Not sure what to watch during your horror movie marathon? Not an avid fan of horror films? Let me do the thinking for you, with my horror movie playlists. Every week, I’ll post a horror movie playlist option for you to choose. When you see the playlist you love, find the movies, butter the popcorn, put the kids to bed, and press play.

They look just like you and me, and they do not come in peace. Most times, what they really are, are scary and unknown creatures foreign in every way. They come from what we consider hell, other planets, or completely different worlds in unknown space and time. They wreak havoc on our world and sanity, bringing death and destruction with them.

Simply put, they’re aliens, and they want whatever we have. So, cuddle up on the couch, lower the shades, and make sure you’re date is exactly who they say they are. This week’s playlist: They Walk Among Us.

Start with a classic that will teach you all about the genre

Invasion of the Body Snatchers– Find it on VUDU, M-Go, Google Play, iTunes, DVD and Blu-ray

Start the marathon with a movie that is well-known in the horror genre. Make it low-key, easy to watch, but still ominous. It will make the transition to the more action-packed movies easier.

In this 1978 film from Philip Kaufman, a group of people in San Francisco discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum head up the perfect cast of a perfectly creepy movie.



Follow-up with another Sutherland classic, and a true guilty pleasure

The Puppet Masters– Find it on M-Go, Google Play, VUDU, iTunes, DVD and Blu-ray

The second to play should be a dark and scary option, with a silly aftertaste. It amps up the freak factor, and leaves you wanting more. Even the most campy horror flick has its merits.

Another Sutherland mainstay, The Puppet Masters follows a government agency who tries to protect Earth from being invaded by alien “slugs” that ride on people’s backs and control their minds.



The middle should feature a movie that creeps into your mind, placing you at the edge of your seat

The Invasion– Find it on M-Go, Google Play, VUDU, iTunes, DVD, Blu-ray

Pick a film with building tension and themes to suggest it’s do or die. Amp the creature effects up, the emotional turmoil up, and raise the stakes.

As a Washington psychiatrist (Nicole Kidman) unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.



A “teen scream” version of a massive invasion

The Faculty– Find it on M-Go, Google Play, iTunes, VUDU, DVD and Blu-ray

Let this choice play on our biggest fear: a high school as an alien breeding ground. Increase the action, thrills, comedy, and tension. The fourth installment should have an easy-going fun side. You’ll need the positive vibes for the last film.

Like movies with ensemble casts? Miss the 90s? Like the fear behind an alien “whodunnit”? Directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring all the “I think I know that guy” actors you can handle, students of a high school suspect that their teachers are aliens after bizarre occurrences.



Bring it home

The Thing– Find it on VUDU, Google Play, M-Go, iTunes, DVD and Blu-ray

For the final installment of your movie marathon, choose a flick laced with hopelessness. Let it be ominous, haunting, supernatural, foreboding, graphic, and mysterious. It should be a choice that will leave you fearing the unknown for years to come. It will make you uncomfortable, and squirm with the gross-out effects.

In an Oscar-worthy performance by Kurt Russell’s beard, scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.