Mad Doctor Horror Movie Film

What is your favorite found footage horror movie?

Grave EncountersGrave Encounters is a 2011 found footage film. The film follows the fottage of a ghost TV crew who unexpectedly filmed their last episode in an abandoned mental asylum.The asylum has a twisted history. From suicide, to abuse, to a mad doctor who experimented on unfortunate patients. Not to mention the tunnel in the cellar where they removed the dead.It's a great piece of Unsettling cinema and takes those ‘Paranormal’ TV shows and works on it in frightening detail.

What is your favorite horror classic?

I feel that a good horror-film experience depends a lot on the experiences of the watcher. I grew up in the 1950s without TV and if I visited a friend’s home, my parents would warn me about even watching Dragnet. So when I moved out on my own, my first movies were on late-night TV.The first horror film that made an impression on me was Carnival of Souls made in 1962 with Candice Hilligoss. The movie is about a group of girls out joyriding and are challenged to a game of chicken on a bridge. They lose and their car goes off into the river. Our protagonist escapes, but has no memory of her past. She gets a job as a church organist, but her music has no soul or meaning. She doesn’t realize she’s really dead - victims from the accident keep appearing to her either in mirrors or darkened windows. Since I had no experience with horror movies, I found myself watching through my fingers. I re-watched it recently and found it fairly “hokey.” But at the time it was extremely scary.That said, I still get goosebumps when I watch the 1963 movie - The Haunting, starring Julie Harris (Eleanor) and Claire Bloom (Theodora). They’ve been invited to an old mansion by a scientist who is researching the paranormal. Eleanor’s psychic abilities make her attuned to the house which seems to “want” her. A voice-over introduces us to the house: “An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there... walked alone. “Of the several guests who have been invited, Eleanor and Theodora share a room and are awakened in the night with the walls pulsing and booming, the door knobs turning. Eleanor holds Theodora’s hand for comfort but comes to realize that Theodora is still across the room. The movie ends with Eleanor trying to leave the grounds. There is no blood, no slashing in this black and white movie, but for me this is still the scariest movie ever. It really messes with your mind.

Do people scream while watching horror movies in the movie theater?

Thank you for the A2A.I have seen many horror movies in theaters, and that’s the way I like to see them because it’s a great experience. People jump, scream, stand up, shout..tell the person “Don’t open the door!” kinda thing, shrink in their seats, laugh… many movie goers do not like this, I do in a horror/thriller/slasher film that absolutely calls for it. It has calmed down in recent times, but my favorite horror film experience were in Hollywood, CA when Hollywood Blvd. had movie theaters up and down the street.Westwood, CA was another fun place back in the day with horror movie openings (and on a different note, let me say the last big movie opening I saw in Westwood, Ca was for the first Transformers Movie. It was PHENOMENAL! They had a FULL SIZED Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee in the street by the theater that transformed into a car. They were HUGE!!! It stopped traffic-people got out of their cars and took pictures and were excited for the film—that’s how it used to be). I also saw openings of films on Walnut Street in Philadelphia and in New York City as a child. Culver City, CA is one of the areas I go to now. Here are a few of the films I remember because of the audiences reactions:The Exorcist - saw with my mom in Philadelphia. People were screaming, jumping at scary parts, one guy got up and was shouting bible verses towards the end, scared everybody, I was scared to death and laughing at the same time holding onto my mom.From Beyond - Saw on Halloween night in Hollywood, CA. The audience was CRAZY! The were laughing and telling the actors not to go into the room, it was soooo much fun.The Boogens - Saw in Hollywood, CA. The people made the movie good. They were on all the horror cliches - no jumps or scares, just fun.Scream for Help - Saw in Westwood, CA, a bloody slasher horror film that had people jump in their seats and squirm.Hostel- Saw in Culver City, CA - people were so responsive. They laughed — then screamed at the appropriate parts and I couldn’t stop laughing when 1/4 of the theater screamed “Run her over!!” at that very special part in the film.The Conjuring 2 - Saw in Culver City, CA, there was one part (I won’t give it away) where the entire theater jumped at the same time and then laughed.