I call it Shocktober.

Do you watch horror movies during October as Halloween approaches?

Do you have any favorites you always watch?

As I prepare my Shocktober 2021 movie playlist I'm looking for some great horror and monster movies to add which I usually don't watch.
The month culminates with the Halloween movie series but there are other horror movie series which populates the month.

Plus, hosting my forum causes me to list every movie in horror movie series but I only watch select movies from each series.
These sets of movies have the really good ones and some very poorly made ones.
Not all of my Shocktober lists have all sets.
There are many stand alone horror films which are amazingly well-made.
Yes, some complete sets are well-made as well.

This thread is meant to be a watch list for Horror movies for October.
Since I really love MONSTER movies, I suggest a lot of monster movies...I loves me sum monsters!

Years back I belonged to a forum which hosted horror movies and as a mod we did focus forums featuring movies of a particular type.
I did the Monsters & Creatures forum.
There were other forums as well hosted by other site mods.
Our members loved it!

We had forums for:
Slasher Movies
Evil Kids and Doll Movies
Psychological and Psychotic Movies
Classic Horror Movies
Serial Killer & Stalker Movies
Monsters & Creatures Movies (including alien monsters)
Religious Horror Movies (demons, possessions, hauntings, etc...)
Death-Tech Movies (runaway technology and evil machines)
Gore and Banned Movies
Horror Short Films
Family Halloween Movies
Animated Horror Movies

For my current forum, creating these sub-forums is way too much work.
I just post up movies and sets in my horror forums

I'm always on the look out for movies I have not posted.
I will look at all your suggestions and post those which trip my trigger.

This year, I've already posted a few sets.

Here is the Horror Movie Sets Forum.
http://ghostown.freeforums.net/board/41/horror-sets-themes
Many are still placeholders but if it has replies, its usually complete.

The monsters & creatures Set Forum is less populated right now but there are a few which are complete.
Again, 0 replies means its still a placeholder.
http://ghostown.freeforums.net/board/42/monsters-creatures-sets-themes

The actual Horror Movies Forum is completely populated and 0 replies means nothing. There is at least 1 link to a stream for each title listed.
http://ghostown.freeforums.net/board/44/horror-movies

Even if you do not stream movies you can look at the lists to get an idea of movies to watch. Then you can rent or buy or borrow as you want.
Many of these movies are available thru Netflix, Roku and other online rental sites plus many can be rented thru Youtube.

One of my favorite sets for October is the Offspring Set.
Offspring (2009)
The Woman (2011)

Other movies I like...
The Seasoning House (2013)
Gravy (2015)
The Monster (2015)
Feast (2005)
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
PumpkinHead (1988)
[REC] (2007)
Rest Stop: Dont Look Back (2008)
Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Laid to Rest (2009)
Jeepers Creepers Set
A Haunting in Connecticut (2002)
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence the Lambs (1991)
Evil Dead (2013)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
House Of 1000 Corpses (2003)
The Descent (2005)
Demons (1985)
Death Factory: Bloodletting (2008)
Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014)
Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
American Werewolf in London (1981)
Along Came Devil Set
30 Days of Night 2007)
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
The Grudge (2020)
The Eye (2008)
The Crow (1994)
Vacancy (2007)
Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Leprechaun: Origins (2014)
Mimic (1997)
The Fly (1958)
The Thing (1982)
Alien (1979)
Body Snatchers (1993)
Hypercube (2002)
Event Horizon (1997)
Flatliners (2017)

I like to watch the movie, "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane", it's not a horror movie but I like it at this time of year.

Killer clowns need a forum!

A fun movie!


I read somewhere awhile back they are making another Killer Clowns movie.

The Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979370/



After 30 years since their last invasion, the clowns once again try to take over earth. The humans must stop them.
Director
Stephen Chiodo
Writers
Charles Chiodo(story), Edward Chiodo(story), Stephen Chiodo(story)
Star
Grant Cramer

Two circus performers who are stranded in the mountain town of Kismet, the new Klowns invade when their car breaks down. The two will have to save the world from the returning Killer Klowns while they are being blamed for what is happening.

Have you seen the movie

Clown (2014)
A little boy's birthday party gets ruined when his entertainment (clown) cancels. His father finds a clown suit and becomes the new entertainment but something is weird about it, there is an evil curse and it won't come off. He specializes in eating little kids... everything after that goes down hill.



Oh, BTW, the movie Gravy (2015) has a cannibal dressed up as a clown.
Also a fun movie!

It's All Hallow's Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a late night of gaming, food and libations. The only caveat is what's on the menu.

