Best halloween movies of all time.

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So what does it for you? Ghouls? Hobgoblins? Vampires? Moth-eaten werewolves with fangs? I've been thinking, every halloween, somehow I'm the one that ends up passing out candy, so I end up stuck in front of the TV watching some old scary movie, and stopping to answer the door every five minutes.

But then I was struck with a thought. Aha!!!! What if I invited a bunch of people over in costume, and moved a couch, a bunch of chairs and a big TV outside, and had an all night outdoors fright night film fest? We could keep all the candy right there, and people could come and go, watch the scary movies, get candy, maybe play a game or two, and have a good old time in general.

But what movies? (and now is the time to start getting them together.)

I'm thinking start with Nightmare Before Christmas (popular and since it's early, there'll be more kids.) Then work my way straight into the gore and guts with Evil Dead II. It's Bruce Campbell, you can't lose. Follow up with Dead and Breakfast, it's new, it's cheesy, it's brilliant, and it's got David Carridine. Then I'll hit 'em hard and fast with The Crow.

After that, I'm thinking it needs a touch of 80's camp, like Fright Night or Lost Boys, but I haven't completely ruled out Monster Squad ("wolfman's got nads?") That'll bring us to maybe one in the morning, then a quick one two punch for anyone left standing with The Grudge, What Lies Beneath, then finish 'em of with Thirteen Ghosts, and lastly my personal favorite, the old Night of the Living Dead (the only one ever to give me nightmares.)

These are some of my halloween favorites, what's yours?
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
DIdn't much care for The Grudge, but as far as monster flicks go (at least from the last 30 years), I think you hit all the bases here.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Have you seen "White Noise" with Michael Keaton? It's about contacting spirits through EVA (the static on TV or radio). It was REALLY scary. ?Then again, I was on an airplane going to hong kong... dark cabin and extreme turbulence....

Still, I don't listen to static at all. I turn the channel right away
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think you hit all the bases here.


Awwww.......I only touched on them, and I didn't even do anything involving 80's slash fests, a boy and his chainsaw, 50's B scifi, or anything starring Neve Campbell. Ya gotta have a favorite scary movie, right?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't listen to static at all. I turn the channel right away


I don't think that's an option for us, although NBS is free to do so now.

I concur with Nightmare Before Christmas and Evil Dead 2. With the sort of theme you're going for (more camp, less serious?), I'd suggest Dead Alive (but make sure you get the Unrated version; the R rated version cut a bunch out, so you don't get all the gory gags). It's gotta be good; Peter Jackson (Meet the Feebles, Lord of the Rings) directed it!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Awwww.......I only touched on them, and I didn't even do anything involving 80's slash fests, a boy and his chainsaw, 50's B scifi, or anything starring Neve Campbell. Ya gotta have a favorite scary movie, right?


I'm glad you skipped the 80s slash fests since they are not worthy of mention. Wes Craven is to horror as Ozzy Osbourne is to Opera Arias. ;~D

I also didn't think you were talking about "scary" movies in general but merely Monster flicks (vampires, zombies, ghouls, werewolves... etc).

I'm more into the ghost story flicks. The Changeling is my favorite, but there are many others. Every year around Halloween we host a horror movie night (the 27th this year). We usually play at least one old time horror (this year will be Vincent Price's "House on Haunted HIll", a cheezy horror B Movie (which we usually have fun heckling)... and then a more contemporary horror movie (haven't decided on that one yet). The Changeling is always the fall back in case the modern one fails to induce heebies or jeebies. ;~D

An older horror movie I would recommend is Event Horizon. What alien tried to be, Event Horizon succeeded! However, while it is a horror move, it isn't what I consider "halloween horror".
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ummm...

Define "older", ParaTed2k... Event Horizon came out in 1997, starring Sam Neill and Lawrence "Cowboy Carl" Fishburne.
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But for me, "Firestarter" is cheesy but good fun.
"Beetlejuice" and "Nightmare Before Christmas" are excellent. (Every film Tim Burton does is a Halloween classic; you're telling me "Edward Scissorhands" was a Christmas movie?!?!)
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Lady in White" (except for the storyline with the black family, especially when the man gets shot.)

"The Mascot"

"The Lost Boys"
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
this year will be Vincent Price's "House on Haunted HIll", a cheezy horror B Movie (which we usually have fun heckling)...


Come on, you aren't terrified by the skeleton puppet? And I swear the rope curling around that girl's legs must be where Raimi got the idea for the girl getting "attacked" by vines in Evil Dead. I'm a Vincent Price junkie. I've tried to get everything he's been in. I've got some of his old stuff like The Bat, and the House on Haunted Hill, but I've got some of his later stuff too, Thriller, his appearance on the muppet show, Edward Scissorhands, etc........

Wes Craven is to horror as Ozzy Osbourne is to Opera Arias. ;~D


So.....he's a rock star of the horror industry. This is a bad thing?

An older horror movie I would recommend is Event Horizon


Excellent film.

