Movie Countdown 9-5

 9). The Howling (58% Rotten Tomatoes)

After a near fatal experience with a serial killer a woman is sent to remote mountain resort with a bizarre secret - it's inhabited by werewolves. 

Not quite as good as American Werewolf in London in my opinion, but it was still a great movie with amazing special effects. The ending was wonderfully surprising as the woman, who escapes the colony as is now back to her job as a television news anchor, resolves to warn the viewers of werewolves in a special world-wide broadcast. To prove her point, she transforms herself into a werewolf on air. 

8). Piranha (2010) (43% on Rotten  Tomatoes)

Richard Dreyfuss opens the movie as a fisherman who is out on his fishing boat when an earthquake hits splitting the floor of the lake and releasing tons of flesh eating piranhas on a town that is preparing for a load of Spring Breakers.

The best part of the movie is when arrogant and self-centered Derrick who rented a yacht to film a pornographic movie, loses the lower half of his body to a piranha attack. 

7). House of 1000 Corpses (65% Rotten Tomatoes)

In this Rob Zombie film, two couples with a disabled car are picked up by a woman who brings them to her house. Here they meet her family, a cast of twisted individuals with  murder on their mind. 

One of my favorite scenes is when they are at a candle filled dinner table and the family is all wearing hilarious masks. This is the point where the two couples realize they are dealing with a group of people who are "off the beam". 

6). Freaky (83% Rotten Tomatoes)

  A shy, quiet high school girl survives an encounter with the town serial killer. Overnight, the killers mystical dagger causes them to switch bodies. The girl learns she has only 24 hours to get her identity back before she is stuck in that body forever. 

The most hilarious thing about this movie is watching Vince Vaughn act like a withdrawn teenage girl. A very entertaining slasher film. 

5). Lake Placid (47% Rotten Tomatoes)

A massive mysterious creature inhabits a local lake stalking victims. A game warden, local sheriff, and a paleontologist investigate and discover it is an enormous crocodile-like reptile. 

Betty White has a short but entertaining role in this film as a local hermit whose husband had been killed by the creature a couple years prior and who has been feeding it ever since. Of course, not a fan of the scene itself as a blindfolded cow is devoured after she leads it to the edge of the water.