It’s the spooky season, and part of that is sitting down in a dark living room to watch one of the best horror movies of the season. Which ones will you choose?
The Halloween season is all of October, which makes it the perfect month to watch some scary horror movies that can give you the desired fright. This is the season when these movies make the most sense. Some are classics, others are relatively new, but all of them can give you the fright you want to experience during this time leading up to the Halloween holiday.
Here are a few of the best horror movies to watch this month.
Halloween
This spooky thriller has many parts to it, but you should begin with the original film from 1978. The story has Michael Myers appearing fifteen years after he murdered his sister on Halloween night. This particular night seems to be a special day for Michael throughout the series. In the original movie, he escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to go on a massive killing spree.
The Exorcist
What happens when evil spirits possess the body of a young girl? You’ll find the answer in one of the best horror movies of all time. The Exorcist features a possessed girl who performs unnatural acts and frightful rituals, causing her mother to seek the help of two Catholic priests to exorcise the demons from her child and save the girl’s life. This scary movie could be the fright night you want to experience leading up to Halloween. It also might become the inspiration for your costume this year.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
What would happen if an alien race came from space and took over our bodies? How would we know who the aliens are and who the regular people are? This horror film has strange seeds that come from space to Earth to take over people in San Francisco. The seeds take over the bodies of many city residents one body at a time. The gore, murder, and desecration of the population cause this to be a fright night that could give you bad dreams for many years.
Night of the Living Dead
A story of zombies is always a great choice when it comes to movies to watch during October. Night of the Living Dead features flesh-eating zombies that come back to the Earth to feast on the living people in a small town. Why do so many of the best horror movies seem to take place in small towns? That’s a bit of a mystery, but what isn’t is the flesh feast that is this movie that could give you the scare that you’re looking for this Halloween season.
Psycho
The escape from reality can always be worse than the reality. Psycho is one of the best horror movies ever made; it features a secretary on the run for embezzlement. She finds herself at a California motel that’s owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother. This is a serious recipe for disaster for the woman, who has to deal with these two creepy characters in some crazy ways. If you want to see a fright that could possibly happen, this might be the movie that keeps you up late at night.
The Shining
Another hotel thriller begs the question of why many of these scary movies happen at hotels as well as small towns. This scary movie features a family headed to an isolated hotel for the winter, but something possesses the father and causes him to have fits of violence. The son has psychic power and tells some horrifying stories from the past and future. This is one of the best horror movies ever made, and if you can ignore the dated references, it might be the movie you want to see this Halloween season.
The Cabin in the Woods
Another tale of isolation in what a quiet and remote location should be, this movie features a group of kids who go to a remote cabin in the woods where they end up dealing with a group that practices elaborate sacrificial rituals. The worldwide conspiracy in this remote location seems like serious bad luck, but that’s a big part of what to expect during the scary season.
These are just a few of the best horror movies for you to enjoy during October as a lead-up to Halloween night. If you want to save one for the scariest night of the year, make it the movie with the same name as the holiday.
