Luke’s Scary Picks 

By Junior Luke Sonderman

Halloween has come and gone. Still, it’s fun to break out those movies that make us not want to sleep at night. From the old Chucky movies, to some of the new terrifying movies full of crazy CGI–personally, I love scary movies. Here are some of my favorites. Check them out when you get sick of the lame holiday movies that are heading our way.

1. Smile

I don’t want to spoil anything as this movie is still in theaters, but, if you like jumpscares, then get your diaper on and head over to the movie theater. This movie will make you jump, I promise. It has some of the most unexpected jumpscares while having a pretty decent storyline for a horror film. You’ll never look at a smile the same way.

2. Lights Out

Before seeing the movie Smile, this was my favorite horror movie. Lights Out is about a mother who lives in a house with the ghost of her childhood friend. The catch is that this ghost only lives in the dark and cannot enter the light. Not only is this movie very creepy, but it has some pretty big jumpscares. If you watch this movie, watch it in the dark. It makes the experience much scarier. 

3. Sixth Sense

Okay, I gotta throw some classics in here. The Sixth Sense is a great movie with a crazy twist. It really isn’t very scary. It is much more eerie. The storyline is very complex, and it is one of those movies that makes much more sense after watching a second time. This movie would definitely be on my list of movies everyone needs to watch before they die. 

4. Happy Death Day (The first one)

You probably won’t find this on any lists of the horror greats, but Happy Death Day is one of my favorite horror films. I think this is one of the movies that really got me into the horror genre. It is a psychological slasher movie with a plot that lies around a college student named Tree, who is killed every day by a mystery killer with a mask, but wakes up after every death reliving the same day. Kinda like Groundhog Day–but darker. 

5. The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a bizarre movie. All of the video is meant to look like it was a real recording recovered from personal cameras of documentarians who are investigating the mythological Blair Witch, but, trust me, it’s completely fictional. The movie feels so real that it will make you shiver. I have always loved this movie and have seen it multiple times. 

Most of these movies can be accessed on streaming platforms and even in theaters.