Screams and chills: the best scary movies

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It’s our Halloween horror flick round-up. We asked Takeaway listeners and our contributors, Newsday film critic Rafer Guzman and Spout editor Karina Longworth, to compile a list of the best horror films ever. Classics like “Cat People” and “Night of The Living Dead” made the list, but so did big ’80s blockbusters like “Alien.”

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