Scary Movies for Halloweenies
By Brett Neal
Halloween is a holiday people either love or hate. Nevertheless, it should be celebrated. If you don't have a super fun party to attend tonight, gather around your friends or family, order a delicious Papa John's pizza, and get over your fear of scary movies with one of these Halloween classics.
Synopsis: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Actors you know: Kevin Bacon
Synopsis: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
Actors you know:Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci
Synopsis: Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.
Actors you know: Catherine O'Hara, Chris Sarandon
Synopsis: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Actors you know:Jack Nicholson
Synopsis: A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Actors you know:Jamie Lee Curtis
Synopsis: A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.
Actors you know: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin
Synopsis: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Actors you know:Christopher Lloyd, Anjelica Huston
Synopsis: In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.
Actors you know: Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Synopsis:Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
Actors you know: Bill Murray, Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Synopsis: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Actors you know:Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell, Matthew Lillard, Drew Berrymore
Synopsis: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Actors you know:Mel Gibson, Joaquin Pheonix
Synopsis: The population of a small, isolated countryside village believe that their alliance with the mysterious creatures that inhabit the forest around them is coming to an end.
Actors you know: Joaquin Pheonix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver
Friday the 13th
Scare-O-meter: 8
Synopsis: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Actors you know: Kevin Bacon
Sleepy Hollow
Scare-O-meter: 5Synopsis: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
Actors you know:Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci
The Nightmare before Christmas
Scare-O-meter: 2Synopsis: Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.
Actors you know: Catherine O'Hara, Chris Sarandon
The Shining
Scare-O-meter: 9
Synopsis: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.Actors you know:Jack Nicholson
Halloween
Scare-O-meter: 8Synopsis: A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Actors you know:Jamie Lee Curtis
Beetlejuice
Scare-O-meter: 2Synopsis: A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.
Actors you know: Michael Keaton, Alec BaldwinThe Addams Family
Scare-O-meter: 1Synopsis: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Actors you know:Christopher Lloyd, Anjelica Huston
Nightmare on Elm Street
Scare-O-Meter: 7Synopsis: In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.
Actors you know: Johnny Depp, Robert EnglundGhostbusters
Scare-O-meter: 1Synopsis:Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
Actors you know: Bill Murray, Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Scream
Scare-O-meter: 6Synopsis: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Actors you know:Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell, Matthew Lillard, Drew Berrymore
Signs
Scare-O-meter: 5Synopsis: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Actors you know:Mel Gibson, Joaquin PheonixThe Village
Scare-O-meter: 6Synopsis: The population of a small, isolated countryside village believe that their alliance with the mysterious creatures that inhabit the forest around them is coming to an end.
Actors you know: Joaquin Pheonix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Scare-O-meter: 0
Synopsis: The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.
Actors you know: Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Sally, Pig-pen
Synopsis: The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.
Actors you know: Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Sally, Pig-pen
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