15 Best Horror Movies To Watch On Netflix This Halloween

15. The Amityville Horror

For a remake from Michael Bay’s production company, The Amityville Horror is surprisingly entertaining. It takes as much inspiration from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining as it does from the 1979 original, but what’s wrong with that?

Cast in the good-guy-who-goes-nuts role is Ryan Reynolds, who’s a more believable Everyman than Jack Nicholson and less likely to devour the scenery. He’s married to Melissa George rather than Shelley Duvall, so when they move into their new home with kids Chloe Grace Moretz (Carrie), Jimmy Bennett (Orphan) and Jesse James (The Butterfly Effect), you kind of want them to live happily ever after. No such luck.

They’ve barely settled in when taps (and walls) start dripping blood, windows open by themselves, furniture moves across the room and, most chilling of all, fridge magnets spell out threats. Then the stoned babysitter (Rachel Nichols) gets the munchies and tells the kids all about the house’s past, which leads to her being locked in a closet with the ghost of a young girl Moretz has befriended.