Your Fave Halloween Movies

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Ok, 'tis the season to scare and be scared!!
Just wonderin' what everyone's favorite horror/thriller/creepy movies are?
What do you like to curl up with this time of year?

Some of mine include:

Exorcist but go for the Director's Cut.  The creepy "crab-walk" scene is a killer.
Exorcist 3 George C. Scott and Brad Douriff are Amaz-za-zing in this movie.  If you haven't seen it, it's uber-creepy with just enough "gotcha" moments to make it a classic.  No spinning heads or pea soup, though.  It's actually closer to a murder mystery.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 If you haven't seen it, give it a shot.  It's nothing like the first one and there's a bunch of creepy "easter eggs" throughout the movie that just add to the weirdness.
The Amityville Horror is always a classic, but I prefer the original.
The Evil Dead is chock full of low-budget goodness.  Anything after this one is when the series started to get campy (Not that there's anything wrong with that), but the original is horror through and through.
Event Horizon Think Amityville Horror meets Exorcist in SPACE!  If you haven't seen this little gem, it is FULL of awesome!

Anyways...those are just a few of my personal faves.  What about you?

[Welsh Wench]

Well, dang, Maelstrom---how can you forget the original The Shining?

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Well, dang, Maelstrom---how can you forget the original The Shining?

I didn't forget it....I live it every winter!!!

[Tipsy Gypsy]

American Werewolf in London. Still the Best. Transformation. Evar.

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American Werewolf in London. Still the Best. Transformation. Evar.

Nazi Werewolves! FTW!!

[Anna Iram]

I love The Shinning. Scariest book ever!

Rosemary's Baby: Not so scary by todays slasher standards, but how can you not love Ruth Gordon and John Casevetties hunting for the perfect mother/host for Satan.

Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead: There's a whole school of thought on which zombies are better. Those in the original or the running zombies in the remake. Me..I like a nice mix.  


Halloween: Gotta see this once each year. The slasher that started it all.

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Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead: There's a whole school of thought on which zombies are better. Those in the original or the running zombies in the remake. Me..I like a nice mix.  

I've always been more partial to the slow moving, shambling ones.  Today's fast ones are good for "gotcha" moments, but the slow ones make you think you can get away...right up until they swarm your arse!

[Welsh Wench]

OK Maelstrom, so this is kind of a mini-movie and although I can't stand him, this does have its merit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8

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OK Maelstrom, so this is kind of a mini-movie and although I can't stand him, this does have its merit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8

Grrrr! Stupid "Sonic Wall"!! 
I'll have to watch it when I get home.

[Welsh Wench]

You might want to re-think that.
It was 'Thriller'! 

I know 'House on Haunted Hill' made me turn all the lights on when I was a kid.

[maelstrom0370]

You might want to re-think that.
It was 'Thriller'! 

I know 'House on Haunted Hill' made me turn all the lights on when I was a kid.

Awwww...Have some respect for the Thriller!

Ooooo House on Haunted Hill!!!  I remember watching that on the Saturday Creature Feature as a kid.

[Lady Neysa]

I think Michael Jackson today is much scarier than zombie Michael   .  I don't like him either, but Thriller was  a pretty cool video, of course it wouldn't have been as good without Vincent Price.

[Welsh Wench]

Yeah, Zombie Michael looks more human!

[Lady Nicolette]

You might want to re-think that.
It was 'Thriller'! 

I know 'House on Haunted Hill' made me turn all the lights on when I was a kid.

"House on Haunted Hill" still makes me wonder what will meet my hand when I go to turn on a light switch around a corner!
Also, although not Halloween in particular, both "The Turn of the Screw" and "The Other," are great scary films.

[Cloverpogue]

Beetlejuice~saw it when it first came out in theaters, and the firts time I heard the f bomb dropped. *lol* I was 10.

On tv: how can you forget The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown? Love it.'I was robbed! I could've gone out for tricks or treats!'

The Garfield Halloween special~

Witch's Night Out~with Gilda Radner

The Halloween Tree~

The Rocky Horror Picture Show~

anything Scooby Doo~

Hocus Pocus~

Bram Stoker's Dracula~

Dracula~ with Bela Lugosi, of course 

The Nightmare Before Christmas~ I love Jack Skellington, I saw that the first time round in theaters~

Young Frankenstein~ so many gone now from that cast, God Rest their souls~

TV: The Munsters, and the Addams Family; mom grew up watching them, as did I in reruns, and so did my daughter~  I still want Lily Munster's dress.  I loved how they both saw nothing wrong with how they were, and how every one else was 'plain, or ugly'. So wonderful. I would have loved to have both for neighbors.  I also loved the Addams Family movies.

Halloween Town on Disney~ great for kids, and a neat idea where Halloween Town is an actual place there.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark~ campy, but we knew that, already, and she had another movie out awhile back, Haunted Hills, I believe, with Richard O'Brien.

oh, I'll think of more...
sorry, my cousins scarred me for life with horror movies when they rented 'Nightmare on Elm Street' when it first came out, and I was smacking my sister on the way out of the theater when we saw 'Dead Silence' last year.  As if I wasn't already terrified of ventrilioquist dummies. *lol* Really good scary movie, though.