Movies to watch this Halloween - Part 3: B-Movie Gross-out Laughfests

Continuing to suggest 25 horror movies to watch this Halloween, for this installment I bring you some lesser known films. I wouldn't say they are B-films, these are better than that. These movies are crazy - gross, funny, and plain weird.

1. Re-animator

I must have really liked horror movies from he 1980's, as the decade of greed is well represented on this list. This 1985 classic, director by horror legend Stuart Gordon, is a memorable film that will have you laughing your ass off. One of the world's greatest actors, Jeffrey Combs is perfect as film's best mad scientist since Dr. Frankenstein.

2. Blood Diner

Here's the plot: Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their downtown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.

Don't be scared by a 3.7 IMDB score, sometimes people just don't "get it." How can you not like a movie that has such memorable lines as ""Hey baby, right before I stick my big sausage in you.. what do they call ya?"

3. Brain Damage

Brian is possessed by a parasitic organism that injects him with mind altering drugs in exchange for brains. Aylmer, the "brain" is one of the best evil characters in movie history. How do films like this fly under the radar? It's gross, it's funny, its AWESOME! Tagline: "It's a headache from Hell!"

4. Dead Alive

This 1992 film is also known as "Braindead." It is EASILY Peter Jackson's most interesting film and far more deserving of Oscar consideration than the bloated LOTR trilogy. OK, maybe it isn't that kind of movie, but it is an unquestionable good time! Seriously, you owe it to your funny bone to check this one out.

5. Slither

This 2006 theatrical release has us in stitches! Not exactly as "B-movie" as the other 4 on this list, it fits right in with its hilarious approach to grossing you out. Michael Rooker delivers the performance of a lifetime as a man infested by an alien presence. Great performance by Elizabeth Banks as his wife. Hubba Hubba!!!!

Movies to watch this Halloween - Part 1: Seasonal Delights

The weather outside has dipped below 90 degrees here in Virginia, so you know that Fall is here. College football games? Done it. Fall Festivals? Been there. Now, the real fun begins, because the greatest holiday in the world is two weeks away. Bring on Halloween! Candy, costumes, decorations, haunted houses, and old horror movies on television all combine to make this the best season of the year. I can already hear the Christmas apologists lining up to espouse the virtues of America's most celebrated holiday, but you can shut your pie hole, because you are defending a bloated and misunderstood debt fest. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Christmas (and it's my wife's favorite), but there is something so delightfully unnecessary about Halloween. And plus, Christmas is about birth, peace, and family. Halloween is about ghosts, murder, pranks, and candy.

OK, so we have 13 days until Halloween, which gives you an opportunity to watch, in my opinion, about 25 horror movies. with so many quality scary movies worthy of your viewing time, I thought I would suggest 25 horror movies that will help set the mood this holiday season. While not a ranking of he 25 best ever - that's for another day, this is 25 that will motivate you to kidnap children, slip razor blades into apples, and throw toilet paper in your neighbors' yard.

I'll start with 5 Halloween themed films:

1. Halloween

The classic. John Carpenter's masterpiece excels on so many levels. The score is tense, the violence is realistic, and this movie is still capable of creeping me out 25 years and dozens of viewings later.

2. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Not scary, but great for the whole family. Usually they replay this one on IMAX this time of year, you should totally check it out. The wife has never seen this one, so I can pass it off as a Christmas movie. This one is a lot of fun and a perfect of example of the genius of Tim Burton.

3. Trick R Treat

This long-delayed new release (now available on DVD) is a Halloween-themed anthology that is quite entertaining.

4. Night of the Demons

A 1980's guilty pleasure dying to be discovered by you this Halloween. WARNING: boobies all over the trailer. Which to me, doesn't say WARNING, it says WATCH ME.

5. Halloween 3: Season of the Witch

Yes, its another Halloween franchise movie, but this is the one without Michael Myers. And you know what kids, that is not a bad thing. Check this one out, its creepy, funny, has melting heads, and a star with a great mustache!

And sing along with me: "Thirteen days til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. Thirteen days til Halloween, Silver Shamrock!"