Recommended movies for Halloween
 

Hey guys.

I'm looking for a list of about 20 horror movies to watch this upcoming Halloween.
I have a YouTube channel where I review horror films and this year I want to compile a list of 20 horror movie recommendations and a few honourable mentions.

So I ask you guys, what films should I put on the list?

I know a few obvious ones:

Halloween
The Exorcist
The Shining
Psycho
Alien

I'm looking for a few hidden gems or underrated main stream movies.
It'll be a big help if I can get some recommendations from fellow horror fans.

Here's my channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCww...3D8Y9DthEpeVjQ

I wanna start working on this list soon and hopefully get a video done by the week before Halloween.

IMO Shining is too long and slow-burn for Halloween night.

Night of the Living Dead

Universal monsters

Nightmare Before Christmas

Garfield's Halloween Adventure

Oculus

House on Haunted Hill

Taste the Blood of Dracula
Curse of the Werewolf
Revenge of Frankenstein

Any movie from Hammer Studios (1950s-1960s)

Yeah. The Hammer horror movies seem like a good choice.

Keep the recommendations coming!

Murder Party is a film set on Halloween night, that should get a LOT more attention from fans.

Some others I love to watch during the season o' the Ween.

Excision
Carnival of Souls (original)
Messiah of Evil
Basket Case
Uzumaki
Der Todesking
The Omen (original)
American Mary

red = take place ON Halloween

Trick or Treat
American Werewolf in London
The Houses October Built
Silver Bullet
Wolfman (2010)
Blair Witch
Hellraiser
The Pit and the Pendulum
Arsenic and Old Lace
Re-Animator
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Howling (I & IV)
Frankenstein's Army
Poltergeist (1982)
Night of Demons (1988)
Motel Hell
Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Spider Baby
Cabin in the Woods
The Sixth Sense
Thir13en Ghosts

Wish I could think of more Halloween-centric horror movies, but that's my list, getting a lot more of the more obvious choices out of the way.

Some good choices there. I'm not necessarily looking for movies based on Halloween. Just good horror movies to watch on Halloween.
Better yet, the movies you'd watch this year or have watched previous years.

Some good recommendations so far.

You're being too vague. Can you be more specific of what kinds of films you want?

IMO your list needs a few more slashers. Friday the 13th, NOES, Hellraiser, Scream.

I guess. Just good horror movies.
Specifically based on sub genre. Just a collection of horror movies you'd recommend if someone wanted to watch fun horror films or gory ones or slasher ones?

My plan for the video is to split it up into categories.
Here are a few movies to watch if you want jump scares!
Here's a few to watch if you want some gore!
Here's some cerebral psychological horror!
Here's some light hearted fun horror!
That type of stuff.

I basically wanna make a video list of movies that people can watch and hopefully find a group of movies to fit the type of Halloween that they want.

Failing all that. Just a list of great horror films will do too.
Sorry if its still kinda vague. The video is still in its planning stage!

Jump scares...Blair Witch Project.
Gore: Baskin.
Cerebral: Gothic
Light hearted: Slither

Good choices. I'm not sure I've heard of Baskin before. What's it about?

Also, feel free to add more different types of horror that I haven't thought of. Like slasher or classics.

Demons ( 1985 )
Evil Dead Trilogy
Night of the Living Dead ( 1990 )
Nosferatu ( 1922 )
Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 )
In the Mouth of Madness
Nightbreed
Shocker
Dagon

Well Baskin is about this horrible place called google where the foolhardy go to find the answers they seek. Or are they really smart and not fools? Only the devil knows!

Old B/W horror Sci-fi classics might be a good category. Fun ones like Fiend Without A Face and King Kong 1933.

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Here's some light hearted fun horror!
Evil Dead II
shawn of the dead
young frankenstien

Here's some cerebral psychological horror!
The Thing 1982
The Fly 1987
Scanners

Not sure about gory or jump scares, but here's some good Scary films:
Poltergeist (1982)
The Ring (2002)
When a Stranger Calls 1979
Dead Silence

Good:
Jaws
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Howling
Aliens

Brainscan(one of the best movies ever)
Evil Dead
Slither
Saw
Psycho
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm St
Candy Man
See No evil
People Under the Stairs

^ Very much this! I'll add The Tingler to that group, Vincent Price makes that movie work so well.

Church
Bad Taste
Demon Wind
Black Sunday
Black Sabbath

Sad to see no one posted Halloween 3 yet. Unless, the topic starter meant the whole Halloween series.

I've always considered Halloween III: Season of the Witch to be a standalone movie, not related to the Halloween franchise at all.

Yeah that's really odd, I just noticed that.


Whatever, it's still a classic Halloween film and it should not be ostracized for not being related to the rest of the Halloween series.

Halloween III pissed off a generation. Everyone was going to feel it was a bait-and-switch.

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I loved it as a kid, so no hurt feelings here.

Am I the only one who noticed that everyone hated this movie one day, then as if over night it had a cult following and everyone now loves it?


Personally I hated it. I should probably watch it again to refresh my memory so as to rant proper, but I remember watching it and just hating all the characters and being very frustrated at the ''bad guys'' in the movie.

I, a mere human, when I found out it had nothing to do with Halloween 1&2, I was very disappointed.

I saw it on TV, which I think broadcast very soon after its theatrical release. At that time, I was ready to like it (having seen the TV ads). I remember thinking it had a cool look and sound, but basically had zero impact on me beyond that.

Ya know, I may have missed it, but I don't recall Halloween3 ever having a cult following, including today. If it has a cult following today, I'll jump out on a limb here and say it took more than two decades to develop whatever it has now. = p

I'm looking forward to see it a second time after all these years.

You weren't the least bit disappointed it had nothing to do with the first 2? You're a spunky positive person!

Salutations!


Found.
Headless
AGP; BLOODSHOCK!
Inside
Grotesque
Baskin

Bait and switcheroo is right. Why not just call it "Season of the Witch"? Or even Silver Shamrock. Would have avoided a lot of backlash. Kind of like the old Friday the 13th TV show. I tune in and there's no Jason!