October scary movies

The gay classic, A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

I always do a Carpenter marathon. Halloween, The Thing, Prince Of Darkness, In The Mouth Of Madness. Also, Romero's Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead.

Halloween original, Halloween 2018 and Scream

Halloween original, Halloween 2018 and Scream

The original "Fright Night" (with Chris Sarandon), The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Storm of the Century.

Trick 'r Treat - Not very scary, but it's fun to watch & gets me in the Halloween mood.

🎃 (italic) It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown !

I've seen every horror movie 100 times. There is a new movie that was released about three weeks ago online that is pretty good: Haunt.

The Wicker Man (the original, like I have to say that...)

The Stepfather (So happy Shelly Hack got her Oscar for this.)

Dead Ringers

The cheesily delicious Motel Hell

The sequel to The Omen. I like the original of course, but the sequel holds it's own.

The Hitcher

Well, I enjoy particularly gruesome entertainment so I watch "The Mirror Has Two Faces" or a recent Adam Sandler comedy.

If you can stomach it, might I recommend Mike Meyer's Cat in the Hat or The Love Guru.

Not for the faint of heart.

I love found footage and I love horror movies about demonic possession, so watching the Paranormal Activity series is a natural for me.

Boo! A Madea Halloween

Always The Exorcist, Halloween and Young Frankenstein.

Rocky Horror.

AMC is running horror movies nightly until early November, but they edit out cursing and violent scenes which is frustrating.

Sex and the City 2.

Night Of The Demons (the original).

My ass is possessed 2

Lifetime is running Christmas movies like a bunch of weirdos, so if you're into that particular kind of horror, settle in.

The Karen Black tour de force, Trilogy of Terror is currently available on Amazon Prime.

Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III, Halloween 4, Halloween H20, Halloween 2018

The Fog

Friday the 13th Parts 1-4

Scream 1, 2 and 3

Prom Night

Terror Train

Psycho

I Know What You Did Last Summer

And if I have time: Black Christmas and Silent Night, Deadly Night. Otherwise I watch them in early December.

Candyman

Return of the living dead

R21 meant Halloween, Halloween 2, Halloween H20 and Halloween 2018.

She also neglected Friday the 13ths 5-7.

But Elm Streets 1,3 & 7 own all of her pucks, so why not just watch Freddy?

Ugh, no I didn't R24. Friday 5-7 suck. Halloween III and 4 are great. NOES is overrated.

The classic, original Night of the Living Dead.

R8, I agree. I saw Haunt just the other day and thought it was a solid horror flick. It has a 6.3 rating on IMDB (the reason I gave it a watch). It's weird because I never saw any previews or anything for it. As for my go-to horror films to put me in the Halloween mood, The Strangers (don't even consider watching the lame sequel) and The Others work for me.

Haunt was written and directed by the guys who wrote The Quiet Place, so there is some measure of talent behind this. I don't remember any jump scares in the movie. It really is good, if you are looking for a new scary movie.

Love him or hate him, Eli Roth also produced Haunt.

Elm street. psycho. Halloween.

[quote] AMC is running horror movies nightly until early November, but they edit out cursing and violent scenes which is frustrating.

Are they still doing this? Ridiculous. I thought that after Walking Dead with all its gore they would stop the editing.

Halloweens 3 & 4 are two of the WORST MOVIES EVER MADE, let alone horror movies, let alone the Halloween series.

Nobody agrees with you. The overwhelming consensus is that those movies suck, especially the craptacular shit sandwich that was Halloween 3, which has nothing to do with Michael Myers.

In case OP is different from r21 and in danger of wasting precious microseconds on Halloweens 3 & 4, take note of how the critics decimated them.

You might get a couple of unintentional laughs from the telebeam kills of the mother and trick or treaters in Halloween 3. But that's all.

Viewing a horror film without profanity and gore is like watching porn without penetration and money shots.

Still scary

I agree that Halloween 3 sucks but Halloween 4? I thought 4 and 5 were a good way to reboot/sequel-ize the original movies without Jamie Lee Curtis.

