Boo! How's everybody's Halloween going? I'm not doing much of anything besides watching some creepy movies, and I figured "Hey, when is there a better time to talk about frightening films than Halloween?"

So here, are my 10 Favorite Horror Films. Now, I'm not big on horror movies, but a few have really appealed to me over the years. I prefer "apprehensive and creepy" to "wet your pants scary". Here is a countdown of my favorites:

#10- Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972)

A vicous killer stalks the street of London, violating innocent girls and strangling them to death with neckties. It's my favorite of Hitchcock's last few films, sporting a terrific cast and some gripping suspense.

#9- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Erik the deformed Phantom haunts the Paris Opera House, and longs for the love of an opera diva... Lon Chaney's makeup is the greatest costume in cinema history!

#8- Dawn of the Dead (1978 )

Bloodthristy zombies terrorize a group of people trapped in a giant shopping mall. A sequel to Night of the Living Dead, this one is even better. Bloody and gory, but great fun.

#7- Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)

Birds begin terrorizing a small coastal town. This is another prime Hitchcock film, and probably the most suspenseful he ever did. The ending always blows me away...

#6- Freaks (1932)

When some gold-digging circus performers try to cut in on wealthy sideshow "freaks", the freaks fight back in a horrible way... This one has to be seen to be believed!

#5- Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)

Horrorific Count Orlock has a nasty secret...and real estate agent Thomas Hutter may find it out the hard way. This German film is certainly an early building block of modern horror.

#4- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Novice FBI agent Clarice Starling must ask cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter for help in catching a sexually-driven villian. Anthony Hopkins makes the film very creepy!

#3- The Shining (1980)

Spirits at an isolated hotel gradually drive a writer to insanity, which he unleashes on his wife and son. All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy.

#2- The Night of the Hunter (1955)

A psychotic preacher is determined to find the location of hidden loot by any means necessary, even when it means going after the robber's children. The scene where Robert Mitchum corners the kids in the basement is my favorite part.

#1- BRINGING UP BABY (1938 )

Dedicated scientist Cary Grant and dizzy socialite Katharine Hepburn come fact to face with a wild leopard... Wait a minute, this isn't a horror film!

#1- Psycho (1960)

Marion Crane decides to return some money she stole from her bosses office, and stops at a motel. But she didn't count on Norman Bates, the owner of the hotel who has a very soft spot for his mother...

Well, these are my choices! How's about yours? Have a wonderful Halloween!

Hello gang! How's it going? Because my birthday was last week, I decided to spend a little bit of my loot to further my ever-growing DVD collection. Gotta have the motion pictures!

So far, I've only watched the first two (Chinatown and Bonnie & Clyde). Both are very impressive films and I am quite glad to have added them into my collection. Chinatown wasn't as good as I remembered it to be, but I must not have been in a noir film mood that day...

The two on the middle tier are both Best Picture winners, and both I have seen only once. With the weekend coming up, I should get a chance to refresh my memory on both. The bottom two westerns I have never seen. Well, nobody's perfect!

In other news, I have a positive work story to share. You see, I work at a grocery store four days a week, another dude works Sat. and Sun., and one of the older men works Wed. However, the weekend guy is a football player and constantly got hurt and had to call off. They might as well have hired me for the weekend!

Thankfully, I just learned that this dude is FIRED! Good riddance to bad rubbish...

That's all folks! Have a good one!

Hey hey friends! Is everybody happy? I certainly hope so, because this blog is going to be me telling you about how happy I am. Why? Because yesterday, I turned 18!

I would have written this yesterday, but I had to work. But that's not as detrimental as it may seem because I got a gift from my coworkers! They ripped off the side of a large cardboard box, wrote Happy Birthday on it, signed it, and stapled some lottery tickets to it. My boss also wrote me a nice note telling me to keep up my good work. It's swell to know you are appreciated!

I got a few presents from my family, but only one DVD. It was The Day the Earth Stood Still 2-pack, which has the AWESOME 1951 film and the STUPID 2008 remake. I wanted it for the 50s one.

I'm going to Wal-Mart and Best Buy later this week, so I might be able to add a few more titles to my collection. I'll save some money for college too of course...

Thanks for looking! This is just a quickie, but maybe I'll sneak in a pic blog later this weekend. Any well wishes would be enjoyed. Have a great week gang!