Oct 13, 2017 12 Horror Films You Can Watch For Free Through The Library

It that time of the year! Where everything adds a nuance of Pumpkin Spice and gets a little spookier…October! If you’re looking for some horror films to keep your month scary, here are some options that are free to you as a U of U student!

The Babadook

(2014)  93 min.

IFC Films

A troubled widow discovers that her son is telling the truth about a monster that entered their home through the pages of a children’s book.

The Eye

(2002)  98 min.

Richard Foreman/Lionsgate

After 18 years of blindness, 20 year-old Mun’s eyesight is restored following a corneal transplant. Immediately, mysterious black-clad figures in Mun’s field of vision seem to foreshadow sudden deaths, and disfigured denizens haunt her daily. Mun slowly learns that she has inherited her donor’s particular fate – the ability to see into the future and the terror that comes with it.

The Birds

(1963)  120 min.

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

ParaNorman

(2012)  93 min.

Young Norman Babcock has the ability to speak with the dead — and he often prefers their company to that of the living. Norman receives word from his strange Uncle Prenderghast that a centuries-old witch’s curse on their town is real and about to come true — and that only Norman can stop it. When zombies rise from their graves, Norman must summon all his courage and compassion and push his paranormal abilities to the limit to save his fellow townspeople.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

 (1945)  111 min.

A handsome young aristocrat descends into evil and debauchery under the influence of an intelligent friend with a cynical outlook on life. The corruption of Dorian Gray’s soul is represented by a portrait of him that grows uglier as the years pass, even as Dorian himself retains his perfect beauty.

The Blob

(1958)  83 min.

The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae.

The Haunted Strangler

(1958)  79 min.

Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin (Boris Karloff) believes that the wrong man was hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret.

Nosferatu

 (1922)  80 min.

The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

Ghosts: Inside Secret America

(2013)  48 min.

National Geographic

Investigative journalists Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster journey to some of the country’s most haunted locations and examine America’s obsession with the paranormal. A mother and daughter believe they are being haunted by their deceased loved one. Mariana tests an electronic magnetic field meter, a device often used to detect ghosts.

Equinox

(1970)  83 min.

Deep within the woods and canyons of California, four teenagers happen upon an ancient book containing the secrets of a strange, malevolent world that coexists with that of mankind.

Evening Primrose

 (1966) 50 min.

Written originally for television, this musical focuses on a poet who takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a department store after closing. He meets a community of night people who live in the store and falls in love with a beautiful young girl named Ella. Bizarre complications arise when the leader of the group forbids their relationship.

The Happy House

(2013)  81 min.

First Run Features

Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote bed & breakfast to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it’s one disaster after another, and they soon begin to suspect they’ve wandered into a real life horror movie. Events escalate from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house’s batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor, an extraordinarily rare butterfly, the world’s best blueberry muffins, a .44 Magnum, a demented serial killer, and one very strict rulebook.