Political Horror Movies (poll)

It’s Halloween Week once more.  Time for the candied apples, mulled cider, Jack-O-Lanterns and costumes.  Time to hear the Fundies complain about all the "Witchcraft" connected with kids having fun.  Time to watch a scary movie.  Since this is a political blog, I thought I should combine Horror movies and Politics.  Actually the past 7 years or so have been truly terrifying, scary and horrific.  So which horror of the past 7 years scared you the most?

And the nominees are:

Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue - (A group of befuddled Supreme Court judges rule that a corporate-controlled narcissist-nitwit has won a Presidential election.  Then the nightmare begins!)

The Blair Bush Project – (Two world leaders secretly plot to preemptively invade a country using PowerPoint slides, aluminum tubes, and a drunken madman named "Curveball").

Something Catastrophic This Way Comes -  (The story of "Democracy" in Iraq)

Texas Cheney Massacre – (The story of a sinister "man behind the curtain" who devises plans to rule world.)

Escape from New Orleans – (Large groups of people are trapped in rising floodwaters without food, water, or medical help for several weeks).
 
The Rummy – (A man once thought dead, is resurrected from a previous warmongering regime, and begins making preparations for a new war).

Dead Voter Walking - (The first 4 years were bad enough, but how the hell could they vote for him a second time?)

The Stepford Democrats - (Real Democrats have mysteriously disappeared and have been replaced by phony Democrats).

I Spit on Your Constitution – (What happens when a President and an Attorney General decide that the Constitution is just a "piece of paper").

I was a Teenage Werewolfowitz – (The story of how a group of sinister creatures called "Neocons" plot with large Corporations to take over a government, and ultimately the World.)

Attack of the Killer Spinach  - (Due to cuts in government spending (specifically FDA and USDA),  various people are poisoned by salads, chili, and lead paint).

What ever happened to Baby Jane? - (The sad story of a sick child without health insurance)

Children of the Damned – (Children of the future try to pay off the debts of their parent’s, while dealing with Global Warming, Peak Oil, and an environmentally ravaged Earth.).

•  So what's your favorite Horror flick?

  And what are you doing for Halloween?

  by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:15:51 PM PDT

•  The Exorcist;

  No Halloween for me this year.  I think I'll just hand out slices of dark rye bread to trick-or-treaters.

  by bugscuffle on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:20:47 PM PDT

  •  That was a classic

    I remember when it came out - my friends and I were upset that we couldn't see it - because it was rated R.

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:25:58 PM PDT

    •  I was so terrified, I couldn't even

      watch the commercials for it!

      by LisainNYC on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 08:41:59 PM PDT

•  A good friend's birthday falls on ...

  ...Hallowe'en, and she always has a party to which we must all wear costumes. This year, I'm thinking going as melting Greenland.

  by Meteor Blades on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:20:48 PM PDT

  •  That's a good one

    You could also go as a drowned polar bear.

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:34:45 PM PDT

  •  how about Cheney with an axe in his head?

    all in good fun of course!

    by lisastar on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:43:36 PM PDT

    •  Or Bush with an axe in his head, and fake brains

      leaking out. I'm thinking the fake brains would be truly realistic.

      by trivium on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:52 PM PDT

•  Coming soon: "Uncrashing the Gates"

  Plot synopsis: Establishment Democrats, terrified by Howard Dean's insurgent campaign, close ranks behind Hillary Rodham Clinton. The well-oiled Clinton campaign systematically destroys the rest of the field, then hounds Dean into exile, hunts the netroots into extinction, and transforms DNC headquarters into the world's largest ATM.

  by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:27:59 PM PDT

•  "Return of the living dead" Released Jan 2005.

  Cheney at his stomach turning worst. (type cast)

  by manwithnoname on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:32:42 PM PDT

•  Alien

  Real monsters in a cramped space without any way of getting out of the "house."  YIKES!

  by funluvn1 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:34:32 PM PDT

  •  That one...

    really played on my spider phobia.

    by blueyedace2 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:53:27 PM PDT

  •  The Fly

    Geena Davis needs an abortion, but a born-again insect tries to force her to bare his child in the name of family values. Scariest part, when the born-again insect starts talking about "insect politics." That may have been what inspired Karl Rove.

    by foxfire burns on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:52:10 PM PDT

    •  Count on Bush to get us bogged down in

      the ensuing insectarian war.

      by trivium on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 08:53:20 PM PDT

•  I'm A Hotel Fan

  I know the darn movie is a soft porn thing for the first 30 minutes, but I still like it.

  by webranding on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:44:00 PM PDT

•  "Night Of The Living Neocons."

  Very scary and it haunts you for years.

  by MajorFlaw on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:45:13 PM PDT

  •  Night Of The Hanging Chad

    aka Night of the 2000 Elections. The sequel 4 years later was even worse. I know they're trying to scare up another sequel, this time with a huge surprise ending.

    by Nab on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 09:12:51 PM PDT

•  All the Decider's Men...

  Two not so intrepid Washington DC reporters spend seven years doing jack shit and the Decider skips down to Paraguay without facing criminal charges. Oh wait... that's not a horror film, that's reality.

  by blueyedace2 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 04:50:36 PM PDT

•  Close Encounters of the Third

  World War Kind

  by cmnh on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 05:17:57 PM PDT

  •  Oh that's a good one

    Goes along with Dr. Strangelove, the Return

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 05:25:00 PM PDT

  •  this one?

    maybe this one was the sequel.
    
    full size version

    by nonnie9999 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:45:40 PM PDT

•  the stepford democrats

  was funny.

  thanks for the levity.

  by john de herrera on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 05:22:40 PM PDT

•  Barbara's Baby...

