Board the ride, hunker down and try not to lose your head as you are taken by the 10 very best horror movies set on Halloween night. Haunt feels like Escape Room meets Saw meets Rob Zombie's 31, but manages to take a step beyond any of these movies by integrating the fairground classic of the haunted house into its core.

That’s especially true as Halloween approaches. While you queue up your spooky movie marathon, here are 10 iconic horror movies from the past 70 years for inspiration, and what Associated Press writers had to say about them when they were first released.