Jim Mahfood. Artist/Writer on Wha... Huh? and Classic 40 Ounce.
"The Shining and The Exorcist"

Tom Peyer. Author on Spider-Man: House of M and The Authority.
"John Carpenter's The Thing. 28 Days Later. Halloween. From Justin To Kelly. From Justin To Kelly II: The Impaling."

mc chris. Rapper, the recently released 'Eating's Not Cheating'; voice actor, MC Pee Pants on Adult Swim's 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force'; and writer/voice actor, Hesh on 'Sealab 2021'.
"i wasn't really allowed to see them i think my first might've been omen and that crepped me out big time. it was a sleepover where home rules never apply. my favorite these days, i dunno, i like the final destination movies and i liked freddy vs jason. i obviously like the evil dead stuff. like most people, right now i'm nuts for zombies. shaun of the dead was on of last year's best movies."

Tad Williams. Author of Shadowmarch: Volume 1 and The War of the Flowers.
"I remember being very frightened by the kids turning into donkeys in PINOCCHIO -- they were really scary. They brayed like little souls being damned to hell, and looked TERRIFIED. When I was a bit older, 12 or so, the movie THE INNOCENTS (based on H. James TURN OF THE SCREW) with Deborah Kerr scared me so badly I couldn't even watch it in my room with the door closed, but had to have some open connection to the rest of the house and my parents, who were reading in the living room.

That's still one of the best psychological horror movies ever, I think. The two kids -- one of whom is in Mary Poppins -- are brilliant, and I've never felt the same way about opening a curtain at night to see what's on the other side."

Geoff Johns. Author on Infinite Crisis and JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice.
"The Omen, Rosemary's Baby, Changeling, Night of the Living Dead,
Shaun of the Dead."

Steven Brust. Author of The Gypsy and Sethra Lavode.
"The only horror movie I've ever liked was the Lugosi 'Dracula.'"

Tim Truman. Grimjack co-creator and writer/artist of Wilderness.
I loved (and saw) every Hammer horror film ever made, as well as James Whale's Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, and Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man. Most of them didn't really scare me, though. I looked upon them as cool adventure movies. I loved RFrankenstein. My favorite monsters are werewolves and vampires, though. Favorite monster hunter: Peter Cushing!

The only movies that ever terrified me were The Mummy's Curse and the Demon. For some reason Mummy movies really gnawed on a nerve and creeped me out. I look at them now and say "Uh... why?" But when I was a pre-teen, they terrified me.

The scene from the Demon that freaked me came at the end, when there's this image of the demon sort of gliding across the ground in the distance. When I think about it now, as a guy who creates images for a living, I realize that close ups of monsters never really bugged me that much. It was distant shots-- the mummy shambling acrosss the desert or the moors, and that shot of the demon, shot from about 60 or 100 feet away-- that would bring the scares home to me. It was like I was a secret witness to something that I wasn't supposed to see.

Favorite monster flicks when I was a teen were Brides of Dracula and the Omega Man. Again, I viewed them more as adventure movies than horror flicks. However, the movies that really scared me the most were The Exocist and Jaws. I mean, those two movies really terrified the crap out of me.

My favorite horror movie of all time, hands down, is dawn of the dead. I was in my twenties when I saw Dawn with Steve Bissette, John Bisson (now a special effects artist) , and some other buddies. It scared me, thrilled me, and insinuated itself on my brain for months and months. The thing that scared me the most about it was the scenes of martial law at the beginning of the film. Well, that and the lady chomping into the guy's trapezius muscle.

Big fan of Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, too.

Patton Oswalt. Comedian ("Feelin' Kinda Patton") and writer of JLA: Welcome to the Working Week.
"The first movie memory I have is, when I was 5 years old, going to this activity day at the local library for kids, and they showed the 1922 NOSFERATU. I guess they thought, you know, old silent B&W film, just fine
for kids. It was an 8mm print, and they projected it onto the wall of the back room of the library. Ten minutes into the fucknig thing, and all us kids are screaming and freaking out. I always thought that the film couldn't have been as scary and creepy as I remember it, since I was five, but I saw a restored print about six years ago and holy shit, that's one of the scariest films I've ever seen.

