| First of all I want to distinguish between the best horror | | | | perfect casting of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates |
| movies and the best Halloween movies. I think I have a | | | | finishes it. Alfred Hitchcock deserves to be on this list |
| good example. Jaws is an excellent horror movie, but | | | | and if I was listing by scary movie directors he would |
| a poor Halloween movie. The chances of a huge | | | | be #1. Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window all stick out in |
| great white attacking you in the dark on Halloween is | | | | my mind as some of the best ever. |
| pretty minimal, unless you live on a boat. An example | | | | 3. Wolf Creek sits at #3 in my list. Many of you will |
| of a good horror movie for Halloween would be a | | | | probably second guess this one, but for some reason |
| movie like "The Shining" as insanity is always scary. | | | | this movie really got to me. Maybe it's the torture |
| To decide what are the best Halloween movies we | | | | scene, but for some reason I found this movie much |
| must first come up with some criteria. Certainly they | | | | more disturbing than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| must be scary...and not in a "Jaws" kind of way. If they | | | | and The Hills Have Eyes and other movies which are |
| have some sort of fog in them, that would be cool and | | | | meant to terrorize us. |
| of course there should be an element of the macabre. | | | | 2. Friday the 13th. This one is especially scary for those |
| Here are my top 5 Halloween movies and why. | | | | of us who like camping or cottaging. The thought that |
| 5. How can you pick the top five Halloween movies | | | | some nut is out there in a hockey mask waiting for us |
| without including Halloween on the list. I'll take the original | | | | in the dark is what makes campfire stories so |
| 1978 version with a very young Jamie Lee Curtis in it. | | | | compelling. |
| Michael Myers has become a horror legend since this | | | | 1. Everyone has their favourites and reasons why. I |
| movie. | | | | believe that horror movies you watched as a young |
| "Brutal, emotionless Michael Myers stabs his sister to | | | | child have more of an effect on you than ones |
| death at age six on Halloween night in 1963; on | | | | watched as an adult. I can name 4 or 5 that I've |
| October 30, 1978, he escapes from a mental institution | | | | watched this year which are scarier than 1973's "The |
| and institutes a new reign of terror in his hometown of | | | | Exorcist", but in it's day The Exorcist was probably the |
| Haddonfield, Illinois. He is pursued the whole time by a | | | | scariest movie made. Scenes from it still sick in my |
| psychiatrist (Donald Pleasence) who knows just how | | | | mind to the point that even parody's of it still creep me |
| evil this young man is." | | | | out. |
| 4. You cannot have a top 5 list without Pycho being on | | | | In my honorable mention category I have movies like |
| it. Norman Bates has become somewhat of a horror | | | | Saw, Hostel, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining (of |
| legend and the shower scene was unmatched in it's | | | | course) and many others too numerous to mention. |
| day. The suspense using music and imagery that | | | | This Halloween, pick up some scary movies and |
| Hitchcock brings to this movie is amazing and the | | | | watch them with friends. Happy Halloween! |