Halloween

Named after the spooky season itself, 'Halloween' is a film series featuring iconic serial killer, Michael Myers and long-term victim, Jamie Lee Curtis.

The story has it that Michael Myers was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his sister, Judith Myers. Fifteen years later, he escapes to stalk and kill the people of the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

With eight sequels in the film series, Michael's gruesome killings always occur on the holiday of Halloween, making it your definitive must-see Halloween film this season.

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Scream

This classic slasher film follows Sidney Prescott, a high school student in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, who becomes the target of a serial killer known as 'Ghostface'.

With numerous sequels, the film is notorious for its frightening question asked by an unknown caller to targeted victims, "What's your favorite scary movie?". The series of murders follows Sidney Prescott as she attempts to overcome the deaths of her friends and the horror inflicted upon her by Ghostface.

Halloweentown

Thirteen-year-old Marnie adores Halloween but is kept inside every year with her 12-year-old brother, Dylan, and her 7-year-old sister, Sophie, upon the rule set by their mother, Gwen.

As Gwen's mother, Aggie Cromwell, visits the children on Halloween, she tells them the bedtime story of Halloweentown, a mystical place where witches, vampires, and monsters of all sorts live in peace. Marnie, Dylan, and Sophie decide to follow their grandmother once she leaves, as they unknowingly soon arrive in the land of Halloweentown.

Discovering their family's hidden truth of Gwen originating from Halloweentown, Aggie trains Marnie to fulfill her destiny of becoming a Cromwell witch.

As the children learn about Halloweentown, a demon carries out a plan to take control of the town.

With Marnie, Dylan, and Sophie finding their powers as witches and a warlock, it's up to them to save Halloweentown.

Hocus Pocus

On Halloween night of 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, Thackery Binx finds his younger sister, Emily, joyfully running in the woods, towards a cottage.

Within the cottage lives three witches, Winifred, Sarah, and Mary, who cast a spell on Emily to absorb her youth and regain it for themselves, killing her in the process. As Thackery confronts the witches, they turn him into an immortal black cat to live forever with the guilt of being unable to save his sister.

The townspeople hang the witches but not before they're able to cast a spell which resurrects them during a full moon on Halloween, upon a virgin lighting the Black Flame Candle. Thackery guards the cottage to ensure the witches are never resurrected.

Unfortunately, 300 years later, on Halloween night of 1993, Max Dennison visits the cottage with his sister, Dani, and his crush, Allison. Max lights the Black Flame Candle, inadvertently resurrecting the three witches.

Max, Dani, Allison, and Thackery then try to stop the witches from claiming the souls of Salem's children, before helping Thackery put his soul to rest.

A Nightmare On Elm Street

Four teenagers, Tina, Nancy, Rod, and Glen, live on the same street in the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio. Vengeful ghost and killer, Freddy Krueger, enters their dreams as they sleep and kills each of them, thus killing them in reality.

One of the teenagers uncovers that Krueger was an insane child murderer during his lifetime and was released on a technicality before being burned alive by his parents in their home, on the same street as the four teens.

Seeking revenge, Krueger carries out his psychopathic needs by entering the dreams of the teenagers, evolving his inflicted horror a nightmare to a gruesome death.

Friday The 13th

Jason Voorhees drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a young boy, due to the negligence of the camp staff. His mother, Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, stalks and murders the teenagers preparing to reopen Camp Crystal Lake as she's determined to ensure the camp never reopens.

As the series of films continues, Jason is revealed to be alive and fully grown, intent on guarding Crystal Lake from all intruders. As others attempt to create a new camp on the site of Camp Crystal Lake, Jason murders them as an act of vengeance.

With each of the victims struggling yet failing to kill him, Jason continues to administer his murders toward anyone he deems a threat.

It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

The Peanuts gang experiences a youthful Halloween night of trick-or-treating and waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Charlie Brown gets invited to a Halloween parted hosted by Violet, to which Lucy is surprised. As the gang goes trick-or-treating, everyone gets candy except for Charlie Brown, who is given a rock from every house.

The gang visits Violet's party, at which point Snoopy stops by and accidentally kisses Lucy after sneaking into the apple bobbing tank. Sally, adoring Linus, follows him as they skip trick-or-treating and wait at the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin.

