MONSTERZERO NJ’S 31 HORROR FLICKS FOR THE 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 2021!

While I watch dozens of horror films during the month of October…these are a mix of classic favorites and recent horrors that I feel are especially perfect to watch during the Halloween season!

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Harper (Katie Stevens) and friends visit the wrong Halloween haunt on Halloween night!

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MONSTERZERO NJ’S 15 BAD GIRL HORROR FLICKS FOR HALLOWEEN!

Beautiful, mysterious and deadly, Doctor Sleep’s Rose The Hat (a chilling Rebecca Ferguson)

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While we watch numerous horror classics during the spooky season, with the likes of Freddy, Jason and Michael, let’s not forget about the ladies who have terrified us, too! So, without further ado, here are 15 Halloween appropriate flicks where the bad girls deliver the chills and thrills!

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What Keeps You Alive’s psychotic spouse, Jackie (a brilliantly devious Hannah Emily Anderson)

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN

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MONSTERZERO NJ’S 31 HORROR FLICKS FOR THE 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN!

While I watch dozens of horror films during the month of October…these are a mix of classic favorites and recent horrors that I feel are especially perfect to watch during the Halloween season!

(Click on the titles below the movie poster gallery to get to our reviews!)

 

Click on the titles here to go to the review page for the corresponding movie!

1. HALLOWEEN
2. TRICK ‘r’ TREAT
3. PHANTASM
4. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
5. THE FOG
6. ANY (OR ALL) OF THE UNIVERSAL CLASSIC B/W HORRORS!
7. PUMPKINHEAD
8. EVIL DEAD
9. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
10. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
11. ZOMBIE
12. THE THING
13. THE HOWLING
14. THE FLY
15. HORROR HOTEL
16. DAWN OF THE DEAD
17. DAY OF THE DEAD
18. FRIDAY THE 13th
19. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
20. HALLOWEEN II
21. HALLOWEEN III
22. THE VIY
23. WRONG TURN
24. THE OLD DARK HOUSE
25. THE DESCENT
26. HELLIONS
27. TALES OF HALLOWEEN
28. THE HOUSES OCTOBER BUILT
29. HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
30. HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES
31. THE HILLS RUN RED

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MONSTERZERO NJ’S 12 HORROR FLICKS FOR THE HALLOWEEN SEASON DIRECTED BY WOMEN!

While we watch numerous horror classics during the spooky season, from the likes of Carpenter, Cronenberg and Hooper, let’s not forget the contributions made by the ladies who have broken boundaries in a male dominated genre. More female directors are making their voices known than ever before, but there have also been some pioneers who broke down walls long before today’s female talents got behind the camera! So, here are 12 female directed horrors perfect to add to your Halloween playlist!

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1. HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP
2. THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE
3. SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE
4. PET SEMETARY
5. AMERICAN PSYCHO
6. NEAR DARK
7. DANCE OF THE DAMNED
8. AMERICAN MARY
9. SEE NO EVIL 2
10. THE BABADOOK
11. HONEYMOON
12. TALES OF HALLOWEEN

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And who could talk women in horror without evoking the name of the late Debra Hill, who produced (and frequently co-wrote) a number of John Carpenter’s classic films, including horrors such as Halloween (and a number of it’s sequels), The Fog and produced David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone. A true pioneer producer/writer in the horror genre! We lost Debra to cancer in 2005, but she has left a legacy of film that will live on!

Debra Hill 1950-2005

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Also, head over HERE to read how legendary producer Roger Corman was instrumental at giving women filmmakers a voice in horror at a time when it was practically unheard of!…

FROM FINAL GIRLS TO FILMMAKERS: HOW ROGER CORMAN HELPED GIVE WOMEN A VOICE IN HORROR!

An erotic thriller directed by Kat Shea for Roger Corman.

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MONSTERZERO NJ’S 31 HORROR FLICKS FOR THE 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN!

While I watch dozens of horror films during the month of October…these are a mix of classic favorites and recent horrors that I feel are especially perfect to watch during the Halloween season!

(Click on the titles below the movie poster gallery to get to our reviews!)

 

Click on the titles here to go to the review page for the corresponding movie!

