Halloween Top 5 Horror Flicks

Every Halloween, it’s custom to trick-or-treat, don your favorite costume or bob for apples in grain-filled jungle juice. Yet, there’s something traditional about watching a horror movie this time of year.
Halloween cannot be complete without a horror movie marathon. Here are five classics sure to haunt your nightmares.

The Shining, 1980
Light on gore, ‘The Shining’ proves you don’t need violence to make a horror movie. Jack Nicholson plays a writer who watches over a haunted hotel during a snowed-in winter.
‘The Shining’ is one of the scariest movies of all time. It guarantees frights well after the movie is over.
The Exorcist, 1973
The classic ‘The Exorcist’ completes every horror movie set. Revolutionary and horrifying, ‘The Exorcist’ details one girl’s battle with possession. Linda Blair’s acting of possessed Regan MacNeil is electrifying. Combined with special effects unseen before 1973, ‘The Exorcist’ is still scary. Spinning heads, bloody faces and devil possession, ‘The Exorcist’ is meant to be watched alone and in the dark for optimal effect.

The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, 1974
A group of friends travel to a family grave site reportedly vandalized. On a detour, the group is brutally victimized by a family of cannibals. The film’s villain, Leatherface, is also Halloween’s classic villain. Leatherface is a mentally-challenged, chainsaw-wielding killer who wears the faces of his victims.

The Saw Series, 2004-present
‘The Saw’ series features Tobin Bell as the righteous Jigsaw killer. Jigsaw captures people who don’t value life and forces them into life-and-death torture traps. The victims must dismember themselves to escape the trap and renew their value for life.
‘The Saw’ movies take twists and turns providing a suspenseful story line. The torture devices only get cooler as the series progresses. For gore and horror, depend on Jigsaw this Halloween.
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Any zombie movie
All zombie films following the same formula: the living dead, causing complete chaos. Since George Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ zombies have grown in number, gotten faster, and have become smarter.
The new ‘Dawn of the Day,’ ‘Day of the Dead’ and ’28 Days Later’ are solid zombie choices.