Halloween Movie Must Watch List

[Corso]

Going to stay more modern

Conjuring 1 and 2...Third one really was not up to par with the first two.
Insidious movies 1, 2 and 4. Did not care for the third one.
Ready or Not...don't know why but I like this one.
The babysitter 1. Second one is ok but liked the first one better.
The Strangers 1 and 2 . Mindless but fun for the genre. Kind of liked the 2nd one better.
I Saw the Devil...not really a halloween type movie but I love it.
Guillermo Del Toro's movies Pan's Labyrinth. Devil's Backbone
Let the right one in
The Babadook
Terrifier
The loved Ones - not as many know of this Aussie film but it is pretty wild
Cold Fish crazy korean movie
Two Japanese films...Audition and Suicide Club

Audition messed me up. Miike makes some really wild films.

 

[Corso]

Brilliant movie.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Audition messed me up. Miike makes some really wild films.

Forgot to add the Ninth gate.
Not really a horror movie and I don't know why I like it but I even bought it and have watched it a great deal.

On a side note...If you like bizzare movies like audition, you might like Martyrs.



Foreign film but you can find it with dubbing.

 

[Corso]

Forgot to add the Ninth gate.
Not really a horror movie and I don't know why I like it but I even bought it and have watched it a great deal.

On a side note...If you like bizzare movies like audition, you might like Martyrs.



Foreign film but you can find it with dubbing.

Ninth Gate literally turned me into a rare book collector. I have wasted so much money, lol.

 

[Hardline]

Brilliant movie.

There was red in just about every scene.

 

[Khartun]

If you guys don't mind subtitles there is a Korean monster movie called The Host that is fantastic.

 

[Fredbeard]

Nightmare on elm Street
Dog soldiers
Howl
Fright night
From beyond
Bad moon
Let the right one in
Salems lot
Pumpkin head
Demon knight
Sleepy hollow
Jeepers creepers 1&2
American werewolf in London
Silver bullet
Lost boys

 

[Cowpolk]

Exorcist the X rated version with all Asian actresses

 

[Corso]

Robo Vampire
Rollergator
Suburban Sasquatch
Baby Ghost
Ruby
Shrunken Heads
Troll 2
Jack-O
Danger On Tiki Island
Alien Dead

Uhhh...

And Fever Lake High because I wanted to include something with Corey Haim.

 

[Corso]

On a serious note, Bone Tomahawk is an excellent horror flick with some great actors.

 

[Sarge]

Phantasm….
The Hills Have Eyes…
Magic…
The Wicker Man…
Young Frankenstein….
The Fog….
Funhouse…

 

[Boom]

Halloween (orig)
The Shining
Friday the 13th (1 and 2)
A Nightmare on Elm St
The Thing (Kurt Russell one)
It Chapter 1
Pet Sematary (orig)
The Exorcist
Child's Play
Fright Night (orig)
The Fog
Dead Alive
The Wishmaster
The Skeleton Key
The Belko Experiment
Saw
Fallen
Creep (1 and 2)
The Empty Man
1408
The Ninth Gate
Crazies
Brightburn
You're Next
The Ritual
It Follows

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Surprised a few "big hitters" haven't been listed...

"Dawn of the Dead" 1978-While "Night of the Living Dead" is a fine film, "Dawn" is better IMO and it did something that "Night" never did and that was kick-start a wave of movies sharing a similar theme, i.e. the recently dead coming back to kill/devour the living. I saw the movie when it was originally released and the level of violence and gore in it set the tone for movie violence and gore for a generation.

"Legend of Boggy Creek"-Another movie that I saw as part of its original run. The movie scared the hell out of me! Has transcending beyond just being a cult-classic. The filming style was revolutionary for the time and set the tone for many movies that came after including...

"The Blair Witch Project"-I know many dislike this movie due to how they (the folks behind the movie) marketed it– which is a point I really do not understand. I think it's a heck of a movie. A great premise and the actors did a fabulous job. It influenced two-decades worth of "found footage" movies (most of which were meh at best but there are some gems like "Cloverfield").

 

[Hardline]

Japanese horror has got to be the creepiest.

 

[Praxit]

Halloweentown I & II .....

 

[nobody]

Surprised a few "big hitters" haven't been listed...

"Dawn of the Dead" 1978-While "Night of the Living Dead" is a fine film, "Dawn" is better IMO and it did something that "Night" never did and that was kick-start a wave of movies sharing a similar theme, i.e. the recently dead coming back to kill/devour the living. I saw the movie when it was originally released and the level of violence and gore in it set the tone for movie violence and gore for a generation.

"Legend of Boggy Creek"-Another movie that I saw as part of its original run. The movie scared the hell out of me! Has transcending beyond just being a cult-classic. The filming style was revolutionary for the time and set the tone for many movies that came after including...

"The Blair Witch Project"-I know many dislike this movie due to how they (the folks behind the movie) marketed it– which is a point I really do not understand. I think it's a heck of a movie. A great premise and the actors did a fabulous job. It influenced two-decades worth of "found footage" movies (most of which were meh at best but there are some gems like "Cloverfield").

Blair Witch Project was alright. I hated the shaky camera effect it inspired in so many movies. HATED it.

 

[Cowpolk]

Underworld all of them.
Fear Street.
The Babysitter,
Roohi.
Truth or Dare.
Unfriended.
Polaroid

 

[triplets_93]

A little off topic, but one of my favorite soundtracks to play for Halloween is muisc from John Carpenter's The Thing:

 

[quickccc]

Surprised a few "big hitters" haven't been listed...

"Dawn of the Dead" 1978-While "Night of the Living Dead" is a fine film, "Dawn" is better IMO and it did something that "Night" never did and that was kick-start a wave of movies sharing a similar theme, i.e. the recently dead coming back to kill/devour the living. I saw the movie when it was originally released and the level of violence and gore in it set the tone for movie violence and gore for a generation.

"Legend of Boggy Creek"-Another movie that I saw as part of its original run. The movie scared the hell out of me! Has transcending beyond just being a cult-classic. The filming style was revolutionary for the time and set the tone for many movies that came after including...

"The Blair Witch Project"-I know many dislike this movie due to how they (the folks behind the movie) marketed it– which is a point I really do not understand. I think it's a heck of a movie. A great premise and the actors did a fabulous job. It influenced two-decades worth of "found footage" movies (most of which were meh at best but there are some gems like "Cloverfield").

-Only thing i can say about Blair Witch Project is:
1) whoever super-market it with such an astounding very low budget and lured audiences and critics into seeing it should be on Shark Tank
2) It may have been created as an original stand alone classic with the Found footage system, shaky live action camera work and cinematography; thus it spawn
similar films such as Cloverfield and Paranormal.
Otherwise it's by far one of the very overrated and disappointing films i've ever experienced.

- Dawn of the Dead scared the heck outta when i was kid, such that i couldn't wait for dawn daylight to hit. i thought i'd see some zombie creeping around the
house in the dark, while seeking out it next midnight snack.

the Exorcist, Dawn of the Dead (1978) Jaws,(Bill Gardner's head!) and City of the Living Dead (Gates of Hell) .. gave me more night time jitters and creepy chills than i want to recall.back in da dayz.

 

[Denim Chicken]

"The Blair Witch Project"-I know many dislike this movie due to how they (the folks behind the movie) marketed it– which is a point I really do not understand. I think it's a heck of a movie. A great premise and the actors did a fabulous job.

This one scared the crap out of me when I was younger. They had a whole show on the sci-fi network leading up to the movies release about how they found the footage buried underground and talking about the people that were lost. I fell for it hook, line, & sinker.