Friday, October 30, 2009

Unintentional Horror Movies

If you're not really into horror movies but you still want to watch something scary for Halloween, look no further. Here are the "Top Five Most Disturbing Non-Horror Movies" I've seen. This list doesn't include any of those purposefully scary children's movies like The Black Cauldron (1985) or The Brave Little Toaster (1987), fantasy movies that are creepy from beginning to end like Labyrinth (1986) or Legend (1985), or suspense/thrillers which come close but are technically not horror movies:

1. Prelude to a Kiss (1992); a romance starring Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan; an old man walks by a wedding and asks the bride for a kiss; they switch bodies and the unfortunate groom honeymoons with an old man in a young girl's body

2. Superman III (1983); it's got an evil Superman and the woman being sucked into the living computer and being transformed into an android at the end freaked me out more than anything else as a kid

3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); cartoons die, man, and one of them is a cute little shoe that never hurt anybody; then Judge Doom's fake skin comes off and he laughs in the most disturbing way; oh, and Jessica Rabbit plays Patty Cake with an old man

4. The Care Bears Movie (1985); I debated whether or not to include this because the villain has the horror vibe going throughout, so he was obviously intended to be scary; still, it's Care Bears so how could anyone have expected this?

5. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974); it was made-for-TV and they showed it to us in elementary school; the subject lives to the age of 110 and the makeup they used for the actress' wrinkles bothers me still

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