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Asked at Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. on October 23, 2009

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“‘Scream,’ but I’m not a huge horror movie fan.”

— Ryan Lee, KU freshman, De Soto

“‘The Birds,’ (starring) Tippi Hedren. I thought she was a babe.”

— Bruce Jackson, dentist, Liberal

“‘Freddy vs. Jason’ … I don’t like the new movies. They’re too fake.”

— Hayley Budden, journalism major, Dallas

“‘Halloween’ the original one. … The movie is all dark so you are literally scared ever time that Michael Myers comes out and tries to kill someone.”

— Carolyn Haller, social welfare major, Alma

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RoeDapple (anonymous) says…

"House of Wax" (1953). Charles Bronson played the part of Igor. At that time he was acting under the name of Charles Buchinsky.

http://members.fortunecity.com/bronso...
October 23, 2009 at 2:55 a.m.
autie (anonymous) says…

The Wizard of Oz
October 23, 2009 at 6:11 a.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

The one horror movie that I wish I hadn't seen was The Last House on the Left from 1972.
Scarred for life I am.
October 23, 2009 at 6:20 a.m.
kulinebacker (anonymous) says…

the original Amityville Horror...that or Scooby Doo meets the Boo Brothers
October 23, 2009 at 6:38 a.m.
grammaddy (anonymous) says…

"Halloween", the first one, without all the gore. Then I'd have to say "The Excorcist" I saw that one when it first came out and I was just barely old enough to get in. I still can't sleep in an all dark empty house.
October 23, 2009 at 7:12 a.m.
consumer1 (anonymous) says…

Young Frankenstein
October 23, 2009 at 7:15 a.m.
autie (anonymous) says…

hey, isn't this a recycled question from a couple of months ago? Or am I in the space/time rip again?
October 23, 2009 at 7:23 a.m.
Elrond (anonymous) says…

"The Haunting of Hill House"
1963 Version

Elrond
October 23, 2009 at 7:25 a.m.
dstavin (anonymous) says…

"The Shining"
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
October 23, 2009 at 7:35 a.m.
suzy (anonymous) says…

The original Halloween and Hitchcock's Psycho. I couldn't shower for weeks after I saw that movie.
October 23, 2009 at 7:42 a.m.
Soapdish (anonymous) says…

Shaun of the Dead
October 23, 2009 at 7:55 a.m.
prospector (anonymous) says…

Love Story
October 23, 2009 at 8:11 a.m.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…

"The one horror movie that I wish I hadn't seen was The Last House on the Left from 1972." Snap

The made a horror movie about the White House?
October 23, 2009 at 8:14 a.m.
mjwgoku (anonymous) says…

The original Halloween.
I've tried watching those Saw movies, but can't make it more then a few minutes. Yuck.
Great one T_O_B!
October 23, 2009 at 8:26 a.m.
Plurilingual (anonymous) says…

“‘Freddy vs. Jason’ … I don’t like the new movies. They’re too fake.”

Really... really??? Does 'Freddy vs. Jason' now qualify as an "old" move that is not "too fake"? REALLY?!?!?
October 23, 2009 at 8:50 a.m.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…

Plurilingual - I was thinking the same thing.
October 23, 2009 at 8:55 a.m.
BABBOY (anonymous) says…

I really am not a fan of horror movies. Never have understood the fascination of movie goers to watch people get cut up by serial killers. That just seems weird to me.

If you considered Aliens a sy-fy horror movie, then I would count that one.

Maybe "Silence of the Lambs" but even then I was annoyed of the sort of "hero" status they gave Hannibal Lecter in that movie.
October 23, 2009 at 8:55 a.m.
monkey_c (anonymous) says…

My fav is "The Shining"
somehow my daughter got really hooked on "children of the corn" when she was about three. I have no recollection of how exactly she first viewed it, but I felt like a bad Mom that she always wanted to rent "Children of the Corn"
October 23, 2009 at 9:01 a.m.
Ricky_Vaughn (anonymous) says…

"Brainscan" is a good one.

The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" creeped me out quite a bit.
October 23, 2009 at 9:05 a.m.
Ricky_Vaughn (anonymous) says…

Or the Korean "Old Boy"....

Talk about scarred for life....
October 23, 2009 at 9:06 a.m.
geekin_topekan (anonymous) says…

Paranormal Activity!!
Scariest movie ever!!

It made a grown man sleep with the light on.
October 23, 2009 at 9:07 a.m.
justfornow (anonymous) says…

Porkey's
October 23, 2009 at 9:17 a.m.
oldvet (anonymous) says…

fiction horror movies....

An Inconvenient Truth

followed closely by any movie made by Michael Moore
October 23, 2009 at 9:19 a.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

I would say "Pretty Woman"
October 23, 2009 at 9:21 a.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

TOB is in rare form today. He must have had a buttery biscuit.
October 23, 2009 at 9:23 a.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

But I have not seen the Megan Fox vehicle yet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210120/
October 23, 2009 at 9:23 a.m.
Ricky_Vaughn (anonymous) says…

Of course, some jackass had to make a political comment on this thread.
October 23, 2009 at 9:26 a.m.
brujablanco (anonymous) says…

Fatal Attraction
October 23, 2009 at 9:34 a.m.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…

"He must have had a buttery biscuit. "

I'm about 20 minutes from my morning ritual of grits and toasted buttery biscuit.
October 23, 2009 at 9:40 a.m.
Alfred_W (anonymous) says…

