| Title: Nightmare on Elm Street |
| Starring: Robert Englund; directed by Wes Craven |
| Summary: A brutal child-killer returns from the grave to slay the offspring of his murderers' children...in their sleep. |
| Why I Like it: It's not like it scares me, but it's still fun to watch the kids get hunted. I also heard the story was based on true events. |
| Best Scene: Tina, the blond girl, gets dragged across the bed, through the air, across the ceiling, and ripped open, right before her boyfriend's eyes near the start of the film. |
| Title(s): Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn |
| Starring: no one I know |
| Summary: There is an evil book--Necronomicon, Book of the Dead--which contains a chant to awaken a force of evil (The Evil Dead) that can seldom be stopped. Ash and his friends go camping in a cabin in the middle of the woods--a trip that turns into a terrifying bloodbath. One by one, each member of the group is taunted and slaughtered, leaving Ash to battle the Evil alone. |
| Why I Like it: It's freaky, it's gory, it's supernatural, it's got everything. We are looking on as Ash is slowly but surely driven to the edge of insanity. |
| Best Scene: The cackling deer head, no doubt about it. It's pure madness. |
| Title: The Devil's Advocate |
| Starring: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Some Chick |
| Summary: A husband (Reeves) accepts a job offer, and he and his wife move and try to adjust to their new life. But the husband is never home, and the wife is losing her mind. All he seems to want is more and more success and money, and all she seems to get is more and more insane. Could it be the evil-doings of Satan that has ripped them apart?? |
| Why I Like it: It's really well-made, and just when you think you understand what's going on, something totally twisted happens. |
| Best Scene: I can't decide! Too many of the plot twists took me by surprise. |
| Title: Killer Klowns from Outer Space |
| Starring: no one I know |
| Summary: That's kind of a given. Some people find a circus; but it's no ordinary circus. Why? Well, for starters, the tent doubles as some kind of a spaceship. Secondly, it's run by a bunch of WICKED CLOWNS!! |
| Why I Like it: It's so much fun to watch. The klowns' faces are huge, and they run around, putting their victims in pink bags of cotton candy. Then they suck out all the blood through a long, curvy straw. It's pretty original. |
| Best Scene: I don't remember it very well, but I did like the part where a klown goes up to some old ladies on a street corner and starts doing tricks for them. All the camera sees is his shadow. Eventually, he does a trick where his shadow looks like a big, tall dinosaur. Then he eats all the old ladies! |
| Title: American Psycho |
| Starring: Christian Bale or something, Jared Leto |
| Summary: I really don't know how to summarize the plot of this movie! It's about this guy who's psycho, and he starts killing people. It's really hard to explain...and...yeah... |
| Why I Like it: I've never seen anything quite like it, really. It's a really vivid portrait of what a freak this guy is! It's done well, except for a lot of explanations the film-makers neglected to include. If you're one of those people that absolutely must understand everything that happens in a movie, you'll probably hate this one. |
| Best Scene: The first kill. He stands behind Jared Leto, raises his axe, and screams, "HEY, PAUL!!" |
| Title: Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| Starring: no one I know |
| Summary: A group of teenagers go on a road trip and run out of gas in the middle of Hickville. They decide to post up in one of the boys' uncle's old slaughterhouse (used to kill cows) for the night. But as it turns out, there's a second slaughterhouse out there: just a couple miles down the road! Based on a true story. |
| Why I Like it: It's twisted, it's scary, it's bloody, and it's a true story. Here's the scariest part |
| Best Scene: Leatherface's family has the girl with them at dinner, and for some reason she starts freakin out and screaming, and the entire family starts screaming and howling and shit. It's insane. |
| Title: Candyman |
| Starring: Virgina Madsen, Tony Todd; by Clive Barker |
| Summary: A legend says that if you repeat Candyman's name five times in the mirror, he'll appear behind you and gut you with his hook. Madsen is a college student doing a research project on the legend. She doesn't believe in that kind of thing, so she and her colleague try it out. It's all fun and games until she discovers the truth. |
| Why I Like it: It's beautifully done. The music, actors, and every part fit together perfectly. But do not, I repeat--DO NOT--see the sequel, Farewell to the Flesh. It SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Best Scene: Helen (Madsen) wakes up in another woman's apartment, soaked in blood. There is blood everywhere, and a knife rests beside her.* Beautifully done. |
| Title: A Clockwork Orange |
| Made By: Stanley Kubrick |
| Summary: I dunno if this really counts as a horror movie, but I'm putting it on here anyways! Alex is the leader of a band of criminals whose focus in life is rape, murder, classical music, and milk bars. When he gets arrested, he agrees to be a guinea pig for a lab that has created a drug to turn bad guys into good ones... |
| Why I Like it: Stanley Kubrick was the shit; his cinematography was bizarre, his choice of music was insane, and this movie is a fuckin masterpiece. |
| Best Scene: Probably the part where Alex has been jumped and wanders to the nearest house, where an old man takes him in. Only thing is, Alex has been here before: he and his former "droogs" once came to this very house, beat this very old man, and raped and killed his wife. The irony of it. |