Favorite Halloween horror/scary/spooky movies for a Halloween all day movie marathon?🎬

[Buzz Rules]

Favorite Halloween horror/scary/spooky movies for a Halloween all day movie marathon?

 

[lesliekatya]

An American Werewolf in London. I also really liked the new Ghostbusters Afterlife movie.

 

[TCRAIG]

The Lady in White
The Woman in Black (2012 version)
The Haunting (1963 B&W version)

 

[LuvOrlando]

Just watched Train to Bursan and it was outstanding, it is Korean and has subtitles but totally worth the effort.

Also watching Dirty John which is about a bad divorce but ends of feeling more like a psychological thriller horror as most Christian Slater stuff does, like in Heathers where you are never really sure what exactly it is you are watching because of the glib charm. Pretty good Halloween choice for those who like the scary stuff on the lighter side, or at least I think so I haven't finished the story yet so it could get worse.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

• The Woman in Black (2012 version)
• Event Horizon (That one is evil!)
• Hostel (Gore fest)a
• The Blair Witch Project (Watch the documentary first, it puts you in the mood)
• Ring O (The first in the series, from Japan, makes the American remake look tame)
• Se7en - Creepy
• The Village - actually scared me!
• Silence of the Lambs - More a psychological thriller, Foster and Hopkins have AWESOME on screen energy

 

[disneychrista]

Each year for the past several I have picked a movie or a movie series to watch for Halloween. This year was to be the Scream series but I won't get the movies from the library in time so I will watch them whenever I get them.

Last years was the Halloween series. One year was Rocky Horror Picture Show. Another was the original It movie/mini-series.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

The Shining.
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm more of a "light" Halloween fan than real horror movies. - So far this year I've watched:

• Gremlins (happened to catch it on TV)
• Tower of Terror (had to borrow the DVD from the library) and
• Hocus Pocus (a favorite I watch every year - Freeform's "Pop'n Knowledge" version is especially fun)

 

[dizneegirl]

Thirteen Ghosts
The Frighteners
Shaun of the Dead
Army of Darkness

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Hubie Halloween
Hocus Pocus

Not exactly scary, but the right amount of scary for me

 

[JLTraveling]

My must-see Halloween lineup (I watch them through the season):

The Shining
The Exorcist
The Birds
Psycho
Poltergeist
House of 1000 Corpses
Freaks (not actually horror)
Lost Boys

I also really like:
Get Out
Us
Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Fun fact: It's based on the same real-life serial killer as Psycho)
Let the Right One In
Interview with the Vampire (not actually horror)

 

[amcnj]

Along with many of the above listed films, I would try to include:

Night of the Living Dead
Alien
Halloween
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Frankenstein
28 Days Later
The Thing (from another world)
The Haunting (of Hill House)
Fright Night

 

[Buzz Rules]

Bump.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

If I'm going for lighter material:

• It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (more of a special than a movie, but I sometimes watch it on repeat a few times)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (obviously, I am team Halloween in terms of which season I like to watch)
• Halloweentown (I like Debbie Reynolds)
• Beetlejuice (the original- the new one isn't bad, but it doesn't hit me the same way)
• The Craft (this one is sort of on the edge- scarier than most of these but not true horror)

*Honorable mentions to the Ghostbusters series, The Haunted Mansion (the new one), and the Goosebumps movies.

If I'm going for scary stuff (which I don't like as much as I used to):

• The Exorcist
• Halloween
• Amityville Horror
• Pet Sematary
• The Shining
• The Omen (the original)
• Jeepers Creepers
• The Ring
• Hellraiser

Oh, and I'm a stickler for the originals.

*I went through a horror phase in high school and college, so there are many more that I have enjoyed over the years (even the cheesy ones). I prefer the Nightmare on Elm Street line over Friday the 13th, but not enough to make the tops. I'm fond of some poorly made ones, like the original Evil Dead and all of the B (and lower) level slasher films out there. I even enjoyed The Blair Witch Project. It does start crossing a line with things like Last House on the Left. Oh, and I do enjoy horror/sci fi crossovers like Alien and the less popular ones like Event Horizon. EDIT- Just rereading some of the others reminds me of so many I missed!

