Candy Corn Cometh!!!

Okay so this time of year is quite possibly my favorite. Well if the hot weather would go the hell away I'd love it a lot more. So while I was sick in bed with the funk that one of my residents no doubt gave me I thought it would be good to come up with my October must see movie list. I love all things Halloween! I love the weather, then parties, the costumes and above all the horror movies. So here goes the list of must sees...

1. The Exorcist
This movie is one of my all time favorites! I've watched it a million times over and pea soup never looked so good. I know. That may be the grossest scene next to the one with the crucifix, but there is just something that makes that entire movie pure brilliance.

2. It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
I just adore this movie. Every year it's puts me in the holiday spirit. I'll admit that all those years of having to take kids that weren't mine trick or treating while their parents were out partying and I was missing my parties was kinda fun, BUT a part of me secretly wanted one of those kids to get rocks instead of candy. I mean seriously how hilarious would that have been??!! (I never said I didn't have an evil side.)

3. Poltergeist
There is just something so brilliant about this movie. I remember seeing it as a kid, okay maybe not a kid but when I was younger, and I remember thinking why can't I have a ghost in my house. Well, not so much a ghost that's pissed off because my family built our house on an Indian burial ground, but a cool one that will let me slide across the kitchen floor and rearrange the furniture in our breakfast nook.

4. Carrie
I think back to the days of Anna and myself when we used to randomly look at each other and say, "They're all gonna laugh at you." Then scream no!!! Always makes me smile. This is my all time favorite Stephen King. I love all his stuff, but this one was the first book I ever read by him and it remains one I reread every year followed by watching the movie. Let's face it. You really wanted Carrie to get her classmates. They really were a bunch of assholes and did you see that hair??!! Tommy deserved to die for that fro-tastrophe.

5. Halloween
The original or the remake. The original is really great, but the remake by Rob Zombie is just downright awesome! Now normally I'm 100% anti remakes, but wow. This one was worth the movie theater price! It goes even further into the dark mind of Michael Myers. The guy that they picked to play him as an adult is a freaking beast!! I can see why he would come off as invincible. But I think the thing I like best about Rob Zombie's films is his love for gore and nasty. That man loves his blood. (Boob shots too, but if you've got a pair they all look the same to you.) Every time this man had the chance to do a blood shot, he threw an extra gallon in just to make it better. For your awesomeness I say kudos to you, Mr. Zombie!

6. House of Wax
Yes. I know this one makes me lose some of my horror cred, but hear me out. The plot is lame, the acting is horrible, and the ending isn't that great, BUT the whole reason for loving this movie is totally valid. Paris Hilton dies. The end. Who wouldn't love a movie where that pain in the ass, waste of oxygen finally gets what she deserves?? And yes, every time I see that scene I laugh. I know. I need help.

7. Psycho
Or any Alfred Hitchcock for that matter! That man is the father of suspense to me. I mean don't get me wrong The Birds concept was great, but the attack scenes were a bit cheesy. But let's think back to when this stuff came out. It was considered scary stuff. Here is a great example. I remember when I first started getting into Hitchcock's work and my mother told me a story. When she was a teenager she was home alone one night and thinking she was super bad ass decided to watch one of the Hitchcock movies on TV. Well at one point she had to go to the bathroom, but she was kinda scared. So she went in, shut the door and right when her pants were around her ankles the a/c kicked on making the shower curtain move. She went running screaming through the house with her pants around her ankles, locked herself in her bedroom until someone got home to rescue her. If that isn't the sign of a good scary movie reaction, then I don't know what is. Then again any funny story about my mom totally must be shared.

8. Scream
Yeah, it wasn't all the scary or brilliant, but I still really like it. My advice is to stay away from the sequels. Unless you're The Godfather all sequels by definition suck. I'll admit however, that it was a great movie for its time and I'll never say the words "I'll be back" seeing as the fact that I'm not a virgin makes me a prime candidate to be killed. Oops.

9. Saw
You know I really like these movies. I'll admit they kinda lost their way on the second one and some of the third, but I think I may have given up on them too soon. It wasn't until I was talking Saw with my friend, Randy (and by him pressuring me to watch the movies) that I realized there's more of a plot to them than expected. You think they were like the Scream movies just random plot with random killers that get solved in some weird way in the end, but they aren't. Each movie is tied to a previous one, and if you haven't seen them you're almost a bit lost. My advice is stick it out. It's worth the effort. Plus some of the devices that people have to get out of are hella freaky, and let's face it someone has to die and that can sometimes be hella gross.

10. The Strangers
When I saw the previews for this movie I though oh hell no! It looked so campy and lame, but then I read in my Entertainment Weekly that Stephen King liked this movie and I thought well I like to believe this guy has some horror standards. So I rented it, and then I bought it. It's not that gross or disgusting. It's more of your classic bumps and sounds make you jump scary movie. It's not that elaborate, but still. I really liked it. Every so often I'll break it out just for some entertainment.

Now I know I didn't include some movies, but the list could go on forever. The Ring will never be on this list. Let's face it. That movie sucked. It wasn't scary and the plot was kinda dumb. And although The Blair Witch Project was semi decent, I can never watch it because it makes me want to throw up. Literally. Hello! Can you say steady shot? Yes, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th aren't on the list, but believe me they are in my movie collection and get watched every Halloween. So at the end of this list I say to you. Horror anyone? Oh and feel free to suggest anything you might like.