Oct

Happy Halloween! I love Halloween – for me, it has nothing to do with candy; it’s about the chance to throw off everything else and assume an alter ego for a day! Halloween has changed a lot for me since having kids – fewer late night bashes and many more negotiations about how we really can’t keep changing our minds about costumes once we buy them! %-)

Halloween of course is also about attempting to creep ourselves (and others) out! I am a HUGE fan of scary movies, though I have to admit many of them really do scare me – or at least temporarily creep me out. I did a list like this on a previous meme (Tenika’s challenge #16 from Halloween last year), but I’ve updated to accomodate some REALLY scary movies I’ve seen in the past year. Also, since this is a TEN challenge, I’m limiting myself to the top 10 only. So, here is my current list of top 10 all-time favorite Halloween (aka scary) movies:

1. Nightmare on Elm Street – though the series later devolved quite a bit, the original is still awesome. I think that song “One, two, Freddie’s coming for you” will probably make my blood run cold “forever ’til I die”, as my son would say. Ugh – gives me shivers just thinking about it!

2. Saw – total, twisted genious. Loved it!

3. Rosemary’s Baby – seriously, who let’s the Devil rape their wife?!! Truly, truly disturbing flick on many levels.

4. Alien – self-explanatory

5. Scream – very clever premise, I thought. And even the sequels didn’t suck the way they often do.

6. Jaws – on the soundtrack alone; plus, the moment where you first realize just how big this thing really is…priceless

7. The Vanishing – OMG, buried alive!!!

8. Urban Legends – I have started using Urban Legends as a teaching tool in my social psychology class, so this one has gotten bumped up on the list. Watching it is “work” … yeah, that’s it…

9. Saved! – I know, I know, it’s supposed to be a comedy. It’s just that it’s not funny. At all. Instead, it is scary. Very, very scary. Truly.

10. Halloween – this first movie is an absolute classic, presented the ultimate boogeyman for my generation, the totally freakily scary dude who just WOULD NOT DIE.