REVEALED: FAVOURITE HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIES AROUND THE WORLD
- New research from Premier Inn reveals different countries’ top Halloween flicks
- Wales loves Alien, The Shining and Doctor Sleep
With Halloween parties and trick-or-treats restricted this year, Premier Inn has researched the other super popular October pastime – getting under the blankets to watch a spooky horror movie.
The hotel chain researched IMDB’s most popular horror films, from vintage classics such as The Exorcist, Blair Witch Project and Scream, through to modern fright fests Hereditary, Midsommer and Doctor Sleep. To find out the most popular Halloween movies in 15 different countries across the world, the hotel chain compared the number of online searches made every October for over 80 popular modern and classic horror movies.
The Favourite Halloween Horror Movies Around the World
- Wales – Alien (20,800 online searches)
- Scotland – The Shining (40,800 online searches)
- USA – The Shining (2,314,000 online searches)
- Canada – Saw (1,087,500 online searches)
- South Africa – It (53,800 online searches)
- Singapore – Midsommer (36,220 online searches)
- England – Alien (409,500 online searches)
- U.A.E. – It (26,600 online searches)
- Italy – Doctor Sleep (204,600 online searches)
- Brazil – Resident Evil (711,000 online searches)
- India – The Conjuring II (565,000 online searches)
- Australia – Saw (764,500 online searches)
- New Zealand – Alien (21,800 online searches)
- Spain – Alien (156,200 online searches)
- France – Alien (285,500 online searches)
- Germany –Alien (321,500 online searches)
- Norway – Alien (29,500 online searches)
- Northern Ireland – Fright Night (19,300 online searches)
- Republic of Ireland – The Shining (34,300 online searches)
The shortlist of spooky favourites across the globe became clear, but the top spots for different countries did change, with Australia and Canada preferring to watch gore-heavy Saw, South Africa turning to the creepy Clown It for their Halloween scares, and Brazil choosing Resident Evil.
The films which made regular appearances in each countries’ top 13 Halloween movies included The Shining, Alien, The Conjuring II, Gerald’s Game, Zombieland: Double Tap and Insidious.
Alien takes the crown as the world’s favourite Halloween movie, taking top spot in over half of the countries included in the research.
See the full study for a breakdown of the top 13 most popular Halloween movies in each country.
The top 13 most searched for horror movies at Halloween (Wales)
- Alien (20,800 searches)
- The Shining
- Doctor Sleep
- Scream
- Gerald’s Game
- Insidious
- Zombieland: Double Tap
- The Conjuring II
- Resident Evil
- Shaun of the Dead
- A Quiet Place
- The Exorcist
- The Conjuring
A spokesperson from Premier Inn commented ‘We know at this time of year that people like to frighten themselves with a spooky movie, and we were curious to compare which movies were most popular across the UK, and then see how it compared to other places across the globe. We hope the research gives some frightfully good movie inspiration for anyone looking to give themselves a little scare this Halloween.’
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