13 Days of Scary Movies 2024! 🎃👻🕸🕷🔪🩸👽💀🤖⛪️🪓😱🦇

[curious_slut]

Day 2: A movie with a ghost (not a demon) in it

The Awakening is my favorite atmospheric ghost story. It's so underrated. I think it's free on Tubi and I haven't seen it in several years so that's tonight sorted.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 2: A movie with a ghost (not a demon) in it.

John Carpenters "The Fog"

Such an amazing cast!
Jamie Lee Curtis () , Tom Atkins, Hal Holbrook, John Housman, Buck Flower.

Not the most original idea, but brilliantly done and the most clever death's (especially the last one).
Adding wonderful 80's synth score lends to the feel of the movie especially when "Sh*t about to get real"

All starting with a One More story before twelve...

Jamie Lee Curtis and her mom, Janet Leigh. And Adrian Barbeau, a long time crush. Carpenter did his own scoring as well. Fantastic ghost story. Made me want to run a radio station out of a lighthouse (not kidding).

Avoid the remake

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

 

[LIDiver]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

Come on, there were scary parts too!

 

[Taegul]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

You know...

 

[UnquietDreams]

Come on, there were scary parts too!

And by "based on a novel" you mean "very very very loosely based on the play Hamlet?"

I love it...

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

Short story. Whatever.

Not even the biggest fan. But this line alone is pantheon worthy.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Pet Semetery
One day, his daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck. Stephen was faced with the task of burying the cat in the pet cemetery and then explaining to his daughter what had happened. It was on the third day after the burial that the idea for a novel came to him.

 

[Mr_Soup]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

The Shining

Another horror movie I saw at a very young age. My mother was a major Stephen King fan, so naturally she had to buy the movie. While as a kid, I didn’t understand a lot of it, but the imagery was certainly enough to creep me out. It wasn’t a movie I watched repeatedly until I reached adulthood and could appreciate the finer points, like the eerie musical score.

This one’s for you, Nebs.

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

Another Stephen King novel. I was so scared of dogs after seeing this one at too young of an age. I swear I watched more horror movies as a kid than I have as an adult.

Cujo (1983)

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

John Carpenter's 1982 version of The Thing, based on John W. Campbell's 1938 novella, Who Goes There is one of the most frightening films made. Working entirely with practical effects, the story of a shape changing alien who can become any animal it samples (ie: people) up to and including their memories, trying to take over an Antarctic research station on its way to the rest of the Earth. It can be anyone, almost perfectly. But it isn't limited to being human, or even one thing at a time. It is a lovely tale of paranoia, reflecting the end of the Cold War in which it was made. And the effects are batshit insane. It tops many lists of Best Horror Films for a reason.

The Thing (1982)

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Pet Semetery
One day, his daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck. Stephen was faced with the task of burying the cat in the pet cemetery and then explaining to his daughter what had happened. It was on the third day after the burial that the idea for a novel came to him.
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Saw this in theaters when I was like…6? I was told I would like it because it had a little girl and a cat Was so scared I forced myself to sleep through 2/3 of it

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

The Shining

Another horror movie I saw at a very young age. My mother was a major Stephen King fan, so naturally she had to buy the movie. While as a kid, I didn’t understand a lot of it, but the imagery was certainly enough to creep me out. It wasn’t a movie I watched repeatedly until I reached adulthood and could appreciate the finer points, like the eerie musical score.

This one’s for you, Nebs.

One of my faves!

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

John Carpenter's 1982 version of The Thing, based on John W. Campbell's 1938 novella, Who Goes There is one of the most frightening films made. Working entirely with practical effects, the story of a shape changing alien who can become any animal it samples (ie: people) up to and including their memories, trying to take over an Antarctic research station on its way to the rest of the Earth. It can be anyone, almost perfectly. But it isn't limited to being human, or even one thing at a time. It is a lovely tale of paranoia, reflecting the end of the Cold War in which it was made. And the effects are batshit insane. It tops many lists of Best Horror Films for a reason.

The Thing (1982)

Grrr, that was going to be my pick too! Back to the drawing board…

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula - 1992. My favorite of many, many adaptations of it.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.




The Amityville Horror

I bought this book at a school book fair when I was 11 or 12. Why did they let me buy this? I remember reading it in bed one night and becoming so scared, I threw it and ran downstairs. Years later, the 1979 version was on cable TV and I watched it. Still wouldn't pick this book up again unless a lot of money were involved.

 

[orangecurious]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury is a poet, pure and simple. He weaves words so the ordinary is far from it (the opening of Dandelion Wine is a great example), so it took a while to realise that actually, something VERY wicked had come. October had proved to be a very rare month. The book chilled me, drew me in (as Bradbury does so easily) and then raced me to the end to know what happens.

I hadn't realised there was a film until i saw it on the schedule one afternoon over the xmas holidays. Ha! Disney, this will be pathetic, i thought. As others have posted in this thread, it's no happy singing animals film, it's dark and disturbing, capturing the evil of the novel brilliantly. Creepy clowns, evil circus masters and the sinister feeling pervading everything... was this normal? had the evil won? did everyone know and accept it?

The library scene is just pure creepiness as Pryce and Robards clash.

 

[Grant55]

Day 3: Silence of the Lambs

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

I forgot Day 2. I enjoyed the book first, and then saw this movie several years later. Enjoyed this one

 

[crazychemgirl]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.
The Watchers

 

[FreckledSprite]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

American Psycho

 

[Bry1313]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel.

American Psycho

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Damn you, I even had the Huey Lewis scene teed up.

 

[Bry1313]

Day 3 - Scary movie based on a novel
For me losing out on posting the Huey Lewis scene, you get this scene from the Exorcist

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 3 - Scary movie based on a novel
For me losing out on posting the Huey Lewis scene, you get this scene from the Exorcist

YouTube says I’m too young and innocent to watch this video and, without seeing it, I’d tend to agree

 

[curious_slut]

Day 3: A scary movie that was based on a novel

Dracula Untold is part horror-part action and loosely based on the book, basically a Dracula origin story. It's a lot better than it sounds. And I can't think of a hotter Dracula than Luke Evans

 

[NRJLIVES4ever]

Day 3 - Scary movie based on a novel
For me losing out on posting the Huey Lewis scene, you get this scene from the Exorcist

I don't wanna be buried
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