Celebrate the Halloween season with these 10 horror movies – Ball State Daily News

Celebrating Halloween may look different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. To stay safe yet entertained, consider spending the spooky holiday with the top 10 highest-grossing horror movies, according to The Numbers, a movie industry data and research service.

I am Legend

Released Dec. 14, 2007

Rating: PG-13

Stars: Will Smith, Alice Braga and Dash Mihok

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 68 percent

Synopsis: U.S. Army virologist Robert Neville is the last person in New York after a virus killed most of mankind. Immune to the virus, Neville must develop a cure as he defends himself against those who the virus turned into cannibalistic mutants called Darkseekers.

It

Released Sep. 8, 2017

Rating: R

Stars: Jaeden Martell and Bill Skarsgrd

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85 percent

Synopsis: Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, seven children called The Losers Club come together to fight the murderous clown Pennywise, who preys upon children in their small town in Maine.

Hannibal

Released Feb. 9, 2001

Rating: R

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore and Gary Oldman

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 39 percent

Synopsis: FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling works to capture Hannibal Lecter before Mason Verger, Hannibals surviving victim, seeks his revenge.

The Blair Witch Project

Released July 14, 1999

Rating: R

Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86 percent

Synopsis: Three film students set out to film a documentary about the Blair Witch, a local legend in a Maryland forest. The students disappear, but a year later, their footage from what they discovered in the forest is found.

It Chapter Two

Released Sep. 6, 2019

Rating: R

Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean and Bill Skarsgrd

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 63 percent

Synopsis: Set 27 years after It, this sequel follows the Losers Club again as they discover the murderous clown Pennywise has returned to their Maine hometown.

Scream

Released Dec. 20, 1996

Rating: R

Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78 percent

Synopsis: The first movie of the Scream franchise focuses on teenager Sidney Prescott one year after her mothers murder. A new killer named Ghostface attacks Sidneys small hometown of Westboro as he murders his victims when they wrongly answer his trivia questions about horror movies.

The Ring

Released Oct. 18, 2002

Rating: PG-13

Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson and David Dorfman

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 71 percent

Synopsis: Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a cursed videotape where anyone who watches it dies a week later. After watching the video herself, Keller now only has a week to uncover its mystery.

Scream 2

Released Dec. 12, 1997

Rating: R

Stars: David Arquette, Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 81 percent

Synopsis: After two students are murdered during a preview of Stab, a movie based on the events of the first Scream film, Sidney Prescott realizes there is now a Ghostface copycat on her college campus.

A Quiet Place

Released April 6, 2018

Rating: PG-13

Stars: John Krasinski and Emily Blunt

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96 percent

Synopsis: Lee and Evelyn Abbott raise their family in silence to hide from blind, extraterrestrial monsters who kill anyone who makes a sound.

Sleepy Hollow

Released Nov. 19, 1999

Rating: R

Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Miranda Richardson

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 69 percent

Synopsis: Police constable Ichabod Crane investigates a series of decapitations in New York by the Headless Horseman.

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