My favorite candy bar is Skor's bar, not to be confused with a Heath Bar:
As for scary movies mine will always be any of the Friday the 13th movies. I miss the good old days where there was a Friday the 13th marathon on for Halloween or Friday the 13th itself.
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Favorite candy is Milky Way.
Favorite scary movie is kind of tricky. Are we saying favorite as in most enjoyable to watch or favorite as in scariest?
Either way, the best scary movie I've seen is either It or the first Conjuring. Scariest for me is probably the Strangers. That movie was absolutely terrifying.
The Strangers scared the shit out of me because it could actually happen. Although the male protagonist pissed me off a couple times with his inadequacy but it still would've been scary even if he wasn't so useless.
Yes exactly. But it also had this vibe about it that was just scary. Maybe the setting?
The only thing I really remember from that movie is Dennis from Sunny getting his face blown off on accident
And here I thought I was the only one that ate Skor bars. Carmellos are also very solid.
And I'm not much of a scary movie guy but the standard Halloween movies like Hocus Pocus are decent
I had the same thought when posting Skors. Am I the only one?
Reese's Cups, original M&M's, some candy bar from the UK that I found in Publix
The SAW series.
I want to believe the new one will be good but it just don't think it will be...
Reese Cups
Either "Just Cause" with Sean Connery or the first Blair Witch Project (I appreciated how it functioned like an old timey ghost story, where you scared yourself rather than the visual scaring you.
Some friends wanted to see Blair Witch. I had never even heard of it when I saw it. Scared the shit out of me, didn't go near the woods for weeks.
Three weeks after seeing Blair Witch, I was in my tree stand well before sunrise. When graylight had just started, had a hunter (who was trespassing) walking almost silently about 30 yards away. No sign of blaze orange, no flashlight, or even a gun (although visibility was minimal.) Because of the gray light, it looked eerily similar to how BW was filmed. I was a bit freaked out, and was all too pleased when the mysterious hunter crossed into National Forest property.
Totally agree with Just Cause. As for candy, candy corn is great, but if you mix candy corn and salty peanuts together, it makes both even better.
YOU TAKE IT BACK Y'HEAR
I'll pass on the sugary candle drippings.
Disclaimer: I like circus peanuts
Blair Witch wasn't the first found footage horror film, but it was ahead of its time with its viral marketing. They really blurred the lines on whether it was "real" or not. I remember watching "Curse of the Blair Witch" on the SciFi channel before the movie premiered in theaters. It was an hour long mockumentary TV special that was just 100% backstory of how the footage was supposedly found in rural Maryland. They even did a convoluted backstory on how and where the tapes were "found" that was logically impossible, to up the supernatural angle. The movie itself was okay, but the experience of the movie coming coming out is probably something I'll never experience again.
Favorite Candy: Lemonheads
Favorite Movie: Screw Halloween movies, Die Hard is my favorite Christmas movie, because it is a christmas movie.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think Die Hard is a Christmas Movie and those who are wrong.
favorite candy or favorite band?
Favorite Halloween Candy: DOTS
Favorite Scary Movie: This is extremely tough. I really like the 80's/90's slashers in October. They may not be the scariest, but all of my memories from Halloween growing up involved coming home dumping my candy out on the floor and watching one of the many films in the Chucky, Halloween, Friday the 13th, or Nightmare on Elm St. franchises.
On a side note, I watched Gerald's Game on Netflix last night and it was the first time I had to shine a light around my room before being able to fall asleep in a really long time. I'd recommend checking it out, though the ending wasn't my favorite.
Sour Patch Kids
Cabin in the Woods
Favorite Candy: Split between fast break and nutreageous.
Favorite Scary movie: either 1408 or Grave Encounters
Scariest Movie ever seen: The Conjuring 2. I couldn't sleep for a week
I think Conjuring 2 was scarier than the first Conjuring. I didn't know if I should have been more scared of Valak/the Nun or Bill Wilkins haha. But I thought the first Conjuring was a better film.
I can agree with this. The nun absolutely weirded me out. Whenever I see something in a movie that is trying to look human, but is clearly not human, I get the heebeejeebies
The Demon Nun from The Conjuring 2 is such a chilling/haunting visual. Especially the scenes where it comes in and out of shadows. Every time I look down a dark hallway, or into a dark corner of the room, I expect to see this face looking back at me.
