10 Best Horror Movies Set On Halloween Night
Halloween comes just once a year, but for these horror movies, it's every night.
While most horror directors consider setting their movies on Halloween to be inelegant, or at least a bit too on the nose, there are those who laugh in the face of elegance and then stick a 12-inch serrated blade through it.
Yes, a few directors have delighted in making the most of all the lights, shadows, costumes, horror and surprises the spookiest night of the year has to offer, with some even making it their speciality.
Granted, not all directors take the same route, with Halloween playing every role from basic scene setting, to bona fide main character, to barely even being mentioned at all. But no matter the focus, no corner of the festivities is safe, whether it be violent trick or treating, TV specials gone awry, fatal haunted houses, or whatever part of the holiday Art the Clown is supposed to represent.
And why not? With Halloween rapidly approaching, everyone is in the mood for something gut-churning, and if your viewing pleasure is directly relevant to the face paint, floating apples and bags of sweets, then all the better.
Board the ride, hunker down and try not to lose your head as you are taken by the 10 very best horror movies set on Halloween night.
10. Haunt
Haunt feels like Escape Room meets Saw meets Rob Zombie's 31, but manages to take a step beyond any of these movies by integrating the fairground classic of the haunted house into its core.
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' slasher puts a group of college students in a rural haunted house slap bang in the middle of Halloween night. Everybody is dressed for the occasion and a little tipsy, so when they come upon a creepy masked clown guarding the entrance of what can best be described as a storage unit-cum-warehouse, they surrender their phones and sign a liability waiver promising they won't sue if anything goes wrong.
Whatever happened to going to a house party and doing tequila shots?
Needless to say, the haunted house seems chillingly authentic, and while the first half hour or so has the revellers caught up in some scary but fairly harmless (or at least minimally harmful) shenanigans, things soon take a drastic turn for the worse. This haunted house is run by an insane clown posse - a group of Juggalo-looking cretins who have cut their faces into real masks of horror, and want nothing more than to shed the blood of the innocent.
Why? Who knows. But for some straightforward Halloween thrills, spills, chills and kills, Haunt is a one-stop shop.