There’s nothing better than talking scary movies during Halloween season! During this short take, Ryan Miziker from American Monsters join the Mall of America team Chris Grap, Sierra Goerg and Meri Ryan to talk their all-time favorite Halloween flicks. To hear the entire conversation check out So Much More Ep. 64: Onionhead’s Revenge + Halloween Haunts.
[00:00:00] Favorite Scary Movie?
[00:00:01] There are so many out there right now.
[00:00:03] I know.
[00:00:03] Okay, a scary movie that you enjoy.
[00:00:06] Okay, so I really like The Blair Witch Project.
[00:00:08] I love how it's kind of the first movie that had the, it's called the first person viewing.
[00:00:13] Found footage.
[00:00:14] Found footage.
[00:00:14] I really loved that, made it really spooky.
[00:00:17] I'd say that.
[00:00:18] I will take a side story here.
[00:00:21] I lived in LA at the time when it came out and my friend Ian found a VHS tape that said,
[00:00:26] would play me and that's how I saw The Blair Witch Project with no credits, nothing before
[00:00:32] the movie came out.
[00:00:34] Part of their weird, amazing marketing tactic at the time.
[00:00:38] I think they even like had like missing signs of the actors around.
[00:00:42] People thought they were actually missing.
[00:00:43] Well, and then you would go on the archaic version of the internet at the time and try
[00:00:46] and find anything and it all supported the fact, but I was like, there's like, no, there's
[00:00:52] no way.
[00:00:52] But it was great.
[00:00:53] It was a fun movie.
[00:00:54] I like that.
[00:00:54] All time favorite scary movies, probably The Shining, just because as a kid, it was
[00:00:59] hard to get through.
[00:01:00] It was like, oh my God.
[00:01:02] Well, and there's a kid in it who is in great peril.
[00:01:05] Yeah.
[00:01:05] It's psychological, but it's also violent.
[00:01:08] It's, yeah, it's, it's great.
[00:01:11] But I know that you've got some great, you've suggested some great ones to me more recently.
[00:01:16] So I love Willem Dafoe in Shadow of a Vampire.
[00:01:21] And I really love the movies, The Witch and The Lighthouse.
[00:01:26] And I can't remember the director's name.
[00:01:28] Robert Eggers.
[00:01:28] Robert Eggers.
[00:01:29] Sorry, huge nerd.
[00:01:31] Moving on.
[00:01:31] I need to remember.
[00:01:32] But his Nosferatu comes out at Christmas and I cannot wait.
[00:01:37] Looks awesome.
[00:01:37] So I actually saw the original Nosferatu, like, you know, with an orchestra a long time
[00:01:42] ago.
[00:01:43] That's cool.
[00:01:43] And so I love, I can't wait to see what he does with that.
[00:01:46] I love that we're in a time when not just B movie horror movies are great, but there's
[00:01:51] also just such rich, awesome stuff coming out.
[00:01:55] And it's a fun, you know, tradition to be a part of.
[00:01:58] So.
[00:01:59] Mary.
[00:01:59] So this is not necessarily my genre that is my go to.
[00:02:03] I know.
[00:02:03] So I think it was The Conjuring.
[00:02:06] Oh, okay.
[00:02:06] I feel like it was that one.
[00:02:08] I can't remember.
[00:02:09] That's fair.
[00:02:09] Was there like a baby in that one?
[00:02:11] I feel like, ah, I can't remember.
[00:02:13] Chances are.
[00:02:14] Okay.
[00:02:15] Okay.
[00:02:15] I was hoping someone would back up on that.
[00:02:17] I just don't, there was one movie that I went to.
[00:02:19] My sister and I went to a movie and we saw it preview and then we went to it,
[00:02:24] we saw it and then there was like a glove on the ground and then in the movie.
[00:02:29] And then as we were driving home, there was a glove on the ground at our,
[00:02:33] as we were like the same color and everything.
[00:02:35] And I think that was The Conjuring and it was the scariest thing and it brought
[00:02:38] life together and it was great.
[00:02:39] I love that.
[00:02:40] Yeah.
[00:02:40] I love it.
[00:02:41] Are you going to commit to a favorite?
[00:02:43] Well, one, please lay a glove outside the haunt.
[00:02:45] Oh, and I, it's true.
[00:02:46] So when Mary walks over there.
[00:02:48] Woo, woo, woo.
[00:02:49] Woo.
[00:02:50] And for me, Jaws is the scariest movie of all time.
[00:02:53] Can't go in the water without thinking about it.
[00:02:55] It totally ruined me.
[00:02:56] The shark does not look fake.
[00:02:57] That all real sharks look fake.
[00:02:59] The shark from Jaws is real.
[00:03:00] But I think John Carpenter's The Thing really got me too.
[00:03:05] I liked that a lot.
[00:03:06] Isolation, can't trust anybody.
[00:03:09] That was a, that was a really good one.
[00:03:10] I went to see Silence of the Lambs with my dad when I started school.
[00:03:14] That's when I started college.
[00:03:16] Like he came up to visit and we went out to the movies and he said goodbye.
[00:03:20] And I had to get into the elevator by myself.
[00:03:24] And I was like still shaking from Silence of the Lambs.
[00:03:28] And I'm like, Oh God, like, please.
[00:03:29] There's no blood like start dripping.
[00:03:32] Going back up to my dorm in college.
[00:03:34] I was like, Oh God.
[00:03:35] But yeah, these things, they mess with us.
[00:03:37] I'm turning it over to you.
[00:03:39] Julie, favorite scary movie?
[00:03:40] Oh, um, Halloween.
[00:03:42] Okay.
[00:03:43] Freaked me out because when it came out, I was a babysitter.
[00:03:45] Julie says the original Halloween because it freaked her out as a babysitter.
[00:03:49] Ryan?
[00:03:50] Recently, Malignant was great.
[00:03:51] Malignant is great.
[00:03:53] I agree.
[00:03:54] Shout out to my friend Jen Conroy and Jason who worked on that.
[00:03:57] What?
[00:03:58] I'm Aaron Elm Street, Freddy Krueger.
[00:03:59] Oh, fantastic.