It’s Devil’s Night, one more day until Halloween, and I have one last list of scary movies to recommend. The horror of the demonic is quite a popular sub-genre of film. These movies focus on how evil lurks beneath the surface (demonic possession) or how evil manifests itself in the form of actual demons walking the earth.

Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now is a quintessential example of dark forces scaring a couple to death. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie play a couple who move to Venice after the death of their child. They meet two elderly sisters who have something sinister about them. The film is based on the Daphne Du Maurier story.

Other classic examples are of the horror of demonic from the 1960s and 1970s (funny how they all clustered in that time period):

Rosemary’s Baby (1967)

The Exorcist (1973) - I love me some vintage Ellen Burstyn.

Demon Seed (1977) - yay, more Julie Christie! But poor her, a scientist has impregnated her with a horrible evil entity.

One of my favorite Denzel Washington movies is Fallen from 1998. He plays Detective John Hobbes, a determined homicide detective that notices a trend of similar serial killings that could only be committed by a man that was executed. Somehow the killer’s spirit can move from body to body, which makes him an exceptionally hard to catch criminal!

And most people didn’t like Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves, Tilda Swinton, and Rachel Weisz, but I really liked it. The story was intriguing, altho some of the dialogue could use some work. Nevertheless I think director Francis Lawrence’s did a good job of keeping you fascinated by balancing special f/x with a story of the anti-hero John Constantine.

Happy Devil’s Night, party safe by watching scary movies in the safety of your home and put those finishing touches on your halloween costume.

Brendan Fraser is back on board for the third Mummy flick despite the absence of Rachel Weisz, who played Evie in the previous two films. I cannot believe it’s been seven years since the last one. At least you can’t say they rushed into anything.

Still, at first glance, the idea of a mummy tale set in China is a bit of a stretch. Have no idea what I’m referring to? Then, you need to watch the trailer below and see these Chinese mummies for yourself.

Trailer Check:

See? Crazy, right? There’s so much going on in that trailer. I know you have to get creative sometimes, but this premise is something I’d expect from the creators of WarBirds or some other SciFi Channel production. Michelle Yeoh conjures up some ancient army of Chinese zombies that have just hanging out under the Great Wall of China. Then you got Jet Li’s dragon emperor riding that red-eyed horse everywhere. Not to mention, adventurer/mummy killer Rick O’Connell is now supposed to have a grown up son (all while merely aging only thirteen years since the last movie)!

But who am I kidding? I’m totally gonna see it like the sucker that I am, since I’ve seen the first movie like 5000 times (Don’t ask why.). Obviously, I’m not gonna have my expectations up too high. Like Fraser said during his TCA interview: “Folks, it’s a movie. Relax.” I’m gonna just watch and see what happens.

Source: SciFi Wire