30. Coraline (2009)
The family of Coraline (Dakota Fanning) relocates from Michigan to Oregon, where her parents’ careers require them to spend much of the time at home alone.
Coraline learns about the Other World after getting a weird doll from one of her new neighbors. This world contains an Other Mother and Other Father who are considerably more attentive to Coraline than her own parents are.
Coraline quickly realizes that things are not as they appear and makes an effort to return home and find her actual parents.
31. Zombieland (2009)
In the not too distant future, the mad cow illness mutates into the crazy human sickness, turning all those who contract it into zombies.
Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) crosses the nation with Tallahassee in an effort to get home in the hopes of seeing his parents (Woody Harrelson).
They encounter Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) along the way, who complicate their plans as they attempt to live in this strange new world they refer to as Zombieland.
32. Battle Royale (2000)
Imagine on a class field trip and then being dropped off on an island where you all have to kill each other in order to live.
Welcome to the Battle Royale universe.
Battle Royale was initially published in Japan in 1999, long before The Hunger Games was even a novel. It was then converted into a film, which, despite backlash over children killing one another for survival, eventually found its way to the United States and became a hit horror picture.
33. A Quiet Place (2018)
A Quiet Place, written and directed by John Krasinski, is set in 2020 after a mystery species that hunts people based on sound has wiped off the majority of the planet’s inhabitants.
By keeping quiet, Lee Abott (Krasinski) and his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt) attempt to safeguard their family.
The family must attempt to discover a means to survive or risk being slaughtered by the unidentified monsters that would kill them at any costs as a result of a sequence of events.
34. Hotel Transylvania (2012)
In Transylvania, Mavis (Selena Gomez) and her father Dracula (Adam Sandler) own and operate a five-star hotel exclusively for monsters.
Mavis’s father sends zombies after her when she makes her initial forays into the realm of humans to terrify her and prevent her from returning.
Along the way, human Jonathan (Andy Samberg) wanders into the hotel and must attempt to blend in, but Dracula discovers him and tries to eject him.
Dracula tries to prevent the two from getting together after realizing that the human and his vampire daughter have fallen in love out of concern that the human would never be able to love his daughter.
35. Repo! The Genetic Opera
Any fan of music who is yearning for a crossover between the two genres will adore this chaotic and gruesome movie.
36. Scream (1996)
There are already four films in the Scream franchise, but the first Scream is a beloved Halloween staple.
In this film, the Ghostface murderer, who resurfaces in the following films, commits its first murders on youngsters living in a tiny village.
A girl and her pals go looking for him, but nobody makes it back.
37. Hocus Pocus (1993)
Three witches (played by Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy) reappear in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th century, 300 years after they were executed for their spellcraft.
The three children who unintentionally brought the witches back to life are doing all in their power to prevent them from bringing Salem back to how it was before they were alive in order to maintain their immortality.
This outrageous comedy will make your Halloween a blast since it has witches, black cats, and lots of chuckles.
38. Carrie (2013)
The movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz looks fantastic and spooky. The meanest of nasty girls confront Chloe’s character Carrie, an outsider. But she uses her telepathic abilities to get retribution.
39. Crawl
A little girl visits her father during a hurricane, but she quickly finds herself trying to live after a pack of alligators prevents them from fleeing.