Linus awaits the arrival of the Great Pumpkin until 4 o'clock in the morning when Lucy brings him home and puts him to bed. The morning after Halloween, Linus vows to Charlie Brown that the Great Pumpkin will come to the pumpkin patch next year.

This film presents a joyful, charming outlook on Halloween as seen through the hopeful, wide-eyed perspectives of the Peanut gang.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

On the Fourth of July in Southport, North Carolina of 1996, Julie James and her friends Ray Bronson, Helen Shivers, and Barry Cox drive to the beach after attending a party.

While driving along the coastal road, they accidentally hit a pedestrian and decide to rid of the body by dumping it in the water, vowing to never speak of it again. A year later, Julie receives an anonymous letter stating, "I know what you did last summer!".

As Julie tracks down her old friends, they soon discover that Max, the only other individual who saw them at the beach the night of the accident, is murdered. Anonymous notes and warnings are left for the teenagers to find, as the killer gradually threatens them before carrying out his vengeance for their hidden act of murder.

Scary Movie

Humor meets horror in the film series 'Scary Movie', featuring scenes inspired by 'Scream' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'.

This parody of a horror film utilizes the narrative of both films to create a comedic recreation. Drew Decker receives a threatening phone call while home alone and is then chased outside by Ghostface before he stabs her in the breast, removing one of her silicone breast implants. Drew's father becomes distracted while driving his car, hitting her with the car before she is finally murdered by Ghostface.

The opening scene in 'Scary Movie' displays a comedic reaction to the opening scene of 'Scream' in which a young woman, played by actress Drew Barrymore, is murdered by Ghostface. The scene also presents a reaction to the opening scene of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' when the four teenagers accidentally hit a pedestrian with their car, killing him.

By using jokes and mimicking scenes from other horror films, 'Scary Movie' exemplifies a clever and witty Halloween-themed film.

Chucky

Charles Lee Ray, more commonly known as 'Chucky', is a notorious serial killer whose spirit inhabits a 'Good Guys' doll. Chucky tries to transfer his soul into the doll by a voodoo ritual in an effort to escape Detective Mike Norris.

As his soul occupies the animated doll, Chucky is given to a young boy, Andy Barclay, and begins terrorizing the family. Frightening the family, Chucky continues his pursuit of Andy for nearly 10 years as the film series continues.

In a later sequel, 'Bride of Chucky', Chucky's former girlfriend and accomplice, Tiffany Valentine, resurrects him as they terrorize a young couple in an attempt to transfer their souls into human bodies.

With a string of ongoing films, 'Chucky' enthralls horror film fans with a riveting plot that thickens throughout the decades.

Poltergeist

Produced by iconic American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, 'Poltergeist' takes place in the suburban town of Orange County, California with a family whose home is invaded by ghosts trying to abduct their daughter, Carol Anne.

The family finds Carol Anne conversing with the television set one night, as static plays on the screen. On the next night, Carol Anne fixates on the static image from the television set before a ghostly white hand suddenly emerges from the television and a violent earthquake erupts.

As the house stops shaking, she tells her family, "They're here". Strange, unexplainable events occur the following day and into the night. During that night, Carol Anne's brothers, Steven and Robbie, struggle to fight a backyard tree that came alive and tried grabbing Robbie through his bedroom window.

At that moment, Carol Anne is sucked into a portal coming from her closet. The family soon calls spiritual investigators and a medium to help get their daughter back. As the spirits hold Carol Anne in another dimension, her family uses the help of the investigators and medium to fight back and rescue their daughter from the other realm.

The Shining

Jack Torrance is a writer who was hired to be the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains. Built on the site of a Native American burial ground, the hotel is closed during snowed-in months, making it the ideal place for Jack and his family to live in as he writes his next book.

The manager tells Jack about the hotel's history and warns him about its reputation, as the previous caretaker supposedly developed cabin fever and killed his family and himself. Despite the story, Jack brings his wife, Wendy, and his son, Danny, to move into the hotel.

As time passes and Jack's writing goes nowhere, he begins to behave strangely and violently. Jack soon sees and speaks with ghosts at the hotel and Danny refers to himself as his imaginary friend, Tony, while consistently chanting "redrum".

