It's that time of year again when costumes and candy abound, but if you're opting out of the craziness of this holiday and are looking for a good scary movie to watch at home instead, here are a list of 10 terrifyingly good Halloween flicks.

10. Vampyr (1932)
Although filmed with sound, this German Expressionistic horror film tells much of its story through title cards, following the terrifying journey of a traveller delving into the occult. Darkly lit and full of slowly building suspense, this oldschool thriller is scarier than you might think.

9. Dracula (1931)
Ancient vampire Count Dracula travels to England and sets his fangs on a number of pretty young women whom he lustily craves in this black and white horror masterpiece.

8. Let The Right One In (2008)
If your best friend turned out to be a brutal killer who needed human blood to survive, would you still help her? Oskar must decide where his loyalties lie in this Swedish vampire flick.

7. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Bringing zombies to the screen and planting fear into the hearts of Americans, George A. Romero begins his thrilling series in this first installment of the franchise.

6. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
It's difficult to decide which half of this film is scarier: young Catherine being imprisoned by Buffalo Bill, who's planning to kill her in a matter of days and make a suit from her skin, or Hannibal Lector probing into Clarice's troubled mind while simultaneously plotting escape from his imprisonment.

5. Alien (1979)
After her ship, the Nostromo, receives a distress call from a crashed vessel on a nearby planet, Ripley has no choice but to answer the plea for help. Once landed on the planet, Ripley and her crew discover that while there are no survivors, they are not the only things alive there.

4. The Exorcist (1973)
So scary it made moviegoers faint when it was first released, this bone-chilling horror film tells the story of young Regan, who has been possessed by a demon.

3. Saw (2004)
The original appearance of the Jigsaw killer and his painful and twisted survival games is inarguably one of the scariest movies of recent times. Losing Jigsaw's games is deadly.

2. Scream (1996)
There are rules to surviving a horror movie, and this intelligent and witty slasher flick provides a look at how breaking any of these rules is a fatal mistake. Scream follows Sidney and her attempts to stay one step ahead of the Ghostface killer, who is clearly out to get her.

1. Halloween (1978)
The title says it all. This is the slasher movie that set the mold for all others to come. After killing his sister in cold blood 15 years ago, Michael Myers is back after being institutionalized. He begins terrorizing and punishing teenaged girls in town who are misbehaving.