Spooky books, TV shows, movies

[DollyKim]

Do you have a favorite "monster"? Vampires, werewolves, zombies, mad scientists, a Phantom who haunts somewhere? Do you have a favorite version of a spooky movie? Or a favorite spooky performer?

I'm in the middles of Charles Dance as the Phantom (1990) but if Jeffrey Combs is in it I'll check it out at least once. And I think I saw Dr Phibes once, and the wax museum movie Vincent Price was in. Was looking forward to more of his stuff but my TV carrier no longer has TCM.

[Iwa_Hoshi]

Do you have a favorite "monster"? Vampires, werewolves, zombies, mad scientists, a Phantom who haunts somewhere?

Currently its a tossup between Vampires( Anne Rice, Dresden white court) and werewolves (Darkstalkers' Talbain, Discworld's Angua, She-wolf of London) I'm leaning to the Weres since the OC side of my dolls are reverse Weres.

Ooh ohh. One must not forget witches! Be they Discworld or Charmed or Bewitched

[Jobee]

Do you have a favorite "monster"? Vampires, werewolves, zombies, mad scientists, a Phantom who haunts somewhere?

Do aliens count? I like aliens.

[Trethowan]

Do you have a favorite "monster"? Vampires, werewolves, zombies, mad scientists, a Phantom who haunts somewhere? Do you have a favorite version of a spooky movie? Or a favorite spooky performer?

I'm in the middles of Charles Dance as the Phantom (1990) but if Jeffrey Combs is in it I'll check it out at least once. And I think I saw Dr Phibes once, and the wax museum movie Vincent Price was in. Was looking forward to more of his stuff but my TV carrier no longer has TCM.

I can't stand vampires.

[Stormlight]

Faerie count as monsters, right? Some of them are pretty friggin monstrous, at least. Even the "good" faerie. Wouldn't want to run into any of 'em in a dark alley. Heh.

[kenaiqueen]

I can't stand vampires.

Me too. Especially sparkly ones.

Frankenstein used to haunt my dreams as a child. I think the idea of bringing back the dead really terrified me when I was little. I used to hide my eyes from King Kong and Gorgo too. (He was the Brit version of Godzilla.)

[Fyrsiel]

Iwa_Hoshi, Stormlight: Ohman ohman, I've had great little spits of story from my dreams. xD One dream involved this dude who took some kind of medication and he ended up getting his grim fortune told to him by a creepy old woman after he helped her cross a street (generic, yeah, but this guy was an interesting character, and later on he ended up sneaking onto a small cruise where there was eventually a serial murderer running amuck o_O). Another dream involved this mythical book that all of these people were trying to get their hands on and I was helping these other people protect the book to keep it from being stolen. But the whole dream I kept wondering what was in the book. Then finally everything got to a point where the book was just about to be opened, and I'm craning my neck to get a good look, and JUST as the thing's opening, I woke up. Am so angry that I never got to find out what was in that book. I've been Anime characters and even my own characters, too, sometimes. That's always pretty cool. xD


DollyKim: Out of the classic monsters? o__o Ghosts, I think... Oddly enough, I always seem to find myself gravitating toward scary movies with ghosts in them. Although "demons" can offer a really diverse range of monster designs. Anything with teeth and claws. x'D Although I'm not all too hyped about werewolves, oddly enough.

Vincent Price is THE MAN, tho. x'D Him in any Edgar Allan Poe movie.

I have to say, the movie The Descent was pretty good. Really intense and then halfway through it skyrockets to outright horrific, and it was a movie that caused me to yalp. xD

Oh, but An American Werewolf of London, though? Thaaaat's a good one. When I was a really little kid, I watched The Blob with my aunt. The 1958 version, I think... And then there was the 1958's The Fly, I think that's a classic. And Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

[DollyKim]

Any monsters from any time. Spooky is spooky.

I've seen both versions of The Fly and they work. That was a movie where the remake and the original can live happily together. I haven't seen The Descent yet but it looks good.

[MitisFeles]

Do you have a favorite "monster"? Vampires, werewolves, zombies, mad scientists, a Phantom who haunts somewhere? Do you have a favorite version of a spooky movie? Or a favorite spooky performer?

I'd say "vampires"... I had a great time in my teens reading Anne Rice's books and playing Vampire the Masquerade, thought not often as I played D&D, and now I'm greatly enjoying the Blade tv series. I loved and still love Gary Oldman in "Bram Stoker's Dracula"... but the monsters that appears more often in my dreams are zombies (and no, I didn't watch The Walking Dead). I think I'm still traumatized by having played Residen Evil 2 XD

Gore doesn't really have an effect on me, (and I find some really gorey movies terribly fun) but I'm terribly scared by movies about real serial killers.I used to be not able to get asleep after I watched an horror movie, but now usually I "only" have weird dreams (and not always). I started to watch "Open Grave" and got horrible nightmares about killer machines in abandoned fields, and after starting playing Alan Wake I dreamed to be in a supermarket infested by zombies with Alan's wife, an axe and a bottle of liquor and going around trying to exorcise the darkness inside the zombie people ^^'

[Fyrsiel]

Any monsters from any time. Spooky is spooky.

I've seen both versions of The Fly and they work. That was a movie where the remake and the original can live happily together. I haven't seen The Descent yet but it looks good.

What about Graboids? From the Tremors movies? Mua ha ha ha, those monsters were awesome!

True, both versions of The Fly are really good, each very distinct, and that's probably why both work. When I was a kid, I caught a small glimpse of the Jeff Goldblum one, but all I saw was the part where he tried to transport the chimpanzee and its hand splattered blood on the pod door. .__. ;

I do highly recommend The Descent. It might seem slow moving in the beginning, but depending on your taste, that might not be so bad as you get to know the characters, who are all pretty interesting. My sister and I have watched that movie over and over, actually. xD

MitisFeles: Kinda know what you mean. Realistic movie plots creep me out way more than supernatural ones. Blair Witch creeps me out because there either really could be a supernatural force trapping those people, or there could really be a cult of children living out in the woods, or there really could be a serial murderer hiding in an abandoned basement... o__o;