ok lets all shit our pants to something old: pre-2006 horror film thread

the return of the living dead series, maybe?

ooh definitely

texas chainsaw 2 rules, jeez people

the first three Nightmare sequels (roughly 4>3>2

this is also really wacky to me, as 3 is imo the best nightmare movie and is sometimes my favorite movie of all time, and 2 is complete trash except for when it's super gay

Wait, Return of the Living Dead is different to the Night of the Living Dead series, yeah? (I am pretty certain about this but do often get similar titles confused.) Would make a case for the latter series counting, even though the first one is '68 - all of them from the second on definitely have the right feel to be included here.

so...

Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
Child's Play
Hellraiser
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
Basket Case
The Omen
Evil Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead/Day of the Dead (I'm gonna let this one in even tho the first one is pre-1970, it's of a piece with subsequent franchises imo)

It's Alive looks like it only had one sequel? I'm disqualifying it on those grounds...

oh and I guess I need to add the Howling?

Any other major contenders I'm forgetting?

i also definitely think children of the corn should be included, if only for 3 (unbelievably batshit) and 4 (naomi watts!)

and the first two children of the corn sequels were def released to theaters

yeah Children of the Corn counts for sure

Amityville

Jaws, The Exorcist, Alien, and Poltergeist all count, right?

x-ref with wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horror_films_by_series

sure

oh and Phantasm! duh

kinda on the fence about Alien tho tbh

I still maintain that the horror element of the Alien series is minor in comparison to the sci-fi & action elements. Iirc I refused to vote for it in the big horror poll despite it being awesome because I didn't think of it as properly horror (and then hypocritically put Threads as my number one, ha).

yeah that's how I feel about it - and the sequels definitely foreground the sf and action

It's Alive had two sequels.

If we're making a case for the Romero Dead movies, one could make a similar case for the Psycho sequels. I won't be stumping hard, but they arguably count.

wellll original Psycho is pre-1970 cutoff though

Night of the Living Dead is 1968.

i do think that 'aliens' has a decent amount of horror elements, mostly w/r/t the hopelessness and the fact that those aliens are nasty and scary creatures. i think roger ebert's review is pretty otm in some respects:

The ads for "Aliens" claim that this movie will frighten you as few movies have, and, for once, the ads don't lie. The movie is so intense that it creates a problem for me as a reviewer: Do I praise its craftsmanship, or do I tell you it left me feeling wrung out and unhappy? It has been a week since I saw it, so the emotions have faded a little, leaving with me an appreciation of the movie's technical qualities. But when I walked out of the theater, there were knots in my stomach from the film's roller-coaster ride of violence. This is not the kind of movie where it means anything to say you "enjoyed" it.

the intensity and wrung-out feelings are correct although tbh i enjoyed it happily

we talked about NotLD already. Genuinely feel like Psycho (the original film) is a different animal and almost really of a different genre than Night of the Living Dead (which functions in many ways as the birth of the modern horror genre imo)

Amityville

Oh, someone aleady said Amityville so not Amityville.

Uhh...Puppet Master?

(xxp) I missed emil.y's comment, apologies.

Scanners?

Maniac Cop

Texas chainsaw massacre 2 is all time amazing. Hellraiser 2 is the best of the series. Both are going to get owned since everything after the second installment is face-punchingly terrible.

there were multiple Scanners sequels?

Maniac Cop is a good call

There's three main Scanners films and an additional two spinoffs.

Scanners sequels were direct-to-video = disqualified

OK I'm gonna set this up today unless people have any other nominations/suggestions

House. Tho not seen any and prob rubbish.

lol House. had no idea that made it to three films. I remember the first one being okay in a stupid way, plus George Wendt was in it

House had three sequels (The Horror Show wasn't labeled as such in all markets, and I think the fourth was direct-to-video).

Wendt was in the first, Ratzenberger in the second. I wish they'd continued that trend.

there's some things even Shelley Long won't do, I guess

don't have any to add, but yeah, poll 'em dead

I liked the first 2 house movies, would watch again.

living dead and psycho series both ought to be included, imo, as they came into their own as franchises during your window, and each has an equally good claim on the "birth of the modern horror genre" crown

not that anyone's gonna vote for the psycho sequels

too bad demons only got one official sequel

what about thematic series, like fulci's "gates of hell" trilogy (the beyond, city of the living dead and the house by the cemetery)? suppose that stretches things beyond the remit...

The third House film wasn't supposed to be part of the series but they just named it that for sales.

guys, ship has sailed

Yeah but this is the AMC post-show wrap-up. I'm your host, Chris Hardwick.

Creepshow arguably counts if we do some gymnastics (Creepshow TV series becomes Tales From the Darkside due to rights issues, TFtD: The Movie becomes de facto Creepshow 3). And yes, I know Creepshow 3 technically exists but I like to think that we as a society have chosen to ignore that fact.

Was there a The Fly 3?

Yeah, but only in the '60s.

MANSION OF MADNESS

The story isn't particularly engaging but the well designed sights and people of the asylum sustain it well enough. Quite like Houglass Sanitorium but less surreal. So it's not as good as Alucarda but I wasn't expecting that.

I'm not sure if I had previously heard about Alucarda having a planned sequel called Alucarda Rises From The Tomb. Sounds tantalizing. Must repeat that I wish there was another 20 Moctezuma horror films.

So it's not as good as Alucarda

but what is?

Lemora has a similar place in my heart, with me wishing there was another 20 Blackburn horror films.