Pick6: Campy Horror Flicks

Jason
Wednesday
9:39 am

Looks like we know what Willow is going as for Halloween.

Halloween is just around the corner. And this time I am dressing up the son as a Starfleet captain. I figure it will be the one time in his life where I don’t have to listen to him complain about it or ask me why he can’t go as a squid.

And this time of the year always brings back the nostalgic horror movie watcher I was with my group of friends growing up. And it didn’t even have to be Halloween for us to hit up the video store for some kind of horror movie. And they were not the first run, quality kind either. It was the cheesiest of the cheesiest we could find. And boy did we find some stinky cheese.

Matter of fact, we probably watched so much bad horror that it spoiled the entire horror genre for us. To this day we cannot sit down in front of a horror movie without cracking up at the most suspenseful parts. But lately my horror flick watching has drawn to a minimum, what with the kid and a wife who cannot watch them or else she will taking a running jump into the bed at night for a week straight so nothing will grab her from under the bed.

So yeah, thinking back, there was some really bad ones out there. So bad they were good. And here are the ones that stick out in my mind.

Humongous (1982)
One of the most gut busting hilarious flicks of the horror genre I have ever seen. And when you catch your first glimpse of the big bad, you will know what I mean. We still erupt into laughter with the mention of the word humongous.

Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Thank you George Romero. Your continuous drive to bring us the best and worse of life as a zombie will never be forgotten, even on the fourth remake of one of your films. But Dawn of the Dead was genious. But more importantly the best pieces of the movie was the various ways of destroying zombies. I will always remember them for when the zombies do come.

They Live (1988)
Rowdy Roddy Piper is an actor! This movie proves it. It also proves that Fox News is run by a bunch of ugly blue aliens that can only be seen with very special Ray Bans. And even better, the only way to take care of them is with guns…lots of guns…and the bigger the better. Now all we have to do is storm the studio and break their broadcast array.

Dead Alive (1992)
Priest Kung Fu. That is all I should have to say. Matter of fact that is all I am going to say except that due to the cover art for this movie box, this was easily the most rented movie of all.

Evil Dead II (1987)
Thank you for making something to make us forget Evil Dead (don’t worry I still love you). And plus Bruce Campbell. Even with the first part of the movie being a retread of the original movie, it is still easily in the upper echelon of my horror flicks. And it the only reason I still use the word groovy to this day.

Army of Darkness (1993)
If you thought Evil Dead II was that good, Army of Darkness surpasses it easily. In my every day conversation I will routinely quote this movie even though the quoting gets returned with a blank stare. It is why I tell people to shop smart, shop S-mart. It is why at one point every sound on my computer was from the movie. It is just that good. And to this day it is the first movie I will watch for Halloween. And it one of the few movies I will force people to watch just to experience along side Starship Troopers, Goonies and Willow.

Those are the ones rattlin’ around my cranium. Hopefully not too loudly, I would hate to attract the local zombies (there are those who can attest to a map made of my area and it included zombie warnings). So what did I miss? What are you favorites you make a point to watch every Halloween?