Dinner and a Movie: Halloween Movie Picks

Sometime back in the Pleistocene, I made a little horror movie called "Down In The Cellar". It won first place, Senior Division, in the Maine Student Film and Video Festival. The irony of this is that I don't really like horror movies. I like my scary movies with a twist of humor. That said, my 2009 Halloween Movie List isn't going to appeal to everyone but I'm putting it out there because there may be titles that you wouldn't have thought of. We're planning our own little Halloween Dinner and a Movie Marathon. The food isn't specific to any one movie, but Martha has a great variety of spooky meals that we're using.

On the menu is Ghoulada Punch, Spicy Bat Wings, Decomposed Salad and Mashed Boo-tatos. We'll top that off with Tombstone Cupcakes because I've been dying (no pun intended) to make these crazy desserts.

Halloween Movies 2009

• Wallace and Grommet: Curse of the Were Rabbit - Not very scary but I figure this will be Buttercup's first Halloween Movie.
• Nightmare Before Christmas - Slightly scarier than Curse of the Were Rabbit, but spooky animated fun for older kids.
  
• Ghostbusters - the classic ghost comedy.
  
• Beetlejuice - It's showtime! Michael Keaton at his zany best.
  
• Addams Family - Raul Julia, Angelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, and little Christina Ricci.
• The Mummy - either the original with Boris Karloff or the 1999 remake with Brendan Frasier
  
• Lost Boys - One of my favorites from my high school years
• Vamp - Grace Jones as a stripper vampire. Full of cheesy goodness.
• The Frighteners - Before Peter Jackson gained fame with Lord of the Rings, he made horror movies like this great ghost story.
  
• Fright Night - 80's vampire goodness
  
• Underworld - Vampires vs werewolves. Action goodness.
  
• Shaun of the Dead - I like my zombie movies to be funny with happy endings. You know. Happy for zombie movies.
  
• Sleepy Hallow - My favorite Johnny Depp movie.
• Jeepers Creepers - Much better than I expected, probably the scariest movie on the list and full of great Cthulian style. Such a shame they made a Jeepers Creepers 2.

There are a couple of great TV shows that are wonderfully spooky. Ghost Hunters has done some shiver-up-the-spine shows and the first season of Supernatural was amazingly creepy.