Halloween night
Six horror series sorted by the night you are actually having; a crowd, a date, or the lights off on your own.
6 picks
Horror is the one genre where the room matters as much as the film. A slasher that kills at a party dies in silence; a slow supernatural build that ruins you alone gets talked over by six people with pizza.
These are picked by the kind of evening rather than by quality.
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Halloween
13 titles · HorrorThe original is quiet, cheap and still the most efficient scare on this list. Watch the 1978 film and stop. The continuities after it are a maze.
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Scream
7 titles · HorrorFor a group. It is funny before it is frightening and it explains its own rules, so nobody is lost.
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The Conjuring
10 titles · HorrorThe most reliably frightening modern series, and the one to pick if you want to be unsettled rather than startled.
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Final Destination
6 titles · HorrorThe party option. Nobody is scared, everybody flinches, and the plots exist only to arrange the set pieces.
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Friday the 13th
12 titles · HorrorCamp in both senses. Best with a crowd and no expectations, and the first film is not the one you think it is.
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Paranormal Activity
7 titles · HorrorLights off, alone, phone in another room. It does almost nothing for an hour and that is the entire technique.
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