{"id":43077,"date":"2023-10-03T23:39:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/variety-ranks-the-21-best-halloween-movies-ever\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T23:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:39:37","slug":"variety-ranks-the-21-best-halloween-movies-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/variety-ranks-the-21-best-halloween-movies-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety Ranks the 21 Best Halloween Movies Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Variety&#8217;s ranking of the best Halloween movies of all time includes &#8220;E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,&#8221; &#8220;Terrifier 2&#8221; and &#8220;The Nightmare Before Christmas.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/icYCtx9PRw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/icYCtx9PRw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1709258510985556481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Variety ranked 21 films that take place on Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their picks: <\/p>\n<p><b>19. Ginger Snaps<\/b> \u201cThe analogy to puberty is startlingly effective in this low-budget but skillfully executed lycanthrope story that puts a whole new spin on a familiar teen angst story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>15. Ernest Scared Stupid<\/b>  \u201cA surprisingly scary kids\u2019 comedy, Jim Varney\u2019s fourth film as Ernest P. Worrell finds the local yokel trying to protect area kids from an evil troll accidentally let loose on Halloween night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>9. House of 1000 Corpses<\/b> \u201cSetting the tone for his entire career, [Rob] Zombie\u2019s spin on backwoods horror like \u2018The Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u2019 is gruesome, dirty and captivating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>5. Halloween III: Season of the Witch <\/b> \u201c\u2018Witch\u2019 became a cult classic thanks to its outrageous plot: An evil company creates masks that kill children wearing them on Halloween night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>3. Trick &#8216;r Treat<\/b> \u201c Anthology films tend to be a mixed bag, but this clever combo from writer-director Michael Dougherty (who would tackle another dark holiday with \u2018Krampus\u2019) features four very wicked and genuinely unsettling stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1709258510985556481?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/126969785.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety&#8217;s ranking of the best Halloween movies of all time includes &#8220;E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,&#8221; &#8220;Terrifier 2&#8221; and &#8220;The Nightmare Before Christmas.&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/icYCtx9PRw \u2014 Variety (@Variety) October 3, 2023 Variety ranked 21 films that take place on Halloween. Some of their picks: 19. Ginger Snaps \u201cThe analogy to puberty is startlingly effective in this low-budget but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}