Have you seen this horror movie?

[Gothic Sponge]

It's a movie called 'Burnt Offerings' With Karen Black, Oliver Reed, and Bette Davis. it was made in the 70's and i haven't seen it since i was a kid. I just bought it on DVD. However, now that i'm grown i might find it lame. Anyone have movies that scared the crap out of them as a kid, but now the movie is just silly?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/

[Nomad559]

1. 2000 Maniacs

http://www.esplatter.com/reviewsatog/2000maniacs.htm

[SayitAintSo]

2. Night of the Living Dead ....

As a matter of fact, it still kinda scares the crap outta me :)

[DerekG]

3. Burnt Offerings was CREEPY...

Wonderful. Thanks to this thread, I now have the image of that horrid, leering butler in my mind. :scared:

But then, I'll give kudos to any horror film that has a ballsy ending like the one to Burnt Offerings.

[Gothic Sponge]

5. Thanks DerekG!

Yeah, Burnt Offerings (as i remember it) was a great film. The ending was bold! That last seen with Karen Black almost made me crap myself. I'm going to watch it in a little while. I hope it still holds up.

[liberalhistorian]

13. I agree, I was 13 or so when it came out

in the 70's; I've seen it a few times now. I've always thought it was a very creepy, very well-done horror movie, especially the ending. The ending scared the shit out of me when I first saw it, and it still does even though I know it's coming ("I've been waiting for you, Beeeeeennnnn!!!!!!") And Karen Black's gradual transformation was well-done, too.

[alvis]

4. The Exorcist.

I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT

[delhurgo]

6. Amityville Horror

I remember as a kid thinking that was cool as hell: the flies, him getting bit by the bannister, the blue pig in the window,... lol. And how can you forget those subtle spooky lines: "HE SHOT EM IN THE HEAD!!!" and "G-E-T O-U-T!!!". I wish all ghosts would be that direct, heh. We thought Margot Kidder was smokin hot too, which was true - its weird now tho considering that she sorta went nuts. Anyhow, now I think its a really silly horror movie.

One thats held up well for me tho is Phantasm. I still think thats a fun, scary film. Those silver balls were soooo cool.

[Gothic Sponge]

7. Amityville Horror scared me because

I once lived 20 minutes away from Amityville on Long Island. So far the only movie that has held up (for me) is The Shining.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. "The Car" with James Brolin

"BAH...BAH BAH BAH!!!!!!"

[Gothic Sponge]

9. OMG!

Yes! Nobody remembers that film! (showing my age here) I first saw that as a kid in a DRIVE IN (Remember them?) It is such a joke now. That car gave me the creeps.

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. The part that really scared me was after ....

his girlfriend yelled at it from the cemetery, then it came to her house that night and drove right through her window.

I look at it now and think, "How lame was I?" I'll be 38 next month. Saw it on HBO in around 78 or so.

FSC

[Gothic Sponge]

15. Okay i'm 37 so i'm sure we have seen the same bad horror films.

[daligirrl]

11. I know that movie. . .

It never scared me, but I love it now because it's so bad. I'm a bit of a bad movie buff. . . the one that really scared the shit out of me as a kid was the original "Halloween". Actually, I was a teenager. But I still won't watch it alone. Anything with Donald Pleasance in it still scares me, though.

[Gothic Sponge]

12. I also love bad films

I miss MST3K!

[daligirrl]

14. You have no idea. ..

How much I miss MST3K. And you can't even see the late period reruns on Scifi anymore. I have a colleague who has the whole Joel Hobson collection on VHS. Ah, well.

[Gothic Sponge]

16. I also taped MST3K when it ran on Comedy Central.

I moved and somehow lost many of the tapes. I bought a few of the episodes on DVD, but they are not cheap.

Manos!

[daligirrl]

17. Yes. . . one of my favorites. . .

Manos: The Hands of Fate. Which translates to "Hands: The Hands of Fate". Remember the haunting "Torgo" theme? Another favorite is "Attack of the Giant Leeches."

[Gothic Sponge]

18. LOL! Yes! The Great Torgo theme!

I also love 'Eegah' and 'Mitchell' Too many to list. Why the hell doesn't a network rerun MST3k!? It's gold!

[daligirrl]

19. I don't know either. .

But there really is a minority of us who love that stuff. I had a boyfriend who got really pissed off by it. I'm one of those people who constantly heckles most movies and I'm always making people mad.