Top 10 Horror Flicks That Will Scare Your Socks Off

BY: JUDY Y.

In the spirit of Halloween, fuzzy socks, and fall, tis’ the time for scary movies. Cuddling up with a loved one and a bowl of popcorn while watching a scary movie is one of the best things to do during this time of the year. With horror movies you have the oldies that, while nowadays aren't that scary, paved the way for today's psychological warfare, however, they're all super spooky. Here's my top ten tales for you horror hungry humans. WARNING: This list contains the overly decayed and the recently deceased, and is in no particular order.

Quiet Place- This is an interesting watch. A strangely new and wild concept. This movie although filled with jump scares has a beautiful story. A story of a family trying to survive the apocalypse. The monsters are essentially big genetically messed up bats, they can't see well but they'll hear a baby's sneeze from a mile away. The family survives only because they have a daughter who lives in silence and they all know sign-language because of her; so when they go out of their boarded-up home with mattresses on the walls for sound barriers they can communicate without really speaking.

Paranormal Activity - Man, okay, so I have this vague memory of my aunts watching it late at night in the living room where I had been sleeping and I woke up just in time to catch the last few scares. I ended up begging them to put on a cartoon so I could fall back asleep. Of course, a young child won’t be able to handle a scary movie the way an older teen would but that experience alone has made me too scared to watch the movie again.

28 Weeks Later- Every horror list needs a zombie movie. However, today's zombies aren't all that scary, but funny, and the zombies of yesteryear are far too decayed for us now. These zombies, on the contrary, are raging animals. Just as the virus is contained, there is a woman found who carries the virus but is seemingly unaffected. Her unknowing husband finds her and gives her one last kiss before contracting the virus from her and ultimately eating her alive. This one radiates with you in your core. It's a memorable watch.

Carrie - We’re talking old 1976 Carrie. Well, this one isn't all that scary, however, it makes you extra cautious of who you're mean to, you never know who has secret superpowers. Do be warned the ’70s were a different time meaning this movie has a different kind of chill to run down your spine. Carrie, the young teen struggling with an abusive parent and bullies in school, lets loose her telepathic powers and all of her anger on prom night leaving the school to burn and going home to crumble it in pieces.

Nightmare On Elm Street - We all know the creepy rhyme: “one, two Freddy's coming for you…” Man, this movie was big. Once more, it's another movie that is only known by the name of its villain Mr. Freddy Krueger himself with all of his claws and boils. This is the movie you absolutely cannot watch at night when you're getting sleepy. The name should be changed to nightmare on every street because this evil psycho will only attack in your dreams when you're sleeping. The catch on this dream attacker is that it's fatal in the real world.

Insidious- This out of body experience is wild and that’s coming from someone who has had one. Dealing with evil spirits is wild. Little kids are wild and this movie rolls all of those things into one giant roller coaster of fear. With tons of jump scares, this movie will leave you sleeping with one eye open just to make sure there isn’t a ghost hovering over you while you sleep.

Us- Currently one of the best horror films out there. I mean, it has got it all: that physiological mind twist, the crazy killer people, the fear you’re gonna wake up to someone who looks just like you standing over you with scissors. This film is so different from anything else out there. Everyone is the victim--not just a group of people but everyone in America. That's a lot of people man. This is a film you must watch twice (at least) because there are so many little details that one won't catch with one watch.

Child's Play- It’s an oldie but a goldie. For those who only know it as Chucky, this is the film that made everyone terrified of dolls. Chucky isn't a creepy possessed porcelain doll, though, he is creepy. He’s a creepy regular plastic doll possessed by the murderous spirit of “Charles Lee Ray” who uses voodoo in a toy store when running from a cop to use the doll as a host. The doll in question gets picked up by a hustler who sells it to a working-class single mother. She gives her son the doll as a birthday present and, when the doll starts killing, no one believes the kid is innocent when he says “Chucky did it” until it is too late

The Visit - Oh man, do I love a film that looks like found footage. I must give a nod to the Blair Witch Project for bringing life to this genre of horror but, in my book, this one pulls it off better because of the twisty ending and the fact that instead of college students making a doc film its just two siblings going to their “grandparents” and messing around with a camera. This film doesn't make you think a killer is coming to get you but it will have you watching your loved ones very closely.

Final Destination - This franchise is good for those people who enjoy that light type of horror--the ones that get you on the edge of your seat screaming “no, don't open that door” at the protagonist while they open the door. However, Final Destination doesn't leave you paranoid that someone is hiding in your shower curtain when you go to the bathroom late at night. Just that, when you step out of the shower, you'll slip and strangle yourself to death but, when it comes to bathroom safety, you can never be too careful.