With Halloween just around the corner, I have been craving scary movies. I just want to jump, or scream with terror. Everyone has their own tolerance and requirements to make a movie scary, I usually end up laughing (My Bloody Valentine) at the absurdity of it all. However, I have found some movies that regardless of how many times I have seen them, still scare me and make me tremble. Below are some of my faves.
Hate Spiders. Enough said. The shower scene in this movie literally makes me gag. I have noticed a lot of huge spiders around my neighborhood lately and I don't like it one bit. I cannot watch this film again because it makes me feel like I have spiders crawling all over me. Blech.
This is going to sound funny but the first thing I think of when I see the movie Carrie is my BF Mrs. R who always explains when she spells her name, "
Carrie
, like the horror film". Then I think of how disturbing this film was for me and how I cringe at the opening scene alone. Poor girl. Stephen King sure knows how to write them.
I randomly caught
Jeepers Creepers one night on HBO and thought it was going to be really, really dumb. And while it didn't win any Oscars, this film did scare and creep me out a lot. The villain/bad guy whatever you want to call him, is REALLY gross.
Even though I wouldn't really classify
No Country for Old Men as a horror film, Javier Bardem is straight up frightening in this movie. I just recently watched it with my
roomie and we both were disgusted but Anton. His weapon of choice, his voice, the coin, his haircut...I would really not like to cross paths with this dude.
I don't know how people do it...I watched
Saw and was so disturbed by it that I knew then and there even if sequels came out, I would be skipping them for sure. My
roomie and gf Lori have a tradition of watching the new Saw films whenever they come out. I have to hand it to them, the films are gross and their ability to watch them year after year, is impressive.
I remember back in 1996 I went on a date with this really cute guy who worked at the gym and he took me to see
Scream (Dimension Collector's Series). I remember loving the film but being absolutely terrified watching it. It had been snowing outside and when my date opened my door and shut it to his car a pile of snow came down from the top onto the windshield and scared the bejesus out of me. I screamed so loud and my heart raced so fast it was a bit embarrassing.
Scream broke all the rules at the beginning (hello, Drew Barrymore) and kept me on the edge of my seat. I am really excited for Scream 4 to come out!
Oh Kevin Spacey...you are a bad, bad, man.
Seven (Single Disc Edition) is another movie that just gives me the willies. The crime scenes are brutal and the ending...oy.
After watching all those disgusting films that scare the crap out of me, it is nice to settle down with a movie that is scary but also quite hilarious.
Shaun of the Dead
is my go to film for every Halloween (planning to watch it this week). I have a seriously weird celebrity crush on Simon Pegg and love the dynamic between him and Nick Frost.
Shaun of the Dead plays up all the zombie cliches and also has that dry British humor that I enjoy so much. If you haven't seen it already I
highly recommend it!
I think Zombie horror flicks are the most interesting of them all, which has me thinking I will be checking out AMC's new show
The Walking Dead premiering appropriately on Halloween.
was filled with infectiously addictive pop songs that just put me in the best of moods. 
We R Who We R. My roomie Avery got me totally addicted to this song and let me just say that it is the BEST song to run to. I actually ran for 10 minutes longer than originally planned because I was so pumped listening to this song. Never a bad thing if you ask me!
. His new song 
that I can make new memories too. I will say that I am happy he ditched the random band aid on the face look, I don't think that trend ever picked up - thank goodness!
