Best Netflix Horror Movies To Watch for a Memorable Halloween

The Evil Dead

Known for the follow-up TV series Ash vs. the Evil Dead and scores of comic books and video games, the 1981 film surrounds five Michigan State University students, Ash Williams among them, vacationing in an isolated cabin in the woods. When the kids play a tape recorder found in the cabin, legions of demons and spirits come out to possess four of them, leaving Ash to fend off the rest of the demonic forces.

Sam Raimi made The Evil Dead such a gory and violent splatterfest with no fear of censorship, the movie is still impressively bloody even by today’s standards. At the time of its release, it was dubbed a “video nasty” and given an X-rating, which is normally reserved for pornographic films, thereby banning it in some countries.