While not always guaranteed to be scary, horror movies new and old can be seen in Minnesota theaters and on your TV.
Ahead of Halloween, movie theaters can help you get into the spirit with new horror movies and re-releases of older ones. Here’s our rundown of what’s showing — and streaming:
Set two years after “Black Phone,” Billy (Mason Thames) and his little sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw), still cannot escape the Grabber (Ethan Hawke) and his infamous black phone, now contacting Gwen through her dreams.
After doctors fail to find the cause of a young girl’s (Linda Blair) sudden erratic behavior, her mother, actress Chris McNeil (Ellen Burstyn), seeks the help of two priests who suggest her daughter may be possessed.
This film follows a woman who realizes the demon from her childhood was not imaginary while searching for her lost sister.
Jump scares are replaced by musical numbers in this campy cult classic. A young couple’s night takes a turn after getting a flat tire and stumbling upon Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), his eclectic group and Frank’s creation, Rocky.
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Returning to IMAX theaters after its successful spring release, Michael B. Jordan plays identical twins Smoke and Stack as they return to Mississippi to open a juke joint, prepared to deal with Klansmen — but not expecting vampires.
Michael Myers (Nick Castle) escapes 15 years after he was institutionalized for murdering his teenage sister, and begins stalking Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Filled with all the classic horror movie tropes, the film is perfect to send off October.
Based on Mary Shelley’s classic, Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, plays in select theaters across the country before its release on Netflix on Nov. 7.
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In this horror movie that swept the 64th Academy Awards, Anthony Hopkins plays psychiatrist and violent psychopath Dr. Hannibal Lecter as he is interviewed by FBI cadet Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) in order to gain some insight on an active case.
The Sanderson sisters (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy), three witches in Salem, Mass., are resurrected by Max Dennison, who until then, did not believe the tales the town told of them. Now Max, his little sister and his crush, Allison, must prevent the witches from becoming immortal.
Almost 200 years old, vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Brad Pitt) recounts his long life to a journalist (Christian Slater) from his transformation into a vampire by Lestat de Lioncourt (Tom Cruise) to his “adoption” of his daughter Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) to the aftermath of the complicated family dynamic.
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Serial killer Art the Clown targets two girls on Halloween night and murders anyone else he encounters along the way. There is not much plot to this slasher film.
After a classroom of students (all but one) goes missing, the town blames teacher Justine Gandy (Julia Garner). Ostracized, Gandy tries to figure out the mysterious circumstances.
Based on Stephen King’s short story, two brothers try to destroy their father’s antique wind-up monkey after it triggers gruesome deaths and supernatural events. While doing so, the two confront the distance that grew between them.
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