I watched 31 horror movies for Halloween and these are the 13 that stand out the most

The time is yet here, it's Halloween 2024, and that intends that my scary movie countdown has travel to an end. Over nan past fewer weeks, I've relied connected nan best streaming services to tick disconnected best scary movies disconnected my watchlist for each time of October, and now I've narrowed them each down to nan apical 13 scary movies that stood retired to maine nan most.

After watching slasher movies, psychological horrors, sci-fi horrors, and supernatural horrors, I've accumulated movies crossed each subgenre which I urge streaming for Halloween 2024. These are cleanable for if you haven't sewage immoderate Halloween plans and are staying astatine home, aliases to person connected successful nan inheritance while you recreation backmost and distant to nan beforehand doorway to manus retired candy to instrumentality aliases treaters.

Ready aliases Not (2019)

Director: Tyler Gillett & Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Running time: 95 minutes
Where to stream: Hulu (US); Disney Plus (UK & AU)

Ready aliases Not is 1 of those scary movies that combines drama pinch slasher elements, and is simply a awesome drama scary movie to watch this Halloween to equilibrium nan scary pinch nan funny. While it packs suspense and bloody scenes that I've travel to emotion successful a slasher, nan gore doesn't purpose to beryllium realistic making it a suitable watch if you're not 1 for schematic assemblage horror.

This is nan movie that affirmed Samara Weaving arsenic a modern shriek queen for me, joining nan likes of icons Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Mia Goth. Since ticking Ready aliases Not disconnected my watchlist, Radio Silence productions announced that a sequel is connected nan measurement pinch Weaving returning - motion maine up.

Scream (1996)

Director: Wes Craven
Running time: 111 minutes
Where to stream: Max (US), Paramount Plus (UK), Binge (AU)

Like I said successful my slasher movie roundup successful week one, Scream is nan slasher to extremity each slashers - defining nan property of self-referential horrors. It packs everything I want successful a slasher; iconic cast, a whodunnit storyline, and characteristic deaths that will beryllium remembered everlastingly (my individual favorites being Tatum's car shed doorway situation, and Stu's decease by television).

Scream 2 (1997)

Director: Wes Craven
Running time: 120 minutes
Where to stream: Max (US), Paramount Plus (UK), Binge (AU)

Sequels are tricky, but successful nan lawsuit of Scream 2 I tin fto it slide. Just really nan first insert of nan franchise referred to classical horrors to create and build its narrative, Scream 2 looks astatine nan domiciled of sequel movies successful horror, commenting connected its tropes successful different self-referential plotline. The decease sequences successful Scream 2 don't clasp backmost and are conscionable arsenic memorable arsenic nan first movie - return nan opening segment successful nan movie theatre and Sarah Michelle Gellar's pavilion infinitesimal arsenic premier examples.

A Nightmare connected Elm Street (1984)

Director: Wes Craven
Running time: 96 minutes
Where to stream: Max (US)

If you couldn't tell, Wes Craven had a large beingness successful my first week of counting down to Halloween, and his '80s classical slasher A Nightmare connected Elm Street laid nan groundwork for each slasher movie that followed. Not only is it 1 of nan champion slashers but it's besides 1 of nan champion precocious schoolhouse movies, and those 2 mixed make it a staple for a Halloween movie night.

Not only is A Nightmare connected Elm Street cleanable for a spooky movie night, but its antagonist Freddy Krueger is simply a classical Halloween costume that has been interpreted for nan past 40 years - proving nan movie's longevity.

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Running time: 107 minutes
Where to stream: Max (US), Disney Plus (UK & AUS)

When I spot immoderate movie pinch M. Night Shyamalan's sanction attached to it I'm reluctant to property play - I wasn't nan biggest instrumentality of Old (2021) and erstwhile I watched Signs (2002) for sci-fi scary week, I was near wanting more. But I tin opportunity pinch assurance that The Sixth Sense was 1 of my favourite movies to watch during my Halloween countdown.

If you for illustration a spine-chilling thriller pinch a kid main characteristic and a mind-boggling crippled twist astatine nan end, I person you to watch this psychological scary this Halloween if you haven't seen it already.

Creep (2014)

Director: Patrick Brice
Running time: 82 minutes
Where to stream: Netflix (US, UK, AUS)

I've said it earlier and I'll opportunity it again, recovered footage scary ne'er fails to freak maine out. I retrieve watching The Blair Witch Project (1999) and clenching up astatine immoderate fixed moment, and it was precisely nan aforesaid pinch Creep. Although this type of scary will get maine each time, I beryllium done them anyhow because I person a blameworthy pleasance for nan thrill and adrenaline of now knowing what is going to travel next.

Creep is frightening yet nosy to watch connected Halloween nighttime for you who are looking for a due scare, and if it turns retired you for illustration it conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic I do, its sequel is besides disposable connected Netflix.

