I started this website because I love stories, especially stories with mythic underpinnings. Â When I was little, I called them spooky stories, and I still love my spooky stories. Â 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. Â But this is a good starting place. Â 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.
- Halloween (Original)
- Independence Day
- The Fog (Original)
- The Fog (New)
- The Thing (1982)
- Fright Night (Original)
- Fright Night (New)
- Lost Boys
- Alice (mini-series)
- Tin Man (mini-series)
- Sleepy Hollow (Johnny Depp)
- Grease
- Star Trek (2009)
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- Iron Man 3
- The Avengers
- Mary Poppins
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Inception
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith
- Sherlock Holmes
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- From Hell
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Breakfast Club
- Alien
- Aliens
- Prometheus
- Predator
- Dirty Dancing
- Army of Darkness
- The Usual Suspects
- Airplane
- The Matrix
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Holiday
- X-Men
- The Wolf Man
- The Wolfman
- Species
- The Others
- Underworld
- Constantine
- 1408
- Tremors
- Zombieland
- Rose Red (mini-series)
- The Woman in White
- Halloween H20
- The Lost Room (mini series)
- Men in Black
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
- The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines
- The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
- Signs
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Pitch Black
- Van Helsing
- Serenity
- The Mist
- Night at the Museum
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- Wanted
- Eagle Eye
- 30 Days of Night
- House on Haunted Hill (1999)
- Hellboy
- The Wizard of Oz
- Friday the 13th (Original)
- The Howling
- Dracula (1931)
- Frankenstein
- The Legend of Hell House
- 13 Ghosts
- Cloverfield
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Cursed
- Darkness Falls
- Jeepers Creepers
- Pumpkinhead
- Night of the Living Dead (Original)
- Shutter
- The Awakening
- The Mummy (New)
- The Prophecy
- Transformers