AUTHOR GUEST POST: Brenna Yovanoff's Favorite Scary Flicks + Giveaway

Brenna Yovanoff, author of the fantabulous YA novel, THE REPLACEMENT (Alyssa's glowing review HERE) has been kind enough to guest post today. We're happy to have her 'haunting" us on the Day After Halloween - hope all had fun and thank you Brenna!

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Hi, everyone!  In honor of the fact that it's not Halloween (what? sometimes I have trouble being punctual) I'm going to share a selection of my favorite scary movies.  They are as follows:

10) Jacob's Ladder—Yes, it's a little too dreamlike and experimental to qualify as a true horror movie, but how could I neglect the film that inspired the crazy head-shaking demons of Silent Hill? Which is my favorite video game franchise of all time. Answer: I could not.

9) Nightmare on Elm Street—I wanted to see this movie so bad.  And I was not allowed to.  Because I was nine.  But then later, I was 16 and my mom had not actually dictated my movie-watching parameters in years and I remembered that I had really wanted to see this, and then I rented it.  And it was not as good as if I'd gotten around to seeing it when I was 12, which was my prime horror-watching age, but it was pretty good.  Because Freddy Krueger is awesome. So it goes on the list, because if I had seen it when I was 12, I would have thought it was the best movie ever.

8) Event Horizon—Technically science fiction, I know, but I'm not all that fussy.  Also, I can make a decent argument for horror-status on the grounds that: possessed demonic psychic spaceship = pretty darn scary.

7) Pet Sematary— What can I say? I love when dead things come back to life (only for pretend, I promise).  I saw it at the drive-in when it came out and it remains the only movie that has ever compelled my mother to grab me by the head in an attempt to cover my eyes.  And it gets points for being based on the only book that has ever completely and utterly terrified me.

6) The Shining—Jack Nicholson, bleeding elevators, creepy sisters.  Also, addiction-enabling ghost butler. It's a classic.

5) Pan's Labyrinth—Watch the scene with the [spoiler], or the scene where [spoiler, spoiler], or the one with [spoiler, spoiler, tequila] and tell me this movie is not chilling.  Yeah, it's pretty grim.

4) The Ring—I have a profound horror of drowning and there is drowning in this movie.  I also hate talking on the phone, which is in this movie as well.

3) 28 Days Later—Zombies, but not.  Although it doesn't technically satisfy my love of things rising from the dead, it more than satisfies my craving for unsettling social commentary.

2) The Orphanage—How to scare Brenna: Cue ominous ghost children. With matching outfits. And paper bags over their heads. In an Orphanage. By the sea. With a cave. And a secret room. And a garden shed full of bodies. In Spanish.

1) The Exorcist—Perhaps this is only at number one because I was way too young when I watched it.  But I don't think so.  I think it's at number one because it's a legitimately scary film, and also because people, it set. The. Bar.

And those are my quick-and-dirty top ten.  Happy watching! 

Huh.  I really thought there would be more zombies on this list . . .

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And you thought you were done with the HORROR! 

Great picks, and who can argue with The Exorcist as #1 - Not us!
Thanks to Brenna for visiting and sharing!

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