What were your Halloween Movies this year?

[trekman101]

"night of the living dead" and "mad monster party"

[Type3Toys]

I just stuck with the basics, original Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman and a few Night Stalker dvd's.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Me and the boy watched "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien" on Friday night. After he went to bed, the wife and I watched Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" and on Saturday night after trick or treat the boy and I ended our round of classic horror with "House of Frankenstein". After he was off to bed, TCM aired "The Body Snatcher" with Karloff and I watched it. Great, creepy movie! Great end to a great Halloween.

Chris

[toys2cool]

Bingo! I can never get through Halloween without watching those 2 back to back

Yeah then you get to 3 and you're like what the hell happened here?

[PNGwynne]

I had the pleasure of receiving some classic Universal horrors for my birthday. I watched those, & also my all-time favorite The Abominable Dr. Phibes with Vincent Price, on Turner Classic Movies.

Maybe I'm warped, but I find Phibes hilarious & creepy. I've probably seen it 50 times.

[thunderbolt]

^^ Phibes would make a really cool Bat-villain.

[jwyblejr]

I watched The Corpse Bride and then caught whatever Apes movie Fox Movie Channel was airing.

[darklord1967]

A few of my drama high school students came over for a halloween movie party triple feature that my wife and I hosted. We put out tons of candy. cookies, chips, soda, popcorn and pizza. Then at around 2:00 PM or so, I dimmed the lights and presented the day's first feature.

First, I scared the CRAP out of those kids with the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead. I gotta admit, I amused myself silly screening that film. There was so much screaming and cowering behind fingers during even just the opening scene when Ana (Sarah Polley) and her husband Luis are visited early in the morning in their bedroom by zombified little girl Vivian (Hannah lochner). She promptly takes a nice, big, juicy bite out of Luis' throat, killing him. Then when he rises moments later, it is as yet another ravenous zombie bent on eating Ana...

Ah.. that was a good one.

Next up, I threw on 1985's vampire classic Fright Night. The kids got a real kick out of watching teenager Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) desperately trying to prove to his girlfriend, his mom, and his best buddy that the new next door neighbor Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) is not only a serial killer, but also a vampire! When all else fails he attempts to enlist the help of has-been horror TV personality Peter Vincent: Vampire Killer (Roddy McDowall) to kill Dandridge and save his kidnapped girlfriend from the fiend.

Now, by the time that film ended it was already after 6:00 Pm here in New York, and it had gotten dark out. That was when I chose to screen the original 1978 Halloween. Surprisingly, even though this film is somewhat slow with its exposition and character development, the kids hung in there with it, and were unnerved by the film's moody atmosphere. Of course when Michael Myers' climactic killing spree begins, the kids couldn't cower deeply enough into my sofa!

As the evening drew to a close, the students requested seeing some of the "highlight" moments of The Exorcist. How could I refuse them? They didn't make it past the crucifix masterbation scene.

So much for jaded teenagers!

[toysrus]

For the kids-Mad Monster party and Charlie Brown Halloween. Myself~ Session 9

[Bizarro Amy]

This year was a stay-at-home Halloween, due to recent family events. So we recorded a bunch of movies from TCM. We had warmed up a couple days before by getting Halloween on Blu-Ray. So on Saturday, we watched Halloween 4, then my husband took a break for football, then we started up the DVR for Dead of Night and The Haunting(the original). I had never seen Dead of Night before, but loved it. There are some slow parts, but the ending makes it completely worthwhile.

[Randy]

Watched The Orphan and Trick r Treat (2009) both were really good!

[palitoy]

Watched The Orphan and Trick r Treat (2009) both were really good!

Hah, I saw a clip of the Orphan, she kills a kid on the same slide that my own childen play on. It was filmed close to my house.

[toys2cool]

A few of my drama high school students came over for a halloween movie party triple feature that my wife and I hosted. We put out tons of candy. cookies, chips, soda, popcorn and pizza. Then at around 2:00 PM or so, I dimmed the lights and presented the day's first feature.

First, I scared the CRAP out of those kids with the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead. I gotta admit, I amused myself silly screening that film. There was so much screaming and cowering behind fingers during even just the opening scene when Ana (Sarah Polley) and her husband Luis are visited early in the morning in their bedroom by zombified little girl Vivian (Hannah lochner). She promptly takes a nice, big, juicy bite out of Luis' throat, killing him. Then when he rises moments later, it is as yet another ravenous zombie bent on eating Ana...

Ah.. that was a good one.

Next up, I threw on 1985's vampire classic Fright Night. The kids got a real kick out of watching teenager Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) desperately trying to prove to his girlfriend, his mom, and his best buddy that the new next door neighbor Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) is not only a serial killer, but also a vampire! When all else fails he attempts to enlist the help of has-been horror TV personality Peter Vincent: Vampire Killer (Roddy McDowall) to kill Dandridge and save his kidnapped girlfriend from the fiend.

Now, by the time that film ended it was already after 6:00 Pm here in New York, and it had gotten dark out. That was when I chose to screen the original 1978 Halloween. Surprisingly, even though this film is somewhat slow with its exposition and character development, the kids hung in there with it, and were unnerved by the film's moody atmosphere. Of course when Michael Myers' climactic killing spree begins, the kids couldn't cower deeply enough into my sofa!

As the evening drew to a close, the students requested seeing some of the "highlight" moments of The Exorcist. How could I refuse them? They didn't make it past the crucifix masterbation scene.

So much for jaded teenagers!

Fright Night is always a must

[PNGwynne]

^^ Phibes would make a really cool Bat-villain.

Quite true--"camp" in a good way.

I'm surprised that someone hasn't done Phibes customs (like Matt Jaycox), or shrunk down the 12" figure heads.

[LadyZod]

I was forced to watch Night of the Living dead 3 times...back to back.

After that I watched Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon which I enjoyed MUCH more that I thought I was going to. If you're a fan of 80's Slasher flicks, it's a great satire in the vein of Spinal Tap.