I guess it doesn't take much thinking to realize that we are in hog heaven right now! The Halloween season is the time of year when it doesn't require that much begging and pleading to convince the wife that maybe we should watch another horror movie tonight. So far, we've used the excuse of the spooky season to watch and re-watch the following movies.

1. Halloween (2007 Rob Zombie Remake) - Hmm.. I feel like I wouldn't really be fair to any Halloween remake.  I mean, if it ain't broke, right?  I loved John Carpenter's Halloween and Halloween II so much that I watched the rest of the series all the way through Halloween H20.  I'm not going to lie, that ride got pretty harsh and bumpy.  So, sure, if you compare Rob Zombie's Halloween to Halloween 5, then it's going to come out looking pretty good.  But, I still think it's nowhere near as scary as the either of the original Halloween movies.  I guess I just don't get Rob Zombie, for someone who seems to really enjoy horror movies, I don't understand why he has such a hard time making them scary.  He doesn't have a problem making them gory and uncomfortable, but that isn't really the same thing as scary, if you ask me.  Still, it's a fun enough movie.

2. The Descent - I'm kicking myself for putting off watching this movie for so long.  For some reason, the trailers didn't really do anything for me so I never made it a priority.  The Descent, it turns out, is a pretty great little horror movie.  Lots of tension building in the beginning really brought me back to the golden age of horror in the 70s and early 80s.  Like many horror movies with creatures in them, the movie is scariest when you don't really get a full glimpse of the creature.  But, the first "reveal" that takes place right before the creatures attack is pretty terrifying.  My sister-in-law screamed so loudly that I thought I was going to have some explaining to the police to do.  Anyway, so while I could have done with less shots of the creatures, I still thought they did a pretty damn good job with this movie.

3. In the Mouth of Madness - Sam Neil in a John Carpenter movie?  Yes please!  Plus this whole movie has a real H.P. Lovecraft vibe to it.  It's pretty hard to make a bad horror movie if H.P. Lovecraft is your inspiration.  I've probably seen In the Mouth of Madness a dozen times since it came out in 1995.  It's weird that you don't really hear more about this movie.  Sure, some of the acting is a little goofy and some of the FX are a little primitive, but I'm willing to look past all of that (for any movie, really) if the story is interesting.  I would definitely put this movie in the top 5 John Carpenter movies of all time and that's pretty high praise.

Sheesh... this is turning out to be a longer post than I had planned.  I better split it up.  So, in the next few days look for part two of "What did we watch for Halloween?"!

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Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths...

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Brand: Fox
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Actors:

• Donald Pleasence
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Tony Moran
• Nancy Kyes
• P.J. Soles

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Claustrophobia and bloody mayhem collide in the high-adrenaline horror flick The Descent. Six women (including one who lost her husband and child the year before, and one who harbors a bitter secret) spelunk in an unexplored cavern system that turns out to harbor mysterious, predatory creatures...

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
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• Alex Reid
• Saskia Mulder
• MyAnna Buring

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The mind-bending worlds of author H.P. Lovecraft have long interested horror directors, but the films have rarely successfully captured his nightmarish mix of madness and mythology. John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is not directly based on Lovecraft's work, but screenwriter Michael De Luca draws his inspiration from Lovecraft's Cthulu mythology and then adds his own ingenious twists...

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Actors:

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• Jürgen Prochnow
• Julie Carmen
• David Warner
• John Glover

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