Scary movies

It's the Halloween season once again, which means a change of seasons and time to enjoy a good, creepy time watching movies.  However, with every good scary movie comes countless poorly made attempts to freak us out.

It's Halloween season and I am the biggest scary movie buff. So here are my top 5 best movie to watch at Halloween time. Some of them you shouldn't watch alone, some of them you can't watch along. Anyway, here is the top 5.

I don't do well with scary movies, period!  I don't like them, I don't want to see them, I only go for the buttered popcorn.  Except, when it's near Halloween, then, it's expected.  The Duluth Public Library has a series of FREE Scary Movies your family can, shall we say, "enjoy".

There are a lot of bad horror movies set in space ("Jason X", anyone?).  There is one reason that so many space horror movies were made, and that reason is "Alien".  Released in 1979, the movie tells the story of a commercial towing spaceship, called Nostromo. The ship is carrying its seven-member crew in back to Earth in stasis.  The ship's computer awakens the crew when it re

The most imaginative movie on my list is "Pan's Labyrinth", which is a times an amazing movie and at times a very brutal one.  It takes place during the waning days of the Spanish Civil War, and the war aspects of the film are as tough as any war movie.  Then there's the central figure and story, a beautiful young girl who uses her imagination to escape the horrors of her life.  The imag

This movie recommendation to get you in the mood for Halloween is a movie my dad brought me to when I was probably too young to see it and I thought it was fantastic then.  It's 'An American Werewolf In London'.  I recently watched it again and despite some special effects that look a little dated (although at least they aren't CGI!) it holds up pretty well.  The movie stars David Naughton, who at