Here’s horror ... Your essential guide to the best scary movies this Halloween

Halloween is the ideal time to scare yourself with a good horror movie. Happy to oblige, Declan Burke lists the best horror movies of all time and, for good measure, throws in a list of the five most cursed film sets and five best scary movies for kids.  

IT’S a well-known fact that the Irish invented horror entertainment by giving the world Halloween, Dracula, the banshee and the accent Tom Cruise mangles in Far and Away.

It makes sense, then, to combine our oldest traditions with our newest — binge-watching — to suggest the best movies to watch at Halloween.