Ghoulish Guilty Pleasures

Ignore the little shits posting fireworks through your letter box. Turn a blind eye to that woman’s arse hanging out of her “sexy” ladybird costume. Air the house out from your pumpkin carving stink. Turn on the telly, put your feet up and enjoy Film Fry Up’s top three guilty pleasure Halloween movies.

 Let’s face it, with the clocks going back and a new storm forecast every week, staying inside has never seemed like a better option. Finding the perfect popcorn movie can be a hard thing though. You don’t want to it melt your brain like Inception, you don’t want it to run too long like Django Unchained and you certainly don’t want to watch anything too graphic like The Last House on the Left.  So let Film Fry Up make the call. Seen as it’s the Halloween season, let’s keep in the spirit of all things ghastly, ghoulish and altogether guilty pleasure-y!

3: Idle Hands (1999)

Back when The Offspring were cool (well, if they ever got close to being cool) Devon Sawa and Jessica Alba starred in a film about a stoner whose hand gets possessed by the devil. Get it? Idle hands make the devils work and all that jazz. Its camp, gory and a little bit crap but can be genuinely funny in places and will make you wish for the times when MTV only played music videos.

2: Halloween: H2O (1998)

I said these were guilty pleasures, right? Because when it comes to bad, very bad (and when I mean bad, I mean in a good/bad way) teen slasher movies you really can’t beat Halloween H2O.Josh Hartnett with  dire hair cut, the slutty one from Dawson's Creek, The kid from Jumanji all grown up (Well a little grown up), LL Cool J. Never has a movie call sheet read like H2O's. This is genuinely where it’s going. And it’s an enjoyable ride all the way. Tacky, fun and bringing Jamie Lee Curtis back to proper scream queen status, wrapped up in 85 perfect minutes, there’s not much else you could really ask for from the Halloween franchise (it was the reigning champ in Halloween sequels, that was until Rob Zombie released his) Oh and did I mention Josh Hartnett is in it?!

1: Hocus Pocus (1993)

Film Fry up couldn’t really write a blog about Halloween Movies and NOT mention Hocus Pocus. Getting its annual dust down off the shelves of our D.V.D collection is the children’s movies starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and 90’s teen heartthrob (ahhhhhhh!!!) Omri Katz. It really has all the elements for the perfect Halloween movie. Made in 1993 it’s aged quite well and remains a firm favourite in Film Fry Up HQ. Touching, light-hearted and a little creepy in parts you can never go wrong with a little Hocus Pocus. 

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