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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Virginia Tech chapter.
Halloween is one of the best times of the year; it is the beginning of the holiday season. Recently, I’ve found that holidays are what you make them. In order to embrace the spooky season and really lean into the joy of having something to celebrate with the people I love, my roommates and I created a list of perfect Halloween movies that we will choose at random once a week until Halloween to get us ready for the season.
We found that there are so many different types of Halloween movies for everyone.
Starting with the old classics:
- Halloween (1978)
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- Scream (1996)
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
- Carrie (1976)
- Child’s Play (1988)
- Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- The Shining (1980)
- Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Kids Halloween movies:
- Calling All the Monsters (2011)
- Hocus Pocus (1993)
- Halloweentown (1998)
- Twitches (2005)
- Girl vs Monster (2012)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Addams Family (1991)
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Practical Magic (1998)
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf (2010)
Animation Halloween movies:
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- Coraline (2009)
- Frankenweenie (2012)
- Corpse Bride (2005)
2000’s horror movies:
- The Conjuring (2013)
- Smile (2022)
- Insidious (2010)
- Lights Out (2016)
- Evil Dead (2013)
- It (2017)
- Scary Movie (2000)
- Saw (2004)