October means many things: autumn, pumpkins, the World Series, a classic album by U2. It's also National Stamp Collecting month, National Pizza Month, and National Squirrel Awareness Month (no joke). But most of all it's Halloween time, and time to start digging into a universe's worth of scary movies. Scary movies can be about anything, from simply suggesting the mood of a nightmare to conjuring up actual monsters, ghosts, or other evil forces. Here are ten great scary movies available for streaming on Hulu Plus.
Vampyr
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The great Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer was best known for masterpieces of world cinema like The Passion of Joan of Arc and Ordet, but he also made one of the world's greatest horror movies, Vampyr (1932). Layered with a white, dreamy, diffused look, the movie tells the story of an occult enthusiast, Allan Gray (played, under the stage name "Julian West," by Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg, a nonprofessional actor and film aficionado who helped finance the film). He checks into a mysterious hotel and begins experiencing a series of unsettling, nightmarish events. He receives a book on vampires and eventually realizes what he must do. Dreyer and cinematographer Rudolph Maté invented many incredible moody shots, such as a pool of light in front of a door; when a stranger slowly opens the door, the room grows darker and darker.
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