By Halloween is about two weeks away, so the atmosphere is growing increasingly spooky as we approach the middle of October. There’s never been a better time to prepare for a horror movie marathon than right now. When you’re not out trick-or-treating, you can watch one of the frightening movies we’ve put together.
Hereditary
The psychological horror movie Hereditary was directed by Ari Aster in 2018 as his first feature-length picture. The movie has been dubbed as one of the “scariest” horror flicks ever by critics from all over the world. The movie’s official synopsis is as follows, “When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited.”
The film has a 7.3 IMDb rating and a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score. Buddy Patrick, Lars Knudsen, and Kevin Frakes are the producers of the horror movie from A24. The leading actors are Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne.
The Pope’s Exorcist
A 2023 horror movie titled The Pope’s Exorcist centers on “Father Gabriele Amorth, chief exorcist for the Vatican, who battles Satan and innocent-possessing demons.” The movie, which features Russell Crowe, is “a detailed portrait of a priest who performed more than 100,000 exorcisms in his lifetime.” Doug Belgrad is the director and Julius Avery is the producer. The movie also stars Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe, and Franco Nero in addition to Russell Crowe.
Midsommar
A cast of actors including Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter appear in the 2019 folk horror movie Midsommar. Ari Aster (Hereditary) wrote and directed the movie. The movie’s synopsis says, “A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.”
The film has an IMDb rating of 7.1 and an 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is frequently referred to as one of the “most disturbing” films of all time.
The Witch
The theme of the fantasy horror movie from 2015 is “A family in 1630s New England torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.” The Witch, a movie written and directed by Robert Eggers, has been called “terrifying,” “disturbing,” and “scariest.” Kate Dickie, Ralph Ineson, and Anya Taylor-Joy all appear in the movie. It has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 90% and an IMDb rating of 7.0.
Evil Dead Rise
“A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmare-like version of family,” according to the official synopsis for the 2023 horror-gore movie. Lee Cronin is the writer and director, and Warner Bros. Pictures is in charge of its distribution. Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, and Nell Fisher are the movie’s leading ladies.
