THN Top 5: Spring/Summer Based Horrors

Aah it's coming folks the balmy warmth of spring caressing us like a lover, then the full on intensity of the inferno called summer stalking us like some obsessed maniac.
Who can tell I both hate the sun and heat?
Did I make it obvious enough?
So to kick-start these seasons off and to help sufferers like me hide away from the cloying sun, I have compiled here 5 of my favourite spring or summer based horror films.
Coming in at number five is,

5. I Know What You Did Last Summer
Aah back when the teen slasher horror genre had a bit of a come back then killed itself off like a skinny dipping teenager by going to far. From the like of scream starring many familiar faces we then got this, another run of the mill slasher featuring faces we recognised from shows such as Sarah Michelle Gellar from Buffy, Johnny Galecki from Roseanne and a whole host of other kids for hook fodder.
So a bunch of teens get drunk and run a guy over thinking they killed him they throw his body into the bay and promise each other not to tell anyone.
A little while later they start dying believing it to be the guy or one of the other friends.
It was enjoyable at the time but doesn't really hold up to times test now. Watch it for nostalgia or to see how the slasher flick revival came and went.
This spawned 2 sequels I still know and I'll always know what you did last summer. The latter I'm not sure if I've seen as it came quite late in 2006. Either that or it's so bad I erased it from my memories.

4. Zombi 2 or Zombie Flesh Eaters
Set in the blazing sun of tropical locations, I LOVE anything to do with zombies and I think this one of the first ones I seen aside from night of the living dead and return. This one absolutely put the shits up me, I mean this scared me I was young like 11 or something.
The zombies seemed so realistic and so animalistic compared to the zombie movies I had seen before.
For instance a zombie literally has a fight with a shark over who gets to eat it's victim!
Here's also the infamous eyeball on a giant splinter scene. If you want a great retro scare with good practical effects then this is for you. This is also part of a zombi series but each film isn't really linked to the other.

3. Jaws
The classic shark horror film based on Peter Benchley's novel where a killer great white shark comes to the shores of the popular beach town of Amity Island. She then proceeds to kill anyone silly enough to go in the waters.
Even when the local sheriff tries to shut down the beach the money hungry men of the town refuse as summer is their most lucrative time. Now this does it's scares really simple, slow pans building music and yes the occasional jump scare, head bobbing out of boat anyone?
A great horror movie possibly one of the best and most original stories ever put into film.

2. Piranha
There once was a time when going into the water was a most terrifying experience, a number of other creature features spawned from the success of Jaws. Except this was more of a parody of Jaws especially as it done by b-movie aficionado Roger Corman.
This time some bizarre genetically altered piranha are let lose into a nearby river they make their way towards Lost River Lake, a popular summer vacation spot. The heroes of the movie must stop the little devils before they reach the spot and devour all the holiday goers.
A fun movie that parodies Jaws horror with comedy and gore in excess, worth a watch though.

1. Friday the 13th
The original camping horror film that spawned one of the most recognizable faces, no masks of all time. We talk about the hockey mask of course.
Though the first movie it's Jason's mother Pamela Voorhees this doesn't make it any less of a horror, in fact it adds to the terror that some late forties woman is stalking and killing teens in their prime.
So why this crazy woman killing people in this summer camp?
Her son Jason was a disabled boy and while he drowned two councilors who should have been watching the children were off having sex. This film spawned countless slasher flicks based in summer camps and a long living films series. This is why this tops the list of summer/spring horror films!