The Days of Rental Have Gone

So I was actually going to write a post of movie decades and whilst researching, it made me remember how I used to choose horrors at the video store (long before the days of Netflix and Amazon prime)  in the little town I grew up we had a little video rental store called Forward Video.

 Friday nights were the days we could choose and this was all by the cover, the artwork was incredible and I appreciate it so much more now.

The 1950s to early 90s had some of the best video tape covers for horrors. After all, that was the first thing you saw. So here is my list of video tape covers.

Weird and Wonderful or Just Weird?

A friend recently reminded me of a little independent horror called Rubber, it's about a killer tyre named Robert which has telekinesis and goes on a rolling killing rampage to anything and anyone who stands in its way.

It had me think that it was one of the weirdest horrors that I had seen and I started listing other weird and wonderful horrors so what better place than to list them here.

Here are five of my favourite weird and wonderful horror movies.

Better Grab the Garlic....

As it's the 32nd anniversary of The Lost boys, I thought I would list my favourite vampire movies.

Top Ten Scenes That Stayed with Me

Following on from my favourite quotes I thought I would take a look at 10 disturbing or shocking scenes that have stayed with me.

1) Alien, 1979

Chest burst scene.

This scene was such an iconic scene in Alien, I think it set the stage for the Alien franchise, it definitely plays on the fear of having foreign bodies/parasites taking over the body.  John Hurt as Kane was incredible, the fear in his eyes really hit me first. This is one of the scenes in sci-horror that will go down in history.

Top 10 Songs Made Sinister by Horror Films

Music in horror films have always been awesome. We have had some truly tremendous scores created for some of the most greatest horror movies of all time, just look at Halloween, Psycho, A Nightmare On Elm Street etc., as soon as you hear that jingle, beat, note, it automatically takes you back to that scary movie.

But what about innocent songs? You know, songs that weren't specifically created for the movie in question, in stead a choice was made to include such a song for a certain scene and for some bizarre reason it just fits, it just makes sense. In some cases it even makes the film even more frightening, as some of these songs are from happier times, but suddenly they are transported into the unknown and all bets are off.

So I've come up with a list of songs that I thought fit perfectly into horror films perfectly, even though they shouldn't

Famous Lines - Top 8 Horror Movie Quotes

As Chris recently posted an article on horror movie taglines, it had me thinking about some of my favourite quotes in horror.

Here are some of my favourite horror movie quotes;

1) Hellraiser (1987)

Pinhead~ "No tears please it's a waste of good suffering"

Top Ten Horror Movie Taglines

So the other day I was looking through my DVDs deciding which one to watch, so I picked out the original The Last House on The Left and there it was, the tagline “To Avoid fainting, keep repeating ‘It’s only a movie…It’s only a movie…” It’s so awesome. So it got me thinking what other great horror taglines are out there? So I racked the old memory banks to bring you my top 10. These are the ones that I thought were either awesome, made me laugh out loud, or was just straight to the point.

I could have went on forever as there are absolutely thousands of awesome taglines out there and I kept questioning myself if I have chosen the right ones, but, you can never get the perfect list, so here's some that I enjoyed....

10 Terrifying British Public Information Films

I don't watch TV as often as I used to, so I can't tell you if Public Information Films are still be played, if they're maybe they're just in cinemas or maybe that's stopped too? Either way, I remember way back in the day that there used to be a different PIF (Public Information Film) every other week, maybe even every other day.

If you're unaware what a PIF is, it's the UK equivalent of the USA's PSA (Public Service Announcement). They're a series of government-commissioned short films that were (maybe still are) shown during advert/commercial breaks. And I have to tell you, some of these were absolutely terrifying, and I guess that's the point. 

So, within, I have selected ten of these films (in no particular order) which I think perfectly did their job in terrifying their audience into paying attention to the message displayed, as well as leaving many youngsters, me included, with vivid nightmares since.