Ten Films to watch this Halloween

>> 16.10.08


Even though I love Halloween & generally enjoy going out with my friends to celebrate, sometimes, it is nice to stay at home. Cook yourself a special Halloween dinner, invite some friends around, decorate your house & watch some films. Here are ten perfect Halloween movies as recommended by me!

House of 1000 Corpses ❤
Rob Zombie - 2003

While travelling through Texas, some teenagers comes across the sickest white trash family known to man. Carnage ensues.

❤ Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero - 1978
After a zombie epidemic, a group of people seek refuge in a shopping mall. Best. Siege. Ever. Possibly one of the most amazing films ever made if you ask me.

❤ Halloween
John Carpenter - 1977

Well of course Halloween is part of the list! Hearing the music is sometimes enough to give me goosebumps.

❤ Sisters
Brian de Palma - 1973


Siamese twins who have lost their parents get separated. Bloody murders & strange investigation. I watched this film for the first time with my dad when I was quite young & it made a big impression on me.

❤ The Blob (remake)
Chuck Russell - 1988

A growing life form takes over a city eating everything on its way. The 1988 version of The Blob is cheesy & creepy at the same time. Another film I discovered with my dad when I was 10. Shaped my taste for horror movies along with a few others that are not in this list.

❤ The Last House on the Left
Wes Craven - 1972

Two teenage girls are captured by psychopaths. First film by Wes Craven & a wonder of claustrophobic atmosphere.

❤ Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven - 1984

My biggest fears: spiders & monsters under the bed... Especially if it is Freddy Krueger. I have seen all the Nightmare on Elm Street films a few times & still, I shiver when Freddy appears.

❤ Candyman
Bernard Rose - 1992

Sixteen years later I still can't say his name five times or see bees without thinking that Candyman is around somewhere. Sad, I know.

❤ The Evil Dead
Sam Raimi - 1981

Some friends retreat to a cabin in the woods for a holiday & end up unleashing demons. As we do. Bruce Campbell is one of my all time heroes.

❤ Basket Case
Frank Henenlotter - 1982


This is just plain weird & totally absurd, but I love it. The story of a young man & his horribly deformed twin brother who lives in a basket... Hence Basket Case, geddit?



9 comments:

sparkleandglitter 16.10.08  

For a "recovered" goth, there are a lot of classic horror movies I haven't seen! Candyman's awesome though, I was the antagonistic kid at school who would do the whole repeating his name in front of the bathroom mirror thing to scare my friends!

Ashe Mischief 16.10.08  

Fun trivia on the "Last House on the Left": It was actually an interpretation and inspired by Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring."

LHotL is also one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen-- I had to stop it 5 minutes from the end, and haven't watched it since. (And coming from a girl who works at a HORROR FILM FESTIVAL, that's saying a lot!)

July Stars 16.10.08  

Wow, a Brian de Palma film I haven't heard of ... I'm scared already!

Sandra Foyt 17.10.08  

Ugh! I'm getting creeped out just looking at the posters.

Annie 17.10.08  

Halloween was set in my hometown--John Carpenter is from there. It was so fun to watch the movie and hear the street that I was on being called out, etc..

Joy 17.10.08  

House of 1,000 Corpses is my favorite horror movie ever! Have you seen Devil's Rejects?

sailorette 18.10.08  

I haven't seen most of these, can you watch them with me one day? xx

Sapphire Island 19.10.08  

last house on the left really didn't do it for me! i haven't seen candyman yet, i remember adverts for it on tv when i was a kid and they were enough to give me nightmares!
x

Elisha Lynn 28.10.08  

yes! this is an amazing list with one of my faves at the top!

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