It's horror movie season in the US and my favorite type is zombies. I also love campy B movies. Watching Dead Snow 2 right now and I think it ranks up there with Shawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness.
Alien is my favorite horror movie by far.
I really dig Hellraiser too. I watched Pontypool recently and was surprised how good it was. And The Shining is fab.
I've watched Alien as much as any movie excepting Aliens, so I kinda lost appreciation. My wife had never seen it so we watched and I payed close attention for the first time in years. Absolute master class in the genre.
Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess was also a NUTS book. Definitely check it out. The scope is much wider than the flick and as a result it’s a lot more uneven. I still really dig it.
We watched Pontypool when we read Snow Crash. There's a scene where Snow Crash is placed really obviously if your looking fot it and the themes mesh really nicely.