The Fix Afterthoughts – 10-15-2021

We have the Fix for your scary movie needs

I love horror movies. The genre probably ties with sci-fi on my must-watch lists, and this week I am here to throw a huge list of my favorite Halloween flicks your way. Not every scary movie fits the Spooktober vibe for me, and this also isn’t a full list of all my favorite films because there are just too many. But if you aren’t sure what to watch next this scary season or are maybe looking for something a little different, hopefully this set hits you right!

The Classics

Some scary movies stand well against the test of time, and it seems like the 80s produced a lot of them for some reason. Never seen some of these movies but already know everything about them because of constant pop culture references forever? That defines the Classics.

• The Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• Night of the Living Dead (1958)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Psycho (1960)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Halloween (1978)
• The Omen (1976)
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• Child’s Play (1988)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Hellraiser (1987)
• The Thing (1982)
• Candyman (1992)
• The Children of the Corn (1984)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• The Shining (1980)

Slashers

America tends to have the crown in this sub-genre, we pretty much invented it! While most of these are from series started in the 70’s or 80’s when the genre was at its peak, there are a few exceptions.

• Hell House LLC (2016)
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
• Hostel (2005)
• The House That Jack Built (2018)
• Jackals (2017)
• Ma (2019)
• Scream (1996)
• The Devils Rejects (2005)

Zombies

A theme so huge it needs its own category, if you like your monsters rotting and hungry these are for you.

• 28 Days Later (2002)
• Blood Quantum (2019)
• Cell (2016)
• Dead Alive (1992)
• The Cured (2017)
• The Dead (2010)
• The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
• House of the Dead (2003)
• Maggie (2015)
• Outpost (2008)
• Pontypool (2008)
• Resident Evil (2002)
• The Returned (2013)

Vampires

Another theme that has been around for nearly all of modern history, bloodsuckers are another classic movie monster.

• 40 Days of Night (2007)
• BloodRayne (2005)
• Dracula (1931)
• Dracula (1992)
• Dracula 2000 (2000)
• Dracula 3000 (2004)
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
• Stake Land (2010)
• Underworld (2003)

Witches

Prefer your villainesses empowered by the dark arts? This is another theme so common they would overload the Supernatural section.

• The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• The Craft (1996)
• Don’t Knock Twice (2016)
• Gretel & Hansel (2020)
• Susperia (1977)
• The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
• The Witch (2015)
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Supernatural

Want a movie about ghosts, ghouls, cults or other otherworldly spooks?

• 1408 (2007)
• Along Came the Devil (2018)
• The Amityville Horror (2005)
• Annabelle (2014)
• The Awakening (2011)
• The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)
• Blood Red Sky (2021)
• Brightburn (2019)
• Case 39 (2009)
• Carrie (1976)
• The Color out of Space (2019)
• Come Play (2020)
• Come True (2020)
• The Conjuring (2013)
• Crimson Peak (2015)
• A Dark Song (2016)
• The Devils Candy (2017)
• Doctor Sleep (2019)
• Final Destination (2000)
• The Forest (2016)
• The Frighteners (1996)
• The Grudge (2004)
• Hereditary (2018)
• Honeymoon (2014)
• House on Haunted Hill (1959)
• In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
• In the Tall Grass (2019)
• Insidious (2010)
• The Invisible Man (2020)
• IT (2017)
• It Follows (2014)
• Mandy (2018)
• Needful Things (1993)
• Oculus (2013)
• Paranormal Activity (2007)
• Pyewacket (2017)
• Relic (2020)
• The Ritual (2017)
• Silent Hill (2006)
• Sinister (2012)
• Spring (2014)
• Stir of Echoes (1999)
• Trick ‘r Treat (2008)
• The Void (2017)
• We Are Still Here (2014)
• The Woman in Black (2012)
• Wrong Turn (2021)

Psychological

My personal favorite type of horror, you may not even know what is happening any better than the characters do.

