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Spooky Movies for the Month

This month is an ideal opportunity to highlight some of the spookier, creepier, and scary but also funny movies in our collection. This list is by no means an exhaustive one, and the categories overlap and blend, but these are some select titles you may or may not be interested in watching to get in the Halloween spirit. Boo-careful, or make sure to watch with a friend!

Creature Features

Alien & Aliens

Nosferatu (1922)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Open water

Jaws

What we do in the shadows

Shaun of the dead

Rosemary’s Baby

Night of the Living Dead

Godzilla (2019)

An American Werewolf in London

Creepshow

The Thing

The Descent

 

Psychological chillers

Scary stories to tell in the dark

Misery

Get Out

Nope

Psycho

American Psycho

Audition

Seven

The Blair Witch Project

The silence of the lambs

The cabinet of Dr. Caligari: a film in six acts

 

Entities

The Exorcist: the version you've never seen

Poltergeist

Paranormal Activity

The shining

The ring

The innocents

The devil’s backbone  

It & It: Chapter 2

 

Much (but not all) of the credit belongs to Rotten Tomatoes & IMDB for their all-time best horror lists.

Posted on Oct. 27, 2023 by Bobbie Monzon