This has always been a favourite with me, it's like a scary thriller movie gone mad. I mean it actually makes you route for the bad guy, or in this case woman and we are almost cheering when she wins!
This film is absolutely hilarious, in that it portrays a practically normal, if not slightly regimented and strict American house wife and mother gone crazy. She is against chewing gum, bad language and bad manners, but these rules have gone way over to the extreme side of things when she murders a math teacher for talking about her son chip. She squishes him with her car. She kills her daughters boyfriend because he stood her up, poker to the stomach in this case. She murders her husbands dentist and his wife because he won't treat her husbands sore tooth out of hours, air conditioning unit on the head. Oh yea, she hits an old woman over the head with a leg of meat because she didn't rewind a VHS tape and she flambes her sons friend when he fails to wear his seat belt, he does witness her kill the old woman though, so I guess he had it coming!
I almost forgot, as if killing weren't enough for this crazed house wife she needs to make obscene phone calls to her neighbour Dottie Hinkle just for something to do!
I just love this film as Kathleen Turner plays the role of serial killer Beverly Sutphin brilliantly! Don't wear white shoes after labour day around her whatever you do!
2) HOCUS POCUS. (1993)
Ok, so this film is largely based for an audience of around 12 years old, but I was 12 when I first watched this movie, I loved it then and I love it now!
Witches, Salem, black cats and salt circles, it's all here. So, it all starts back in 1693 when if you were a witch as Winifred, Mary and Sarah were, you were hanged. But come on, these three witches were taking the lives of the towns children to make themselves more young and beautiful. Never a good move if you want to get on with your neighbours! They turn a boy Thackeray Binx who is just trying to save his little sister into a cat, forever, and they put a curse on Salem vowing that they would return on all hallows eve (Halloween to you and me), when a virgin lights a candle, the 'Black Flame candle,' to be precise.
Skip on three hundred years, a stupid boy virgin lights the candle, brings the witches back and the adventure begins.
There is lots of flying on broom sticks, and vacuum cleaners, lots of spells and Thackeray Binx...yes, still a cat, joins the stupid virgin, his girlfriend and his little sister in defeating the witches.
It is hilariously funny, especially when the witches enter the house of whom they think is the devil, but is really an old geezer dressed up for the festivities, they get chased out by his wife's dog!
A brilliant performance by Bette Midler, and of course she gets to sing!
3) A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. (1984)
A psychopathic child molester, who is murdered by the children's parents has decided to terrorise the children of Elm Street. How? In their dreams of course. Freddie Krueger, who is a bit of an ugly bad guy stalks the now teenagers whilst they are sleeping and attacks them and kills them with his weapon of choice...Leather gloves with blades attached to the fingers, ouch! Watch out for the ending, can you really fit a person through that tiny hole?
4) ALIEN (1979)
Such an impressive looking monster, best alien I have ever seen in a film anyway, I mean enough of all the little green men nonsense, this is more like it.
Lt Ripley and her crew are awakened from hyper sleep by a distress signal from a strange planet, so they go and check it out. Long story short, the guy who does what everyone who is watching the film is screaming for him not to do gets a hand like alien attached to his face. It falls off after a couple of days and all seems well, until.....eeeeew, a weird looking little creature bursts through his chest cavity killing him whilst he was trying to eat his dinner. This 'little' creature grows considerably bigger very quickly and begins to pick off the crew members one by one. Until eventually only Lt Ripley remains, oh and Jonesy...her cat.
5) PREDATOR (1987)
There is a strange looking alien from another planet who enjoys nothing better than hunting and killing worthy human beings for sport. We see one such alien, or predator hunting down a team of US Army Commandos deep in the heart of a southern jungle. Arnold Schwarzenegger decides that this is not on and takes it upon himself to outsmart the predator, using mud and various traps he succeeds in killing the beast, but watch out for its ultimate secret weapon!
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