1. HALLOWEEN
2. TRICK ‘r’ TREAT
3. PHANTASM
4. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
5. THE FOG
6. ANY (OR ALL) OF THE UNIVERSAL CLASSIC B/W HORRORS!
7. PUMPKINHEAD
8. EVIL DEAD
9. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
10. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
11. ZOMBIE
12. THE THING
13. THE HOWLING
14. THE FLY
15. HORROR HOTEL
16. DAWN OF THE DEAD
17. DAY OF THE DEAD
18. FRIDAY THE 13th
19. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
20. HALLOWEEN II
21. HALLOWEEN III
22. THE VIY
23. WRONG TURN
24. THE OLD DARK HOUSE
25. THE DESCENT
26. HELLIONS
27. TALES OF HALLOWEEN
28. THE HOUSES OCTOBER BUILT
29. HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
30. HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES
31. THE HILLS RUN RED

MONSTERZERO NJ’S 25 MUST WATCH HORROR FLICKS FOR THE HALLOWEEN SEASON

While I watch dozens of horror films during the month of October… these are 25 favorite horror flicks that I feel are absolute musts to watch during the Halloween season!

(Click on the titles below the movie poster gallery to get to our reviews!)

 

Click on the titles here to go to the review page for the corresponding movie!

1. HALLOWEEN
2. TRICK ‘r’ TREAT
3. PHANTASM
4. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
5. THE FOG
6. ANY (OR ALL) OF THE UNIVERSAL CLASSIC B/W HORRORS!
7. PUMPKINHEAD
8. EVIL DEAD
9. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
10. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
11. ZOMBIE
12. THE THING
13. THE HOWLING
14. THE FLY
15. HORROR HOTEL
16. DAWN OF THE DEAD
17. DAY OF THE DEAD
18. FRIDAY THE 13th
19. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
20. HALLOWEEN II
21. HALLOWEEN III
22. THE VIY
23. WRONG TURN
24. THE OLD DARK HOUSE
25. THE DESCENT

HALLOWEEN FAVORITES: HORROR HOTEL (1960)

HORROR HOTEL (1960)

The legendary Christopher Lee stars in this classic 1960 horror that is still as spooky and effective today as it was then and is one of my favorite films to watch during the Halloween time of year. This chilling horror… also known as City Of The Dead …begins with the burning of witch Elizabeth Selwyn (Patricia Jessel) in 1692 in the town of Whitewood, Massachusetts. We then cut to the occult studies class of professor Alan Driscoll (Christopher Lee) where eager student Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson) intends on writing her class paper by going to New England to investigate it’s occult history first hand. Driscoll suggests she go to Whitewood itself to do her studies and gives her the directions to find the small infamous town. Upon arrival in the spooky village, Nan stays in The Raven’s Inn run by the mysterious Mrs. Newless (also Patricia Jessel) and soon finds that the 300 year old legends of Whitewood may be all too real. When Nan doesn’t return from her research trip, her brother Richard (Dennis Lotis), followed by friend Bill (Tom Naylor), travels to Whitewood looking for her. Richard teams up with the granddaughter of the local reverend, Patricia (Betta St. John), who had met Nan and lent her a book on the occult. What they find is something very ancient, very evil and very deadly…something they may not escape alive.

John Llewellyn Moxey (The Night Stalker) brings loads of atmosphere and a great visual style to this B&W chiller about college students running afoul of Devil worshipping witches in an old New England town. He gives the film an almost non-stop tension and creates some frightening horror sequences and it’s all supported by a sometimes very haunting score by Douglas Gamely. With an almost 300 year old witch, fiendish occult ceremonies and ritual sacrifice, you’ve got a really old fashioned Halloween horror film treat. The graveyard climax is both bone chilling and contains some truly stunning horror film visuals that have stayed with me since I first saw this on TV as a little boy…and when I was a kid, this flick scared the heck out of me!

As for the cast…Christopher Lee is at his sinister best as the professor in occult studies who is far more involved in his subject than his students realize and just may be leading his eager-to-learn lambs to the slaughter. Patricia Jessel brings the evil witch Elizabeth Selwyn to vibrant life and Venetia Stevenson stands out as the inquisitive and ill-fated Nan. The rest of our young antagonists do well in portraying the horror of what they encounter and the film is peppered with some very unnerving supporting characters.

I highly recommend this to any horror fan who appreciates how it was done…old school and in glorious black and white! A wonderfully spooky and delightfully charming horror classic. Also stars Norman Macowan as Reverend Russell and Valentine Dyall as the mysterious Jethrow Keane.

4 (out of 4) classic Christopher Lees!

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Some examples of the powerful horror imagery from John Llewellyn Moxey.