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Post by Flynn on Mar 12, 2017 19:32:19 GMT
What would you say is your "comfort horror," the kind of horror film you seek out when things aren't going right and you need to retreat into something comfortable and nourishing for your emotional health.
A few years ago, I experienced a tragedy in my life, and I found myself turning to '50s sci-fi horror films, things like "The Beast from Planet X" (btw, I made that title up as an example, though it may indeed exist).
Then, when I lost my job a couple of years ago, I turned to Blaxploitation. I guess I was angry at "the man" and needed these types of films.
On rainy days, I like to break out cheap 1970s horror films, ones that really aren't very good but that have a "meant well" quality from an incompetent filmmaker, something, for instance, that would be on a Mills Creek box set.
What are examples of your comfort horror films?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 19:43:05 GMT
What would you say is your "comfort horror," the kind of horror film you seek out when things aren't going right and you need to retreat into something comfortable and nourishing for your emotional health. A few years ago, I experienced a tragedy in my life, and I found myself turning to '50s sci-fi horror films, things like "The Beast from Planet X" (btw, I made that title up as an example, though it may indeed exist). Then, when I lost my job a couple of years ago, I turned to Blaxploitation. I guess I was angry at "the man" and needed these types of films. On rainy days, I like to break out cheap 1970s horror films, ones that really aren't very good but that have a "meant well" quality from an incompetent filmmaker, something, for instance, that would be on a Mills Creek box set. What are examples of your comfort horror films? Horror was my favorite movie genre growing up. The classic original Wolfman, Frankenstein, Dracula movies are always comfort horror for me. Also, there are more recent horror movies which I will always rewatch. 1408 springs to mind, as well as other Stephen King movies. Vertigo (essentially a ghost story) and Psycho are two Hitchcock favorites. |
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 12, 2017 19:52:10 GMT
House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Bat (1959) are a couple of old friends to me. Any situation, they work.
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Post by profondorosso on Mar 12, 2017 22:44:46 GMT
I guess that almost any horror movie is a "comfort movie" for me. When I'm in the bad mood or just want to unwind I watch a horror movie. It really helps me to relax after a stressful day, to the point that I became addicted to it, lol.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Mar 13, 2017 1:25:34 GMT
The Friday the 13th films.
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Post by naterdawg on Mar 13, 2017 1:43:12 GMT
I like watching films that entertained me as a youngster, and since I was born in the 50s, that includes a LOT of "Beast from Planet X" type films. Favorites include THEM!, the afore-mentioned House on Haunted Hill, The Fly (original), Horror of Dracula; Brides of Dracula; House of Usher (the Poe/Price movies are a MUST), The Blob (I actually saw this at the movies; yes, I am OLD), Circus of Horrors; Horrors of the Black Museum; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and Night of the Living Dead. Later faves include a LOT of early 70s movies, like House of Dark Shadows (great adaptation of the series) and Let's Scare Jessica to Death. The films during that period were usually filmed in real locations, inside real houses, and I liked that touch. I'm pretty sure that started with Night of the Living Dead, where they appeared to be inside a real farmhouse. So, there you have it, my comfort list!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 1:48:59 GMT
The Friday the 13th films. Who would've guessed?  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 1:51:02 GMT
I like watching films that entertained me as a youngster, and since I was born in the 50s, that includes a LOT of "Beast from Planet X" type films. Favorites include THEM!, the afore-mentioned House on Haunted Hill, The Fly (original), Horror of Dracula; Brides of Dracula; House of Usher (the Poe/Price movies are a MUST), The Blob (I actually saw this at the movies; yes, I am OLD), Circus of Horrors; Horrors of the Black Museum; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and Night of the Living Dead. Later faves include a LOT of early 70s movies, like House of Dark Shadows (great adaptation of the series) and Let's Scare Jessica to Death. The films during that period were usually filmed in real locations, inside real houses, and I liked that touch. I'm pretty sure that started with Night of the Living Dead, where they appeared to be inside a real farmhouse. So, there you have it, my comfort list! I'm older than you. I'm the Bull Moose Oldie. Yes!!! The Poe/Price movies, oh my. |
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Post by Flynn on Mar 13, 2017 2:47:24 GMT
Oddly, my comfort horror is a film type rather than a specific film or group of films. I usually seek out movies I've never seen, and they can't be mainstream films like "Them" or "Tarantula," both of which I love, but not when I'm in search of comfort. I have to turn to the deep cuts (i.e., low budget obscure films).
