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Top 10 Horror Films to watch this Halloween
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2024
Horror
Crime/detective
15
Horror thriller starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage. FBI agent Lee Harker draws on her sense of psychic intuition when she is assigned to investigate the ritualistic murders of a serial killer who refers to himself as "Longlegs". As the occult overtones of these killings become evident, Harker realises something more: Longlegs could be connected to her own personal history.
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1978
Horror
Thriller
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Director John Carpenter's ground-breaking horror, starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis. Fifteen years after murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes from a mental institution and returns to the small town of Haddonfield. Dr Sam Loomis, a psychiatrist who has been treating Michael, races to track him down before he kills again.
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2022
Horror
Sci-fi
15
Sci-fi horror starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer. Siblings OJ and Em Haywood have taken over their late father's California ranch, where they train horses for use in Hollywood productions. After a series of bizarre occurrences around their property, OJ and Em take measures to record and capture the source of the chaos: a monstrous UFO.
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2022
Horror
Mystery
18
Horror thriller starring Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgård. Researcher Tess Marshall is in Detroit for a job interview but with hotels all booked up, she is forced to stay at an Airbnb in a run-down neighbourhood. She finds the room has been double-booked by Keith, but he kindly offers to take the couch. It's not long before Tess suspects there is more to her accommodation than meets the eye.
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2024
Horror
Drama
15
In 1838 Germany, Thomas Hutter is sent to the Carpathian mountains to secure the signature of enigmatic nobleman Count Orlok on a property sale in the German city of Wisborg. Thomas leaves his bride Ellen in the care of friend Friedrich Harding and his wife Anna. The young man barely survives the exhausting trip to Europe and stumbles home to find Ellen driven to delirium by a telepathic bond to the Count. Director Robert Eggers' version of the Dracula-inspired horror, starring Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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2002
Horror
Sci-fi
18
Sci-fi horror starring Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris. When bike courier Jim wakes from a coma in a deserted London hospital, he discovers that a highly contagious virus has turned most of the population of Britain into murderous maniacs. In constant fear of his life, he joins three other survivors on a desperate journey to find sanctuary from the infected hordes.
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1976
Horror
Drama
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Brian De Palma's dramatisation of Stephen King's bestselling horror story, starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. Shy Carrie White is repressed by her mother and ridiculed by her classmates, who make her life a misery with their taunting. But, unbeknown to them, Carrie has special powers.
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2017
Horror
Thriller
15
Oscar-winning horror mystery starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams. Chris, a young African-American photographer, is understandably anxious when he's invited to stay with his wealthy white girlfriend's parents at their family estate. Admitting she hasn't told them he's black only adds to Chris's apprehension, but mum and dad are warm and welcoming. However, as the weekend unfolds, Chris begins to suspect all is not as it seems.
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1980
Horror
Drama
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Stanley Kubrick's chilling horror, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance takes on the job of winter caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel, despite a warning about the psychological strain the long months of isolation can cause. Jack's wife Wendy only hopes that Jack will finally find the time to write, but his psychically gifted son Danny has visions of a terrifying ordeal for the family.
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1996
Horror
Mystery
18
Black comedy horror starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich and Drew Barrymore. A group of teenagers targeted by an obsessive horror fanatic pays the ultimate price for failing to answer his film-trivia questions.
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