The three best horror movies to warm up for Halloween. Horror month is coming and you can enjoy it this weekend

October 31 is approaching, and as I’m sure you’ve already seen ‘The Addams Family’ and ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ hundreds of times, you have to be scared with some new titles

Actress Anastasia Phillips (‘Moonshine’) in the film ‘Ghostland’

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The spooky season has begun, and with it the season of sinister costumes and decoration of pumpkins, black cats, spiders, bats, witches and skulls in any self-respecting store. They remain less than three weeks until the most important day, October 31a date when you can go knocking on your neighbors’ doors saying that “trick or treat?”feel like a real American citizen and wait for a few candies to fall on you in a burst of kindness.

However, we consider that the best thing about this dark era is the number of horror films that platforms release, both new titles and old glories that had not yet reached the world of streaming. This weekend it’s time to warm up our engines Halloweenand we would tell you to prepare a good bowl of popcorn, but it is almost better that you have your hands free in case you have to take a pillow to cover your face.

Ghostland

The story begins when Pauline (Mylène Farmer) and her two teenage daughters, Beth (Crystal Reed) and Vera (Anastasia Phillips), inherit the house from a deceased aunt. During your first night at the property, The family is brutally attacked by psychopathic intruders and Pauline has to fight to protect her daughters, in a sequence of intense terror and graphic violence. So the narrative gives a 16 year time skipshowing us Beth as a successful horror novelist, married with a child.

However, Vera has suffered serious mental problems since then. and continues to live with her mother in the same house where the attack occurred, trapped in the past and constantly reliving the trauma. When he decides to call his sister on the phone, Beth returns home and her own reality begins to distort.raising the possibility that his life is nothing more than an elaborate fantasy to escape trauma. It has moments of true horror, maximum tension and extreme violence.

Watch ‘Ghostland’ on Prime Video

Ghostland It is available in the Prime Video catalog and has a duration of 1 hour and 31 minutes. On the Rotten Tomatoes review website it has a 60% positive comments by the audience, a score that rises slightly on IMDb and FilmAffinity, although maintaining its “good” status: it has a 6.4 and 6.3 out of 10, respectively.

Psychosis

His shower scene has gone down in the history of cinema, but perhaps you still haven’t seen this horror film classic, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The action begins with escape of the young secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh)who has just stolen $40,000 from his real estate agency to start a new life with his lover, Sam Loomis (John Gavin). After driving for hours on the highway, a strong storm forces him to make a short break in a secluded roadside motel.

The place is called Bates Motel and it is run by Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a shy and strange young man who lives next door with his elderly mother. One night, while showering, Marion is brutally murdered by a figure who appears to be the boy’s motherand Norman has no choice but to hide the body in the trunk of the car and sink it in a swamp. Hitchcock bought as many books as he could to keep the secret until the end, so we’re not going to be the ones to give you spoilers.

See ‘Psycho’ on Filmin

Watch ‘Psycho’ on Movistar Plus+

Psychosis It is 1 hour and 44 minutes of pure horror cinema, and the best thing is that you have two ways to access it: by becoming a user of the Filmin catalog or the Movistar Plus+ catalog. When something is sublime, it shows, and this is recognized by a unanimous decision on the review website Rotten Tomatoes, with a 97% and 95% positive reviews of critics and audiences. Come on, if you see it and you don’t like it, you’re the black sheep.

Infernal Possession: The Awakening

The franchise abandons its usual forests and isolated environments to take us to a totally urban context, where it presents us the twisted story of two sisters who have been estranged for some time. When Beth (Lily Sullivan) discovers that she is pregnant, she decides to visit her older sister to tell her, Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), a tattoo artist who lives with her three children in a run-down apartment building in Los Angeles.

Far from being a nice reunion, that same night there is a earthquake that opens a crack in the garageand one of Ellie’s sons, Danny, enters it until he comes across a hidden basement where the infamous Book of the Dead and some old vinyl are found. When playing discs, a demonic force is unleashed that possesses Ellie and other neighbors, turning them into violent and bloodthirsty beings, which begins a battle for survival as they face the scariest version of his family.

Watch ‘Infernal Possession: The Awakening’ on Netflix

See ‘Infernal Possession: The Awakening’ on Max

Infernal Possession: The Awakeningwhose original title is Evil Dead Risehas a duration of 1 hour and 36 minutes and you can enjoy it if you have a subscription to the Netflix catalog or the Max catalog. Professional critics and the general audience rate it with a 84% and 76% positive comments on Rotten Tomatoes, the popular review website, although on IMDb they consider that it does not deserve a notable, lowering its score to 6.5 out of 10.

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