Top List: Ultimate Halloween Movies
Do October 31st the right way and immerse yourself in one of our iconic horror classics or modern-day masterpieces. We've put together some of our best horror films of all time for you to enjoy this Halloween!
Malignant (2021)
Director: James Wan
Cast: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, McKenna Grace, George Young, Jake Abel, Ingrid Bisu
Malignant is the latest creation from "Conjuring" universe architect James Wan ("Aquaman," "Furious 7"). The film marks director Wan's return to his roots with this new original horror thriller.
In the film, Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.
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House Of Wax (2005)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Brian Van Holt
A group of friends on their way to a college football game falls prey to a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. The friends discover that the psychotic siblings have expanded the area's main attraction--the House of Wax--and created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. Now the group must find a way out before its members also become permanent exhibits in the House of Wax.
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones
Michael Keaton, Academy Award winner Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder star in director Tim Burton's comic twist on supernatural horror tale
When a couple of nice, young homebody ghosts (Baldwin and Davis) try to haunt the pretentious humans who have moved into their house, they ask for help from a demonic wraith (Keaton) they cannot control in this comic fantasy that mixes the quick and the dead with a laugh and a fright
IT (2017)
Director: Andrés Muschietti
Cast: Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgård, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, Nicholas Hamilton
The horror thriller "IT," directed by Andrés Muschietti ("Mama"), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids is faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.
THE SHINING (1980)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Llyod, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Phillip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton
When writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson)--who has a history of alcoholism and child abuse--takes a job as winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, he, his wife (Duvall) and their psychic young son will be isolated until spring. But once the first blizzard closes the road out, the accumulated power of evil deeds committed at the hotel begins to drive Jack mad. Now there may be no escape for his wife and son in this haunting madness, memory and family violence.
THE CONJURING (2013)
Director: James Wan
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Joseph Bishara
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. The Conjuring tells the horrifying true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
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FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Betset Palmer, Peter Brouwer, Laurie Bartram, Jeannie Taylor, Kevin Bacon, Mark Nelson, Robbi Morgan, Ronn Carroll, Rex Everhart, Ari Lehman
When a summer camp at idyllic Crystal Lake reopens 25 years after the tragic drowning of a young boy named Jason, the woods fill with the happy squeals of young campers and the sight of the furtive couplings of libidinous counselors. But when a violent rainstorm isolates the lake, one-by-one the counselors are horribly murdered in this film that launched a modern horror genre.
ANNABELLE (2014)
Director: John R. Leonetti
Cast: Annabelle Wallis,
Before The Conjuring, there was Annabelle. Annabelle's story begins before the evil was unleashed. John Form (Ward Horton -- The Wolf of Wall Street) has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia (Annabelle Wallis -- X Men: First Class) -- a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now...Annabelle.
STEPHEN KING'S IT (1990)
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Cast: Tim Curry, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Olivia Hussey, Richard Masur, Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid, John Ritter, Richard Thomas
A sinister force lurks menacingly behind the warm visage of Pennywise the Clown (Tim Curry), who awakens every thirty years to terrorize the small New England town of Derry, altering reality to animate victim's greatest fears in Stephen King's chilling IT. Somehow, seven children defeat the evil incarnation. But now, three decades later, the savage menace resurrects. And the seven victors return as adults to again fight a horrifying battle between good and evil--where personal demons may be lethal--in the spine-tingling miniseries Stephen King's IT.
THE EXORCIST (1973)
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen McRae, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Linda Bliar
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
POLTERGEIST (1982)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein
Late one night, 10-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the television set ... At first, the spirits that invade the Freelings' home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. And when Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams--In the Land of Women) turn to an exorcist (Zelda Rubinstein) in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre films) and producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg.