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Like a lot of little boys I grew up reveling in horror films and then pretty much out grew them.
The best classic horror film in my book is the Spanish version of the 1931 Dracula, filmed at exactly the same period as the Bela Lugosi English version with the same sets but a different cast and slightly different approach. Lugosi is more mesmerizing as Dracula, but the Spanish version is a better movie overall.
The scariest movie in my book is the 1967 Wait Until Dark with an A-list cast starting with Audrey Hepburn.
It's very interesting that these days Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 The Birds is considered a classic horror film. At the time I remember it was thought of as kind of a dud. More recent audiences seem to have bought into the premise more, and at the time, we probably were expecting too much from everything Hitchcock came up with.
shadowkat67Like a lot of little boys I grew up reveling in horror films and then pretty much out grew them.
The best classic horror film in my book is the Spanish version of the 1931 Dracula, filmed at exactly the same period as the Bela Lugosi English version with the same sets but a different cast and slightly different approach. Lugosi is more mesmerizing as Dracula, but the Spanish version is a better movie overall.
The scariest movie in my book is the 1967 Wait Until Dark with an A-list cast starting with Audrey Hepburn.
It's very interesting that these days Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 The Birds is considered a classic horror film. At the time I remember it was thought of as kind of a dud. More recent audiences seem to have bought into the premise more, and at the time, we probably were expecting too much from everything Hitchcock came up with.