THE THREE BEST SCARY MOVIES I’VE SEEN RECENTLY

Let's face it: finding a good scary movie to watch can be hard. There are a lot of movies that claim to be good or a fresh take on horror, but they're usually few and far between. Today, I want to share three of the best horror/scary movies I've seen lately.

​1: FREAKY

Millie is a high school outcast with a crush on a football player. She struggles to stand out and to stand up for herself. One night, after a football game, Millie is stuck at the school and a psycho killer on the loose called the Blissfield Butcher finds Millie and stabs her with a mysterious knife that causes the two to swap bodies.
 
I really enjoyed this film, and I was kind of surprised that I did. I thought it might be too goofy and that it would end up being lame, but it wasn’t. I really thought Vince Vaughn did a great job as the Butcher, and a great job playing a shy teenage girl trapped in a grown man’s body. You can find this one on Hulu currently, so go check it out!

2: THE FOREVER PURGE

The Purge has ended – so they thought. After a night of the Purge, a select group of people are surprised to learn that a number of individuals have decided to keep purging. A man and his wife decide to team up with a suspected racist ranch owner to make it to Mexico.
 
I really enjoyed this Purge. It was extra spooky to think of the idea of that night spilling over into the rest of the year. I really enjoyed the acting and that the main characters were members of the latinex community.

​3: THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

Ed and Lorraine Warren are at it again. After Ed is attacked by a vicious demon and suffers a major heart attack, the Warren duo works with an unbelieving local police station to track down the entity that’s possessing a good local boy into becoming a killer.
 
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Conjuring movie, but this one wasn’t “scary” to me. I added it to this list for two reasons: 1) Very few scary movies actually come out and 2) it was done really well, just not particularly scary.
 
I would still recommend checking it out. I believe you can find it on HBOMax.

Do you have a favorite scary movie you’ve seen recently? Let me know what it is in the comments.

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