10 Best Horror Movies Set On Halloween Night
4. May
Lucy McKee's May is not like other Halloween movies, and May Dove Canady (Angela Bettis) is not like other girls. She's quirky, she's got a lazy eye, she works as a veterinary assistant and her only friend is a creepy doll in a glass case named Suzie. We know where you think this is going - but it's not.
The doll is merely an ordinary piece in the story of May's strangeness, a gift from her mother that helped intensify her social isolation, and when it is accidentally damaged May kind of goes to pieces. On Halloween night, she dresses up as her doll and visits all the people who have slighted and wronged her, taking them apart and absconding with their best pieces in the hopes of creating the perfect new friend - an all-flesh doll she names Amy.
Unlike most other Halloween horrors, May is not focused on the holiday, nor concerned with the shadowy, sinister, jump scare potential it offers. No, this is a movie about the fragile human condition and the extreme effects of insatiable loneliness, stitched together with an indie aesthetic and a series of shocking and gory horrors that makes it a cut above the rest.