Hey! Welcome to Thursday Movie Picks where you get to share your movie picks for each topic presented every Thursday! Based on the theme presented each week, you can pick up to 3 to 5 movies and explain why you picked those movies! This meme is being hosted by Wandering through the Shelves!
This week's theme is: Halloween Edition - Holiday Horror!
Who would have thought that there would be movies where horrifying things happen during the holidays? So, this week's theme is "Holiday Horror!" For this theme, I have decided to go with horror movies that take place during Christmas!
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
This is one of those movies that you either declare it a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie. For me personally, it's a HALLOWEEN MOVIE (with some Christmas aesthetics). I LOVED this movie and I just loved the way that they managed to make the Christmas season creepy in this film by introducing the citizens of Halloween Town, who are definitely terrifying to look at!
2. Gremlins
A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Now, I only watched bits and pieces of this movie when I was little. But, I always remembered the gremlins melting scene. Anyway, I was surprised that this horror movie actually took place during the Christmas season.
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
I actually have never seen this movie (despite the fact that it's on Tubi, where I can easily see it). But, I've been hearing lots of good things about this movie, so I need to watch this movie as soon as possible!
I'm neither an animation nor a horror fan and am very in and out of Tim Burton so your first pick is something I've studiously avoided and will continue to.
ReplyDeleteGremlins as horror films go has a lot of sweetness to it mixed in with the yuckiness. I only watched it once but thought it was enjoyable for what it was.
I watched Black Christmas expressly for Margot Kidder, John Saxon and Olivia Hussey and because it was directed by the same man who directed A Christmas Story. It was pretty standard stuff but interesting to see Margot before she was Lois Lane.
This isn't my genre so it caught me a bit off guard when I was able to come up with three for the week almost right away. That has definitely not been the case the other weeks!
Hellbent (2004)-Police tech Eddie and his group of gay friends are celebrating the holiday at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival and wander off to the nearby woods to see the site of a recent murder where two lovers were decapitated with a sickle by a maniac. With the woods full of revelers they don’t think a thing about the bare-chested guy in a devil’s mask carrying a scythe who seems to be following them……but they should!!
Trick or Treat (1986)-Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price) is a typical all-American teenager until he falls under the evil spell of ROCK MUSIC! Now he's obsessed with the recently deceased Heavy Metal superstar Sammi Curr who perished in an inferno of fire. As Halloween approaches Eddie is gifted with an unreleased demo of Sammi’s last album “Songs in the Key of Death” by his DJ friend Nuke (Kiss frontman Gene Simmons). He discovers by playing the demo backward he can summon Sammi’s malign spirit who instructs him on how to settle the score with the bullies who torment him leading to all hell breaking loose! On top of all that you get Ozzy Osbourne as rock-hating TV evangelist!!
Who Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)-Mrs. Forrest (Shelley Winters) is affectionately called Auntie Roo by the staff and kids of the nearby orphanage who see her as a kindly eccentric who throws a lavish Christmas party for them every year. However she’s really a deeply disturbed whack job who keeps her dead daughter in the attic nursery. At this year’s party Auntie Roo spies Katy (Chloe Franks) who reminds her of her late little girl and who she imprisons in the nursery. When nobody believes him it’s up to Katy’s brother Christopher (Mark Lester) to go head to head with the demented lady and bust his sister outta there! Shelley frequently chews the scenery but good in this reworking of Hansel & Gretel.
Hmm...I actually never seen these movies, but they sound interesting! Great list!
DeleteI haven't seen Black Christmas but Nightmare and Gremlins are staples in my home.
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