Movie Night October: Classic Horror
Added 2024-10-09 19:00:04 +0000 UTCWhen: Sunday, October 27th at 7pm ET
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Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. (via IMDB)
2) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States. (via IMDB)
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted (via IMDB)
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point. (via IMDB)
"Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead. (via IMDB)
Comments
Highly recommend The Innocents and The Haunting (1963) even if The Innocents doesn't win. They'd make a good double feature, they both deal with very repressed young women and ambiguously supernatural Gothic horror through some really creative cinematography. The original book The Haunting of Hill House is also well worth checking out- they toned down the lesbian themes in the film adaptation, though they're not gone altogether.
Magistrissa
2024-10-14 17:05:39 +0000 UTCBeing able to hear your commentary on Get Out in real time would be amazing as a companion to your Black Trauma v Black Horror essay.
David Miller
2024-10-10 12:52:22 +0000 UTCYo that’s my birthday!!!!
Emily Bertrand
2024-10-09 22:58:48 +0000 UTCOh, do watch it when you have the chance! The first time I ever saw just a bit of it I was pretty young (no more than 10 or so), caught a scene partway into the movie on tv and it freaked me out completely even though it was almost all suggestion and atmosphere. I was actually afraid to watch the whole thing for years because of that! Very different once I was an adult and saw it, of course, but though it's been a few years since I saw it last, my memory is it still holds up as quite effective.
Lloyd Luciente
2024-10-09 22:30:07 +0000 UTCI'm reading The Turn of the Screw for the first time right now so also pulling for The Innocents, although it looks like it won't make it! If I get a chance maybe I'll still check it this month.
Rebecca P.
2024-10-09 20:56:16 +0000 UTCI chose The Innocents because I particularly love eerie psychological horror that has an element of uncertainty. Also, I love the story it was adapted from (Turn of the Screw), and the marvelous Haunting of Bly Manor that was inspired by it. And it doesn't hurt that it came out the year I was born! That being said, I'm all for Carrie as more straightforward horror. I like all the others, too, but I've seen some of them too many times to want to revisit (and my resilience to some kinds of gore/terror has diminished over time, sadly). My tiny 2¢!
Lloyd Luciente
2024-10-09 19:18:06 +0000 UTC
