With Halloween fast approaching, take a break from scrambling to piece together the perfect costume to make you the coolest kid at the function and sit back and relax.
They say Halloween is the one time of the year where the dead rise and walk among us, so I wouldn’t suggest going out. Stay inside and watch a scary movie instead.
Here is Part 2 of our Halloween Flick Picks for you to enjoy:
1. “You’re Next” (2011)
For all of the slasher fans out there, “You’re Next” is a revival of the slasher subgenre. Set at a family get-together, the film features a horde of masked psychos try to pick off each family member one by one, but they won’t go down without a fight. Think “Home Alone” meets “The Strangers.”
The kills are gruesome and the film is fast-paced, swift and brutal. The direction is great and it’s filled with jump-scares, complemented by an eerie score that only accents the freaky nature of the film. It’s a lot easier on the eyes and less cheesy than older, classic slashers like “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween.” The film isn’t intended to be a whodunit-esque picture, but it closes with a pretty sick twist.
Via: JoBlo
2. “The House of the Devil” (2009)
The classic tale of an innocent babysitter who gets way more than she bargained for, Ti West’s “The House of the Devil” is a sinister film with real grit. While the film is slow-building, it’s that final 30 minutes or so that really will leave you grasping onto some prayer beads.
3. “The Fourth Kind” (2009)
Based kinda sorta on actual events, “The Fourth Kind” stars Milla Jovovich as a psychologist who notices a disturbing pattern among her patients’ problems, including some unexplained disappearances (or abductions?). The film uses alleged real audio and video recordings throughout, along with dramatizations starring Jovovich, to drive home the scare factor, which it does fairly successfully.
4. “Scream” (1996)
Arguably the best horror film ever released (seriously, I will fight you over this), “Scream” reshaped and revitalized horror movies as we know them today.
A group of witty, smart-mouthed teens (played by sexy 20-something-year-old actors and actresses) are harassed and butchered by a masked psychopath wielding a shiny knife and a “cellular telephone.” The film transcends time while somehow also being a classic and manages to really redefine what it means to be a psychopath.
Via: Vagabond’s Movie Quiz
5. “Grave Encounters” (2011)
“Paranormal Activity” has managed to milk the haunted house theme dry in recent years; however, Grave Encounters is proof that there’s still something to be scared of inside a haunted house. This mockumentary-style found-footage film, in the vein of “Ghost Hunters” and “The Blair Witch Project”, follows a group of “real life” ghost hunters who are looking to uncover the secrets of an abandoned mental hospital that is said to be haunted – plot twist, it really is. “Grave Encounters” manages to both mock its audience and scare the living shit out of them as well.
6. “Dead Silence” (2007)
While not particularly good, “Dead Silence” is a truly creepy film, which is what it sets out to be. A predecessor to films like “Annabelle” and in the vein of that one creepy-ass episode of “Goosebumps” where that freaky ventriloquist doll tries to murder that family, “Dead Silence” is a must-see. The film stars Ryan Kwanten, the hot, dumb brother from HBO’s “True Blood”, and is directed and written by the creators of “Saw”, which makes it a fairly promising movie.
Via: MTV
7. “Dead End” (2003)
This is a truly terrifying take on horror that still, to this day, creeps me out beyond reason. After taking a short cut on their way out of town for Christmas, a family is left out of touch with reality and driven out of their minds in this mind-bending, ghostly horror film. “Dead End” is honestly the scariest movie I’ve ever seen or at least, it was the last time I watched it.
Scream on, friends, and remember, don’t look under the bed.
Feature photo courtesy of: Horror Movies
