HAPPY HALLOWEEN: The 10 Spookiest Horrors To Stream This Weekend

It’s that time of the year again, as October 31st draws closer and we all scramble for a last-minute Halloween costume, but end up settling on a slutty Vegemite jar for the 8th year in a row.

It’s also the season that gives us all an excuse to binge horror movies non-stop and construct pillow fortes for protection.

So get your buds together for a scary movie sesh into the night, as it’s a perfect occasion to try your luck at watching some films that may usually scare the crap out of you.

Here are a few to get you started!

Creep
Netflix

A slow burner, but a very unnerving film, following Aaron who finds a cryptic online ad looking for filming services, where discretion is appreciated. After driving to a cabin in a remote mountain town he meets Josef, a strange and well, creepy dude and as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not what he seems. Keep watching, the ending will pay off.

It Follows
Netflix, Presto & Stan

This film had a helluva lot of buzz when it first was released, and it packs a punch. Delving viewers into a strange artificial nostalgia, where teenager Jay finds herself being cursed after sleeping with her new boyfriend. Jay learns that gross and disturbing people will creep inexorably towards her, following her every move unless she passes the curse to another victim. Try and watch this film without constantly looking over your shoulder.

Insidious
Netflix

Forget the sequels, the original is far superior, giving the well-worn haunted house story new life, when parents Josh and Renai find their son has inexplicably fallen into a deep coma from otherworldly forces. The ending might get a bit silly, but for the most part it’s genuinely scary AF.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Presto

If you like your horrors more on the side of a thriller, this is the one for you. The film tells the case of Reverend Moore’s prosecution for the wrongful death of a Emily Rose, a woman he performed an exorcism on as he thought her to be demonically possessed.

While the prosecuting attorney argues that Emily suffered from schizophrenia and should have been medically diagnosed.

The Conjuring
Presto

It’s not too often in this decade that horrors do well at the box office and this film was a box office smash hit. For good reason, the terrifying flick takes us back to 1970 as paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren are summoned to the secluded farmhouse of Carolyn and Roger Perron’s family, where a supernatural presence has made itself known.

Things turn horrifying after the Warrens discover the house’s disturbing history. Watch behind a tower of pillows.

The Babadook
Presto

Australia, represent! This is genuinely one of our best local features to make an international debut. The story revolves around a troubled widow and her frankly annoying AF son, whose lives turn dark after they read a book about a monster that enters their home. It’s a must watch.

Apollo 18
Stan

If you are looking for a horror more Alien/ Predator-esq then spook-fest, Apollo 18 is certainly that. We follow the conspiracy theory that Apollo 17 wasn’t the last U.S.-sponsored lunar voyage, with the film relaying classified found footage from Apollo 18- a team of astronauts that never came home.

The Cabin in the Woods
Presto

This is a meta masterpiece. By the genius that is Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Joss Whedon, his take on the horror genre, twists common horror cliches and tropes on their head. Still, it’s a damn scary film, it seems simple, just following a group of friends staying at an isolated cabin the the woods but its clever spin will keep the viewer guessing.

The Midnight Meat Train
Netflix

This film has a bit more gore than the rest listed, but with a truly compelling story in the foreground. Bradley Cooper stars as a photographer that becomes obsessed with following a serial killer dubbed the ‘Subway Butcher’, but there is way more to this narrative then meets the eye. It’s a super disturbing flick, best watched on an empty stomach.

Unfriended
Presto

This film has undoubtedly sparked a new ‘social media horror’ genre. The entire movie takes place through the desktop monitor of a bunch of teens computers in their group chat. Their conversation takes a murderous turn and the results are fucking thrilling.