Halloween Watch List: Fun and Fear
This is just a quick list of horror films that you may want to add to your Halloween watch list.
Some films are repeated if they clearly fall into a couple of categories. Regardless, Crash Palace trusts you’ll find something worthwhile to watch this Halloween season!
Happy Halloween and enjoy!
Anthologies
Black Sabbath (1963), Kwaidan (1964), From Beyond the Grave (1974), Creepshow (1982), Trick ‘r Treat (2007), Little Deaths (2011), A Christmas Horror Story (2015, Southbound (2015), Tales of Halloween (2015)
Art House
Eraserhead (1977), Possession (1981), Singapore Sling (1990), Naked Lunch (1991), Cemetery Man (1994), Gozu (2003), Love Object (2004), Amer (2009), Excision (2012), Resolution (2012), The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013), Under the Skin (2013), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Body Horror
Videodrome (1983), Society (1988), Tetsuo (1989), Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992), eXistenZ (1999), Antiviral (2012)
Comedy
Student Bodies (1981), Night of the Creeps (1986), Evil Dead II (1987), Street Trash (1987), Killer Klownz from Outer Space (1988), Cemetery Man (1994), Ginger Snaps (2000), Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006), Severance (2006), Blood Car (2007), Red Victoria (2007), Jennifer’s Body (2009), Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010), What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Creature Features
Them! (1954), Lair of the White Worm (1988), The Mothman Prophecies (2002), Feast (2005), Slither (2006), Cloverfield (2008), Grace (2009), Wyvern (2009) (TV), Shin Godzilla (2016)
Devils/Demons
Night of the Demon (1957), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Angel Heart (1987), Hellraiser (1987), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), The Prince of Darkness (1988), Dust Devil (1992), Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995), The Devil’s Advocate (1997), Wishmaster (1997), The Ninth Gate (1999), Constantine (2005), Red Victoria (2007), Devil (2010), The Lords of Salem (2012)
Found Footage
The Last Broadcast (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Paranormal Activity (2007), The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), Skew (2011), Mortal Remains (2013), Alien Abduction (2014)
Ghosts
The Fog (1988), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Ring (2002), The Orphanage (2007), Paranormal Activity (2007), The Skeptic (2009), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Gothic
House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Haunted House
The Haunting (1963), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Changeling (1980), The Shining (1980), Session 9 (2001)
Most Disturbing
Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Men Behind the Sun (1988), Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Grimm Love (2006), Martyrs (2008), Grotesque (2009), A Serbian Film (2010), Moebius (2014)
Non-Horror Horror Films
The Andromeda Strain (1971), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Last Wave (1977)
Psychological
In a Glass Cage (1986), Jacob’s Ladder (1990), In the Mouth of Madness (1995), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Dead End (2003), Premonition (2004), The Uninvited Guest (2004), Head Trauma (2006), Sublime (2007), Triangle (2009)
Science Fiction/Alien
The War of the Worlds (1953), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Crazies (1973), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Alien (1979), The Thing (1982), Xtro (1983), Lifeforce (1985), Cube (1997), Earth vs. the Spider (2001) (TV), She Creature (2001) (TV), Isolation (2005), Cloverfield (2008), The Ruins (2008), Timecrimes (2008), The Crazies (2010), Under the Skin (2013), Alien Abduction (2014), Crawl or Die (2014), Antibirth (2016)
Siege
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Feast (2005), Green Room (2016), VFW (2019)
Silent
The Student of Prague (1913), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Faust (1926), The Man Who Laughs (1928), Vampyr (1932), Moebius (2014)
Slashers/Killers
Peeping Tom (1960), Duel (1971) (TV), My Bloody Valentine (1981), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Scream (1996), Office Killer (1997), Perfect Blue (1998) (animated), May (2002), Identity (2003), The Toolbox Murders (2004), Dream Home (2010), Final Destination 5 (2011), The World of Kanako (2014), Terrifier (2016)
So Bad It’s Entertaining
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), Seytan (1974), Mystics in Bali (1981), Race War: The Remake (2012)
Vampires
Martin (1977), The Hunger (1983), Lifeforce (1985), Vampire’s Kiss (1988), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Habit (1997), Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) (animated), 30 Days of Night (2007), Let the Right One In (2008), Suck (2009), Midnight Son (2011), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Werewolves
The Wolf Man (1941), Ginger Snaps (2000), Dog Soldiers (2002), Howl (2015)
Witches
Black Sunday (1960), Baba Yaga (1973), Poison for the Fairies (1986), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Skeleton Key (2005), The Lords of Salem (2012), The Witch (2015), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Zombies
Plague of the Zombies (1966), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1994), Wild Zero (1999), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Deadgirl (2008), Pontypool (2008), The Horde (2009)
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Billy Crash
Also known as William D. Prystauk, he loves great, in-depth characters and storytelling in horror, and likes to see heads roll, but if you kill a dog on screen he’ll cry like a baby. Crash, an award-winning screenwriter and novelist, co-hosts THE LAST KNOCK horror podcast on iTunes, and can also be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, IMDb, Amazon, Behance, YouTube, and Instagram. He’s currently in pre-production on a dramatic thriller feature while working on the third novel in his #KinkNoir crime thriller series.
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