October is famously known as the spooky season. Every year when fall rolls around people sit around their TV’s and turn on their favorite scary movie. It never fails to put everyone in a Halloween spirit.
From Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and even Psycho, which the Film in Literature classes recently watched, there are so many spooky thrillers to choose from.
“I absolutely LOVE the movie Psycho. Great movie for its time, and Hitchcock was truly the master of suspense,” senior Ballie Soto- Flores said.
But Halloween is getting even scarier, things are changing, there are crazy techniques now making these fall thrillers even more terrifying.
“I like it when they build suspense and add the perfect jumpscare when it’s least expected, it just adds to the experience,” sophomore Sahory Villela Irias said.
And even Greendale Film students fully agree, as new advancements are significantly changing how scary movies are perceived.
“Scary movies are fantastic because they influence us to feel fear in ways most people never will,” senior Naima Rewolinski said. “For me, they make me grateful I spend my Sunday nights doing homework and not being chased by an axe-wielding serial killer.”
But it’s not just Halloween classics that people enjoy. There are more recent movies that are fan favorites.
“One of my all-time favorite horrors is The Empty Man. It was made in 2020 by director David Prior, and my dad and I found it when searching through lost movies put out during COVID that didn’t do so well,” senior Parker Packard said. “It has absolutely incredible acting, a really interesting take on the idea of “demonic cult groups” and the journey of the main character trying to understand the mystery behind absurd suicides, or at least were thought to be. Very recommended for horror enjoyers.”
So it’s simple, through advancements and old time classics, scary movies will never fail to prepare people for Halloween scares.
