Ultimate Geek Fu

 
'Tis the Season...

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...for ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night. So of course there can be only one appropriate topic for this week's Ultimate Geek Fu, and that is:

What is the best Halloween movie ever made?

Yeah, we like 'em scary, but not too scary, and gross, but not too gross, so what's it gonna be? Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, and Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters? Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas? Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu? Roman Polanski in Nastassja Kinski?

It's easy to scare an audience once: all you need to do is have someone jump out and yell BOO! But something more is needed if you're going to make a movie that's worth watching more than once. So what is the one cinematic product that you never get tired of watching every year, about this time, and why?

Let the arguments begin.

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ULTIMAGE GEEK FU runs every Wednesday. Have a question that's just bugging the heck out of you about Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Gallactica, Farscape, Firefly, Fringe, Heroes, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Smallville, The X-Files, X-Men, The Man From Atlantis, or pretty much any other SF-flavored media property? Send it to slushpile@thefridaychallenge.com with the subject line, "Geek Fu," and we'll stuff it in the queue.