Horror films are a curious business – perhaps there’s something primal or elemental (or just plain mental) about our love of stories that scare us half to death, then leave us with sleepless nights and peering petrified into the shadowy corners of our own homes.
Whatever the reason, if you’re looking for an instant fright night on October 31st (or any other night), here are a few screaming streaming suggestions.
Sam Raimi’s rather excellent B-movie horror-comedies The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 are both available. And from even earlier, George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead brings the zombies to town.
Ring is just one of many Asian terror-mongers; Audition and Ju-On are really creepy too, as is the original Dark Water. And on the subject of originals, the atmosphere created in Ole Bornedal’s Nightwatch - about a security guard in a mortuary – is intense.
More recently, Dead Snow is proving very popular (skiers run into Nazi zombies!); likewise The Box, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.
Trick ‘R Treat has obvious Halloween credentials going for it, but if you’re looking for the all-time classics how about The Exorcist (it’s a version you’ve never seen before, apparently), or Vincent Price in The House on Haunted Hill, James Whale’s Frankenstein, or even FW Murnau’s silent Dracula horror, Nosferatu, from 1922.
Or, you know, there’s always the attack of the giant ants in Them…
Darren Bignell, Senior Communications Manager
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