31 Days Of Halloween Movies

Every year, we try to watch one horror movie a day leading up to Halloween. Each year we try to mix it up a little and watch something that we may have missed the previous year. So, since today officially kicks off our 31 days of Halloween movies, it’s time to dust off some dvd’s or make a trip to the movie rental store. And since Roman Polanski has been in the news a lot lately, we’ll start off with my all time favorite Roman Polanski flick:

Oct. 1st: Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.
Our rating: (8/10)

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Oct. 2nd: It’s Alive (1974) – The Davies expect a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing when it’s scared. And it’s easily scared. Unfortunately, this was a great candidate for a remake and even more unfortunately, it was remade in 2008. This movie scared the piss out of me as a kid. The remake was a horrible disaster, not worth mentioning.
Our rating: (6.5/10)

Oct. 3rd: The Exorcist (1973) – Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house. A man has been called for as a last resort to try and save her. That man is The Exorcist. Can’t deny this as one of the best horror films of all time. The anniversary release a couple of years ago is the one to watch. It includes the staircase scene that we didn’t get to see for over 30 years.
Our rating: (9/10)

Oct. 4th: Helter Skelter (1976) – The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his “family”.
Our rating: (6.5/10)

Oct. 5th: The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. One of our all time favorites!
Our rating: (10/10)

Oct. 6th: The Shining (1989) – A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Our rating: (8.5/10)

Oct. 7th: The Blair Witch Project (1999) – In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary…A year later their footage was found.
Our rating: (9/10)

Oct. 8th: Christine (1983) – A nerdish boy buys a strange car with a evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
Our rating: (8/10)

Oct. 9th: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) – Now here’s one for the kids! The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.
Our rating: (7/10)

Oct. 10th: Friday The 13th (1980) – Just the first one, the original. NO SEQUELS! Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to re-open a summer camp that was the site of a child’s drowning.
Our rating: (7/10)

Oct. 11th: The Amityville Horror (1979) – Newlyweds move into a house where a murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.
Our rating: (6.5/10)

Oct. 12th: Frailty (2001) – A man confesses to an FBI agent his family’s story of how his religious fanatic father’s visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed “demons.” A lot of people have let this little gem slide under the radar. Really a good movie.
Our rating: (7/10)

Oct. 13th: Salem’s Lot (1979) – Vampires are invading a small New England town. It’s up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.
Our rating: (6.5/10)

Oct. 14th: An American Werewolf In London (1981) – Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Our rating: (8/10)

Oct. 15th: The Grudge (2004) – An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Our rating: (8/10)

Oct. 16th: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Five friends visiting their grandpa’s old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Our rating: (7/10)

Oct. 17th: The Omen (1976) – An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist.
Our rating: (7/10)

Oct. 18th: Night of The Living Dead (1968) – A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
Our rating: (7.5/10)

Oct. 19th: The Mothman Prophecies (2002) – A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.
Our rating: (8/10)

Oct. 20th: The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) – A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
Our rating: (7.5/10)

Oct. 21st: Jaws (1975) – When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
Our rating: (10/10)

Oct. 22nd: Pet Sematary (1989) – The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two things: the semi-trailers that roar past on the narrow road, and the mysterious cemetary in the woods behind the house.
Our rating: (7.5/10)

Oct. 23rd: Se7en (1995) – Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO.
Our rating: (8.5/10)

Oct. 24th: Halloween (1978) – A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Our rating: (8.5/10)

Oct. 25th: Paranormal Activity (2007) – After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.
Our rating: (8.5/10)

Oct. 26th: White Noise (2005) – An architect’s desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave, becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Our rating: (7.5/10)

Oct. 27th: Children Of The Corn (1984) – A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Our rating: (7.5/10)

Oct. 28th: Saw (2004) – With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who’s been nicknamed “Jigsaw” by the police because of his unusual calling card.
Our rating: (8/10)

Oct. 29th: The Howling (1981) – After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Our rating: (7.5/10)

Oct. 30th: Hocus Pocus (1993) – Another for the kids. More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem.
Our rating: (8/10)

Oct. 31st: Rob Zombies “Halloween” (2007) – **Unrated Version** After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.
Our rating: (9.5/10)