As far as modern films, the holy triumvirate of Getting the Poop Scared Out of You and Into Your Pants are (and still remain) JAWS, THE EXORCIST and, above all others, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. The original."

Ed Brubaker. Author on Captain America and Catwoman
"Psycho, and Alien."

Michael Moorcock. Author of The White Wolf's Son: The Albino Underground and the upcoming The Vengeance of Rome: Between the Wars.
"All horror movies scare me, which is why I've seen so few, but my favourites are the old Universal movies by James Whale -- Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, for instance. These movies convey a brooding sense of terror and mystery which most later movies lack for me, though ALIEN, while not strictly in that genre, has much the same atmosphere."

John Ostrander. Grimjack co-creator and Star Wars writer.
"The one that scared the heck of my little RC soul was THE EXORCIST when it first came out. Literally slept that night with the lights on. ALIEN also did a real fine job on me. Outside of that, I like Bride of Frankenstein even more than the original (although i liked that a lot as well). Also, there's a ghost story starring Ray Milland that I think is called THE UNINVITED. Loved that one!"

Justin Gray. Writer of Hawkman and the upcoming Jonah Hex.
"Susperia, Carpenter's the Thing, The Fog, Alien, Cat People both movies, Invasion of the Body Snatchers the seventies remake, Audition, Body Double, The Shinning still creeps me out, Misery, Nightbreed for it's cheesy factor, Friday the Thirteenth the original, Halloween 1 & 3, for some reason the sleepy town rubber mask conspiracy got me, The Birds, Jacobs Ladder, The Hills Have Eyes, Seven, Cemetery man, Dawn of the Dead, Wolfen, Island of Lost Souls, Eyes without a face...I could go on and on."

Beau Smith. Creator of Wynnona Earp and columnist of "Busted Knuckles" at Silver Bullet Comics
"The Creature From The Black Lagoon: Great monster suit and the photography was excellent. Julie Adams was a babe. She got me through puberty in a very nice way. The music score was matched with the action to perfection.

The Curse Of The Werewolf: The best Wolfman outfit ever done in movies. Oliver Reed was great as the tragic monster. He was really a scary looking Wolfman unlike the furry ones that had come before. In the babe factor there was Yvonne Romain a known Hammer Films busty beauty. She was eye-popping.

Howard Hawks The Thing From Another World: The most manly monster movie EVER! This is what a real monster movie should be. Tough talking army men wisecracking and fighting off the pissed off alien. In this case it was James Arness, noted for playing Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke for so many years. Highly recommend this one.

The Incredible Two Headed Transplant: Has to be the WORST monster movie ever. By that I mean so bad it was good. Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, and...Casey Kasem. Done in about 6 days with a budget of $500.00. A soundtrack that makes ya laugh as you hear the early 70's guitar. I saw this one as a 10th grader in high school at the Drive-In. Me and my buddies howled with laughter at this one. Albert Cole played the psycho killer side of the transplant. You'll remember him if you have any taste from all the late 60's, early 70's biker movies he made. Babe factor-Pat Priest (The Munsters) runs around in a bikini and fills it out nicley."

Neil Gaiman. Writer of Sandman, 1602 and the recently published novel, Anansi Boys.
"Then, 'Son of Dracula', because I realised watching it that closed doors couldn't keep monsters out.

These days, probably 'The Bride of Frankenstein' because I have a strange crush on Elsa Lanchester. Er, I mean I like the cinematography and the underlying themes."

Chip Zdarsky. Writer and artist of Prison Funnies
"All the Nightmare on Elm Streets! I loved sneaking into those. It's probably where I first linked humour with extreme violence."

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