Thursday, October 02, 2014

The perfect Venn Diagram

I enjoy tense/scary movies but I cannot handle the gore in most horror films.  Which is why old school/pre-Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror films are perfect for me.  Those movies can really ratchet up the tension with nary a dismemberment in sight.  I even enjoy the low-tech special effects that some films pull off.  And I know some of those movies are terrible.  I've seen a bunch of them on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (like Killer Shrews, The Horrors of Spider Island, Manos: The Hands of Fate, and Tormented).  But it is a genre that has its high points as well like Cat People, The Univnvited, or the Bride of Frankenstein.  So for the month of October, I am going to highlight some of my favorite scary movies (and most of them will feature very little gore).  And maybe this year will be the year I finally see Gregory Peck in The Omen (very unlikely though).

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