Monday, May 30, 2011

I Like Movies

Watch a movie and relax! There are movies that are worth watching over and over again. I've an avid fan of movies since I was a child and I prefer watching horror-slasher movies and any movie that has something to do with the undead. Here are some  films that I have watched a dozen times on cable or my PC, you may have watched some of the movies, if you have other movies to recommend, feel free to comment. I just narrowed down my list to ten movies. Somewhere In Time is the only love story in my list.

My favorite movies of all time:


Jaws (1975)

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. 

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss
 
It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," there have been many further sequels in the franchise.
 
Director: Joseph Zito
Stars: Erich Anderson, Judie Aronson and Kimberly Beck




Mad Max (1979)

An Australian dystopian action film. A vicious biker gang murder a cop's family and make his fight with them personal.

Director: George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel and Hugh Keays-Byrne 




The Warriors (1979) 

Based on the novel by Sol Yurick of the same name. A gang called the Warriors framed for killing Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs. Cyrus was trying to unite all the gangs of New York in order to control the city when he was shot by Luther from the Rogues gang. After the shooting Luther shouts that the Warrior were responsible for the shooting.     
                                                                              
Director: Walter Hill 
Stars: Michael Beck, James Remar and Dorsey Wright
       





It is a film adaptation of the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson. A romantic science fiction tragedy where A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
 
Director: Jeannot Szwarc 

Stars: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer


 






Director George A. Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society".

Director: George A. Romero

Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander and Joseph Pilato








Night of the Living Dead (1990)

The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims. 

Director: Tom Savini
Stars: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman and Tom Towles















Cujo (1983)

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Director: Lewis Teague
Stars: Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Danny Pintauro














Pet Sematary (1989)


Director: Mary Lambert
Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne



















A nurse,  a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames and Mekhi Phifer











My list goes on....hope to update this post in the near future.

*More movie info at imdb.com & Wikipedia

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