What horrors/movies do you watch on Halloween?

Clearly you have a stick up your arse and are making a big deal over nothing. Yes, technically it belongs to the horror genre. As does the movie 'Hocus Pocus'. Call it what you will, I am not as bothered by this as you are. But in my eyes, this is a dark dramedy under the guise of a horror. If someone asked me to recommend them a horror, I would not recommend this movie. Nor would I recommend Hocus Pocus. Just like I wouldn't recommend Amelie if someone wanted a comedy, even though that's what it is classed as.
 
I was going to try the new Halloween 2 this time, but put it on at the weekend and gave up after 20 minutes.

The wife and I usually go for Halloween 3, but I might go for the original Halloween and possibly it's sequel.
 
Yep, that's the one.

Totally unconnected to any of the other Halloween films (which I think is why the wife likes it), evil masks, Silver Shamrock and that jingle that gets stuck in your mind for ages after you've watched it ("3 more days to Halloween, Halloween" etc).
 
I like to do a 'decades' theme, starting with the 20s. I suppose everyone would think the obvious choice for the 20s would be Nosferatu, but for the past few years I've for some reason got stuck on Phantom Of The Opera. There's just something magical about its atmosphere, a combination of expressionist tunnels, secret oubliettes and sinister figures glimpsed in shadows that is just so bewitching, and it's come to kind of symbolise the start of my darkened-room evening of Halloween entertainment.

I tend to come a bit unstuck with the 40s as outside the Val Lewton cycle, which I see so often anyway, the pickings were rather slim. There's always Britain's good old 'Dead Of Night' I suppose, and even the Alistair Sim mystery Green For Danger is good for some spills and chills. Sticking in the British vein, even the period gothic melodrama Blanche Fury is quite unsettlingly dark and brooding, despite its florid technicolor. Two American classics from the decade I'd love to see, but haven't got my hanRAB on, are the ghost stories The Uninvited and The Unseen.
 
It's the only Halloween I didn't like a Halloween movie is not the same without Michael Myers :D

I usually watch the original Halloween it's a classic possibly my favourite horror film ever!
 
Again... it IS Horror. There is no really isn't about it. So ignore that comment about it not being horror Orangemaid. It's a decent horror film, worth seeing.
 
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