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It had been a while since Michele and I attended a movie at the theater. It is not only expensive–about fifty bucks for two tickets a couple popcorns and sodas, but the theater is almost an hour away from our house up here in Alaska.

Sinister (2012) was a scary film. It is sort of like Paranormal Activity but not quite. It is about a true crime writer the movies into the scene of a grizzly crime in order to write his next best seller. Then he finds a box of home movies in the attic and the rest, as they say, are history.

This is a movie that will catch you by the throat and hold on if you are not careful. While Michele didn’t like it (I think she was scared..) I did and I would recommend it to anyone that likes a good scary thriller.

What is your favorite scary movie? 

In 2009 some would say that Rob Zombie couldn’t live well enough alone when he released the second installment of his Halloween tale. Halloween 2 is much more graphic that the first and it starts out just where the last left off with Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton) walking down the street after (supposedly) killing “the shape”.

Zombie has said that the gore in this flick is meant to disgust the viewer. He intentionally made the sounds more graphic and the scenes more visceral.

But what he spent so much time on he forgot the most important part of a movie, the plot. Halloween 2 is everywhere. It is a story about ghosts, homeless serial killers eating dogs, naked breasts and bad acting by several of the movie’s stars. While Taylor-Compton does a great job, in my opinion. others including Sheri Moon-Zombie just don’t live up to expectations.

While Halloween 2 is a stable in our 31 Night’s rotation each year, there are many better movies to choose from. I just keep it in because it is, well Halloween!

What is your favorite scary movie?