Jack soon chases Wendy and Danny throughout the hotel and the property, as the supposed reputation of the hotel begins to justify itself.

Children Of The Corn

In Gatlin, Nebraska in 1980, the agricultural community surrounded by cornfields appears to be neglected and vacant all across town, with the exception of the church. When the corn crop fails one year, the townspeople turn to prayer for hopes of a successful harvest.

Taking control of the crisis, 12-year-old Isaac Chroner decides to bring all of the children into the cornfields and indoctrinate them into a religious cult. Isaac and his subordinate, 18-year-old Malachi, lead the children in a murderous revolution, killing anyone 19 years of age or older for human sacrifices.

Three years later on Halloween of 1983, a young couple, Vicky and Burt, travel through Nebraska and find a boy stumbling into the road as they accidentally run him over. The young boy, Joseph, tried to flee Gatlin and had his throat cut before reaching the road Vicky and Burt drove on.

As the couple puts him in the trunk and searches for help, they find themselves caught in the middle of Gatlin. Vicky is captured by the children as Burt tries to rescue her with help from Job and Sarah, the only two children who weren't initiated into the cult during the emergence of the revolution.

Vicky, Burt, Sarah, and Job try to stop the cult as they fight for their survival and escape from the demonic ways of the children.

Casper

Carrigan Crittenden, a spoiled heiress, finds herself left with Whipstaff Manor in her father's will, following his recent death. Carrigan and her assistant, Dibs, find a map within the papers of the will that tells of an alleged treasure hidden inside the manor.

As they arrive at the property, Carrigan and Dibs discover the property is haunted by a friendly ghost named Casper and his unfriendly poltergeist uncles, referred to as 'The Ghostly Trio'. Casper finds a paranormal therapist, Dr. James Harvey, and persuades Carrigan to invite Dr. Harvey and his daughter, Kat, to move into the manor.

Casper tries to befriend them but fails immediately due to the torments put upon them by his uncles. Carrigan tries to steal the formula that powers a machine called the Lazarus, which was created by Casper's father and supposedly grants immortality.

Casper befriends Kat while Carrigan and Dibs attempt to test the theory behind the Lazarus, resulting in Carrigan falling off a cliff to her death and returning as a ghost. Carrigan steals what she believes to be the immortality treasure before Casper and Kat trick her into moving onto the afterlife, resulting in their discovery of the authentic truth behind the treasure.

The Addams Family

Twenty-five years earlier, Gomez Addams had a falling out with his brother, Fester, who disappeared shortly after the fight. Gomez's lawyer, Tully Alford, owes money to loan shark/con artist Abigail Craven.

Tully notices that Abigail's adopted son, Gordon, closely resembles Fester and suggests that Gordon poses as Fester to infiltrate the Addams household and find the vault that contains their vast riches. While Gordon poses as Fester, Abigail poses as a German psychiatrist named Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss and the two arrive at the Addamses home to tell Gomez of his brother's return.

Abigail cons her way into their home, as the Addams family ponders if Abigail is telling the truth of Gordon being Fester. Gordon grows closer toward the family, specifically with children Wednesday and Pugsley.

As Abigail continues her scheme to steal the Addams Family's money, she captures Gomez's wife, Morticia, in an attempt to access the vault. The Addamses rush to rescue Morticia, finding their unity as a family.

The Exorcist

Twelve-year-old Regan plays with an Ouija board and contacts a supposedly imaginary friend whom she calls 'Captain Howdy'. Chris MacNeil, Regan's mother, suddenly notices Regan acting strangely, making odd noises, stealing, constantly using crude language, and exhibiting abnormal strength. In their home, Chris hosts a party while Regan comes downstairs unannounced, telling one of the guests, an astronaut, that he will die in space.

Regan's bed begins to shake violently later that night, resulting in Chris seeking help from physicians. Dr. Klein and his associates have Regan undergo diagnostic tests but find nothing physiologically wrong with her. After Regan's babysitter dies by falling out of a window, the doctors recommend an exorcism be performed on her.

Catholic Priest Lankester Merlin performs an exorcism while Father Damien Karras assists. As Merlin and Karras attempt the exorcism, Regan's demonic possession intensifies, challenging the priests' capability to save Regan.

