Successfully Dating recommends horror DVD movies that will
help you build a scary movie library. You must keep in mind
that some of the scariest movie blockbusters, some of the
grossest, goriest films, and some of the most blod curdlingly entertaining movies you'll
see are worth watching once. These types of movies are not
suitable for a well-rounded movie library collection. Our
recommendations will help you find the horror
movies that you should have, so you can be prepared to pull out a
scary movie to watch, at any time, that your dates and
friends will actually want to watch.
The Lost Boys - This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with
the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of
director Joel Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to
push the right marketing and demographic buttons, and granted,
there's some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take
Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a
memorable bully, but here he goes one step further as a memorable
bully vampire who leads a tribe of teenage vampires on their
nocturnal spree of bloodsucking havoc. Jason Patric plays the new
guy in town, who quickly attracts a lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz),
only to find that she might be recruiting him into the vampire
fold.
Pitch Black - A spaceship crashes on a desert planet
scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a
resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole
Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes.
These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging
into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by
hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at
night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar
sci-fi territory. What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing
visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may
advance to the big leagues.
Secret Window - Johnny Depp gets high off another acting
challenge in this tricky adaptation of a Stephen King yarn.
Although the mood is too sinister to allow for the mischief of his
Pirates of the Caribbean turn, Depp still manages to embroider his
role here with plenty of quirky business. He plays a writer,
depressed and nearly divorced, who's stuck in an isolated cabin
(shades of The Shining) when a stranger (John Turturro) arrives,
accusing him of plagiarism. Writer-director David Koepp (Stir of
Echoes) does his best to make the rickety material compelling--he
gets the maximum out of the cabin set, for instance.
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