Today’s Halloween horror movie recommendation list contains creepy classics that begin with “The”
The Birds (1963) – Not to be confused with “The ‘Burbs”
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – A secluded family battles hippie intruders
The Fury (1978) – Kirk Douglas battles psychics
The Shining (1980) – A recovering alcoholic fails to appreciate the market value of his new novel and goes on a killing spree instead
The Howling (1981) – A journalist goes to a werewolf resort and becomes a werewolf *spoiler alert
The Funhouse (1981) – A gruesome monster attacks teenagers trapped at a carnival, staring Harvey Weinstein
The Thing (1982) – One of the best horror movies ever made that was hated when it came out, proving that critics are often wrong
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) – Punk zombies spray paint tombstones
The Fly (1986) – Jeff Goldblum begins his career of playing a scientist
The Blob (1988) – Another under-appreciated 80s gem, featuring an unstoppable blob who isn’t Harvey Weinstein
The Witches (1990) – A young boy disrupts a witch convention in this movie I loved as a kid
The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Three film students get lost in the woods in a world without cell phones
And finally…The Happening (2008), where the air is trying to kill Mark Wahlberg
My next movie list will contain movies that begin with a person’s name. You’ve been warned.
Shawn McKee 
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