Carrie

Carrie White, a shy 16-year-old girl, lives with her intensively religious and abusive mother, Margaret. When Carrie gets her first period in the school shower after gym class one day, she panics and thinks she's dying, as her mother never informed her about periods.

Carrie is harassed and humiliated by classmates and is sent home. Once her mother finds out, she believes Carrie's period derived from sinful sexual fantasies and demands she stay locked inside their home 'prayer closet'. As Carrie discovers her power of telekinesis, her mother denounces her a witch.

Carrie goes to the prom against her mother's wishes, resulting in her classmates humiliating her by crowning her prom queen and dumping buckets of pigs' blood on her.

With her telekinetic powers, Carrie wreaks havoc and vengeance on the town that mortified her and her mother that abused her.

The Ring

Katie and Becca, two teenage girls, discuss the legend of a cursed videotape that kills you after you see it. As Katie dies a week after watching the video, her sister, Rachel, investigates Katie's death. Rachel visits the cabin Katie and her friends stayed at and reluctantly watches the unmarked tape.

After watching the gruesome and disturbing images on the tape, she receives a phone call from an unknown caller who whispers, "seven days". She finds her ex-boyfriend Noah, a skeptical video analyst, and persuades him to help her investigate where the tape originated from, resulting in him watching it.

Rachel analyzes the hidden imagery in the tape, identifying a woman who committed suicide after her horses drowned themselves. Rachel's son, Aidan, finds the tape and watches it himself, unaware of the situation.

Rachel visits the deceased woman's widower as Noah travels to a hospital containing the woman's medical files. As Rachel and Noah dig deeper into the origin of the tape, they must race against the clock and find a way out of their inevitable death.

Pet Sematary

Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, moves to Maine with his wife, Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Church. They befriend their neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, who informs them of a path leading to the pet cemetery, labeled, "Pet Sematary", created by the children of the town for their deceased animals to be buried.

Rachel feels uneasy discussing death after losing her sister, Zelda, from spinal meningitis at a young age and worries the cemetery and death discussion may affect Ellie. Recently appointed director at the University of Maine's campus health service, Louis discovers one of his students, Victor Pascow, had been fatally injured in an automobile accident during the first week of classes.

Louis recalls supposedly dreaming of Victor leading him down the path in the woods and to the back of the cemetery, warning him not to go beyond there. Around Thanksgiving, Church is run over outside their home and Jud brings Louis to bury him in the "real cemetery", farther than the pet cemetery and on the ancient burial ground of the Mi'kmaq Tribe. What Louis intended as a peaceful burying for Ellie's beloved cat soon turns into a string of disturbing, regretful acts that unveil the evil power and capability of the pet sematary.

Beeltejuice

Barbara and Adam Maitland decide to take a trip to their Connecticut country home. As they drive home from a trip to town one day, Barbara swerves on the road to avoid a dog and the car plunges into the river.

After confusion as to how they got home after the accident, they notice their lack of reflections in the mirror and soon discover a book titled, "Handbook For The Recently Deceased".

Realizing they didn't survive the crash, Barbara and Adam travel to a netherworld in the afterlife where their caseworker, Juno, informs the couple that their souls must remain bound to the house for 125 years. With the house immediately sold to a new family, Barbara and Adam must scare them away to get them out of the house.

Lydia, the daughter in the family, is able to see Barbara and Adam, unlike her parents, and befriends them. Going against Juno's orders, Barbara and Adam call upon Betelgeuse, pronounced Beetlejuice, for help scaring the family out of the house.

Lydia's parents, the Deetzes, discover Barbara and Adam and plan on benefitting from the proof of ghosts using the couple and the handbook. With the help of Lydia and Beetlejuice, Adam and Barbara embark on the challenge of scaring the Deetzes away so the couple may live in peace for the rest of their time spent bound to the house.

Trick 'r Treat

In a nonlinear narrative, the Halloween-themed film presents characters crossing paths throughout the film, with Sam, a peculiar trick-or-treater, appearing at the center of the story to enforce the 'rules' of Halloween.

