October 29, 2020
It is October and that can only mean one thing: spooky season! To get in the mood ahead of this eerie holiday, it is time to put on the most terrifying movies ever made and scare ourselves senseless. Power up your indoor TV lift cabinet, grab yourself a snack, a cup of hot cocoa and a pillow to hide behind when things get too much, as here are the top 5 spookiest movies for you to watch this Halloween.
Scream (1996)
How could we not start the list with this classic? The Scream mask has become one of the most iconic Halloween costumes of all time, and the movie is timeless. The storyline is simple yet effective – a psychopath killer is on the loose and commences a violent stabbing killing spree. Funny, clever, and downright terrifying.
A Quiet Place (2018)
A relatively new suspenseful horror starring John Krasinski and real-life wife Emily Blunt, this movie is set in a world where the civilization we know is long gone. Instead, monsters who hunt by sound have forced the world into stillness and quiet. The scene that will have you on the edge of your seats is when Blunt has to give birth in absolute silence. Make a noise and you’ll be next.
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
The latest of the Annabelle movies and the seventh installment of The Conjuring franchise is Annabelle Comes Home. While critics criticized its originality, its scares are like none before. This supernatural horror will have you terrified of demons and throwing your collection of childhood dolls sharply into the trash. If you love the predecessors in the Annabelle series, this sure will satisfy you this spooky season.
Train to Busan (2016)
Horror is an incredible genre as just when you think you’ve seen everything, a brilliant new movie will emerge and make us fall in love with horrors all over again. This is exactly true for Train to Busan, a zombie horror that gave a new spin on an undead apocalypse. When a virus breaks out in Korea, passengers fight for their lives against flesh-eating zombies.
The Exorcist (1973)
Finishing off this list with another iconic horror, The Exorcist is a must-watch every Halloween and one of the greatest movies of the 70s, helping to define the horror genre. In the movie, a young girl gets possessed by a demon entity and calls on two priests to help, with the movie climaxing as they perform a demonic exorcism on the child.
