Movies

Halloween (1978, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, PJ Soles) The Night HE Came Home! Quick Plot: 15 years after murdering his sister and her boyfriend, Michael Myers escapes Smith’s Grove Sanitarium and returns to Haddonfield to terrorize a group of babysitters on Halloween. Scariest Scene: Just as Laurie Strode thinks she has finally killed the bogeyman, the audience sees him slowly sit straight up, in the background. The haunting score and use of lighting on that mask, makes for the most suspenseful end-sequences in horror movie history. Final Say: Halloween erroneously gets lumped into the “slasher” genre. There is virtually […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) WACKED-OUT WOMEN: TOP 5 FEMALE MOVIE PSYCHOS Our last list looked at the top “mad men” in movies. But psychosis is an equal-opportunity offender, and the ladies can go off the deep end once in a while, too, as these notable films have shown us. “Sugar and spice and everything nice” is not part of the […]

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Gunnar Hansen) Who will survive, and what will be left of them? Quick plot: A group of teenagers having a grand old time road-tripping through Texas pick up a weird hitchhiker, who leads them to an isolated house where his deranged, cannibalistic family awaits. Among the clan is Leatherface, who wears a mask made of his victim’s skin. His preferred method of killing: chain saw. Scariest scene: That would have to involve the meat hook and the girl Leatherface hangs on it. Final say: Director Tobe Hooper, who would go […]

Seven (1995, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow) Quick Plot: Jaded, noir-ish, ready-to-retire Det. Somerset is paired up with eager, cocky, newbie-with-a-short-fuse Det. Mills on what’s supposed to be Somerset’s last case with the force: A grotesquely obese man was found dead in his apartment after having been force-fed spaghetti until his stomach burst. But when Somerset finds the word “Gluttony” on the wall behind the man’s fridge and Mills finds the word “Greed” on the wall of a murdered D.A., it becomes apparent that the the killer is making a point and won’t stop until all Seven Deadly Sins […]

Psycho (1960, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles) A boy’s best friend is his mother. Quick Plot: A desperate woman steals money and hides out at a lonely motel. After an off-putting conversation with the shy caretaker, she retires to her room where she is brutally murdered in the shower. A week later, her friends and family show up at the Bates motel, investigating her disappearance. The truth is one of the most shocking reveals in cinematic history. Scariest Scene: OOH!!! How can you pick!? The conversation Marion and Norman have in the room full of taxidermied birds is disturbing. […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) MAD MEN: TOP 5 MOST PSYCHO MOVIE PSYCHOS They’re intelligent, well-spoken, in some cases highly educated, successful and good-looking. Unfortunately — and sorry to throw scientific jargon at ya — they are wicky in the wacky woo. Therapy is going absolutely nowhere for these guys, so they need to unleash their tensions in some rather unhealthy […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos may contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) DESTROYERS OF WORLDS: TOP 5 ATOMIC AGE MONSTERS As scientists in many a 1950s movie were determined to remind us, when we entered the Atomic Age, we created the potential for unknown horror. The world had already gotten a taste of some of that horror with the dropping of the A-bombs on Japan in 1945, […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos may contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) GHOSTS WITH THE MOST: TOP 5 SUPERNATURAL FILMS Ghosts might have the power to creep us out more than any other type of horror movie creation — they are often unseen, they are all around, and they can make us feel out of control and unnerved even in the supposed comfort and sanctuary of our […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos may contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) THE THRILL IS GONE: TOP 5 WAYS A HORROR FRANCHISE “JUMPS THE SHARK” If familiarity breeds contempt, than filmmakers obviously must make us too familiar with certain film franchises, particularly horror ones, since plenty of them have degenerated to the point of tarnishing the often scary original concepts and PO-ing fans. Whether turned over into […]