some Halloween masterpieces...

Hi Charlie! It is Halloween soon and today I am going to introduce to you my 5 Favorite horror movies ever in order to pepper a little bit your cold and rainy nights. I assure you that after seeing these movies you will never feel alone anymore.

- SCREAM by Wes Craven and wrote by Kevin Williamson, 1996

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This american movie will ever make me laugh or jump ever if it's the 15th time I watch it. This is actually a very famous parody of the horror film of the 90s and if you didn't already watch it do it as soon as possible! I promise you will understand many of the references in other movies. It received the MTV Movie Award for the best film.

*Casey Becker is a teenager alone in her house. She answers to a phone call and a serial killer on the line offers her to play a terrible game: if she answers wrong to his horror movies questions he will kills her boyfriend in front of her. Sadly, Casey and her boyfriend were both killed by this serial killer. Sidney Prescott, an other teenage girl knows that she might be the next victim of this dangerous serial killer. She doesn't allow herself to trust anybody.

DID YOU KNOW? _The filming of Scream required about 200 liters of fake blood.

_The serial killer of the film is inspired by a real killer in Florida, Danny Rolling nicknamed 

"The Gainesville Ripper". He was convicted of 8 teenage girl murders and was executed by

 lethal injection in 2006.
 

 - ALIEN by Ridley Scott, 1979. 

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Alien is by far my favorite alien movie ever. other films have tried to create this universe, even Ridley

 Scott himself with the other films of the saga, but this film will always be, in my opinion, the best Alien ever.  

This American/ British (really scary) movie is a science fiction movie. It received 3 prices and 7 nominations: 

among others an academy film awards for the best actor (John Hurt), an Oscar for the best decorations and a 

Golden Globe for the best music. 

* A Spacial ship and its crew (7 men and women) is forced to stop on an unknown planet. The officer Kane is attacked by an unknown form of life in the face. The doctor of the ship take off the specimen and the crew have lunch in a good mood all together. Until Kane, convulsive, sees his abdomen perforated by a living foreign body, which escapes into the corridors of the ship ...

Ripley, an other officer, is trying to survive and to save her comrades and her cat from the creature.

DID YOU KNOW? _The front part of the body of the Alien was made from a molding performed on a real human skull.

_ The carcass on which Dr. Ash performs an autopsy is composed of seafood, in order to recreate visually the internal organs of the spider.

_ Originally, in the first draft of the Alien scenario, Lieutenant Ripley was a male character. It is only later that it is decided that he will be incarnated by a woman.

- SHINING by Stanley Kubrick, 1980, after the literary work of Stephen king

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This movie is a must in horror movie, even in movie in general. The scenes are all full of details and deeply thought. It received the Saturn Award for the best actor for a supporting actor played by Scatman Crothers. The actors Jack Nickolson and Shelley Duvall were really involved in their character even if the shooting exhausted the young lady. Shelley Duvall talked only with Daniel Lloyd, the actor of her son in the movie. The scene where she had to fight with Jack with a bat was redone about 127 times.

* A writer, Jack torrance decides to go with his family in a hostel to maintain it during the winter when it is closed during many long months. Danny, his son, who own a medium gift, the Shining, is scared about this place where some horrible event happened. And this haunted hostel drives slowly Jack crazy.

DID YOU KNOW?_Before turning to Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick considered entrusting the role of Jack Torrance to Robert De Niro, Robin Williams or Harrison Ford.

_The scene at the end of the movie where Wendy (Shelley Duvall) climbs the stairs scared, knife in hand, was shot 35 times. It comes down to climbing all the stairs of the Empire State Building.

_The snow labyrinth at the end of the film was obtained thanks to nearly 900 tons of salt and polystyrene!

- GET OUT by Jordan Peele, 2017

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This movie is an extreme but scary representation of the racism in USA. You don't expect the ending until late and the story is really well elaborated and sought after. The fact that it happened nowadays accentuates the feeling of fear and the side of the denunciation of racism. This movie received 24 prices and nominations including an Oscar for the best original scenario.

* A young couple, Chris and Rose, visits for the first time the girl's family in her family house. At first, Chris notice that his step family is strange about the fact he is colored and she is white. However, he discovers that the truth is far more disturbing.

(I unfortunately can't tell you more without spoil you the ending but go watch it, I assure you it worth it.)
DID YOU KNOW? _You could guess the rest of the story from the beginning. Indeed, the director purposely 

set the scene where Chris spilled the deer at first to emphasize the insensitivity of rose and the reversal of Chris.

 Jordan Peele even lend his voice to make the cry of the deer. 
_ Get Out was shot in the city of Mobile, Alabama where the weather alternated between sun and rain. One of 

the most difficult part of the filming was to make the scenes so that the weather is well tuned with the story

- THE VISIT by M. Night Shyamalan, 2015

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If you are already scared about the people you don't know, the family dinners and the old person, don't watch this movie unless you don't want to sleep. This movie is not really famous but I really appreciated it. The screamers are well hidden and the story become more and more scary as the film progresses…

* Lorette had a violent fight with her parents 15 years ago and completely broke off all ties. Thanks to internet, her parents discovered she had 2 children, one daughter and one son. They asked her to at least meet them and to welcome them for a week in their house in the countryside. She accepted. Once settled, children begin to worry about their grandparents' behavior.

DID YOU KNOW?_M.Night Shyamalan thinked about writing “the visit” since 2009 and it is thanks to a knee operation and its anesthesia which gave him inspiration that he managed to finish it.

_ Before being titled "The Visit", the film was called "Sundowning". This word refers to the syndrome of crepuscular states, which corresponds to a psychological phenomenon that goes hand in hand with extreme confusion and agitation in demented patients. The symptoms usually include awesome mood swings that occur at the sun's down.

_The Visit was shot in only 27 day.

My article in now coming to an end, I hope you enjoyed it and that you will enjoy your Halloween with our without these masterpieces. Happy Halloween everyone!

_ Alaïs