My 50 Favorite Horror Movies

It’s almost Halloween so you know we have to get our spooky story on.
These are my personal top 50 favorite Horror movies. You should watch them because they are genuinely good in any or all of 3 criteria. First and foremost a great story is essential. Second is creep factor and third if it doesn’t scare me it better make me laugh!
How many of these have you seen? What’s not on the list that you would recommend?


1. El Orfanato 2007 - This is a fantastic story. You must see it.
2. Bram Stokers Dracula – I love to get carried away by dreamy vampires.
3. Exorcism of Emily Rose – Great story and Scary!
4. The Devil’s Backbone - I love a good revenge story with high levels of creep factor. You know the movie is good when you start yelling at the screen: “run kid, he’s coming!”
5. Halloween 1978 –This genuinely creepy movie has the best build up scenes ever. And the music adds levels of anticipation. See its automatically playing in your head right now.



6. The Exorcist – the scariest story ever thought of. Did I say it was scary? Heck yes.
7. Blade – sexy, butt kicking vampires plus the best techno track eva, eva.
8. Amityville Horror 1979 – I watched this again recently, it still scared me and grossed me out.
9. Amityville Horror 2005 – I don’t like sequels or remakes but this one is nice n scary.
10. Stir of Echos – great interesting, creepy story
11. The Others - great story
12. The Lost Boys 1987 – cute boys & vampires is a winning combo for me
13. Ghostrider – great story and special effects
14. Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 – great original story



15. Psycho 1960 - disturbing
16. The Blair Witch – left me emotionally distraught
17. The Unborn – good special effects
18. Mothman Prophecies– good story
19. Seven 1995 - sick
20. Shutter – great revenge story
21. Silence of the Lambs 1991 – super creepy & scary
22. The Shining – great acting by Jack Nicholson and creepy story ~ redrum
23. The Ring – disturbing & scary
24. The Sixth Sense – awesome storyline
25. Poltergeist 1982 – sick & gross = poor kid
26. The Omen – makes me laugh


27. Blood & Chocolate – I really really liked this story
28. Underworld – vampires & butt kicking = awesome
29. White Noise – good story
30. The Ninth Gate – great story, creepy
31. 1408 – awesome story
32. Drag Me to Hell – awesome! I love this movie. It made me laugh, scream and grossed me out.
33. Wolf 1994 – good story plus Jack Nicholson stars in it.
34. The Craft 1996 – nice witches tale
35. Fatal Attraction – makes me laugh
36. Interview with the Vampire – dreamy vampire lore



37. Vacancy - sick
38. Lost Souls - different
39. The Haunting in Connecticut – gross, disgusting & disturbing
40. The Prophecy 1995 – I love this version of angels.
41. I am Legend – awesome story
42. Prom Night 1980 – this movie is sick, creepy and stars Jamie Lee Curtis
43. Nosferatu 1922 – the ugliest creature I’ve ever seen
44. 8MM 1999 – this movie is demented, sick, twisted & disturbing


45. The Serpent & the Rainbow 1988 – love a good voodoo story
46. Skeleton Key – did I say I like a good voodoo story
47. Dolores Claiborne 1995 – makes you ponder on what is evil & it’s a revenge story yes!
48. Pulse 2006 – I like this modern ghost story
49. The Vanishing 1988 - creepy
50. Ghostbusters – funniest horror movie ever.

The Unborn Movie

Title: The Unborn (2009)

Studio: Phantom Four

Director/Writer:David S. Goyer

Starring: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good

I wanted to watch this movie even before the trailer was over. The trailer showed scenes with bizarre creatures, humans with upside down heads walking eerily down stairs and that creepy weird eyed kid! Stuff so disturbing I just had to see it for myself.

I love spooky, creepy, scary stuff and fortunately the movie brought it. The action starts right away and you are immediately transported to an unstable place with a scary atmosphere. Things start happening right away slowing later.

The movie is inspired by the legend of a dybbuk, a malevolent spirit denied entry into heaven that roams the human world searching for a body to inhabit. The main character, Casey, played by the beautiful Odette Yustman suspects that the spirit haunting her is the soul of her dead twin. She seeks help from the amazing actor Gary Oldman who plays the rabbi that must perform the exorcism to save her.

Yes, the movie borrowed from many other movies but I was entertained so I say go watch it.

Max Payne

I watched the Max Payne movie starring Mark Walberg last night. It was the unoriginal story of a cop seeking revenge based on some video game.

The only thing I enjoyed was the great special effects each time the dark winged creatures appeared. I loved seeing their black wings and the setting become consumed in fire. It created a thrilling and spooky atmosphere and was the only good thing about the movie.

