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'All the great horror movies are in black and white!'


Wow...has there ever been a less true statement than the one made by the TV horror host who Billy talks to at the beginning? They made quite a few truely excellent, classic horror movies in color! Just take a look below. (To be fair, I'm only going to count films that predate this one. Also I'm not counting films like BEETLEJUICE or GHOSTBUSTERS simply because I consider those films to be more supernatural comedies rather than true horror.)

Pet Sematary
Child's Play
Night Of The Demons
Wax Work
Hellraiser
The Lost Boys
Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn
The Stepfather
The Gate
The Fly ('86)
Critters
The Hitcher
House
Fright Night
Return Of The Living Dead
The Re-Animator
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Sleepaway Camp
Cujo
Christine
Creepshow
Polterguist
An American Werewolf In London
The Howling
Wolfen
Evil Dead
Scanners
Friday The 13th
The Shining
The Fog
Alien
The Amityville Horror
The Crazies
Halloween
Dawn Of The Dead
Piranha
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ('78)
The Hills Have Eyes
Carrie
The Omen
Jaws
The Stepford Wives
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Black Christmas
The Exorcist
Westworld
Vault Of Horror
Tales From The Crypt ('72)
Deliverance
Last House On The Left
The House That Dripped Blood
Rosemary's Baby
The Birds

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

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That's one long list of stinkers you just made

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Errm did you take in to account...in fact I'll change that, do you even know the meaning of subjectivity?

Fred was an old man and so his era of film and TV will be in the black and white times and that's ok.

There is no good or bad, there is only opinion and doing an overblown list like that on the basis of a throwaway line which a writer wrote and an actor delivered is a little sad.

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That is said by an old actor from the Golden Era of Hammer studios.

Juliet Parrish: You can't win a war if you're extinct!

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