5 Things I like.

I like horror movies, from the classic monster movies from Universal to some of today's so called torture porn. October is going to be the month for me to list numerous horror movies that I like. So here is first 5 horror movies that I like.

Night of the Living Dead - George Romero's classic 1968 zombie movie. The scene in the cemetary at the beginning of the movie with the lone zombie shuffling toward Barbara still gives me goosebumps. It is the perfect horror scene.



The Exorcist - 1973 movie about a little girl possessed by demons. With the advancements in special effects and the goryness of today's horror, it's hard to explain just how disturbingly shocking and scary this movie was back in 73. I still wouldn't watch alone at home today.



The Blair Witch Project - 1999 low budget horror movie presented as a documentary pieced together from amateur footage shot by 3 students filmakers who go into the Black Hills of Burkittsville, Maryland to film a documentary about the eponymous local legend known as the Blair Witch. The three students never come back. Neither the students nor their bodies are ever found, although their video and sound equipment is discovered a year later. This was one of those movies you either loved or hated. I loved it, found it very creepy and the final scene was great.


Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things - (1972) Actors led by Alan Ormsby go to graveyard on remote island to act out necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh. First flesh-eating zombie movie I ever watched. I saw it at the old Liberty Theater in Malden.


C.H.U.D - (1984) - Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers - I don't really remember much about this movie except that I let my then 3 or 4 year old daughter Latisha watch it with me. I don't think I let her watch it with me, I think it was more like I was watching it and she was in the same room. I've never heard the end of it. It was years before she would take a shower with the door closed (this is actually her sisters fault for telling her that chud was going to come up out of the shower drain and get her) but I'm the one who gets blamed.