Below are a few of my top movies to watch around Halloween.

Seven

Shock, nausea, and utter fright, you’ll feel it all at the pit of your stomach while watching Seven. The intense psychological drama follows two detectives, played by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, as they try to catch a maniac who plans to kill seven people, one for each of the seven deadly sins.

The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter the Cannibal will scare you into numbness. Not for the weak-hearted — the psychological thriller is a two-hour-long hair raiser about FBI agent Clarice Starling, who tries to gain insight into a murderer’s mind by interviewing psychopath Hannibal.

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel could quite possibly be one of the scariest films of all time. The bone-chilling movie is based in an isolated hotel where Jack Nicholson and his family have moved in as caretakers for the winter. What follows is a ghostly encounter with a former hotel custodian who murdered his wife and two daughters. Beware: The eerie silence of the movie will haunt you long after you’ve hit the stop button.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

A ghoulish tale with elements of horror, fantasy, musical, and comedy all rolled into one stunning animated film. You’ll watch with morbid fascination as the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown stumbles into Christmastown and tries to take over Christmas by kidnapping Santa!

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Dubbed by a critic as one of “the most sincere of all Halloween specials,” this classic should not be missed. How can you let Halloween pass without a sneak peek at the Peanuts gang searching for the best trick-or-treating costumes and other Charlie Brown-style antics?

90%: Percentage of adults who admit to stealing candy from their kids’ Halloween bags

36.8 million: The estimated number of potential “trick-or-treaters” — between the ages of 5- to 13-year-olds

805 million pounds: Total production of major pumpkin-producing states used for making Jack O’ Lanterns and Pies

Bulletproof Web Design
Dan Cederholm

His newest book. For anyone who has read Mr. Cederholm’s first book, this is a must have in your collection.

No matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web site is, it isn’t succeeding if it’s not reaching the widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10 strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of every successful Web site. Each chapter starts out with an example of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof” concept—an existing site that employs a traditional approach and its associated pitfalls. Dan then deconstructs that approach, noting its downsides and then making the site over using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Maximum Accessibility
Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone
John Slatin and Sharron Rush

John Slatin and Sharron Rush lay a very strong background in understanding the need for accessibility and building your business cases. A distinctive feature of this book is a series of “User Experience Narratives” that describe what is like for a person with disabilities to use certain sites. These narratives and follow-on interactions with some of the site owners are thoroughly engaging, excellent object lessons in how to improve sites.