Horror Movie Season Is In Session

Here are a couple of classic and mid-modern stand alone horror movies and franchises you need to watch this fall season.

Scream Franchise:

Scream is your classic slasher film. With its first movie coming out in 1996 and its most recent film coming out this year and another in production set to come out in 2023. Many people go back to watch these classic films because of how different they are from other horror movies. A film synopsis says “Wes Craven re-invented and revitalized the slasher-horror genre with this modern horror classic, which manages to be funny, clever and scary, as a fright-masked knife maniac stalks high-school students in middle-class suburbia.” These movies play on many tropes and one of the main ones is being the final girl. You can watch these movies on many platforms for rent or on a subscription to Paramount Plus. They also have a T.v series on netflix.

The Strangers: Prey At Night

Based on a true story a family goes on a road trip at a secluded mobile home. Three masked killers chase this family throughout this trailer park while each member of the family tries to get away. This high intensity movie was released in 2018; with many jumpscares and moments that leave you shocked but enjoy watching it. This is less of a slasher/thriller type movie but the fact that it's based on a true story is what makes this movie even more scary.

SAW Franchise:

This franchise is based on a masked jigsaw killer that tests his victims by putting them through life threatening/alerting games to decide their fate. Jigsaw is a former engineer who went through a lot and because of that did some things that he regrets. With the inoperable tumor in his frontal lobe his view of helping people becomes altered when he specifically choses people who have moral or personal flaws to try and make them value life and live in a better way. These eight movies really put to the test how people think and react with the challenges in front of them.

The Conjuring Franchise:

This franchise is perfect for people who believe in supernatural things or like watching movies about them. These movies follow Ed and Lorraine Warren and their experiences with the supernatural. These movies and people are based off of real people from the 1970’s and on about their cases they had. This universe has eight movies spanning from 2013-2021. Even though you can watch these movies in any order; if you want a full story line you should watch the movies in this order. The Nun (2018), Annabelle: Creation (2017), Annabelle (I) (2014), The Conjuring (2013), Annabelle Comes Home (2019), The Curse of La Llorona (2019), The Conjuring 2 (2016), and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021).

The Halloween Franchise:

Micheal Myers is this franchise protagonist. Since he was a child he was always disturbed murdering his sister then getting sent to a sanitiartium he has never been normal. When he becomes an adult he escapes from the sanitarium and starts stalking and killing people in a small town. With its first movie coming out in 1978 and most recently coming out this year many people for years have watched these movies and even dressed like him for halloween.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise:

This series starts off with five friends who head up to one of their grandpa's graves, but a turn for the worse happens when they arrive at a deserted house with something evil inside. Leatherface is a type of inhumane murder that can never seem to be bested. The movies recreate the scenario many times with friends with different personalities going out to this abandoned place trying to escape with little to no luck.