A stop-motion animated fantasy-horror film, “Coraline” follows Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning), a young girl who just moved to a new town. Bored, Coraline wanders her run-down new home until she comes across door that brings her to an idealized version of her life and family. Despite this discovery, her “other family” with buttons for eyes seems eerily suspicious.

The real world uses a muted, bland color palette while the “Other World” is intensely colored, showing the deceptive nature for what is too good to be true. Despite using horror elements such as body horror, psychological manipulation, and entrapment, the content is still digestible for younger audiences without shying away from deeper themes.

Based off the hit novel by Stephen King of the same name, “The Shining” follows Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), a writer who takes a job at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado as the winter caretaker. Trapped during a blizzard with his wife, Wendy (Shelly Duvall), and psychic son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), Jack goes insane by the hotel’s supernatural, while Danny sees visions that spell out his family’s descend into violence.

The movie has a unique approach to set design, featuring “impossible” layouts, such as doors leading to nowhere, shifting furniture, etc. that creates a sense of apprehension in the viewer. The movie brings psychological dread, groundbreaking filming techniques, and a unique approach to horror movies that rejects common clichés.

Directed by Tim Burton, “Beetlejuice” takes places after the death of newlywed couple Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) in a car accident. A new family, the Deetzes, moves into their home along with their quirky daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder). The Maitlands fail to scare the new family out of their home,  causing them to call on Beetlejuice (Micheal Keaton), a chaotic spirit with unconventional methods.

The film uses an unconventional perspective to spirits, instead of scaring people themselves, they hire people like Beetlejuice, who operates as a cooky expert on how to get rid of the living. Although the namesake of the movie, Beetlejuice only appears on screen for a fraction of the film, yet Keaton’s wild comedic performance makes the movie famous

Starring the iconic character Micheal Myers (Nick Castle),  “Halloween” is a classic slasher film directed by John Carpenter. Myers is an institutionalized man who escaped a psychiatric hospital after he killed his sister on Halloween 15 years prior to the events in the movie. In the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, Myers stalks high schooler Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends.

Instead of being set in somewhere dark and gothic like many other horror movies, the film is shot in sunny American suburb streets. Along with this, Micheal Myers is portrayed not as a man, but an inhuman, expressionless force. Together, it creates an unsettling feeling with an out-of-place antagonist in the unassuming setting.

Following a group of teenagers led by Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), “Scary Movie” makes a spoof off of popular 90s horror movies. After Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams) accidentally hits a man with his car, they dump his body in a lake and are sworn to secrecy. A year later, they are stalked by Ghostface, a masked serial killer.

The movie parodies several horror movies, primarily including “Scream” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” The film blends slapstick humor while incorporating horror tropes and pop-culture moments from the time.