Horror Roundtable - Week Twenty-One
Name a film you haven’t seen on the big screen that you would love to.
The list is huge: Deep Red, Suspiria and Diabolik immediately spring to mind!
Billy - House of Irony
I would love to see some of the old classics, like Frankenstein and Dracula, but with the original serials they would play before them too. And to see everyone dressed up in tuxedos and gowns as well. Make it an event!
I never got to see the original PHANTASM on the big screen. I would’ve loved to see that one. I became a fan of it only after seeing it on it’s HBO premiere.
One film I’d love to see on the big screen is Halloween. I think the creepiness of the film would only be accentuated on a big screen. I guess I’ll have to settle on the Rob Zombie remake that is coming out next year.
On a side note, I did see Halloween III: Season of the Witch at the drive-in. It didn’t make any difference. That movie still sucked.
Bill Cunningham - DisContent
This goes back to your programming a Horror Film Fest question weeks ago:
I would like to see the Universal Monster series on the big screen. To have Karloff and Lugosi and Rathbone and the rest of “the gang” on the big screen again would thrill me to the bone. As an added bonus I would like to see a matching Hammer Horror festival back on the big screen.
I have seen the original King Kong on the big screen and it was tremendous.
Gary Wintle
GOONIES!
Heeey yoooouuuu GUUUUYSSSSSSS on the big screen!
David Z. - Tomb It May Concern
After catching Black Sunday on the big screen a few years ago it really struck me that Mario Bava’s images are even more striking when they are projected onto a full theatre screen. Combine that with my love of Peplum flicks and I’d say that Hercules In The Haunted World would be a truly fantastic experience. Big Muscles, Big Rocks and Big Screens for me!
Mark - Exclamation Mark’s SciFi/Horror Review
There are so many great 1950s sci-fi/horror flicks that I missed out on. I would have loved to have seen films like The Blob or The Day the Earth Stood Still on the big screen. There are countless others, though, that would rate just as high.
JA - My New Plaid Pants
I was kind of surprised by the first film that popped to mind - Gremlins. But it just seems like it’d be a lot of fun on the big-screen with a big audience, and I was too young when it first came out. Plus, I always thought the shot of the Gremlins tearing through the screen showing Snow White would be really cool to see on an actual theater screen, as opposed to a dinky TV one.
Joakim - Mexploitation
The Shining, definitely. So many huge visuals in that movie, so much empty interior space, it’d probably be really overwhelming to see in a theater. Preferably in a huge theater with just me in the audience.
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November 18th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
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November 18th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
I think I saw Suspiria on the big screen the first time I saw it, not positive - because around the same time time that a large Italian horror retrospective played in Harvard Square I was also watching just about every Italian horror tape I could get my hands on at home on my tv as well.
I know I saw Danger Diabolik on the big screen, that was recently. Only in the past few years have I appreciated seeing a film’s original print projected. That is why Suspiria is a mystery to me, I could not have appreciated the sharpness of the image in a theater at the time I saw it - I did not have an eye for that kind of stuff yet, which is a shame because Suspiria is such a stunning movie visualy and seeing it in a theater must be a spectacular experience.