TEN must-watch Halloween recommendations
 

It will be that festive time of the year again in 2 weeks or so, so let's post some films which are a must-watch for all of you during the month of October.

Here are mine :- (in no order)

Trick 'r Treat
Sleepy Hollow
The Fog
Halloween
Monster House
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Changeling
Beetlejuice
The Monster Squad
Poltergeist

There can be numerous others, but these 10 regularly figure in my viewings every year.

1. Halloween (because of course)
2. Rob Zombie's Halloween (because its a different movie entirely and I appreciate him making it his own)
3. Frankenstein
4. Bride of Frankenstein
5. Dracula
6. The Phantom of the Opera
7. Nosferatu
8. Lost Boys
9. The Exorcist
10. Young Frankenstein (so that I can go to bed without having nightmares)

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"Enjoy that dead girl's body."

All the Halloween films.
All the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films.
All the Nightmare on Elm Street films.
All Friday the 13th films.
All Child's Play films.
All Leprechaun films.
All Saw films.

Once that goal is met (which is typically by the end of the first week of October)....I switch things around from year to year. I will begin watching all the Universal Monster films this October.

Halloween
Sleepy Hollow
Trick R' Treat
Creature from The Black Lagoon
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (Family Favorite)
Pumpkinhead
Dark Night of The Scarecrow (Personal Favorite)
Frankenstein
The Wolfman
Dracula

I like introducing people to new movies as much as I love discovering new films, so my list would be all limited releases that might have been glanced over.
1. Excision
2. The Devil's Rock
3. Grace
4. Citadel
5. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
6. The Cottage
7. American Mary
8. Rec
9. Dead Sushi
10. Session 9

Halloween
Trick R' Treat
Disney's Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Night of the Living Dead
Re-Animator
From Dusk Till' Dawn
The Monster Squad
Watcher in the Woods
Dracula
Creepshow

The Haunting (1963)
The Wolfman (1941)
The Horror Of Dracula
The Omen
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing From Another World
The Exorcist
The Quartermass Xperiment: The Creeping Unknown
Tales Of Terror
The Pit And The Pendulum

1. Halloween
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3. The Exorcist
4. Trick R' Treat
5. Scream
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. House of 1000 Corpses
8. House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price original)
9. Dead Alive
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas (only time I can really enjoy it anymore. Reminds me of being a little kid.)

I don't know about "must watch" but 10 Films I almost always watch around Halloween:

#1 - Trick Or Treat (1986) - This was always on when I was a kid. I was a huge Ozzy fan and when I saw him playing a preacher I always laughed. Plus the band Fastway did the soundtrack and I was a huge fan of theirs.

#2 - Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) - I used to rent the VHS with some friends in high school around Halloween. Always cracked me up and I still love it.

#3 - The Black Cat (1934) - Lugosi and Karloff. A movie done almost entirely with background music. German Expressionism and Beethoven's Allegretto from his 7th Symphony hauntingly played throughout. Halloween is just another excuse to watch this movie.

#4 - Frankenstein (1931) - The Granddaddy. I watch it with my dad because he started me on the Universal Monsters when I was 5 or 6 years old and I always have to come back to them.

#5 - Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) - I have to watch it directly after Frankenstein, and again with my dad. So glad I got to take him to the Turner Classic Movies presentation of Frankenstein & Bride Of Frankenstein last year so we could watch them both on the big screen together.

#6 - At least one film from the Halloween Franchise. I've had years where I marathon'd all of them but these last couple years I just haven't had the time. I usually catch Part 4, 5 or 6 on AMC or something just to get a little Michael Myers fix.

#7 - Phantasm (1979) - Just a creepy classic. How can you go wrong with being chased by The Tall Man and a ball with Spikes drilling into your head?

#8 - Fright Night (1985) - I used to watch it with my dad and my older brother all the time. One of our favorites to watch together.

#9 - Usually at least one from the Friday The 13th franchise. Probably my favorite series as a kid. I usually catch at least one of them on Halloween.

#10 - It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) - NO Holiday is complete without a Charlie Brown Special.

There are plenty of others I might watch. I never know until the mood hits me.

Horror Of Dracula
House Of Dark Shadows
Halloween (original)
Sleepy Hollow
Trick R Treat
The Exorcist
Fright Night (original)
Night Of The Living Dead
Nightmare Before Christmas
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Plus many, many others