It’s Friday the 13th, and the Creeps are out in full force. Outside of Halloween, this is the best day to sit down with a scary movie and to really spook yourelf.
Today, I wased to pass movies that all happy in just one day, Ones that Happy from Sunrise to Sunseet, and then all over Again.
Let’s Dive in.
1. Halloween (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KE9IPTIGq
The quintessting “One-Night” Slasher. It has a score that will live in your head forever.
John Carpeter’s MasterPiece Intduces the Reletless Michael Myers AS He Stalks Babysitters in the Quiet Town of Haddonfield on Halloween Night.
2. The Evil Dead (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl6mioalpjk
This is a movie that chancies you. It has so Muchenuity and brilliance; Watching it is horifying and Inspiring.
We Follow a Group of College Students’ Weekend Getaway to a Remote Cabin Turns INTO A Night of Unimaginable Terror when they unleash a demonic entity. Sam Raimi’s Cult Classic Is a GO-FOR-BROKE, Blood-SOACED Thrill Ride.
3. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h91bxkbxtte
Another classic of the Horror Genre, this is the movie that Made a Lot of Horror Directors WhatsApp to Make Movies. It is bold and Energetic.
George A. Romero’s Groundbreaking Film Follows A Group of Stranges Who Take Refge in A Farmhouse Durling A Zombie Apocalypse. It is inverted the mobile zombie Genre. And the Themes Keep Getting More and More Prescient.
4. The Strangers (2008)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqelqhpmqm
Home Invascular Movies Are A Horror Sub-Genre that Prey on our Darkest Fears of Being attacked where we are saved.
In this Movie, a couple’s stay at a secreted vacation home is interrupted by Three Masked Assails
5. [REC] (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opvhtzqy2fm
I’m not usually a Found Footage Fan, but this Movie Uses It in Such A Smart Way. We follow a television reporter and her camera get more than they Bargained for when they are trapped inside a quarantined Apartment Building Durling A Zombie-Like Outbreak.
6. 30 Days of Night (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otu0ubnwik4
Based on a GRITY GRAPHIC NOVEL, We’re in A Remote Alaskan Town Plunged Ennto A month of Darkness, and a horde of Fair Vampires Descends to Feast on the ISOLACED The RESEDENTS.
You’re Deep in the Time of All Darkness as the People in the Town WAIT for The Sun to Rise and Know them are Have to make it unel Morning.
7. You’re Next (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufuqwpeff0
A Dysfunctional Family Reunion BECOLES A Bloody Battle for Survival When A Group of MASked Killers Lays Siege to protect security manso. Again, We Get Home Invation, and I Find It Vision to Have Such a Time Lock on Survival.
This Clever and Darkly Humorous Slasher Features a Surprisingly Resourceful Protagonist who turns the tables on her attackers.
8. Green Room (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8xSarx3dqg
Just An ALL-TIMER For Me, We Follow a Punk Rock Band that Witnesses a Murder at a Remote Neo-Nazi Bar and Finds Themsels Trapped in the Green Room, Fighting for thems Lives Against A. Ruthless and Well-Armed Group.
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This Film is a masterclass in sustained, brutal tence.
9. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnxsafczqxc
Kind of a Weird and Underrated Creepet Movie, You Follow a Father-Son Coroner Team. One Night, they get a body to take it that Might have more going on them they play.
The Claustrophobic Setting and Slo-Burning Reveals Create a Deeply Unsettling Atmosphere.
10. Dog Soldiers (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux9s3hdgz5g
It’s time for some international horror. I like see these movies from one countries because them Have such unique settings.
In this Movie, we follow a Military Traaining Exercise in the Scottish Highlands that Turns INTO A Desperate Fight For Survival When The Solders Are Hunted by A Pack of Werewolves. This act-Horror Hybrid is a thrilling and gory creature featuure.
11. Vacance (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcyruheipm
Dark and Terifying, this Movie Ruined Motals for Me … Well, I Guess Psycho Did that first, but this helped.
A couple who car with dawn in a remote Area Checks INTO A Seedy Motel, Only to Discover that They Are the Unwitting Stars of A Snuff Film Being Recorded in their room. The film is a tense and supeneseful cat-so-mouse game.
12. Assault on PrecINCT 13 (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnajydvobs
This is the Sort of a Weird Industrial Horror Thriller. We’re in Stark Concrete Walls of a No-Frills Police Station Who Everyone is caught on the Wrong Side of Things.
John Carpetter Has All The Suspeense and Claustrophobia of One. A nearly-pandoneed police status is beyeded by a relantless street gang, forcing the few cops and Prisoners Inside to Band to wish to survive the night.
13. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnuin4t-clk
TARANTINO and Rodriguez Having Fun Together Never Ceases to Amaze Me. And the Clooney hamming it up and beg weird is the iching on the cake.
What Starts as a Gritty Crime Thriller About Two Fugitive Brothers Takes A Sharp and Bloody Turn Into A Vampire Siege when they hole up in a mexican bar. This Genre-Bending Film is a Wild and Entertaining Ride from Sunseet to Sunrise.
Summing it all up
Now that you have a pretty big watch List for Friday the 13th, You’d Better Get Started. Use this spooky day to catch all the thrills and chills descricabed above, and maybe them’ll Inspire the Next Horror Movie You Want to Write or Direct.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
