Halloween (2018)

Billed as a direct sequel to 1978's Halloween, this movie explores what would happen to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) if she spent 40 years waiting for her murderous brother Michael to come back. Not just waiting, though, prepping. Laurie Strode is the ultimate badass doomsday prepper. Things kick into high gear as Michael escapes custody while being transferred on a bus from one…

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Leatherface (2017)

This is the latest installment in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. It's hard to keep track of these movies, because they did a remake in 2003, a prequel, a retconned sequel to the original 1974 film, and now this pre-prequel. The movie starts with Jed/Leatherface as a child and after a brutal murder, he is incarcerated at a psychiatric hospital for adolescents. Ten years…

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Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999)

Say his name five times and he will be summoned to start the killing. Watch three Candyman movies and you may be bored out of your mind. The story follows Caroline (Donna D'Errico) who keeps having nightmares about Candyman and spends 95% of the movie in a tight shirt and panties. People keep dying in violent meat hooked ways, but Caroline manages to survive.…

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Inferno (1980)

Italian horror master Dario Argento wrote and directed this sequel to his notorious classic Suspiria. The story follows Mark as he searches for his missing sister, Rose, in New York. As the clues bring Mark closer to the truth, a strange book is at the center of the mystery and may be the key to finding what happened to Rose. As far as Italian…

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Brightburn (2019)

What if you were a boy with the powers of Superman and you also had homicidal tendencies? That's what this movie is all about. A farmer (David Denman) and his wife (Elizabeth Banks) find a child in an alien spacecraft and they raise him as their own. Around his 12th birthday, he becomes aware of his powers and starts to go a bit nuts.…

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The Cell (2000)

I was obsessed with this movie when it first came out almost 20 years ago. It was interesting watching again after such a long time. The story is about a psychotherapist named Catherine (Jennifer Lopez) who works on an experimental technique involving technological merging of minds in an attempt to help bring a young boy out of a catatonic state. Meanwhile, a serial killer…

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Stella is a teenage writer of horror stories. She and her friends find a book inside a haunted house and discover that the stories in the book come to life in horrific ways. Can they stop the terror before it consumes them? The movie is based on the children's books that scared the crap out of most kids who grew up with them. I…

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The Silence (2019)

After a cave expedition unearths a large cavern, a million gargoyle things escape and begin to wreak havoc on the world. The creatures are attracted to noise, so being a deaf girl is advantageous. Ally (Kiernan Shipka) along with her dad, Hugh (Stanley Tucci), her mother (Miranda Otto), her grandmother, and her brother must try to survive in a scary new reality of monsters…

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Seed of Chucky (2004)

This installment in the Chucky franchise moves so far into the absurd territory that it starts to feel a bit surreal. Chucky and Tiffany have a child named Glen/Glenda (voiced by Billy Boyd) who struggles to control his homicidal urges. Jennifer Tilly plays both Tiffany and herself thanks to some meta movie-within-a-movie stuff. You got some attempted soul transference stuff. You got some Chucky…

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Murder Party (2007)

Christopher (Chris Sharp) just wants a quiet Halloween alone with some scary VHS rentals and his bowl of candy corn. His cat, Sir Lancelot, is unwilling to give up the chair, so Christopher decides to go to a "Murder Party" for which he found an invitation on the ground. It just so happens that the party is literally a bunch of deranged art students…

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