Since it's that time of the year again...

Around Halloween i like to rewatch White Noise, the Alien tetralogy, and the first Silent Hill movie.
But thats not a tradition in any way. I may watch something, or I may not. It totally depends on my mood.
What I usually do is a horror-game walktrough with my brother as a backseat gamer, starting some days before 31st, to end it around the night of halloween, or 1-2 days after at the latest.
I mean the "horror" theme pretty broadly, as my brother is much younger than I am (in his early teens). Two years ago we had S.O.M.A., last year Alan Wake.

Well, even if it's not scary, I'm attempting to watch the entire "Supernatural" series.

As for a good horror movie, I recommend "The Cabin in the Woods", more for a good laugh with a beer and friends than a good scare !
"The Thing" is among my personal favorites for the suspense.
I would recommend to watch "Babadook" for the awkwardness.

Though, I prefer a good table of Cthulhu to roleplay for the best spooks and fun moments, but it's my own opinion on this one :3

Pans Labyrinth is a fantastic and under appreciated movie =)

i love the 2 conjuring movies.

The Grudge (2004) has some good spook scenes.
The hills have eyes (remake) is ok.
Just like people wrote here, Alien, The thing and Event Horizon are top 5 Sci-fi horror.

Man I probably wrote this already years ago...

Never understood peoples need to willingly experience Horror. Well ok, if Casper the friendly ghost jumped out and went Boo!.. that's fine. But blood-spraying, pus-dripping, flesh-taring.. fucking madness.. I stay away from that crap. Got enough going on when I close my eyes 😜

This movie is a personal favourite though. Sci-fi with very light horror coating.
And hey.. These guys can get away with anything. It's "bloody funny"

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or science fiction movies

Not sure how sci-fi fits with October and I don't really do movies much these days but if you are interested in sci-fi books, I can give some recommendations :-)

If not, I'll meet you at a middle ground and suggest The Expanse (books but also probably the best sci-fi tv series I have ever seen... it's on amazon prime)

Here's some great modern sci-fi books (I listened to most of them as audiobooks, unless otherwise noted):

• Old Man's War series by John Scalzi - good action / military series. If you liked Starship Troopers (movie or book), this was heavily inspired by it. Note: I have only read the paperbacks for this series so can't comment on the audiobooks. I have heard very mixed opinions on Wil Wheaton's narration (I personally I like him as a geek/actor/dnd player but didn't like his narration of Red Shirts as he didn't really have much vocal variation / voices for other characters. Have heard many folks say they liked his reading of Ready Player One but not whether it was just a great story or if his narration had improved. Unless you are already a fan of his narration, I would recommend the non-Wil Wheaton version to be safe though).

• The Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson - very good action / military series. not a primarily a comedy but damn is the comedic relief good (starts getting good about halfway through first book and continues through the whole series). Voice actor for audiobooks (R.C. Bray) is top-notch IMO. The series explores the military life after first contact by hostile species. Many of the aliens are derogatorily nicknamed after whatever earth animal they vaguely resemble (Lizards, Hamsters, Beetles, etc). We of course get called lowly monkeys.

• Hard Luck Hank series by Stephen Campbell - this one is intended as a comedy more than a serious series. Voice actor (Liam Own) really nails the dumb monologue of the main character. This series explores the life of a near indestructible mutant named Hank who lives on a space station and is a (mostly) well-meaning idiot who loves to eat constantly and is always getting into trouble.

• The "We are Bob" / Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor - great series; this is probably a bit more serious than the other two above, not that it doesn't have some comedic moments. This explores what life might be like if after death, our minds were reconstructed as software and our new job was to control a space probe.

• "Outland" by Dennis E. Taylor - great stand-alone book that will eventually be part of a series but is fine to read by itself. Think Sliders but with a natural disaster of global magnitude occurring shortly after the invention.

• "A Hymn Before Battle" by John Ringo - ok, technically this is the first book of a series and it's not that new. I kinda got bored with later books in the series but the first book (or three?) were pretty good -- good enough to stand out in my mind as some of the better sci-fi I have read in the last twenty years. Another military action series where first contact leads to warfare; although this series has a heavier emphasis on mechs than the other series I mentioned earlier. I am generally not a mech fan but this was done well enough that even I liked it. I read these as paperbacks also so no opinion on the narrator.

• The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey (the joint pen name for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) - Technically, I have not read these books yet and probably will not until the tv series wraps up. But if they are even half as good as the tv series, it will be a great read. And from what people have told me -- big surprise -- the books are even better than the show.

Wow... Nobody has mentioned "The Shining?" Or "Psycho???" (The original, of course.)

Anyhow, I am not into watching "scary stuff" for the thrills. I get enough of that in real life. Instead, I watch movies for entertainment, so titles like "Corpse Bride" and "Sleepy Hollow" are my cup of tea. Or, if you want something a bit more intellectual, try "Se7en."

Besides the mainstream ones already mentioned, I like the schlocky b-movie offerings quite a lot. Re-Animator, From Beyond, Lifeforce (Space Vampires!) to name a few. Also love giallo like Blood and Black Lace, Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and all the early silents like Nosferatu, The Unknown and Caligari as well as the later Universal monster movies and the movies of Val Lewton - Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie etc, I just love horror movies, I guess - it's a very rich genre and there's lots to see.

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Here's a long forgotten one that I saw and liked. Slugs. Bad, cheesy but still a good time.

I've spent all my youth hating horror movies, but it would be a crime to ignore modern art horror. So, let's go with Eggers' The Lighthouse (I really need to watch The Witch), Aster's Midsommar (Hereditary was also pretty awesome, but still a bit weaker, to my mind), Refn's The Neon Demon, Kent's The Babadook, Aronofsky's Mother!, Guadagnino's Suspiria, Glazer's Under The Skin and also probably Trier's The House That Jack Built.

Here's something on the topic of black cats: my sister adopted this tiny kitty several days ago, and apparently both of them are doing fine.

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Well, why no revisit the entire Evil Dead franchise?

Mostly Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, and the excellent Ash vs Evil Dead series.

This seems like an OK film for those days:
https://youtu.be/q03zOoH-hGo
^ The Wolf of Snow Hollow.
Just don't spoil the damn film as a reply please.