Favorite Halloween Movies

Happy Day Before Halloween Everybody!

For a blog post I thought that I should incorporate what some of my all time favorite scary/thriller movies are for this time of the year! Granted, they will not be in any order, these are just some of my favorites.

HALLOWEEN

Story time: My grandmother made me watch the first Halloween movie when I was 8. It scared me to death when the knife went missing from the kitchen. I have watched all 8 since then and let me just say that if you watch 2007 you are wasting an hour or so of your life. Because of my crazy grandmother I don't find many horror films horrotastic today so I guess I should thank her for introducing me to Michael.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Technically this is the first horror movie I have ever seen and gotten through. One of my friends said it scared her to no end so of course I had to check it out. Absolutely loved it. I also really liked the sequal, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

Night of the Living Dead

"They're coming to get you Barbara." My all time favorite horror movie hands down. The 1968 version in black and white.

Sleepy Hollow

Tim Burton. Johnny Depp. Headless horseman. Beautiful costumes. Windmill on fire. I watch this movie every year. I actually wanted to go to the theatre at the time and see it but I was only 8 years of age at the time and because it was rated R that was a no go for me.

The Haunted Palace

My all time favorite Vincent Price film which I think should be considered a classic. If you like Price then I  also recommend House on Haunted Hill, House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Masque of Red Death.

13 Ghosts

Fantastic movie if you are into old school terrors. This is the 1960 version. The 2001 version irritates me. Basically most movie remakes irritate me. One of the surprises I had while watching this was that Margaret Hamilton (aka Wicked Witch of the West) co-stars in it.

Classic Alfred Hitchcock movies- The Birds and Psycho

Both are classics. Hitchcock in general is a classic.

An American Werewolf in London

Saw this on a plane trip to Minnesota. I thought the movie was quite clever. This is what a werewolf is, if you use Taylor Lautner as your werewolf reference you automatically fail.

Dracula (1931)

I really do not think any movie adaptation can compare with the book, they all are pale in comparison. However Lugosi IS the real life image of Dracula.

Scream

Classic and wonderful movie. The biggest movie star is killed off in the first ten minutes, the audience has to expect that anything might happen. 

Nosferatu

This was one of the first silent movies I have ever seen. I think that it is an absolute classic.

Shadow of the Vampire

This movie is a fictionalized account based on the making of Nosferatu. When I first heard about the film I wasn't expecting much but I definetley think that it is worth a watch if you are into vampires/filimg/ or Nosferatu.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

One of my all time favorites. It is a silent film but this is a movie which I would depict as the one that started the entire horror genre.

My favorite not really scary but still great Halloween movies;

Hocus Pocus

This is a Halloween movie that I have to see every year or someone's child will go missing.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

I think that everyone and their mother have seen this. If you have not then please come out from under the rock you are living.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

When I was a kid I was not able to get through this film.Now I could watch it every single day and be happy.  I would recommend this movie to kids 8 and over.

The Corpse Bride

This is not only one of my favorite Halloween movies, but it is one of my favorite animated films in general. Great artwork and great voice cast.



I have probably forgotten quite a few on my list and will curse myself later for forgetting. Question of the day; what are some of your favorite Halloween movies?

Bullying- It Is Never OK

Many of you have probably already seen the video or have read the story about Amanda Todd. For those of

you who haven't, she was a girl of 15 who ended her life because she was bullied and constantly harassed 

every day about her mistakes. She didn't deserve it. Nobody deserves to be treated that way no matter what   they have done. Yes, she is getting a lot of media attention because of her youtube video and maybe because she was a good looking girl, but either way hers is just one of the many stories about bullying and she is one of the hundreds of teenagers who have ended their life because they couldn't handle the torture any longer. I don't necessarily agree with everything she did, but Ms. Todd is just an example.

 In my opinion bullying is a serious issue which I think needs to be addressed more and done something about. True, people talk about bullying all of the time but what are we actually doing about it? Nobody ever seems to take bullying seriously until someone does something drastic (like suicide) and I just find it really pathetic and sad that someone has to take their own life before somebody takes action and says that bullying is not ok.

Frankly when I read stories like this, it pisses me off. Not just when teenagers are bullied but adults as well. What the hell were people doing when all of this was going down? Why didn't anyone step in? Why do people just assume that the person sitting alone 24/7 wants to be alone? Do bullies even really know the person they are bullying? More than likely not. If you do not know someones favorite color you do not know them. Just because someone is different or has done something stupid that gives you absolutely no right to treat them like a piece of garbage or an outsider. 

By the way I would just like to point out that telling someone who is being bullied to 'ignore the bullies' is stupid. It is nearly impossible to ignore the people who are giving you hell everyday. Also, "stick by your friends" is stupid advice as well. What if they have no friends? What then? Some more stupid advice

- Try to be friends with them!- Hell no. Why on earth would you want to be friends with someone who hates you for no other reason than your shoes aren't cool, or something to that effect? 

- Tell them that their behavior is not ok!- They already know what they are doing is not ok. They obviously do not care and have their own issues to resolve.

- Tell a teacher/parent/ etc.- Ok this advice is not bad.It is always a good thing to let someone, anyone know what's going on. But in my case with bullying it just made everything somewhat worse. I'm not saying it could not help because more than likely it can. 

- Don't react to them!- This is ok advice too, but it goes along the same line of ignoring the bullies. It is hard.

Overall if you are being bullied there is absolutely nothing NOTHING wrong with you at all. The bullies are the ones with the problem, not you. They will be miserable human beings all of their life and sadly there is nothing you can do to change what type of evil person they are- it is not your responsibility to. You are a wonderful person, the bullies are cowards- especially if they are people leaving mean comments online. Do not be peer pressured into anything, do not change just to make someone stop picking on you, you are fabulous just the way you are, never forget that. 

And to the bullies; there is nothing 'cool' or 'funny' about what you are doing. Knock it off. You have no idea what kind of life the person lives so shut up, sit down, and mind your own business. I know that some of you do it because you are insecure, but half of the human race is insecure as well so just know that you're not alone out there either. Instead of hurting other people I recommend that you start accepting others the way that they are and say one kind thing to a stranger each day. You'll feel better about yourself and who knows, those kind words may just stop another person from reaching their bitter end.