My Top 10 Favorite Horror Movies of All Time.

Horror movies is my favorite genre and still is. Growing up in the country, TV channels was limited only 3 or 2 by rabbit ears with the aluminum foil wrapped around.  If you're lucky and a storm blew, KMSS from Shreveport, LA pop in for a couple days until UHF signal faded out.  But we had the brilliant technology from the 80's: VCR & VHS!

VHS tapes saved our lives in the boonies though we had to wait for them seem like a whole year from what I can remember to watch a movie at home instead of going to the movie theater.  Going to the movies was a treat! Watching my first movie in the old downtown theater was Stir Crazy with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, many memories.

 My aunt was a teen during the 80's and I was in elementary school.  The horror genre was blowing up like crazy during that time and thanks aunt for contributing to my romance with horror!!


My Top Ten:

10. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
WTF? A zombie tore the pregnant woman's arm off!! The scariest shit to a 5 year old kid which fueled my hatred for zombies and living not too far from a graveyard. I've watched Night of the Living Dead and yes it was crazy and pretty terrifying but that took the damn cake of being held up in a shopping mall surviving a zombie apocalypse.  Had nightmares for weeks thinking all of the dead relatives are coming after me and being in the country? Oh hell naw!!! I knew where my grandfather kept his guns at too...just in case. *Note on honorable mentions*
9.  Re-Animator
I literally tore my afro to shreds one night watching this movie one night and the kids heard me screaming bloody murder. After hearing about this movie for so many years dared myself to watch. The most horrific night that I will not forget.  And its pretty darn funny but the scene that almost made me threw my netbook against the wall & threw up in my mouth..ummm you have to see it to believe it. The stuff they got away with during the 80's. Pure GOLD.

8.  Scanners
I love everything about telekinesis and having Michael Ironside as the baddie, well speaks for itself. The gore factor is mind blowing and Cronenberg have the touch of bring the human element to his movies. Very visceral and too good. Canadians have a good lean on horror, last Canadian horror movie I've watch was Pontypool.  Not bad for the content and the scary element of being in a radio station barricaded while the whole world is going nuts had me shocked for days.
7.  Supirira
Ahhh cute little ballerinas getting murq' left and right by a coven of witches. Italian horror is pretty gruesome to the point of covering your eyes.  Starts off slow but the usage of lighting throughout the movie for eeriness, soundtrack and the all girls school is completely horror personally.  Witches, I feel get shafted a lot in movies this one hits the spot.

6.  Pet Cemetery 
Why did you bury Church in the old Indian burial ground dude??  Herman Muster told yo ass!! Mayne again another zombie-like movie with supernatural dealing in this Stephen King novel.  A selfish dude who just can't help it to bury his whole damn family except his daughter (thank goodness she had some "Shining" visiting the grandparents) Seriously did the cat tell you anything with his half-stankin butt running around that it's not the SAME when coming back from the dead? And Gage, horror enough for an 18-wheeler to run over him but to come back as a murdering undead 3 year old?  Word to the wise, let the dead be DEAD.
5. Insidious
No ma'am! Not watching that ish again!! I give props for dealing with astral projection and OBD world but a hell naw too close to reality.
4. Evil Dead 1 & 2 
Now lumping these together is a reason. First Evil Dead (not the bs remake) is wwwaayyyy terrifying, gross, gory and everyone DIES!! YES!! No survivors or anything just people dead.  With a tight budget Sam Raimi outdid himself quite well. And leading a huge crush on Bruce Campbell before becoming an icon to ED 2.  Bruce came back in the 2nd as Ash and wreck it like a G.  Campy, funny and great special effects made this a cult status.

Groovy!

3. Halloween
Michael Myers, enuff said.

2. Nightmare on Elm St.
Wes Craven's finest of all time. He made the boogyman untouchable in this masterpiece and damn taking the one of the luxury's that all humans love: Sleep. Freddy Kruger was not to be played with after his death from all the parents on Elm St. torched his child murdering molesting ass into a crispy critter.  Talk about a plan backfired! Waterbeds will not be the same to me seeing Depp sinking in headphones and all. The waterbed death was used again in Nightmare on Elm St. 4 when poor cute Joey got murdered.
Freddy will never eva die!!!

1. Fright Night (1985)
All of the stupid vampire movies that came out except Near Dark & The Hunger and a couple of others Fright Night is tha baddest, raddest, sexxxiest, coolest vampire movie ever!! Where do I start? You have Chris Saradon playing Jerry Dandridge, William Ragsdale as Charlie, Roddy McDowell (Planet of the Apes) Peter Vincent and Amanda Bearse as Amy. What makes it special is because it has all the right elements and played down to the pat in how a vampire movie is suppose to be. The remake is so crappy I had to remind myself that Colin Farrell is a terrible vampire but give him a pass because he's sexy. Chris made me swoon and wishing he come into my window and bite me. Let me give you a taste:

This scene is sexy and seductive and twenty years later still hypnotized and obsessed with Jerry and Amy's dance. I lost my shit watching this at sixteen years old!! Wishing I was Amy being seduced by a mysterious good-looking man who happens to be a vampire. How in the hell did he make stalking look so HAWT??  Hahahaha got mad when Charlie cockblocked  intervened. And Evil Ed gosh that poor demented soul his dark twisted humor came into play before and after turning. Really, he deserved to be a vampire instead of human don't blame him one bit of accepting the offer. Roddy's performance is stellar. Attacking Peter, he stabbed Evil in chest wolf-form while he was turning back human and suffering on the floor there are at least 5 different emotions Roddy displayed in less than 2-3 minutes. That's called acting! Almost made me cry because you felt sorry for both characters; a boy found his true calling in the world and a washed up actor who found his courage and remorseful gaining in an unfortunate circumstance--battling the undead.

And the music, HOLY COW!!

Honorable Mention*
Resident Evil- Restored my faith in zombies and women do kick ass (see Michonne in The Walking Dead.)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)- Again restored my faith and Jake Webber--such a cutie.
Dracula (1992)- Long but not bad.
Shawn of the Dead- Love Simon Pegg & Nick Frost for bring comedy and horror in this mix. And I still hate David to this day...but Pete/flatmate is one sexy nude zombie.
28 Days- England/UK tops it with infected doomsday genre.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre- Still scared to live in Texas and seeing abandon houses on lonely road makes me think of Leatherface busting out in a Carl Lewis sprint with a chainsaw.
From Dusk to Dawn- Mexican vampires do not give a damn about you but party their ass off with your blood!
Friday the 13th 1& 2- Jason's mom is the killer but Jason rocked it later on..What I love about Jason  did not give a crap who you are basically deserved to die.
Sleepaway Camp- Bizarre and too bizarre.. Angela's "secret" messed me up for days.
Pieces- Eat shat and die! Thanks for making me look under restroom stalls and locker room showers for a psycho killer who have mother issues..the ending is dumb tho.

Since the 80's fanatic horror heydays died down in the late 90's. Insidious made me have hope in the horror genre in this age. One of the best films that truly scared the crap out of me. Many of the horror movies are average to great in the years back notice most of my favorite are from the late 70's and 80's.

Sorry I haven't been posting been extremely busy for the past couple of weeks. Until then.....