DIY Halloween Film Festival

The balconied buildings and moss-dripped trees of New Orleans are a natural for horror films and, of course, for vampires. Last weekend, the pale winged monsters descended on the city's annual vampire film festival.

Fifty terrifying films from eleven countries made for four days of blood and gore in the big easy. So maybe you couldn't shape-shift and fly down. Why not program your own film festival this weekend? All you need is a mountain of popcorn and a stack of scary movies.

Since we're all about digging beneath the surface here on Word of Mouth, we asked horror film buff Bryan White to uncover some chilling films that go beyond Nightmare on Elm Street and The Shining. Bryan is the mastermind behind the blog Cinema Suicide and he's here in the studio to help us plan a truly frightening DIY film fest.

The Sentinel, dir. Michael Winner, 1977

The Fog, dir. John Carpenter, 1980

Trick 'r Treat, dir. Michael Dougherty, 2008

(Photo by Perttu Raivio via Flickr/Creative Commons)