Thanks for that!
I about shit myself watching grave encounters
Grave Encounters is exactly what I am looking for when I want to see a scary movie. I didn't like the second one as much, I feel like they tried to push it too far with the CGI and by trying to explain what exactly was going on in the asylum.
100 Grand, but Skor's are tasty too. Definitely superior to the Heath bar.
The House of Usher. Followed by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Wow, the House of Usher. That reminds me of 10th grade English class.....yep, pretty scary.
Y'all have some interesting candy takes.
A big toffee fan in general, so Skor bars are up there (and Heath are fine too). But if only allowed to have one candy for the rest of my life, Swedish Fish.
In terms of scary movies, I am not a huge horror fan in general, but in terms of that genre I would say my favorite is probably 28 Days Later. Remember watching a pirated copy in West AJ with a girl who's company I very much enjoyed, and perhaps the total memory is giving some bias towards it, but I think that movie still holds up to this day.
(Here is a great internet comedy parody from years ago, 28 Day Slater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5XRVXE3jFU)
If we are talking favorite as in scariest, no contest - Event Horizon. Watched that movie alone at home one night as a kid and scared the crap out of me.
All I think about while reading this thread.
Edit: Apparently the candy bar part is edited out and this is the only place I can find that part of the speech:
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Best Candy: 1.) Zagnut 2.) 100 Grand
Movie: Dusk till Dawn - not really scary but enjoyable.
Best Candy: Reese's Cups
Movie: Sleepy Hollow. It's admittedly not that scary but it's just spooky and fun enough.
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The Disney Sleepy Hollow scared the tea-total hell out of me as a little kid.
It's not a typical horror movie but It Follows had me on edge the entire time. No jump scares or anything like that, just an hour and a half of suspense. Half the time I didn't even know why I was scared, but I was.
Great minds...
Great movie.
Candy = Any kind of dark chocolate
Movie = It Follows
Candy: original M&M's
Scary Movie: I'm a big baby but if I had to choose The Shining.
Although one of the few I have seen was The Stranger which explains why I don't do scary movies anymore.
Candy: Sour Patch Kids or Reese's depending on category of candy.
Movie: Sleepy Hallow, the Johnny Depp one. Its on Netflix if you haven't seen it.
Outside of scary movies but I feel like I have to give Hocus Pocus a nod here. #classic
Candy: Mr. Goodbar
Movie: Beetlejuice
Not scary, but an absolute must watch in my house every year around Halloween.
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Dude, I love BeetleJuice. Saw that in the theatre on a first date. Back when Geena Davis was smokin'.
Favorite Candy: Varies, but most often, 3 Musketeers.
Scariest Movie: Helter Skelter. Not scariest as in supernatural, but as in "Holy Hell, In the real world just about anyone in the right circumstances can be or can be convinced to be a psycho."
M&M's or 3 musketeers
Sinister (both are really good), Conjuring 1 &2
Candy: peanut butter m&ms or dark choc reeses cups or any Dove dark choc.
Movie: Blair Witch or The Witch. Black Phillip is the GOAT.
EDIT: I have to add an honorable mention for the first "Insidious". The follow ups haven't been great, but I thought the original was pretty effective and was fresh....
I think every time I see a Zero bar, I've forgotten they existed and have to buy one.
And now I really want a Zero bar
yes yes, I usually buy a few with the thought that they'll last me a few weeks.... then I find myself an hour or two later, surrounded by empty Zero bar wrappers, ashamed of myself.
Can you find them anywhere? I live in Delaware, and the only place I know that sells Zero bars is Cracker Barrel. In fact, they sell a lot of candy that you can't find anywhere else around here.
Haha yeah Cracker Barrell is the only place I know that always has them. I've seen them in a few Sheetz as well but those are hit or miss
Yeah, here in SWVA pretty much every gas station and grocery store checkout line has them.
The Evil Dead series is fantastic! It has a special place in my heart for sure.
Probably my favorite trilogy ever. Would have put AoD here instead of ED2 but it's just pure comedy while ED2 maintained the perfect balance of horror and comedy
Ash vs Evil Dead is a phenomenal series by the way
As a fan of the original trilogy, I love it, but I'm a homer so I'm a bit biased. I don't think it's gone over very well in terms of attracting newcomers to the "franchise", though... if you can call it that.
