‘Tis the season to get creeped out. Here are 13 movies guaranteed to make you scream like a little girl.
- “The Shining” (1980): Little boy on tricycle screams, “Redrum,” while daddy wears a rictus grin. ”Heeeere’s Johnny.”
- “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968): Evil rocks the cradle and scares mom into a stupor.
- “The Omen” (1976): Bad boy who should have had more than a time-out but for overly permissive adoptive parents.
- “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974): The chain saws in Texas are really big and can do anything. I mean anything!
- “Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984): Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep or you may feel the deadly ripple of Freddie’s finger stilettos.
- “Psycho” (1960): Mother-operated motels don’t bode well for blondes on the run.
- “Carrie” (1976): Revenge of the bloody prom queen.
- “The Night of the Living Dead” (1968): Before the living, there were dead people. And then the dead people were living.
- “Ring” (1998): Is that a girl in my TV?
- “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” (1986): A chilling snapshot of the cold and bloody.
- “Friday the Thirteenth” (1980): A cautionary tale for camp counselors engaged in sexual shenanigans.
- “The Exorcist” (1973): Hell hath no fury like a girl with a twisting head.
- “Halloween” (1980): Little Mike loves to play cut up with the kitchen cutlery.
