It's a great time of year to get caught up on scary movies. Let's take a look at the top 10 movies to watch to get yourself into the spirit of Halloween. Movie summaries courtesy of IMDB.

  • 10

    The Exorcist

    1973

    When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

  • 9

    Poltergeist

    1982

    A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts. Who doesn't remember the famous line, "They're here!".

  • 8

    It

    1990

    In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Loser Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. 30 years later, they are called back to fight the same clown again

  • 7

    Silence Of The Lambs

    1991

    A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

  • 6

    Pet Cemetary

    1989

    Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.

  • 5

    A Nightmare On Elm St.

    1984

    In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.

  • 4

    Saw

    2004

    With a dead body lying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw". The men must follow various rules and objectives if they wish to survive and win the deadly game set for them.

  • 3

    Hellraiser

    1987

    An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover; demons are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.

  • 2

    Friday The 13th

    1980

    Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

  • 1

    Halloween

    1978

    A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish adolescent girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

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