What are Your Favorite CULT HORROR MOVIES For Halloween?

When the weather starts to break to Fall, here in the U.S. Midwest, I get the DVD of 'Pumpkinhead' ready. I'm waiting for a cold and rainy night, preferably with a forceful wind - if I'm really lucky, we might even get a little late-night thunder. One of my favorite film traditions.

The best of all is if I can introduce a new viewer to the Pumpkinhead cult; my best friend has started dating somebody younger, who has never seen the film. Maybe this year, we can indoctrinate a new fan.

- What are you gonna do, when the world catches on?

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
Great campy sci-fi horror thriller. Has nothing to do with Michael Myers.

Nightbreed - Director's Cut
Some crazy special monster effects in this one. Need a few viewings to catch all the creatures in it.

Halloween: the original and still the greatest imho.

Maybe at this stage of the game (film history, I mean) the following list of horror films produced by Val Lewton back in the Forties are mainstream, or close enough. I won't argue the point but to say they are among MY favorite horrors, for Halloween or any other season: Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, The Seventh Victim, Curse Of The Cat People, The Body Snatcher, Isle Of The Dead, Bedlam. They're slow by today's standards, rather quaint, a bit creaky at times, yet for the patient and thoughtful viewer they deliver the goods, and in spades, and with a minimum of "shock" moments. What makes one's flesh crawl watching these movies is how they make the viewer field. I find them darkly beautiful and downright haunting