Halloween Movies

It's Halloween.  Time for tricks and treats and scary movies.  But not all Halloween movies are scary.  Some are just plain fun.  I like both equally.  Back in high school, my brother and I made it our focus to watch all of the Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street movies.  Back then they were scary, now I see them as cheesy slasher films. 

Some of my favorite Halloween/scary movies are as follows (in no particular order):

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre (scariest movie I have ever seen)
• The Addams Family
• Clue
• The Blair Witch Project
• 28 Days Later
• Jesus Camp
• Dead Snow
• Corpse Bride
• It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (duh!)  

And I'm sure that if I were having a discussion with others there would be some more movies that would come up, but these are some that come to mind.  One thing that I have shied away from with horror movies is what I have come to call 'torture porn'.  When the 'Hostel' and 'Saw' movies came out, a new type of horror movie came to be.  The movies have a small plot and lots of blood, not my thing.  I watched the first 'Saw' movie and it was good, but when they started a franchise I stopped.  I saw the previews, I heard the reviews and it did not interest me at all.  If I see a scary movie, I want to be scared I don't want to be grossed out.  A couple of weeks ago, I watched 'Cabin in the Woods'.  A great new horror movie.  It had a great plot, humor, and just enough blood/gore not to distract from what was going on in the movie.  

Have a great Halloween everyone!  Go watch a great scary movie.