I absolutely adore the run up to Halloween and this season –
the weather getting cooler (definitely not a summer girl), the autumnal vibes,
the release of a bunch of new spooky movies and TV shows – it’s definitely my
time of year. I am a true horror lover through and through, and it definitely
becomes easier to watch horrors when it’s a bit more socially acceptable in the
month or so leading up to Halloween!
So I thought that now would be a decent time for a round up
of the best offerings in horror online, all right and ready for your Halloween
entertainment!
Evil Dead (Prime) – A remake of sorts of the classic, Evil
Dead gets a gruesome update in this 2013 reboot. With gore, horror and scares
aplenty, horror fans most certainly will be happy with everything Evil Dead has
in store.
As Above, So Below (Prime) – 6 years old now, I can still
remember going to see this in the cinema with Liam (not a horror fan). Filmed
in found-footage style, the film captures the true claustrophobia of the
Parisian Catacombs. In hindsight, it probably wasn’t a good idea for us to
watch this film prior to visiting them in Paris ourselves…
Dead Silence (Prime) – Why are dolls so damn creepy? Based
all around the concept of haunted ventriloquist dolls, need I really say more? Honestly
the first time I watched this film it flat out terrified me, and I’ve only
watched it a handful of times since.
Resident Evil (Prime) – Regardless of where you stand on the
whole reboot coming soon (I’m all for more Resident Evil at the end of the
day), there’s no denying the films can be worthy of a good binge. To this day I
still get chills about *that* laser room scene, and whilst the later films may
have declined and gone off the rails slightly, its's in general not a bad film
series to watch.
American Mary (Prime) – One I haven’t watched in years, but I still
remember the chills it gave me to this day. Following a broke surgical resident
as she becomes involved in the extreme body modification world for extra cash,
this film is definitely not for the faint of heart.
Sinister (Netflix) – A supernatural horror revolving around
a writer that discovers some home movies in his hew house that appear to depict
gruesome murders. The atmosphere of the film is so borderline creepy that I
found myself on edge in parts, and the pagan deity that appears throughout the
film? Well he’s just flat out terrifying.
The Conjuring (Netflix) – Anything labelled as based on true
events automatically gets 10/10 spooky points from me. And The Conjuring doesn’t fail to deliver either.
Devil (Netflix) – When 5 strangers get trapped in a lift and
slowly picked off 1 by 1 by the Devil, a detective must work fast to try and
save them. It may not sound truly spooky, but trust me when I say you’ll
constantly be on the edge of your seat.
The Possession Of Hannah Grace (Netflix) – Set in a morgue of
all places, this film truly knows how to turn something you may consider a tad
creepy into something just flat out terrifying. Alone in a morgue with dead
bodies that aren’t seemingly all that dead? Yeah count me out thank you!
Halloween (Netflix) It’s rare to find remakes or reboots anywhere near as good as the originals, but thankfully the latest Halloween outing delivers. Revisiting Haddonfield years later, we see what has become of Laurie Strode. It’s a welcome return to the Halloween series after the *ahem* slightly disappointing Rob Zombie fiasco.
What are your top picks for horror films?
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