10 Terrifying Halloween-Set Horror Movies

10. Candy Corn

Candy Corn demands a certain type of horror lover. If you don't love terrible acting and weird editing choices in your indie horror, then it might not be the best fit for you. But it does offer a few effective scares along the way.

The biggest treat is Pancho Moler. He's much more grounded here than in Rob Zombie's 31, and it's mostly his performance that saves the film from feeling like a gorier ripoff of Dark Night of the Scarecrow. He's actually one of the few notable performers in a cast featuring a number of unknowns and an utterly wasted Tony Todd.

Aside from some decent gore moments throughout, the actual scares hit toward the end. One character who would be spared in most other revenge plots suffers one of the most gruesome deaths of all, creating some much-needed tension in a film that seems formulaic up to that point.

There's also a bizarre carnie performance following a kidnapping, although it's woefully short-lived. It would have been nice if little moments like this led to something more, and at times the dialogue suggests that may have been planned at some point, but these scares still stand on their own as among the most memorable moments in the film.