Cinema File: Old favorites guarantee horror-filled Halloween
My favorite thing to do on Halloween is go out to see a scary movie.
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It's a tradition that started in the basement of my house in Doraville during those years when I was too old to go trick-or-treating but wasn't old enough to get into R-rated movies.
I'd have my friends over, and we'd comb through my family's expansive VHS tape collection in search of something that'd make us all jump and give us nightmares.
But as I got older and was able to drive myself anywhere I wanted to go, I took great joy in being able to see a brand new horror film on the big screen every year.
Unfortunately, 2009 isn't going to be one of those years. "Zombieland" is dumb, "Paranormal Activity" is boring, and "Saw VI" is "Saw VI."
But all is not lost, because one thing that hasn't diminished since my teen years is my ridiculously huge personal library of horror movies (the boxes get heavier every time we move).
So, in honor of my favorite holiday, I'm going to do things a bit different for this week's Cinema File column by running down a short list of suggested Halloween night viewing at home. There's only one rule: You've got to turn the lights off.
John Carpenter's 1982 version of "The Thing" - Itself a remake of a 1950s sci-fi classic, this is probably is the most frightening movie I've ever seen. A group of scientists in a remote Antarctic outpost are terrorized by an alien virus that drives them insane, one by one, and transforms their bodies in unspeakably hideous ways. The monster itself never is revealed; the audience sees only the disgusting and weird results of being infected by it.
While the creature effects remain startling and innovative even by today's standards, it's the tense atmosphere and unpredictable thrills that mak
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