A few non-horror, kinda comical 'scary' and Halloween Movies and sets of movies.

HalloweenTown set
Goosebumps movies (nearly anything by RL Stein)
Nightmare Before Christmas
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
The Goonies
Mostly Ghostly
Casper
The Dog Who Saved Halloween
Hocus Pocus
NightBooks
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting
The House With a Clock in Its Walls
Fun Size
The Haunted Mansion
Scooby-Doo The Movie
The Little Vampire
Don't Look Under The Bed
Scared Stiff
Under Wraps
Matilda
Double, Double, Toil & Trouble
The Addams Family
Beetlejuice
Ghostbusters
Labyrinth
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Edward Sccissorhands

A few Horror Movie Sets

13 Ghosts Set
28 Days Later Set
30 Days of Night Set

All Hallow's Eve Set
Alone in the Dark Set
Along Came Devil Set
American Psycho Set
American Werewolf Set
Amityville Horror Set
Annabelle Set
Argento's Animal Trilogy
Argento's Three Mothers Set
Art of the Devil Set
August Underground Set

Baby Jane Set
Bathory Set
Bloody/Dead Mary Set
Bloody Murder Set
Boogeyman Set
Buried Alive Set

Cabin Fever Set
Candyman Set
Cannibal Ferox Set
Cannibal Holocaust Set
Carrie Set
Children of the Corn Set
Child's Play Set
C.H.U.D. Set
Coffin Set
Cold Prey Set
Conjuring Set
Contracted Set
Creepshow Set
Cruel Intentions Set

Day of the Dead Set
Dead Rising Set
Dead Snow Set
Deadtime Stories Set
Death Factory Set
Decadent Evil Set
Dementia 13 Set
Demoni Set
Descent Set
Devil's Rejects Set
Don't Look in the Basement Set
Dracula Movies (over 20 movies featuring Dracula)
Dusk Till Dawn Set

Embrace the Darkness Set
Escape Room Set
Evil Dead Set
Exorcist Set

Fear of Clowns Set
Fear Street Set
Friday the 13th Series
Fright Night Set
From Beyond Set
Ghost Busters Set
Guinea Pig Set

Halloween Series
Hannibal Lecter Set
Happy Death Day Set
Hatchet Set
Haunted Hill Set
Haunting At Silver Falls Set
Haunting Connecticut Set
Hayride Set
Hellraiser Set
Hills Have Eyes Set
Hostel Set
House of the Dead Set
Houses October Built Set
Human Centipede Set

Insidious Set
IT Set
It's Alive Set

Jeepers Creepers Set
Joy Ride Set

Killjoy Set

Laid To Rest Set
Last House on the Left Set
Last Summer Set
Lizzie Borden Set
Lord of the Flies Set
Lost Boys Set
Lovecraft Set (Color Out of Space)

Meh. Any time that I want to watch a horror film, I watch the video of the wedding in which I am the groom and my ex-wife is the bride.

There are some Horror movies which I will not watch! I threw mine away years ago and never missed it. >>>shivers!<<<

Lately, TV News is too much Horror for me!
Society insanity is continuing to rise.
When it finally snaps, its gunna be hell on Earth!

There are some Horror movies which I will not watch! I threw mine away years ago and never missed it. >>>shivers!<<<

Lately, TV News is too much Horror for me!
Society insanity is continuing to rise.
When it finally snaps, its gunna be hell on Earth!

I love watching horror movies! especially the Friday the Thirteenth series....I’m watching the original one right now! I remember how scared and freaked out I was about The Exorcist when it first came out, I think I was 10. Then there was the original Night of the Living Dead, 1968 in black and white, I was only 5 then so I didn’t get to see it until years, and years later!

So those are a few of my top favorites....

And you’re definitely right about the world news on TV being the biggest true horror story of our current time....and it’s only just begun!

I like Hocus Pocus

I don't care for the slice and dice scary movies, but there are some horror movies I'll watch. Not by myself though, haha. I usually need an arm to grab hold of and a shoulder to bury my face in, haha.

No doubt about that!

I recently watched the movie "Ma", that starred Octavia Spencer. That was kind of gruesome.

I find the Exorcist film funny.
The original Night of the Living Dead is an amazing work and I remember my sis when she came home from the theater after seeing it...she was really creeped out!
Friday the 13th like the Halloween series has good ones and bad ones but the originals are the best. Same with A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Additionally, the original Hellraiser and the original Phantasm are the best too.