  What happens when you slowly begin to realize that the life that you brought into the world is actually some kind of sinister hell-spawned half-wit who uses his connections to rise to the most powerful office in the land? In theaters everywhere!

  by Nimbus on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 05:37:42 PM PDT

•  My truly scary film

  is an oldie, Roman Polanski's Repulsion. Still gives me the shivers just to think of it.  As for Halloween, a party tonight at a colleague's house. Because I have a Van Dyke, I always go as a pirate.

  by Vico on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 05:56:11 PM PDT

  •  I still have that one on a VHS tape

    with Catherine Deneuve.  One of her best acting roles.

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:35:33 PM PDT

•  I love the original "halloween"...

  from 1978.  The score for that movie always gives me goose-bumps no matter how many times I've seen it.  
  And anything Alfred Hitchcock are also a favourites of mine, especially "the Birds."

  by angrybird on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:06:17 PM PDT

  •  The Birds

    That is still one of the best horror flicks.  Maybe that'll be the Mother Nature's solution to the "human" problem :)

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:38:57 PM PDT

  •  Halloween H20 is the only

    sequet or remake that rivals the original. H20 not as scary as the original, but way better characters!

    by foxfire burns on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:54:06 PM PDT

•  The original 'Dracula'

  They got a lot of mileage out of a non-English-speaking lead, bad makeup, 'Swan Lake', and the three Weird Sisters.

  by escapee on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:08:29 PM PDT

  •  The originals are always the best

    even if they are in B/W.  Another good original was The Haunting, but the remake was pretty mediocre.

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:42:00 PM PDT

    •  the original The Haunting

      scared the crap out of me. Remember the pounding on the walls and the hand she held in the night?   Geeeez...

      by lisastar on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:39:34 PM PDT

•  Wicker Man

  The original. (Be sure you don't rent the shorter, edited version, which is awful and doesn't make much sense.)

  I love Halloween so much we got married on it even though I had to work 12 hours that day and it meant getting a judge who would marry us at 8:00 in the morning. We had breakfast afterwards and I went to work.

  It was worth it just to have that day for the anniversary. Luckily my wife agrees. :-)

  by Tyrannocaster on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:11:41 PM PDT

  •  Well Happy Upcoming Anniversary then! n/t

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:47:00 PM PDT

•  maybe this one.....

  
  you can find the full size version here, along with a song that goes along with it (it was a musical!)

  by nonnie9999 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:40:29 PM PDT

  •  Good idea for a movie

    more frightening than the original :)

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 06:52:03 PM PDT

    •  anna

      you will find reworked movie posters here.  visit anytime.  i might rework some of the ones that you listed (with a hat tip, of course), if you wouldn't mind. i bookmarked your diary for future reference.  here's one more that i didn't post at hysterical raisins, but that did appear in jlynne's diary over at road2dc:
      
      the full size version is in the diary.

      by nonnie9999 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:20:34 PM PDT

      •  Sure, go ahead and use them

        I'm not really much of a Photoshop wizard myself.

        by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:26:55 PM PDT

        •  thanks, anna....n/t

          by nonnie9999 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:29:20 PM PDT

•  The "Inevitable" Pretender

  This blockbuster is about a scary Republican who had pretended to be a Democrat for years, and is now scooping up the little innocent Dems with her false tales of inevitability as she leads them like Hansel and Grettle into the Woods. There, the witch, er , pretender traps them in her polarizing dungeon only to starve them of their progressive voices and then puts them in an oven to turn them into mindless sheep.

  by WeBetterWinThisTime on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:09:41 PM PDT

  •  Hmm, let me think

    who does that remind me of.......?

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:18:38 PM PDT

  •  Bela Pelosi???

    by lisastar on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:38:01 PM PDT

    •  LOL!!! ...n/t

      by nonnie9999 on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:43:43 PM PDT

•  The daily news about this Administration, DOJ,

  Congress, Iraq War, genocide, FISA, Iran War plans, Blackwater, corporate Unamerica, amnesty, Katrina, Darfur, and the California wild fires. How could any movie be scarier than the reality we live in today?

  by Fallon on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:27:30 PM PDT

  •  So true

    If someone had made a movie about this administration 10 years ago, it would have been panned as being "too ridiculous and unbelievable".

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:32:05 PM PDT

•  They Live - John Carpetner

  "I came to kick ass and chew gum - and I'm all outta gum..."

  Not my favorite horror film (that'd be Psycho or Rosemary's Baby), but the best political sci-fi film since Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

  by snout on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:38:31 PM PDT

•  I liked The Fog

  silly but still scary

  by lisastar on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 07:44:30 PM PDT

  •  I vaguely remember that one

    it had Jamie Lee Curtis, I believe.  Another good on from that era - Black Christmas.

    by Anna M on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 08:01:38 PM PDT

•  Richard Reid Conquers the Passengers

  featuring the musical number "(Don't You Snuff Out My) Black Suede Shoes."

  by ticket punch on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 08:04:03 PM PDT

•  Hostile Part II just came out on DVD

  with special Iran commentary.

  by ticket punch on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 08:10:06 PM PDT

•  Political Horror "Z"

  by OHdog on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 09:02:17 PM PDT

  •  The real horror, of course,

    The real horror being that in the movie Z, a journalist uncovers the corruption of the Greek generals; in our time, our tame, fake 'journalists' would be too busy drinking ouzo and stuffing themselves at the free mezze thrown by the generals, to uncover a damned thing.  

    by 4thepeople on Sun Oct 28, 2007 at 05:08:27 AM PDT

•  28 Years Later...

  A group of selfish white males infect themselves with Rage when their traditional monopoly over rights and privileges are threatened; they elect Ronald Reagan, run amok, spew bile and make wars, until -- 28 Years Later...

  by 4thepeople on Sun Oct 28, 2007 at 05:03:47 AM PDT