10 Best Movies Set On Halloween Night

"Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?" asks Donnie of Frank, the second giant imaginary rabbit to feature in a Hollywood movie, although Jimmy Stewart's Harvey is a different beast entirely; "Why do you wear that stupid man suit?" retorts Frank.

If you've never seen Donnie Darko, stop reading and get the TV on, it's a surreal, time-and-space-bending mystery on the nature of time travel, destiny and fate, all with Jake Gyllenhaal talking to an imaginary rabbit named Frank.

To boil down the plot of Donnie Darko is to do it something of an injustice, as the film is hard to both explain and categorise. Put simply, it's about a teenager who's warned of the impending apocalypse by a giant rabbit, after narrowly escaping death after the engine of a passing passenger plane falls through the ceiling of his bedroom, which may or may not be the product of a mental breakdown or a rip in the space-time continuum.

Starring the aforementioned Gyllenhaal and sister Maggie, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze and James Duval as Frank, the film takes place over 28 days, featuring a Halloween party where Donnie wears a skeleton onesie, identical to those worn by the Cobra Kai in The Karate Kid.

Apart from being one of the most absorbing and thought provoking films ever made, the soundtrack alone makes this film worth watching, retro 80s Halloween kicks all round.