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[JakeEkiss]

Ravenous slaps so hard! Great wendigo movie. Fantastic performances, even with the ick of Jeffrey Jones.

In the Mouth of Madness is arguably Carpenter’s second-best film after The Thing. Soooo good and very Lovecraftian.

Ginger Snaps is a huge favorite of mine, I love female-led horror and this is one of the best. This is also the movie that led my mom to ask “don’t you think you’d have more girlfriends if you didn’t watch movies like this?” Mom, this is a date movie, made FOR WOMEN. Jeeeezus.

Agreed on Ravenous. It's so much better than it has any right to be. I saw it in theaters and I remember the turn of thinking first "what's this Oregon Trail ass music?" and by the end completely being charmed by it and the really dark humor throughout.

I think I might be one of the weird ones who puts both Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness above They Live in the Carpenter pantheon. I love both of those a lot. Thing is still top of the heap, of course. Thing is unassailable.

I've never tried it, but I feel like Ginger Snaps would be a good double feature with Let the Right One In. Possibly even for a scary date night. My mom said the same kind of stuff but frankly I've never found it very hard to find women who were just as, if not more into horror than me. I think at the end of the day my mom wanted me to find a woman more like her (eww) and I wanted to find a woman more like me.

 

[JakeEkiss]

Actually, here's a fun seasonal aside, what're your favorite date night horror films? I'll go first:

Silver Bullet (this one specifically because it lead me to a 9yr long relationship)
Only Lovers Left Alive
Thirst
Bram Stoker's: Dracula

(worth noting, assume both parties are horror movie people, it's hard to do horror date night with someone who doesn't like the genre)

 

[AceofKnaves]

I think at the end of the day my mom wanted me to find a woman more like her (eww) and I wanted to find a woman more like me.

YUP. That’s my story exactly. I’m now married to a woman NOTHING like my mother (thank Grodd) and we are watching V/H/S Halloween RIGHT NOW. And she got us tickets to Night of the Living Dead at the Ford Theatre in Hollywood for Halloween night. I’m living my best married life, and my father . . . definitely is NOT.

 

[JakeEkiss]

YUP. That’s my story exactly. I’m now married to a woman NOTHING like my mother (thank Grodd) and we are watching V/H/S Halloween RIGHT NOW. And she got us tickets to Night of the Living Dead at the Ford Theatre in Hollywood for Halloween night. I’m living my best married life, and my father . . . definitely is NOT.

I could go on a very long story about how I've recently gone no-contact with my mom, but one time, when she was critiquing my long term partner at that time, she literally said she'd expected me to end up with someone more like her and I was *horrified* by the idea. EWWW. Why would you even SAY that?

 

[AceofKnaves]

what're your favorite date night horror films?

My wife just answered:
-Crimson Peak
-Psycho
-Bram Stoker’s Dracula
-The Haunting (original)
-13 Ghosts (remake, I do NOT agree with this one)
-IT (original miniseries)
-Nosferatu (2024)
-Last Voyage of the Demeter
-Scream (which we did indeed see on the big screen last week)

 

[Ru1977]

what're your favorite date night horror films

Blood & Chocolate was one my wife and I went to... I think before we were married. But we both wanted to walk out on it so it was really unifying.

 

[JakeEkiss]

My wife just answered:
-Crimson Peak
-Psycho
-Bram Stoker’s Dracula
-The Haunting (original)
-13 Ghosts (remake, I do NOT agree with this one)
-IT (original miniseries)
-Nosferatu (2024)
-Last Voyage of the Demeter
-Scream (which we did indeed see on the big screen last week)

Crimson Peak! Excellent answer. I'm actually with your wife on 13 Ghosts remake. It's silly in a way I enjoy. I still need to see Last Voyage of the Demeter.

Blood & Chocolate was one my wife and I went to... I think before we were married. But we both wanted to walk out on it so it was really unifying.

LOL. This would have been Alien Prometheus for me and my ex. We both sat through that suffering because we thought the other one was liking it.

I feel like Blood and Chocolate I forget about, think "oh would that be good?" and then watch the trailer and go "nah" every 5 years or so.

 

[Justice]

Is this Ravenous 1999 or Ravenous 2017?

 

[Justice]

Agreed on Ravenous. It's so much better than it has any right to be. I saw it in theaters and I remember the turn of thinking first "what's this Oregon Trail ass music?" and by the end completely being charmed by it and the really dark humor throughout.

I think I might be one of the weird ones who puts both Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness above They Live in the Carpenter pantheon. I love both of those a lot. Thing is still top of the heap, of course. Thing is unassailable.

I've never tried it, but I feel like Ginger Snaps would be a good double feature with Let the Right One In. Possibly even for a scary date night. My mom said the same kind of stuff but frankly I've never found it very hard to find women who were just as, if not more into horror than me. I think at the end of the day my mom wanted me to find a woman more like her (eww) and I wanted to find a woman more like me.

I watched Ginger Snaps when it first came out and thought it was pretty much the greatest werewolf film ever made. Went in for a rewatch about 5 years ago and I hated it. Maybe it's like taste buds that change over time or something. I just was not feeling it that second time.

 

[AceofKnaves]

Is this Ravenous 1999 or Ravenous 2017?

1999.

 

[JakeEkiss]

Is this Ravenous 1999 or Ravenous 2017?

99

 

[JakeEkiss]

I watched Ginger Snaps when it first came out and thought it was pretty much the greatest werewolf film ever made. Went in for a rewatch about 5 years ago and I hated it. Maybe it's like taste buds that change over time or something. I just was not feeling it that second time.

It happens. It's like being in love, sometimes it's just for a certain time and place.

 

[Beamish]

My nearby theater showed the following classic Universal movies over the past few days:
Invisible Man
Wolf Man
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Dracula
Frakenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
The Mummy

I know all of those movies like the back of my hand but seeing them on the big screen was absolutely amazing.

Tonight they're showing Psycho... Can't wait!

 

[cmoney]

Get on it, you guys got a lot of catching up to do!

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films – They Shoot Zombies, Don't They?

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[TheSameIdiot]

Fuck yeah, Ravenous. It's so quirky and weird and nobody has seen it but I love that one.

The score absolutely fucks.

In the Mouth of Madness is arguably Carpenter’s second-best film after The Thing. Soooo good and very Lovecraftian.

It genuinely makes you feel like you're losing your mind. That's hard to pull off, especially without unintentionally becoming hokey or confusing.

My wife and I have been making our way through Carpenter's catalog for years and we still have so many left to see. Notably, we haven't seen Prince of Darkness or The Fog yet.

Actually, here's a fun seasonal aside, what're your favorite date night horror films? I'll go first:

Bram Stoker's: Dracula

You're crazy for this one.

Thirst

Fuck yeah. I'm a huge Park fan. This is one of my few remaining blind spots in his filmography.

Dog Soldiers

I haven't heard of this one, but The Descent is a top-three horror movie for me. I haven't seen any of Neil Marshall's other flicks, so I might have to give it a shot for that reason alone.