Hail to the King, Baby

(NOTE- this is last night's entry- TypePad was down, and I couldn't post it)

I  have fallen woefully behind on my Halloween movie list. Tis because work has been a bear lately, plus I had two huge projects to turn in for school. Why in the hell did I think that going to grad school plus working a bazillion-hour-a-week job was a grand idea?! I did get a 95 on my midterm, though. *sigh of relief, considering the level of non-studying that occurred prior to said test*

Anyhoo, I’m-a gonna catch up tonight. It is freezing here (for the Halloween saying, let’s go with “Cold as a witches’ titty in a brass bra”), and there isn’t much else going on. So here we go again (remember: these are my personal choices, and in no particular order).

#11 - Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton’s treatment of the classic story. His all-star cast includes Johnny Depp (Ichabod), Christopher Walken (off with his head! More Cowbell!), Christina “look at my rack” Ricci, and my buddy Ray Park as the reanimated Hessian. The most disturbing scene (and there are many to choose from), is when the horseman kills the parents and then discovers the little boy hiding underneath the floorboards. *shudder*
Trivia: Sleepy Hollow features three Sith lords from the Star Wars prequels, Ray Park (Darth Maul), Christopher Lee (Darth Tyranus) and Ian McDiarmid (Darth Sidious).
Best Line:
Young Masbath: Is he dead?
Ichabod Crane: That's the problem. He was dead to begin with.

#12 - Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
This is one of my favorite movies ever. You can read an earlier mention of it here.
So when you're riding home tonight
Make for the bridge with all your might
He'll be down in the hollow there
He needs your head, look out, beware

#13 - Beetlejuice
Another favorite, another Tim Burton film. Starring a wonderfully-cast Michael Keaton in the title role, Beetlejuice follows the lives and deaths of Adam and Barbara, simple folks who die and are forced to watch their home be taken over by the immensely neurotic Deetz family. Beetlejuice offers his services as a bio-exterminator, taking an interest in daughter Lydia Deetz at the same time. But the plot just isn’t important- what’s important is the extreme bizarreness of this film. From the sandworms to the weird little muppet preacher to the greatest possession scene ever filmed, Beetlejuice is pure strange. And it has been a favorite movie of mine since about the 5^th grade.
Best Line:
Delia: I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself. If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane and I will take you with me.

 #14 -  Night of the Creeps
This is a truly bad movie, but we had it on a tape when we were kids, and watched it constantly. The deep plot revolves around alien slug parasites that jump into people’s moths and turn them into zombies. Umm, yeah, it’s as great as it sounds.
Best Line:
Detective Cameron: Well, girls, the good news is your dates are here.
Sorority Sister: What's the bad news?
Detective Cameron: They're dead

#15 - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Decidedly dark for a Disney flick, this one, based on a Ray Bradbury novel, manages to be dark and creepy and fascinating all at the same time. And could there ever be a better name for an antagonist than “Mr. Dark”? I personally think that Stephen King took this story and modified it for his novel “Needful Things.” He just added some sex, a touch of gore, and voila! Seriously, though, if you haven’t seen this one and want to watch a family Halloween film, you owe it to yourselves to check it out.
Best Line: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

 #16 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Not really a Halloween movie, but it has the word “Horror” right there in the title, and I sincerely believe that anything Tim Curry is in should be put in the Horror section. It, Legend, Clue, Annie…the guy is convincingly terrifying in every role. The basic plot here is that they sing, cross-dress, and eat meatloaf. Then they turn out to be aliens and blast off into the sky at the end. Duh!
Trivia: This movie has been shown in theaters continuously since opening in 1975, making it the longest-running movie in history.
Best Line:
Janet: Oh, Brad, I'm frightened. What kind of a place is this?
Brad: Oh, it's probably some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos

#17 - The ‘burbs
This is my list and I say this is a scary movie. Comedy, my ass. I watched it in about the 3^rd grade and was traumatized. Those neighbors! The furnace! The bones! Seriously, it frightened me so much that my parents were actually quite concerned. I have never watched it again to confirm or deny my initial reaction.
Best Line: No, I've never seen that, I've never seen anyone drive thier garbage out to the curb and bang the hell out of it with a stick.  

#18/#19  - Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness
Let’s all hail to the king, baby. Bruce Campbell as Ash and Sam Raimi (before he went Hollywood) combine to make two of the best horror/comedies ever. Through the course of the two films, Ash goes from working at S-Mart to cutting off his own possessed hand, to attaching a chainsaw to the stump, to battling medieval “deadites”, to fighting a cadre of mini-Ashes, to getting poked in the eye, Three Stooges style, by skeletal hands. All while jutting out that amazing chin and hurling witty (and sometimes not) lines left and right. Mere words cannot describe the genius of these films.
Best Line (How can I choose just one?!):
Arthur: Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?
Ash: Nope. Just me baby... Just me.