23 Scary Movies to Watch (or Avoid) This Halloween Inline

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    1/23

    Pan’s Labyrinth

    Guillermo del Toro’s grim fantasy is terrifying, beautiful, and—against the backdrop of Franco-era Spain—a little bit true. You know, the truth is always scarier than any movie.
    —Steff Yotka, Vogue.com Fashion News Writer

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    2/23

    Drive

    I refuse to watch scary movies—I can’t even sit through the commercials—and I hate seeing anything gory or violent. So while most people would classify Drive as a thriller, I found it positively chilling.
    —Emily Farra, Vogue.com Fashion News Associate

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    The Babadook

    The things that go bump in the night in this movie aren’t the most frightening part. A brilliantly crafted, deeply unsettling exploration of motherhood, grief, and guilt is the real terror that lingers well past the final scene.
    —Virginia Van Zanten, Vogue.com Living Editor

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    4/23

    Sound of My Voice

    I can’t watch movies involving cults (save The Source Family, which had fabulous clothes)—perhaps the result of an early childhood in Northern California in the years of the Manson clan, the SLA, Jim Jones, Bhagwan, the Moonies. When I saw Zal Batmanglij’s Sound of My Voice I remember actually leaving the theater midway through, going to the bathroom, and saying to the mirror, This is just a movie.

    —Sally Singer, Vogue Creative Digital Director

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    All Good Things

    I don’t watch scary movies as a rule (I have the nerves of the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz), but one late night this summer I did find myself home alone watching All Good Things. I figured it was just a thriller and it would be totally fine. How scary could a Ryan Gosling movie be anyway? Turns out, I was so freaked out I had to call an ex-boyfriend to come over because I was too scared to sleep in the house alone.

    —Chioma Nnadi, Vogue.com Fashion News Director