I like to take Halloween as an occasion to watch movies. Suspenseful movies, monster movies, scary movies… all good on Halloween.
This afternoon/evening while the trick-or-treaters were visiting (i.e., no super scary movies), I watched Monsters, Inc. and Clue. Tonight, with the husband, I’m planning on watching The Number 23.
What movies did you watch today?
Just got back from Paranormal Activity 2 with my daughter. I liked it. As usual, the first one was better, but I enjoyed the suspense and the starts in the flick. I literally jumped out of my chair a few times.
We’ve had a tradition of going to see *Saw *movies for Halloween, but we’ve come to the conclusion (at least I have) that that franchise should have been retired at least a few years ago.
The same as every Halloween: Plan 9 from Outer Space.
I picked up the director’s cut of The Frighteners DVD. Peter Jackson’s almost 4-hour long making-of documentary is worth watching on it’s own.
The Walking Dead and Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) 2. Tomie, if I’ve got time before going to sleep after the others are over.
I happened to see the Mr. Sardonicus was on TCM the other day and DVR’d it.
That film scared the bejesus out of me as a kid - I am sure it is tame and silly now, but looking forward to seeing it through my adult eyes today to see what scared me so much as a kid.
The Vanishing (original Dutch version). Very frightening in its way and also very sad. The remake is startlingly misguided and always reminds me of the little film-within-a-film from ‘The Player’.
I’ve had ‘Creature of the Night’ strolling through my head for, oh, the last 48 hours or so; I may have overdone it on the Rocky Horror.
Halloween DAY? Nothing. This month, though? The local theaters made it easy for me!
The Rick Moranis Little Shop of Horrors
Let Me In
Bela Lugosi in Dracula
Vincent Price in The House of Usher
We had a zombie fest. Friday was the silly but enjoyable Zombies of Mass Destruction. Saturday night was Dead Set and The Walking Dead. Hubby watched some Australian zombie movie that was too dumb for me, then last night we watched a remake of Day of the Dead with Mena Suvari, which was really dreadful. But we had fun watching it together.
While we were carving pumpkins we had the Glee Rocky Horror show on. It was kind of fun, but sanitized Rocky Horror just seems wrong.
An American Werewolf In London and The Walking Dead.
I watched Fright Night last week. It held up remarkably well.
It scared me, too! I was almost hesitant to watch it again, but I was brave and did watch. Silly is hardly the word…
TCM showed a remarkable number of old creature-features this month, like Hammer horror movies I haven’t seen in decades. They did show my all time favorite scary movie - The Haunting. I love TCM! I can honestly say my life is better because of all the great movies they show, all the time.
I kind of missed The Rocky Horror Picture Show but I was so busy handing out candy at the door I didn’t have a chance to even find the DVD much less play it.
I was going for cheezy so my friends and I watched Jennifer’s Body and Orphan on Saturday. Surprisingly both were better than I expected and not exactly cheezy.
My back up plan was a couple of Gamera DVDs I recently bought but I couldn’t find anyone else willing to watch. I explained to them that Gamera was the friend to all children but no dice.
We usually watch The Nightmare Before Christmas while we’re passing out the candy, since the movie begins on Halloween Night. Last night we watched the Giants game instead.
We’ve had a week of spooky movies:
Near Dead
Monster Squad
The Lady in White
Fair-Haired Child (not a movie, but episode from Showtime’s “Masters of Horror”)
Pieces*
Suspiria
*uber-awesome grindhouse slasher - has anyone else seen this?
I watched Nightmare Before Christmas last evening while drinking a bloody Argentine malbec and hanging with my BFF (best foodie friend).
We started in on Sleepy Hollow but it got too late for her.
We re-watched Rocky Horror Picture Show while the kiddies were coming for their Laffy Taffy, so that we can finally watch the Rocky-themed Glee episode sitting in our DVR, having agreed when they started advertising it that we both wanted to re-watch the movie before seeing the Glee takeoff.
I like B movies on Halloween, so we watched The Brain Eaters (1958). It was terrible; I don’t know why MST never did it. We also watched part of The Terror (1963?), with Boris Karloff and a very very young Jack Nicholson. It’s boring, but a pre-drawl, pre-grin, pre-greasy Nicholson was interesting to watch.
Halloween Night -
Halloween (the original, w/Rifftrax)
Dawn of the Dead (original, theatrical cut)
also watched the 1st ep of The Walking Dead and had Halloween 3 through 5 on in the background during various parts of the day
Earlier in the month -
Nightmare On Elm St. remake, better than expected but still not as good as the original
Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the original one, watched it with commentary for the first time
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2, which somehow managed to be even worse than Rob Zombie’s Halloween
Cabin Fever 2:Spring Fever, awful awful movie
Planned to watch but never found time -
Saw 6
Nosferatu, the original silent movie
Nosferatu, the remake from a few decades ago
Zombieland