5 good movies on Amazon for Hump Day Halloween week

Happy Halloween week, Amazon Advisor readers. It is a glorious time of the year. You get to dress up, get candy and watch horror. Amazon is here to give you a vast array of choices in that department, perfect to get over Hump Day leading up to Halloween.

If you need some great family choices, Amazon is ready for that as well. Cocomelon Halloween Songs, Arthur and the Haunted Tree House, Blippi’s Spooky Spells Halloween, and The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Halloween! to name a few.

The list of horror for adults is lengthy, and if you subscribe to the other channels available, your list becomes even more impressive. You can subscribe to Shudder, AMC+, Monsters and Nightmares, Fear Factory, and many others.

Amazon has released the list of new features for November, and there is a lot to look forward to. Alien, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, Alien Vs. Predator, Dead Poets Society, Gnomeo & Juliet, Major Payne, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Three Men and a Baby, to only name a few of the movies that will be coming. The Amazon original film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain will also be released on Friday, Nov. 5.

These are great, but what about Hump Day movies for this week? We’ve got you covered.

5 good Hump Day movies on Amazon for October 27, 2021

The Monkey’s Paw 

The horror film The Monkey’s Paw was released in 2013 and is based on a story from 1902 by W.W. Jacobs. The overall story focuses on what happens when we tamper with fate.

The film follows a monkey’s paw, a magical talisman, that grants the owner three wishes. As with any wish-granting story, something will go awry.

Jake Tilton is given the paw and resurrects a coworker, Tony, from the dead within his first two wishes. Tony then tries to pressure Jake into doing what he wants, which results in Jake’s world being turned upside down.

The film stars Stephen Lang, C. J. Thomason, Corbin Bleu, and Charles S. Dutton and was directed by Brett Simmons, written by Macon Blair.

House on Haunted Hill 

Vincent Price and horror are synonymous, so we have to include one of his films. House on Haunted Hill is included with your Prime membership, and it’s in color! This film is a supernatural horror from 1959.

Price plays an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), invites five guests to their home for a haunted house party. Whoever is brave enough to spend the entire night in the house will receive a $10,000 prize. They will be tested with an assortment of terrors throughout the night.

AllMovie has praised this film as “Campy and creepy in equal measures, House on Haunted Hill deserves its status as a horror classic.”

Arachnophobia

It’s always good to throw in a good horror-comedy, and Arachnophobia fits that bill. This film marks the directorial debut for Frank Marshall, who would form Amblin Entertainment with Stephen Speilberg. Marshall wanted this film to be reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s Birds, where people were scared but also laughing.

A lethal Venezuelan spider is unknowingly transported to California, where it mates with a domestic spider who lays offspring that begins killing the town’s residents. After the town’s doctor makes this discovery, the locals must figure out how to get rid of the deadly arachnids.

The film stars Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands, and Harley Jane Kozak.

The Omen

Watch this one before it leaves Amazon Prime on Sunday, Oct. 31. The Omen is a film from 2006 that is a supernatural horror directed by John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, A Good Day to Die Hard) and written by David Seltzer (Bird on a Wire, Lucus).

The film follows Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber), an American diplomat stationed in Italy, and his wife, Katherine (Julia Stiles), whose child is stillborn. Robert adopts a newborn before his wife knows what has happened, and they name him Damien. Over the next five years, Robert takes on a high-ranking position, and soon after, some disturbing events start to occur. Katherine begins to suspect that their son is evil.

The film stars Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick.

Sorority Row

This is a reworking of the 1982 film The House on Sorority Row. The slasher film Sorority Row is directed by Stewart Hendler and was released in 2009.

This film takes place eight months after a group of sorority sisters covers up the accidental death of one of their sisters. Now they are being stalked and murdered on their graduation night. It is a full-on slasher film that might not bring anything new to the table but is still very entertaining.

Carrie Fisher plays the Sorority Housemother, so there is that. The film also stars Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Audrina Patridge, Julian Morris, Margo Harshman, and Matt Lanter.

Which Hump Day movies are you watching on Amazon this week? Let us know in the comments below.

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