Scary films for Halloween
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If you\'re staying in this Halloween make sure you get the frighteners with our top 10 horror films to keep you awake in the wee small hours...
10. Scream
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Scream
This is a veritable jump-fest of shock and horror. With the biggest star, Drew Barrymore, getting killed off in the first five minutes the scene is set for a real scary ride, but this movie has a sense of humour as well as gore galore. And with references to more than 10 other horror flicks, Scream really knows how to raise the fear factor.
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9. The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
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The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
Not since The Exorcist has possession been so truly terrifying. Nineteen-year-old Emily Rose dies shortly after undergoing an exorcism courtesy of her local priest. He is subsequently put on trial for homicide and a young female lawyer is bought in to hammer it out with him in court. Was this a real possession or insanity? Either way, when we see what Emily sees in her descent into death – a sleepless night is guaranteed.
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8. The Haunting
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The Haunting
Don\'t bother with the 1999 remake of this, the original 1963 film is perhaps the best haunted-house film ever. What you don\'t see is infinitely more frightening than what you do, and not a severed head or bloody corpse in sight. The atmosphere of this film will lower the temperature of any room to a suitably shivery level, and is guaranteed to chill you to the bone.
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7. Silence Of The Lambs
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Silence Of The Lambs
Hannibal The Cannibal, so refined yet quite likely to bite your face off given half the chance. This film had a double whammy of horror with the presence of Hannibal Lecter plus the psycho he was helping FBI agent Clarice Starling to hunt down. Hannibal may be a learned man but they do say it\'s the quiet ones you have to watch.
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6. Saw
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Saw
With each sick task the victims have to complete to remain alive, the gore stakes are raised, culminating in a very nasty hack-job. A sneaky twist at the end and some very nasty torture contraptions ensures this film will haunt you for days.
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5. The Shining
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The Shining
Jack Nicholson is scary at the best of times, but give the man an axe and an isolated hotel to look after and he\'s positively demonic. Waves of blood, spooky girl ghosts and a little boy with the \'gift\' of second-sight make this a fearful film for nights alone.
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4. A Nightmare On Elm Street
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A Nightmare On Elm Street
Freddy Kruger starts off as a fairytale told to children by their parents to make them behave, but soon he\'s grabbing them in their sleep and bringing them into his very own nightmare where he\'s been sharpening his knives; which also happen to double as fingers. We dare you to go to bed alone after watching this...
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3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
From the very beginning you\'re willing these stupid teenagers not to go in, to leave well alone but do they? Of course not, because then we wouldn\'t get to hide behind our hands when they get sliced and diced at the hands of a psycho with a chainsaw and a severe self-esteem problem. Original or remake, it\'ll give you the willies...
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2. Halloween
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Halloween
Gory and full of suspense, escaped mentally ill patient, masked Michael, hunts down his sister, the virginal Jamie Lee Curtis and her randy friends. Of course, you only get to live if you didn\'t have sex in the film and therefore Jamie is the only one left alive, although we\'re not sure she deserves to be after hiding in the closet - of course he\'s going to look there!
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1. The Exorcist
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The Exorcist
The daddy of all horror flicks. Horrifying in its heyday, it now has some rather inadvertently humorous scenes, most of which we can\'t describe here. But who can resist a head-spinning, projectile-vomiting, pre-pubescent girl cursing her mother with language usually reserved for building sites, whilst being possessed by the devil? We know we can\'t!
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