# Your Halloween movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2002, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676 "2002-10-31T08:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/1 "2002-10-31T08:30:11Z")
I just watched mine, _The Shining_. Admittedly, _Rocky Horror_ is the official Halloween movie by fiat, great tribute to the horror/scifi genre and the decade that created them. But everyone has to have a favourite, that they watch each year. I would also put _Young Frankenstein_ on that level. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/2 "2002-10-31T13:47:40Z")
Ours is _Plan Nine from Outer Space_. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/3 "2002-10-31T14:37:07Z")
**Young Frankenstein** definitely tops our list. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/4 "2002-10-31T17:07:14Z")
Nightmare Before Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/5 "2002-10-31T17:42:28Z")
_Donnie Darko_ ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/6 "2002-10-31T17:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mooch \* > \*\ ***Young Frankenstein** definitely tops our list. \*\* That’s _Fronk-en-shteen_. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/7 "2002-10-31T20:27:19Z")
Me too for The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s double-good because you can watch it for Halloween and then again a couple of months later for Christmas. I just bought the DVD, but I haven’t watched it yet. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/8 "2002-10-31T23:05:27Z")
Between October 1st. and 31st. these films must be watched in the neofishboy household: _Halloween_ _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ _Return of the Living Dead_ The Romero _Dead_ trilogy. _Evil Dead II_ _Ed Wood_ _Spider Baby_ _Plan Nine From Outer Space_ _Dead Alive_ _Zombie_ And, when knife first pierces pumpkin flesh, the _Peanuts_ theme must be bursting happily forth from the television. We get kind of … _weird_ about Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/9 "2002-11-01T03:00:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neofishboy \* > \*\*Between October 1st. and 31st. these films must be watched in the neofishboy household: > > \ > _Evil Dead II_ > > _Dead Alive_ > > We get kind of … _weird_ about Halloween. \*\* I can tell 😉 Those are two I didn’t think of, but are definitely the best gore pictures of the last 20 years, IMHO. It takes a real Raimi fan to pick out ED2 over the others, and a real Peter Jackson fan to pick _Dead Alive_. I think **TarsTarkas** could make you an honorary part of his B-movie enthusiasts’ club 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/10 "2002-11-01T03:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > …and a real Peter Jackson fan to pick\* Dead Alive\*… And whaddaya know? I flip over to IFC about half an hour ago and… “Your mother ate my dog!” I am in spooky heaven. (Gotta go…zombie baby in the park scene…) ---
**Author:** ![Jeffrey\_Hartnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@Jeffrey\_Hartnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffrey_Hartnett)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/11 "2002-11-01T06:31:18Z")
I am partial to an old Boris Karlof/Peter loree fim, The Boogie man will get you. It’s hysterically funny. Has some of my all time favorite lines. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/12 "2002-11-01T08:12:09Z")
This year I went with **Tenebrae** , because I’d never seen it before. It was okay, but I don’t see why people would prefer it over **Suspiria**. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-halloween-movie/134676/13 "2002-11-01T16:32:26Z")
It was all about **The Thing** for me this year.