Tuesday, November 2
Trick or Treat?
Halloween came and went without much fanfare...the American juggernaut that is the media continues to influence people worldwide...exposin them to the American cultures and festivities...
Singapore...too...had caught on the Halloween fever...the repressed citizens would pick up anythin American...suffice to say Halloween weekend was one whacky dress-fest...
But im not here to write bout the costumes i saw or attempted to picture myself in...i mean...why scare yaself silly outside when you can do the same at home? Just rent/buy a couple of good horror movies...dim the lights...snuggle up to your special someone and scream your tonsils off...
"What's your favorite scary movie? C'mon. You have to have a favorite. What comes to mind?"
True horror buffs will identify that classic line from the excellent teen slasher flick Scream...the 1996 movie not only rejuvenated the dyin horror genre...but also signalled the beginnin of pathetic Scream-wannabes that invaded theaters...now any movie that has that kinda impact on a genre that is increasingly hard to refresh should really go down as a DVD must have...
Now im no fan of horror...honestly...i wouldnt even watch a horror flick even if i was paid to do so...walkin out of the cinema with that horrifyin image implanted in ya mind for the rest of ya life isnt worth your $10 ticket and popcorn...however...there are some supreme horror moments that are simply too good to pass up...dinner table conversation fodder...these are some of the scariest movies ive ever caught on film...what's yours?
Alien
The sci-fi horror flick to catch...the mother of things bad in space...if there's ever a film that taught me that pitch black and silence is bad...this has to be it...a crew of spacemen encounter an insectoid monstrosity in deep space...and the images i saw 10 years back is still firmly etched in my mind...the facehugger scene...the chestburster...and the climatic encounter with the full-grown Alien...
The Exorcist
By far the scariest movie ive ever watched...this movie reaffirmed my belief that an ultimate evil really does exist and Good will ultimately triumph over Bad...whatever shape the Devil takes...or whatever it does...it'll never truely shake the strong faith and religion that is Christianity...it's been years since i managed to catch the original version that had no cuts...and that scene of Regan spiderwalkin backwards down the flight of stairs still spooks me to this day...
The Ring
I never looked at a google box in the same way again after freezin in total horror at the sight of a long haired Sadako steppin out of the television set...and this i mean the Japanese 1998 version...not the pussy U.S remake...
An American Werewolf in London
That transformation scene...nuff said...
Halloween came and went without much fanfare...the American juggernaut that is the media continues to influence people worldwide...exposin them to the American cultures and festivities...
Singapore...too...had caught on the Halloween fever...the repressed citizens would pick up anythin American...suffice to say Halloween weekend was one whacky dress-fest...
But im not here to write bout the costumes i saw or attempted to picture myself in...i mean...why scare yaself silly outside when you can do the same at home? Just rent/buy a couple of good horror movies...dim the lights...snuggle up to your special someone and scream your tonsils off...
"What's your favorite scary movie? C'mon. You have to have a favorite. What comes to mind?"
True horror buffs will identify that classic line from the excellent teen slasher flick Scream...the 1996 movie not only rejuvenated the dyin horror genre...but also signalled the beginnin of pathetic Scream-wannabes that invaded theaters...now any movie that has that kinda impact on a genre that is increasingly hard to refresh should really go down as a DVD must have...
Now im no fan of horror...honestly...i wouldnt even watch a horror flick even if i was paid to do so...walkin out of the cinema with that horrifyin image implanted in ya mind for the rest of ya life isnt worth your $10 ticket and popcorn...however...there are some supreme horror moments that are simply too good to pass up...dinner table conversation fodder...these are some of the scariest movies ive ever caught on film...what's yours?
Alien
The sci-fi horror flick to catch...the mother of things bad in space...if there's ever a film that taught me that pitch black and silence is bad...this has to be it...a crew of spacemen encounter an insectoid monstrosity in deep space...and the images i saw 10 years back is still firmly etched in my mind...the facehugger scene...the chestburster...and the climatic encounter with the full-grown Alien...
The Exorcist
By far the scariest movie ive ever watched...this movie reaffirmed my belief that an ultimate evil really does exist and Good will ultimately triumph over Bad...whatever shape the Devil takes...or whatever it does...it'll never truely shake the strong faith and religion that is Christianity...it's been years since i managed to catch the original version that had no cuts...and that scene of Regan spiderwalkin backwards down the flight of stairs still spooks me to this day...
The Ring
I never looked at a google box in the same way again after freezin in total horror at the sight of a long haired Sadako steppin out of the television set...and this i mean the Japanese 1998 version...not the pussy U.S remake...
An American Werewolf in London
That transformation scene...nuff said...
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