Welcome to Day 17 of Spooky Season!! It’s time for more horror movie recommendations, so today I’m bringing you part 3 of the best horror movie double features for your next movie night! These are horror films that aren’t in the same franchise, but I believe they go really well together for one reason or another. I hope you enjoy!!

The Final Girls and Tucker And Dale vs. Evil

Connection: Comedies That Turned Horror Tropes On Their Heads

Let’s start the night with some horror movies filled with some laughter and slaughter! The Final Girls dropped five teenagers into an ’80s slasher film, making it a meta laugh riot with surprisingly a lot of heart. Tucker And Dale vs. Evil turned the backwoods killer cliché on its head as a group of teenagers mistook two innocent friends as maniacal serial killers. These films took horror stereotypes and gave us fresh takes in a hilarious fashion. They’re perfect if you’re in the mood for a bloody good time!

Sleepaway Camp and The Burning

Connection: Summer Camp Horror

Summer camp is supposed to be a relaxing place for kids to do some fun activities and make new friends. But, of course, not even they are safe from getting the horror treatment. Out at Sleepaway Camp, shy outcast, Angela and her cousin, Ricky join Camp Arawak, where their summer fun was cut short by a maniac killing off the counselors and campers. After that, the next stop is Camp Blackfoot in The Burning, where a janitor was severely burned after a prank gone wrong and came back for revenge years later. Chock-full of brutal kills, killer special effects, and maniacal vengeance, even though it’s fall, these films are the best for summer reminiscing!

Split and Marrowbone

Connection: Anya Taylor-Joy

I know what you’re probably thinking: why is Karli doing an Anya Taylor-Joy double feature without The Witch or The Menu? I believe Split and Marrowbone are very alike for multiple reasons. Split stars Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke who was abducted with her 2 classmates by a man with 23 personalities. Marrowbone follows a family looking to start over in their new lives but they realized finding peace wouldn’t be so easy. Both films deal with tragedy, trauma, and even though Anya technically isn’t the star of Marrowbone, her roles in these two films were brilliantly performed nonetheless!

Sweeney Todd and Repo! The Genetic Opera

Connection: Music and Revenge

I certainly haven’t forgotten about my readers who are musical lovers! In the more somber Sweeney Todd, a barber was wrongfully imprisoned and returned years later to seek vengeance against the judge who framed him. In the rock opera, Repo! The Genetic Opera, a man was forced to be a repo man for a biotech company that loaned out artificial organs after an organ-failure epidemic hit the world. Both films have amazing music and elements of revenge, bad parenting, and lots and lots of cutting. If you want a night filled with music and death, these are definitely the ones to throw on!

Night Of The Demons (1988) and The Return Of The Living Dead

Connection: Linnea Quigley

Linnea Quigley is a horror legend who needs more recognition in this day and age! In a frightful Night Of The Demons, Quigley is joined by a group of high schoolers who tried to party in an abandoned funeral parlor, but their fun was interrupted after they accidentally conjured up demons. In The Return Of The Living Dead, Quigley and a group of burnouts tried to party in a graveyard, but the fun was soon over after corpses returned from the grave to eat the brains of the living. Funny enough, this double feature happened by accident as I just threw them on back-to-back and then I realized how well they go together. These were both goofy fun and these were Linnea Quigley at her best and sassiest!