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Top 10 Amazon Prime Video horror movies for Halloween 2024

‘The Conjuring’, ‘Night of the Living Dead’, ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’... There are all kinds of scary ideas on Amazon Prime Video.

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We’ve already done it with Netflix, so now it’s the turn of another of the main streaming platforms in Spain and around the world. Because Halloween 2024 is imminent and to celebrate it, there’s nothing better than compiling the 10 best horror movies on Amazon Prime Video. A selection in which, in addition to great classics, you’ll find some unknown gems.

‘Carrie (The Wrath)’

  • Duration: 94 minutes
  • Directed by Brian de Palma
  • Year: 1977
  • You'll like it if... if you want to discover a true classic of 70s horror cinema

Synopsis: “Carrie White, a shy and lonely teenager ostracized by her domineering religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at the prom.”

‘It’ (‘That’)

  • Duration: 135 minutes for chapter 1 and 169 for chapter 2
  • Directed by Andy Muschietti
  • Year: 2017 and 2019
  • You'll like it if... you're a fan of Stephen King's disturbing stories

Synopsis: “When children start disappearing, a group of kids will have to face their worst fears when they challenge the evil clown Pennywise. Based on the novel by Stephen King.”

‘The Warren File’

  • Duration: 112 minutes
  • Directed by James Wan
  • Year: 2013
  • You'll like it if... you like horror movies in general. 'The Conjuring' is already a classic.

Synopsis: “Ed and Lorraine Warren try to help a family who is experiencing paranormal phenomena in their new home.”

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‘The Thing’ (The Enigma from Another World)

  • Duration: 87 minutes
  • Directed by Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks
  • Year: 1951
  • You'll like it if... you like science fiction

Synopsis: “In Anchorage, journalist Ned Scott, in search of a story, visits the Alaska Air Command officers’ club, where he meets Captain Pat Hendry, his co-pilot, Lieutenant Eddie Dykes (a friend of Scott’s), and flight navigator Ken “Mac.”

‘Good night, mom’

  • Duration: 92 minutes
  • Directed by Matt Sobel
  • Year: 2022
  • You will like it if... you appreciate the small details, because more is not always better

Synopsis: “Two twin brothers arrive at their mother’s country house to find her face bandaged. According to her, it is due to a recent cosmetic surgery. However, as the mother’s behavior becomes more and more erratic and unusual, a horrible thought hits the boys: they suspect that the woman hidden under the bandages is not really their mother.”

‘The Ninth Gate’

  • Duration: 100 minutes
  • Directed by Paco Plaza
  • Year: 2017
  • You'll like it if... you like the occult and you're attracted to 'The Dumas Club' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Synopsis: “Dean Corso is a meticulous bibliophile with a solid culture, nerves of steel and few scruples. Boris Balkan, a collector of demonic texts, entrusts him with an extremely dangerous mission. From New York to Toledo, from Paris to Sintra, he will find himself immersed in a labyrinth full of dangers and temptations, terrifying surprises, violence and unexpected deaths.”

‘Night of the Living Dead’

  • Duration: 91 minutes
  • Directed by George A. Romero
  • Year: 1968
  • You'll like it if... you love zombie movies

Synopsis: “Radiation from a satellite causes a terrifying phenomenon: the dead emerge from their graves and attack people to feed on them. The action begins in a cemetery in Pennsylvania, where Barbara, after being attacked by a zombie, flees to a farm. Ben has also taken refuge there. Both of them build barricades to defend themselves from the zombies.”

‘Southbound’

  • Duration: 88 minutes
  • Directed by David Bruckner, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella, Roxanne Benjamin, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Patrick Horvath.
  • Year: 2016
  • You will like it if... you want to experience a terrifying and very, very strange experience

Synopsis: “Five intersecting horror stories follow the fate of a group of travelers who, in the middle of the night and on a deserted back road, begin to suffer from exhaustion. The different members of the group will be forced to deal with their worst nightmares and their most hidden secrets.”

‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’

  • Duration: 86 minutes
  • Directed by André Ovredal
  • Year: 2016
  • You'll like it if… you're scared of corpses coming back to life

Synopsis: “The body of an unidentified young woman is found in a small town in Virginia. At the morgue, the two coroners (Tommy and Austin, father and son) soon notice very strange physical evidence. With methodical precision, their autopsy reveals the secrets hidden behind the corpse.”

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