What to Watch This Weekend: Scary Movies

A balloon, a clown, and a bunch of kids: an ominous start to an ominous movie. Andy Muschietti’s 2017 masterpiece It, adapted from Stephen King’s novel of the same name, is currently the fifth-highest-grossing-R-rated film ever produced, and for good reason. To start, the acting from the kids is amazing, especially from Lieberher and Lillis, who play young Bill and Beverly, respectively. Next,...

If you think animated films can’t be scary, you’re wrong. The animated film Coraline released on February 5, 2009, directed by Henry Selick and nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, is a family horror that will genuinely scare at least younger children. Centered around the story of Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning), a...

A Quiet Place directed by John Krasinski is a perfect movie to keep you on your toes. As the Abbott family is forced to live in silence, in constant fear of  the unknown creatures that hunt by sound. Even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death upon the family. The parents, Evelyn and Lee are constantly finding  ways to protect their children while desperately searching for a way to fight b...

This turn of the century action packed film is what any true crime lover would enjoy.  The Bone Collector is full of eerie suspense and graphic crime scences to piece together murder mystery set in New York City.  Lincoln Rhyme played by Denzel Washington is a forensic expert paralyzed from the neck down and unable to solve this chilling case.   Amelia Donaghy, played by Angelina Jolie, is a rookie ...

As the fall season takes its turn, one can not forget Michael Myers, the infamous killer from Halloween (1978). Michael killed his sister when he was six years old, and was imprisoned for fifteen years at a psychiatric hospital. When he is released, he wreaks havoc on his old hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. It is up to the residents of the town to try to save themselves from this menace. The pl...