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Movies on Hallowe'en?

posted 8 years ago by gary_overman
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So far, I've watched The Haunting, the 1963 film based on Shirley Jackson's 1951 book, The Haunting of Hill House, the remake of The Mummy with Rachel Weisz (she's cute!) and Brendan Fraser, and the 1979 version of Salem's Lot. I've saved my favorites till last. Today, I watched The Hills Have Eyes, and the 1977 BBC mini-series, Count Dracula. That film, with the late Louis Jourdan in the title role, follows the book by Bram Stoker very closely, even though there are some differences, and it is easily my favorite of the Dracula films.

Does anyone else have films they try to watch during this time of year?

[–] jangoq 8 years ago

The Devil's Bride(1968), The Wolf Man(1941), The Mummy(1959), Village of the Damned(1960), Salem's Lot('79 of course), Halloween 1-3(1978-82), Friday the 13th 1-7,The Thing from another World(1951), The Howling(1981), An American Werewolf in London(1981) and several Dracula movies with of course Christopher Lee.

Turner Classic Movies(TCM) is showing a lot of these right now.

[–] RobsBottin 8 years ago

I watched Stephen King's Needful Things last night. It was an ok way to kill ninety minutes. Of all the Dracula movies, Dracula (1979) is my favourite with Frank Langella in the lead role.

It's all a deep end.

[–] elmadman_99 8 years ago

I have to say that Salem's Lot is a movie that I would tune into around this time, along with 'The Fog' from 1980 as I am sure that it was around Hallow e'en that I saw it for the first time as a kid and it kind of stuck with me.

Ironically Salem's Lot has always struck me as a summertime movie, which might sound a little odd, but it seems to me that that was the time it was broadcast most when I was a kid growing up in the UK.

So it goes.