100 Best Halloween Movies

[Chainsawmidget]

No, Mr. Myers hasn't been in that many movies.  This is all about the movies that best fit the holiday.  Now they don't have to be set on Halloween, they don't have to be horror, they just need to be movies that have that certain Halloween feel.   You know the type.  (If not, pretend you do or everybody else is going to laugh at you.)  


Just to get things started off, a personal favorite of mine...



1.  Jack-O

It's a movie with a killer pumpkinheaded man going around terrorizing people on Halloween.  It's got Linnea Quigley taking a shower and an appearance by John Carradine long after he was dead.  Despite being a mid 90s movie it feels like vintage 80s cheese.

What more could you ask for?  


1.  Jack-O
2.  Poltergeist
3.  Trick R Treat
4.  Hellhouse
5.  Jeepers Creepers
6.  Night of the Living Dead
7.  Carrie
8.  Return of the Living Dead
9.  Psycho
10.  Midnight Hour
11.  Donnie Darko
12.  Boo!
13.  Halloween
14.  Bride of Frankenstein
15.  Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
16.  Carnival of Souls
17.  The Haunting (1963)
18.  Ernest Scared Stupid
19.  Halloween 3
20.  The Shinning
21.  Let's Scare Jessica to Death
22.  Creepshow
23.  Something Wicked this way comes
24.  Satan's Little Helper
25.  Nightmare before Christmas
26.  Night of the Demons (1988)
27.  The Thing From Another World (1951)
28.  Dead Silence
29.  Tales From The Crypt (1972)
30.  Elvira:  Mistress of the Dark
31.  Curse of the Cat People
32.  Invaders from Mars
33.  Campfire Tales
34.  Killer Klowns from Outer Space
35.  Abbot and Costello meetFrankenstein
36.  Monster Squad
37.  Trilogy of Terror
38.  Sole Survivor
39.  John Carpenter's The Thing
40.  The Devil Rides Out
41.  War of the Worlds
42.  Ghost Stroy
43.  The Burrowers
44.  Sleepy Hollow
45.  Slashers
46.  Terror on Tape
47.  The Mummy (1932)
48.  Dead Alive
49.  The Changeling
50.  House of Frankenstein (1944)
51.  RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL
52.  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
53.  Night of the Demon (1957)
54.  Madman (1982)
55.  Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
56.  Sorority House Massacre 2:  Nighty Nightmare
57.  The Midnight Hour
58.  Nosferatu
59.  It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
60.  The Exorcist
61.  Night of the Creeps
62.  Phantasm II
63.  Les Yeux Sans Visage
64.  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
65.  Blood Angels
66.  Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
67.  Tombs of the Blind Dead
68.  Fright night
69.  House on Haunted Hill (1959)
70.  The Strangers (2008)
71.  Amusement
72.  The Old Dark House (1932)
73.  The Legend of Hell House (1973)
74.  Scream

'tis the season (Mwahahahaha haha ha ha)

[HARDtoREACH]

I think POLTERGEIST has a good halloweenish feel to it. 

[SkullBat308]

3. Honestly, should be number 1, Trick R Treat is amazingly Halloweeny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh0DwJZjz8

[indianasmith]

HELLHOUSE with Linda Blair.  One of the favorite scary movies of my youth.


and, for a more recent scarefest:

JEEPERS CREEPERS!

[Chainsawmidget]

3. Honestly, should be number 1, Trick R Treat is amazingly Halloweeny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh0DwJZjz8

It was a toss-up. 

I gave it to Jack-O because I knew that if I didn't mentioned Trick R Treat that somebody else would. 

[HARDtoREACH]

6: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD  (WELL ANY ZOMBIE MOVIE)

7:CARRIE

[indianasmith]

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

[Leah]

9. Psycho.

[Andrew]

10.  The Midnight Hour

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/midnighthour/

(Much credit to Paul Westbrook for making this a movie I now identify with Halloween.)

[Rev. Powell]

11. DONNIE DARKO



Honestly, 100 Halloween movies may be hard to do.  I'd be happy if we hit 31, one for every day in October.

[claws]

We just did a 100 Best Halloween movies at another forum. It'll be interesting to see what the results are going to be here.

12. Boo (2005)

[Pilgermann]

13. Halloween (1978) - Of course!

[Silverlady]

In no particular order....

1. Halloween
2. Fright Night
3. Bride of Frankenstein
4. Jeepers Creepers
5. Poltergeist
6. The Haunting 1963
7. The Howling
8. Any Christopher Lee DRACULA film
9. Children of the Corn
10. Village of the Damned

[Rev. Powell]

In no particular order....

1. Halloween
2. Fright Night
3. Bride of Frankenstein
4. Jeepers Creepers
5. Poltergeist
6. The Haunting 1963
7. The Howling
8. Any Christopher Lee DRACULA film
9. Children of the Corn
10. Village of the Damned

Silverlady, this is a collaborative list, a little game we play from time to time on the boards.  Just add one movie at a time. 

[Silverlady]

Sorry 

14. Bride of Frankenstein