Halloween Countdown - Day 15 and 16

It's rained for the past two days straight. So gloomy and damp. Perfect Halloween weather.

I figured that I'd spend the time with my son and take him to the Toy Story double feature in 3D today. I've never felt so ripped off. They charge $3 extra just to get in and since this movie wasn't intended as a 3-D presentation the amount of actual effects were very little.

I will admit that the previews for the billionth presentation of A Christmas Carol and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland looked fantastic. Both movies will really benefit from 3-D.

But as Casey used to say, on with the countdown.

I know how to get caught up. I just make a super big post to encompass two, so here it is.

MY TOP TEN HALLOWEEN HORROR VILLAINS

10. Samara Morgan

I admit that I haven't watched nearly as many modern horror films but this one was good. It had that grainy dream-like video footage that makes you think for at least a moment that it's real. As she slowly walks towards and through the television my heart skips each time.



9. Pennywise

Fact. Clowns are scary. Fact. I'm a little scared of Tim Curry anyway. Put them together and no more circus for me.



8. Jack Torrence

What more is there to say? Jack Nicholson goes insane.



7. Freddy Krueger

The guy makes Wolverine look like he has butter knives for fingers. Any character who can make a fedora look menacing must be doing something right.



6. Jason Voorhees



5. Nosferatu

Vampires are very frightening. The draining of blood from neck punctures and turning into bats. But most incarnations of Dracula aren't that scary. Gary Oldman's old woman version of the Count in 2000 only made me pee in my pants from laughter. But this guy is part Golem, part martian, all terrifying.



4. The Vorvon

This character is a direct rip-off of #5 on my list. But here is why he gets as high as #4. This is from the tv show, Buck Rodgers and the Vorvon is a space vampire. When I watched this episode I was in 4th grade. That may explain how that face made it into every nightmare I ever had for the next three years. Strong childhood impression. But perhaps secretly I had hoped to gain the Vorvon's power of being able to get Erin Gray to do whatever I wanted.



3. Hannibal Lecter

Cold and methodical. There is something really disturbing about a man who talks like a British documentary host but acts like John Wayne Gacy.



2. Michael Myers

William Shatner's face is just that scary.



1. Leatherface

Eighth grade. John Brogan's house. First viewing of TCM. Scariest thing I've ever watched. His face his made of pieces of his victim's flesh for crying out loud. That grainy footage just gives me the creeps. It didn't help matters that same year when I went into the Towson Jay-Cee's Haunted House and every guy was dressed like him. I couldn't have been happier that every girl in my class wanted to be protected by me inside as they clutched at my arms. But when the chainsaw buzzed I ran as fast as I could out the exit. Sorry ladies.