Halloween Movies - Thriller, suspense, scariest & favorites, what are yours?

Sunny_Ezri

Just started my yearly Halloween Movie Madness Marathon. I have a list of favorite must watch, including Silence of the Lambs, Saw, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street series (not all of them), & Bird Box but I’m open to recommendations and also want to know what are your favorites and why...🎃

SAHMof2

Hocus pocus for sure, been a favorite since I was small.

Sunny_Ezri

Love Hocus Pocus, which witch are you? (Couldn’t help it lol)

Also hocus pocus (fun fact - it was originally released in July in the US despite obviously being a Halloween film, which impacted the box office a fair amount), Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, Corpse Bride and of course Wallace and Grommit curse of the were-rabbit.

Proper horror films don't really do much for me, so most of my halloween films are just spooky/halloween themed ones.

Sunny_Ezri

Had no idea, wonder why that release date, doesn’t make sense. Nightmare Before Christmas is classic, Beetle Juice is up there for me, also a Tim Burton film.

Haven’t seen Wallace and Grommit curse of the were-rabbit so I’ll definitely check that one out.

SAHMof2

@Sunny_Ezri I’m told that if I don’t say it my face will. So I’m going to have to go with Winifred, plus my hair matches hers.

pmvines

For laughs , beetlejuice . For classic sleepaway camp and pumpkin head. For thriller ,high tension. For campy def killer clowns from outer space and rawhead rex. For gore saw, hostel , housenof.1000 corpses . For new one I def say hereditary and I really liked sinister

Sideon

Addams Family
Practical Magic
The Shining
followed by Hocus Pocus, because anything Bette Midler.

@pmvines - no can do the gore/horror shows. I'd have to be medicated and sleep with the lights on for weeks.

littermate

I can't do the gore/horror but I sure love spooky/weird. Johnny Depp's my fav: Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Dead Man.

I don't care much for Halloween, but, The Witch is an excellent film with tons of atmosphere. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in horror, history, or both.

geoff1000

Our family was sitting round the TV watching "Pretty Woman".

When it came to the scene where they are in the expensive clothes store, and she is spending thousands of dollars of his money on a credit card, my dad complained, "You didn't warn me this was a horror film".

My favorite is Stay Alive. I started off October with Ghostbusters.

Sunny_Ezri

Killer clown from Outer space is back on nextflix! Ghostbusters but the original with Akroyd and Murray, haven’t seen the new one.

quixotic_life

Killer Clowns From Outerspace is one of the best worst movies I've ever seen!!! So ridiculous it's hilarious!

The one that gave me shivers when I was younger, and still gets me even though I've seen it a mess of times, is Watcher in the Woods (1980). Free on YouTube:

If you're looking for nightmares though...
Tourist Trap (1979) ~ is one of the creepiest movies ever! Granted, I saw it when I was 11 or so, but images from that movie haunt me still!
This link says it's Free to stream ~ But I'm not checking! Nope! No thanks!!

geoff1000

"The Wicker Man" and similar ; because they are not based on fictitious supernatural monsters or individual psychopaths, but a bunch of seemingly ordinary people becoming murderous.

TheFunCartel

“Silence of the Lambs” because it is a composite of actual people. That which is true and terrifying is far more frightening than an imaginary concoction.

geoff1000

@FunCartel
So true. It's the girl in The Adams Family dressed as normal for Halloween, saying, "I'm a psychopath, they look like everybody else".

Just seen a news article about a nurse murdering patients in Germany. Still way short of our own Dr Harold Shipman.

How about "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". But if it's a good horror you're looking for, how about homemade family films from when you were young and 'camcorders' were in every house?? Just imagine.... strapped in a chair... Forced to watch hours and hours of home films with you crawling around with your baby bum hanging out... With stale plain popcorn, gallons of water, and no way to go to the bathroom. Yeah.. horror at it's worst...

Halloweentown ^_^

Edward Scissorhands

The Child's Play series, scary movie, thirteen ghosts, Harry Potter

pmvines

@RaeLew bride of chucky was so campy lol loved it !!

I used to have a chucky doll. But my mom threw it away lmao. I love chucky!

Sunny_Ezri

Troll 2 for more horror camp!

AceCuddlerMike

@RaeLew Become a fan of the Las Vegas Raiders. He's their head coach

I actually really want to see some of Xmas horror flicks, (Krampus). They are so wrong it’s great.

pmvines

@lovelyhugs a fun B horror one is Jack Frost

MonkeyNeedsAHug

Troll 2?
Oh, My GOD!

The Hunger

Sunny_Ezri

Hahaha it’s pretty bad isn’t it? Nilbog hahaha.

Ooo Rocky Horror Picture Show 🤡 also!!!

BrianL

Addams Family
Addams Family Values
Nightmare Before Christmas
The Haunting (1963)
Teen Wolf (1985, with Michael J. Fox)
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Beatlejuice
Any of the classic monster movies (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, etc)
Young Frankenstein
Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Sunny_Ezri

Classic 80’s Horror/thrillers

Fright Night
Monster Squad
The Thing
An American Werewolf in London
Lost Boys

Worst ones:

Halloween H20
Leprechaun 4: In Space - so so bad it’ll never be good in any sort of way.
The Village