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Top 10 Halloween Movies at Black Lodge Video
By Barbara Werner/ MicroMemphis reporter
October 27, 2012
Only a few days remain until Halloween and still no clue which horror movie you should watch?
Here is the Top 10 Halloween Movie list of the employees and customers at Black Lodge Video store in Cooper-Young.
October 27, 2012
Only a few days remain until Halloween and still no clue which horror movie you should watch?
Here is the Top 10 Halloween Movie list of the employees and customers at Black Lodge Video store in Cooper-Young.
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No. 1: Martyrs by Pascal Laugier (France ,2008) Matt Martin, co-owner of Black Lodge: "It is the most disturbing film. It is brilliantly made and therefore the best horror film." Summary: After little Lucie has been missing for years, she is found on a roadside in bad condition. She doesn’t talk but the police find out that she has been caged in a little room by her abductor. Lucy goes into an orphanage, where she finds a new friend in the girl Anna. Fifteen years later Lucie decides to take revenge on her tormenter … Watch Trailer |
Matt Martin, Co-owner of Black Lodge Video store (photo by Barbara Werner)
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Bryan Hogue, co- owner of Black Lodge Video Store
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No. 2: Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero (USA/Italy, 1978) Bryan Hogue, co-owner of Black Lodge: "This movie has great special effects and comments our society. It shows the tendency of humanity's way of acting compared to Zombies. Both are slow with no brains. Zombies are just scary for Halloween." Summary: After a epidemic zombies risen from the dead. Now survivors have to fight them in a shopping mall. Watch Trailer |
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Return of the living Dead I by Dan O' Bannon (USA, 1985) Matt Staten, customer at Black Lodge: "It´s fun. I don´t watch horror movies much, but this is just a funny movie." Summary: A group of teenage punks has to fight against zombies in a crematorium. Watch Trailer |
Matt Staten, customer at Black Lodge Video store (photo by Barbara Werner)
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Emily Eaves, employee at Black Lodge
(photo by Barbara Werner)
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II by Tony Randel (USA/UK, 1988) Emily Eaves, employee at Black Lodge: "It´s so tacky, so loud, it´s the best. Obviously I will watch it this year." Summary: Kirsty Cotton is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head Dr. Philip Channard resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again. Watch Trailer |
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Top 5:
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1960) Chris Lemanski, customer at Black Lodge: "I watch it more often than other movies on Halloween. The first time I saw it it scared the hell out of me. It is still scary after all the years." Summary: Best know for the famous shower scene, Psycho is about secretary Marion, who checks in at a secluded motel. What she didn't know is that motel owner Norman Bates has psychological problems with this mother... Watch Trailer |
Chris Lemanski, costomer at Black Lodge (photo by Barbara Werner)
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Joe Goodwin, customer at black Lodge (photo by Barbara Werner)
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No. 6: The Evil Dead by Sam Raimi (USA, 1981) Joe Goodwin, customer at Black Lodge: "It is my favorite raw, low budget movie. I like it gory." Summary: Five students travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release demons. Watch Trailer |
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Top 7:
Pink Flamingos by John Waters (USA, 1972) Hasel Burt, customer at black Lodge: "It´s a f--g horror film. I didn´t like it, it´s so awful, but that's why I like it. It was supposed to be awful and it succeeded." Summary: Divine (also called "Babs Johnson"), an extravagant underground figure, goes up against her enemy couples, the Marbles, who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive." Watch Trailer |
Hasel Burt, customer at Black Lodge (photo by Barbara Werner)
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Seth Gilluly, customer at Black Lodge ( photo by Barbara Werner)
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Top 8:
Cannibal Holocaust by Ruggero Deodato (Italy, 1980) Seth Gilluly, customer at Black Lodge: "I couldn´t last five minutes watching it, because it was so gruesome. The actors in the movie doing their own stunts, like eating real animals. Very very nasty movie." Summary: Cannibal Holocaust is about the footage film material of a missing documentary crew, who have shot the Amazon cannibal tribes. Watch Trailer |
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Top 9:
The Orphanage by J.A. Bayona (Spain, 2007) Sabine Fischer, customer at Black Lodge: "It is scary because it is about spirits and a little child. Children in movies are always scary. The child just creeps me out." Summary: After a family moves into an old orphanage, the son goes missing but another boy appears. Watch Trailer |
Sabine Fischer, customer at Black Lodge ( photo by Barbara Werner)
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Alena Kartharius, customer at Black Lodge (photo by Barbara Werner)
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Top 10:
A Nightmare on Elm Street by Wes Craven (USA, 1984) Alena Kartharius, customer at Black Lodge: "A Nightmare on Elm Street is a scary movie. It is a tradition to watch it on Halloween." Summary: The dead child murderer Freddy Krueger enters the dreams of children to take revenge by killing them. Watch Trailer |
Barbara Werner covers Arts & Culture for MicroMemphis.
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