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A mix of mainstream and somewhat obscure horror films.

The Classics

Halloween I (1978): A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.

Freaks (1932): A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984):In the dreams of his victims, a specteral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.

Don't Look Now (1974): An American architect living in Venice, Italy with his wife on a getaway after the death of their young daughter, begins to question his sanity when he begins having a series of disturbing and fragmented premonitions.

Rosemary's Baby (1968): A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.

Suspiria (1977): A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction.

Pet Sematary (1989): The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two things: the semi-trailers that roar past on the narrow road, and the mysterious cemetary in the woods behind the house. The Creed's neighbours are reluctant to talk about the cemetary, and for good reason too.

Dawn of the Dead (1978): Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922): Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula."

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954): A scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River encounter a dangerous humanoid amphibious fish creature.

It Came from Outer Space (1953): A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange.

The War of the Worlds (1953): The film adaptation of the H.G.Wells story told on radio of the invasion of Earth by Martians. The Martians unchain a direct assault to our planet, with hundreds of invulnerable ships. The invasion takes place all over the world, and all the major cities are destroyed one after one; even the atomic bomb can't stop them. But, if the humans can't beat them, who can?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974): Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.

Night of the Living Dead (1968): The radiation from a fallen satellite might have caused the recently deceased to rise from the grave and seek the living to use as food. This is the situation that a group of people penned up in an old farmhouse must deal with.

Frankenstein (1931): Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

Dracula (1931): The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.

Dracula (1992): This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray.

Fun

Shaun of the Dead (2004): A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.

Hocus Pocus (1993): More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat (a black cat, naturally). Now it's Halloween, and the witches (who fly on, I kid you not, vacuum cleaners) are back. This time, they've got their eyes on immortal life and have turned their wrath on trick-or-treaters and it's up to the 300-year-old cat to save the day.

Halloweentown (1998): This is among the better, if not best, made-for-TV movies by Disney. On Halloween, while Marnie is arguing with her mother Gwen, the kids' grandmother Aggie comes to visit. Aggie wants to start Marnie's witch training before her 13th birthday or Marnie will lose her powers forever. But there is another reason for Aggie's visit. Something dark & evil is growing in Halloweentown & Aggie wants help to defeat it.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988): Elvira, who is the host of a cheap horror movie program finds that she is the heir to an aunt's mansion in New England. The mansion is the home of some interesting magical items, but her first conflicts come from her attempts to bring some life to the small town, especially to the young people. The adults of the town are appalled by her dress, her tone, in fact everything about her, especially her sexual references. Campy, yet fun movie.

The Nightmare before Christmas: Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween.

The Unbearably Bad

Manos: the Hands of Fate: Classic low budget horror about a family getting lost and stumbling upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo. Anyone who can get through this movie deserves a gift, or a free drink at least. As of right now, this is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.

Troll 2: A young child is terrified to discover that a planned family trip is to be haunted by vile man-eating monsters out of his worst nightmare. Just awful. Filled with bad acting, although there is lots of unintentional humor. The odd thing is that there are no trolls in this movie, but goblins.

Any movies you'd recommend watching?

*all text excerpts are from imdb's webpage for the appropriate film.