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With the horror season drawing to a close, you might feel the urge to watch a new scary movie. If you’re like us, you’ll find that Scream aesthetic is your go-to vibe. However, you may have already watched it once or twice (or seven) times already. Luckily, we have assembled a list of very good flicks that found their way into theaters as rip-offs to Scream. Most are melodramatic, and a few are exceptional, but these hit the sweet spot if you’re in the mood for a light slasher. Some even star some of the actors and iconic villains. Check out the movies below, and have a great Halloween!

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Halloween Franchise Films Ranked At The Worldwide Box Office(Photo Credit – Amazon Prime Video)

Halloween is almost upon us and just a few days away. It calls for scary decorations, a spiced pumpkin latte, a blanket fort, and spooky movies with family and friends. Nothing screams Halloween more than the Halloween film franchise. There are thirteen films in the series; Michael Myers is the prime character of this franchise and a very popular character in the world of movies. Myers is one of the Big Three Slashers – Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th Series, Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street horror film franchise, and Michael Meyers.

The first film in the franchise was released in 1978, around a year before Ridley Scott’s Alien. It is also a successful franchise. The latest film in this slasher film series came out in 2022, taking the franchise total to an estimated...

Like science fiction and fantasy, films in the horror genre have permission to bend the laws of reality, as long as audiences can still follow the story. No one is too concerned that "Halloween" slasher Michael Meyers is somehow invincible and impossible to kill, because that lore was established in the first film and continued throughout the confusing, timeline-erasing franchise. What's not to understand?

On the other hand, plenty of films over the years have left audiences scratching their heads as they exit the theater. Is Leonardo DiCaprio dreaming or awake at the end of "Inception" and does it really matter? Was anything in "Mulholland Drive" real? You might give yourself a headache pondering the answers to those knotty questions.

Horror movies tend to use this kind of uncertainty to frighten viewers, leaving them unsettled and disturbed as the credits roll. This is the worst kind of perplexing ending, because you're not only confused,...

“The Exorcist” is headed in a new direction. Blumhouse and Morgan Creek have tapped Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House”) to write, direct, and produce a “radical new take” on the horror franchise, and it won’t be a sequel to the critically panned “The Exorcist: Believer” from last year.

David Gordon Green was at first set on making a trilogy of films that would continue the story of the original “Exorcist” film, bringing back original star Ellen Burstyn, but those sequels are no longer in the works, and Green exited back in January. “Believer” bombed with just $137 million at the global box office after Blumhouse spent a reported $400 million to acquire the franchise’s IP rights.

The new “Exorcist” movie, for now untitled and undated, will be an all-new story but still set within the “Exorcist” universe. Trevor Macy is producing for his Intrepid Pictures, and Flanagan will produce for Red Room Pictures.

Actress Sydney Sweeney decided to play the Horror edition of F**k, Marry, Kill game with fellow actress Simona Tabasco in order to promote their 2024 movie Immaculate. The game gave Sweeney and Tabasco a wide variety of characters from popular horror movies and they had to decide who they wanted to f**k, marry or kill.

A still from Immaculate

Judging by her choices, it seems like Sweeney is attracted to masked men as she chose to f**k Michael Meyers when she was asked to choose between Leatherface, Ghostface, and Michael Meyers. Earlier in the game, Tabasco and Sweeney agreed that they would have s*x with Jack Torrence from The Shining because they thought he was hot.

Sydney Sweeney has a thing for masked psycho killers Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate

In a video posted by film production company Neon, actress Sydney Sweeney played the Horror edition of F**k,...

Only in Hollywood can stars’ kids go trick or treating, dressed as their friends’ creations. That’s exactly what happened once upon a time when Halloween icon John Carpenter’s kids and family dressed as Star Wars characters. While Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill’s kids showed up as Michael Meyers.

Carpenter’s wife Sandy King recalled the fun memory, of a Halloween party she threw where her children and even her parents dressed as Star Wars characters. Actor Mark Hamill and his family were invited and surprised the Carpenters by showing up in full horror attire.

“There was a year where the kids were all characters from Star Wars,” she recalled to Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “A girlfriend of mine who was married to a major effects guy, we sewed all the costumes and did all this stuff every night watching, you know, hammer horror films while we were sewing. So...

Sunday Am: Not even the devil himself could help Universal and Blumhouse this weekend with the opening of The Exorcist: Believer. That’s after the studio bought the franchise rights for a trilogy from Morgan Creek back in July 2021 for $400M. Even though this is the best opening for an Exorcist movie with $27.2M stateside, $45.1M global, heads are low over at Universal City. However, their slide rule for determining breakeven and profitability on this particular film is being measured against Believer‘s $30M production cost. Wah? Read on.

In regards to whether the Exorcist franchise buy actually worked, that will be determined down the road after another two films are accounted for by Universal. Yeah, but where do you go from here? Correct — the next Exorcist will need to be rebooted greatly after David Gordon Green’s vision here did not resonate in a Halloween type of way, that...

People have got to stop fucking with John Kramer.

“Saw X” hits theaters this weekend, and while every installment in the now ten-film franchise could be attributed to one of the Og Jigsaw’s three ridiculous backstories (car crash! wife’s miscarriage! brain cancer!), this is the closest the series has come to producing an outright revenge flick. Brutal, self-aware, and roughly 30 minutes too long, it’s a face-to-face cage match between John and a surprisingly formidable new foe that’s perhaps best summed up by the “Bones and All” line: Never eat an eater.

Tobin Bell stars in a “Lion King 1 1/2” situation that lets us visit the notorious, “hands-off” serial killer between the events of “Saw” and “Saw II.” Alive and in-person, we’re meeting Kramer a few weeks after he trapped Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell in that basement for “Saw,” and some months before he throws that Nerve Gas Rager (feat.

(From left) Jamie Lee Curtis and director David Gordon Green on the set of Halloween Ends Photo: Universal Pictures Jamie Lee Curtis may be the backbone of the Halloween franchise, but David Gordon Green has been its brain—at least since 2018, when he and Danny McBride rebooted it as an...