Hallowe'en Movie Night 2010 - Horror Americana

[TheAuldGrump]

I have picked a theme for this year's Hallowe'en movie night - Americana.

So far my choices are:
The Devil & Daniel Webster
Warlock
Pumpkinhead
The Ballad of Hillbilly John
Crossroads
Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Burton)
Candyman (Maybe... I need to review it and see if it fits. I know that it is based on urban legend.)
Blair Witch Project
Up Under the Roof if I can get a copy.

Children's Room:
Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Disney)
The Devil & Daniel Churchmouse (Rankin Bass?)
Wolves of Willoughby Chase

I know that I am missing a bunch. I am looking for an olde timey feel, in setting, magic, or legend. Going to keep the list shorter this year - I had way too many last year, even without the 'After Hours' room.

So, what suggestions for an olde timey Americana horror night?

The Auld Grump

[glimmerrat]

Go with Pumpkinhead. It rocks.

Candyman is great but Clive Barker's original story in the Books of Blood was iirc set on a Manchester housing estate in the UK. Not very American!

[foproy]

Troll and Gouhlies.

[Krensky]

Children of the Corn

[Gentry]

The Resurrected. Chris Sarandon ftw.

[vardeman]

The Resurrected. Chris Sarandon ftw.

You can't forget "Fright Night"!  another Chris Sarandon ftw.

[TheAuldGrump]

Remember - the theme is Americana - a touch of old fashioned rural America and American superstition. Some of those suggestions really wouldn't cut it. (Much as I like Fright Night....) Creep is better than gore.

For comedy I am adding VHS tapes for Cast a Deadly Spell and Witch Hunt. Neither appears to be available as DVDs. Also adding The Ghost & Mrs. Muir for comedy.
Something Wicked this Way Comes added to the children's room.

Children of the Corn... I have never seen. The story by Stephen King would pass muster, but some of the movies are based so very loosely (if at all) on his books.

Some that have failed: First, pretty much all the HPL -
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
The Dunwich Horror (2009)
The Resurrected (1992) Dear gods NO! It would be nice if anybody basing a movie on the works of H.P. Lovecraft ever freakin' read his stories! 
The Haunted Palace  Like The Resurrected it is based loosely on H. P. Lovecraft's Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and like The Resurrected it fails pretty much across the board.

Candyman Too much splatter, not enough development.

Can anyone recommend individual episodes of Tales from the Crypt?

And there is an old B&W movie about a ghost ship, set in New England, the title of which is escaping me, but images from which have stuck with me for thirty five years.... Then again, I saw it on a B&W TV, so it could have been in color. (Channel 38 in Boston, or was it 56?...)

The Auld Grump

[VisualStatic]

The Amityville Horror is about all I can come up with...

[lastknight1973]

I'm a sucker for the classics,so I'd probably go with the original Universal classics or anything Hammer with Christopher Lee and/or Peter Cushing.

[TheAuldGrump]

I suppose Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat might work.... (*Cringe!* So bad. So very, very bad.)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter. (Here it is - in its entirety.... Behold my works ye mighty, and despair!)

The Auld Grump

[Krensky]

Children of the Corn... I have never seen. The story by Stephen King would pass muster, but some of the movies are based so very loosely (if at all) on his books.

The 1984 movie is very loosely based on the story. The 2009 TV movie is supposed to be very close to the short story though. It was a SyFy movie, but my understanding is it's damn near the top of the heap for them. Netflix has it.

[foproy]

my cousin works freelance with some of the local film studios, and one has a private theater in the building, and i have a couple friends in this studio as well. we are doing 2 months of pure horror. for movie nights. we just watched tonight house. i have not seen that one in a while. it would be a great one.

[Nepenthe]

Children of the Corn... I have never seen. The story by Stephen King would pass muster, but some of the movies are based so very loosely (if at all) on his books.

The 1984 movie is very loosely based on the story. The 2009 TV movie is supposed to be very close to the short story though. It was a SyFy movie, but my understanding is it's damn near the top of the heap for them. Netflix has it.

It also has Kandyse McClure. <3

I saw a part of it on tv the other day, I don't generally care much for horror movies, but that one seemed quite promising - especially considering the (TV) imdb tag...

[ThunderMonkey]

"Trick 'r Treat" with Anna Paquin and Brian Cox. (it may be considered Canadian, so I don't know if that would work.)

All the good ones I can come up with are foreign. Ooo... wait... John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" or "In the Mouth of Madness".

[TheAuldGrump]

Children of the Corn... I have never seen. The story by Stephen King would pass muster, but some of the movies are based so very loosely (if at all) on his books.

The 1984 movie is very loosely based on the story. The 2009 TV movie is supposed to be very close to the short story though. It was a SyFy movie, but my understanding is it's damn near the top of the heap for them. Netflix has it.

That sounds good.

American Haunting and one of the other Bell Witch movies might work.

I briefly considered The Naked Witch, then after I was done laughing decided 'no'.

The Auld Grump