Top 10 movies to watch in the spring!!!

Top 10 movies to watch in the spring!!!

It's that wonderful time of the year again. Yep! Spring Break! The days are getting longer, warmer, and over here at Staystillreviews we're partying like it's 1986! Here are ten top choices of movies to watch in honor of spring!!!

Spring Break 

- Four young guys travel to Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break, where the beaches are packed full of beautiful women, and teenagers ready to party. Here the group get into a series of zany adventures, all the while entering belly flop, and wet T-shirt contests, drinking gallons of beer, getting laid, dancing, dodging one of their crazy stepfathers, and saving the hotel they are staying at! This film not only is fun, it has a killer soundtrack, likable characters, AND is directed by the same guy who made the first Friday the 13th!

Critters 2

- Whenever you think of a horror movie that takes place during Easter time, Critters 2 is usually one of the first titles that come to mind. I'm a MASSIVE fan of the Critter series (I even liked the new Shudder series. I know! I know!) Still, this is a fun sequel to the original. The critters are truly the stars of this movie, as Bradley Brown travels back to his old hometown to visit his grandmother for the Easter holiday. We get Critter eggs accidentally used as eggs for the church Easter hunt, a new sheriff eaten alive while dressed up as the Easter bunny, the Bounty hunters along with Charlie destroying everything, and morphing into anything they see (including a Playboy centerfold!), and a giant ball of Critters. That's just to name a few! This film didn't take itself too seriously, and thanks to my buddy Tanner I'm a proud owner of an original one-sheet from this signed by directed Mick Garris! I think the only flaw of this film is that Ug (Terrence Mann) doesn't have the same feathered rock-star hair he did in the original. "Sigh" Can't win them all!

Steel Magnolias

- I'm usually not a sucker for chick flicks (despite the fact that I am a girl) but Steel Magnolias has always been a favorite of mine, which I can constantly quote. With an all star cast, this film opens up down South during a wedding that takes place on Easter Sunday. Here we follow the lives of five women from a small town, who are all close friends and all go to the same hair dresser. Here we watch major life changing events take place, always during a holiday. The film opens on Easter, and ends on Easter. I'm certain if you don't tear up at least once during this film you have ice water flowing through you instead of blood. 

April Fool's Day

- This is a MUST to watch every April 1st. Now I know there's Slaughter High (I think I'm one of the few people that actually don't like that slasher.) as well as Killer Party (Even though it takes place on April 1st, I always see this film as a film set during the fall.) So April Fool's Day is always my number one choice! I know some people see the twist to this film as a total cop out, but I on the other hand think it's extremely clever, and during the slasher boom of the 1980's this was a film that actually tried to do something different, as well as being packed with likable characters, and an awesome setting. April Fool's Day is a fun slasher with a twist if you don't all ready know is beyond clever, and extremely fun to watch. Think a murder mystery for the 1980's. I've all ready watched this film this month several times and it won't ever get old. Plus that iconic VHS cover that I'm sure if you're my age, you still remember spotting at the video store and being instantly drawn to!

Amityville 4 The Evil Escapes

- For some strange unknown reason every Good Friday my friend Mike and I watch the forth film in the Amityville series and order crab cakes. (Hey, some tridations are odd, but nevertheless fun.) I mean really, nothing says a holy holiday more than a possessed lamp! In fact, this past October thanks to Bloody Disgusting, Mike and I were able to watch both The Evil Escapes, and our favorite 1992 It's About Time on the big screen. I still think it's awesome the two sequels we've watched the most were both screened, and we were able to watch in the theaters! Part 4 was originally a made for TV movie. It's campy, fun, and tells the story of a young widow with three children who has recently moved in with her elderly mother to try and start over. Well, everything goes to complete hell after the mother receives an antique lamp from the original Amityville house. Out of all the sequels about cursed items, this is my second favorite (the first being the clock from 1992) This is a fun sequel that I will forever watch every Good Friday...why? Because over here at Staystillreviews we're weird and we love it!

Psycho II

- Yet another off unexplained tradition of mine is to watch Psycho II right around Easter. (I think it's because as a kid I received the VHS to this roughly around this time of year.) Any-who, this is seriously one of the best follow-ups to one of the most classic and iconic horror movies of all time. Psycho II is a highly underrated sequel, and one of my all time favorite sequels ever. It's beautifully filmed, capturing the spirit of the original, while also staying true to the 1980's slashers. The score is beautiful, as is the complicated relationship between Norman and Mary. You can't help but feel bad for Norman, all the while trying to figure out the mystery of who's harassing Norman? Is it him going insane again? Is it people trying to drive him crazy and frame him? Or worse...is is somebody Hell bent for revenge? The opening to this film is everything, showing the classic shower kill, before panning up the hill as you hear Norman's horrified voice yelling "Mother! Blood! Blood!" Before the beautiful score starts to play over the credits. Utter perfection. 

Prom Night 1,2,3,4, and the remake.