Student Bodies. Classic.
October 23, 2009 at 9:42 a.m.
banditteeth (anonymous) says…

Return of the Living Dead!!! braaaaaiiinnnnnnsssssssss!!!!!!!!!
October 23, 2009 at 9:43 a.m.
radiohawk (anonymous) says…

Ichi the Killer.
October 23, 2009 at 10:10 a.m.
jonas_opines (anonymous) says…

The original Psycho, probably. The book Shining was scary, the movie I always thought was a little too over the top. Silence of the Lambs was good. Not my favorite genre.
October 23, 2009 at 10:46 a.m.
acg (anonymous) says…

Freddy vs Jason is old? Wth? The Shining was pretty good. Even though it deviated from the book quite a bit, nothing Nicholasan does is bad. If we're going old school, Dial M for Murder. If we're talking great pop culture slasher flicks, the original Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street. I was a huge fan of the Hellraiser movies. For jump out and scare the crap out of you factor, I loved Curtains, Cat People and 1408. Best demon possession flick was of course, The Exorcist. Hostel and the Saw movies are just awful. They've taken everything great about a good horror movie and just ruined it for the sake of shock value. Ugh. Those movies disturbed me. Other great movies, Wrong Turn, Joyride and Hills Have Eyes. They were all just great, bad, predictable but shocking movies, to me.
October 23, 2009 at 10:48 a.m.
charliejohnson (anonymous) says…

We've already had this question. Or I am in that time warp with Autie.
October 23, 2009 at 10:52 a.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

It would be a book on the history of duct tape, and how it has evolved into a modern necessity for life.
October 23, 2009 at 11:03 a.m.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…

RI -

Was that movie part of the double drive-in feature with WD-40: A Serial Killer's Best Friend.
October 23, 2009 at 11:15 a.m.
1029 (anonymous) says…

It
October 23, 2009 at 11:17 a.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

I thought "It" was another way of saying "sex appeal", I guess that "It" could be considered horrific to a few select souls.
October 23, 2009 at 11:47 a.m.
OonlyBonly (anonymous) says…

The original dark print release of Alien
October 23, 2009 at 11:51 a.m.
sgtwolverine (anonymous) says…

I don't like horror movies, so...all of them are my least favorites. Unless this category includes horrifically bad movies, in which case I'd have to consider movies like the second and third Matrix movies (second and third Matrices?). Not that I really liked them, but they were pretty horrifying.
October 23, 2009 at 12:29 p.m.
Ricky_Vaughn (anonymous) says…

Worst sequels ever! (Matrix 2 & 3)
October 23, 2009 at 12:45 p.m.
luckyfrogfeet (anonymous) says…

the first five minutes of the first high school musical...so scary i didn't see the rest.
October 23, 2009 at 12:51 p.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

sgt,
I think accepted plural of matrix is matrii.
October 23, 2009 at 12:52 p.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

If you're willing to stretch the definition of horror movie, I'd say Army of Darkness is my favorite horror film.
"Gimme some sugar, baby."
October 23, 2009 at 1:25 p.m.
labyrinth (anonymous) says…

Right on Roe.. House of Wax was my first; hear I laughed through the whole thing. If true, it was only so I didn't bawl my head off. I have been claustrophobic since, my kids are going to put a click on click off light in my coffin in case I need to get their attention to get me back out. l
Forgot, better ask for extra batteries, they never have paid a lot of attention to me, tee hee. whatever
October 23, 2009 at 2:44 p.m.
Sagecasey (Troy Taylor) says…

The life of Michael Jackson
October 23, 2009 at 2:46 p.m.
GardenMomma (anonymous) says…

Cape Fear with Robert DeNiro.
October 23, 2009 at 3:10 p.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

“‘The Birds,’ (starring) Tippi Hedren. I thought she was a babe.”
— Bruce Jackson, dentist, Liberal

Hoping he does not practice sedation dentistry...
October 23, 2009 at 4:07 p.m.
Machiavelli_mania (anonymous) says…

W
October 23, 2009 at 5:43 p.m.
TheSychophant (anonymous) says…

"Black Christmas" (1974). My late aunt, Marion Waldman, played the role of alcoholic sorority house mother Mrs. MacHenry (her fake drunk swedish accent was classic)/ She bought it when a meat hook came swinging from the attic stairs and caught her in the midsection.
October 23, 2009 at 7:49 p.m.
jumpin_catfish (anonymous) says…

Caltiki
October 23, 2009 at 9:30 p.m.
riverdrifter (anonymous) says…

“The Haunting of Hill House”
1963 Version

Elrond nailed it for me.

Second place goes to The Shining.
October 23, 2009 at 9:48 p.m.
gphawk89 (anonymous) says…

The Thing - 1982 - Kurt Russell

And of course The Shining.
October 23, 2009 at 10:54 p.m.
Catzilla (anonymous) says…

"Halloween" Hands down.
October 23, 2009 at 10:56 p.m.
hitme (anonymous) says…

An Inconvenient Truth, or anything by Micheal Moore...Oh wait, you said "favorite", not stupidest.
October 23, 2009 at 11:44 p.m.
Boosh (anonymous) says…

The Spiral Staircase 1945 version. On a Dark and Stormy Night, 6 or 7 years old at the time. Watching with brother and babysitter when a loud knocking at the door scared the crap out of us. Was her dad with pizza :)
October 24, 2009 at 10:53 a.m.