With Halloween on the horizon, party hosts everywhere are unpacking their projectors and reels of black-and-white monster movies to paint backyard facades with that horror noir vibe. Classic horror movie aficionados argue that Alfred Hitchcock brought a visceral eeriness that can never be replicated. Slasher enthusiasts fancy the heart-thumping action that only a man walking slowly with an ominous machete can provoke. Most moviegoers say, "Is this a third-grade sleepover party? Why do you still watch horror movies?"
We say nothing honors Halloween better than beautiful ladies donning strange costumes and technicolor wigs. They're not very scary, however. Here to put the boo! in these boos: a lineup of the greatest Halloween champions on Instagram accompanied by timeless horror film quotes.
"It was the boogeyman."
—Laurie, Halloween
"In dreams... I am forever!"
—Freddie Kreuger, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
"Death has come to your little town, sheriff."
—Dr. Sam Loomis, Halloween
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
—Brody, Jaws
"Eyewitnesses say they are ordinary-looking people. Some say they appear to be in a kind of trance. Others describe them as being misshapen monsters. At this point, there's no really authentic way for us to say who or what to look for and guard yourself against. "
—Radio Announcer, Night of the Living Dead
"Don't worry about it, ma'am. Cujo won't hurt him."
—Boy, Cujo
"Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies."
—Norman Bates, Psycho
"Ghosts make the papers along with celebrities every day of the week."
—Dr. John Markway, The Haunting
"Maybe it's a sheep dog… let's keep going."
—David, An American Werewolf in London
"I got invited to the prom."
—Carrie
"Your wife appears to be stronger than we imagined, Mr. Torrance. Somewhat more... resourceful. She seems to have got the better of you."
—Delbert Grady, The Shining
"Dracula and his wives - they take the form of wolves and bats. They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living."
—Innkeeper, Dracula
"When people believed the earth was flat, the idea of a round world scared them silly. Then they found out how the round world works. It's the same with the world of the supernatural. Until we know how it works, we'll continue to carry around this unnecessary burden of fear."
—Dr. John Markway, The Haunting
"I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil."
—Dr. Sam Loomis, Halloween
"An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked therew Walked alone."
—The Haunting
"Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!"
—Henry Frankenstein, Frankenstein
"It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare."
—Sheriff Leigh Brackett, Halloween
"Do they look like psychos? Is that what they look like? They were vampires! Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!"
—Seth, From Dusk Till Dawn
"Be afraid... Be very afraid."
—Veronica, The Fly
"What an excellent day for an exorcism."
—Demon, The Exorcist
