Halloween movies

[autism-and-autotune]

Halloween - the original John Carpenter classic, accept no substitutes.

Also 'The Thing' and 'Prince of Darkness.'

 

[AGXStarseed]

Van Helsing (2004)

 

[Rodafina]

 

[Metalhead]

 

[Judge]

 

[SPEED RACER]

It’s Halloween, so you know what that means. It’s time to watch some spooky movies. I recommend watching silence of the lambs, and Hannibal. Also, hocus-pocus because that’s a classic. What other spooky movies should I watch this month?

The shining

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

The ONLY movie that had the power to creep me out is David Lynch's Eraserhead. Uncommonly surreal.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

So right! Tim Burton can get creepy in a very delicious way.

 

[Metalhead]

 

[AGXStarseed]

Creepshow 2
While not as good as the first and with only four stories instead of five (one of the four been a "wrap around" story), it's still better than a lot of horror movie sequels that came out in the 80's and 90's - with George Romero writing the screenplay for this film while Stephen King provided the stories:

Tales from the Darkside - The Movie
When George Romero tried and failed to make a "Creepshow" TV series due to not having complete ownership of the property, he instead made an alternative show known as "Tales from the Darkside". The following is that show's spin-off movie adaptation - again been an anthology series with four stories (one again been a "wrap around" story) and with George Romero as the screenwriter while Stephen King provided one of the stories.
Make-up artist Tom Savini (who worked on the original Creepshow) has called the film "The real Creepshow 3", since the actual "Creepshow 3" was a poorly made film that neither Romero or King had anything to do with:

 

[Hylian]

Watch Goosebumps. Yes, I know that's a show.

Scary Godmother, too.

 

[Forest Cat]

Thirteen Ghosts

 

[MROSS]

I'm not a horror-movie fan, yet, can be asked, "how many feel that the 1980s era of horror-movies are still notable to this day?"

STORY: The Best Cinematography in Horror Movies From the 1980s:
https://movieweb.com/best-cinematography-in-80s-horror-movies/#the-evil-dead-1981

 

[Rodafina]

I think it's definitely an Evil Dead (1981) kind of morning. It just feels right.

EDIT:
That's funny. I just noticed the post above is about this exact movie. Spooky coincidence?

 

[vergil96]

On Netflix there is a series "The Fall of the House of Ushers". Warining about episode 2 tho - lots of flashing lights, made me nauseous. It's based on a novel by Edgar Allan Poe, so there isn't as much gore, as there is the feeling of spookiness and a ghost looming over the story, and it's unclear what's true and what's just the character's imagination.

Another series on Netflix: "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiousities" that one is seriously scary and lots of gore. The director made also "Faun's Labirynth", so that's the kind of horror.

And another: "Archive 81"

 

[Neat Hedgehog]

Trick 'r Treat (2007)
A seasonally appropriate anthology film, with five segments connected by a little trick-or-treating demon who punishes people for breaking Halloween traditions

(decent amount of dark comedy moments, pretty violent and gory at times)

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
2014's original "Oujia" was a thoroughly tepid affair, but the follow-up prequel "Origin of Evil" is a significantly higher caliber horror film in every way. Characters, acting, pacing, visual effects, and of course scares, are all more effective in telling the story of a con-artist "psychic's" daughter who has the genuine ability to communicate with spirits via a ouija board. But she may or may not be talking to the right ones...

(not particularly gory, some on screen death, gets very creepy as it goes on)

Annabelle Comes Home
If you need a break from gore, death, and downer endings, but still want scares, try one of "The Conjuring" series lightest entries. Although it's the third "Annabelle" outing, and sixth entry overall in "The Conjuring" franchise, I think this one stands on its own and need little knowledge of the previous films to be enjoyed. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren bring home the demon-possessed doll "Annabelle" to lock her away in their collection of other similarly haunted or possessed artifacts. She is released by a friend of their daughter's babysitter, and soon releases all manner of other horrors from the artifact room.

(Lots of scares, but if I remember correctly there's no on-screen death or gore to speak of, and it's pretty funny at times although not really a comedy)

 

[mysterionz]

One of my coworkers mentioned the movie Smile being scary.. it’s on Amazon prime

 

[Forest Cat]

I think it's definitely an Evil Dead (1981) kind of morning. It just feels right.

EDIT:
That's funny. I just noticed the post above is about this exact movie. Spooky coincidence?

 

[Forest Cat]

Here's an unusual one from the 1960s. Maybe not a typical Halloween movie, but it does have Dracula in it.

 

[Judge]

Another Classic...."House Of Wax" (1953)

And comedy/horror "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948)