September 2nd is the official of the beginning of autumn in the 2018 year. With that being said, the most celebrated holiday is coming: Halloween.
As the years go on and people get older, they seem to stay in more handing out candy or even just sitting around with a bowl of candy to eat for themselves as they watch movies. During the fall time a lot of movies start to float around that are scary or relate back to Halloween.
If you’re one to stay in during this time get ready to write down some movies to watch on Halloween night.
Classics
If you’re into the less technically advanced movies you may love or even fall in love with movies like:
Psycho(1960): starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
The Shining (1980): starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd “Heeeeere’s Johnny!”
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984): starring Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Beatle Juice (1988): starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton
The Addams Family (1991): starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd
These movies are “stereotypical” horror movies that give you a good laugh or even a good scare.
“My favorite classic movie is The Addams Family because growing up I was told I looked like Wednesday Addams” said Courtney Sadownik, a Junior at La Joya.
Disney
Growing up in the 90’s and early 00’s people are practically waiting for this time of year to watch Disney Productions with the Halloween theme on Disney Channel and ABC Family, now called Freeform. If you’re a Disney lover you my like (or have seen):
Halloweentown (1998): starringDebbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Judith Hoag
Hocus Pocus (1993): starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy
The Nightmare Before Christmas(1993): starring Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara
Twitches (2005): starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Kristen Wilson
The Little Vampire (2000): starring Jonathan Lipnicki, Rollo Weeks, Richard E. Grant
Freeform is also going from 13 days of Halloween to 31 days of Halloween!
“My favorite Disney Halloween movie is Corps Bride because his story telling with the animations are amazing” said Tessa Madron, Junior at La Joya.
Recently
Over the last couple of years a great amount of horror movies have made their way to the big screen, a lot of these being remake, and critic are loving it. If you love horror movies and classic remakes you may like:
Get Out (2017): starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford
Insidious: The Last Key (2018): starring Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine
IT (2017): starring Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard
A Quiet Place(2018):starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
Halloween (2018): starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak
Halloween movies range from scary, funny, remakes, and even cartoonish; enough for everyone to enjoy them. So sit back with your bowl of candy and enjoy these suggested movies are even others until the sun comes up.
