#1: Stephen King's 'IT' (1990)
This is one of my all time favourite movies. I still to this day shiver at the sight of a clown. Even the zombie clown in Zombieland freaked the shit out of me. Pennywise is by far the freakiest of them all, especially the way that he breaks the bounders for stereotypical ghouls and can pay you a visit at any time, any place from a full library in broad daylight, to the locker room showers.
IT has a great plot, A group of outcast kids (The lucky 7), from a small town named Derry, Vow to destroy an evil clown who has come to make their lives a nightmare. He visits them in all sorts of creepy, unsettling visions. The children fight IT in the sewers and we assume he is killed, but several years later, when the children are working adults with families, strange disappearances start happening again in Derry, and the last remaining member of The Lucky 7 calls back all his old friends to take down IT once and for all.
With great acting and direction you would barely notice the fact that IT was made as a two-part television film. It's a really great one to watch this time of year.
#2: George A. Romero's Night Of The Living Dead (1968):
"They're coming to get you Barbara!"
Ahh, I absolutely adore this movie. Such a refreshment from the Super-Zombie films out today. I personally much prefer the type of slow moving, brain-dead zombie that Romero creates.
The plot is simple like most zombie movies, a group of survivors trying to, well, survive.
A satellite fallen onto earth is producing toxins capable of re-animating the dead. Anyone who is dead already becomes a flesh eating zombie and anyone bitten during the event becomes a zombie too. The only way to stop these walking dead is destroying their brains.
The protagonist is a girl named Barbara who encounters one of these creatures while visiting her fathers grave. In a moment of panic she flees and takes refuge in an old farmhouse where she meets a group of other survivors. We follow them on their journey to escape the hordes of zombies in the area.
If you're a fan of zombie movies this is definitely one to watch, if only for the impact it has made on all the modern zombie movies out in the last decade.
#3: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960):
Psycho is a fantastic horror/thriller movie by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. The remake with Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates was one of the rare horror remakes that I actually enjoyed and I do recommend it but I am going to focus on the 1960 one for now.
The story follows a young woman named Marion Crane who is living a dead end life, broke with a partner she barely see's, and working a dead-end office job. One day her boss gives her $40,000 to put in the bank but Marion see's this as a chance to escape her life and start off a new one with the stolen money else where.
She buys a car with the cash and drives untill she is exhausted and sees a motel named The Bates Motel. The motel manager named Norman Bates is a friendly, nice man who just seems to be a little bit isolated and overly mothered. He fixes Marion dinner and they talk for a while. Marion starts to feel guilty about stealing the money and makes a mental decision to return it the next day.
A turn of events occurs and we then see Marion's sister a week later discussing with Marion's friend Sam how she's been missing.
With a twisty plot and some intense suspense this is definitely one to watch, and if you're not into black and whites then check out the more modern re-make.
Laura and I will be updating tomorrow with more unmissable movies for halloween.
Gina
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