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Post #148144

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88keyz
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Kick-ass horror movies
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Date created
15-Oct-2005, 8:20 PM
There are obviously so many great classic horror films like Jaws, Phantasm, Evil Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser, The Omen, Carpenter's The Thing, Alien, The Howling, Cronenberg's The Fly, Cannibal Holocaust, Suspiria, The Beyond and Last House on the Left but in the last 15 years (considered by many to be a lean time for good horror fans) my top 5 would include In The Mouth of Madness, The Lord of Illusions, The Resurrected, The Devil's Reject and The Blair Witch Project. Dog Soldiers comes close as does the remake of The Ring, its one of the few remakes that I would consider superior to the original (along with the '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers and John Carpenter's The Thing). Also give me pretty much anything by Carpenter and I'll take it. Prince of Darkness, They Live, The Thing, The Fog, Halloween and even Ghosts of Mars; loved them all!

@ Segaflip - I've seen Killer Klowns, in fact I have it on DVD. Classic. I love the theme by The Dickies!

@ 3RA1N1AC - The point is really that we've all grown up with the full frame version of the film, not the widescreen one and to take away the top and bottom of the picture now when its considered a modern horror classic is the same as George messing the O-OT. Just like the recent "widescreen" release of The Sting, its always been available as full frame and now we have to suffer with the cropped version, just a shame. I hate that they are now altering the aspect of some classic movies only to fit widescreen TV's. Its the exact same crap that we put up with for years with Pan & Scan versions of films on VHS (and to some extent still on DVD), removing information from the frame for the sake of the masses. Utter B.S. if you ask me.