Some of the friendly movies I posted earlier are pretty good (not slash and gash).
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The House with a Clock in the Walls, Both Goosebumps and Matilda are pretty fun to watch. You might want to give them a try.

Personally I find all religious based horror movies comical.
Some movies are just sick, like Flowers...a film with horrible visuals and terrible violence. If I never watch A Serbian Film again it will be too soon, that was just terrible awful and really sick and twisted.

Like I said, I really like monster and creature movies. The stranger looking the better. I also like scifi alien creature movies.

I know people that just love slasher films but I usually find them really corny. I do like survival horror and test subject horror. I also like most werewolf movies but pass on the vamps and zombies.

Utopia/dystopia horror movies are usually pretty good as well as runaway technology horror.

Meat Market Set
Mirror Mirror Set
Mirrors Set
Molly Hartley Set
My Bloody Valentine Set

Night of the Demons Set
Night of the Living Dead Set
Nightmare on Elm St Set

Offspring Set
Ouija Set
Outpost Set

Pet Semetary Set
Phantasm Set
Playing With Dolls Set
Poltergeist Set
Prom Night Set
Psycho Set
Pulse Set
Pumpkinhead Set

Quarantine Set

ReAnimator Set
REC Set
Reeker Set
Resident Evil Set
Rest Stop Set
Return of the Living Dead Set

Salem's Lot Set
Savage Harvest Set
Saw Series
See No Evil Set
Silent Hill Set
Sinister Set
Sometimes They Come Back Set
Spit on Your Grave Set
SubSpecies Set

Tales From The Crypt Movies
Texas Chainsaw Set
The Babysitter Set
The Boy Set
The Cell Set
The Collector Set
The Crow Set
The Eye Set
The Grudge Set
The Invoking Set
The Messengers Set
The Omen Set
The Prophecy Set
The Ring Set
The Shining Set
The Unborn Set

Toolbox Murders Set
Train to Busan Set

Underworld Set
Unnamable Set
Unseen Evil Set
Urban Legends Set

Vacancy Set
Carpenter's Vampires Set
Village of the Damned Set

Warlock Set
Watchers Set
Waxwork Set
Wishmaster Set
Witchboard Set
Witchcraft Set
Woman in Black Set
Wrong Turn Set
Zombieland Set

Welcome to Shocktober 2021

I rarely watch horror as it's just too much for me. I do have Ghost Ship on DVD, lord knows how it came into my possession, haha.
I kind of like it but I will not watch it when it's dark.

Long time ago I've seen Friday the 13th in theatre. I was 14-15 at the time. It scared the bejesus out of me!!

Apart from that I don't see why October is horror movie month. But I guess it's funny to have a theme month.
To me October is more about warmth, candle light, family, cuddling up. You know, the cosy indoors scene as summer is over, heating is on again, warm colours, scented candles.

Oh and then there's movies on paranormal stuff... for some reason they always appeal to me, but I never watch any anymore. They freak me out on a level that goes beyond scary. Probably because I've always been sensitive to paranormal stuff.
I once watched The Entity...
Took me years to get over! No joke.
Something like Pet Semetary doesn't really scare me a lot. But The Entity...

Halloween is October 31.
Some of the TV channels I used to watch offered 31 days of Halloween horror movies.
That's where the Shocktober theme came from.
Plus, on that old forum I mentioned earlier, the horror forums were made public on Oct 1st and ended on Oct 31st.

No horror movie actually scares me anymore. Probably because I am more interested in figuring how they did that effect than the horrific images showing. Its also why I like monster and creature movies. The creature design and nature of them is more interesting to me than the horrific nature of the story. But, I'm like that for action movies too.

While I have nearly all of Stephen King's movies I actually don't watch many of those. They seem to be the same thing over and over. There are some that are really good (even after multiple watches) like Cujo.

I find religion based horror movies to be comical. I do watch some of them. Mainly demons and ghosts. I also like haunted and possession movies, they are a lot of fun.

There are only a few Zombie movies I can tolerate anymore. I guess I've seen too many bad ones. I watched Army of the Dead twice but couldn't do a third. I can watch the Zombieland set and Rekill but really gotta be in the mood for them.

Right now, I have a few titles unzipped to watch. Still have many more to add and I've already watched a few.

