Here’s a top ten list of my personal favorite movies to watch around the month of October:
- Halloween (1978):
Starting off with an obvious answer, the first Halloween movie that came out in 1978. The premise of the first film is that on a cold Halloween night in 1963, a six year old Micheal Myers kills his 17 year old sister, Judith. And because of that he was locked away for 15 years but on October 30th, 1978, while being transferred for his court date he gets out of the containment truck and steals a car and escapes Smiths Grove until he reaches Haddonfieldm, Illinois, where he finds his next victims.
2. Trick Or Treat (1986):
Trick Or Treat is a Comedy Horror, the premise of the film is a bullied teenage boy obtains a demo of his favorite, and recently deceased, rock star, which holds some startling consequences.
3. The Return of the Living Dead (1985):
The Return of the Living Dead is a film, which soon became a series with several sequels and a few spin-offs, about a man named Frank, who shows a new employee named Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, where they accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies.
4. House of 1000 corpses (2001):
One of the several movies filmed and directed by Actor, Songwriter, Musician, and Filmmaker Rob Zombie in 2001. The plot of this film is fairly simple, a group of teenagers who are kidnapped and tortured by a psychotic family during Halloween after traveling across the country to write a book.
5. Hellraiser (1987):
Another classic horror film, a quick summary of the plot is that A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover, and she starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursing him after he escaped the underworld.
6. The Cabin in the Woods (2012):
The Cabin in the Woods is another Horror comedy with a really unique plot, a group of kids go to a remote cabin where their fate is controlled by a group of underground technicians as part of a world-wide conspiracy where all horror movie cliches are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.
7. Carrie (1979):
Arguably one of the best film adaptations of one of Stephen Kings horror novels, Carrie follows a withdrawn and sensitive girl named Carrie White, who faces taunting from her classmates at school, and abuse from her religious fanatic of a mother, during all of that, lots of weird things begin happening around her and she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. She is then Invited to prom by a man named Tommy Ross, but she lets her guard down and things take a very violent and dark turn.
8. The Shining (1980):
Yet again another classic, the premise for the Shining is that a man named Jack Torrence becomes a winter caretaker to an isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado. While he is there he his hoping to cure his writers block. He settles in with his Wife Wendy and their son Danny who is plagued by psychic visions. As Jacks writing continues to struggle, and Danny’s visions continue to get more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotels dark secrets which in turn begin to drive him to terrorize his family.
9. We Summon the Darkness (2019):
We Summon the Darkness has a pretty basic plot, but makes up for it in terms of the big plot twist half way through, without spoiling anything, the plot is that three best friends cross paths with sadistic killers after traveling to a secluded country home for a part after a heavy metal concert.
10. The VVitch (2015):
Often titled as one of the best horror movies of the 2010’s, the VVitch takes place in 1630s New England where panic and fear envelops a farmer and his family when their youngest son Sameul suddenly vanishes. And because of that the family blames it on their eldest daughter Thomasin, who was supposed to be watching him at the time of his disappearance. Twin siblings Mercy and Jonas suspect Thomasin of Witchcraft which tests the whole towns faith, loyalty, and love to one another.