I don't know that I can really consider the Evil Dead movies and horror...don't get me wrong, those, along with Army of Darkness are some of the best movies ever made..but I don't know
ED1 is absolutely horror, no 2 ways about it. ED2 hit the sweet spot between horror and comedy and AoD jumped the shark into straight comedic gold.
Hershey Dark, and The Fog w/Adrienne Barbeau.
Edit: I blocked one from my memory. I made the mistake of watching Phantasm late one night by myself, when I was like 13 or 14. I think I had nightmares for a week.
Candy: 5th Avenue
Scariest Movie: John Carpenter's The Thing
Absolutely loveee the sour gummy worms from Sheetz. But that's really not a Halloween candy, so Milky Way. Young Frankenstein will always be amazing.
Terri Garr.... ay caramba
Mallo Cups
Willow
Send me your coins. I need another pair of x-ray glasses!
Candy: Haribo Gummy Bears
Movie: The Six Sense
Strangers and the Descent both creeped me out.
Candy: Peanut M&Ms, Reeses Cups, and Gummy worms. Cant pick one.
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Sandlot references always get legs
thanks.
Reeses Sticks or Take 5
Movie: From Beyond scared the shit outta me as a kid. Won't attempt that one anytime soon
They don't make them any more but the Reeses Peanut Butter Cups with Cookie.
Scary movie has to be the 1998 Temple Game. I just cannot get over the (spoil alert) ending of that movie.
On the subject of Reese's not made anymore, I really liked Reese's Whipps.
i actually just saw reeses cookies like last week. It looked slightly different but it could be the same thing.
https://www.hersheys.com/reeses/en_us/products/reeses-crunchy-cookie.html
Candy: Buncha Crunch
Movie: Trick R Treat
Just watched Trick r Treat for the first time last week. If there is a movie that perfectly encapsulates Halloween, that has to be it
Two questions, one answer: Soylent Green
Candy: Almond M&Ms are the master race of M&Ms, and are the best candy. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.
Movie: Not a fan of the actual horror/scary movies, but I really like Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp. Favorite monster movie is Young Frankenstein (yes, I know it's not scary, but horror/scary films aren't a genre I enjoy).
Normal is overrated.
Resee cups
John Carpenters the Thing
I have soooo many scary movies to watch and I'm going to go through each of these posts and critique your tastes in horror films strongly when this is all said and done
Strong choices.
In order to critique mine, you might as well watch the two annabelle's and the first conjuring, just so you're up to speed on the franchise. While you're at it, watch The Tunnel, a haunting in Connecticut, and insidious (just the first one). So just from me you have 9 movies to power through 😃
Reese's and The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre FTW!!
I'm surprised you'd like a candy in an orange wrapper.
I strictly buy the easter reese's to avoid just that...
Favorite candy is Maoam. It's like the German version of Starburst.
For movies, I love the Friday the 13th franchise, mostly due to how unintentionally funny they are. Halloween series is great as well, and I watch both every October.
Zero bars as for scary movies The evil dead series and the blade series and murder party
Or watching the music video for Constantinople by the residents. It's pretty messed up
Favorite always-available candy: Reese's Cups
Favorite candy, period: Cadbury Crème Egg
Favorite scary movie: Night of the Living Dead (1960's version)
My candy answer is twofold. We had an understanding on Halloween that the kids had to give up their Snickers Minis to me in tribute payment for my allowing them to be born and live in my house.
Best candy for scary movies- Junior Mints. Throw them in with the popcorn to increase the awesome.
Best Halloween movie is Halloween. Duh.
Really cool scary film - Willow Creek. It's a Big Foot found footage flick directed by no other than Bobcat Goldthwait. What makes it awesome is a 6-8 minute scene where the two protagonists are in their tent listening to Big Foot(s) making noise outside. You just feel like you're right there having the living shit scared out of you.
My candy is Busch Light.
My movie is Days of Thunder.
**Martinsville week always coincides with Halloween
Favorite Scary Movie: Most of the classics have already been mentioned, so I'll go with You're Next. It's kind of like The Strangers, but the people in the house actually fight back and it's got a nice twist. Also, the Australian lead actress is a total badass.
Solid choice with "You're Next", I was impressed with that flick. Dunkaroos are great and all, but I dunno if they make the cut for "candy"... I'll move forward with a leg for the movie choice though.
