31 Days of Halloween 31 Movies To Watch by bigmac64

Have not finalized my list, as I am waiting to see what I’ll be able to catch at the Lovecraft festival (when I’m not working). However, here’s the start, in no real order:

1-House of Wax (1953)
2-I eat your skin
3-Scream Bloody Murder Read more …

Top 10 Christmas Horror Movies!

Sure, we all know Christmas is about the birth of our Savior, and, to some extent, gift giving and Santa Claus, but, what you didn’t know is that Christmas is also about fine cinematic horror choices. Horror on Christmas? Absolutely. Some of the genre’s finest films take place on this - our most beloved of holidays. And, this is the List Universe after all - we love to horrify, frighten, revolt, and shock you! Here are ten of the best choices for your very SCARY Christmas!

10. To All A Good Night (1980)

It’s Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins! That is, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples one by one.The police show up and promise to keep everyone safe, but they prove ineffectual against the crazed psycho. Could the killings have anything to do with the girl who was killed in an initiation stunt at the school a few years earlier?

9. Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)

Wilford Butler returns home on Christmas Eve and his house had been turned into a mental institution for the criminally insane. But the day of his return, he is purposely set on fire and dies. The town’s people believe his death was an accident, and the institution-house is later closed down. Wilford leaves the house to his grandson Jeffrey in his will. A few years later, Jeffrey finally decides to sell this grandfather’s house, but the town’s people, including the Mayor, have mixed feelings on keeping people away from the house, especially when a serial killer escapes from another institution and finds refuge there. The killer makes frightening phone calls and kills anyone coming near the house. But what does the killer have in common with what happened to Wilford Butler years before? Read more …

Halloween Special: The 10 Most Pants-Wettingly Scary Movie Posters of the ’80s

Halloween Special: The 10 Most Pants-Wettingly Scary Movie Posters of the ’80s

Hard to believe in this day and age, but there was once a time when Blockbuster, Netflix and friggin’ DVD dispensers at McDonalds didn’t possess a stranglehold on the movie-rental market. With the VHS/VCR boom of the early ‘80s, mom n’ pop video stores—rental locations with instantly catchy names like Mega Video, Captain Video and Movies-4-Rent—became widespread as people clamored for home entertainment, and visiting one of these spots was an event. Most children of the ‘80s have incredibly vivid memories of hitting up a video store with the parents, along with the movie posters that plastered every inch of the wall.

These posters found ran the gamut from summer blockbusters (Ghostbusters! Indiana Jones!) to some pretty bizarre direct-to-video dreck (Michael Dudikoff Presents Action Adventure Theater: The Bronx Executioner?). But it was the posters for that era’s brand of horror flicks that truly stick out in our minds; many of them presented some gruesome, freakish imagery that weighed heavily on us after we’d left the store, and made for a shitty’s night’s sleep. The irony is that these flicks certainly weren’t classics of the genre; the majority sucked and weren’t even remotely scary! But their promotional materials were able to latch onto unique fears that 8-year-olds have. So with that in mind, here are 10 horror-flick posters from the mom n’ pop video store heyday that left us crawling under the covers with our actual Ma and Pa. Read more …