Every year in October, we ask our faculty, staff, and members of our student-library advisory group SLATE to recommend their favorite scary movies. Enjoy these spine-tinglers!<\/p>\n
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Kira Stevens, 1L<\/strong><\/p>\n My current favorite horror film is The Invisible\u00a0Man from\u00a02020 (I haven’t seen the original).\u00a0The movie tells the story of a woman who was previously engaged to a wealthy, brilliant man who she insists has been stalking her by turning himself invisible.\u00a0I loved it because the\u00a0movie weaves together real life horrors and science fiction to make a truly terrifying situation. It allows for interesting dialogue on our social climate regarding interpersonal\u00a0relationships and female\u00a0survivors. But also I just love psychological thrillers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kim Edwards, Director of Technology Services<\/strong><\/p>\n Because I AM a scardey cat, my all time fav is Beetlejuice. I recently watched Hubie Halloween on Netflix with Adam Sandler.\u00a0 If you like Adam Sandler movies when he does funny voices, you might enjoy this one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kaitlin Hutson, 1L<\/strong><\/p>\n Midsommar of course, but I feel like there should be a trigger warning at the beginning. I always forget about the part at the beginning. I like it because it\u2019s a psychological thriller without cheap jump scares, and there\u2019s lots of pieces that don\u2019t get put together until the very end.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sara Tandy, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging<\/strong><\/p>\n Allll of the Halloween\/Mike Meyers franchise<\/p>\n House of 1,000 Corpses<\/p>\n Hocus Pocus (for you scaredy cats)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mei Kiu Lo, Catalog\/Systems Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n The Ring (Japanese film). I haven\u2019t watched it and never will.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alex Clay Hutchings, Student Services Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n Raw, a French horror film directed by Julia Ducournau. A vegan veterinary student is forced to eat raw meat during a hazing ritual. Turns out she likes the taste of blood a bit too much.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ana Luiza Ramos, 1L<\/strong><\/p>\n Chucky: I cannot with Chucky. Toys coming to life freak me out (including Toy Story).<\/p>\n The Pope\u2019s Exorcist: This is a new movie and it\u2019s great! I really like Russell Crow and it was an amazing find, even though when I started watching it I didn\u2019t know it was a horror movie. Couldn\u2019t sleep afterwards.<\/p>\n Silence of the Lambs: This one is my favorite, and I don\u2019t know why. I think it was the first scary movie I ever watched.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sylvia Yanes, Faculty Services Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n Totally Killer. Not my all-time favorite, but the last one I saw. If you love Back to the Future or 80s horror movies and fashion, then you\u2019ll be super entertained with this one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Andy Spalding, Professor of Law<\/strong><\/p>\n The funniest (quasi-) scary movie I’ve ever seen: Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carl Tobias, Professor of Law<\/strong><\/p>\n The Night of the Living Dead<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kristen Osenga, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve always found Flash of Genius (Greg Kinnear) a little scary\u2026but only because it\u2019s about patent infringement.\u00a0 For a real recommendation \u2013 I\u2019m terrified of the classic movie The Birds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kathy Greenier, Director of Emerging Careers<\/strong><\/p>\n My pick is Practical Magic because who doesn\u2019t love witches, magic, and \u201890\u2019s fashion, all wrapped in a demon-slaying love story!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Janette Morgan, Acquisitions & Serials Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHouse on Haunted Hill\u201d So cheesy, so good!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Andrew Frank, Access Services Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n JAWS \u2013 People don\u2019t think of it as a horror movie but that\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Janice Craft, Professor of Law, Director of Professional Identity Formation<\/strong><\/p>\n I haven\u2019t seen the latest release, but I will never not love all the installments of the Evil Dead franchise, especially the earlier films directed by Sam Raimi. A man cuts off his demon-possessed hand with a chainsaw and later attaches said chainsaw to the amputated limb. Horror-comedy doesn\u2019t get better than that.<\/p>\n A film that I haven\u2019t yet watched but is on my list for this spooky season is \u201cTalk to Me.\u201d It\u2019s received some decent buzz, with Esquire\u2019s Sirena He calling it \u201cone of the scariest films of the year<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carl Hamm, Multimedia Production and Technology Specialist<\/strong><\/p>\n All time most scary movie for me is The Shining<\/em>.<\/strong> I stayed up way past my bedtime when I was in 7th<\/sup> grade and watched it on Cable TV the night before a History test. Couldn’t sleep afterwards. Flunked the test.\u00a0When I told the teacher why, he said he understood and let me make up the grade with an extra credit project. Write 100 times on the chalkboard: \u00a0\u201cAll work and No Play Makes Carl a Dull Boy\u201d (ok the last part isn\u2019t true, but the rest of it is!).<\/p>\n Honorable mention for me is the 2018 re-make of\u00a0Suspiria<\/strong>\u00a0(soundtrack by Thom Yorke).<\/p>\n The original Italian version is really freaky too \u2013 they played it at the Byrd a few years ago with a simultaneous performance by the Italian Band\u00a0Goblin<\/strong>who composed the original soundtrack.<\/p>\n I also think the original 1970s\u00a0Wickerman <\/strong>is a really dark and disturbing classic.<\/p>\n Other late night CableTV horror movies that I snuck downstairs late at night to watch:<\/p>\n Death Ship<\/strong>(1980),\u00a0The Children<\/strong>\u00a0(1980) (kids that hug you and then you burn into a piece of charcoal), the original\u00a0Pet Semetary<\/strong>\u00a0(which is actually a really lousy movie by the end of it, but starts off really good), \u00a0and the 1990 Cable TV series of Stephen King\u2019s\u00a0IT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And for a classic black and white haunted house movie, I love the 1963 original version of\u00a0The Haunting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A few Indian horror thrillers that I always love to recommend (which we included in this 2020 Blog Post on MuseNews<\/a>)<\/p>\n Bhoot Bungla <\/a>(Haunted House) , and\u00a0Gumnaam<\/a>\u2013 both Hindi films released in 1965. Two of the earlier Indian \u201chorror\u201d films ever made. Gumnaam is well known for giving us the wacky Indian rock tune, \u201cJaan Pahe Chaan Ho\u201d, featured in Ghost World. The film is actually a sort of Hitchcock-style murder mystery, and is pretty slow at times, but the wacky cast, and early Bolly-rock music, make up for it. Bhoot Bungla is another Hindi ghost story film\u2026 it\u2019s not a great plot, but the dancing skeleton music sequences make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n Gumnaam trailer<\/a><\/p>\n Bhoot Bungla staircase scene<\/a><\/p>\n Also, the legendary Bengali film maker Satyajit Ray made a sort of folk-ghost story film called \u201cGoopy Gyne Bagha Byne<\/a>\u201d which is amazing.\u00a0 Trailer here.<\/a><\/p>\n