I had a hard time with this poll and ended up having to vote 'other'. For me, this time of year I always start to drift towards gothic horror flicks. I want classic story telling set against a back drop of desolate graveyards and rolling fog banks. Decrepit buildings and dark secrets, the sort of films where the setting is as important as the characters... I really can't pin that down to an era of cinema.

The Slashers. Just because of Halloween and in some ways Friday the 13th Part 1 & 2. Maybe add in Part 6. They have the feel right for Halloween. The time of year, kids having fun in the neighborhood or woods, an unknown and unstoppable killer.

I do love the classics. But they are a bit different from what I remember. They are very good monster movies. Not so much Halloween time of the year movies unless you just want to dress up like one of the monsters. By the way, Mondo is having a Universal Monsters show next week. But it seems like no one here likes Mondo posters.

Most of those come under the Atmospheric horrors of the 60s & 70s (some 80s too). Pretty hard to beat Hammer films in that section.

This is a hard one. There are truly great films from all eras and the ideal way to go would be to pick the best from each, toss them into a box and call it a set. BUT IF I WERE ON MY DEATH BED---it would have to be vintage.

Atmospheric horror from the 60s/70s without a shadow of a doubt for me.I only have to look through my dvd collection...rosemarys baby,The beast must die,The shuttered room,Asylum,Torture garden,twins of evil,countess bathory,Vault of horror!..(loads more!)to know that all the horror I watched growing up had a profound effect on me .I can watch a horror nowadays and forget it really easily but I can remember the plots,the names of characters and the music from the stuff from the 60s/70s..

Yea, I agree, and I could've easily voted for that category. I just felt like there are enough quality gothic horror flicks outside that era that made it difficult to pin my halloween favourites down to the 60's and 70's.

That's what I went with as I would also include atmospheric horrors from the 80s such as Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy and Argento's Inferno, Phenomena and Terror At The Opera which I usually watch every halloween (evoking the spirit of the occasion for me personally) and other times too. Though this year I'm going to go to a special halloween screening of The Shining which is another of this category but from 1980.

When I think about halloween, I think about movies like Dracula.
But for me it's also much about these iconic slashers like Halloween, FT13 etc.

Man this was a tough one. I'd love to have said more modern fare, but (as someone has already said) the old classics really embody what Halloween is all about. The mood, the look, the monsters. So I'll stick with the classics.

Really tough decision between Atmospheric and Slashers, but I have to go with Slashers, because those are what I always watch on Halloween.