Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Analog Scott (A) on July 24, 2005 at 11:19:56

In Reply to: Your top 15 best " horror movies " here are mine-------- posted by patrickU on July 24, 2005 at 07:15:03:

The Exorcist is my top pick. One of the best movies ever made IMO not just horror movies. Saw it again lst night on the big screen at the Egyptian in Hollywood. This wa a version I had neve sen before. It had some of the added footage of the rerelease but not all of it and it had even more aded footage never released before. it also had some added effects. I did not like the added effects except for one. Some of the new footage was interesting and they did do a good job of tightening up the old added footage. All in all I still like the original as it was. While much of the added footage does explain things I like the movie better when it let the audience explain things for themselves. I also very much prefer the original ending. I disagree with Blatty and fully agree with Freidkin about that as well.

Anyways. My other two greatest horror films that you didn't list. Alien and Jaws. Again two movies that I don't have to qualify as horror to call all time greats.

I totally disagree with yor take on The Thing. the original was a fairly typical 50s horror film. Nothing wrong with that but the remake, not really a remake but a more accurate version of the original book, is an awsome horror movie that broke all kinds of new ground. The paranoia in that movie is superb. I think it toaly holds up where as the first one is painfully dated. Guys walking around like Boris Karloff from Frankenstien just aren't scary to me.