Dunkaroos definitely are not candy but definitely are legit. The Cinnamon bun Oreos that are out are a surprisingly good clone
Almond Joy or Reese's
I'm older and haven't seen many new scary movies, so I'll go with Halloween or The Exorcist.
Candy Bar: Skor or Heath
Movie: Halloween 4
Candy: Peanut M&Ms king size (because it's the size for Kings!)
Scary movie: Because this should never EVER have been greenlighted or thought up...NEVER!!!
M&M's literally make sick. I can't eat them.
Peanut m&ms
I'm a big Jason fan
I like scream for its combination of scary while not taking itself too seriously
Watched the Crazies last night and I had forgotten that I liked that movie.
Reese Pieces, or any kind of reeses.
I enjoy horror movies, especially during October but I'm not sure I have a favorite. I will say Kill List because I remember finding it super interesting.
I don't know what the difference between a Heath and Skor bar is, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
Skors texture of the chocolate is unique. Like it was drizzled on there. Healths is like a Hershey bar with the toffee in it.
I don't understand why anyone would like toffee, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
...I'm gonna ask that you vacate the premises
sticks to your teeth and tastes like someone burnt their caramel. feel free to eat any and all toffee i'm ever offered, but please don't make me leave
Candy is reeses pieces and/or reeses peanut butter cups.
Movie...the current It was really good....or i can fall back on The Shining.....but there was this movie in the 70's called The Prophecy that i remember scaring the shit outta me when i was 10. It was probably a really crappy movie and not scary al all, but then again, i was about 10.
Candy? Milk duds.
Best Halloween movie? Young Frankenstein.
Scariest movie? Mother in law's birth video.
Remind to ask you how Thanksgiving was in a few weeks. If your mother-in-law is showing you her birth video, that's got to be a wild time.
Is it a video of your wife being born, or one of her other kids?
Wife's sister. What's funny is my MIIL taped over it to record herself being interviewed on the local news. News segment ends BAM crowning baby. 🤢
Jesus...
Candy: Smoothies
Candy: Take 5
Movie: Drive Thru (actually, the first 10 minutes are hilariously bad)
Candy: Junior Mints
Movie: The original 1978 Halloween. Very cerebral, very little gore but your mind makes it way scarier! And of course, best Horror movie music of all time!
Favorite candy: Reese's Pieces or Sixlets.
Favorite horror movie:
This movie fucked with my head when I saw it. I think it's the closest we'll ever get to seeing a Hollywood adaptation of Lovecraft.
Surprised none of you sick fucks have mentioned The Human Centipede. That's my favorite candy.
Oh for fucks sake...
If we're getting into movies that should never have been made, A Serbian Film is right up there.
For anybody wondering
Just read the wiki page about this movie. That was enough for me. Totally fucked up
I wish I never read that.
From experience I tell you... if you watch this movie with an open mind looking at it as a comedy rather than a horror film it is quite enjoyable. I do not recommend watching it sober, however. It's kind of like one of those sci fi's of megashark vs. Giant octopus. Kind of like watching a car crash.
Favorite Halloween Candy: Nerds and/or Airheads
Favorite Halloween Movie: All the Halloween Movies (except Season of the Witch)
and Paydays.
Scary movie(s):
Exorcist
IT (original)
Candyman
Jeepers Creepers
Ernest Scared Stupid
Leg for Ernest Scared Stupid
Seriously, some of the most effed up ways to die in that film.
Reese's cups, but the full-size more than the small individually wrapped ones.
As far as movies, scariest for me would probably be The Ring. I was like 11 and it was the first time I went to see a scary movie in theatres and I literally slept in my parents room curled up like a dog at the end of the bed that night. It wasn't until college when I decided that I actually love scary movies, and Functions of Horror Movies junior (senior?) year was easily one of my favorite classes.
Favorites have basically all been mentioned above, but also: The Babadook and Tucker & Dale vs Evil (not scary, but so fun). I'm definitely forgetting some--loving this thread because I definitely have some new ones to check out (after I'm done binging Stranger Things 2 tomorrow)
Kit Kat
House of Cards
I'm a big fan of turtles, pecans covered in caramel and chocolate.
And the scary movie part...um.... To be honest, I have no idea. The Conjuring was pretty well done. I'll go with that.
