There were sooo many favorites I had to swot on this leaning !

Hellooooo, everybody, and happy Halloween (almost). It’s that time of year when everybody is looking for a spooky movie to put on, but sometimes there are wayyy too many choices. I happen to have seen alotofscary moviesand I read a lot of books, and I feel that I’m enough of an authority to recommend movies. So without further ado (and in no particular order), here are my top spooky movies based on books (that are actually good adaptations).

1.The Exorcist(1973), directed by William Friedkin:

2.The Silence of the Lambs(1991), directed by Jonathan Demme:

3.Salem’s Lot(1979), directed by Tobe Hooper:

4.The Shining(1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick:

5.Rebecca(1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock:

6.The Haunting(1963), directed by Robert Wise:

7.Carrie(1976), directed by Brian De Palma:

8.Bram Stoker’s Dracula(1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola:

9.Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979), directed by Werner Herzog:

10.Pet Sematary(1989), directed by Mary Lambert:

11.American Psycho(2000), directed by Mary Harron:

12.Psycho(1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock:

13.It(2017), directed by Andrés Muschietti:

14.Let the Right One In(2008), directed by Tomas Alfredson:

15.And finally,Interview With the Vampire(1994), directed by Neil Jordan:

Close-up of Regan possessed

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter smiling creepily into the camera

Jack Nicholson in a turtleneck looking scary as Jack Torrance

A young Joan Fontaine as Mrs de Winter sitting in a chair looks up at another woman standing over her, whose face we can't see

A man, Richard Johnson playing Dr John Markway, holds a woman, Julie Harris playing Eleanor, over a balcony

Sissy Spacek as Carrie, the prom queen

Nosferatu about to drink from the neck of Lucy, a woman lying in bed

A cat with yellow eyes yowling at someone offscreen

Patrick Bateman, played by Christian Bale, sitting on a couch and smoking a cigar

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates smiling creepily at the camera

A really scary clown smiling in the dark

Two kids sitting together in front of metal chairs

Kirsten Dunst, Brad Pitt, and Tom Cruise in a scene from the movie