CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[Beetlescott]

It is that time again, the season changes, the days get shorter, nights get longer, and with longer nights, that means more time to watch HORROR movies!!!!! With a good batch of Horror CEDs in place, I think I'm going to start now! I was wondering what is your favorite Horror CED? My list is subject to change with new CEDs to watch!!! So, what are your favorites? I know there are tons of Horror flicks not on CED, but for this list, let's keep it in our format. My current top 10 Horror CEDs are:
1. Silver Bullet
2. Halloween II
3. The Fog
4. Christine
5. Friday the 13th
6. Village of the Damned
7. Psycho
8. Psycho II
9. Alone in the Dark
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

So, what is your top 10?
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[RocktoberBlood]

I do enjoy all the ones you have on your list, and there are so many other ones that I would want to have on my list but I am going to stick to the 10. Halloween and the month leading up is my favorite, it is the easiest time of year for me to get my wife to watch some classic horror.

1.The Thing
2. Halloween III
3. Dracula
4. Frankenstein
5. Zombie
6. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7. The Fog
8. Boogey Man
9. Christine
10. Psycho

[kitchensynch]

I don't know if Scanners was on CED, but I saw it on cable ONCE, and that was gory and disturbuing enough.

Predator is an action movie but I would watch that.

Intrigue genre film noir like The Third Man

Sci-fi like The Day The Earth Stood Still

(I'm not sure what of all of these are actually on CED but I'd watch them anyway...)

Meet John Doe

The Poseidon Adventure

Vertigo

The Birds

Gremlins (gee, it can't ALL be horror)

Star Wars (IV A New Hope)

Any Vincent Price classic

Old 60s films with sharp dressed evil professors who take college kids on trips to die looking for some power object...the kind Elvira loves.

(In basic, B-for buckets of blood movies yet tasteful)

And, totally out of character but a great watch...The Green Berets, as oddly enough it's one of my sleeper John Wayne favorites and all war is Hell.
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[Rixrex]

Many of those are on CED, and others are on LD.

You might like The Curse of Bigfoot, not on CED or LD, but available on DVD now. Originally filmed around 1959 or 1960, under the title Teenagers vs The Thing to cash in on both "teenagers" horror titles and the original Thing, it's still a fun film. Story is about a college professor who takes his class on a trip looking for artifacts and uncovers a creature that attacks them. Originally it was to be a mummy/beast type of creature protecting the artifacts.

It was unreleased until the 1970s when the producers were able to retain the original professor actor to reprise his role to tell the story to a new class of students, and added some scenes to explain that the creature was a Bigfoot in order to take advantage of the 1970s Bigfoot interest. Fortunately, the creature's makeup was that of a furry costume, so that was serendipity at its peak.

Another fun Bigfoot movie is Night of the Demon of 1980, not to be confused with the 1957 title aka Curse of the Demon with Dana Andrews. Also not on CED or LD, it is probably the goriest Bigfoot movie ever made, and was rated X in England. In this one, another anthropology class takes a trip into a forest where there is a Bigfoot legend. They do find the Bigfoot, which is a sad day for them as this Bigfoot likes to kill in the most grisly manners possible, which are shown uncut in full bloody color.

[kitchensynch]

Well, not TOO gory...watching the scene in Robocop where the drug dealer's henchman in the sleeveless shirt gets spayed with bullets that make him utter weird noises and the gangster fantasy scene in Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains The Same were kind of a bit much.
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[Rixrex]

Then you'll be okay with the first one, but probably not with the second one.

[Beetlescott]

I just finished watching Alone In the Dark, and to my pleasure it had Dewight Schultz of Star Trek fame, (TNG, VOY) and Donald Pleasence who was Dr. Sam Loomis on the Halloween shows.
Now I'm watching Strange Invaders for the first time also, and it has Nancy Allen from Dressed to Kill, Carrie & Blow Out (all on CED) and the guy who played Zek, and Kai Wynn on Star Trek DS9. And, to my suprise Mark Goddard who played Don West on Lost In Space!!!!

I'm enjoying these movies all in my list of scary movies to watch on the way to H A L L O W E E N !
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[Rixrex]

Strange Invadsers also has Kenneth Tobey of The Thing fame, he was the military office in command.

Have you also got the Strange Behavior CED as well?

[RocktoberBlood]

Strange Behavior is so Awesome, Tom Atkins brief but awesome part at the beginning has one of my favorite one liners of all time in it.