Top Halloween Movies to Watch

October means Halloween, and Halloween means scary movies. As someone who wants nothing to do with the jumpscares, music, and frequent scary attics I have curated my very own list of “not scary-scary movies”. These are my Halloween go-tos if I want to sleep soundly at night.    Scream (1996) Scream is a postmodern horror classic. What makes it so fun (and not scary) to watch is it's not so sub...

Gremlins Directed by Joe Dante - 1984 Characters: Billy Peltzer, Kate Beringer, Pete Fountaine, Mr. Wing, Murray Futterman, Deputy Brent, Lynn Peltzer, Randall Peltzer, Stripe, Gizmo, and Mogwai Plot: Randall Peltzer gets a strange pet animal as a gift to his son, Billy, for Christmas. The buyer he gets it forms explains what great responsibility it is to take care of Mogwai (the animal). Li...

Halloween Town 1998 - Family/Fantasy Halloweentown is such a classic. I thoroughly enjoyed this from beginning to end. Halloweentown shines a light on creepy and festive traits of Halloween and activities , such as trick-or-treating or baking Halloween cookies, that make it such an enjoyable holiday. Both Halloweentown (1998) and the newer, with a recast for Marnie, Halloweentown (2006) are outst...

3. Girl vs. Monster Olivia Holt as Skylar in Girl vs. Monster has always felt strongly about her music and when she gets a chance to sing at a Halloween bash she jumps at it, the only thing holding her back is her parents not letting her go. Her brilliant (or maybe not so brilliant) idea is to cut off the power so the security system keeping her in will disable and let her out, but when the pow...

Coming in at number three is Insidious, a film released in 2010, directed by James Wan and Leigh Whannel, which clocks in at an hour 43 minutes and stars a quaint family who's just moved into their new house. They’re a family of five, with two sons, one baby daughter, a mother, and a father. All seems normal (except for the main character’s useless husband) until one of their sons ventures into ...

Parasite  With an astonishing 89% rotten tomatoes, Parasite is a cinematic marvel. This is no surprise that this movie is one of the best movies of all time. I find that many people who said that they do not like “Parasite” are not familiar with this specific type of genre, which is why they do not enjoy it as I do. “Parasite” takes place in present-day South Korea where the main charact...