. 2005.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 12, 2017 12:21:33 GMT
Creepy old man from Poltergeist II, he was responsible for many nightmares I'm sure. It was like he was effortlessly creepy. Julian Beck did one hell of a job, with what little he got at the climax of the epic two hour episode: The Prodigal Son (1985) where he delivers a fantastic performance as some big time yuppie, and I really hoped he would come back, as he was one of the most memorable baddies of that season, however I did not learn about his death until years later. A shame, because he had such a great presence during that speech: Ah, great, as usual the best videos and clips from Miami Vice is deleted. Anyway, Beck had an epic and chilling speech, which sadly is no longer on Youtube, talk about stealing the entire show. He is in for what? 3 minutes of an 2 hour episode, and that was all he needed.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 12, 2017 12:29:59 GMT
Please read my above response about 'Salem's Lot, which I love. I really feel for you if you thought Kurt Barlow was real! He truly did have that essence of evil, you truly feared him in his scenes. Here he is in Dracula's Dog, which I watched a few Halloweens ago, he's an intense looking guy even without the vampire makeup! Thanks so much for posting those pictures, Lebowskidoo. Now that is one creepy looking fella and somehow he do (from those images) resembles a bit of Henry Silva. I rarely search up actors playing in horror films I love, because getting used to seeing them wearing great make-up or masks, only to be disappointed when seeing how they look like in real life, but Reggie is one of those few who seems to have no trouble with that.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 12, 2017 12:48:47 GMT
Toasted Cheese, gotta love it when someone runs out of a movie to hurl chunks!
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