Halloween Movies

Halloween Movies
Happy Halloween everyone! Halloween is my favorite holiday. And this year was extra special because you could have celebrated it on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or all three! That’s what I did.
It’s the best time to dress up and pretend to be somebody completely different. A time to make tribute to those great movies we know and love.


This year I dedicate two Halloween nights to the every voluptuous and extremely sexy cartoon character Jessica Rabbit from the movie Who Framed Rodger Rabbit. Celebrating the year where both the movie and I were born, way back in 1988. I also got to devote another night to my small fixation of vampire shows and movies.


Aw yes…Halloween. It’s a wonderful time of year to dig out those scary classics and awake the senses. To be able to trance yourself deep down into a movie and jump from those unexpected surprises. To feel shame that even though you saw a certain movie the same time last year, you still couldn’t suppress the reaction of a small gasp or physical jolt of surprise.
Each night this weekend I picked one movie to commemorate this special time of year. Friday night I started off the three day Halloween fest with The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s a classic movie that allows that sexy freak way down inside to act wild and sing along to the awesomely popular soundtrack.
Saturday night I enjoyed another childhood favorite Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later. This one was always my favorite of the Halloween series because Jamie Lee Curtis kicks Michael’s ass and I ‘m up out of seat cheering her on “You go girl!” (A side note: I LOVE movies about revenge, especially when the main hero is a kick-ass woman).

And Sunday afternoon I watched a movie I hadn’t seen before, Queen of the Damned. One reason I picked this movie to watch was because I wanted to watch a movie I hadn’t seen before. Secondly, because the original story was written by Ann Rice who also wrote one of my favorite vampire movies Interview with a Vampire. There is no comparison. Interview with a Vampire simple goes way down deeper into the dark depths of the vampire world while Queen of the Damned lacked its depth in characters and their habits. The movie was overall well filmed, but lacked story depth and only had mediocre acting.

Without the mediocre movies the great movies would not be so great. It would be harder to recognize the pieces of a movie that make other movies so great. For example, besides having catchy music, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has that little sump’n special. Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s character in the movie is so wrong and yet so right. His voice and the way he delivers his lines give me goosebumps. I remember watching this movie when I was just about thirteen years old. Some might argue that thirteen is too young to watch something this mature, but I disagree. Being a young teenager already feeling insecure and freakishly weird…this movie was an inspiration. It was an extremely sexy and quite a big taboo for me. I remember I was afraid someone would walk into the living room and see me watching Susan Sarandon sing "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" to the half naked Rocky.

But this was defiantly the week to celebrate the thrill and terror one cold endure from a two hour movie. So I hope all of you have embraced the horror of old movies from your past and rekindled your childhood fears you once had long ago.

Top Ten Halloween Movies : (not in any order)
Beetle Juice
Shaun of the Dead
Casper
Hocus Pocus
The Freddy Krueger series
The Halloween series with Michael Myers
Sleepy Hollow
The Frighteners
Scream
Saw

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