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A spooky movie is a surefire way to enjoy your Halloween season. If you randomly select any of a number of scary movies, you’ll probably get a pretty similar plot each time. What scary movie doesn’t have an attractive teenage girl, lots of booze, or a serial ax murderer? If you’re looking for something a little more in depth, look for the side plot that lies within the hearts of these ten scary movie couples. You may find yourself a little confusing when you’re overwhelmed with the love between the two but still shaking in your socks.

1. Burt and Vicky, Children of the Corn
   We all know what the film is about, but the side story has just as much thrill. This couple sets out on a trip to repair a troubled marriage, but they get a lot more than they bargained for. While fighting for their life again the evil forces they face, they quickly find each other to be worth living for. Sometimes dread can bring you together as nothing else can. 

    

2. Sally and Jack, The Nightmare Before Christmas
   If you say you don’t love this Burton classic, you’re lying. Sally and Jack Skellington are the epitome of leery lovers, with just enough excitement and joy to help you overlook their ghoulish appearance. There’s a reason many people choose this coupling when dressing up for Halloween. Their love is unmatched and there nothing less than unique and extraordinary. 
3. Sam and Molly, Ghost
   Ghost is the most terrifying and simultaneously heartfelt experience you will ever have. The love between Molly and her dead lover is tear-jerking. Of course, some might be afraid when their passed beloved comes back in ghost form to revisit his sweetheart, but Molly was anything but. This is a tale about undying love, literally, that will leave you weeping for more.
4. Boris and Elsa, The Bride of Frankenstein
   They may be two of the most easily recognizable lovebirds in the world of spooky films. The classic movie is killer, but the love between these two evil creations is anything but vile. Maybe Frankenstein’s original monster never expected there to be a part two, much less a partner, but you can tell in this film that manmade monsters have love, too.
   
5. Bobby and Cindy, Scary Movie
   This freakshow parody captures all the best early era spooky movies in one laughable, but equally creepy mash up. What else does it capture? The bubbling teenage love between Cindy and Bobby, two of the movie’s main characters. Of course, she probably doesn’t know that Bobby might just be a copycat murderer. 
6. Adam and Barbara, Beetlejuice
   What’s better than a deceased couple haunting their previous home together? Of course, they probably weren’t expecting to be riddled with the confusion of the tumbling, scatterbrained, freaky world of Nietherworld, but they faired alright. You can’t die twice right? Maybe you can. 
7. Seymour and Audrey, Little Shop of Horrors
   If you give your love a flower, make sure it’s not a giant, man-eating, murderous flower. Seymour and Audrey live through the terror of a lifetime and have a chemical connection that definitely shows throughout the original performance. They might have chemistry, but they sure aren’t botanists.  

   

8. The Phantom and Christine, The Phantom of the Opera
   This classic movie is unseen by very few eyes, and for everyone that has seen it, the love between Christine and the Phantom is as undeniably eerie as it is romantic. Of course, the Phantom’s rage ruins it in the end. It may be rage born of love, but it eventually leads Christine to hate and even fear.  
9. Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring
   Of course, Ed and Lorraine are real-life people, and they have several movies other than the Conjuring (like Annabelle). Their spooky coupling is near perfection though, with Lorraine working as a medium and Ed as a demonologist. What better way to spend your life with your sweetheart than tracking and demolishing demons and ghosts, right? 
10. Frederick and Annabelle Loren, House on Haunted Hill
    Frederick is throwing a haunted house party for his fourth wife, Annabelle, but they have no idea the night they are about to (hopefully) live through. This adorable couple has all the right kicks. They’re smart, brave, and apparently, have tried to murder each other (and other family members) several times. One of them goes off on a horrifying tangent, and suddenly nobody is safe.  
11. Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Sterling, The Silence of the Lambs
    Hopefully every genius-level man isn’t a cannibal, but this one is. Of course, he landed himself in the pen, and now he’s helping Clarice, a witty FBI agent, capture another serial killer on the loose. Their love is tense and barred by bars, but its not any less real. So real, in fact, that it continues for multiple movies because the audience just couldn’t get enough of this odd pair. 

    

12. Norman Bates and His Mother, Psycho
    It’s probably a little weird to be so in love with your mother that you murder both her and her lover, and then manage to cover it up for almost ten years. But Normal Bates was a psycho, so normality wasn’t exactly something he was famous for. Normans love for his mother is exactly the kind of love that most women dream of, except not from their son. Nevertheless, the kind of passion his displays is the foundation for the eerily gruesome plot of this classic movie.

