Three More Halloween Top Tens (Countdown to Halloween 2)

Our countdown to Halloween continues, with just 10 Days Left!  

As with last week’s post, I’m giving you quantity rather than quality here.  You get three top ten lists, but very little fluff text.  Hope you enjoy it anyway. 

Ten Christmas Films It’s OK to Watch at Halloween;

or, Ten Halloween Films Set at Christmas

(In No Particular Order)

Note: I have intentionally excluded some films that are set at Christmas but not so much that I remember they are set at Christmas (notably Jaws: The Revenge and Psycho – which would have been the worst and best movies on the list had I included them). 

      1.      Black Christmas (1974 version is preferred to the 2006 version)

      2.      Child’s Play

      3.      Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

      4.      Gremlins

      5.      Jack Frost (the 1997 horror film, not the 1998 family comedy)

      6.      Silent Night, Deadly Night

      7.      Tales from the Crypt (…And All Through the House – First movie segment or TV series episode 1.01)

      8.      The Nightmare Before Christmas

      9.      Wind Chill

      10.  Any Super-Hero movie set at Christmas (ex: Batman Returns, Iron Man 3)

While we are on the topic of movies, I had a request for a follow up to last week’s Top Ten Halloween Family Movies.  So, for the open-minded youngsters out there, may I present:

Top Ten Classic Halloween Family Movies

10.       House of Frankenstein

9.         King Kong (1933 version) or better still its sequel Son of Kong

8.         War of the Worlds (1953 version)

7.         Godzilla vs. Megalon

6.         13 Ghosts (1960 version)

5.         Dinosaurus!

4.         Jason and the Argonauts (1963 version)

3.         King Kong Vs. Godzilla

2.         Seven Faces of Dr. Lao

1.         Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Top Ten Works of Short Fiction to Read for Halloween

10.       Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

9.         “The Crystal Egg” by H.G. Wells (sort of a prequel to The War of the Worlds)

8.         “The Vampyre” by John Polidori

7.         “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (For something a bit more traditionally horror also by Bierce try “The Damned Thing”)

6.         “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5.         “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs

4.         The Mist by Stephen King

3.         “The Statement of Randolph Carter” by H.P. Lovecraft (For something a bit longer – but still short – also by Lovecraft try “The Call of Cthulhu” or “Herbert West: Re-Animator”)

2.         “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

1.         The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Until next time, 

Nerd is the New Cool, signing off.