part 341 bunches of hocus pocus

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Meme. IT'S. OCTOBER!!!!!! The best month of the year! Pumpkins! Witches! Everything Halloween! Scary movies and TV shows and that cold, crisp feeling in the air... ahh. Maybe we'll even get a new Halloween post from Himaruya!

Enjoy part 341! if you dare

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31 Days of Meme Halloween

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Just a short theme today, meme: Must-See Horror Films

Which horror films do you consider a "must-see," meme? Something that you think people should absolutely watch if they love the genre? And why, of course!

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a dummy!

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My personal "must-sees":

Psycho (because it is a CLASSIC!) (Okay, I'm in a rush, my reasons are going to be terrible!)

Ring (the original Japanese is my favorite--though the American remake wasn't too shabby, either!)

Nightmare on Elm Street (I have a love for horror movies that seem to make people afraid of everyday things... showers, video tapes, going to sleep...)

Pet Sematary (Scary to me because it's more about the horror of dealing with death... or not dealing with it)

... and a whole lot more!

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i haven't watched many horror films, to be honest. or i watched them with friends and remember our talking more than the film. oops.

i liked the orphanage a lot, though.

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[yuuago]

Late as hell, but eh, why not.

It's hard to talk about "must-see" films, because there are many influential/popular films in the genre that I haven't yet seen myself.

Definitely agree that Ringu/The Ring was awesome, though.

Personally, I'd throw Nosferatu on the list. It's old as balls, and yeah, some people will find the whole silent film aspect a turn-off, but I must say, there are some pretty creepy moments, especially if you're watching it alone on a stormy night.

A lot of the other films I would recommend are not necessarily ones that are famous or influential, though. Just ones I liked.

Livide is one of these - it's a French film, and I haven't found a version with good subtitles so watching it is an exercise in decoding Franglais, but the visuals are gorgeous, the haunted-house setup is really creepy in and of itself (you can tell it's an evil house; it just has that feeling), and the relationship between the monster (well, one of them) and the protagonist really interested me.

... And I just realized that all the other films I want to list are Norwegian. Død snø, Fritt vilt, De dødes tjern, Trolljegeren... Not that Norway is amazing at making films in the horror genre; I think it's just that all of these incorporate a trope that I like in horror - being trapped in a remote place out in the middle of the wilderness, preferably in winter, and encountering some terrible thing there and being unable to escape from it. (Though Trolljegeren doesn't quite map onto this pattern precisely, but it does have elements of it at various points in the movie)