anyone who caught it both on tv and video.

SALEM'S LOT offers the scariest vampires ever put on film, period, and I'd easily put this made-for-tv film not only in the top ten best Stephen King adaptions of all time, but also one of the best horror films of the 1970's, period. Reggie Nalder's lead vampire Barlow is the stuff of nightmares, and who could ever forget the little vampire boy floating outside the window?

In 1982 director Tobe Hooper teamed up with Steven Spielberg to deliver one of the most famous haunted house movies of all time with POLTERGEIST. Even though the film was rated PG and has Spielberg's touch all over it, the brilliance of Tobe Hooper shines through, and POLTERGEIST easily went on to become a bona-fidethis film delivers that in spades.

I love how most of the main cast of the first film returns, and it's downright fun to re-visit Amity again. Pesky film snobs love to make fun of the special effects of these films, but they look far better and more realistic than anything you'd find in ANACONDA or DEEP BLUE SEA, that's for sure.

JAWS 2 has many great, memorable scenes that rival anything found in the original- the two divers discovering the Orca at the first of the film, the infamous water-skiing scene, the burnt shark rising up to almost devour an unconscious Mike Brody, and the climax of course. Not to mention hands down one of the greatest taglines in all of film history- "Just when you thought it was