Best scary films for Halloween

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Hi all, we're planning on watching scary films on Halloween night.......no idea why, I'm such a wimp. Anyhoo, any recommendations from you wise souls? A good slasher film perhaps? Tia

The original Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis still scares me.

Hush is super creepy. I loved it.

Jumping in here with request for suggestions for Halloween movies for 12 yr old dd and her cousin?? Can't be anything slasher or too scary but alas they're too old now for Monster House or Scared Shrekless. Really struggling to find in between adult and child scary movie!

I third The Orphanage. As all good horror films are, it is full of regret, guilt, loss and sadness.

It looks beautiful as well, set around the glorious Asturias coastline.

Also An American Werewolf In London. A comedy-horror that, unusually, gets both of those elements absolutely right. Cracking soundtrack too.

The Grudge
The Thing
The Fog (original)
Grave Encounters

Oh, I love The Thing. I'm going to watch that tonight.

I like 30 days of Night and the Exorcist.

I.T. - the original one. Watched it when I was a child and have since been terrified of clowns.

DrBlackbird - The Woman in Black is a 12A

The Orphanage is a brilliant film. Pans Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone are awesome too

Great horror comedies: Severance, The Cabin in the Woods, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Dog Soldiers, all the Screams, Shaun of the Dead

Other fab horror films: Train to Busan, Ringu, Audition, Sinister, It Follows, Candyman, Halloween, Rec, The Thing, 28 Days Later

'Suspiria' directed by Dario Aregento. Rregarded as one of the best in the genre made in 1977. Excellent film.

Paranormal Activity. So creepy.

The Orphanage. Especially upsetting as a parent, in my opinion. My husband actually yelled "holy shit" in the theater at one point.
I love the Scream movies.
Frailty if you can find it.

DrBlackBird have they seen Coraline? My DC love that - even the older teens - it's really dark & creepy despite being animated. Or Hocus Pocus - I love that, very Halloween themed.

Beetlejuice is good too - I think the orginal was a 15 but we bought it again recently and it was only a PG - still good halloween fun though...

If you want something to genuinely scare them (a bit) The Others is only a 12 rating but is really spooky.

Candyman......I still can’t look in a mirror and say his name 😱

Mama (what colour I went when I watched it)it's a brilliant film.
Paranormal activity(all of them)
Resident evil.
The Thing(watched that when I was far to young)didn't sleep properly for a week afterwards.
Any Nightmare on Elm street film and any Chucky film.
White Noise and White Noise 2.
Silent Hill 1 and 2 fucking sick bits in both of those films but they are good.

30 days of night is THE best vampire film.

Anything with Peter Cushing in it. Including Nothing But The Night which also stars Diana Dors and a very young Gwyneth Strong (Cassandra from Only Fools and Horses.)

'The Ruling Class' starring Peter O'Toole.

'The Dark Angel' - based on the gothic tale 'Uncle SIlas' (movie made in 1947). Much more deliciously evil than the 1947 effort imo. Starring Peter O'Toole, who does dangerously unhinged very well.

Both really creepy as opposed to slasher.

Hocus Pocus. I don't do anything scarier than that lol

Highly recommended Shutter. I think its on Netflix

Also don't forget horror/sci-fi we just saw Alien Covenant and it was very good.
Also any of the earlier Alien movies, Event Horizon, Cloverfield, They Live...

However we are watching Shaun of the Dead - fancy a laugh more than a scare tonight!

The Japanese version of Dark Water. I could barely watch some of it.

Can anyone recommend some excellent spooky, ghostly films up to cert 15, with no gore or bloody scenes?

American Werewolf in London.

Name Lady in White which was mentioned upthread. Its usually shown at Christmas.

Warning...........its sad and the ending made me cry.

Thanks HelenaDove I'll check it out, although I'm a bit rubbish at sad films!