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Post by lostinlimbo on Mar 13, 2017 3:54:05 GMT
I seem to dig out horror/comedies when in that mood. The silly kind. I usually chuck on the ones I'm really familiar with, than say first-time viewings. Where I know the dialogues off by heart and the sequences/gags I never tire of. The likes of "Army of Darkness" (which I've done in recent times), "Vampire's Kiss" and "Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein" come to mind.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 4:17:22 GMT
I seem to dig out horror/comedies when in that mood. The silly kind. I usually chuck on the ones I'm really familiar with, than say first-time viewings. Where I know the dialogues off by heart and the sequences/gags I never tire of. The likes of "Army of Darkness" (which I've done in recent times), "Vampire's Kiss" and "Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein" come to mind. , wow! My fave Nick Cage performance! Not well known, I think, but an absolute must for Cage fans. |
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Post by johanwow on Mar 13, 2017 9:05:06 GMT
Horror pre 70s, including the silents.
Also HG Lewis flicks they are just light hearted fun IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 14:16:29 GMT
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning and The Return of the Living Dead
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Mar 13, 2017 17:16:53 GMT
Not movies, but I always enjoyed watching an episode or two, of either The Hitchhiker (1983-1991) or Tales from the Crypt, right before I go to sleep.
There was something calm or nice about watching these shows and my favorite episode was Love Sounds, I think with Klaus Kinski as a (big surprise) mad musician who finds out his young trophy wife is having an affair.
I was looking forward to finally getting my hands on the Hitchhiker complete DVD set, which should have come out in fall 2011, but instead turned out to be just the same release as every other, HBO 30 episodes box set, that has now gotten re-released at least 3-4 times within the last 10 years.
And the Canadian full season box sets seems to be either extremely expensive or out of order.
Well, at least I do have 30 episodes, which is better than none, but they left out so many great ones, and sadly put in to many poor/trashy ones.
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Post by Marv on Mar 13, 2017 17:29:39 GMT
The Devils Rejects, Pumpkinhead, I Spit on Your Grave (remake) or just about any Friday the 13th.
I'm thinking because in those I enjoy the killer more than I do the survivors/victims. In a few of them the ones that get slaughtered fully deserve it and that makes me content with the violence.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 13, 2017 20:33:49 GMT
The Omen is my comfort horror movie. When I'm super stressed I watch it and think; "At least I didn't just learn that I'm raising the Spawn Of Satan."  |
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Post by efb on Mar 13, 2017 21:48:03 GMT
The Nightmare On Elm Street series i actually enjoy all the sequels
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 2:46:24 GMT
The Omen is my comfort horror movie. When I'm super stressed I watch it and think; "At least I didn't just learn that I'm raising the Spawn Of Satan." Which one? |
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Post by pippinmaniac on Mar 14, 2017 4:37:59 GMT
I reach for Hammer films with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, Vincent Price movies like "The Masque of the Red Death", "House on Haunted Hill", and "House of Wax". i like to watch the Val Lewton Horror Collection, esp. "The Body Snatcher" with Boris Karloff.
It really is a strange term to use-"comfort horror movie", but it is true. If I am having a bad day, I'll reach for an old horror movie and feel better. It works with 50's science fiction films as well.
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Post by Flynn on Mar 14, 2017 12:04:40 GMT
I reach for Hammer films with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, Vincent Price movies like "The Masque of the Red Death", "House on Haunted Hill", and "House of Wax". i like to watch the Val Lewton Horror Collection, esp. "The Body Snatcher" with Boris Karloff. It really is a strange term to use-"comfort horror movie", but it is true. If I am having a bad day, I'll reach for an old horror movie and feel better. It works with 50's science fiction films as well. Yeah, "comfort horror" seemed weird to write at first, but that was essentially what I was talking about. I'm glad no one so far has said something like, "I reach the most graphic movie I can find, 'cause nothing makes me feel better than watching close-ups of sliced skin and other forms of torture." |
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