Lady in White" (except for the storyline with the black family, especially when the man gets shot.)"The Mascot"


Haven't seen these two yet, The Mascot is the french one from the thirties with the toy dog, right?

Define "older",


Older than the last MRE you ate...........you hope.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Haven't seen these two yet, The Mascot is the french one from the thirties with the toy dog, right?


"Lady in White" is a great ghost story. Very surreal. Starring Lukas Haas and Katherine Helmond (Jessica Tate from Soap.)

I saw a shortened version of "The Mascot" on Night Flight titled "Devil's Ball."

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TITLE: Mascot, The
DATE : (1933, France,Short 30 mins)
GOOD : YesYES
FIND : rare
GENRE: Animation, Childrens, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Foreign
THEME: Artificial Life, Creativity, Dreaming, Extraterrestrials, Growth/Healing, Journeying, Mind, Myth/Religion, Spirits, Transformations

PLOT : Toys come to life at the devil's midnight party. Amazing early stop-motion animation of stuffed dog that braves a devil's enchanted party of rubbish creatures to bring back an orange to a sick girl
NOTES: beware shortened versions, dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz, aka "Fetiche", aka "Puppet Love", aka "Stuffy's Errand of Mercy", aka "The Devil's Ball"
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
I always liked Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" for the atmoshphere. Very visual freak.

Also.... "The Blair Witch Project." I admit it. I had to sleep with the light on in this movie. I can see why people trashed it, but I spent two summers of sleeping in the woods in a tent in places where we were flown in by helicopters (the joys of treeplanting) and if I saw some freaky (word of the day apparantly) stuff like that... Weird things can happen in the woods.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
There are plenty of great horror movies out there. I stopped getting afraid after the first few Freddy movies. But lately we have had a few good ones. I liked The Ring, hadn't had a movie shake me up in a long time like that on did. The grudge got me pretty good as well but the one movie that got me so bad that I had to watch cartoons for 3 hours before I went to sleep was The Amityville Horror 2005. That movie made my wife cry. It was great.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
"The Blair Witch Project."


This movie made me seasick, with all the motion and quick cuts. Didn't scare me at all. I was a masterpiece of marketing, though.

The Ring


Now, this flick freaked me out. I loved it. Very weird.
There's one, too, about creatures from some other realm, that only people who had night terrors as kids can see. Can't remember the name, though. It was pretty good.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
There's one, too, about creatures from some other realm, that only people who had night terrors as kids can see. Can't remember the name, though. It was pretty good.


Wasn't that the one, Tooth Fairy or something like that? Don't remember, it had a horrible name, decent movie though.

The Amityville Horror 2005.


That one didn't do much for me. Not badly made. Just didn't connect for some reason.

but the one movie that got me so bad that I had to watch cartoons for 3 hours before I went to sleep was The Amityville Horror 2005. That movie made my wife cry. It was great.


Ha ha!!! My wife does that. She loves scary movies but they freak her out something awful. The first time I found out, we stayed up 'til two in the morning watching Silence of the Lambs. When it was over, I rolled over to go to sleep, and all I heard was uh-uh. 45 minutes of Fantasia later, we finally turned out the lights.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Halloween! 4TW!

Seriously, I am a horror movie fanatic. Halloween, Halloween II are still at the top of the panthelon of horror movies.

I feel that newer movies like the Ring, Grudge, and the such, tend to be to visual, too in your face. Though I did enjoy the Ring. I think that a lot of movies that go for the psychological edge tend to be better. But, that isn't to say that some of the movies that came out in years past weren't bad.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good topic!

Here's a few that people have missed so far ...

Just plain disturbing:
Eraserhead (Link)

Best monster thriller:
The Thing ["John Carpenter's The Thing"](Link)

Best character-driven thriller (mystery?):
The Ninth Gate (Link)

Best psychological thriller:
Dead Ringers (Link)
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
I feel that newer movies like the Ring, Grudge, and the such, tend to be to visual, too in your face


Possibly. And the Halloween slasher flicks are your idea of subtle? I like them a lot, and have since years back. However the Grudge ate my liver for lunch, with Fava Beans and a nice Chianti. (or chardonnay if you read the Thomas Harris book.)

The Thing


Great film. I don't usually think of it as a Halloween movie though. I don't know why. I particularly loved the bit when they blew off that guy's head, and it sprouted spider legs and started running around. Now THAT was spooky.

The Ninth Gate


Good halloween film, very dark satanic theme. And the girl was extremely hot, devil or not. My favorite bit was when Depp walked up to her and she was reading the paperback version of How to Win Friends and Influence People. I haven't seen the others yet, but I might. The trailer for Eraserhead is kind of disturbing.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well so many good ones have been mentioned already.

How about the first "Halloween" movie? If you like older movies another good one that alot of people forget is "The Uninvited".

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" would be a good Halloween movie. People could even dress up as some of the characters.

You could always start off your Halloween film bash will a cartoon too, "It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".