Horror movie warm up

Tomorrow marks the first day of October. It is also the first day of Bridget's horror movie hall of fame. My top 31 picks for best horror movies. The entries range from slasher, supernatural, and even semi comedies. But before we get into my favorites lets start with the top 10 WORST horror films of all time.

10. The Grudge
This movie was just ridiculous. A house where someone was killed in the grip of mighty rage is now the source of much death. The hing that irks me is that you do not even have to live in the house. You just have to be an acquaintance of a friend's relative twice removed that looked at it once and your toast. The baddies seems to have the ability to run amok anywhere they wish. Shouldn't they be stuck in the house or something? The main theme seems to be that if you know anyone in Japan you are going to die from this curse.

9. Dark Water
Another Japanese flick remade to death for the American public. Way too slow and just disappointing all around.

8. Alien 3
Skip it. If you are a fan of the franchise then you might want to watch it once just to know what happens. This is one of the rare franchises that the first one was good and the sequel was even better. They should have stopped at two. We do not need twelve sequels for every good movie. Sometimes you said all you needed to in the original. I digress. Ripley is stuck on an all male penal colony with yet another alien. This time the alien is part dog which is just wrong. Horror movies that use animal slaughter for shock tactics are sad. This particular film has a serious no way out feel to it that makes you wonder "Why don't we just nuke the planet and be done with it?" Well probably because we did that last time and no one likes monotony.

7. Children of the Corn
Corn fields are creepy but small children? Grab a baseball bat and let loose on the little brats. Enough said.

6. Anaconda
Giant man eating snake should equal scary but I was more disturbed by Jon Voight and J.Lo.

5. Jaws 3 & 4
Why did I lump these two together? Because after 1 & 2 the Brody Family should have moved to Ohio. The fact that this traumatized family continues to choose careers that demand they spend copious amounts of time in the ocean is plain dumb.

4. Godzilla (remake)
Did you see it? Yea I knew you would agree.

3. Ticks
Tiny bloodsuckers that are not so tiny anymore. Now the size of an over fed house cat these critters pose serious problems for a group of troubled teens on a camp out. My favorite is the guy who played Carlton on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's character as the mean gang banger who pumps steroids. Steroids that later cause his tick friend to burst from his body the size of a Buick. Yea this one was destined for late night airings on Starz.

2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Matthew Maconughey (sp?) is the crazy family man and Renee Zellwegger's damsel in distress turned butt kicking survivor make this movie even more pathetic. But hey we all gotta start somewhere.

1. House of 1000 Corpses
I was so excited to see this movie. Rob Zombie as writer and director sounded like a win win to me. I literally got a headache from watching. Not the kind a little Tylenol cures either. Trying to keep up with the logic was more topsy turvy than any roller coaster at six flags.