10 Best Movies Set On Halloween Night

10. 31

Let's kick this off with something weird and wonderful from the mind of Rob Zombie, rock god and the man held responsible for dragging, ironically, the Halloween franchise to near extinction. His work, while not necessarily being Oscar worthy material, is high octane, blood soaked America-gone-hideously-wrong stuff of legend.

31 is a brutal movie - a group of carnival workers (including Zombie regular and full time squeeze Sheri Moon Zombie) Charly, Venus, Panda, Levon and Roscoe travel cross country on Halloween 1976, when they are attacked by a mob and taken to an abandoned building populated by three weirdos wearing aristocratic clothes, powdered wigs and make up, known as Sister Dragon, Sister Serpent and their leader, Father Napoleon-Horatio-Silas Murder.

The performers are forced to play '31,' a sadistic game of kill-or-be-killed lasting 12 hours. Cue murderous clowns, buckets of blood and a deadly betting game with few survivors.

As Phil Hoad from The Guardian puts it, 31 is "a cinematic Jägerbomb: definitely not good for you, but gets the job done." Zombie gives us another seventies set riff on slasher classics and has now churned out enough gore-fests to churn a few stomachs too. Malcolm McDowell seems to get all the best/worst films these days and he is on usual full intensity here, along with Richard Brake as the perfectly named 'Doom-Head.'