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Netflix is currently streaming a ton of scary movies that will help you get in the Halloween spirit. According to Mental Floss, here are the 14 best:
- The Shining (1980). Based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel, this film stars Jack Nicholson as aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance. After a winter storm leaves the Torrances snowbound at the Overlook Hotel, Jack's sanity deteriorates due to the influence of the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel.
- Emelie (2015). A young boy tries to protect his two siblings when their new babysitter starts to reveal her psychotic nature.
- Se7en (1995). Morgan Freeman plays retiring police Detective William Somerset, who is tracking a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) who is targeting people he thinks represent one of the seven deadly sins.
- The Strangers (2008). Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman star as a couple terrorized by a trio of killers who seem to have that most frightening of motivations: None at all.
- It Follows (2014). After carefree teenager sleeps with her new boyfriend for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse.
- The Sixth Sense (1999). Bruce Willis plays a child psychologist treating a boy (Haley Joel Osment) who claims to see ghosts. The third-act twist still holds up.
- The Witch (2015). This tale of a 1630s outcast Puritan family troubled by paranormal activity tends to be divisive.
- Hellraiser (1987). An undead, skin-stripped man begs his onetime mistress for refuge while he tries to avoid the torturing hands of Pinhead, an extra-dimensional being from the depths of hell.
- The Conjuring (2013). This retelling of one of the famous haunted house cases from ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren is a chilling roller coaster ride.
- Gerald’s Game (2017). A romantic weekend retreat with her husband turns into a claustrophobic struggle for survival for Carla Gugino after he drops dead and she's left handcuffed to their bed.
- The Invitation (2015). This film follows a man who is invited to his ex’s dinner party, which takes a turn for the weird.
- Oculus (2013). This one tells the story of a mirror that threatens to undo the sanity of those who peer into it.
- Train to Busan (2016). A workaholic father and his daughter board a train bound for one of the few territories in South Korea not occupied by zombies. To get there, they’ll have to survive the infected passengers.
- The Nightmare (2015). This examination of sleep paralysis features dramatizations of the people, creatures, and things sufferers sometimes see when immobilized.
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