Halloween 3 and 6 are by far my least favorites.

I got suckered into watching Halloween 3 again last year. I thought it was dreck when it came out but I kept seeing people on line trying to rehab its reputation so I thought, "Why not?". What garbage. So amateurishly made it's cringe-inducing.

A bunch of new horror movies just hit the streaming services. Most are garbage but there's one starring Omar Epps that's decent: Trick. It feels too long and I kept looking at the time remaining on it but like I said, decent.

If you want a solid, scary found footage film, check out He’ll House LLC. It’s steaming on Shudder, which you can access thru Amazon Prime. It’s super low budget, but as a horror fan, I found it incredibly well done. It’s got two sequels (it was written as a trilogy). The sequels are somewhat diminishing returns, but I’d definitely suggest watching all three of them.

I was just about to recommend 'Hell House LLC', R38. I'm glad someone else thought to mention it.

It's a very well done little movie that stands up to repeat viewings. Great pick for this time of year.

Jeepers Creepers & Jeepers Creepers 2

All of the Wrong Turn movies

Watching Hell House LLC rn, and won't lie, it's pretty good. Blair Witch Project in a haunted hotel.

"What's the matter, Fatty, stuck in the chair?"

I'll third the recommendation for Hell House LLC for those who like - or at least don't mind - found footage. The original is one of the best in that genre, in my opinion - very scary and well acted with decent character development besides. The sequels are OK if you've seen the original because the underlying story arc is interesting. Don't watch the sequels if you haven't seen the original. In my opinion, they don't stand on their own.

"The Innocents" with Deborah Kerr, based on Henry James's "Turn of the Screw".

"The House on Haunted Hill" with Peter Gallagher got poor reviews but I like it.

The Innocents

You think that old shit from 1960 is scary?

JFC R32, calm down! Halloween III & 4 the worse movies ever made? Hardly. And thanks for providing no reasoning of your own as to why you think they are. Did you even see Halloween III? No mother or trick or treaters get killed.

Halloween III has developed a following over the years and is actually very creepy. Clueless as to why the hate as it's a DLers wet dream of getting rid of all the crotchfruit on earth. And Halloween 4 is highly regarded by fans for its atmosphere and Ellie Cornell's character and Danielle Harris' acting. Fuck the critics and fuck you R32.

Kill her mommy! Kill her!

‘Jeepers Creepers’ and ‘Sinister’.

‘Sinister’ scared the cold fuck out of me when I first saw it.

[quote]You think that old shit from 1960 is scary?

Yes it is and the ending is very surprising. It's a much more thought provoking movie than your average horror film. Is the governess really seeing ghosts or is she losing her mind? Do the children know about the ghosts, and so on.

R47 is lying, guys.

Here are all the kills from cinematic garbage Halloween 3. Notice how the mother and trick-or-treaters melt or get blown apart by telebeams , then creatures crawl out of their remains. RIDICULOUSLY FUNNY.

You have no reason to sit through Halloween 3 after this video.

R51 is a macadamia, guys.

It's not a smart movie but Terrifier as pretty good.

OMG my husband and friends watched that this summer R53. LOVED it.

I'm trying to remember the name of a film. It features a girl (maybe babysitting?) who is being stalked by someone who is lurking outside the house. Turns out, she knows that the guy is out there the whole time and is trying to lure him inside.

Jeepers Creepers 2 was also pretty gay and had some deliciously hunky jocks featured.

I just watched "Wounds" and although flawed it is genuinely unsettling with a couple jump scares.

R51 The Kill Count! I love James, he’s really cute.

[quote]I'm trying to remember the name of a film. It features a girl (maybe babysitting?) who is being stalked by someone who is lurking outside the house. Turns out, she knows that the guy is out there the whole time and is trying to lure him inside.

It's Mischief Night. I am answering my own question.

If you like horror comedies, The Babysitter & Dale and Tucker vs Evil are great fun. Both on Netflix right now.