Also, the exorcism of Emily Rose had me terrified of waking up at 3:00am for a while.
Since we're on the subject of horror movies and such, have any of you guys watched Raw?
edit: actually, my favorite horror movie is the Dawn of the Dead remake from like 2005. Love that movie.
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Forgot about that one. Exorcism of Emily Rose was f-r-e-a-k-y. That barn scene had my hair standing up on my neck.
Yeah man, I love horror...but that got under my skin a little bit
Candy: Mr Goodbar or Reese's Miniatures.
Movie: The Ring. First time I saw it was in the dorm my freshman year. Way too many people packed into a dark dorm room and all of us were just a tad bit freaked out. The fact that we had consumed quite a bit of shitty beer probably didn't help either. Pretty sure we had to watch Super Troopers or something like that after it to calm down.
Ah... the memories of piling too many people in a dorm room to watch TV.
During my time in O'Shag we all piled up to watch Miami Vice every Friday night before heading out for the evening.
In West AJ, every Tuesday was Moonlighting Night with the ladies.
Favorite Candy: Snickers (Original, Almond, and especially PB-Squared)
Scary Movie: Mirrors-not that popular of a movie and the ending sucked, but it definitely scared me in a way that stuck with me for a while. Mirrors are so mundane, yet totally ubiquitous. Didn't help that at the time the apartment my wife and I lived in had a bunch of large mirrors.
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Candy- marathon bars
Scariest movie- "The Notebook"...... Shudder.
I saw so many people post about the Skor bar that I picked one up on a gas station on my way to Atlanta for a concert last night.
The Skor bar wasn't for me, but if you're really into toffee I can see how it would be loved, and the thin layer of chocolate around it was tasty. However, I probably spent as much time or more trying to get the stuff off my teeth as I did eating the candy bar haha.
That's part of the charm, the toffee getting caught in your teeth that is. I ain't mad at you though!
Favorite Candy Bar: Baby Ruth or KitKat
Scariest Movie: The Grudge - freaked me out because there was no 'solution' to or way to counter the ghost
Favorite 'Monster Movie': Predator
Just in case someone is looking forward to watching The Grudge this weekend...
Favorite Candy: Twix
Favorite Movies: Cabin in the Woods, Resident Evil, and Hocus Pocus.
FAM! I definitely didn't expect to see anyone else list Cabin In The Woods
I like it because it is really unique. It has the makings of a traditional, predictable horror movie, but then that plot twist at the end took it to another level for me. Big fan.
Very unique, and a sneaky funny movie. A super-meta take on the genre.
Storytime: The first time I saw that movie was at the Byrd here in Richmond. It was the night in 2012, I think, that the derecho crushed RVA and left a lot of the city without power for a WHILE. It killed the power in the theater about an hour into the movie (shortly after it gets to the real good stuff), my gf at the time and I got ticket vouchers, but I didn't find out the ending until it hit Netflix a couple months later.
But the end is the best part!
Freakin love this movie!
I know, right? I'm glad I decided to give it another shot when I saw it on Netflix because it was pretty much a standard horror flick up til that point.
One of the worst nightmares ever
All candy
All of the original Halloween movies...well, maybe not 3.
Four more days til Halloween, Halloween. Four more days til Halloween, Silver Shamrock
Candy: Reese Cups>Kit Kat>Snickers. The best thing about having a 2 & 3 year old is that as long as they get a bag of M&M's, they don't notice that I'm taking all the good stuff.
Movie: I've seen most of the movies listed and for the life of me can't say that they're scary, my girlfriend loves horror but hates watching with me because I end up laughing through most of the movie. For my money, the movies that blend horror and comedy are the best. Shaun of the Dead is the one that I could watch every day. It's got the dry humor that resonates with me, plenty of gore, but what I like the most is that it's a beautiful pastiche of the zombie genre as a whole.
I have not read this thread but I'm going to offer my -$.02.
Favorite candy is iced cream.
Favorite scary/ Halloween. Movie? The original Scream.
Heavyweights is an awesome halloween movie. #BeTheChiRepulseTheMonkey
Don't. Put. Twinkies. On. Your. Pizza.
Candy? Love 100 Grand
Movies? A few notables:
Blair Witch Project
The Exorcist
Das Experiment