I wished they would've gone more into the angel lore. It was more interesting and visually satisfying then the route they took with the movie.

The movie borrows from the Norse mythology a creature called valkyrie. The valkyries bring their chosen who have died bravely in battle to the afterlife hall of the slain.

See . . . much more interesting.

Book Review DFF Dead Friends Forever

I love ghost stories. I have a highly active imagination and happily spend the day wondering what if . . .

My Book Review for The first novel of the Extreme Haunting series by JR Turner titled Dead Friends Forever has been posted over at Horror Web.

Go Check it Out

Best Book Trailer I have ever seen.

This is the best book trailer I have ever seen. It's for the book by Leopoldo Gout titled Ghost Radio. I love the concept of creepy, sad ghosts infultrating into radio waves.

My favorite part of the video is the way the director made tape looks scary. In our world its plain tape from a reel but in the video it becomes possessed and turns into the gory havoc of ghosties.

But most importantly it makes me anxious to read it.


The Word is Radio from Ghost Radio on Vimeo.

Shutter - Taking Crazy to the Next Level

I watched the latest version of Shutter over the weekend and I must say I really did enjoy it.

I just love when peeps get their REVENGE on, however, I thought homegirl was a special kind of CRAZY.

So I asked a couple of friends if they've ever had a girl that just wouldn't take no for an answer and they all answered YES!

I guess strange stalkers come in all shapes and sizes. Now that is SCARY.

But back to the movie. I really enjoyed it. It could have been scarier and creepier but the acting was good and so was the story. I was not disappointed.

The original Shutter version from Japan is on my movies to see list.

Title: Shutter 2008Title: Shutter 2008
Director:Masayuki Ochiai
Writer:Luke Dawson (screenplay)

Best Prologue Ever ~ Frankenstein 1931

Wow was I impressed with this intro. It totally created the atmosphere of fright and set the tone for the horrors yet to come. I loved it! Genius!













How do you do? Mr. Carl Laemmle feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning. We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein, a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God. It is one of the strangest tales ever told. It deals with the two great mysteries of creation - life and death. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even - horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now's your chance to - uh, well, we warned you.

Wolfen 1981

Directed by Michael Wadleigh
Written by: David Eyre, Eric Roth uncredited
Novel by: Whitley Strieber
Orion

The movie Wolfen came out back in 1981. While the movie wasn't that great. There were many great things about it.

1- The legend regarding the Indians and the Wolves being persecuted and almost completely extinguished is a beautiful one. According the movie they unite into a shape shifting creature living off the discards of modern society.

2 - The actors were great: Albert Finney, Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos

3 - The film is known for its early use of an in-camera effect to portray the subjective POV of a werewolf. Similar to thermography, the technique was later adopted by other horror films such as the Predator series. The effect is no big deal for us today. But I'll tell you the effects in the movie I loved the most was when hands and heads went flying across the place after an attack. Cracked me up good!

4- My favorite part of the movie was seeing actual wolves. They used the real animals leaving to audience to absorb what gorgeous, magnificent creatures they really are.

Here's the trailer:

CreepShow - The Hitchhiker

Stephen King has a twisted mind full of bizarre stories. As a kid I remember watching the Creepshow movies with my sister. Our favorite of all the stories in this series is the HitchHiker story. To this day if we ride in the car together we will still turn to eachh other and say:

Thanks for the ride Lady!

Enjoy.

Blade Great Movie - Great Soundtrack

Blade is one of my favorite Vampire movies. Westley Snipes makes kicking grass look so good. As a half mortal, half vampire Blade is on a mission to destroy all evil Vampires led by the sexy Stephen Dorph.

Everyone I knew signed up for martial arts classes after that film. The choreography of the fight scenes are perfectly brilliant. The first in the series is a Great great movie but I can't say the same for II & especially not III.

I dare you not to move while watching this clip.

Title: Blade 1998
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director:Stephen Norrington
Writer:David S. Goyer
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson

Perfect Creature goes straight to DVD

Perfect Creature Movie Synopsis: Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Stuart Wilson and Leo Gregory star in the dark tale centered on The Brothers, vampire leaders considered to be the next evolutionary step. When a virus suddenly spreads turning the vampires against the humans, chaos ensues and the fragile balance between the two races must be restored.

Screenplay & Director: Glenn Standring
STUDIO: 20th Century Fox
Main Characters:Dougray Scott and Saffron Burrows
Trailer:http://www.perfect-creature.com/trailer.htm

A movie with so much potential but just didn't grab me. The movie starts with great scenes and cool matrix like special effects so I stayed. But I just couldn't care about the main characters so I couldn't really care what happened to them or all of humankind in the story.

I do not recommend this movie.

Ghostrider Movie Special Effects