Halloween Movies

[surasshu]

Halloween has never meant much to me. I don't like clever kids who come around wearing masks, I don't like going to Halloween parties, I don't like dressing up, and we don't have pumpkins. But if there's one thing that I like about Halloween, it's definitely the scary movies. Nothing like going to a double-ticket of back-to-back cheesy horror flicks for a couple bucks with some friends and laughing at the hammy acting and screaming "HE'S BEHIND YOU!!"



This year I stayed in with my roommate, ate tacos and watched his favorite Halloween movie: Fright Night. One of the earlier examples of vampires as modern creatures (modern being a relative term, it's a movie from the 80s after all) it's still pretty good! It's like Rear Window with vampires and way more cheese. Some of the makeup and setpieces are quite beautiful, and the acting, while somewhat hammy, really engages the sense of fun that the whole movie has about itself. Enjoyable (though not scary) stuff.



Anyway, what are some of your favorite Halloween movies? Do you have any funny or scary (or sexy) Halloween movie memories? Do you even watch movies during Halloween or is this just a tradition that I made up? Share and be merry!

[Joel]

I love The Decent and Quarantine. Just the whole idea of being stuck down in a cave with freaky mole-people things coming after you is scary itself. For Quarantine, I wasn't bothered by there being only one camera at all, and this "how you became a zombie" is more quite believable which makes it a bit scary too.

[al kusanagi]

My friends and I usually have a Evil Dead Trilogy marathon, followed by Peter Jackson's Dead Alive/Brain Dead, although this year we added the best horrible movie we've seen in a long time, Chupacabra Terror!

[Geof]

Mad Monster Party, the greatest monster movie ever made.

[sadude]

I never got into really scary movies. I used to be mostly unnerved by them (the Chucky movies and the Exorcist come to mind) before I was old enough to appreciate them, and by the time I was old enough I was more into video games and the original Silent Hill came out. That's still my defining scary media experience, even though I was only able to really play and finish one the first and second games in the series, with the latter being about 4 years after it came out. I did watch the SH movie in theaters, but that wasn't a scary experience at all for me and more of a celebration of the game.



That said, I watched the last half of the original Night of the Living Dead yesterday. That was fun to watch from the perspective of its significance in zombie movies, but not particularly scary. Maybe I just don't watch the right movies?

I think I remember "A Tale of Two Sisters" being scary, but I don't remember what actually happened in it.



Also: "Sexy" Halloween movie? <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':wheely:' />

[al kusanagi]

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Try Idle Hands. Horror comedy that takes place around Halloween starring a hawt teenage Jessica Alba.

[Fina]

I saw Paranormal Activity this year, prior Halloween, but I was really happy with that. I'm really picky with scary movies, hardly any actually scare me. Perhaps it was because I went into the theater with a friend and we decided we wanted to feel scared, but at the end we were holding each other's hands. I'll definitely watch that next year around Halloween time.



This year I watched The Orphanage. (Not, contrary to what all my friends thought, the same as The Orphan.) It was really good. It's by the guy who did Pan's Labyrinth, and the ending was really unexpected. Plus, the production quality in general was really good. I can't stand when you have a good plot that's ruined by shitty acting.



Also good: The Descent and The Strangers. (Although this one might have only been good to me because, like Paranormal Activity, I went into it with a couple friends and we psyched ourselves up, saying "I really want to get scared" and such. I just thought it was terrifying because, unlike movies like Scream, where the characters get attacked because they deserve it, this was a completely random attack. I couldn't leave the theater and think to myself, "Well, that could never happen to me" because that was kind of the point of it.)



Worst "horror" movie I've seen recently: Haunting of Molly Hartley. It was, by far, the worst. Anti-climatic, horrible acting, and a really weird ending. (For those who have seen it: So, basically, she has to sacrifice herself to the devil . . . and becomes super popular and has a cute boyfriend. Scary.)