We’ve picked out the best spooky movies on the telly this Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening…
Yes, we’ve got plenty of big screen and streaming options to give us our scary movie fix this weekend, but should you be channel surfing, you’ll be happy to know that the TV scheduling folk have given us 13 spooky movies to pick from…
FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER
The Prodigy – Film4 – 9pm
Your typical “Single mother has a creepy son” set-up, with Orange Is The New Black’s Taylor Schilling growing increasingly frightened of her own young child, becoming convinced that something supernatural is influencing him.
Greta – RTÉ2 – 10pm
Neil Jordan directs this psychological thriller, focusing on a young woman (Chloe Grace Moretz) who befriends an older woman (Isabelle Huppert), only to become the object of her intense agenda.
Pet Sematary – Film4 – 10.50pm
The 2019 of the 1989 cult classic brings all the evil cats, ancient burial grounds and terrifying roads of the original. “Sometimes, dead is better.”
Get Out – Film4 – 12.55am
Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning chiller brings racism to the foreground, when a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) meets his girlfriend’s family and friends for this first time.
47 Meters Down – Channel 4 – 1.30am
Mandy Moore and her sister go deep-sea diving in shark-infested waters, only to become trapped in the diving cage and surrounded by a group of great whites.
SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER
The Exorcist – BBC Two – 10.45pm
One of the most famous horror movies of all time.
Halloween – Film4 – 10.55pm
Also one of the most famous horror movies of all time (and not to be confused with the 2007 remake and 2018 sequel of the same name).
The Hole in the Ground – RTÉ2 – 11.20pm
Another single mother with a creepy child, but stands out for being arguably the best Irish horror movie of all time. Seana Kerslake and her young son move to a new house, but she begins to fear he may have been replaced by a sinister doppleganger.
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones – Film4 – 12.40am
The fifth entry in the Paranormal Activity series changes up the location to an apartment complex in California, but the usual mix of night vision scares and creepy atmosphere is as present as ever.
SUNDAY 31 OCTOBER
The Ring – Film4 – 10pm
The very decent American remake of the Japanese original. A journalist (Naomi Watts) investigates the urban legend of a video tape that causes you to die seven days after you watch it…
What We Do In The Shadows – RTÉ2- 11.45pm
If you’re not looking for all-scares-all-the-time, then maybe you’ll enjoy Taika Waititi’s hilarious comedy about a group of vampires living together in modern day, dealing with the mundanities of modern living.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch – Film4 – 12.15am
The only Halloween movie that doesn’t actually have anything to do with Michael Myers, this was the one and only attempt to make the Halloween franchise into an anthology series. So this one revolves around an evil corporation creating cursed Halloween masks, killing the kids who put them on.
Let The Right One In – BBC Two – 1.05am
The brilliant Swedish chiller has been remade by Hollywood, but the original remains the best. A young boy befriends a girl in his neighbourhood, only to discover she’s actually an ancient vampire.
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