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Best Movies for Your Halloween Monster Mash!
Best Movies for Your Halloween Monster Mash!
By Tessa Petrocco, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Along with eating candy, wearing costumes and carving Jack-o-lanterns to get in the spirit for Halloween, another great holiday pastime is throwing a killer party! However, what’s a good Halloween party without the great horror flicks? Here are two lists of hauntingly good movies to watch on Halloween. Whether you enjoy a nice scare or love to laugh, beware of what lies ahead!
The Scarier, the Better!
10. Pumpkinhead
What happens when a witch crosses a child’s soul and a deformed body with an evil spirit? You get this hot mess. The film’s main character, Ed Harley, thinks he’s doing the right thing by awakening an evil spirit to seek revenge on those who killed his soon, but things quickly start to go south. Proof that you should never mess with a monster.
9. Hellraiser
I don’t know one person who can look at Pinhead and not get the willies. Clive Barker re-imagined the idea of Hell in this film about a woman bargaining with sado-masochistic demons that are holding her ex-lover captive. Hellraiser steps up the scare factor to a bone-chilling degree.
8. 28 Days Later
Just as the fear attached to the walking dead started to wear off, Danny Boyle pulls a fast one on moviegoers by introducing the running infected. The quite tone of the film, along with the aspect of epidemic, generate a feeling of slow impending doom unlike a lot of horror films which rely on overwhelming the viewer.
7. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
It may be an oldie, but it’s a damn goodie! Horror hasn’t been the same since this chainsaw-wielding slasher was introduced. It made teens tpuhink twice about doing all the bad things their parents always warned them about. The overall tone of the film makes something as taboo as cannibalism seem like a deadly possibility.
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street
While Freddy was the first psycho killer to make us laugh, more than likely those laughs were filled with nervous anxiety. Who can look at that burned face and those knives-for-claws and not feel skittish? This movie is what solidified Wes Craven’s career as a horror icon and also catapulted Johnny Depp into stardom.
5. Friday the 13th (1980)
Jason Voorhees may be known as the man behind the mask of this series, but his Momma is responsible for getting things started. One of the first horror films to portray a female killer, Friday the 13th is a Halloween must-have.
4. The Thing
While Alien introduced terror from the beyond, John Carpenter’s The Thing took it to a whole new level with the deranged and deformed concoctions its aliens inhabited. It doesn’t get much more claustrophobic than being stranded on Antarctica.
3. Night of the Living Dead
If you ever wondered who to thank for flesh-eating zombies, George A. Romero’s the man. Who would have thought that a small movie made back in 1968 could become one of the most thriving subgenres of horror? Revisit this horror classic but be sure to keep the lights on or you’ll find yourself looking over your shoulder in no time!
2. The Exorcist
Thirty-five years after its release, this film still holds up and scares the pants off of a new audience every year. Between Regan, played by Linda Blair, and her slowly deforming presence and the extremely foul language and behavior erupting from her, its no wonder Blair was a feared lady. This is horror at its finest.
1. Halloween (1978)
It isn’t Halloween until you watch Halloween. Michael Myers, in the most expressionless and terrifying mask to ever grace the big screen, returns to his hometown fifteen years after killing his sister to strike again. Halloween proves that the Boogeyman really does exist.
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