With only three days before Halloween, we’re getting down to the year’s final scary movie recommendations. Still looking for the right film to keep you company while the little ones are terrorizing the neighborhood? Here’s a chiller from 2009, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, a nifty little throwback to the horror movies of the late 1970s and early ’80s.

College student Samantha needs some extra money for the rent, so she takes a job babysitting an ailing old woman in, of course, an old, dark house. Bad idea? No. TERRIBLE idea.

Director Ti West shot in 16mm film to give the movie a ’70s vibe, and it works. If you’d stumbled across the movie while scanning channels on your TV, you might wonder how you’d missed it three decades ago.

Babysitters. Mysterious couple. Old woman locked away upstairs. Big dark house. “One Thing Leads to Another” from The Fixx playing on a Walkman. I’m sure you’re thinking, “Seen it all before!” But the filmmakers and the cast have taken quite a bit of care to create a genuinely scary movie, one that uses the clichés and devices of post-Watergate horror movies to actually be a better horror movie than most from that period … or any time since.