For sure, everyone has been plotting plans for this coming Halloween. May you be going out to attend parties with your best costume so far or joining kids for trick-or-treat, a Halloween celebration is surely on your list.
If you haven’t made up your mind on what activities to do this Halloween, then this may help you decide.
For some people, watching scary movies during Halloween is one tradition that they would never pass on.
Aside from experiencing the creepy feeling of this season while lounging on the sofa watching zombies and ghosts stream on the flat screen television, it also gives you a chance to stay at home and enjoy togetherness with your family or bond with friends.
And, of course, this is the perfect setting for you to munch on the Halloween goodies your Mom has prepared only for this season, along with the colorful decorations.
Real Simple has compiled a list of movies that are perfect for those who would rather spend Halloween at home and enjoy scary movies that are ideal for the season.
Here are ten of the movies that you may want to watch come Halloween night.
Halloween 
Perfect for the thrill seekers, this tale about an escaped masked murderer creeping around the fictional town of Haddonfield will surely up your anxiety. As Stacie Ponder, a columnist on AMC’s Horror Hacker blog, says, the movie “relies more on atmosphere than graphic horror.”
Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town’s hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It’s a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie’s freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin’s character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience–it’s one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. (“No! Don’t drop that knife!”) Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981′s dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998′s occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. –Robert Horton
The story of an escaped mental patient who returns to the home where he had killed his sister fifteen years earlier.
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Halloween. What a perfect title for a Horror movie. It’s hard to believe back in 1977 that there had never been any movie, let alone a Horror film, that incorporated that title. And what good usage it got. Written, directed, and even musically scored by John Carpenter (with great assistance by then girlfriend Debra Hill), this was truly a film that brought Horror to it’s roots, leaving an impact that only George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead did ten years earlier. Showcasing a deranged killer by the name of Michael Myers who in childhood murdered his sister in cold blood on Halloween night, only to escape his asylum to return to his Illinois home to hunt down babysitter (and eventually known little sister) Jamie Lee Curtis 15 years later, was truly an amazing film that never exploited the genre, keeping the imagination and terror flowing within the viewers mind rather than blatantly on the screen. For it’s time it was the number one profitable independent film ever made, and after almost thirty years, it still terrifies and never grows old. A true classic film. Every single DVD collector should own it….
Peanuts Holiday Collection (It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown / A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving / A Charlie Brown Christmas) (Deluxe Edition) ~ Charles Schulz
A movie for families, this heartfelt animated classic is full of good friends, faith, and fun.
The Haunting
For Old-Movie Fans, The Haunting is “one to watch under the blankets with the lights off,” says Ponder. The spooky movie has it all – sinister music, lighting, and special effects – without a drop of blood.
Not to be confounded with the other The Haunting ~ Liam Neeson
Young Frankenstein Take a classic novel, add Gene Wilder and an off-camera horse whinny, and you’ve got director Mel Brooks’ masterfully funny Young Frankenstein. This spoof of Mary Shelley’s famed story about a mechanical monster trades in ghouls for giggles.
Drag Me to Hell In Drag Me to Hell, a loan officer turns down an aging gypsy’s application only to face down a dark curse that threatens to steal her soul. There are plenty of jump-out-of-your-seat moments, lots of gore, and a surprising amount of laughs. “Scary movies are rarely this fun,” says Ponder.
The Monster Squad The kids of The Monster Squad attempt to retrieve a magical amulet, fighting off a domination-seeking Dracula and his frightening minions. Great special effects and witty writing have made this flick a cult favorite. This flick will make the adventurous happy.
Whatever kind of celebration you’re up to this Halloween, for the movie buff, one of these movies will surely set the mood of this Halloween season.
Halloween 
The Haunting