The shaking feeling of someone watching you, the fright of a sudden jumpscare, the pumpkins glowing in the distance, the howling at the moon in the corner of your ear. This terror brings on a popular holiday among students. Halloween brings fear, panic, dread but most importantly Freeforms 31 days of Halloween movies.
Freeform’s 31 days of Halloween movies are a ghouling adventure throughout the spooky month of October. According to the network, last year 22 million viewers tuned in for Halloween favorites like “Beetlejuice,” “Casper,” “Hocus Pocus” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
“The movies on this schedule are really good. I would watch ‘Hocus Pocus’ again and again and again because it’s just such a good movie to watch with my family,” sophomore Lila Hudson said. “Another plus of ‘Hocus Pocus’ is that Thackery Binx is hot. I can’t wait to watch it on Freeform”
Some of these scary movies are truly family-friendly scary. But some chilling movies some people think they are forgetting, are true classics.
“’Scream’ should be a movie added to this schedule because it’s such a good horror movie, and a great cult classic, ” sophomore Jillian Moore said. “In my opinion more horror movies should be added to this list.”
Movies on this schedule are supposed to be horrifying for Halloween students, but most that made the schedule were without a doubt too wholesome for the kids around campus.
“Out of the Freeform Halloween movie list, ‘Hotel Transylvania’ needs to be kicked off the list,” freshman Aerial Goodlow said. “It’s an old movie that doesn’t really give terrifying Halloween vibes.”
Many other students agree with this opinion, these PG-rated movies just don’t cut it.
“‘The Incredibles’ needs to leave this schedule right now. This is a Halloween movie schedule and ‘The Incredibles’ is for sure not a Halloween movie,” sophomore Jeeya Patel said. “It’s a movie you would watch any other day besides the month of October.”
Others cannot express their excitement for the haunt to begin.
“I am so excited to start watching every single one of these movies, but I’m most excited to see ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’,” sophomore Bailey McDonald said. “It’s basically a tradition at my house to watch the movie the night before Halloween.