• 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
• 1922 (2017)
• Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
• Colonia (2015)
• Fear of Rain (2021)
• Hannibal (2001)
• The Lighthouse (2019)
• Mother! (2017)
• The Neon Demon (2016)
• The Perfection (2018)
• Triangle (2009)
• Us (2019)
• YellowBrickRoad (2010)

Sci-Fi Horror

Monsters from space or victims in space? Either way, nobody can hear you scream.

• Alien (1979)
• Annihilation (2018)
• Cube (1997)
• Event Horizen (1997)
• The Fly (1986)
• The Fourth Kind (2009)
• Life (2017)
• The Mist (2007)
• Morgan (2016)
• Scanners (1981)
• The Signal (2006)
• Videodrome (1983)

Thrillers

Maybe called “pure horror”, these films chill down to the bone.

• American Mary (2012)
• Among the Living (2014)
• The Beach House (2019)
• Beneath Us (2019)
• Blood Creek (2009)
• Cabin Fever (2002)
• Cam (2018)
• Chained (2012)
• The Crazies (2010)
• Creep (2014)
• Creepshow (1982)
• Cujo (1983)
• A Cure for Wellness (2017)
• The Descent (2005)
• Disturbing Behavior (1998)
• The Divide (2011)
• The Domestics (2018)
• Don’t Breathe (2016)
• Emelie (2016)
• Escape Room (2019)
• Fantasy Island (2020)
• The Good Son (1993)
• Green Inferno (2013)
• Green Room (2015)
• Here Alone (2016)
• In Fabric (2018)
• It Comes at Night (2017)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• Malignant (2021)
• Mayhem (2017)
• Orphan (2009)
• The Other Lamb (2019)
• The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
• The Purge (2013)
• Red State (2011)
• The Rental (2020)
• Resolution (2013)
• Saw (2004)
• Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Southbound (2015)
• Starry Eyes (2014)
• Super Dark Times (2017)
• Tenebrae (1982)
• V/H/S (2012)
• We Are What We Are (2013)
• You’re Next (2011)

Foreign

If you’re like me, there is a lot to love in the horror from abroad. France knows tension, Japan knows ghosts and Korea knows zombies better than almost anyone.

• Audition (1999)
• The Babadook (2014)
• Baskin (2015)
• Creepy (2016)
• Dark Water (2002)
• The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
• Goodnight Mommy (2014)
• High Tension (2003)
• The Host (2006)
• House (1977)
• I Saw the Devil (2010)
• Ichi the Killer (2001)
• Impetigore (2019)
• In My Skin (2002)
• Inside (2007)
• Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
• Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Lake Bodom (2016)
• Let the Right One In (2008)
• Martyrs (2008)
• Noroi (2005)
• The Platform (2019)
• Pulse (2001)
• REC (2007)
• Raw (2016)
• Reincarnation (2006)
• Rigor Mortis (2013)
• Ringu (1998)
• Seoul Station (2016)
• Suicide Club (2001)
• A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
• Synesthesia (2005)
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
• Thirst (2009)
• Tomie (1998)
• Under the Shadow (2016)
• Veronica (2017)
• The Wailing (2016)

Comedy Horror

What if you are looking to laugh with your splatterfest?

• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• Big Bad Wolves (2013)
• The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
• Dead Snow (2009)
• Deathgasm (2015)
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
• Fido (2006)
• The Final Girls (2015)
• Happy Death Day (2017)
• Little Monsters (2019)
• My Name Is Bruce (2007)
• Satanic Panic (2019)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Slither (2006)
• TerrorVision (1986)
• Tragedy Girls (2017)
• Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010)
• What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Spooky, Not Scary

And what if you don’t actually like horror but are looking for something to Halloween the mood anyway?

• The Addams Family (1991)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Coraline (2009)
• Corpse Bride (2005)
• Dark Shadows (2012)
• Frankenweenie (2012)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Goosebumps (2015)
• Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
• The Haunted Mansion (2003)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• Hotel Transylvania (2012)
• It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Monster House (2006)
• The Monster Squad (1987)
• Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Scooby-Doo (2002)

Hopefully you find something new you enjoy from this list, leave a comment of any you think I missed!