Halloween Horror Flicks Week 5: Psycho Killers

by Teresa

The simplest Halloween scary movie formula can sometimes prove to be the best: singular guy(or girl) stalks and kills innocent people for no apparent reason (i.e. he/she’s batshit insane).

The villain dresses up in some sort of costume mask, albeit a hockey mask (Jason) or a simple white mask (Michael Myers). The 1980s horror movie era was chock full of maniac killers, paper thin plots, and even worse dialogue. Some of those movies were the scariest or funniest movies I’d ever seen.

The Funny:

Cutting Class starring a young Brad Pitt playing the jock and Donovan Leitch as the tortured loner. They both attend a high school where students, teachers, and other various people mysteriously go missing. Turns out a psycho killer is behind the disappearances. But who could it be? Watch and find out! The best part is the cameo by Martin Mull as the overbearing father.

Freddy vs. Jason is nonsensical, but chances are it won’t matter because you’ll be laughing your ass off at the ludicrous one-liners. Plus, Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child plays one the “high school” kids in peril.

Freddy to no one in particular: “Who wants some dark meat?”

The Scary:

The original Friday the 13th and the sequel, where Jason stalks kids at Camp Crystal Lake.

The Hitcher (1986) with Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and C. Thomas Howell. Don’t even waste one millisecond watching the remake with Sophia Bush and Sean Bean.