The Top 10 Movies For Halloween

1. Shaun Of The Dead

A man and his idiotic friend attempt to survive an outbreak of zombies in England and save his friends and family. This is a very funny British movie that combines the zombie genre with comedy. The gory parts are hilariously gory, and everything else is just plain funny. The draw is in seeing what funny loser British people would do in a zombie apocalypse, which has always been set in America.

2. Evil Dead II

I know what you’re thinking: where is the original Evil Dead? Well, it’s not here, not good enough, and the weird tree rape scene is disturbing. Evil Dead II is probably the best of the trilogy, and you don’t need to watch the first one to understand it. There is a recap in the intro and it doesn’t even follow the original story. Bruce Campbell stars as Ash, the chainsaw wielding, shotgun toting vacationer fighting evil spirits that are invoked by a mysterious spell book in a secluded cabin. A mixture of horror, gore, and dark comedy, this movie is a great go-to for the Halloween season.

3. Fright Night

A teenage boy who enjoys watching horror movies presented by Peter Vincent on the series “Fright Night” finds that his new neighbour is a vampire. The sounds of horror movie classics set the tone for this 80s gem, giving it that Halloween feel. It features the main protagonist attempting to fight monsters with what he’s learned from movies and Peter Vincent as a movie monster hunter confronted by real monsters. It’s cheesy, but in a good way. What more can you ask for in a movie?

4. The Thing

A team in Antarctica encounter an alien that can become any living organism, and could be any one of them. Kurt Russell stars as MacReady, the pilot and reluctant leader against the alien menace, in this horror-thriller. There is only one word that describes the greatness of this movie: flamethrower.

5. Near Dark

This is cowboys mixed with vampires to make something special. A modern cowboy gets bitten by a strange girl and becomes a part of a traveling group of vampires. Not everybody knows about this one, but it is one of the best vampire movies of all time. Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen (who played the android in Aliens) star as some very memorable vampires. These vampires are almost never in the dark of night even though they violently burst into flames struck but sunlight.

6. The Forsaken

A guy on a cross country road trip to deliver a luxury car and attend his sister’s wedding encounters a vampire hunter and a group of vampires that stalk the desert roads. It has some great gore, action, and suspense, not to mention the car chases.

7. The Devils Rejects

The story of a family of serial killers being hunted by an obsessed sheriff. This is directed by Rob Zombie and is probably his grand opus in term of film making. It is a twist on the old formula of horror movies. Rather than have an unsuspecting family, group, or person tormented by some serial killer(s), the serial killer family is tormented by a sheriff.

8. The Exorcist

What can I say, it’s a classic. An exorcist attempts to save a girl possessed by a demon. What better to watch on a dark night?

9. Idle Hands

A slacker finds that his hand is possessed and murdering people on Halloween. This one has been forgotten and put in the 99 cent bins of most stores, but it is a funny little horror-comedy, and one of the only movies set on Halloween besides the obvious “Halloween” and “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”. It features a young Jessica Alba before she was famous and Seth Green.

10. The Hitcher (Remake)

A couple on a road trip during college break are terrorized by a mysterious hitchhiker. It’s a short 70 minute movie, and it crams a lot of entertainment into that short length of time.