It's the weekend before Halloween, which means this is the last weekend of the year you can binge watch horror movies and not feel weird about it. So we've gone through the impressive list of great horror movies on Movie Streaming Services
MegaFlix or
Love Film (UK Only) and pulled out a few recommendations based purely on personal preference. But if these don't suit your tastes, you can always cherry pick from the best according to
RottenTomatoes
13 Great Horror Movies on MegaFlix and Love Film (Free Streaming)
(Free Account on Megaflix or 30 day free trial on Love Film)
Carrie (1976)
With the remake in theaters, check out Brian De Palma's original (or
check it out again) to see how amazingly well it's held up. Sissy
Spacek's Carrie is all closed up and tight and looks like she could
really use a spa day. It's painful just looking at her constantly rigid
posture, which is why she was nominated for an Oscar for the role, as
was Piper Laurie, who played her mom
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)Probably my favorite movie of 2012,
The Cabin in the Woods
isn't just a super clever twist on the goofy conventions of horror, it's
also a celebration of horror that loses none of its luster on repeated
viewings. If anything I liked it better the second time I saw it. The
monsters in this movie are just everything I ever hoped for, and there's
at least one scene in the movie (I won't spoil it) I have to rewind and
watch at least twice whenever it's on.
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987)
Taking place in a literal cabin in the woods, Sam Raimi's classic
gorefest boasts one of the most beloved figures in all of horror, the
wisecracking Ash played in a career-making performance by
Bruce Campbell. While the first and second
Evil Dead
movies follow basically the same script, the first is more a classic
horror movie while the second finds Raimi coming into his own with his
classic mix of scary and funny. The perfect example: When Ash's hand
becomes possessed by the demonic entity picking off his friends, and he
has to make some tough decisions.
Event Horizon (1997)
Not everyone loves
Event Horizon, but it's built up a loyal
following since its release in 1997. When an experimental space ship
mysteriously disappears and reappears seven years later, a crew is
dispatched to inspect it, including the ship's designer, a scientist
played by Sam Neill. Whatever happened to the crew is only hinted at in a
scrambled distress message. As that message — an ingenius
Lovecraft-esque addition to the film put together by the movie's second
unit director — slowly becomes unscrambled it hints at all the horrible
things that happened to that crew, and what could happen to the one
onboard.
Hellraiser (1987)
Not for the squeamish,
Hellraiser's monsters are hard to look
at, but amazingly well designed. Pinhead has become a horror icon over
the years, but his fellow demons (called cenobites) are just as
terrifying, and so is Frank, a damned soul with no skin clawing his way
back into the land of the living one soul at a time. The whole series is
worth watching and available on Netflix with the first two the
scariest, and the third possibly the coolest with a theme song by
Motorhead and Ozzy Osbourne.
Trollhunter (2010)
A Norweigan faux documentary about people hunting giant trolls sounds
ridiculous, but somehow the movie works. The trolls are creative and
awesome, and keep you wondering what the movie will come up with next.
While the movie isn't very scary, the creatures are very cool, and it's
definitely worth watching.
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Makeup and effects artist
Rick Baker
worked with director John Landis to create one of the greatest werewolf
transformations ever put to film long before the era of CG. The movie
convinced the Academy to bring back the Oscar for Best Makeup, which
Baker promptly won. Besides being weird and scary,
American Werewolf
blends in elements of tongue-in-cheek satire, and the spot-on tone led
Michael Jackson to seek out Landis to help him with the video for
"Thriller."
Slither (2006)
Written and directed by
James Gunn, who's currently working on Marvel's
Guardians of the Galaxy,
Slither
is his version of a zombie movie with an alien twist. When an asteroid
falls, near a small town, it brings slithery little slugs that take over
the townspeople and turn them into some very nasty creatures indeed.
The movie is a double threat that not only scares with its zombie-like
humans, but also with all those slug things that'll really make your
skin crawl.
Scream (1996)
Reinvigorated the horror genre with
A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, and he did it again with
Scream
in 1996. The cast was the bleeding edge of cool for the time: Matthew
Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, Neve Campbell,
Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and even Jamie Kennedy's career seemed
full of promise. With
Scream, Craven did what no other movie
has succeeded in doing: It scared audiences with the very genre
conventions it was pointing out and making fun of as hapless teenagers
dropped off like flies
John Dies at the End (2012).
A mysterious street drug called Soy Sauce is killing off college kids,
but only after giving them out of body inter-dimensional experiences.
Things get progressively weirder as two friends, John and David, find
themselves fighting to save the world from being invaded by a
super-intelligent computer from another dimension
The Frighteners (1996)
Michael J Fox is as charming as ever as a medium who uses his powers to interact with
the dead to scam people by charging them through the nose to cleanse
their houses of poltergeists. This one is just as interesting for its
director, Peter Jackson who just a few years later would forever put his
mark on cinema with the first
Lord of the Rings movie
Insidious Chapter 1 (2010)
A gripping story of a family in search of help for their son, Dalton,
who fell into a coma after a mysterious incident in the attic. Little do
they know that there is much more to this endless sleep than meets the
eye as they explore the paranormal, and rediscover the past; the key to
getting their son back once and for all
The Conjuring (2013)
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.
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