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.

Empire Magazine reports that Brad Pitt has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards to “play a Tennessee hillbilly who leads a band of eight Jewish-American soldiers to take out some rough justice on the Nazis.”

And looks like Simon Pegg is in talks to join the cast as a British officer! Wow, I’m utterly giddy at the prospect of Pitt and Pegg sharing screen time. Pegg can do cheeky, but it seems weird to picture Pitt personifying that Tarantino camp and fast talking dialogue. Come to think of it though, if you look at Brad Pitt’s resume, he actually does have a formidable acting range. He can play the serious father in Babel or a dim-witted blackmailer in the upcoming dark comedy Burn After Reading. I’m sure he’ll make Tarantino’s character his own with ease.

Damn you Quentin Tarantino and your mega casting, now I simply must see this flick. I was kinda meh about the whole thing until hearing this casting news. The hype for Tarantino movies starts so ridiculously early these days. You read inane blurbs every other day on the film blogs about the script completion process, heated debates on whether Tarantino will be able to finish the movie by April 2009 etc. So basically, I didn’t want to hear anything else on Inglorious Bastards until a trailer was posted or a poster was created!

Add Pitt and Pegg, and see how I’ve changed my tune. Supposedly, we’ll see how all this works when Tarantino premieres the film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.