Staff Picks: Best Halloween Horror Movies

It's Halloween, and beyond trick or treating & costume parties, another time honored tradition is to gather around the television and watch spooky movies with friends.  We asked the WTVO and WQRF newsroom what their recommendations were for the Best Horror Movies to Watch on Halloween:

Mimi Murphy, WTVO Weeknight Anchor
1. The Exorcist
2. Halloween
3. Friday the 13th
4. The Amityville Horror
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street


Christie Nicks, FOX 39 Weeknight Anchor
1. The Changeling
2. Misery
3. The Others
4. The Shining
5. Friday the 13th


Brandon Arnold, First Warn Meteorologist

1. Phantasm
2. Jeepers Creepers
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. The Shining
5. Saw


Scott Leber, WTVO/FOX 39 Sports Director

1. Dracula
2. The Exorcist
3. The Omen
4. The Amityville Horror
5. Poltergeist


Marty Kasper, WTVO/FOX 39 Reporter

1. Hocus Pocus
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. The Shining
4. Stephen King's IT
5. Halloween


Alex DeLeon, Producer

1. Saw
2. Saw II
3. Saw III
4. Saw IV
5. Saw V


Frank Cymerman, Senior Photographer

1. Stephen King's IT
2. Carrie (1976)
3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ('74)
4. The Wizard of Gore
5. The Exorcist


Patrick Nowacki, Photographer

1. Ernest Scared Stupid
2. Trick 'r Treat
3. House on Haunted Hill (1999)
4. John Carpenter's The Thing
5. Saw


Jose, FOX 39 Program Director

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. High Tension
3. Rosemary's Baby
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
5. Phantasm


Colin Clarke, webmaster

1. Trick 'r Treat
2. Slither
3. The Descent
4. [REC]
5. Insidious