In honor of Dark Discussions 100th episode
(released last week), I thought I'd come up with a list of 100 reasons why I am a fan of horror movies.This list was pretty much stream of consciousness - there is no significance to the order. Also it is far from exhaustive. I could have added plenty more quotes, scenes, film titles, and filmmakers, plus I didn't even touch on the awesome scores.
- My parents had a poor understanding of “age appropriate.”
- Nothing better than hiding under the covers…
- …especially if its with someone special.
- Horror movies are less scary than the real world.
- The Universal Monsters
- Kaiju
- “Here’s Johnny!”
- We are one big, freaky community.
- Scared shitless is a universal language.
- All the weird creepy shit from Japan.
- Korea, too.
- “We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
- The Indianapolis speech.
- The Blob
- Slow zombies.
- Fast zombies.
- Stupid zombies.
- Clever zombies.
- Dead zombies.
- Infected zombies.
- Voodoo zombies.
- Rob Zombie.
- Chiller Theater.
- Halloween (the movie)
- Halloween (the holiday)
- Killer Santas.
- Severed head cunniligus.
- “They’re here!”
- 3D phallic fish food.
- Shameless hucksterism.
- They bother all the right people.
- We crown prom queen’s with pig’s blood.
- Kathy Bates at the foot of the bed. With a hammer.
- Nicholson, Coppola, Fincher, Clooney, Depp, Cameron, Anniston, Jackson, Stone, Bacon, Hanks, Scorsese all got their start in horror.
- No budget? No problem.
- Horror has the best anthologies.
- "Just tell him to call you Billie.”
- Who wants The Simpsons without the “Treehouse of Horror” episodes?
- Screw Marvel. Universal gave us the first shared cinematic universe.
- There’s always room for Poe.
- “Hail to the king, baby.”
- And to S. King as well.
- Hammer films.
- Amicus too.
- Vincent Price
- Christopher Lee
- Peter Cushing
- Lon Cheney Sr, the Man of a Thousand Faces
- Boris Karloff
- Bela Lugosi
- Robert Englund
- Dick Smith
- John Carpenter
- The Raimi family
- David Cronenberg
- Wes Craven
- George A. Romero
- Ray Harryhausen
- Tom Savini
- Rick Baker
- Stan Winston
- Robert Chambers
- Jack Pierce
- Rob Bottin
- Greg Niccotero
- The scream queens.
- All the horror hosts
- Because I live in Corman’s world.
- "Too much blood” is not a criticism.
- Crappy sequels do not tarnish a legacy, they ARE the legacy.
- The only genre to give you giant killer bunny rabbits. With a straight face.
- Bad actors? No problem.
- We have all the inbred cannibal hillbillies.
- No more monsters on Earth? Fuck it. We’ll go to space and find more!
- It’s the best genre for traumatizing small children.
- We take our face peels literally.
- No other genre would make stars out of Bruce Campbell, Sid Haig, or Michael Berryman.
- Mel gave us Young Frankenstein…
- …and Max gave us World War Z.
- Creative use of garden tools.
- If there’s a good remake, it’s probably horror.
- Plot holes? No problem.
- Tree rape… three times.
- “Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.”
- Creepy kids.
- It’s always a wonderful day for an exorcism.
- The bad guys have a chance to win.
- “Help me! Help meeee!”
- Ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma
- Crows on the monkey bars.
- “We have such sights to show you.”
- Because no one leaves Australia alive.
- We’re on a first name basis with its biggest stars - Jason, Mike, Freddy, Chucky…
- We prefer a rubber suit to state of the art CGI.
- No one ever walked out of a theater because a movie was too funny.
- Dinner with John Hurt.
- “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!”
- The spider walk
- All the best scientists are mad.
- “Hey! Check this out! I found the ass end!”
#72 & #96 are the Best in my opinion
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