Halloween Scream Fest
The offering of scary flicks leading up to Halloween has left me cold this year. Today, for example, I find nothing much of interest on.
I decided to put my programming hat on and come up with my own customized 24-hour marathon of scream flicks. I get the ball rolling with the classic Psycho and bookend it with, what else, Halloween. In between, it's a mix of occult and slasher freak outs.
Midnight: Psycho
2:15 am: Night of the Living Dead
4:15 am: Dawn of the Dead
6:45 am: Friday the 13th
8:30 am: The Exorcist
11 am: Rosemary’s Baby
1:45 pm: The Omen
4 pm: Ringu
6 pm: Nightmare on Elm Street
8:15 pm: Scream
10:30: Halloween
Comments
Rosemary's Baby? Not scary. The Omen? Kind of gross in one scene, but not scary. I'd add Evil Dead and/or Evil Dead II instead. If I had to choose just one, Evil Dead II. It's scarier than Evil Dead.
Army of Darkness (aka the third movie in the Evil Dead series) is awesome, but not in a really scary way. You just have to love a movie with lines like "All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. This is my boomstick." And "Good, bad. I'm the guy with the gun." Awesome.
Posted by: Lesley | October 30, 2004 09:48 PM
Yeah Rosemary’s Baby did not age well. The premis was more scary then the actual movie.
Posted by: Rick DeMent | November 1, 2004 06:31 AM