With Halloween right around the corner, it's time to que up the horror films! Please list the tv shows and movies that you enjoy watching during the Halloween season, even if they don't really fit into the horror genre. If it's horror, supernatural, macabre, or just down right bizarre, and it's something you get in the mood to see around Halloween, put it on the list!

Ooh, I like this.

Some movies that come to my mind (that I can easily watch)-

Nightmare Before Christmas

Beetlejuice

The Crow (points at avatar)

Ghostbusters & 2

Alien

Corpse Bride

Ummmm.... a few that I used to enjoy watching around Halloween but currently can't-

Spaced Invaders

Rockula

I'm not big into 'scary' movies, but don't dislike them.

COuld watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MnaYzBhx0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3QEjMq6e68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6Z1nBqLwo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFn0e5d00Qbut not out til later

I favor older, more atmospheric movies. Modern films do very little for me. I have included dates to help distinguish some of these films from crap remakes.

Ooh good ones! I love The Crow and (to a lesser extent) The Crow: City of Angels, I definitely include them on my list. In addition to the other Tim Burton flicks you mentioned, I always watch Sleepy Hollow on Halloween night (if I'm at home). Beer and Sleepy Hollow, lol. Something of a tradition for me, I guess.

Classics! I've been meaning to watch Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and I recently noticed it's on Netflix!

The Haunting (1963)

The Innocents

The Legend of Hell House

Nosferatu the Vampire

The Thing (1982)

Alien

The Fearless Vampire Killers (comedy/horror with amazing atmosphere)

The Company of Wolves

Kwaidan

Ringu

Juon

Onibaba

Kuroneko

Hellraiser 1 & 2

Clive Barker's Book of Blood

The Eye (original)

The Ghost

A Chinese Ghost Story

Re-Cycle

Night of the Demon

Dead of Night

Quatermass and the Pit

Theatre of Blood

Psychomania

The Whicker Man (original)

I watch horror movies all year round, but here are some more obscure ones that I often re-watch in the autumn/winter...


From Beyond (1986)

Black Sunday (1960)

Near Dark (1987) A fun vampire movie.

Suspiria (1977)

Demons (1985)

Dawn of the Dead (1978) Besides the first, this is the best in the series.

The Beyond (1981)

Dead Alive (1992) Comedic horror by Peter Jackson. This movie is essential viewing.

The Burning (1981) Very underrated slasher. Lots of fun.

Hellraiser (1987)

The Descent (2005)

Zombi 2 (1979) A zombie fights a shark! Enough said.

and...

House (1977) If you want some really bizarre Japanese stuff.

Yes!

My list (in no particular order)





I'm sure there's some I'm forgetting.

And here are 3 I forgot!


And one I remembered: The Masque of the Red Death starring Vincent Price

Love Vincent Price, and will add anything from the Hammer Horror studio worth watching. A good list in here, some I dont recognise and will have to go check out. Thanks!

I have been meaning to catch up on the third season of penny dreadfull.

Just so you know, season 3 is the final season of this fun show. I was so disappointed. . Otherwise, it's an excellent show.

This looks good! Phantasm was one of the first movies to scare the begeebies outta me, along with Salem's Lot.

I'm not much into gore for scare tactics, but I did like the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie.

What to watch...

Sadly, my DVD collection is lacking in the horror genre. Maybe I'll throw in Rocky Horror and definitely Lady Death. I'll see if these work for me

John Carpenter's The Thing. My absolute favorite horror movie.

I could never really get into horror films.. they never scare me, just make me mildly uncomfortable.. although I did find the Blair Witch project to be interesting..

The biggest misconception of horror movies is that they are supposed to create fear. That rarely happens.


Horror movies are designed to thrill you.

With the use of unsettling themes and images, a good horror movie will entertain you with a fantasy that uses our instinctual fears of death and the unknown to make us tense.


The "scary" stuff happens in your own imagination, often after the movie has ended and you're alone in the dark.

Well this thread is about more than just horror movies. If there's anything at all you like to watch during the Halloween season add it!

Young Frankenstein

Yes! That will be watched, too

Excellent! You are missed, Gene Wilder.

I wish The Resurrected was on Bluray in the US as I'd rather not spend $60 for the Japanese release.

The resurrected is the movie version of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

*Drools* Ooh I would like to see that! Any other recommendations for movies based on Lovecraftian horror?

Whisperer in the Darkness

Colour from Out of Space (2010)

Dagon

H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon (1994)

Call of Cthulhu (2005)

In the Mouth of Madness


One I wish was being made would have been

At the Mountains of Madness by Guillermo del Toro

when I was a kid I always watched "Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" with my mother.. these days i'll turn it on once and awhile for nostalgia sake