My horror movie recommendation list bc it’s October and why not
Hauntings & Demons 👻
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The Babadook (2014)
The Boy (2016)
Child’s Play (1988)
The Conjuring (2013) / The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Evil Dead series (especially the 2nd)*
The Exorcist (1973)
The Grudge (2004)
The House of the Devil (2009)*
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
I am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House (2016)
The Innkeepers (2011)
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Ju-On (2002)
The Omen (1976)
The Orphanage (2007)
The Others (2001)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Ring (2002)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Veronica (2017)
Zombies 🧟
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1975)
Dead Alive (1992)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)*
Overlord (2018)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Re-Animator (1985)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)*
Train to Busan (2016)
Zombeavers (2014)
Zombieland (2009)
Witches 🔮
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Black Sunday (1961)
The Craft (1996)
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Hereditary (2018)
The Love Witch (2016)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Suspiria (1977/2018)*
The Witch (2016)*
Vampires 🧛
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Dracula (1931)
Fright Night (1985/2011)*
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Interview With the Vampire (1994)
Let the Right One In (2008)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Nosferatu (1922)
Monsters 🐺
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)*
Cat People (1942)
The Descent (2005)*
Frankenstein (1931)
Ginger Snaps series (2000′s) (the first is a must-see)*
The Howling (1981)
It (1990/2017)* / It Chapter Two (2019)
It Follows (2014)
Jaws (1975)
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Krampus (2015)
Leprechaun (1993)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
The Mummy (1932)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
A Quiet Place (2018)
Raw (2016)*
The Wolf Man (1941)
Serial Killers/Slashers 🔪
American Mary (2012)
The Babysitter (2017)
Better Watch Out (2016)
Black Christmas (1974/2019)
Creep (2014)
Don’t Breathe (2017)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
The Final Girls (2015)
Friday the 13th series (particularly the first two)
Halloween series (the first is a must-see)*
Happy Death Day (2017) / Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
The House on Sorority Row (1983)
I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
A Nightmare on Elm Street series (the first is a must-see)
Psycho (1960)*
Ready or Not (2019)
Saw (2004)
Scream series (the first is a must-see)*
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Stage Fright (2014)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)*
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2011)
We Are What We Are (2013)
Aliens 👽
Alien (1979) / Aliens (1986)
The Faculty (1998)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
The Thing (1982)
Comedies (for those not really interested in horror) 🍿
Beetlejuice (1988)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Ghostbusters (1984/2016)
Heathers (1988)
Idle Hands (1999)
Little Evil (2017)
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (2016)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)*
What We Do in the Shadows (2015)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Family-friendly 🎃
The Addams Family (1991)
Coraline (2009)
Halloweentown series*
Hocus Pocus (1993)
The Monster Squad (1986)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
Psychological/Other 💀
Cabin in the Woods (2012)*
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Cam (2018)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Carrie (1976)*
Children of the Corn (1984)
Crimson Peak (2015)
Extraordinary Tales (2013)
Get Out (2017)*
Hellraiser (1987)
The Invisible Man (2020)
Midsommar (2019)*
Misery (1986)
The Neon Demon (2016)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
The Shining (1980)
Teeth (2007)*
Trick ‘R’ Treat (2007)
Us (2019)
Videodrome (1983)