5 Halloween Spooky iPhone Apps

Halloween is almost here. So are you ready for the holiday? Are you looking for some frightening iPhone apps to play with? Are you brave enough? Now it's time to prove it.

No. 1 Pumpkin Ninja 

Developer: David Tillotson

Price: 99 cents

This is a fun little game that involves swiping your finger at falling pumpkins on your screen, thus slicing them in half like (in the game's words) "a true ninja." We're somewhat surprised that "true ninjas" spend their time cutting plants in half while they're falling from the sky, but perhaps ninjas are simply so secretive that we don't know anything about the weird stuff they do in their free time.

No. 2 iDrakula 

Developer: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Price: $1.99

Here's an imaginative app that uses text messages and voicemails to retell the story of Dracula. So one morning you might wake up to find a text message from your "friend" Lucy Westerna complaining that after hanging out with the Count last night, she woke up with "a wicked hickey." It's not quite how Bram Stoker would have put it, but what the heck. Maybe his book would have been improved if it included more passages along the lines of "I vant 2 drink ur bl00d LOL."

No. 3 Scene It? Horror 

Developer: Screenlife LLC

Price: $1.99

Scene It? is a classic movie trivia game that uses video and sound clips, famous quotes, and puzzles to keep players stumped. This special horror edition of the game features some of the most famous horror films ever made, including "The Evil Dead" series, "The Exorcist," "The Shining" and "Frankenstein." A really cool game to have at Halloween parties.

No. 4 ZombieSmash! 

Developer: gamedoctors

Price: $0.99

ZombieSmash! has perhaps the most inscrutable description we've ever read, as its developers have branded it a "'Survival Comedy' game, featuring undead-themed castle defense and entertaining, physics-based gameplay." Yeah, we don't know what that means either, but from what we can tell the premise of the game is that you can use various destructive implements, including boulders, wrecking balls and even asteroids to smash up zombies. And let's be honest: Crushing the living dead with heavy objects is a terrific stress reliever.

No. 5 DOOM Resurrection 

Developer: id Software

Price: $6.99

Relive the glorious mid-90s by going around with a gun and blowing away vaguely-defined-but-nonetheless-menacing enemies on your smartphone. The original DOOM was the first first-person shooter to really hit it big, so you'll be playing a real classic here if you choose to buy it.

Which one do you like the best? Or which do you think is the most horrible one? Share your ideas with us.

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