Henry finds his wife, Emma, murdered by an unseen assailant as her corpse is put on display in their outdoor home decorations on Halloween night. Charlie, an obese vandal who smashes jack-o'-lanterns, is killed by his school principal Steven Wilkins, who spikes his Halloween candy with cyanide.

A group of trick-or-treaters, Macy, Sara, Chip, and Schrader, pull a prank on Rhonda, a Halloween fanatic, which results in Macy kicking a jack o' lantern in the quarry where eight mentally challenged children died in a school bus on Halloween. The dead children rise from the dead and Rhonda flees to the elevator to escape, leaving the bullies to die at the undead children's hands.

Laurie is attacked by a hooded sexual predator at a town festival, who is later found by Laurie's friends and unmasked, revealed as Wilkins. Laurie and her friends then transform into werewolves, devouring Wilkins. Wilkins' neighbor, an elderly man named Mr. Kreeg, scares away children to steal their candy, aided by his dog.

Sam, the 'rule enforcer' breaks into Kreeg's house, attacking him, but instead of killing him, he takes a candy bar that Kreeg offers him. Throughout the stories following the numerous characters on Halloween night, Sam is the character that appears at the center of the story and makes appearances in each.

As the film follows the stories of each character, the connections and the reveal of Sam for each story are ultimately discovered.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King and leader of Halloween Town, leads the townspeople in organizing the annual Halloween celebrations. Growing weary of the routine celebrations for Halloween in his town, Jack wanders in the woods the morning after Halloween and discovers a portal leading to towns representing various holidays.

He finds himself in Christmas Town and is amazed by the unfamiliar holiday. Returning back to town, Jack tells the townspeople of his findings but they fail to understand the holiday of Christmas, comparing it to their ideas of Halloween. Jack announces that Halloween Town will take over Christmas this year, as he attempts to deliver presents to the world in Halloween-styled gifts which, unfortunately, only seem to terrify the people.

With a sudden admiration of Christmas, Jack's attempt to celebrating the holiday in Halloween Town results in chaos and confusion but eventually restoration.

Twitches

In the magical dimension of Coventry, a royal witch named Miranda gives birth to two identical twin daughters on Halloween night. The twins are named Apolla and Artemis after the Olympian twins, the gods of the sun and the moon.

Their father and powerful warlock, Aron DuBaer, transfers the entirety of his magical powers to protect them from an evil entity known as 'the Darkness' and is killed in the process. The friends of the parents, Karsh and Ileana WarBurton, care for the girls and protect them by fleeing to a non-magical dimension, Earth, to give them up for adoption.

The girls are separated into two different homes as Artemis, now named Alex, writes the story of magical twin sisters and Apolla, now named Camryn, draws images of Miranda and their homeland, both unaware of their artistic expressions shedding light on their true origin.

On their 21 birthday, they see each other at a store, encountering each other for the first time since birth. Upon touching, their magic is released, resulting in Karsh and Ileana revealing themselves, informing them of their magical background and past.

According to a prophecy, the sisters are the only ones capable of vanquishing the Darkness and restoring their homeland. While their mother senses her daughters are alive, the Darkness searches for them on Earth in an attempt to destroy them.

By working together, the twins must combine their magic to help their homeland and vanquish the Darkness.

The Haunted Mansion

Jim and Sara Evers are successful realtors with two children, Megan and Michael. Sara is contacted by the occupants of Gracey Manor, a mansion in Louisiana, as Jim persuades her and the children to meet the owner by driving to the manor. A storm floods the river nearby, preventing the family from safely leaving the area.

The owner, Edward Gracey, allows the family to spend the night, as he gives Sara a tour of the mansion while Jim becomes trapped in a secret passage inside the home. While on the tour of the home, Gracey informs Sara on the history of the home and of his grandfather's death after the suicide of his lover, Elizabeth. Megan and Michael follow an orb to the attic, finding a portrait of a woman resembling Sara.

The maid, Emma, and footman, Ezra, identify the woman as Elizabeth, Gracey's grandfather's lover. Jim, Megan, and Michael discover the mansion is cursed by grandfather Gracey and Elizabeth's suicides, inhabiting ghosts who can only enter the afterlife once the lovers are reunited.