The Silence of nan Lambs (1991)

Director: Johnathan Demme
Running time: 119 minutes
Where to stream: Prime Video (US & UK)

One of nan galore re-watch movies I included successful my Halloween countdown, and 1 that I will ne'er get saturated of revisiting. And while it's intent isn't to scare and terrify, it's 1 of nan champion movies for writing, characterization, and acting performances that support you connected separator passim and guessing what will travel next.

Storyline aside, I find thing much captivated than a powerful heroine and Jodie Foster's gives a capacity that makes maine jump retired of my spot and cheer erstwhile each nan movie's pieces autumn into place.

It's What's Inside (2024)

Director: Greg Jardin
Running time: 103 minutes
Where to stream: Netflix (US, UK, AUS)

Who would've thought, a Netflix Original movie that I really like! Similar to nan Gen-Z perspective of Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) but besides emulating a whodunnit communicative for illustration nan '80s classical Clue (1985), It's What's Inside was by acold 1 of my most-enjoyed movies retired of each nan ones I watched successful nan build up to Halloween.

Like I mentioned successful my erstwhile roundup, this movie balances scary pinch drama but dissimilar Ready aliases Not (2019) it's doesn't purpose to beryllium a drama and alternatively nan funny sides of nan movie are very earthy successful execution.

The Fly (1986)

Director: David Cronenberg
Running time: 96 minutes
Where to stream: Hulu (US), Disney Plus (UK and AU)

I wouldn't opportunity that sci-fi is simply a genre for me, unless it's very campy and unrealistic for illustration The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Not that The Fly is arsenic campy arsenic Rocky Horror, but watching nan metamorphosis of Jeff Goldblum's characteristic turn much aggravated and schematic pinch those '80s prosthetics was truthful ridiculously unserious, I loved it. It's not incorrect to opportunity that The Fly is each astir nan beingness transformation, but for me, nan movie's constituent of position is each astir Goldblum's obsession pinch his trade which leads to nan downfall of his sanity.

No One Will Save You (2023)

Director: Brian Duffield
Running time: 93 minutes
Where to stream: Hulu (US), Disney Plus (UK and AU)

My favourite movie from sci-fi scary week was by acold No One Will Save You, purely because I wasn't expecting it to beryllium wholly devised of shape directions and only 5 words of dialogue. Kaitlyn Dever had a difficult occupation upholding nan power of her characteristic without immoderate speech giving her an penetration to who she was expected to beryllium playing. It shows that arsenic an actress, she's skilled pinch reference betwixt nan lines and tin convey a characteristic pinch facial expressions and by reacting to her surroundings. It's 1 of those movies that requires undivided attention, but erstwhile you scope nan climax you'll want to rewind and watch it each complete again.

Ring (1998)

Director: Hideo Nakata
Running time: 96 minutes
Where to stream: Tubi (US); Freevee (UK)

I've ever been acquainted pinch this scary because of nan 2002 English-language remake and, of course, Scary Movie 3 (2003). So erstwhile I saw that nan Japanese original connected Freevee done Prime Video, I jumped astatine nan chance to watch it. I'd watched Pulse (2001) a fewer months backmost truthful that was my preamble to Japanese scary movies, and I enjoyed what I saw - truthful I had nary uncertainty that Ring would succeed. It's a awesome illustration of an municipality story scary group successful nan precocious '90s integer age, packing unsettling jump-scare inserts that are much spin-chilling than shocking.

Carrie (1976)

Director: Brian De Palma
Running time: 98 minutes
Where to stream: AMC+ (US), Prime Video (UK), Stan (AU)

My favourite movie from supernatural scary week was decidedly Stephen King's first book-to-movie adaptation, proving that erstwhile it comes to nan scary genre, he's unmatched. While Carrie is simply a elemental 98-minute scary group successful a precocious school, it has a overmuch deeper meaning beneath each nan carnage that erupts during nan movie's climax. Its messages of abuse, religion, and misogyny person propelled nan movie into nan level of iconography its known for today, and it's go specified a beloved favourite among fans to nan grade wherever it's been adjacent intolerable for its remakes to match.

Dracula (1958)

Director: Terence Fisher
Running time: 82 minutes
Where to stream: Prime Video (UK)

An early illustration of scary that exudes campiness - but successful nan champion measurement possible. Bringing nan celebrated Dracula characteristic to nan large screen, Fisher's gothic scary is adopts a accepted mentation of vampires (garlic, woody stakes, you sanction it) and I wouldn't person had it immoderate different way. It's nan oldest scary movie retired of each nan ones I watched this month, and though it's not astatine each scary, you tin still spot really it employs suspense techniques that are still utilized by scary movies makers today.

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