Favorite five - horror movies

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Posted: 10/31/03

Aaron Saudargas/ staff writer

1. "Evid Dead 2"-With a bloody chainsaw and a mouth full of 1980s catch phrases that infected a generation, this movies is full of idiotic things that will make the individual watching it become more stupid. This movie can only be Evil Dead 2.

"Hail to the king baby," said Bruce Cambell procliaming him "the man" after a lousy clamation sequence of his dead wife dancing in the woods, initial cutting off her head.

There is so much blood in this 1980s B-movie complex. This movie takes place in the woods with a 'book of the dead" causes zombies and other crazy monsters. This experience will not only intregue you to watch the rest of the series but want watch the movie all over again.

2. "Rosemary's Baby"-This film is absolutely the craziest movie I have ever seen. It's not neccessarily scary but has many twists and turns. It is about this couple who wants to have a child in a big city but nothing is the way it seems.

The main character in the movie is named Rosemary and her husband becomes buddies with the neighbors who are beginning to the movies crazy antics.

Rosemary gets pregnant and begins to a see a special doctor that were offered to her by the neighbors. Somewhere along the lines Rosemary picks up the idea that her baby is going to be used in a sacrificial satanic ritual.

Wow, I know.

3. "Halloween"-If you don't know about the Halloween Series then the 80's have failed you? With the greats like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween just seemed to stand out. Halloween just seemed to have the perfect insane killer, Michael Myers.

A man with a mask that fit his face perfectly. Killing sexually active teens for their wrong doings, wait that was Friday the 13th. Well it almost follows the same plot, but still...BLOOD!

This is one of the first films where Jamie Lee Curtis plays the lead role. But who cares, there's a mad man on the loose and killing teens recklessly with a very big kitchen knife.

If you haven't seen this movie, you completely sheltered.

4. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"- Those who know, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre just came out, this is about that movie. The old one was not even a good movie. The new one on the other hand, is scary as all hell. Who knew that the girl, from 7th Heaven could play in a movie that had naughty words in it.

All joking aside the movie is about the notorius killer "Leatherface." This guy runs around and cuts, dices, slices, and hangs anyone who gets in the way of his mission, which is to kill more teens. Without a plot and almost no story line, you'll find yourself jumping at the edge of your seat and wanting mommy sitting next to you saying "Honey, Leatherface isn't real." But she would be lying to you, this movie is based on the true story that happened sometime in the 1970s about kids going to a Lynard Skynard concert and get sidetracked into there doom. Man, moronic teens should of kept going, Skynard Rocks!

5. "28 Days Later" - This is a british movie! This movie is full of violence, horror and survival in the England. A group of animal right activist go to save a monkee's in a military base but what those activist didn't know they'd unleash hell on the to the U.K. worse than the Sex Pistols. The monkees were carrying a rage drug inside of them that made them angry and bit a human being.

The human turn into zombies and go complete bollocks. They start feeding on each other for blood, and then all of the U.K. is a bunch of blood sucking zombie type things. All though the movie feels like your watching a Dawn of the Dead copy but your not. This isn't a funny movie, this is scary.

Brandy Headley/ Staff Writer

1. "It"-This movie will always make you look at clowns in a different way. Six long-lost friends, Bill Denbrough (Richard Thomas), Eddie Kraspbrack (Dennis Christopher), Richie Tozier (Harry Anderson), Ben Hanscom (John Ritter), Beverly Marsh (Annete Toole) and Stanley Uris (Richard Massur), are all reunited by a seventh friend, Mike Hanlon, (Tim Reid) who calls them each in their respective homes and lives to return once again to their hometown in Derry, Maine. He explains to them that "It" is back. Everyone shudders because "It" is a mysterious phenomenon that causes horrible deaths every 30 years; its victims are always little kids, always lured to the phenomenon that takes the form of Robert Gray, who is known as Pennywise The Clown (Tim Curry). Everyone shudders because those seven kids had "supposedly" defeated "It" 30 years ago, but guess what happened? HE'S BAAAAAAAAACK!!!! And this time it's up to our seven friends to go back and kill him once and for all so they can cure Derry of it and cure their horrors with it. The clown scared me so much when I was five years old, and it still scares me to this day.

2. "Signs"- An extra-terrestrial movie that keeps you thinking long after the credits roll. I liked this movie so much because it seemed so real. Most people have probably thought about aliens in some way or another. Signs is about ex-priest Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) who lost faith after the death of his wife by a driver asleep at the wheel. The plot unfolds six months later with him and his two children, Morgan (Culkin) and Bo, (Breslin) along with his younger brother Merrill, who lives in a separate house on the farm in Bucks County, Penn. The movie portrays their survival of extra terrestrial invasion.

3. "Donnie Darko"-This movie is about a teenage schizophrenic and his friend Frank the bunny, who is scarier than anything. It tops Chucky and Freddy combined. The main character Donny (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a troubled teenager who is very lonely. A major bizarre event happens within the first 10 minutes or so of the film. A jet engine comes crashing through the roof of the Darko home one night, smack dab into Donnie's room. But the movie is full of twisted and odd coincidences, and this is what curiously allowed for him to be wandering around outdoors after Frank warned him to leave the house. What's it all mean? I have no idea, but we aren't supposed to because of the film's obscurity. Somehow it all revolves around a major plot involving time travel and the end of the world. I've watched this movie so many times because it really makes me think. I love movies like this.

4. "Ghost Ship"- The beginning scene of this movie is a classic- one of the freakiest things I have ever seen. All of the floating dead bodies really freaked me out too. You are left alone in the middle of the ocean inside a haunted boat during what seems to be an eternal nighttime shot. There are plenty of creaks and creepy singing. There are rats. Maggots, too. You want to shout out, "Don't open the door!" Even the classic ghost-of-a-little-girl-in-a-blue-dress (a la The Shining) will make you jump.

5. "Final Destination"- The movie begins with a high school class boarding a plane for a class trip to Paris. Alex (Devon Sawa), one of the students, has a vision, vivid and terrifying, of the plane exploding in flight. He jumps up to get off, has a fight with another student, and ends up being ejected along with five other students and a teacher. Then the airplane takes off and, you guessed it, explodes. Mid-air teenagers die and you get this sense of "oh no, I don't want to look." Sure enough though, the scenes don't hold back any gore, and you see it all. The whole thought of death occurring in sequences and that you can never escape death is pretty scary.

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