I started this website because I love stories, especially stories with mythic underpinnings.  When I was little, I called them spooky stories, and I still love my spooky stories.  And monsters and magic and mystery, a fog-shrouded moor or a dark, abandoned mansion, and yet I don’t have a place to share my favorite stories.

I have my website, MuseCraftâ„¢, where I write about my writing process, coaching, and other creative pursuits.  But I don’t have a place for my first love, stories.  I’m going to work on fixing that, starting with this list of 100 movies I really like.  After the first three, these are in no particular order.  Those three are the movies I will watch every time I run across them on TV.  The rest are movies I really enjoy watching.

I will probably add to this list because I know I’ve forgotten some, probably even movies I really love.  But this is a good starting place.  Later I’ll write about the story lines of some of these and what it is that makes me like them, but for now here’s a list of pure enjoyment.

1. Halloween (Original)
2. Independence Day
3. The Fog (Original)
4. The Fog (New)
5. The Thing (1982)
6. Fright Night (Original)
7. Fright Night (New)
8. Lost Boys
9. Alice (mini-series)
10. Tin Man (mini-series)
11. Sleepy Hollow (Johnny Depp)
12. Grease
13. Star Trek (2009)
14. Iron Man
15. Iron Man 2
16. Iron Man 3
17. The Avengers
18. Mary Poppins
19. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
20. Inception
21. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
22. Sherlock Holmes
23. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
24. From Hell
25. Alice in Wonderland
26. The Breakfast Club
27. Alien
28. Aliens
29. Prometheus
30. Predator
31. Dirty Dancing
32. Army of Darkness
33. The Usual Suspects
34. Airplane
35. The Matrix
36. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
37. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
38. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
39. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
40. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
41. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
42. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
43. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
44. The Cabin in the Woods
45. The Holiday
46. X-Men
47. The Wolf Man
48. The Wolfman
49. Species
50. The Others
51. Underworld
52. Constantine
53. 1408
54. Tremors
55. Zombieland
56. Rose Red (mini-series)
57. The Woman in White
58. Halloween H20
59. The Lost Room (mini series)
60. Men in Black
61. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
62. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
63. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
64. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
65. The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
66. The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines
67. The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
68. Signs
69. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
70. A Nightmare on Elm Street
71. Pitch Black
72. Van Helsing
73. Serenity
74. The Mist
75. Night at the Museum
76. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
77. Wanted
78. Eagle Eye
79. 30 Days of Night
80. House on Haunted Hill (1999)
81. Hellboy
82. The Wizard of Oz
83. Friday the 13th (Original)
84. The Howling
85. Dracula (1931)
86. Frankenstein
87. The Legend of Hell House
88. 13 Ghosts
89. Cloverfield
90. Creature from the Black Lagoon
91. Cursed
92. Darkness Falls
93. Jeepers Creepers
94. Pumpkinhead
95. Night of the Living Dead (Original)
96. Shutter
97. The Awakening
98. The Mummy (New)
99. The Prophecy
100. Transformers