In the spirit of Halloween I thought about doing a list of my favorite horror movies. I'm a lil picky about my horror flicks and usually not impressed by over use of gore or the slasher monster who keeps coming back over and over again. Though I admit Jason and Freddy are a bit entertaining in killing their victims. I like to think they have style. Poltergeist  This is such a classic haunted house movie for me. I thought it was extra creepy in the scene when the mother falls into the unfinished pool and the skeletons popup in the water. In an interview with the actress they used real skeletons for that scene in the film. There is also the theory that the film is cursed and several actors died after this film.
Favorite Scary Moment: Poor Robbie is getting scared of his toy clown and knocked it down from the chair it's sitting on which eventually disappears. Then Robbie checks under the bed and doesn't find it there. When he gets back up the toy clown attacks him and drags him under the bed.
Lesson Learned: Don't fuck with Indian burial grounds.
30 Days of Night  I recently saw this and I loved it. I thought it had the right amount of gore for a Vampire movie. A small town in Alaska is about to go through a month of no sun. Then a group of vampires start to isolate the town and begin a feeding frenzy. I think what was creepy is how helpless the victims were. Usually you have to survive till Dawn but these people had to last a month and in cold weather.
Favorite Scary Moment: When they use a town girl as bait to lure out the other towns people. Which you can see in the trailer with her pleading to God. Then the head vampire tells her "no...no God". Which leads to them brutally attacking her and biting her.
Lesson Learned: Frankly I wouldn't live in a town that had a month of no sun.
The Grudge
 This is my favorite scary movie. The film works on your primal fear and I loved how she would pop out of anywhere. Another good haunted house film where when someone dies horribly their spirit stays there and relives the scene over. The curse eventually consumes if you step inside the house. I liked this film cause it attacked anyone. Even the innocent die in this film. Too bad the sequel sucked donkey balls.
Favorite Scary Moment: Opening scene when Yoko sticks her head in the attic and turns to find herself face to face with the ghost and is dragged up in the attic.
Lesson Learned: Your relator should disclose if there was a grizzly murder in the house you are buying. The Descent
 I saw this poster on a bus stop on Sunset Blvd. I thought hmm interesting. So when I heard it was getting a lot of good reviews. I rented it one night and was surprised how much I was into the story. Still not sure why I thought it was scary but the setting for the story has a lot to do with it. A group of women go Spurlunking and dive into a uncharted cave. But the girls find out they are not alone and are trap in the cave with hungry creatures.
Favorite Scary Moment: The girls are being attacked by the monsters and one defends herself with her sort of pitch fork ax. After she kills a few she hears a sound behind her and she turns around to swing her ax which ends up being one of her friends and the ax goes through her throat. OUCH!
Lesson Learned: If it's not on the map don't go there and watch your back. The Exorcist
 I had to put one of the classics. This was scary for a kid to watch. Hate my dad for letting me watch it. I kept seeing Linda Blair in the dark and hiding under the covers. I'm sure we all know what this one's about.
Favorite Scary Moment: Not sure if it's the crab walk down the stairs or the head spinning around.
Lesson Learned: Oujia boards are bad. But hard to take them seriously if they are made by Parker Bros. Silent Hill
 When I heard they were going to do a movie of one of my favorite horror games I thought "please don't fuck it up". I got to see this at a sneak preview when I worked for ETS. Loved how I got to see this a week before release. I was not happy when my pregnant co worker went with me. She miscarried the next day. Will note not because of the film.
Favorite Scary Moment: When Anna gets her skinned pulled off of her by Pyramid Head and throws her remains at Cybil and Cheryl.
Lesson Learned: Cults are bad. You can't cleanse someone with fire. The Entity
 I didn't know about this movie until I worked at a video store and a woman had asked about it. After she returned it I was too curious to not take it home and watch it. This is supposely based on a true story about a woman who was rapped and physcialy abused by a ghost or spirit.
Favorite Scary Moment: When Barbara Hersey gets attacked and rapped by the ghost in the bathroom.
Lesson Learned: Nothing really to learn at least you can't catch an STD. Dawn of The Dead
 I had to throw in a zombie movie cause I love them. Night of the Living Dead 2 was fun but there are reasons why I like this one. I think it's cool they get trapped inside a mall. If I had to take refuge somewhere a mall would be fucking sweet. Plus i like the fact they don't know what's going on in the outside world. Your still not sure what started the virus either.
Favorite Scary Moment: When they go into the garage and one of the guys gets attacked from above with a zombie that has no legs but hangs from the pipes above. Scared the fuck out of me.
Lesson Learned: Find a place with weapons, food, supplies and pray for the best. Hostel
 Of course I had to throw this one on here. Though I can't stand too much gore this one served a purpose to show how sadistic these people were in torturing their victims. I don't think i cringed so much watching a movie.
Favorite Scary Moment: Oh I hated it when the asian girl gets her face blowtorched off with her eyeball hanging out.
Lesson Learned: I guess be skeptical where you stay in another country. Saw
 I didn't expect to like this series that much. I thought the first one was great and was sure the second one would suck. But the second and third films were still fresh and the plot was still solid. I felt they planned out these films very well. Of course the death traps are great too.
Favorite Scary Moment: Mine has to come from the third film. When the detective from the second film is captured and a device is attached to her rip cage. She needs to pull the key from a glass of acid to unlock it or the device will pull her rip cage apart. Well....she doesn't quit make it.
Lesson Learned: Well...you do learn a lesson but you also lose an eye, or finger, or arm.
There you go my favorite horror films. Hope everyone has a good Halloween. | 
