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Horrific Classics Now Showing This Halloween

  • By Marcus Li

Horror films are like a roller coaster ride. We strap ourselves in potentially dangerous situations which we can’t run away from. Our fight or flight system in our bodies fires away crazily throughout the whole movie – during the build up, the drop and any ominous situations we are too familiar with, all while strapped to our chair with no escape. There’s a lot of stress involved but we can’t argue the fact that we love horror films. The rush of dopamine is almost the same as falling in love or exercising, with the feel-good vibes after the film. Sometimes, horror films don’t live up to our expectations of them, which is why iconic horror films are so good. Here are some horrific classics that are currently showing this October.

Movie Theatre: The Projector

The Rocky Horror Picture Show / 26 Oct’18

This iconic B horror film sing along is scarily fun. A couple gets stuck in the rain, runs into an eerie house for shelter (already you can see how everything is falling apart). Both of them are later seduced by a mad scientist who is actually an alien transvestite who creates a living muscle man in his laboratory. Its cult status in America is so huge that whenever screenings appear, people dress up as the characters from the movie and appear on stage for the sing along. We might not have that in Singapore, but somebody should start this tradition.

 

Corpse Bride / 28 Oct’18

A film from the good old days when Tim Burton was creating intriguing dark yet children-friendly movies. Fully made from stop motion, it’s a story of a heart warming love square. Expect lots of witty undead jokes as you traverse the underworld with this film.

 

Suspiria (1977) / 27 Oct’18

A 1977 film that is so iconic that it’s getting a new remake by Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. However, the 2018 version will only come out after 2 November worldwide. No worries though, as the original is spellbindingly good. The movie follows the main protagonist who enrols into a ballet school in Munich, as she uncovers a supernatural conspiracy within the school, flavoured with murders.

 

Suspiria (2018)

 

The Fly (1986) / 28 Oct’18

This film follows 2018 nominated daddy of the decade, Jeff Goldblum, as his successful teleportation device accidentally splices him with an unfortunate passing by fly’s DNA. It’s a a wonderful body mutation horror film as Jeff Goldblum turns more and more fly like. Think Kafka’s metamorphosis but hotter and as whacky as Jeff Goldblum.

 

The Evil Dead (1981) / 28 Oct 18

This movie is so classic it has spawned off multiple movie remakes and video game. Five college students who are vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote forest (why would anybody do that?) accidentally releases demons and spirits, resulting in demonic possessions that ends in gory mayhem. If the description of the movie wasn’t scary enough, it is said that during the filming process of the movie the cast and crew felt immensely uncomfortable, we wonder why…

 

Movie Theatre: Screening room

Train to Busan (2016) / 22 Oct’18

When this film came out 2016, it sent ripples throughout the movie industry. The film takes place on a train that is heading to Busan, as Korea is suddenly infected by a zombie disease. The bond between protagonist and his daughter as he protects her through the apocalypse is heart-warming. Honestly though, the scariest thing in the movie were not the zombies but how zombie-like the normal humans were when faced with such a predicament. 

 

Get Out (2017) / 24 Oct’18i

In 50 years, people will look at Get Out and think of it as a horror classic. Directed by Jordan Peele from comedy duo Key & Peele, Get Out is a movie on the abduction of black people by white people who want to be black. This is a psychological horror film with subtle yet genius race commentaries only made possible by Jordan Peele, whigh ends in a satisfying revenge slasher. Get out of your house now and go watch.

 

Scream (1996) / 23 Oct’18

This classic follows a high schooler who becomes the targeted prey of a murderer wearing the well-known horror mask. The film is an accumulation of black comedy, whigh exploits mysteries and violence of the slasher genre to satirize the clichés of the horror movie genre. It continuously makes fun of the clichés by having characters in a world where horror films exist, openly discussing about eerily similar movie-like situations that are happening to them.