"It's a SCREAM, baby!" - quote from the movie "Scream"

What's your favorite horror flick?

In past years, my brother and I and some family and friends have gotten together to watch scary movies on Saturdays in October.

We started with the "new" classics - Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street... you know, stuff like that. Then we moved on to kitshy flicks like "The Evil Dead" series.

As a result, we've seen a lot of movies.

This time of year, television plays scary movies. The other night, the SciFi channel played "The Fog". AMC is hosting its annual "Monsterfest" - which I really enjoy watching.

So what's my favorite scary movie? It's hard to say. So let me come up with a few:

* "Dawn of the Dead" - this was the first horror movie I really saw... at Lakeside Mall when I was 16 years old. It serious grossed me out, but I have really come to love George Romero's movies.
* "The Exorcist" - scared the crap outta me when I saw snippets of the flick on TV in 1980! When I finally saw the whole film, it was truly scary!
* "Halloween" - this classic had me looking under the bed for a month!
* "Nightmare on Elm Street" - I watched this by myself in the dark at 3:30am... not a smart idea!
* "Zombie" - This film was released in 1980, and was one of the most shocking of its time. I love the zombie fighting the shark scene... the shark takes a bite out of the zombie, then the zombie reciprocates... crazy!
* "Scream" - I saw this a long time after it had been in the theaters. It is a classic in its own right. Very sharp dialogue and very smart!

There are lots more that I have enjoyed. I really get a kick out of some of the old black and white horror movies.

And these days, when real life is made to be so scary, I find it's fun to lose myself in some of the unrealistic (?) scary movies from Hollywood...