^I'd add John Dies in the End. The book and its sequels are great too.

Some episodes of Scooby Doo are pretty scary too.

Yes, one from the first season with green ghosts making these awful noises. Scooby inherits money and has to stay in a house overnight and the green ghosts capture all the heirs. Creeped me out as a kid. Actually still kinda does.

I should have added this when I commented before. Here's a recommendation for 'Train to Busan'. 2016, Korean, subtitled but that's not a distraction after things kick off. Super well done zombie flick. It never lets up.

Terrifier is disgusting, with one murder where the maniac suspends a woman upside down and saws her in half starting at the vagina.

I never liked any of those.Too scary. I like monster movies like Sci-Fi stuff from the 50's. and good ones from more recent years. War of the Worlds. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Alien series. Predator. I like the old classic Frankenstein and Wolfman movies. And the Dracula ones. Even the Gary Oldman one.But my favorite Dracula was Frank Langella. Sohot.Of course Bela was the absolute best. And The Mummy. The old versions. Then there were the Outer space alien invasion movies from the 50's. Giant ants, etc. Hilarious.

I love the ORIGINAL Night of the Demons, Dawn of the Dead, and Black Christmas.

I also LOVE Return of the Living Dead and most recently, the Final Destination Series.

One cheesy but endearing movie I saw as a kid was THE UNBORN. Brooke Adams, a brunette Lisa Kudrow, and an almost unrecognizable Kathy Griffin.

I'm so stoked I found I like I can watch it for FREE!

Hell House, LLC is terrifying and this is coming from someone who hates found footage movies. This one is really unsettling and got under my skin.

Can't go wrong with Halloween, Carrie, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Creepshow, Trick 'r Treat, Alice Sweet Alice, Dressed to Kill, Sleepaway Camp, The Witches, Dolls, Suspiria, House of Wax, Tourist Trap, Messiah of Evil, Night of the Living Dead, Prom Night, When A Stranger Calls Back, The Fog, Carnival of Souls, House on Haunted Hill, Scream, The Fly, Friday the 13th...these usually make my list around this time of year.

A fun film with very Halloween-y atmosphere is "Hell Night" with Linda Blair. I love the film's kitschy look, which feels almost like it was filmed in a haunted house attraction at some amusement park. It's just too bad the film is at least 20 minutes too long.

This blog House of Self-Indulgence has a great list of cult, horror, exploitation and B movie films reviewed. The blogger was posting reviews pretty regularly since 2008 until February of this year. I hope they are ok! This is a great list of films.

Hell Night is a great one R69. It's really creepy and has a nice Halloween feel.

What's the verdict on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? It's online now.

Scary Stories is a boring children’s film with unremarkable action and characters. Creepshow 2019 is better if you want tame stuff.

But I think Hell Night is mediocre and not very scary. And the Final Destinations are static snuff films. So I’m at odds with basic bitches on this thread.

I started watching Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark right after I posted that, gave up after 25 minutes.

Scary Stories is well shot and I thought the creature designs were eerily similar to the illustrations, which surprised me, but the story was unremarkable and there was some distractingly goofy CGI like in the recent It movies that took me out of it too often to ever feel any real tension or threat.

A great and very underrated 80s slasher is "Just Before Dawn". I don't recall ever seeing it mentioned around here.

R73, just admit it, you are too scared to watch any of those movies.

V/H/S is a solid, disturbing found footage movie, if you ignore the interstitials. Starry Eyes is also disturbing in the body horror genre.

[REC] is a terrific zombie movie (like Train to Busan).

Wrong. V/H/S and [REC] are cheap, Blair Witch ripoffs.

If you want a found footage zombie flick, you're better off with

which one, r59?

r79, you realize that Quarantine is the American remake of (REC}, don't you?

