Well then it should have been

All horror films are like that now. I don't know why they even call them horror any more they just try to out-shock each other with copious amounts of gore. Who the hell wants to see that?

I'll tell you a horror story that still had me shaking  the next day..I was only eight and me and my older brother were allowed to stay up  a bit  late on a Saturday night.My dad and and my uncle brought in fish suppers for us all,great times.,Anyhooo ,this was on the TV "Tales of mystery and Imagination" by Edgar Allen Poe,well that was a bugger ,good litertature and horror.
The plot was basically  the kids were orphans and the evil uncle killed them to get  the inheritance etc.The ending was the two kids spirits  grew their nails over six inches and ripped his heart out and it was thrown on a fire...man I was shitting it for a few weeks after that.

Edgar got away with quite a lot in his time, brilliant though he indisputably was. The Exorcist was the one that made me refuse to switch the light off at night for months even though I had read the book and knew what was coming. That film terrified me.

The Simpsons episode with Homer reading The Raven [Edgar Allan...] is a masterpiece.

lol I saw that the other day. Serious WTF moment but brilliant all the same.

Oh yes ..but then you have the old Tv show "Steptoe and Son" when the old dad calls the Chamber pot,, the "Edgar" as in Edgar Allen Poe.. Po...potty etc...

Tsk... I mentioned Poe to my  23 year old niece,,,total blank...it's actually rather sad...

I watched the Pit and the Pendulum remake recently. It's so bad I almost lost the will to live about 15 minutes in. There had to be sex, gore and shocks or it was never going to get out of the cutting room. The age of instant gratification is that in which we live.

It's sad Prom...we used to have imaginations!

I think 'body horror' is an entirely legit enterprise.  Perhaps I'm thinking more of Cronenberg type material/flesh style interactions.  I've never thought the Halloween / Freddy Kruger type films were in any way gorey or particularly explicit.  Not compared to some of the more left field, explicit movies out there - Cronenberg being an example.  Or the some of the Asian offerings in the past 15 years.  And their artistic intent is unimpeachable, IMO.

Soooooo glad I didn't hang around any longer in this thread last night

By a strange coincidence the name of Donald Pleasence's character Sam Loomis is also the name of one of the characters in Psycho - the leading man other than Norman Bates.
Outside a scene from Psycho shown on Halloween, I have seen nothing on the IMDB Trivia section referring to this. I don't know which scene from Psycho is shown but I'm assuming it's the famous bathroom scene which does not include Sam Loomis.

Also, Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Lee, who was the victim in the shower scene in Psycho. (She later appeared in both The Fog and Halloween H20.)

As well as Arnold Swartywotsits 2nd best film, True Lies

*puts on horror geek hat* Actually, that's an adaptation of an M.R. James story, not Poe.

*takes off hat*

That was Jamie Lee, not her mother.

but JLC also appeared in The Fog and Halloween H20......didn't she? I'm confused

She wasn't in the Fog. I should have been more clear. It was Janet Lee who appeared in both The Fog and H20.

Errr, SimonDog:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/

Now don't you dare try to correct me again Go to your room and think about what you've done!!!

Rawky tell me when you are about to watch Black sheep film. Its the funniest horror i have ever seen.  Thread went in the tank though. 

Probably will watch it tonight Eve.

Okokokokok! Sheeeeeesh!

Her mother was also in both, so ner.