If a few scary movies don’t help you get your fix this Halloween season, try grabbing some haunted house tickets for the largest haunted house in Dallas area. At Thrillvania Haunted House Park, we have terrifying fun for the entire family. If you’re feeling really brave, bring your sweetheart along. She may leap into your arms out of fright, or we may just send her screaming in the other direction.

Pretty much every modern representation you’ll find of mermaid’s has it wrong. Even Disney’s interpretation of The Little Mermaid leaves out the gruesome details of Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale.

In it, the Little Mermaid drinks the sea witch’s potion to grow legs. In return, however, she is cursed in many ways. She gives up her tongue and her intoxicating voice and becomes mute. In return for her beautiful singing voice, though, she gains the most skilled dancing legs. But every time she takes a step with her new human legs, it pains her severely, feeling as if she’s stomping on swords. That isn’t the end of the curse, however. In order to receive a soul and escape death, she must convince the Prince to fall in love with her. If she doesn’t convince the prince to marry her, she will die accursed of a broken heart, soulless, and dissolve into the ocean to be forever lost at sea.

Luckily, the prince is attracted to her elegant dancing, so she dances for him endlessly, despite the pain in her feet. Later, the prince falls in love with another woman, and the mermaid is nearing her deadly fate. As she weeps by the sea, wounded by her broken heart, her sisters surface. They are carrying a knife from the sea witch, which they traded their long, luscious hair for.

The Little Mermaid must use the knife to slay the prince, and then place a drop of his blood on her feet to break the curse. She has fallen deeply in love with the Prince, though, so she cannot bring herself to kill him. Instead, she dives into the ocean, attempting to kill herself, where she dissolves into foam.

However, the honorable mermaid is not lost forever. Instead, she is given another chance at a soul, which she can gain after 300 years of good deeds for mankind.

Perhaps the earliest account of mermaids is the Syrian tale of Atargatis. She is often said to be the very first mermaid, who became so after an attempt at suicide. Atargatis was a beautiful goddess who fell in love with a human shepherd. However, she accidentally kills him with her godly power. Riddled with grief, she attempts to kill herself by diving into the depths of the ocean. Generally, when gods enter the ocean they become fish. But this tale accounts that Atargis was too beautiful to suffer this same fate, and the transformation stopped halfway through. Instead, Atargis was given the body of a fish and kept her beautiful hair and head.

The creepiest account of mermaids by far is the Greek account of the Sirens. Although initially depicted as devilish creatures with the legs of birds, eventually adaptations began to describe them as beautiful women with the bodies of fish. These mythical sea creatures were native to a group of islands known as the Sirenuse, and they were just as deadly as they were beautiful.

The Sirens has the voice of goddesses and sang a beautiful song that could be heard from miles away. Sailors heard their song as they passed through on their ships, which put them into a trance and lured them to the islands. The Sirens seduced the men with their beauty and lulled them with their gorgeous song, just before slaying them and devouring their bodies with their razor-sharp teeth.

The Sirens were repeatedly present in Greek mythology, even appearing as one of Odysseus’ obstacles during his homestretch.

To further the idea that mermaids are violent creatures, the Russian tales of the Rusalki describe the half-fish, half-woman creatures as the lost souls of women who drown themselves in the ocean due to unwanted pregnancies. The Rusalki angrily stalks the ocean, hunting down men and children to take them as prey, torturing them and devouring them as payment for their death.

While the ghastly tales of mermaids may be enough to keep you up at night, many accounts of mermen may have you replanning your vacation to the oceanside. Many accounts of mermen, like in the original Little Mermaid tale, depict them as a zombie-fish of sorts.

In the Little Mermaid tale, the sisters speak of the dead bodies of sailors that sink into the sea. They rise to become mermen but are unlike the mermaids and mermen born to the sea. Instead, these mermen are much like zombies, except with fish tails and fins. Some greek mythology describes them as carnivorous creatures much like the sirens. They travel in packs to hunt down passing ships, causing shipwrecks and devouring any unfortunate soul that is cast to the sea.

Every ancient account of mermaids across the world is a little different, but one thing is for certain. They are nowhere near as gentle and innocent as the Disney tales suggest.

There are more spooky souls than sirens and flesh-eating fish-men, though. If you’re looking for a fright the Halloween season, be sure to grab your haunted house tickets for the scariest haunted house in Dallas area. Thrillvania Haunted House Park is your one-stop-shop this Halloween for all the spooks and screams your heart desires.