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2012) b walker
Animal (2014) jl adams

Clown (2014) a powers
Come Play (2020) a robertson g jacobs j gallagherjr 5.8

Daybreakers (2009) e hawke s neill
Drag Me To Hell (2009) a lohman
Dreamkatcher (2020) l shaye supernatural

Haunted (1995) k beckinsale a quinn

Incarnate (2016) a eckhart

Scouts Guide the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) l miller
Southbound (2015) c villella

The Bye Bye Man (2017) d smith 6.2
The Djinn (2021) e dewey r brownstein t poe 7.2
The Gravedancers (2006) dominic purcell
The Haunting of Cellblock 11 aka Apparitional (2014) j johnson
The Midnight Man (2016) l shaye
The Unholy (2021) jd morgan c brown w sadler 5.2

What Lies Below (2020) e horvath t iwata d corbo

Z (2019) kc tracy

There are also some very wonderful old B&W horror movies that still got it.
Most of the Dracula, Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll movies are best in black & white. Every once in awhile you get a decent modern version but those still can't compare with the old ones.

Even Syfy and The Asylum sometimes put out a decent horror flick.
House of Bones
Husk
The Hollow

The Hallow is a fair lower budget Irish legend horror movie which was pretty entertaining.

Dog Soldiers is an amazing werewolf movie made on a minimal budget.

Personally, I use my own genre classification for movies.
Movies from any established genre can be horrific to me.
Murder, rape, abduction and stalking, to me, is horrific.

Red Dawn, an action movie about war strikes me as horrific.
Primeval, a crocodile movie strikes me as comical.
Ghost & the Darkness, a lion movie still freaks me out a lil.

Some horror movies I recommend (may not be listed as horror):
Oculus
The Atticus Institute
Trick 'r Treat
Haunting In Connecticut
Mirrors
1408
A Haunting at Silver Falls
Flatliners
Trailer Park Of Terror
The Hills Have Eyes
Hostel
Last House On The Left
Johnny Got His Gun
Messengers
A Nightmare On Elm Street 1
Psycho
Silent Hill
Tales From The Crypt – Demon Knight
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Juon (The Grudge)
The Prophecy
Trilogy of Terror
Witchboard
And Soon The Darkness
Bird With The Crystal Plumage
Eden Lake
Fragile
House of Wax
Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Lord Of Illusions
Mother of Tears – The 3rd Mother
Orphan
Serpent & The Rainbow
The Children
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
The People Under The Stairs
The Seasoning House
The Tall Man
Urban Legend
Whiteout
Misery
The Night Flier
Thinner
The Shining
30 Days of Night
Dracula (1931)
House of Dracula (1945)
Prince Of Darkness
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Fright Night
From Dusk Till Dawn
Subspecies
Underworld – Rise of the Lycans
Blood & Chocolate
Blood Wars
Rise Blood Hunter
Bad Moon
Cursed
Skinwalkers
The Wolfman (1941)
Werewolf The Beast Among Us
28 Days Later
Dead Snow
Outpost – Black Sun
Quarantine
Reanimator
[REC]
Return Of The Living Dead
Braindead
Devil's Playground
Doghouse
Night of the Creeps
Night Of The Living Dead
Pontypool
Shaun of the Dead
Undead
World War Z
Zombieland
Alien
Body Snatchers
Hypercube
Decoys
Hollowman
Omega Man
I am Legend
Pitch Black
Screamers
Terminator
The Terror Within
Altered States
Cell Count
Event Horizon
Soylent Green
The Blob
Priest
Solomon Kane
Dead Space Downfall
Don't Blink
Hunt For The BTK Killer
Horns
Let Us Prey
Odd Thomas
Sleepy Hollow
The Exorcist
Jurassic Park
Jurassic World
Area 407
Deep Rising
The Mist
Legend of Boggy Creek
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Feast
It's Alive
Jeepers Creepers
Mimic
The Fly
The Thing
Unnameable
Blackout
Blood Glacier
Born of Earth
Burrowers
Cabin In The Woods
Constantine
Dagon
Dark Night of The Scarecrow
Darkest Hour
Darkness Falls
Deep Star 6
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943)
Grabbers
Jack Brooks Monster Slayer
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Neatherbeast Inc.
Peter Benchley's Creature
Phantoms
Rawhead Rex
Reign Of Fire
Scourge
Terminal Invasion
The Mortal Instruments – City of Bones
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The Relic
The Stuff
Under The Bed
The Devil Times Five
Bats Human Harvest
Faces Of Death
Virus
Skin Trade
The Lazarus Effect
To the Devil A Daughter (1976)
Pan's Labryinth
Indigenous
The Island of Dr Moreau
Still Waters
Harbinger Down
Exeter
Cooties

These are just a few from my collection.
Many of them are online to stream for free or available in full on Youtube.