Horror Heroes

[Meryl]

Which of these is YOUR movie nightmare?

I appreciate there are more movie monsters, but I am interested in these 4.

[speaks]

I would have picked the puppets in puppet master but the option wasn’t there so I picked Pinhead

[Meryl]

Jul 15, 2021 15:13:40 GMT -8 speaks said:

I would have picked the puppets in puppet master but the option wasn’t there so I picked Pinhead

Aww, which one?   Love Puppet Master   I love them all, but I especially like the one with the drill head and the one with the trench coat...can't remember their names now!

[speaks]

Jul 15, 2021 15:20:58 GMT -8 Meryl said:

Jul 15, 2021 15:13:40 GMT -8 speaks said:

I would have picked the puppets in puppet master but the option wasn’t there so I picked Pinhead

Aww, which one?   Love Puppet Master   I love them all, but I especially like the one with the drill head and the one with the trench coat...can't remember their names now!

The drill headed guy was super creepy

[Bones]

Growing up loving the Elmstreet films it's hard to be scared of Freddy, it'd be like "Haha - you're such a cad, now cut me up!" Michael Myers and Jason were once human, but Myers is more a force of nature so I'd have to go with him, he's always gonna sit back up again...

[Wesley2005]

Jul 15, 2021 14:58:48 GMT -8 Meryl said:

Which of these is YOUR movie nightmare?

I appreciate there are more movie monsters, but I am interested in these 4.

Freddy Krueger is mine. 
The reason for this is because of the fact that he can manipulate the world he dominates in... and thereby creates a HORROR factor that none of the others can do.

[Derek‽]

This thread makes me realize how audiences have moved on from the horror/slasher icons of the 80s and 90s. That's probably for the same reason that none of them really scare me: after awhile they just get goofy. It's not just the occasional bad film in the franchises, the very premise of each series becomes stretched thin and gets harder to take seriously. Ongoing exposition is often the culprit.

Freddy Krueger is my favorite of the listed characters and I feel he has the most potential to be salvaged. Give him the Bates Motel treatment with a cable/subscription series that explores a different aspect of the character that is pretty terrifying but too often overlooked: he's a pedophile who tortures and murders children, with a purpose-built secret room and workshop for building homemade torture devices. Living Freddy is as much a villain as dead Freddy and I think modern audiences would be receptive to this version of the character. The show could either play it perfectly straight and end with Freddy's death at the hands of the parents in the town or it could pepper in supernatural elements from time to time and the final season could jump forward and be an extended retelling of the first film. Either one would suffice.

You could maybe make a series about Michael Myers as a kid and how the family copes with having a sociopath truly devoid of boundaries in their midst. The way he watches and stalks Judith with her boyfriend before killing her after she has sex suggests his confused, possibly incestuous outlook could lead to a lot of family drama that might make for dramatic TV. After a season or two of home life drama, Judith could kick the bucket and the show could transition to his time at the asylum.

[Caajscot (John)]

None of the 3 mentioned in the poll would scare me then I am one that does not scare much watching spooky or scary movies, the likes of Alian or Predator I would rather watch than the ones mentioned in the poll.

Yet my wife and daughter get scared watching movies like Annabelle where the dolls come to life, the wife will hide her eyes and give a lot of "OOOOOHHHH..." and jump a mile. 

[elli]

Truthfully, none of these characters scare me compared to modern horror movies. I've seen all of their respective films and only felt suspense, not terror. The slasher genre is really just blood and stabbing/slicing when you think about it. Maybe that's scary for some people? Some modern movies also make egregious use of blood and gore for shock value; Hereditary and Midsommar by Ari Aster come to mind. I stopped about halfway through Midsommar because it wasn't scary at all, just gross.

I watched Hellraiser a few Halloweens ago and thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Everything from the story to the acting to the "special effects" were just awful, even for the 80s.

Still, from this list, I chose Michael Myers because he doesn't stay dead. Being endlessly pursued by a giant masked man with a knife is as scary as it can get for these films.