Halloween Viewer's Guide

by Matt McDaniel | October 30, 2008

Sure, you could celebrate Halloween by putting on a ridiculous costume, fighting crowds, and going to some lame party where they play "Monster Mash" over and over again. Or you can check out the trailers for these scary movies that are currently in theaters, on now DVD, and coming soon.

IN THEATERS The Haunting of Molly Hartley
New girl at school Molly has caught the eye of the super popular Joseph (Chace Crawford of "Gossip Girl"), but she's plagued by the same scary visions that drove her mother insane. Is it a genetic condition, or something supernatural?

Saw V
The most financially successful horror franchise of all time continues with it's fifth yearly installment. This time, as a new group of victims are tested, we see how Jigsaw trained Hoffman to follow in his murderous footsteps.

Quarantine
A reporter (Jennifer Carpenter) and her camera man follow a team of firefighters into an apartment building on a distress call. But when they are all locked inside, something trapped in there with them starts to attack.

NOW ON DVD The Strangers
Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) were hoping for a quiet weekend together, but then three masked home invaders break in and take them captive.

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
The grand master of zombie terror George A. Romero takes a new look at the shuffling undead. A group of film students document the outbreak of zombie attacks and keep the camera rolling as they get picked off one by one.

Zombie Strippers!
Not since "Snakes on a Plane" has a movie title been so informative not just about the film's subject matter, but also it's artistic merit. Starring Robert Englund and Jenna Jameson.

COMING SOON The Unborn
From "Batman Begins" co-writer David S. Goyer comes a creepy tale of a young woman (Odette Yustman) haunted by a spirit that has been denied entrance to the afterlife.

My Bloody Valentine 3-D
Residents of a mining town are warned that anyone who celebrates Valentine's Day will feel the wrath of a deranged killer with a pick axe that comes right through the movie screen.

Friday the 13th
Marcus Nipsel, the director of 2003's "Texas Chainsaw Masssacre," revives another masked killer as the counselors at Camp Crystal Lake once again learn why that day is so unlucky.