Essential Halloween Viewing

Fiona strikes a Halloween pose and helps me choose some "Essential Halloween Viewing":

1. Halloween - It goes without saying that if no other scary movie is watched during the last weeks of October that this should be the one. A little dated, but still creepy. You can also play drinking games to it - everytime Jamie Lee Curtis' friend says "totally", or you can "take a vodka drink/take a whiskey drink" everytime Michael Myers "gets knocked down, but he gets up again!"

2. Pumpkinhead - Okay, bad title but really cool movie. Lance Hendrickson (Frank Black, Bishop) tries to stop a giant, 10-foot tall monstrosity, created of course by mankind themselves. The filming is eerie and the story line is better than you'd expect based on the title.

3. Evil Dead II - Just watched it again yesterday and Bruce Campbell is at his second-best, (next to "Army of Darkness" - the sequel). Ash and his girlfriend out in a cabin in the remote woods come across the book "The Necronomicon" and become entangled with resurrected demons that unleash all kinds of bad mojo. Scary and funny at the same time.

4. Dracula/Frankenstein/The Mummy - The classics and essential to set the Halloween mood.

5. Scream - Any or all three. Mixing scares, comedy and good plot twists.

Happy Halloween!!