Most Profitable Horror Movies

HorrorMovies.Ca has a list of the 9 most profitable horror movies.  Top honors go to blockbuster indies that filmed with very small budgets, like the Blair Witch Project (below) and Paranormal Activity.

The Creepiest Halloween Costumes Ever

 

Last year, the Huffington Post compiled a slideshow of the creepiest Halloween costumes ever.  

A pretty good showing, I'd say.  Definitely worth sharing, even a year later.

Top 10 Creepy Children in Cinema

Here's a solid list of creepy children in horror movies, which, while comprehensive, seems to leave out quite a lot of them, too.  Seriously, what is it about kids that's so unsettling?  Has anyone ever done a study of this?

Creepy Costumes Through the Ages

I love this list of creepy Halloween costumes over at Fist City Vintage.  And of course many of the worst offenders are clown costumes.  Of course.

Top 10 Illustrated Horror Movie Posters

The art of hand-drawn movie posters has all but died out (at least here in America -- it's alive and well in places like Ghana and Thailand), but FEARnet has a list of the ten best illustrated horror movie posters to take you back to the good old days of pen-and-ink posters.

Scorcese's 11 Scariest Movies

Last year, the Daily Beast ran a list of Martin Scorcese's 11 scariest horror movies.

The list is a pretty great one, though it skews pretty heavily towards pre-1970s cinema. I haven't watched my way through the entire list, but those I've seen have been excellent, and Scorcese includes a couple of my favorite ever horror films, including The Innocents and the 1963 version of The Haunting.

Top 10 80's Horror Movies

Don't go into the light!

Here's a list of the ten best horror movies of the 80's to mull over.  Thoughts?

Halloween TV Specials

If, like me, you're saddened to see your neighbors taking down their decorations and the pumpkins on your front step slowly sinking in on themselves, then one sure-fire way to bolster that Halloween spirit is by rewatching some classic Halloween TV episodes.  I've been thinking of what my list would include (certainly Supernatural's ridiculous razor-blades-in-the-candy opener), and maybe at some point I'll put together a list of my own, by in the meantime, here's a great roundup from Jezebel of Halloween specials from our youths.

There are a lot of clear winners on this list -- the Buffy episode, of course, and every episode ever of The Addams Family - but I think my favorite is the Freaks and Geeks episode.  Bill as The Bionic Woman.  It just kills me every time.