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Shukti’s Favorite Halloween Movies
I love this time of year for so many reasons, and one of my favorite reasons is the parade of horror movies — from schlocky B-grade crap with a charm all its own to the truly frightening classics — that a lot of networks start broadcasting. I decided to list some of my faves in alphabetical order. I know strictly speaking that some of these aren’t horror, but they’re creepy in other rights, and anyway horror and art are both subjective. (The armchair pundit that I married says All the President’s Men always gives him the creeps.)
As always, if there’s a remake floating around out there, I’m referring to the original unless I note otherwise.
— Shukti
- 28 Days Later… (2002)
- 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- Alien (1979)
- Aliens (1986)
- Army of Darkness (1992)
- The Bad Seed (1956)
- Blade (1998)
- The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- The Birds (1963)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) (1920)
- Candyman (1992)
- Cape Fear (1962)
- Carnival of Souls (1962)
- Carrie (1976)
- Creepshow (1982) (The first R-rated movie that Shukti snuck into)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Diabolique (Les diaboliques) (1955)
- Duel (1971)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Frenzy (1972)
- Gravedancers (2005)
- The Golem (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) (1920)
- Halloween (1978) (The original. Let Michael Myers R.I.P. already!)
- Häxan (1922)
- Hellraiser (1987) (Everyone should see this thing at least once)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- M (1931)
- The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
- Night of the Hunter (1955) (Almost a Southern Grimm’s Fairy Tale quality)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
- The Omen (1976)
- Psycho (1960)
- The Ring (2002) (Purists may be surprised, but I prefer the remake)
- Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
- Saw (2004)
- Scanners (1981)
- Scream (1996)
- The Shining (1980)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- The Stand (1994)
- Suspiria (1977)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- The Thing from Another World (The original (1951) or the remake (1982))
- The Wicker Man (1973) (Hold out for the full-length cut)
