Top five Halloween horror movies

By: Autumn Hill

            Do you go to the movies a lot? Do you have a favorite genre? Scary movies have been around forever, scaring, thrilling, and chilling. Even though we know the scare that may occur in the story, we still jump from it. Jake Cole, a writer for Film.com, says, "Deafening noises, bursts of music, faces materializing from nowhere can make the heart skip, send popcorn flying from tubs and reduce one to watching a screen through woven fingers, but after going home and surviving the night, all the just-a-cat moments and demon faces and gore slip from the mind." Here are a few movies that may do just that:

1. Halloween - A psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
2. Insidious - The terrifying story of a family who, shortly after moving, discovers that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted. It was their son.
3. The Shining - A man, his son, and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny (the son) sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining." The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane.
4. Pyscho - A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.

With Halloween just around the corner, it’s a great time to be scared. Sometimes we all want to feel a little uncomfortable; research has shown that we all are curious and love mystery, though when we get to into the action and the killer shows up, we fear for the person being pursued. Horror movies can either be scary, creepy, or just stupid, but most of us enjoy them, regardless.