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HALLOWEEN HORRORTHON

Halloween is coming, which means it's time to plan your horror movie marathon for the night of October 31st. We've made it a bit easier if you want to stick to a Halloween theme – and don't want to watch all eight Michael Myers films in a row. So, in between interruptions by trick or treaters, here's a horror half dozen that'll keep you sufficiently scared from dusk till dawn...

HALLOWEEN (1978) The obvious place to start – just make sure you've got John Carpenter’s classic original and not that Rob Zombie dross. The seminal slasher flick should be revisited at least once a year, on this very date of course. And if you've never seen it, you are in for the ultimate Halloween treat.

TRICK 'R TREAT (2007) Possibly the best horror anthology film since Creepshow , offering five interwoven stories set on Halloween night, each with a wonderfully ghoulish punchline. The cast is a treat, too, including True Blood 's Anna Paquin getting into more vampire strife, and Brian Cox as a Halloween-hating old geezer who gets his just deserts. TALES OF HALLOWEEN (2015) This 90 minute anthology film offers ten tales of terror, so some do fly by before they've had a chance to properly register. 'Bad Seed', involving a carnivorous jack-o-lantern, and 'Sweet Tooth' are among the highlights, and horror fans will love the plethora of in-jokes and genre star cameos, including the return of the DJ from The Fog . POLTERGEIST (1982) Ok, so it's not Halloween related, but why not finish off your horror marathon with a screening of this '80s classic as a tribute to the late, great Tobe Hooper. Spielberg suburbia is given the Texas Chain Saw director's touch with crawling steaks, a terrifying toy clown, and a corpse- erupting climax. "They're here!"

HALLOWEEN II (1981) The first of the numerous sequels that followed is the most direct – set on the very same night as the original, making it perfect for back-to-back viewing. And hospitals can be scary places, right, especially if they're perpetually cloaked in darkness like Haddonfield Memorial.

HALLOWEEN III (1982) A sequel in name only. No Michael here – the villain is a mad toymaker adding shards of Stonehenge and microchips to Halloween masks, which do nasty things when triggered by a TV commercial. “Happy Happy Halloween, Halloween, Halloween…” Be warned: you won’t be able to get that catchy Silver Shamrock jingle out of your head!

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