As Gracey continues his tour with Sara, a ghost informs Jim that Gracey believes Sara is Elizabeth's reincarnation. As Jim, Megan, and Michael try to rescue Sara from Gracey, they encounter the undead residents and attempt to release the souls bound to the mansion by reuniting the two lovers, Gracey and Elizabeth.

The Sixth Sense

Created by the notorious writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan, 'The Sixth Sense' features Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist. Malcolm returns home one night with his wife Anna when a young man appears in their bathroom, accusing Malcolm of failing him.

The young man, who Malcolm recognizes as Vicent, is a former patient of his whom he treated for child hallucinations. Before Malcolm can talk to him, Vincent shoots Malcolm and then kills himself. The next fall, Malcolm begins working with Cole Sear, a young boy whose mother worries about his social skills.

Cole eventually tells Malcolm of his secret, that he can see dead people- ghosts- walking around like the living, unaware that they're dead. Malcolm inevitably decides to take Cole's case and help him as he communicates with the ghosts who rely on him for help with their unfinished business.

As Malcolm starts to believe Cole and his abilities, they work together to help the ghosts so that their souls may pass on in peace.

The Haunting In Connecticut

Matthew Campbell is a teenage boy undergoing cancer treatments as his mother, Sara, and father, Peter, aim to find a rental house closer to the hospital. On a hospital visit, Sara finds a frustrated man putting up a 'For Rent' sign in front of a large house and decides to rent it immediately, moving in the next day.

Sara and Peter move into the house with Matt, his brother, Billy, and cousins Wendy and Mary. Matt chooses the basement as his bedroom, which contains a mysterious door. The following day, Peter learns that the house was a funeral home and the mysterious door in Matt's bedroom was a mortuary.

At the hospital, Matt tells another patient, Reverend Nicholas Popescu, about the series of visions he has involving an old, bearded man and corpses with symbols carved into their skin. Matt begins seeing a burned figure in his room who begins to move toward him. When his family comes home, they find him shirtless with his fingers covered in blood from scratching at the wall.

As the family begins to crack under the stress of Matt's illness and bizarre behavior, the children find photographs of a young boy at a séance, emitting ectoplasm from his mouth. Wendy and Matt discover that the funeral home was run by a man named Ramsey Aickman, who conducted psychic research and hosted séances with the young boy, Jonah, as his medium. They find out that their final séance resulted in Aickman dead and Jonah disappearing.

After Nicholas tries helping Matt, they soon have simultaneous visions and gather information leading them deeper into the history of the house. As Matt continues to live in the house with his family, he finds himself engulfed in the chaos surrounding the spirits while he tries saving his family and relinquishing the spirits from the house.

The Purge

Taking place in Los Angeles of 2022, the United States grants citizens a 12-hour night that allows individuals to 'purge' their emotions of hate, jealousy, and rage through unconsequential mayhem, destruction, and murder.

The national holiday is supposedly rationalized by the country's peace, prosperity, and wealth that exhibits itself when citizens are provided with the annual night, dedicated to cleansing their souls of violence without having any repercussions. Following the Sandin family, the film shows the family of four protected by their high-quality security system on the night of the annual purge.

When the youngest child of the Sandin family looks at their security cameras to see a disadvantaged and severely wounded victim, she quickly brings him inside to grant him refuge.

Saving the man, the masked group of holiday 'purgers' becomes enraged and the gang leader threatens to murder their entire family if they don't surrender the man within an hour.

When the 'purgers' break into their home, the Sandin's' fight for their lives as they struggle to survive through the lethal and bloodthirsty annual holiday.

IT

Based on Stephen King's 1986 novel, 'IT: Chapter One', also referred to as 'IT', tells the story of seven children being terrorized by a demonic clown.

In October 1988, Bill Denbrough makes a paper sailboat for his six-year-old brother, Georgie. As Georgie sails the boat along the rainy streets in their small town of Derry, Maine, it rapidly flows down the street and into a storm drain.

When Georgie attempts to retrieve it, he sees a clown in the drain who introduces himself as 'Pennywise the Dancing Clown'. Pennywise persuades Georgie to come closer before he bites his arm off and drags him down into the sewer. Georgie is considered disappeared, leaving Bill feeling weighed down with guilt and despair.

