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Four friends head off to spring break in Florida, but get a flat tire in the middle of Medley, Georgia where one of them witnesses the local sheriff murder a woman. Now, they're on the run and who will take their word for it over the sheriff.

Shallow Grave rarely takes the traditional way out and you're never sure where it's headed. From the first scene of the movie that calls to mind both Psycho and the corny opening movie-within-a-movie moment from Blow Out, the filmmakers are playing with our expectations in a way that would make Hitchcock proud. It takes a traditional slasher film set up of party-loving teens breaking down in the middle of nowhere and makes it frighteningly realistic and plausible.

Shallow Grave doesn't have a franchise-ready iconic killer, but it's all the more frightening for it. It also has a main foursome of likable young women who don't go out of their way to grate our nerves or make unrealistic choices to drive the plot forward.

Eric, a lonely film processor, lives for the movies and little else. While not at work or being berated by his cruel wheelchair-bound aunt, he's dreaming of being a film icon. When he meets an uncanny Marilyn Monroe impersonator, his real life and fantasy life start to blend together and he goes on a rampage, killing off anyone who gets in his way or upsets him.

There are many ways for a film like Fade to Black to go. On one hand, it could have been a more satirical and biting film about film fandom, but it goes the other direction and becomes a really somber and depressing affair. That's not to say that it's bad, but it could have used a little bit of levity here and there.

The real reason to watch is Dennis Christopher's performance as Eric. It's one of his best performances and what you leave remembering once the film is over.

The girls at a sorority are getting terrifying obscene phone calls during the Christmas season and, when one of them goes missing, they come to the conclusion that perhaps this harmless prank caller could be a murderer.

Bob Clark's holiday horror film predates John Carpenter's Halloween by a few years, but has many of the same tropes from the killer's P. O. V. Shots to the likable group of young women friends to the holiday setting and the chilling open ending. Unlike Halloween, Black Christmas has the added bonus of its power not being diluted by sequels over the years trying to overexplain its mysterious killer.