Below are three of the best Halloween films that you should definitely watch this weekend to get in the spooky spirit. Grab some popcorn, candy, and friends and have a Halloween movie marathon!
Scream: The 1996 film Scream is an iconic mystery/horror story that shows us what happens to high schoolers with an unknown killer on the loose. The killer in question goes around killing people with a knife while wearing a ghost face mask and a hooded robe. Nobody knows why this killer is going around slicing open people in a safe and gated community, or who the killer even is. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) senses a lot of similarities between these murders and the murder of her mother a year earlier; all are super bloody and gruesome. She believed that she caught her mother’s killer and put him behind bars, but could he possibly have been framed? Sydney begins to second guess her instincts and wonders if her mother’s killer is still on the loose, especially after she realizes she’s the killer’s main target. This movie keeps you guessing who the killer is until the very end and what their motive could possibly be. The killer may be right in front of your eyes. Anyone is a suspect. If you enjoy Scream, well then, you’re in luck because there are three other movies and a fourth coming out in January.
Hocus Pocus: The Disney classic Hocus Pocus 1993 is set in Salem, Massachusetts during Halloween time. Teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) and his little sister Dani (Thora Birch) move to Salem from Los Angeles. They are greeted with extremely enthusiastic Halloween goers, and unlike Dani, Max doesn’t know how to handle this. He has a hard time fitting in with the other high schoolers in Salem, but he meets a girl named Allison (Vinessa Shaw) whom he quickly befriends. She has a negative first impression of him, though, because he doesn’t believe in the Halloween tales that the town is so invested in. On Halloween night, Max, Dani, and Allison go out trick-or-treating and wander to the old house and abandoned museum of the Sanderson Sisters. The Sanderson Sisters are famous in Salem and legend has it they killed children with their magic in the eighteenth century but were then hanged by the colonists. Max decides it would be funny to light the black flame candle as a joke. This candle supposedly brings back the sisters on All Hallows Eve if lit. Can you guess what happens? If you guess that they came back, then you are right. Max becomes a Halloween believer, but at a terrible cost. It is up to Max, Dani and Allison to make sure the Sanderson Sisters don’t wreak too much havoc in Salem on Halloween night.
Halloween: If you haven’t seen Halloween 1978, then you definitely should get on it since it is unarguably the most classic Halloween movie of all time. This film begins with a six-year-old Michael Myers killing his teenage sister with a knife while they’re home alone on Halloween night. Six-year-old Michael is sentenced to fifteen years behind bars. The film takes place on Halloween fifteen years after his sister’s death. On this day, Michael is transferred to a different facility in order to attend his court date along with other mentally unstable people, but he ends up getting away. Michael Myers (Nick Castle) steals a car and goes back to his childhood neighborhood hungry to kill. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a teenage girl and neighborhood babysitter who gets entangled in this mess. Do authorities end up finding the deranged masked murderer before too many people pay the price of him walking around free? You’ll have to watch to find out.