Alternate Flicks for All Hallows' Eve

Halloween. At a time when many people are flexing their creative muscles in an attempt to come up with an original costume, the TV stations will have resorted to airing the same cinematic swill as they do every year. The Exorcist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and of course, Halloween. And if we're lucky, Donnie Darko or Scream.

Perhaps I shouldn't say cinematic swill, as all of these films are quite good. It's the monotony and predictability of playing them year after year after year (on a holiday that prides itself on surprise and terror no less) that has generated this blood-curdling disdain in me. So, I offer up five alternate flicks for All Hallow's Eve (complete with a ten word synopsis!)

Via davidlynch.de

Eraserhead (1977)
Some weird shit happens man. Like some seriously weird shit.

The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Serial killer / Reverend chases kids. Lillian Gish has a gun.

La Jetée (1962)
Future Paris. 28 minutes. Told through still photos. Time travel.

Suspiria (1977)
Disembodied eyes, witches, a room conspicuously filled with razor wire.

M (1931)
French. Swedish? I mean German. Anyways, a guy kills childs.