If I had to pick my favorite horror films/thrillers, they'd be (in no particular order):

Night of the Living Dead

Psycho

The Spiral Staircase

The Innocents

Deep Red

Audition

the last segment of Trilogy of Terror

Tales from the Crypt (especially the Joan Collins segment)

Suspiria

Sisters

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Dawn of the Dead (the disgusting unedited version)

Evil Dead 2

The Wicker Man

It Comes at Night

I always watch Willard with Crispin Glover. The house and his mother are so grimy and the rats are so creepy.

Psycho

The Haunting (original)

A Nightmare on Elm Streets 1,3 & 7

Friday the 13ths 1-7

Carnival of Souls

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Halloweens 1,2, H20 & 2018

Saws 1-3

Hostel

Aliens 1 & 2

Texas Chainsaw 1, 2002. & 3D

Evil Dead 2

Brain Dead

Brain Damage

Basket Case

Bad Biology

Scream

Silence of the Lambs

The Shining

Fright Night

Hereditary

The Green Inferno

Slither

Cabin in the Woods

Midsommar

Night of the Living Dead

28 Days Later

R59 the 2014 movie

Here are 3 that maybe not scary in the traditional sense but I find them all deeply disturbing and they stuck with me long after watching them.

Funny Games - The English language remake is just as good as the original Austrian version if you don't like subtitles.

Kill List - British film from 2011

The Snowtown Murders

Add the original Korean "Old Boy" to you list, r86.

Carpener's, "The Thing". Good times.

Which Suspiria, R82? The original by Dario Argento or the remake?

R88 - My pic @ R82 was from the Argento version

I re-watched Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 this weekend (not sure why I skipped 2, in retrospect). They were more largely more boring than I remember them being. I also don't understand the timeline. Nancy was in high school in 1 and then in number 3 was a graduate psychology student?!?!

Yes, r91.

Elm Street 1 to Elm Street 3 is a flash forward six years, not true to the production years.

Just like Friday the 13th 4 to 5 was a flash forward several years for the Tommy Jarvis character, despite just a year between Corey Feldman and John Shepherd.

My favorites:

The Babadook

Drag Me to Hell

Sinister

The Exorcist

The Omen

Ghost Story

The Sentinel

Se7en

In the Mouth of Madness

Sleepy Hollow

I watched The Fog again last night, and I can confirm that it's a better film than Halloween.

I watch most of the Scooby Doo episodes from when.I was a kid.

I love The Omen and The Exorcist.

R92 Yes, I guess I never really thought about the time jump before, for some reason! It just stuck out to me.

I forgot about the time jump in F13, I don't even think I've seen all the films still. The poster for Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday frightened me when I was younger and I never got around to watching it. To be fair, it sounds dreadful, but that's never stopped me from watching a horror film.

I finally watched three from hell. Not my favourite rob Zombie movie but I still enjoyed it.

The daddy of all horror movies: Nosferatu, 1922.

The Skeleton Key

The Ring

R99 - or the other daddy . . .

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary (1919)

Stir of Echoes is good.

Ringu is better than The Ring.

Let the Right One In is better than Let Me In.

[quote]I watched The Fog again last night, and I can confirm that it's a better film than Halloween.

It’s not, but it is a damn good movie. Carpenter and Cundey’s knack for creating atmosphere is unmatched.

F13 may be classics, OP, but they are schlock and the original pales next to Halloween.

The latest Phantasm movie looks disturbing

Oh, there's nothing scary about JASON GOES TO HELL, r97. But you'll have a few laughs.

It's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," r101. "Caligary" is a town in Canada where they only eat squid.

How cool is it that the owners of Jamie Lee Curtis's house from Halloween provide pumpkins for tourists to take a photo on the famous stoop used in the movie.

I didn't know that PJ Sole's house from the movie is also the one used in Mama's Family.

Possession (1981).

R107 - I spelled it properly @ R101

and BTW "Calgary" is the name of the city in Canada

Amazingly, I've never seen any of the Friday the 13th movies. If I'm going to watch just one, which is recommended?

The original HALLOWEEN, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, CARRIE, ALIENS, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2

Friday the 13th are classic horror movies.

