Alissa Nutting

Author of Tampa, co-creator of HBOMax’s Made for Love and co-creator of Adult Swim’s Teenage Euthanasia

My favorite scary movie is It Follows, because a fatal curse that’s a sexually transmitted disease is just a brilliant premise.

Troy Heard

Artistic Director of Majestic Repertory Theater

The original Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre hold equal weight in my esteem for total opposite reasons. Halloween establishes tension through minimalism, while Chainsaw is a maximal orgy of rural terror—and both do so while withholding the blood and gore.

Zak Bagans

Star of Ghost Adventures, executive producer of The Haunted Museum: Three Ring Inferno on Travel Channel/discovery+ and founder of Downtown Vegas’ Haunted Museum

The Shining is my favorite scary movie. No other film captures [Stanley] Kubrick’s unique visual style and tone. The Overlook Hotel is where I’d like to be locked inside for a whole winter.

You Killed Me First and There She Is

Wheat paste street artists

As fans of classic horror, we love the original House on Haunted Hill. Combining Vincent Price and suspenseful camp in the setting of a Frank Lloyd Wright house—you can’t go wrong.

Melody Sweets

Singer and burlesque star

The only scary movie I’ve seen was in sex ed class, when they made the class watch the miracle that is life. This little creature crawling out of a woman’s hoo-ha. Terrifying! Put me off scary movies ever since!

Michael Yo

Co-star of Amber Brown on Apple TV+, Comedy Cellar regular and host of the Yo Show podcast

By far, my favorite scary movie is A Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddy’s line, “No running in the halls, Nancy,” still gives me chills to this day.

Dirk Vermin

Owner/artist at Pussykat Tattoo Parlor and Vegas punk rock mainstay

Bride Of Frankenstein. It’s subversive and profane; a true gothic horror show. This is the rare sequel that betters the original. The makeup by Jack Pierce remains unrivaled and iconic to this day. I’ve tattooed versions of the monster and the bride my whole career. There are scarier movies, but few with the lasting effect and influence, especially on pop culture for almost 100 years. No one did horror like Universal.

Penny Pibbets

Star of Absinthe at Caesars Palace

What I love about horror movies are their range. If you want a masterpiece, you watch The Shining; if you want something campy and funny, you watch Army of Darkness; Hereditary is tense and terrifying... But if you want a love story, watch the original Swedish version of Let the Right One In, which is the only romantic movie that I’ve ever enjoyed.

JT Mollner

Managing Partner at Freakling Bros. Horror Shows

For me, it’s an unbreakable tie between the original Halloween and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The former for the iconic creep and suspense and the latter for the sheer brutal horror. I’ve never been affected by another horror film like either of these films impacted me as a kid. And they still hold up.

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