The following summer, Bill still holds hope that Georgie is alive and that his body may have washed up in a marshy wasteland called 'The Barrens'. His friends, Richie, Eddie, and Stanley, discover the town has been plagued by unexplained tragedies and child disappearances for centuries.

Bill and the boys soon befriend Beverly and Mike, expanding their group and calling themselves 'The Losers Club'. Each person in the friend group begins to encounter terrifying manifestations of the same clown who attacked Georgie and realize they're being stalked by the entity, who they refer to as 'It'.

As children in town continue to go missing, The Losers Club find themselves in the sewers, soon discovered as 'It's' underground lair. The children struggle to overcome their fears as they fight to stop it, eventually pledging to return to town if 'It' ever surfaces again.

The Conjuring

In 1971 in Harrisville, Rhode Island, Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a farmhouse with their five daughters, Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy, and April.

Their dog, Sadie, refuses to enter the house and insists on staying outside. While playing a game of 'hide and clap', one of the children finds a boarded-up entrance to a cellar. April, the youngest child, finds an antique music box and opens it. Within the first few nights in the house, paranormal events occur.

All of the clocks stop at exactly 3:07 A.M., birds fly into their windows, and Sadie is found dead outside in the backyard. One night, Christine encounters a spirit that only she can see, stating the spirit wants her family dead. Another night, Carolyn hears clapping in the hallway and goes to follow the noises, getting trapped in the basement by the spirit.

As the paranormal events intensify and worsen, Carolyn contacts demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, who recently investigated a possessed doll called Annabelle. The Warrens take on the case and discover that the house belonged to an accused witch named Bathsheba Sherman, who sacrificed her week-old child to the devil and killed herself in 1863 at 3:07 A.M. after cursing all who would take her land.

With further research, the Warrens find reports of murders and suicides in houses that had been built on the property. The Warrens set up cameras and bells around the house in an attempt to catch footage that would hint to a demonic presence.

Carolyn soon becomes possessed and the Warrens try to prevent her from killing the children. As the family gets help from the Warrens, they try to save Carolyn from the demon possessing her and rescue them all from the ancient evils that control the land.

Insidious

Josh and Renai Lambert recently moved into a new home with their sons, Dalton and Foster, and their infant daughter, Cali. One night, Dalton is drawn into the attic and frightened by something in the shadows, resulting in him falling into an unexplainable coma.

After three months of treatment in the hospital without any result, Renai and Josh are allowed to bring Dalton home. The paranormal activity begins to occur, including hearing voices over the baby monitor when no one is in Cali's room, Foster saying that Dalton sleepwalks at night, Renai seeing a figure of a man in Cali's room, and the home security alarm consistently triggering for no reason.

After Renai finds a bloody handprint on Dalton's bed and is attacked by the figure in Cali's room, the family decides to abandon the house and move elsewhere. Moving into the new house, the supernatural activity continues and Renai sees the ghostly figure of a young child.

Josh's mother, Lorraine, arrives at the house, saying she had a dream about a dark figure in Dalton's room. She suddenly sees the same dark figure, a red-faced demon, standing behind Josh, as Dalton's room is immediately ravaged by unseen forces.

While Lorraine calls demonologists for help, they see the demonic presence Lorraine saw and explain that Dalton is not in a coma, but is in another realm.

As Lorraine and the demonologists help Josh and Renai get Dalton back, they realize they're encountering an evil spirit more powerful than they had intended.

Paranormal Activity

Katie and Micah move into a new house in San Diego. Since Katie claims an evil presence has been haunting her since she was a child, Micah sets up a camera in their bedroom to record any possible paranormal activity that could occur.

Katie's psychic, Dr. Fredrichs, informs her that she's being haunted by a demon intent on hurting her, warning her not to communicate with it. While Micah doubts the authenticity of his warning, their camera captures strange occurrences at night, originally consisting of noises, flicking lights, and doors moving on their own.

The paranormal activity worsens and Micah brings home an Ouija board, which the demon uses to communicate an unknown message before setting the board on fire. By the seventeenth night, the couple sets a trail of baby powder in the hallway, which leads to Micah finding a burnt photograph of a young Katie in the attic.

As the demon becomes stronger and enraged, the couple fears for their lives as they fight against the invisible force that torments and terrifies them.