Best Scary Halloween Movies

We've been loading up on scary movies to watch this month. I love this time of year! Since it's nearing Halloween, I thought I'd share some of our mainstays.

Like "It's a Wonderful Life" around Christmas, there are certain movies that simply have to be watched around Halloween. Here's our "must-see" list for after the kiddos go to bed:

10. Night Breed

Clive Barker - 2nd only to Stephen King when it comes to horror. This one is graphic and gory, but a totally original story, and fantastic makeup.

9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The original. I still scream through this one, no matter how many times I've seen it. Scary. Really creepy.

8. Carrie

Stephen King - his very first. Poignant, powerful, and truly horrific. You just have to get past the 70's thing. Which, really, is sort of charming. John Travolta with feathered hair. Remember?

7. Hellraiser

Cliver Barker again. The one that make him famous. With Pinhead. Fantastically original story. Really gruesome.

6. Candyman

More Clive Barker. This one creeps me out for WEEKS afterward.

5. A Nightmare on Elm Street

Wes Craven - an original. Will make you nervous about sleeping for a long time.

4. Night of the Living Dead

Must be the original. Black and white version. Amazing social commentary in the midst of all the horror.

3. Jeepers Creepers

Newer addition to the list, but WOW. Sometimes campy, but mostly creepy.

2. The Exorcist

Classic scary. Poor Linda Blair!

1. Nosferatu

Get ready for subtitles. But you HAVE to watch this one. No creepier monster has ever been made.

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And here's a list of Halloween movies to watch with the whole family this time of year!

10. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

It's as funny as you remember it. I promise!

9. Halloweentown

This is well done!

8. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton magic!

7. Hocus Pocus

Totally fun story, and the witches are a riot.

6. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Classic. Must watch.

5. Corpse Bride

Tim Burton again. Not as good as Nightmare, but still good.

4. The Halloween Tree

A Ray Bradbury story. LOVE this one.

3. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Don Knots. This is soooo funny.

2. The Witches

Based on a Roald Dahl story. Really well done!

1. Monster House

Very new addition, but a fanastic story, and actually really scary in places!

Thursday Thirteen #6: 13 Reasons You Shouldn't Go to A Haunted House

13 REASONS YOU SHOULDN'T

GO TO A HAUNTED HOUSE

1. You're afraid of the dark

2. You've already spent ten years in therapy

3. You just ate three elephant ears, two corn dogs and a bag of cotton candy

4. You already have a second mortgage (have you seen how much admission to one of these haunted houses costs!? It's like getting into Disney World!)

5. You lost your youngest last year in the Haunted Maze and they still haven't found him

6. You don't have health insurance

7. You're allergic to latex

8. You just bought new underwear

9. Your own house is scary enough

10. You're out of blood pressure medicine

11. Your kids insist they won't let you sleep in their beds with them anymore when you have nightmares

12. You thought Frankenweenie was scary

13. What if it's real?!

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Blue Barb Vs. Eerie Eddie

I've been creeped out by dolls since I was a kid. Not all dolls, but some dolls. You know the ones. The CREEPY ones. My mom says one of the first things I ever had nightmares about was a movie where a doll is burned in a fire and melts. I woke up screaming about that creepy doll for weeks.


I thought I found the creepiest doll ever on a blog recently, but now I'm not so sure. A friend of mine turned me onto this great blog called Looking for George. She's a mother of four and adopting a child from Vietnam to add to the chaos, and is also, as her blog title implies, looking for an old friend named George.

She also blogs occasionally about one of her daughter's beloved, yet decidedly creepy dolls, called Blue Barb. We all know some dolls are just strange. They don't have to look like Chucky to be a little "off." Now, if you've clicked the link and gone to see Blue Barb in all her disturbing glory (go ahead, click. I'll wait) you've been subject to Barb's particular brand of ghoulish charm.

Today, I was cleaning Zoe's room, and nearly had a heart attack when I looked into her closet, where we keep three baskets filled with stuffed animals and dolls. In the corner, I found Barb's long-lost cousin, or perhaps her bizarre and bloated future-boyfriend? Zoe calls him Eddie (although sometimes transforms him with a barrette operation into Edwina) and I've named him Eerie Eddie, because... well, he is.


If you think Blue Barb is scary, you haven't experienced the horror that is Eerie Eddie. For one thing, Eddie is a big boy. A BIG boy. He also reminds me of a cross between the Heat Miser (remember that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Christmas special?):



...and the clown from "It."






The latter is mostly because Eddie came wearing a clown outfit. (He had a clown hat at one time, too, but it's long been lost.) As if a creepy doll couldn't get creepier--they had to add a creepy clown costume to the deal?!


And Grandma looked at this thing in the catalog and thought: Awwwwww! I just have to get this for my granddaughter!



Really???


Me, I look at it and think: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

*shudder*


I think maybe Blue Barb has really met her match this time...

Herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's Eddie!

What do you think? Should we introduce them?


I told Michael about the freaky doll in the closet (and of course, took Eddie out to take this picture but put him in the back of the closet when I was done with him.)



When I came into our bedroom later, I found this:





I turned to Michael and said: "Ha. Ha. Very funny, dear."



He looked at me, puzzled, and asked: "What?"


I pointed and said: "Eddie and the Chainsaw? Very funny."


"I didn't put him there." Michael blinked at me. "I thought you put him there."





Creepy damned dolls.