We’re gradually introducing her to the horror genre. Unfortunately, my wife likes ‘crap horror films’, so I need some decent suggestions to counteract hers. So far we’ve watched: -
Alien (mine)
M3GAN (daughter)
The Babysitter (wife)
The Babysitter II (wife)
The Thing (mine)
The Haunting (wife)
Future suggestions: -
Poltergeist 1982 (mine)
13 Ghosts (wife)
They Live (88) starring Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David is a great alien invasion picture and has one of the greatest street fights of all time. *There is be a bit of foul language.
sharePut the glasses on!!
shareWhat a brawl!!!
According to movie chit chat that scene was only supposed to last for half a minute but Rowdy and Keith practiced it out for several weeks and it turned out to be a masterpiece. The fisticuffs lasted for over five minutes! I’m pretty sure South Park parodied it in the ‘Cripple Fight’ episode.
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shareI’m not really into to horror myself but three early 2000s films I really enjoyed were:
The Ring (2002)
Dark Water (2005)
Skeleton Key (2005)
If you ever watch the RedLetterMedia youtube channel Jay Bauman is a big horror fan and makes recommendations.
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The Ring might be one for the future.
The Skeleton Key is a great film 👍
shareWhat is the motivation to inundate your daughter w/ horror films ? I don't get it, Andy.
But if you insist on creeping her out, I recommend Carnival of Souls, by Herc Harvey, early 60s.
Her peers at school have started watching them and so she wishes to experience them too. I have always been an advocate of helping her develop a wider worldview, whilst at the same time making sure that she experiences things that she can handle.
I have been on this site for many years and appreciate all the suggestions that the regs have made during that that time, which I’ve had the pleasure to watch with my daughter.
Have to admit, at the sound of being a hypocrite, I was a stone horror-fan from a very, very young age. Cut my teeth on twilight zone, at the age of 4.
The only caveat is that modern horror has far less restraint than what passed in my youth. And some very adult topics are thrown into the mix.
I think you're a great guy, I'm just throwing up a slight cautionary note, which might come across as presumptuous, but I wouldn't feel right just encouraging an un-filtered exposure to this genre.
Thank you for your candour.
I have exposed my daughter to all sorts of things since she was a baby, whether that be by travelling all over the world or experiencing different forms of cinema. Nevertheless, I’ve always made sure that she’s been exposed to experiences that I feel that she can handle.
My aim is to entertain her, not leave her mentally scarred, lol.
"My aim is to entertain her, not leave her mentally scarred, lol."
With that goal in mind, I think this would be a good choice. It's sure to elicit some chuckles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82gqF6QRb_Q
I know I shouldn’t have, but I did chuckle reading the thread with you guys arguing over a can of soup - only on Moviechat, eh?
shareWhy shouldn't you have? If I was an outsider viewing that argument, I'd be seeing the humor also. 😉
shareAh, that’s ok then, lol. I just wasn’t expecting that thread to go in that particular direction.
shareI wasn't expecting that either. I thought I was just offering my honest opinions to a mundane topic of chicken noodle soup.
Let's just blame the lunacy (pun intended) on the currently waxing 'Blue Supermoon', not Yellow Moon 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87iUDZGDKs
Well, since we now know she has nerves of steel, have you thought of showing her all the classics? There are horror enthusiasts than insist on newcomers to the genre watching all the older classic stuff. These would probably include:
Nightmare on Elm Street
Psycho
Halloween
Scream
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Exorcist
Chucky
I had a friend once who loved horror flicks, mainly to laugh at the cheesy special-effects in the older ones or the silly reoccurring tropes one would see in them.
She might also find the behind-the-scenes parts about how they did the special-effects to be fun and fascinating.
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My wife actually suggested Chucky.
Wizard of Oz. Those friggin flyin monkeys scared the heck out of me when I was 10. To this day I wont go near a flying monkey. Fact.
shareWe are all massive Oz fans.
shareYay! You should show your daughter "Return to Oz." Talk about Ozian-style nightmare fuel. They had a ton of creepy stuff in that movie.
shareConsidering your daughter's age
Monster Squad (language)
Army of Darkness
The Stand (1990)
Gremlins
Hocus Pocus
The Witches
Sleepy Hollow (either mr Toad and Ichabod and/or sleepy hollow w/johnny Depp)
A New Nightmare
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We did Gremlins I and II a couple of years ago.