Stay in touch with the personal favorites of the KDL Staff. Each title is handpicked. This month’s theme is favorite scary films, just in time for Halloween!

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The Others
Rated: PG-13

A devoutly religious mother of two ailing children has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly arrived family of eccentric servants to be responsible, but chilling events and visions soon lead her to believe that something supernatural is indeed going on.


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The Messenger
Rated: R

Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier.


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Seven
Rated: R

A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins.


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The Orphanage
Rated: R

Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan’s Labyrinth) presents The Orphanage, a chilling ghost story about a woman who discovers dark and horrific secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home and her desperate attempt to rescue her family from the nightmare into which she unwittingly led them.


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Friday the 13th
Rated: R

A carload of teenagers head for a weekend of fun at a lakeside cabin. Meanwhile, Clay and Jenna pursue a lead in the search for his missing sister, against the advice of police and cautions from the locals. The lakeside cabin happens to be part of the boarded up Camp Crystal Lake. There, they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and all of his deadly intentions.


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The Goonies
Rated: PG

Two kids find a treasure map just as they’re about to lose their house. They and their friends go on a search for the treasure, but not without trouble from a few ne’er-do-wells.


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The Shining
Rated: R

A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer’s dementia.


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The Exorcist
Rated: R

Blair is Regan, a young girl possessed by Satan. Her mother, Burstyn, summons the help of a priest who tries to save her while confronting his own private demons. A landmark film that spawned a new generation of horror movies.


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Funny Games
Rated: R

In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive.


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Let The Right One In
Rated: R

12-year-old Oskar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oskar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to help Oskar the only way she knows how.


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Night of the Living Dead
Rated: R

It’s a new dawn for terror when the dead come back to feast on the living in this contemporary version of the horror classic.


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Dawn of the Dead
Rated: R

The survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing flesh-hungry undead take refuge in a mega shopping mall.


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Rosemary's Baby
Rated: R

After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a young wife is impregnated by the Devil.


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Fido
Rated: R

Timmy’s best friend in the whole world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. When Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the Earth to keep Fido a part of the family.


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Terry Fator: Live from Las Vegas
Rated: NR

The winner of America’s Got Talent shows his brand of humor along with his puppets, including a turtle that impersonates Kermit the Frog and Roy Orbison, a country singer, the greatest soul singer to ever hit the strip, and of course the Elvis impersonator. Recorded live in Las Vegas.


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Alien
Rated: R

A mindless, savage, and merciless alien is attacking the crew of an intergalactic freighter and it must be stopped before they are all killed.


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Wrong Turn
Rated: R

A carload of teenagers takes a wrong turn in the mountains of West Virginia and they become lost. Now, they’re being hunted by disfigured inbred locals.


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Return to Oz
Rated: PG

Dorothy finds herself back in the land of her dreams making delightful new friends and dangerous new enemies.


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