[Lucky]

You know, I didn't mind seeing TCM go in the 1st to Halloween. But Nosferatu? Damn. I mean, I kinda figured it was a 1st round goner anyway, but I wanted to vote for it.

(3) Halloween





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(30) Nosferatu[/size]




Poll closes Wed 8 PM EST.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Halloween is my number one.

[chretienbabacool]

I love Nosferatu so much. I doubt it's going to win anything, but to me eerie effects, lighting and off the screen deaths are so much scarier then blood and guts could ever be. Nosferatu was a great study of understated camera work and a stripped down vampire before vampires became cool. This vampire is animalistic and therefore to me more realistic.

The empty ship arriving and the hatch opening are also one of the creepiest things I've seen in a movie. This movie truly believed in the horror of vampires, and to me it showed throughout.

[Lucky]

Completely agreed. But Halloween is like the perfect horror film. Past the titties and the blood and the slashing, its silent terror and suspense. Its KNOWING Michael is going to be right around that corner. KNOWING he's about to get back up. Knowing that nothing you can do can stop this slow, evil, force of nature. And the whole time that fucking score playing just scratching at the back of your neck.

[chretienbabacool]

I like Halloween and would probably vote for it against most other movies. I think though Nosferatu embodies the divide for me and what makes a good horror movie and what I dislike about so much of the new stuff. It's the special effects vs understated creepiness and I fall firmly in the second camp, and Nosferatu created the second camp. I therefore have to vote for it.

[Lucky]

I think that's fair. I just want to justify why I'm not voting for Nosferatu. Because I do love that film and it doesn't get nearly as much love as it should. Its terrifying and timeless. It almost gets scarier with age. Its just... Halloween.

[Stu]

That scene at the end where Laurie's stabbed Michael in the eye with the needle and thinks he's dead, and while she's recovering he sits up in the background, out of focus, is just perfect.
Also: boobs.

[Chris Eco]

I saw Nosferatu with a really large group, and we insisted on mocking it heavily by dubbing it over with our own dialogue. So I remember it, fairly or unfairly, as a really bad unintentionally funny movie.

Thus, Halloween.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I'm doing some reading on Nosferatu. I see it is a silent film and a foriegn film. Does it have subtitles? Are they in German or English?

[creepy]

luckylopez said:

I think that's fair. I just want to justify why I'm not voting for Nosferatu. Because I do love that film and it doesn't get nearly as much love as it should. Its terrifying and timeless. It almost gets scarier with age. Its just... Halloween.

Yup.

[Lucky]

Its a shame but it was inevitable. Nosferatu ends its token run in the tourney and Halloween moves on to thwart a movie that deserves it.