I’ve caught flack for my love of all things spooky for quite some time now.  It’s about time I just own up to it,  I live for a good scary movie.  Sometimes I’ll have an old horror film playing in the background while I cook, and it’s not until someone else is around that I realize it may sound like people are being gutted in my living room. (Ew, but really.)  I get a total rush from that WTF plot twist, the suspense you can feel in the air when the music takes an ominous turn, that part when someone finally start believing the mum who swears there is a ghost & she’s not off her rocker.  October is my jam for a whole host of reasons, but  the time set aside to cuddle down & tune into a scary movie is definitely a chart topper.  Without further ado, Here’s a list of my favorites.  I’ve seen almost  all of these, and the remainder have come highly recommended.   So, turn those lights off, light a candle or two and tune into one of these gems.

thriller horror:

  • Road Games
  • The Village
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • Funny Games
  • The Awakening
  • The Watcher
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • The Tall Man
  • Funny Games
  • Donnie Darko
  • Get Out
  • Hush
  • Split
  • Geralds Game
  • Open House
  • The Boy
  • Marrowbone
  • I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the Hous
  • Skeleton Key
  • The Invitation
  • The Guest
  • The Wicker Man

sci-fy:

  • The Honeymoon
  • Signs
  • Alien
  • Prometheus
  • Termintor
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • The Descent
  • Let the Right One In

cult classics:

  • Lover’s Lane
  • Prom Night
  • Slumber Party Massacre
  • The House on Sorority Row
  • Full Moon of the Virgins
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Carrie
  • Friday the 13th
  • Sleepaway Camp
  • Children of the Corn
  • Pet Semetery

true horror:

  • VHS
  • The Conjuring
  • The Conjuring II
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • Jeepers Creepers
  • Jeepers Creepers 2
  • The Ring
  • Malevolent
  • Poltergeist
  • Pet Sematary
  • The Haunting of Hill House
  • The Conjuring
  • The Ring
  • Final Destinaition
  • Halloween 
  • IT
  • The Strangers 
  • Sinister 
  • Insidious 
  • Crimson Peak
  • The Woman in Black
  • Wrong Turn
  • House of Wax
  • Case 39
  • Scream
  • The Babadook
  • The Haunting in Connecticut
  • The Invitation
  • It Follows
  • Oculus
  • Insidious
  • Scream
  • The Nightmare on Elm Street
  • The Others
  • Visions

Intellectual Thrillers (Don’t Look Away):

  • Basic Instinct
  • Fatal Attraction
  • Silence of the Lambs