Apa yang sebaiknya ditonton saat Halloween?
Dari seram yang santai sampai benar-benar menakutkan. Setiap judul di sini menyebut cocok untuk siapa dan tidak cocok untuk siapa.
Belum yakin? Mulai dari ini.
The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
Film
Sisi-sisi The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The King of Halloween discovers Christmas
- A ragdoll in love
- Stop-motion skeletons
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like gothic, spooky-sweet worlds.
- you like a musical with dark, catchy songs.
- you like handmade stop-motion.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you don't watch animated films.
- you can't laugh at the macabre. Jack hands out shrunken heads as Christmas presents.
Tema: identity · belonging · holidays
The Conjuring 2013
Film
Berdasarkan kisah nyata, film menyeramkan ini menceritakan kisah sebuah keluarga New England yang mulai bertemu dengan roh-roh di rumah pertanian mereka.
Sisi-sisi The Conjuring
- A family in a haunted farmhouse
- Two paranormal investigators
- A game of hide and clap
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you want real scares done the old-fashioned way.
- you like a dark house where you wait for the next sound.
- you like horror said to be based on a real case.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you need a film to stay within what science can explain. This one has demons, a possession and an exorcism.
- you're watching with children. A possessed mother and a witch on the wardrobe are too much for them.
Tema: faith · family · evil
Sleepy Hollow 1999
Film
Sisi-sisi Sleepy Hollow
- A rational constable in a superstitious village
- A headless horseman
- Misty woods in autumn
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like a grey, gothic world drained of colour.
- you like a murder mystery with a supernatural killer.
- you like Tim Burton's dark fairy tales.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- lots of decapitations ruin it for you.
- a headless rider swinging a sword through dark woods is too scary for you.
Tema: reason · superstition · revenge
Over the Garden Wall 2014
Serial
Sisi-sisi Over the Garden Wall
- Two brothers lost in a strange forest
- A woodsman and a grumpy bluebird
- A beast lurking in the woods
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like an autumn fairy tale that feels like an old storybook.
- you like old-time songs sung along the way.
- you like painted forests that look like vintage illustrations.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you don't watch animated series.
- you want fights and chases. Wirt and Greg mostly talk, sing and get lost.
Tema: brotherhood · finding your way home · growing up
Wednesday 2022
Serial
Wednesday Addams yang cerdas, sarkastis, dan sedikit tak berperasaan menyelidiki misteri rumit sambil bertemu teman-teman—dan beberapa musuh—baru di Nevermore Academy.
Sisi-sisi Wednesday
- Wednesday Addams at a school for outcasts
- A monster in the woods
- A dance everyone copied
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like a deadpan heroine who's proudly gloomy.
- you like a monster mystery at a boarding school.
- you like Wednesday forced to share a room with Enid, a bubbly werewolf who wants to be her friend.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you'd rather skip teen drama, and Nevermore comes with roommates, crushes and a school dance.
- you need a mystery with real-world logic. Here a monster, visions and a severed hand all play a part.
Tema: identity · friendship · belonging
Coraline 2009
Film
Sisi-sisi Coraline
- A girl who finds a door to a better home
- An Other Mother with button eyes
- Stop-motion that creeps up on you
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like dark, strange fairy tales.
- you like handmade stop-motion worlds.
- you like a family film that's actually creepy.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- button eyes may scare young children.
- you don't watch animated films.
Tema: home · parents · courage
Beetlejuice 1988
Film
Sisi-sisi Beetlejuice
- A ghost couple who can't scare anyone
- A goth teenage girl
- A bio-exorcist you shouldn't call
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like strange, spooky comedy.
- you like a manic, chaotic ghost.
- you like handmade effects and a model town.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you can't laugh at death. The afterlife's waiting room is full of dead people still showing how they died.
- films from 1988 feel dated to you.
Tema: death · home · belonging
American Horror Story 2011
Serial
Sisi-sisi American Horror Story
- A new horror story each season
- A haunted house, an asylum, a coven, a freak show
- The same actors in new roles
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like ghosts, witches and killers, a new nightmare every season.
- you like a story that gets stranger with every episode.
- you like camp horror that laughs at its own excess.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you can't stand gore, torture and cruel deaths.
- you can't commit to thirteen seasons, even when each one stands alone.
Tema: madness · sin · outsiders · family secrets
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 2018
Serial
Sihir dan keonaran beradu saat Sabrina, setengah manusia-setengah penyihir, mondar-mandir antara dua dunia: dunia remaja manusia dan warisan keluarganya, Church of Night.
Sisi-sisi Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- A half-witch teenager in Greendale
- Two aunts who run a mortuary
- A coven that answers to the Dark Lord
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like a town where witches, warlocks and demons live next door to a high school.
- you like a girl choosing between her mortal friends and her witch side.
- you like Aunt Hilda and Aunt Zelda bickering over how to raise their niece.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you can't take satanic rituals and horror imagery.
- you can't stand blood, curses and bodies on screen.
Tema: witchcraft · identity · family · freedom
Scream Queens 2015
Serial
Sisi-sisi Scream Queens
- A masked killer in a college sorority
- Chanel Oberlin and her minions
- A hospital full of new murders in season two
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like laughing while a killer in a devil costume works through a sorority.
- you like Chanel's insults and Dean Munsch's war on the Kappas.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you can't stand bloody murders, even played for laughs.
- you want your slasher played straight, to actually scare you.