Start with the original, 1980 FRIDAY THE 13TH. Watch the successive one every Halloween or something. It IS a show where you're better off knowing what happened before; they often take off immediately where the prior one left off, like HALLOWEEN to its sequel.

But they do that thing with lengthy summaries of previous episodes at the start of each movie — something that many sequels in the '70s and '80s did if you feel like jumping around. Just know the very best F13s are 1-4 & Part 6 JASON LIVES. The very scariest, most realistic entries are 1-4.

ELM STREET 2 is one of the worst and most hated ELM STREETS.

But it's notable for being a gay metaphor, having "the First Scream King," having an now-openly gay lead actor and some campy moments that are funny. You may want to watch it for that.

The actually good and scary ELM STREETS are 1, 3 and 7.

No, r110, you didn't spell it correctly.

And the "Caligary" bit was a joke! I know what Calgary is!!!

Daughters of Darkness

R115 Honestly, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (Part 6) is soooooo much worse than Part 2. I think Part 2 has a certain charm to it! Freddy was still menacing and scary, if you will. Part 3 grounded the series again. I can't decide which film in the series was worse, Dream Child (Part 5) or Freddy's Dead.

I agree, r118. Freddy Vs. Jason, Part 5 and the 2010 reboot were all worse than Part 2.

Hmmm. I watched “I Walked with a Zombie” last night and I can’t say I’m impressed.

It seems all zombie movies before Night of the Living Dead were boring and not at all scary.

"Ringu is better than The Ring.

Let the Right One In is better than Let Me In."

I agree with the second statement, but not the first. Too much of J-horror is poorly acted and the storytelling is choppy. THE RING is a much better movie IMO.

That said, JU-ON is better than the remake THE GRUDGE.

I watched "Hell House LLC" and "Haunt" last night.

The first one was awesome and deserves all the praise it's getting on DL horror threads. I guess the big climax was a bit of a letdown but the rest of the film was great. There's one particular scene (where one of the characters wakes up and finds something in his bedroom) that was scary as fuck.

I was less impressed by "Haunt". It starts off well enough but then quickly goes downhill and feels super long even at just 90 minutes. I'm yet to see a good horror film with Eli Roth's name attached to it.

Hell House, LLC is the real deal. I watched it earlier this week and almost felt like I needed to sleep with the lights on. I don't think a movie has done that to me since I was a kid. Found footage movies are usually awful, but the people behind this one must know what they're doing.

I mean, the fucking creepy clowns that moved around the house probably had something to do with that...

Second (or third) all of the positive reviews for Hell House LLC. Saw it a few years ago and was quite impressed. It does a lot with a little. Not interested in the sequels. I'm a hardcore horror fan and it's hard to impress me so it's refreshing to find a good horror gem. Saw Haunt last night - it wasn't bad. Kept me interested and entertained me - that's all I ask.

I re watched House of 1000 Corpses last night. Still one of my favourites.

The Unfriended movies are decent.

Yeah I thought I friended would be dumb as hell but it was okay. Not amazing but enjoyable enough.

Whoever told me to watch Hell House, LLC and V/H/S:

FUCK YOU.

Those movies are 10th-rate Blair Witch ripoffs. The cheapest thrills I've ever seen. I've been more scared by neighborhood Halloween decorations — which is the level of production values we're talking about.

DO NOT WATCH or you will die of boredom 7 minutes later!

I watched The Ring (US version) yesterday and i had trouble taking it seriously. I don't know if Scary Movie 3 ruined it for me lol. But i found all of the characters annoying. And the dialogue was cringey.

Nah, The RIng is a masterpiece. Scared the hell out of me.

R131 probably would have if i'd watched it when it came out. The Grudge scared the hell out of me.....still does.

I really like The Grudge too.

I never saw The Ring in theaters because I thought the premise sounded dumb. Several years later I saw the DVD in the $1 bin at a video store in Kenmore Square and thought, why not? I ended up barricading myself in my room that night. There were a couple of scenes where I had to mute it and look away (when the ex boyfriend gets murdered) -- I didn't watch those scenes with sound for years.