- I usually have a Prom Night marathon in late May to celebrate prom season. I LOVE the first two Prom Night movies. The original was one of the first slashers I remember my mother renting for me as a child, and how much fun I had watching it with her, and my sister. This was another classic Jamie Lee Curtis early 80's slasher, and this actually has a really great storyline. The opening will forever give me chills "Killers are coming!" Some say this film drags, and is a bit boring, but I think the opposite. The story shows a young girl accidentally dying while playing a game with a small group of children. Vowing never to talk about the accident, they leave the scene, not knowing somebody witnessed what happened. Now years later, these kids are teenagers, all on the verge of attending their senior prom. Here somebody is making harassing calls, wearing a ski mask, and murdering them one by one on the night of the disco themed dance. The ending to this is heartbreaking! Plus that soundtrack is everything (which is heard just recently got released on vinyl!) The sequel, Hello Mary Lou Prom Night II does something I really have to respect. They decided to ditch the entire original slasher story, and make it into a supernatural horror fest about a prom queen who accidentally burns to death in 1957, only to return 30 years later possessing a young girl and killing anyone who gets in her way. I really loved the new direction they went with this, along with the killer special effects! Part 3 continues with the Mary Lou storyline, but this time hamming it up as a straight up black comedy (it's a guilty pleasure of mine), then part 4 going back to a whole new storyline, returning to a much darker route. The remake, which I saw in theaters doesn't compare to the original at all, but it's actually not a terrible PG13 horror movie, with a pretty cool stalker storyline, with some cool songs. The prom night movies are always fun to watch around this time of year, and always reminds me of my senior prom. I wore a green dress, and went with a guy who looked like Jerry Seinfeld. Ah life was so simple back then...

Slumber Party Massacre 2

- It's funny, part 1 I always think about watching in the summer, part 3 I always think about watching in the winter, and part 2 I always think about watching in the spring. I adore the Slumber Party Massacre series. Part 2 took awhile for me to warm up to, but once I stumbled upon it on VHS at a flea market, I gave it another watch, and instantly fell in love with it. I somehow love whenever movies go in a new direction. Continuing with the storyline of the surviving sisters who were neighbors from the original film, we see little sister Courtney all grown up, now a teenager while her sister never quite got over the shock from that night and is currently in a mental hospital. Courtney is now part of an all girl band (the cover songs were amazing in this film, as well as the soundtrack) Here Courtney begins to have strange dreams and visions of her sister warning her not to go all the way, images of a 1950' rocker who has a guitar drill. The film is like this strange musical black comedy, with over the top moments such as a frozen chicken attacking a girl, a giant zit exploding on somebody's face, and the killer signing as he dances about before murdering his next victim. It's a strange fun little movie, but always a must to watch this time of year!

House 1-4

- Another series that is a must to watch during the spring. Again, can't really explain it, but I always try to make to a tradition to watch House 1,2,3, and 4 durning the months of April or May. All four movies are extremely different, with great writers, directors, and actors behind them. The first is legendary! Director Steve Miner (Friday the 13th part 2,3, Warlock, and H20) directs this installment. Sean Cunningham produces, as we follow a writer who inherits his aunt's mansion after her mysterious death. The man is looking for some time alone to write his latest book, reflecting on his time fighting in the war, and how badly it affected in by what he saw. As of lately this man has had a tough year. His son mysteriously disappeared at the same house with no clues of where he went, or what happened to him. This trauma caused him and his beautiful actress wife to separate, resulting in him finally deciding to move into this mansion where strange events begin to occur. This film is packed full of fun creatures and monsters, and is a zany film that takes the whole "haunted house" direction in a fun black comedy route. Part II cranks things up even more. It yet again takes a whole new direction, following a young man who inherits a brand new house, where his great, great, great, great grandfather returns from the grave to help him and his buddy as new worlds are opened up throughout the house. This installment gets a lot of hate, but I see it as a fun adventure film with a great ending. Part III is basically "Shocker" We have a whole new storyline where a crazed killer is caught and put to death, only for his spirit to return and haunt the officer who caught him. This film actually is super dark and gory, and one of the better sequels. Part 4 features the same main character from part 1, only this time he has a wife and daughter. With a brand new house, we follow the aftermath of a tragic car accident, in which yet again unexplained events plague the family. I mean who can forget the frighting "pizza man"? All four films are a riot. They are all different, but tons of fun. I'm still waiting to get the blu-ray box set, but these films always gear me up for warmer weather every spring!

Rose Red

- Every Memorial Day Weekend I always watch Stephen King's Rose Red. I still remember watching this film when it first aired in 2002 and what a big deal ABC made of it. Some of King's best work has been made into mini series (The Stand, Storm Of The Century, etc) I feel that's because his books are so detailed and long, the only way to properly capture the spirit of them is to extend it for television. Rose Red has a book written by the professor character based off the life of the owner of Rose Red, and it's a decent read, but I will forever wish they had written something off this film instead since the story and characters were just so interesting. Loosely based off The Winchester Mystery House, King puts his own spin on a house...actually a massive mansion that was built at the turn of the century. Mysterious accidents and deaths plagued the construction of the house, which was built by a wealthy oil tycoon as a wedding gift to his young bride. Over the years, the owner learned that if she continued building the house she would never die. Over the decades people either land up dead or missing at the house as supernatural forces take over. The house after yet another missing person case occurred in the 1970's resulted in the house being shut down from all tours, and becoming a "dead cell". On the verge of it being torn down in present day, a college professor has Memorial Day Weekend to prove that the house (which nobody can say for sure how many rooms it actually has since the makeup of the house tends the constantly change) is actually haunted. Bringing in a team of psychics to try and "wake" the house up, the professor believes a young gifted 12 year old girl is the key to truly proving that the house is in fact alive. With an all star cast, beautiful score, and the house itself being the true front and center star, this is one of the best haunted house stories out there. I wouldn't call it a scary story by any chance, but it's still a fascinating film, with awesome sets, and a pretty cool twist on the whole haunted house storyline. My favorite part of the mini series will forever be the first half when the group is being led around on tour. I wish this house was actually real! Every Memorial Day I watch this, and I'm all ready looking forward to doing so that weekend! 

So there you have it! My top watches for the spring time. Which are yours?