Spooky season has well and truly arrived! The nights are getting darker, the air is getting colder, and you can’t go to a supermarket without being confronted by pumpkins or sweets! It’s the perfect time of year to hibernate indoors with a hot drink and a scary movie. This week’s Thursday Movie Picks theme is Teen Horror, and since finally welcoming horror movies into my life I’ve seen quite a few!
Here are my three favourites:
It Follows (2014)
Also known as the supernatural STD movie, It Follows is one of the few movies that genuinely scared the crap out of me both whilst I was watching it and for days afterward. Basically, it starts with one girl after a sexual encounter. ‘It’ follows her, only ‘It’ can take any form it wishes and moves at a slow pace until it finds you and kills you. You’re the only person who can see ‘It’, also. The only way to stop ‘It’ is to have sex with someone else and pass it on to them.
Happy Death Day (2017)
I’m so fed up with Groundhog Day-style movies that I avoided Happy Death Day until this year. It’s so good though! You can probably guess the plot, a teen girl is murdered one night and then wakes up at the start of the same day, only to die over and over again. It’s a bit jumpy, but it’s also quite funny and the sequel is surprisingly even better than the original!
Midsommar (2019)
It only feels like yesterday that Midsommar was released but I’m starting to learn that with Ari Aster’s movies, you aren’t likely to forget about them anytime soon. After suffering a family tragedy, Dani travels to Sweden with her awful boyfriend and his friends to visit a fabled mid-summer festival. It’s a quiet movie for a horror, and a lot of the worse moments happen off-screen, but it’s a glorious movie.
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It follows was so odd… the scene with the naked man on the roof put me in stitches.
Happy Death Day was alot better than I thought it would be, I’d definitely watch it again!
And I havent see Midsommar, but will give it a go 🙂 xxx
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You know, I forgot all about that naked man, ha!
Have you seen Hereditary? If you enjoyed that one, I’m sure you’ll like Midsommar too 🙂
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Lol that’s what u rememeber most about the film.
No I havent seen Hereditary, but I’ll add that to the list too 🙂 x
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I actually watched Midsommar yesterday! It’s such a cool and almost hypnotizing film.
I watched It Follows a while ago and didn’t really like it. Happy Death Day sounds quite interesting, I’ll make sure to check it out!
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Midsommar is quite an experience 😀
I hope you enjoy Happy Death Day! I avoided it for so long but it’s actually a lot of fun.
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I love all three of these movies!
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❤
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Happy Death Day is indeed a lot of fun! I liked how the sequel wasn’t just doing the same thing as the first movie
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I bloody loved the sequel! I kicked myself for avoiding those movies, they’re so fun!
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Awesome list! I really wanted to see Happy Death Day and Midsommar! I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about those films!
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Thank you! They’re both great – Happy Death Day is much funnier than I expected
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Cool!
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Oh, we share a pick with It Follows. An awesome film as is Happy Death Day as I chose another film by the same filmmaker for my other pick. Midsommar is the one film I haven’t seen as I also haven’t seen Hereditary as I hope to sometime this month.
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Oh I’d love to read your thoughts on Midsommar and Hereditary!
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Oh god, I’m really going to have to watch Midsommar one of these days, aren’t I?
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Absolutely! It’s not ‘in your face’ scary though, if that helps in any way…
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It Follows was so scary cause you couldn’t ever really stop it! I need scary stuff that can still be defeated otherwise it gives me nightmares 🙂
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Yeah that’s so true! I think that’s why it played on my mind for so long afterwards!
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You are the second person to choose It Day and I never heard of this one. I do want to see Happy Death Day. I haven’t seen the last one
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I haven’t seen any of them. I have heard good things, so they are on my to watch list.
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