Barg!

I have no absolutely NO idea how I neglected to include Black Christmas in my list of quality horror flicks. What an egregious error on my part! I can't recommend this film enough! It's really the definitive slasher flick, and set most of the devices that would become cliches in later years, but doesn't fall into cliche itself. It's really freaking good. Its basis is the old "When a Stranger Calls"/ babysitter getting threatening phone calls scenario, but it's majorly re-tooled for this story and is told in a college setting. It has such luminaries as Margot Kidder, John Saxon and Olivia Hussey. Do NOT forget to get this movie...if you can find it anywhere. It's fairly old and is out of print, but was re-released on DVD pretty recently; that's how I obtained my copy.
* Note: Black Christmas may scare the bejeezus out of you.
** Double Note: "Barg" is a literary creation of my friend Erin Stamm. I have no idea what it means.
*** Tertiary Note: If you're in the mood for good Halloween music, give this a try:

• Bauhaus (especially the songs "Hollow Hills," "Stigmata Martyr," "Double Dare," "In the Flat Field," and "Bela Lugosi's Dead")
• The Misfits (of course)
• Modest Moussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain" (don't worry, you've heard it before)
• old school AFI (i.e. Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes and Black Sails in the Sunset)
• early '80s Cure (Seventeen Seconds, Faith, "Charlotte Sometimes," and Pornography)
• J.S. Bach's "Toccata in D Minor"
• Siouxsie and the Banshees (pretty much anything, really)
• Joy Division ("Isolation" and "Hours")
• Led Zeppelin (just "The Battle of Evermore," really)
• Sisters of Mercy (Floodland reigns)
• just about any black metal band, but especially Emperor (pre-IX Equilibrium; especially In the Nightside Eclipse), Darkthrone (yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!), Gorgoroth, Mayhem (pre-Euronymous' death) and Satyricon (The Shadowthrone and Nemesis Divina <"Mother North" freaking dominates>)

Well, that should about do it. Much love, fiends.