Watched Trick 'r Treat the last few years, fits really well with the occasion. This year I'll be watching The Fog (original) and the new Woman in Black which I haven't seen yet (original is terrifying).

 

Billy and Mandy's Jack Up Halloween
Underfist
Nightmare before Christmas, kind of counts?

 

My Top 5:



Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

I watch this EVERY October 23rd (For those of you who have watched this movie before, the date makes sense). It is the ONLY "Halloween" movie that I own. I dislike the Michael Myers films.

The Thing (1982)

One of the best remakes ever made (Yeah, it's a remake...look it up), and also one of the best movies with real practical effects. No CGI crap here! John Carpenter at his best.

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

My personal best comedic Zombie film. "Shaun" isn't my style, and it honestly doesn't have much "Humor" to it. Then again, it is a British film, so that's why. Plus, nothing can compare to seeing Linnea Quigley dancing naked on top of a grave.  

The Shining (1980)

Best movie centering around a character that loses their mind and goes bat-shit crazy! Jack Nicholson did a fantastic job in this movie!

Day of the Dead (1985)

My favorite from the Romero Trilogy (I say trilogy, since the other three made after this are pure crap). Captain Rhodes is the best bad guy to ever grace a Horror film.

 

Evil Dead and Nosferatu are where it's at.

Shaun of the Dead as well if that counts.

 

Decided to bump due to Halloween nearing...

 

The whole Friday the 13th franchise
The whole Halloween franchise
The whole Child's Play franchise
The whole Nightmare on Elm Street franchise

 

Does 9 count?

 

sure why not...

 

I honestly recently made a web comic that brought up a number of movies I like to watch around Halloween.

Me and some friends used to do Halloween 'Horrorthons' a lot in the years past. Each time it would a different theme. Like one would be all Friday the 13th movies, another all the Nightmare on Elm Streets, another still all outer space alien related, and sometimes just a mix of movies.

Some of my favorites though...

Phantasm II
Night of the Creeps
Re-Animator
Night of the Demons 1, 2, and 3
Demons
Nightmare on Elm Street (original one)

I've been told I should see Trick R Treat as I have yet to actually see that movie, so I may look into that one.

 

I have a personal tradition on Halloween: every night between the 27th and 31st of October I sit down with a bottle of Thatcher's Green Goblin Cider and some pumpkin-flavoured food and watch a horror movie. The first four often change, but the final one I watch on Halloween night is always John Carpenter's original Halloween. This year I plan to watch [REC] and Trick r Treat (neither of which I've seen), but I'm undecided on the other two. Troll Hunter and The Nightmare Before Christmas are the ones I usually go for, but I've seen them quite a few times already and I'm worried I may start to dislike them the more I watch them.

 

Dawn of the Dead (both the 1979 Romero film and its 2004 remake)
Halloween (1979 John Carpenter film)
Shaun of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Aliens
A Nightmare on Elm Street. (original)
The Thing (1982 John Carpenter film)
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Friday the 13th (original)
Ghostbusters

 

Why has no one said The Phantom Of The Paradise!?

 

Because few, if any, of us have heard of it.

I forgot to mention Dead Snow (That norwegian Zombie flick from a few years back) that's a good one.

 

These are the films I have to watch during October so my Halloween is complete
My Slasher classics
Friday the 13th Part 3
Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors
Freddy vs Jason
Halloween 1978

Kiddy film classics
Halloweentown
Halloweentown 2
Halloweentown High (watching right now-love this movie)
Return to Halloweentown
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
The Nightmare Before Christmas( albeit it's technically more of a Christmas film)

Ghostbusters

 

I've actually never heard of it...

I just recently looked this up on Netflix out of curiosity and I'm glad I did...

 

Nightmare on Elm Street should be on everyones list...

 

I started doing something this year: watching one old-school horror/monster movie a night from Oct. 1 to 30, then on Oct. 31 a marathon of all six Universal Monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, & Creature From The Black Lagoon). There's a few bloodier things from the '80s in there, though - I'm not really a meat-movie person (though I have been checking out the F13 marathons on Syfy and AMC lately for reasons I have yet to comprehend...) but the list so far - alternating between a color film and a B/W one - is as thus:
The Tingler
An American Werewolf In London
Nosferatu
The Curse Of Frankenstein
The Body Snatcher
The Thing (1982)
Freaks
The Fly (1958)
House On Haunted Hill (1959)
Jaws
Psycho (1960)
The Mummy (1959)
Cat People (1942)
Horror Of Dracula
The Bat (1959)
Mystery Of The Wax Museum
The Haunting (1963)
Gremlins
Them!
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Rodan (was supposed to be Alien, but the disc must be damaged, and I had to improvise...I probably should've picked The H-Man instead for a Toho movie, but what the heck...)
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

And the ones to follow:
Creepshow
The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
The Blob (1958)
King Kong (1933)
The Birds
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
The Shining
Then the aforementioned Universal Monster movies.

As you can see there's quite a bit of '50s sci-fi creeping in there, in addition to some silents and a few appearances by Hitchcock and Hammer Studios, and Vincent Price is clearly the man of the hour headlining no less than five of them (I suppose I could've given him an even six and swapped out "Mystery of the Wax Museum" for "House Of Wax", but I wanted to cover a greater time span).

 

^^ Thats similar to what we used to do as kids with my parents...tried to do the same with my kids but they don't get it...

 

Halloween
Halloween II
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Jason Goes to Hell
Freddy Vs. Jason
Night of the Living Dead
Ghostbusters
Shaun of the Dead
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Army of Darkness
Alien
Trick R Treat
Poltergeist
The Exorcist
Paranormal Activity
Stephen King's It

 

All of the "Halloween" movies except for the two that Rob Zombie made.

The old Universal monster movies.