Best Of: Best Halloween Movies

Whorticulture Presents: The Top 3 Movies to Watch on Halloween Night!

Looking for a scary movie to watch on Halloween night?  What's better than scary movies that actually take place on Halloween?  Here's our top 3.  We'd love to have your input!

3:  Halloween

It's a classic for a reason.  It touts killer suspense and outstanding death scenes.  This movie is serious business.  Our killer, Michael Myers, is super strong, silent, and deadly.  He's returning on Halloween night to kill his sister, the only one left of his childhood massacre years ago.  He'll kill anybody who gets in his way.  You can run.  You can hide.  He's going to get you so it doesn't really matter.  Our favorite death goes to P.J. Soles, as she gets strangled by the phone chord.  This movie made John Carpenter a force to be reckoned with.  He went on to direct The Fog and The Thing, making horror what it is today.

I bet that's not who you think it is, Lynda.  Just sayin'.

You know this movie is good because they made a thousand sequels.  And really, none of them are terrible, except for 3.  Killer Halloween masks?  What the fuck is that?  Painful, that's what that shit is.

2: Night of the Demons

People always ask us why we love this movie so much.  This movie embodies everything we love about 1980's horror.  The dialogue is hilariously terrible, the gore superb.  Tits and blood galore.  A bunch of moderately attractive and not very intelligent teenagers decide to have a Halloween party at Hull House, an old funeral parlor which sits on evil ground.  So anyone who dies becomes a grisly, murderous demon.  Yeah, yeah, we know.

Lookin' good there, Stooge!

Respect the cheese.

1: House of 1000 Corpses

Oh, how we love this movie.  This is everything a horror movie should be.  We can't legitimately call it "Rob Zombie's Masterpiece," because it's sequel "The Devil's Rejects" is also cinematic gold (although for different reasons).  A group of college kids stumble upon their worst nightmare as they're spanning the country, looking for small town oddities.  Sure, it borrows considerably from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but (respectively) it's so much better.  The ensemble cast is strong.  The dark humor is truly quality.  The soundtrack is superb.  The gore is aces and it's actually scary.  You can't help but fall in love with the murderous family, especially Bill Moseley's Otis (he makes our heart all a'flutter, he can rip it out anytime!) and Sheri Moon Zombie's Baby (that Rob Zombie is a lucky, lucky man).  And oh, Sid Haig.  Your Captain Spaulding makes us laugh, makes us cry, and makes us love this movie to a shameless degree.

He ain't readin' no funny books, mama.

So check these movies out.  There's something for everybody - the seriously scary, the cheesy gore-fest, and maybe the best goddamn horror movie ever made.

Did we forget anything?  Let us know!  What's your favorite Halloween night movie?