Halloween is finally here – and what better way to celebrate this mystical event with some of the scariest horror movies around.
With that in mind and continuing our series of articles on the subject, we’ve curated a very short list of seven scary movies to check out on HBO Max, from the classic “The Exorcist,” considered one of the best and scariest. productions of all time, down to the recent and acclaimed “Evil”, overseen by James Wan.
Check out our picks below:
An actress gradually realizes that her twelve-year-old daughter is completely creepy. So she asks a priest, who is also a psychiatrist, for help, and he comes to the conclusion that the young girl is possessed by the devil. He then asks for the help of a second priest, an expert in exorcism, to try to free the young girl from this terrible possession.
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A family in California must deal with strange and frightening events when spirits begin to communicate with them through a television. The ghosts appear friendly at first, but they become increasingly threatening when the couple’s youngest daughter disappears. With no way out, the parents seek the help of a group of parapsychologists led by a psychic to try to get the girl back.
A group of teenagers have horrible nightmares in which they are attacked by a deformed man with steel claws. It only appears during sleep, and to get out of it you have to wake up. The crimes continue on and on, until it is discovered that the mysterious being is actually Freddy Krueger, a man who molested children on Elm Street and was burned alive by the neighborhood. Now Krueger may have returned to exact revenge on those who killed him, through sleep.
Three film students go deep into the woods of the state of Maryland to make a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch and mysteriously disappear. A year later, a bag full of film and video tapes was found in the woods. The images recorded by the trio give some clues to their macabre fate.
PREMONITION (2000)
Alex Browning embarks on a trip to Paris. Alex has a premonition, in which he sees the plane explode moments after leaving the ground. Alex insists that everyone get off the plane and seven people, including Alex, are forced to disembark. Everyone sees when the plane actually explodes like a ball of fire. He and the other survivors briefly cheat death, but they won’t be able to avoid their fate for long. One by one, these fugitives from fate fell victim to death.
HE – THE THING (2017)
In ‘IT’, a group of seven teenagers from Derry, a town in Maine, form the so-called “Losers Club” – the losers’ club. The town’s quiet routine is shaken when children start disappearing and all that can be found of them are their body parts. Soon, the members of the “Losers Club” find themselves face to face with the person responsible for the crimes: the clown Pennywise.
THE AUTOPSY (2016)
Tommy Tilden and Austin Tilden, his son, are responsible for running a morgue in a small town in the United States. Their jobs are usually very quiet due to the quiet nature of the town, but one day the local sheriff brings a complicated case: an unknown woman has been found dead on the outskirts of town – “Jane Doe” , in American language. As father and son attempt to uncover the identity of the deceased woman, strange and dangerous things begin to happen, putting their lives in danger.