'Fright Night' has always been one of my all-time favorite classic horror films. It's eerie, creepy, gory, and an amazing vampire story.
The main character of the movie (Charlie Brewster) is just an ordinary sixteen year old boy with raging hormones just like any other teenage boy, but the only problem is, he suspects that his neighbor might be a vampire. When he finds out he’s right, he tries to do everything to stop him from getting to the people he loves the most. I first watched this movie when I was eight years old and I remember it scaring the living shit out of me. Alas, I will never forget what a masterpiece this movie is.
4) Evil Dead (1981)
If you’re a horror fan and you haven’t seen the original ‘Evil Dead’, then you are not a true horror fan. Despite how this movie scared the hell out of me as a child, the more I watched it, the more obsessed with it I became.
Written and directed by Sam Raimi starring Bruce Campbell, this film is about five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in the woods who find an audiotape and a book entitled “Nekronomicon” or Book of the Dead, unleashing a legion of demons and other evil spirits, causing demonic possession, which soon leads to a very gruesome end for the college students. Before ‘Evil Dead’ came out, it was originally a short film by Sam Raimi and the rest of the cast called ‘Within the Woods’.
3) The Exorcist
'The Exorcist' is another classic horror film that I saw for the first time at eight years old, but this one didn't scare me, I just thought it was really bad-ass. I've seen this movie over a hundred times, and it's always been my favorite horror film.
Directed by William Friedkin, and a film adaption from the novel by William Peter Blatty, this movie deals with the demonic possession of a twelve-year old girl and a mother who is desperately attempts to win back her child through an exorcism with the help of two priests.
2) Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ actually stands alone as my all-time favorite slasher film. The first film out of the whole series I’ve seen was Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. After I watched that one (and I was seven at the time) I decided to watch all of the Halloween movies, and when I did, they instantly became my favorite.
Starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis, the plot begins with a six-year old boy named Michael Myers who brutally stabs his sister to death, and is soon after placed in a mental institution. Fifteen years later he escapes, returns home, and stalks teenage girl Laurie Strode and her friends, killing them one by one to get to her.
Starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis, the plot begins with a six-year old boy named Michael Myers who brutally stabs his sister to death, and is soon after placed in a mental institution. Fifteen years later he escapes, returns home, and stalks teenage girl Laurie Strode and her friends, killing them one by one to get to her.
1) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
This film I actually watched for the first time when I was six years old during a thunderstorm. Did it scare me? Well yeah, I was a little kid at the time, but that didn’t stop me from thinking it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, which it was.
Written and directed by George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a cult classic about two siblings, a brother and a sister, who take a road trip to place a new flower reef on their grandfather’s grave, only to find when they arrive that something very odd was going on, and that’s when the girl’s brother was killed by a zombie, leaving her no other option but to run until she found a safe place to hide, and it wasn’t before long until she took shelter in an abandoned farmhouse with five other people and a sick little girl, who was bitten by one of the zombies. Do any of these people get out alive? Watch and find out.
Written and directed by George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a cult classic about two siblings, a brother and a sister, who take a road trip to place a new flower reef on their grandfather’s grave, only to find when they arrive that something very odd was going on, and that’s when the girl’s brother was killed by a zombie, leaving her no other option but to run until she found a safe place to hide, and it wasn’t before long until she took shelter in an abandoned farmhouse with five other people and a sick little girl, who was bitten by one of the zombies. Do any of these people get out alive? Watch and find out.
