It’s finally Halloween, the wait is over. To celebrate the spookiest time of the year Brig has put together a list of films for you to consider watching. There’s plenty of horror films out there, but these five feel especially cozy and creepy, the perfect mix to create the perfect Halloween night-in.
5. You’re Next
You’re Next is a home-invasion film that subverts the typical format by putting the invaders on the back foot as the final girl takes the fight to them in a bloody brutal fashion.
It’s gory, funny and shocking all in equal measure. Loaded with a killer score that’ll be stuck in your head day after the credits roll, there’s no better home-invasion flick to watch this year.
4. Evil Dead 2
No autumnal seasonal watch through is complete without Sam Rami’s Evil Dead 2. A slapstick comedy that places the typical everyman against an unstoppable demonic force known as the “deadites”.
The best part about Evil Dead 2 is that you don’t need to watch the original before jumping headfirst into ash’s hopeless fight, as the film gives a recap of the original’s events in the first five minutes.
If you want to skip the traditional scary movies this Halloween, give Evil Dead 2 a go. It’s more silly than it is scary, but there’s plenty of blood to satisfy all your gory needs.
3. Trick r’ Treat
Once little-known Trick r’ Treat is a thrilling anthology movie that explores a couple familiar styles of horror, all framed around everyone’s favourite spooky holiday.
If you’ve not the seen the film you’ll have seen Sam, the spooky child that has a deep connection with Halloween. Though he’s a small part of the stories the film explores. He makes a great impression and has become iconic among horror fans.
2. Scary Movie
Scary Movie, the perfect party movie. The film spoofs iconic 90’s horror films like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Blair Witch Project to great effect, making a horror film that skips scares in favour of straight forward comedy.
If you’re having a couple pals over for some drinks for Halloween, stick on Scary Movie there is few films that’ll get as many laughs as it will.
1. Halloween (1978)
It would feel wrong to not include Halloween (1978) at the top of the list, after all it is the quintessential slasher film. Whilst Psyscho and Black Christmas might have created the “slasher” sub-genre, Halloween solidified the tropes and has parodied to death in the decades since.
Micheal Myers is bound to scare your socks off and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode is just as iconic as her slasher counterpart. If you’re in the mood for a slasher that’s perfectly suited to the Halloween festivities, you cannot go wrong with John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978).
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