What’s your favorite horror movie?

With Halloween coming, now is a great time to remember the all time scariest movies you have ever seen. You might even want to pick one out and play it on that night. Halloween falls on a Friday night this year and if you have a Texas High School football game that night, switch your horror movie to Saturday night. I have several lists for you to choose from and I’ve compiled my own Top 10 scariest movie of all time.
One of my early memories is spending the night over at my friends house and watching the late night horror movies on his TV. Yes, black and white of course and the screen size was probably just over 12″. Some poor guy in the studio dressed up as a campy character named Iago. You have to drag it out…eeeaaaagooooo. I’m sure it was one of the stations in Midland or Odessa and we all received a snowy picture via our TV antennae.
They had a section of the studio for poor Mr. Iago where he would entertain us at commercial breaks with bowls of eyeballs, lots of red sphagetti insides, and various blood potions. I would love to talk to that guy now!
The movies we watched were what you would call cult classics now. Some of the best were the Dracula movies. I vividly remember Frank Gorshen and his wickedly evil laugh after he ate bugs and spiders in his jail cell, all the while desperately wanting out to be able serve his master…Drraaahhcula. You would have to hear that wicked laugh to fully appreciate it. Lon Chaney (I think) was usually a werewolf, and Frankenstein was harassed by the townspeople of his village.
Those were good times and great horror movies.

Here’s a list of my all time favorite scariest horror movies:
1. The Exorcist
2. Night of the Living Dead
3. Rosemary’s Baby
4. Dracula
5. Psycho
6. Alien
7. Frankenstein
8. Jaws
9. The Birds
10. Carrie

There are others of different genres, and some of these obviously fit into the sci-fi, occult, and other categories, but they are a list of my all time favorites.
At the top of most people’s list is The Exorcist. It scared the bejeezus out of us all because most of us DO believe in the devil and evil in the world.

others horror movies I considered included:
Jeepers Creepers
Bride of Frankenstein
The Shining
The Body Snatchers
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing
the Blob
The Amityville Horror
Poltergeist
The Omen
The Others
Christine
…and Wait Until Dark was the only movie where I jumped out of my seat and shouted a warning to a potential victim.
In my small town youth, the theater was segregated, we would enter the theater together and my black friends would take the stairs to the right and I would enter into the main theater. We though nothing of it, it was just the way it was. However, an older black gentleman we all knew would always tell the heroine to “look out girl” at the moment just before something happened to her, or before a giant bug ate someone. I thought all movie theaters were interactive like this.

And there are others I have missed or just can’t think of at this time. I remember a movie, it could have been called The Pendulum. A giant pendulum swung over a person tied down on a table and eventually cut them in half.
It made an impression on a young me as a horrible way to die.

You also remember some of the names. See if you can match these names up to your fav horror movie: Linda Blair, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Mia Farrow, Gregory Peck, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Perkins, Sissy Spacek, Robert Shaw, Rod Taylor, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Willis, Craig T. Nelson, Nicole Kidman…ok so that’s a little obscure, but do your remember her in “The Others” with her two small children? Don’t forget “The Tingler” the big caterpillar bug creature that attached to your spine? That one was way ahead of Alien bugs.

There’s your pre-Halloween list of my picks for the scariest movies of all time.
Leave me a comment and tell me what YOUR favorite scary movie is……..

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