What makes for a truly scary Halloween movie?

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – It will be a dark and stormy night… So maybe it will be a good Halloween to curl up on the couch and watch one of your favourite scary movies.

But what makes for a truly good horror flick? Our friends at shomi have a few ideas, offering a series of collections this month.

“Crazy maniacs, lots of blood, creepy music… you know, the classics,” laughs Marni Shulman, senior director and head of content and programming for the streaming service.

“We have four amazing collections, split up into four great themes: Most Haunted, Maniac Season, Monster Mashup and Bloodsuckers.”

This week’s theme is Bloodsuckers, which means all vampires all the time.

“Underworld, Blade, From Dusk ‘Til Dawn and, one of my favourites, John Carpenter’s Vampires. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that one but it’s pretty, pretty, pretty raw,” she tells NEWS 1130.

And on Halloween weekend, it’s a wholesale horror takeover.

“Starting on October 30th, our entire homepage carousel will be all classic horror movies — the original Carrie, the original Omen, Poltergeist, The Shining, and Psycho. We are really excited about that.”

Maybe buy some extra popcorn.

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