The Raider Review Guide to Horror Movies

Jessie Wang
Staff Reporter
October 31, 2018

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It’s that time of year again, where the brisk autumn air is filled with the sounds of crisp leaves falling onto the sidewalk, children’s laughs, and high-pitched screams. The quintessential sign of the changing of the seasons, here is The Raider Review staff’s top picks for horror movies. 

• The Nightmare Before Christmas
  

  The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

“…it’s a lovely children’s spooky scary movie– but not like too scary– and it was my childhood.” MATT BLOOM, SENIOR

• Coraline

“… I watched it as a kid because I thought it was a kid’s movie, and then it really scared me. But now that I watch it, it’s just like fun. And still scary because… that mom…” ERIN DUNCAN, SENIOR

“Why did it scare me? Oh my god, there’s a scene in it where they give her a set of buttons– like they’re basically telling this child to sew buttons into her eyes– it really freaked me out.” ALEX GARDNER, JUNIOR

• Halloweentown

“… it really gives me the creeps, wahhhh” SARAH PROPST, SENIOR

• Scary Movie

“Because the guy comes out of nowhere.” ANDREW BERMAN, SENIOR

• The Haunting of Hill House

“I don’t like horror but even if you don’t like horror, that show’s really really good because it’s really well written.” ALEX GARDNER, JUNIOR 

• It

“I don’t know, maybe because it was the theatre itself? Because like there was a guy behind that was really, kind of, weird… so, I was already scared because of that.” ISAIAH THAXTON, JUNIOR

“… I don’t like clowns” RAYMOND BROWN, JUNIOR

• The Cabin in the Woods
  

  The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

“It’s funny and weird, and meta, and awesome.” VENNARD, TEACHER

• The Shining and the original A Nightmare on Elm Street
  

  The Shining (1980)

“Very creepy.” VENNARD, TEACHER

• Hereditary

“It’s just disturbing… very disturbing.” JAYLYNN FLOYD, SOPHOMORE

• A Quiet Place

“I guess it was the tension. It was very post-apocalyptic and somewhat realistic in that sense, and I could see humanity going towards that direction which is very frightening.” CHERA YOON, JUNIOR