Recommending horror flicks is a tough task. It's like trying to choose between decapitated heads ("Re-Animator") and exploding heads ("Scanners"). Shucks, how can you do it? The trouble is that horror movies come in so many flavors. Slasher movies ("Halloween"). Splatter movies ("Dead Alive"). Slasher/splatter movies ("Maniac"). Exploitation films ("I Spit on Your Grave"). Religion-themed horror ("The Omen"). Possession horror ("The Exorcist"). Reality horror ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer"). Sci-fi horror ("Alien"). Me? I like it all when Halloween rolls around. But my all-time favorite horror movie (if not movie, period, some days) will always be "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn." It's a work of low-budget brilliance. It's creative, scary AND hilarious. Actor Bruce Campbell is utterly awesome in it. The original 1987 movie trailer doesn't do the film much justice, but I can't post any specific scenes from the movie here without possibly offending someone. Even then ...
(WARNING: There is gratuitous, silly gore in this movie trailer, so DO NOT click it unless you want to see a splattered zombie's eyeball fly through the air and into a screaming damsel's open mouth. Genius, by the way.)
It all begs the question: What IS the best Halloween movie of all time?
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I agree about Evil Dead
Evil Dead II is a great horror flick. I think the best Halloween movie is Halloween I. A great horror movie before the series degenerated into hack 'em slash 'em junk (IMO). I have to admit the new movies have left me behind. They are not all that scary but are very sick and disgusting. Blood and gore are no substitute for suspense and a good plot.
Agreed on "Halloween"
I just watched it again last night. It was on American Movie Classics, so it was edited. Which sucked. Despite that, it was still quite chilling. (And it's wild to see Jamie Lee Curtis at 19 or 20 years old). My wife, who had never seen "Halloween," was surprised it was so "simple," she said. It definitely scared her. It's sad how many people today have seen all the lousy, Hollywood sequels to movies like this without realizing how different the originals were. Same story with "Nightmare on Elm Street": That's actually an excellent horror movie, despite the awful sequels.
Really!
Jamie and I are about the same age!
GRRRROOOOOWLLLLLL
(WARNING: There is
(WARNING: There is gratuitous, silly gore in this movie trailer, so DO NOT click it unless you want to see a splattered zombie's eyeball fly through the air and into a screaming damsel's open mouth. Genius, by the way.)
Not if they extracted her 'eye teeth'.