Since Liz's would be wedding dress has already been nominated, I will go with the OTHER worst dress. Jenny's black Elvira getup.  

Many thanks to Raineypark and Castlebee for helping me to launch a different aspect of a previous discussion!

Rainey, for me "good horror" is what I enjoy! I think people who don't watch either tend to lump slasher and horror films together. I despise the first and love the second. Give me a scary, sad monster, a vampire, a ghost, or similar creatures and I'm there eating it right up. To me there is a huge difference to being scared or grossed out. Love scared. Seeing "The Others" in the theater was incredibly intense for me and it scared me to pieces in parts. It is now one of my all time favorites! Ditto with "The Shining" and "Fallen" with Denzel Washington. But I also enjoy older or campier horror movies that were not made on any where near as professional a level. Not as much, but I do like them. I haven't seen "From Hell" or "Dracula 2000" yet, so can't comment on them. But a friend from church said "Dracula 2000" was fun and had a very interesting religious quality in it that intrigued me.

Yes, I am a VERY religious Christian. I would EVEN say that God and my faith are more important to me than DS! My kids too, but not much else. (I may or may not be kidding, I'm not sure of it myself!) I actually did struggle with the issue of my horror fixation for a while. I decided-oh, to heck with it, I do love it and it doesn't harm my faith. I think it interesting that horror themes are frequently the only ones that allow mention of God and glimpses of crosses. It seems it is hard to show evil without it's holy counterpoint. I find that a good movie/tv show will often get my thinking on some deep theological points. Not something that I got from "Friends", back when I did watch it.

As for kids, I would protect them from the scariest stuff. The midlevel stuff they pretty much decide for themselves. "The Mummy" was too scary for them, they don't want to watch it. It's there when they think they are ready.  A priest at church was commenting once that he just didn't understand why people let their kids dress up as evil characters at Halloween. I told him that I felt the same as he did, before I had children. (The priests in my church CAN marry, but this one is single). Now, I realize that their understanding of vampires and such is so innocent and I want to let them enjoy that aspect of it. I don't need to bring them to another level of understanding the evil those beings represent, they will come to that when they are old enough. My son was a vampire on Halloween, he wanted to be like Barnabas. I would never ruin that for him for some knee jerk reaction that doesn't really understand children.

SO, enough about ME, what constitutes good horror for YOU?

Oh gosh, I really have a hard time keeping them all straight. I love 1795 except that Vickie Dum-Dum part,  but I think more in characters. I like it when Don Briscoe and David Selby were both on! That may not be as much character influenced as they are just so fun to look at! I like Quentin and Daphne AND I like the PT room. Probably because it was part of the show that I did remember from when I was a kid. (I watched sporadically and missed quite a bit).  Last time around I really enjoyed the Alexis/Angelique bit.

HATE the Leviathans. And definately not crazy about Adam. I do wish Robert Rodan had another role, I suspect that I would have liked him in something else. Without the barbed wire scarring on his face, he would be quite handsome and I think he acted the part nicely, it just isn't my favorite.

I just love how Julia was so blase about explaining it to Willie. Oh yes, it is a dream curse, we've all been having it. As though, it was quite commonplace. Is the dream curse concept an original idea? It is one of the few themes which I am not familiar with from other sources.

When John Karlen is over the top, I love it....this is an actor who looks like he's died and gone to heaven playing Willie Loomis.

When Addison Powell does the same thing, I hate it...

Same here! Not for all the same reasons, or at least I don't really think about the reasons. It is just PAINFUL to watch! When I finally got to watch Willie's dream last night, I thought "That's not so overly done..." Willie was supposed to be a coward and it was totally in keeping with his character. I enjoyed him having fun and going with it.

I do realize that the directors may have preferred AP being over the top, but then I ask myself WHY? "Let's see, let's have Frid playing his role in a stately and dignified manner. Then lets hire Moe to play off of him! Yeah, that's the ticket."

My favorite was seeing Thayer David walk onto the set grinning happily, then seeing the camera was on and freezing! I can't remember which set it was though. One of those moments where a lot of personality came through and a rare blunder for a talented actor.

Hmmm, I think you raise an interesting point. Personally, I see Julia as being at least as maternal as Barn is paternal. ("That's nice, Adam, now I'll see you tomorrow.") The switching back and forth on wanting to kill him really doesn't bother me that much. Any couple with a difficult child could find themselves switching back and forth in that way, though hopefully not over such a drastic solution....I think Julia has been more responsible in her attitude about the life they created, as you would expect a woman to be.

On the other hand, they both should be sent to jail for using Willie as a babysitter!