After the sweets, the slutty costumes, excessive drinking, pumpkin flavoured everything, and themed parties, the best part of Halloween is the scary movies! Scary movies keep you up late and give you an excuse to hold someone’s hand, so let Halloween be your excuse to throw a movie party. So here we have some of the best Halloween flicks of all time.
10. The Omen
A remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen an American official realizes that his young son may literally be the devil incarnate. and as the child’s evil becomes more and more apparent in a world full of hate, the Biblical prophecies slowly begin to fall into place.
9. The Ring
A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone within a week of viewing it.
8. Jaws
The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by a great-white-shark. This film may be old and the special effects may be less than impressive for the 21st century, but it’s still an excellent and truly terrifying film which will continue to remain a golden oldie for some time to come.
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
In the early 1980's, a psychopath named Freddy Krueger murdered several children with a glove fitted with razor blades attached to the fingers. When a foolish decision by a judge sets him free, Krueger is burned alive in the boiler room where he worked by an angry mob of the parents whose children he terrorized & murdered. Years after his death, the children whose parents were responsible for Krueger's death - including Nancy Thompson, daughter of the police officer who arrested Krueger - are experiencing terrifying nightmares about him and begin to die in their sleep. Nancy realises she must do something or die.
6. Coraline
A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways. As her ‘other mother’ encourages her to make her stay permanent, she begins to find out the unsettling secrets of this other world. This adaptation of Neil Gaimon’s best-seller is perfect for those who don’t like scary slasher films as it’s not classified as a ’horror’ but it’s still an excellent film perfect for Halloween.
5. Let the Right One in
Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. This film is both scary and heart-wrenching as Oscar and Eli’s love is doomed from the start, it will have you in tears.
4. Pan’s Labyrinth
Like Coraline, this film isn’t a horror, but it’s still chilling and very dark. It’s one of the best films I’ve seen and completely appropriate for a night in on Halloween. In the fascist Spain of 1944, the daydreaming young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
3. The Shining
Another Golden Oldie, A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
2. The Exorcist
When a girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
1. The Silence of the Lambs
At number 1 we have an adaptation of the book, ‘The silence of the lambs’.A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
By Ruby Butler
