Halloween night is synonymous with fun. However, everyone has their preferences. While some go out to party, others prefer to play Halloween games on their mobile phone. Others prefer to sit on the couch and enjoy a good horror movie marathon.
Halloween is one of the best nights to sit back and enjoy a horror movie marathon.
For all those lovers of scary movies, below you will find some of those “indispensable” movies for any lover of scary movies and the streaming platforms on which they can be seen.
The best movies to watch on Halloween
-Nightmare Before Christmas (Apple TV and for rent on YouTube): This is Tim Burton’s classic, an animated film with a very appropriate soundtrack to watch on Halloween night. It will delight the little ones and also the rest of the family members.
-«Halloween (1978)» (Filmin and Movistar+): John Carpenter’s classic put one of the great villains of horror movies on the screen, Michael Myers. Years after being locked up in a psychiatric hospital for murdering his sister, Myers returns to his town and commits a series of brutal murders, while searching for his other sister Laurie, who will live a true nightmare.
-«The Return of the Witches» (Disney+): Despite not being a horror movie, this classic with Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker is a perfect movie to spend Halloween with the little ones in the house. Three witches from the 12th century are accidentally summoned in Salem on Halloween night by some children who will have to fight to return them to the banishment from which they have awakened.
-«Warren File» (HBO): Based on the documented stories of the married couple of parapsychologists Lorraine and Ed Warren, the story recounts some of the supernatural encounters that the Perrón family experienced in their Rhode Island home in the early 1970s.
-«The Street of Terror» (Netflix): It is a trilogy of horror films that tells a story during different eras. Although the origin of the evil that harasses the protagonist group is not revealed until the third of the films, the story keeps us in tension and takes us hand in hand from one film to another.
-«It Follows» (Amazon Prime Video and Filmin): A film that offers us a twist on the subject of curses, since on this occasion, the curse is a type of sexually transmitted disease. After a sexual encounter, Jay will find herself harassed by a paranormal entity that will never stop chasing her… Unless she passes the curse on to someone else.
-«The Texas Chainsaw Massacre» (Amazon Prime Video and Filmin): This 1974 Tobe Hooper classic changed horror cinema forever. The story centers on a group of teenagers on vacation in Texas, who end up being chased by a family of maniacal cannibals.
-«Veronica» (Netflix): Film directed by Paco Plaza and based on an event that occurred in the 90s in the Madrid neighborhood of Vallecas. Verónica, the young protagonist, will begin to feel strange presences that threaten her life and that of her family after a Ouija session.
-«The Carnival of Souls» (Filmin and Amazon Prime Video): This 1962 classic puts us on the track of Mary Henry, a young victim of a car accident, whose vehicle plunges into a river from a bridge. Hours later, Mary appears alone on a sandbar, disoriented, she begins to notice that the world around her is different and that the line between the living and the dead is increasingly blurred.
-«Night of the Living Dead» (Filmin and Movistar+): George Romero’s zombie classic, which started the phenomenon of the walking dead. The film narrates the first night of the appearance of the dead and how a small group of survivors will have to endure until dawn, locked in a small, isolated farm.
-«À l’intérieur» (Amazon Prime Video and Filmin): A pregnant and widowed woman, who spends Christmas night alone at home, will have to face the stranger who shows up at her house.
-«Welcome to the Blumhouse» (Amazon Prime Video): Last year, Amazon Prime Video premiered its “Welcome to the Blumhouse” collection of horror films for the first time, which includes “The Lie,” “Black Box,” “Nocturne,” and “Evil Eye.” This year, Amazon brings us the second part of this horror film collection with “Bingo Hell”, “Black as night”, “Madres” and “The Manor”.
