Big O's Top 13 Halloween Movies
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:06 am
Here are 13 great movies to celebrate Halloween with…And most of them have female demise as well:
1 - Halloween (1978) – The movie that started a genre and franchise! Scary fun…21 years later! The minimal music score is classic and adds so much tension to the film! The bogey man does exist!
2 - Horror Hotel (1960) – What a scary, atmospheric witch’s tale! Scared me witless as a kid and still holds up and packs a wallop…Watch it at midnight with the lights off! The whole movie was shot on a sound stage!
3 – Psycho (1960) – Hitchcock’s masterpiece of horror…What more can I say about it! Dare you to take a shower right after and not think about being stabbed to death!
4 – The Night stalker (1972) – Bar none, one of the greatest vampire flicks ever made! Hard to believe it’s a TV movie! From the director of Horror Hotel and Dark Shadows’ creator, Dan Curtis. A great vampire and Darren McGavin is awesome as Kolchak!
5 – Night Of The Living Dead (1968) – The classic zombie flick that made gore mainstream! Often imitated but never really equaled! They’re coming to get you Barbara!
6 – I bury The Living (1958) – Just a creepy as hell film starring Richard Boone as a cemetery owner, who every time he sticks a pin in a cemetery plot map, that person dies!
7 – American Werewolf In London (1981) – Hard to mix comedy and serious horror together, but Landis pulled it off! A fun movie with a nail biting transformation sequence…Before CGI! And he does not water down the downbeat ending.
8 – Frankenstein & Bride Of Frankenstein (1931 & 1935) – A great one-two punch of classic horror! Notice that Frankenstein does not have a music score which makes it more eerie and effective! There is also a lot of subtle humor in Bride!
9 – Mad monster Party (1967) – Rankin/Bass’ Halloween answer to Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer! Puppet animation, a good music score and songs, funny script, all of the classic monsters and Phyllis Diller! With an unusually grim ending!
10 – The Haunting (1963) – The greatest haunted house movie ever! Watch this with the lights off and get creeped out! A Robert Wise masterpiece and you never see one ghost or monster!!!
11 – Invaders From Mars (1953) – This is a film adaptation of a children’s nightmare that scared the piss out of me as a kid! Still effective, with great art direction and nightmare like sets.
12 – The Omen (1976) – Gregory Peck vs. the Son Of Satan…Guess who wins! The creepy soundtrack adds so much to the atmosphere and chilling effect!
13 – The Exorcist (1973) – The ultimate possession flick, that had people crawling under their seats and leaving the theater! Great cast and a very literate script that is also a crime drama and mystery!
Honorable Mentions:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) – A real tense, friggin’ nail biter…but see it in the theater with an audience at midnight for the full frightening effect!
The House On Haunted Hill (1959) – A William Castle, Vincent Price, fun haunted house party with the customary murder, mayhem and atmosphere! Best seen in a revival theater where a skeleton goes zipping around the theater on wires!...I’m not kidding!
O
1 - Halloween (1978) – The movie that started a genre and franchise! Scary fun…21 years later! The minimal music score is classic and adds so much tension to the film! The bogey man does exist!
2 - Horror Hotel (1960) – What a scary, atmospheric witch’s tale! Scared me witless as a kid and still holds up and packs a wallop…Watch it at midnight with the lights off! The whole movie was shot on a sound stage!
3 – Psycho (1960) – Hitchcock’s masterpiece of horror…What more can I say about it! Dare you to take a shower right after and not think about being stabbed to death!
4 – The Night stalker (1972) – Bar none, one of the greatest vampire flicks ever made! Hard to believe it’s a TV movie! From the director of Horror Hotel and Dark Shadows’ creator, Dan Curtis. A great vampire and Darren McGavin is awesome as Kolchak!
5 – Night Of The Living Dead (1968) – The classic zombie flick that made gore mainstream! Often imitated but never really equaled! They’re coming to get you Barbara!
6 – I bury The Living (1958) – Just a creepy as hell film starring Richard Boone as a cemetery owner, who every time he sticks a pin in a cemetery plot map, that person dies!
7 – American Werewolf In London (1981) – Hard to mix comedy and serious horror together, but Landis pulled it off! A fun movie with a nail biting transformation sequence…Before CGI! And he does not water down the downbeat ending.
8 – Frankenstein & Bride Of Frankenstein (1931 & 1935) – A great one-two punch of classic horror! Notice that Frankenstein does not have a music score which makes it more eerie and effective! There is also a lot of subtle humor in Bride!
9 – Mad monster Party (1967) – Rankin/Bass’ Halloween answer to Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer! Puppet animation, a good music score and songs, funny script, all of the classic monsters and Phyllis Diller! With an unusually grim ending!
10 – The Haunting (1963) – The greatest haunted house movie ever! Watch this with the lights off and get creeped out! A Robert Wise masterpiece and you never see one ghost or monster!!!
11 – Invaders From Mars (1953) – This is a film adaptation of a children’s nightmare that scared the piss out of me as a kid! Still effective, with great art direction and nightmare like sets.
12 – The Omen (1976) – Gregory Peck vs. the Son Of Satan…Guess who wins! The creepy soundtrack adds so much to the atmosphere and chilling effect!
13 – The Exorcist (1973) – The ultimate possession flick, that had people crawling under their seats and leaving the theater! Great cast and a very literate script that is also a crime drama and mystery!
Honorable Mentions:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) – A real tense, friggin’ nail biter…but see it in the theater with an audience at midnight for the full frightening effect!
The House On Haunted Hill (1959) – A William Castle, Vincent Price, fun haunted house party with the customary murder, mayhem and atmosphere! Best seen in a revival theater where a skeleton goes zipping around the theater on wires!...I’m not kidding!
O