Tema: popularity · privilege · revenge
Corpse Bride 2005
Film
Aksinya berlangsung di sebuah desa Eropa pada abad ke-19. Tokoh utama, seorang pemuda bernama Victor, diseret ke dunia bawah oleh kekuatan kegelapan dan dinikahkan di sana dengan Pengantin Mayat yang misterius, sementara pengantin perempuannya yang sebenarnya, Victoria, menanti pengantin prianya di dunia orang hidup. Meskipun kenyataan bahwa tinggal di Kerajaan Orang Mati ternyata jauh lebih menarik daripada gaya hidup Victoria yang biasa ia jalani, Victor memahami bahwa ia tidak akan menukar satu-satunya cintanya dengan apa pun di dunia alternatif mana pun...
Sisi-sisi Corpse Bride
- A shy groom who marries a corpse by mistake
- A colourful land of the dead
- A grey land of the living
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like gothic, tender fairy tales.
- you like a melancholy love triangle.
- you like stop-motion animation.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you don't watch animated films.
- you want an adventure. It's a shy groom, two brides and a few songs.
Tema: love · death · choice
Ghostbusters 1984
Film
Sisi-sisi Ghostbusters
- Scientists who hunt ghosts
- A giant marshmallow man
- Who you gonna call
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like dry, quick humour.
- you want a classic you can watch any time.
- you like slimy ghosts in New York.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you want to be scared. These ghosts are there to make you laugh.
- you need the science to hold up. Here it's proton packs and never crossing the streams.
Tema: friendship · business · the supernatural
The Conjuring 2 2016
Film
Sisi-sisi The Conjuring 2
- A haunted house in London
- A nun painting
- Two investigators again
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you want classic, well-made scares.
- you like long quiet scenes before a scare.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- over two hours of horror is too long for you.
- you need a rational explanation. The Warrens treat the Enfield haunting as the work of a real demon.
Tema: faith · family · fear
Hotel Transylvania 2012
Film
Sisi-sisi Hotel Transylvania
- Dracula runs a hotel for monsters
- A daughter turning 118
- A human backpacker checks in
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like slapstick monster comedy.
- you want a short, silly family film.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you don't watch animated films.
- you want quiet moments. It runs at full speed for ninety minutes.
Tema: fatherhood · letting go · acceptance
The Exorcist 1973
Film
Ketika seorang gadis muda dirasuki oleh entitas misterius, ibunya mencari bantuan dua pendeta Katolik untuk menyelamatkan hidupnya.
Sisi-sisi The Exorcist
- A girl possessed
- Two priests
- A staircase
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you want to be scared by a demon speaking through a twelve-year-old girl.
- you like a mother watching her child change.
- you like horror that takes its time.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you can't take shocking, graphic scenes. A possessed girl harms herself on screen.
- you're choosing a Halloween film for the kids. A possessed child is horror strictly for adults.
Tema: faith · evil · motherhood
The Cabin in the Woods 2012
Film
Sisi-sisi The Cabin in the Woods
- Five friends at a cabin
- Technicians watching from a control room
- Every horror monster at once
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like a horror film where nothing goes the way the genre taught you.
- you like horror that's also very funny.
- you like monsters in every form.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- lots of gore ruins it for you.
- you can't laugh while people are dying. Marty the stoner keeps the jokes coming as the night turns deadly.
Tema: genre · sacrifice · control
Scream 1996
Film
Sisi-sisi Scream
- A masked killer who calls first
- Teenagers who know horror films
- What's your favourite scary movie
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like a slasher with real scares.
- you like guessing who's behind the mask.
- you like a horror film that jokes about horror films.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- stabbings ruin it for you.
- you can't laugh at murder. The killer quizzes his victims on horror films over the phone.
Tema: genre · trauma · trust
Insidious 2011
Film
Sebuah keluarga menemukan bahwa roh jahat telah menyerbu rumah mereka setelah putra mereka tertidur tanpa alasan yang jelas. Ketika mereka meminta bantuan profesional, mereka mengetahui bahwa banyak hal ternyata jauh lebih pribadi daripada yang mereka kira.
Sisi-sisi Insidious
- A boy in a coma that isn't a coma
- A house that isn't haunted, he is
- The Further
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like jump scares that land.
- you like parents fighting to bring their son back from an endless sleep.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- a foggy world of the dead with a red-faced demon is too strange for you.
- you're watching with kids. A figure at the window and spirits in the house will give them nightmares.
Tema: family · the other side
Chucky 2021
Serial
Sisi-sisi Chucky
- A killer doll bought at a yard sale
- A gay teen in a small New Jersey town
- Murders that expose the town's secrets
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you laugh at a doll who kills with one-liners.
- you like the Child's Play doll back, with a whole town to haunt.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you can't stand gory murders, even when they're played for laughs.
- you can't take a bullied gay teen and his scornful father at the centre of it.
Tema: identity · secrets · revenge
It 1990
Serial
Sisi-sisi It
- A shape-shifting clown called Pennywise
- Seven outcast kids in a small town in 1960
- The same friends reunited thirty years later
Cocok untuk Anda jika
- you like being scared by a clown in a storm drain.
- you like the Losers' Club sticking together against bullies and worse.
- you like a story that cuts between seven kids and the adults they became.
Tidak cocok untuk Anda jika
- you can't watch children dying or abusive parents.
- a TV miniseries from 1990 feels dated to you.
Tema: childhood fear · friendship · memory · bullying