by Gabby Uy, Chris Lim, Xiying Tham, Vince Tiu, Francine Whiting, and Piper Yu
This halloween is sure to be yet another frightfully exciting event. What could be better than grabbing your favourite noms and sitting down to a good ol’ movie? Here are our top 5 films to watch this halloween. However, please check the age ratings to see if the movie appropriate for you!
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Audience Rating: PG
Genre: Animated/Comedy
Dir. Genndy Tartakovsky
Count Dracula owns a hotel where monsters can go to relax and have a break from their scary lives. When his daughter Mavis turns 118, the Count invites a host of the scariest creatures to celebrate her birthday. However, the Count grows overly protective when an ordinary human accidentally crashes the party and falls in love with his daughter.
Ouija (2014)
Audience Rating: R-13
Genre: Thriller
Dir. Stiles White
An ouija board is a medium through which players can allegedly communicate with the supernatural during a seance. Oujia: Origin Of Evil, takes place in 1960s Los Angeles where a widowed mother and her two daughters run a seance scam business and unintentionally invite a nefarious presence into their home. When the youngest daughter is found to be possessed, the family attempt to retrieve her soul and send the spirit back to the other side.
Coraline (2009)
Audience Rating: PG-13
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Dir. Henry Selick
When Coraline moves to a new home with her family, she discovers a secret door that sends her to a different dimension of her world. In this alternate world, everything is seemingly the same; she has the same mother, father and house but instead, people there have buttons as their eyes. In many different ways she enjoys staying in the new world a lot more because of more freedom and enjoyment. She rejoices in her discovery; however, when her “Other Mother” in the new world encourages her to sew her eyes with buttons and stay there forever, Coraline joins forces with a black cat to use all her resources and bravery to make it out alive.
Corpse Bride (2005)
Audience Rating : PG
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Dir. Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Victor and Victoria’s families have arranged their marriage. Even though they both like each other, Victor is nervous for what’s to come. One night, he heads out to the forest to recite his vows for the up-coming marriage. Suddenly a branch forms into a hand - belonging to a dead bride named Emily- and yanks him down to the land of the dead. Desperate to escape,back, Emily helps Victor find his way back to the world of the living before Victoria marries a wicked and villainous man, Barkis Bittern.
Frankenweenie (2012)
Audience Rating: PG
Genre: Animated/Horror/Comedy
Dir. Tim Burton
A young boy named Victor is a science nerd, who unfortunately does not have many friends other than his dog Sparky. However, almost coincidentally, his dog dies. The next day, Victor doodles and mourns over Sparky’s death during science class. But something grabs his attention. His teacher brings death back alive. This gives Victor a spark in his mind to bring Sparkly back. Join Victor as monstrous and unintended consequences haunt him.
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (2016)
Rating: PG
Genre: Fantasy
Dir. Tim Burton
When Jake's grandfather leaves him clues to solve a mystery, he discovers Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But danger presents itself as he learns about the residents' special powers and their terrifying enemies. Eventually, Jake realises that only his own peculiarity can save his equally unique friends. The film is based on Ransom Riggs' novel "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children."
One Missed Call (2008)
Audience Rating : R-13
Genre: Mystery/Horror
Dir. Eric Valette
After the death of their friend Shelley, Leann Cole receives a voicemail from the future of the date and time when she would die. On the scheduled day, Leann sees weird things and in the exact hour, she is attacked by a force on a footbridge over a train station while talking to her friend Beth. Beth meets Leann's boyfriend Brian, who also received a call, and witnesses his death on the street. When her roommate Taylor Anthony receives a call, Beth befriends Det. Jack Andrews then tells her that his sister was the first victim of the phone call. They decide to investigate the connections of Jack's sister and find the name of Marie Layton, who apparently abused her daughters. Jack and Beth run against time trying to save Beth from her fate.
Good luck sleeping tonight!
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