Horror Movies

Personally, I like to celebrate Halloween the entire month of October. I like to get in the spooky mood by watching horror movies. You can basically find them anywhere; Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disc, and they tend to release in theaters around this time as well. While this list isn’t ranked, I do think these are the best of the horror movies.

Rosemary’s Baby

Based on a well written book, the idea that a satanic cult has basically stolen a woman’s life and her autonomy is scary in itself. But the fact that her husband a hundred percent betrays her and sells her and her child to Satan...I screamed. I studied this film in college and the tension that grows throughout the film as well as the foreshadowing is very well done. It’s also one of the last films Sharon Tate appeared in before she unfortunately was murdered by the Manson family.

A Quiet Place

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I studied ASL so it was nice to see that the language was such a main point in the film (along with a lot of people in the Deaf/ Hard of Hearing communities). It explores the unsettling feeling that we may have from silence, escalating it by making a world where the way to survive is by being silent.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I caught the end of this movie when I was a kid… and it scared me. My mother’s favorite film is The Crow, which I watched when I was five… so being scared of something in a movie was new to me. I actually still haven’t watched the entire thing because from that one time when I was ten or eleven and got scared from catching the last five minutes.

Split

I like the exploration of mental health in films… especially to the unrealistic extremes. Especially since one of the people in “The Horde” is a superhuman known as “the beast” and it just interests me to see. While I’d love an accurate representation of mental illnesses, I do find the profound extremes equally entertaining.

The Conjuring

Ed and Lorraine Warren and their paranormal cases have inspired multiple horror movies, but not all have been as successful as The Conjuring. The plot, the effects, and really the entire unsettling vibe you get from the get-go makes this a future classic.

The Evil Dead

Whether the original or remake (which I actually think are pretty good), it’s in a similar tune to other demonic movies. The remake is easily five times gorier than the original and I find more terrifying even though the original is still (obviously) valid since it’s the reason the remake was y’know… made.

Us

I watched Jordan Peele’s Us recently, and I have to say… can you imagine if a bunch of clones of people just murking everybody while they smile creepily. The twist at the end as well… is really just… mmm, yes.

The Exorcist

A horror movie classic; The Exorcist really kick started the demonic possession movies. The uncensored (unedited) version of the movie is raunchy and much more disturbing than the one that was first shown in 1973 or even the one you might see air on general television. It was so disturbing to 1973 audiences that barf bags were handed out when a ticket was bought; followed by the circumstances that happened during and after shooting the movie.

Children of the Corn

Though the film (original... we don’t talk about the 2009 version) could use a decent reboot. I don’t even know how to explain how disturbing children antagonists in horror films, honest to god, terrify me. The mere idea of an entire cult made of children that slaughter anybody older than eighteen or nineteen years old… no. Also one of them is named MALACHI (sorry if your name is Malachai) but that name rings “I’m a soulless killer” vibes from the moment the parents name them that.