 

[JLTraveling]

If I'm going for lighter material:

• It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (more of a special than a movie, but I sometimes watch it on repeat a few times)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (obviously, I am team Halloween in terms of which season I like to watch)
• Halloweentown (I like Debbie Reynolds)
• Beetlejuice (the original- the new one isn't bad, but it doesn't hit me the same way)
• The Craft (this one is sort of on the edge- scarier than most of these but not true horror)

*Honorable mentions to the Ghostbusters series, The Haunted Mansion (the new one), and the Goosebumps movies.

If I'm going for scary stuff (which I don't like as much as I used to):

• The Exorcist
• Halloween
• Amityville Horror
• Pet Sematary
• The Shining
• The Omen (the original)
• Jeepers Creepers
• The Ring
• Hellraiser

Oh, and I'm a stickler for the originals.

*I went through a horror phase in high school and college, so there are many more that I have enjoyed over the years (even the cheesy ones). I prefer the Nightmare on Elm Street line over Friday the 13th, but not enough to make the tops. I'm fond of some poorly made ones, like the original Evil Dead and all of the B (and lower) level slasher films out there. I even enjoyed The Blair Witch Project. It does start crossing a line with things like Last House on the Left. Oh, and I do enjoy horror/sci fi crossovers like Alien and the less popular ones like Event Horizon. EDIT- Just rereading some of the others reminds me of so many I missed!

Funny story about The Ring. I first watched it at home, naturally on a dark and stormy night. About halfway through, my phone rang, and there was nobody on the other end. I have never jumped so hard in my life!

And I LOVE The Blair Witch Project. Don't care if it's cheesy, as far as I'm concerned it created a genre.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Funny story about The Ring. I first watched it at home, naturally on a dark and stormy night. About halfway through, my phone rang, and there was nobody on the other end. I have never jumped so hard in my life!

And I LOVE The Blair Witch Project. Don't care if it's cheesy, as far as I'm concerned it created a genre.

What was crazy about the BWP was that people actually thought it was real footage.

 

[JLTraveling]

What was crazy about the BWP was that people actually thought it was real footage.

I know! It came at just the right moment, when most people had started to get home internet but pre-deep fakes. A more innocent time.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Funny story about The Ring. I first watched it at home, naturally on a dark and stormy night. About halfway through, my phone rang, and there was nobody on the other end. I have never jumped so hard in my life!

And I LOVE The Blair Witch Project. Don't care if it's cheesy, as far as I'm concerned it created a genre.

Yeah, I don’t think I’d be sleeping for a while if that happened to me with The Ring.

Blair Witch is one of those that can be really scary if you allow yourself to buy in. Although that’s true of a lot of horror. DD18 always brags that she’s never watched a horror movie that’s scared her but that’s because she won’t shut up and allow her mind to sink into the storyline.

 

[rowan1813]

I don't watch scary movies (I'm a total wuss) so I like the lighter Halloween stories and old Hollywood "horror"

Lighter:
- Halloweentown 1 & 2 (3 doesn't exist )
- Hocus Pocus
- Casper
- Haunted Mansion (Eddie Murphy - love it!)
- Mickey's House of Villains (House of Mouse Halloween special)
- Beetlejuice
- Ghostbusters 1, 2, Afterlife
- UnderWraps (original DCOM)
- Escape to Witch Mountain (90s version)
- Toy Story of Terror!
- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

I also like to watch a lot of Halloween episodes of TV shows
- Bones - Mummy in the Maze
- Home Improvement (I think every season has a Halloween episode)
- Boy Meets World - And Then there was Shawn "Feffie!"
- Charmed - All Halliwells Eve
- NCIS - Chimaera
- Muppet Show - Vincent Price
- Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror (multiple options but I like Ep. V)
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch - A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It
- MASH - Trick or Treatment
- Dr. Quinn - Halloween I & II

Old Hollywood
- The Spiral Staircase (1946 psychological horror - so good!!!!)
- Dracula (1931)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Island of Lost Souls (1932)
- Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
- Freaks (1932 - one of my all time favorite movies!)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

 

[BlueStarryHat]

The original silent version of Nosferatu made in 1922 is pretty scary. Very atmospheric.