70 Best Halloween Movies of All Time to Watch This Spooky Szn

Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

Scream

Ready or Not

Zombieland

Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus 2

Get Out

Midsommar

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Fear Street Trilogy

Halloweentown

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Poltergeist

Parasite

Knives Out

Twilight

Matilda

Ghostbusters

The Sixth Sense

IT

Men

Edward Scissorhands

Fantasy Island

Candyman

Us

Ma

Watcher

The Dead Don't Die

Truth or Dare

The Black Phone

Escape Room

Halloween

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Practical Magic

Little Shop of Horrors

The Strangers: Prey at Night

Pet Sematary

The Haunted Mansion

Brightburn

Harry Potter Series

The Perfection

Twitches

Hell Fest

The Addams Family

Coraline

Hereditary

Would You Rather

Beetlejuice

Warm Bodies

The Craft

ParaNorman

Paranormal Activity

Gremlins

Mostly Ghostly

Battle Royale

A Quiet Place

Hotel Transylvania

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Carrie

Crawl

Casper

The Possession

Corpse Bride

Suspiria

Fun Size

The Conjuring

Fright Night

What We Do in the Shadows

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70 Best Halloween Movies of All Time to Watch This Spooky Szn

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Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

Oh, and you already know we’ve got you covered with direct links to the movies, so you can start watching immediately.

Scream

Ready or Not

On her wedding night, Grace finds herself fighting for her life after she is forced to play a deadly game of hide and seek by her new in-laws.

Zombieland

Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus

This over-the-top comedy has witchcraft, black cats, and lots of laughs, and it's sure to make your Halloween a blast!

Hocus Pocus 2

Return to Salem, Massachusetts, nearly 29 years after the original classic, and see what trouble the Sanderson Sisters have brewed up this time around.

Get Out

Get Out

Not only is Jordan Peele's directorial debut chilling, but it also serves as an on-point commentary on race relations in America today.

Midsommar

Don't let the beautiful colors fool you — this film is absolutely terrifying. When a couple decides to go to a pagan festival in Sweden, things don't end up going exactly as planned as the festival's true colors come to life.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington becomes bored with Halloween Town's namesake holiday, which the townspeople prepare all year for. When he accidentally finds himself in Christmas Town, he decides to take over the holiday and kidnap Santa.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

He doesn't do the holiday quite right, though — Jack's Christmas involves shrunken heads as toys and skeletal reindeer. With all of these scary additions, this Christmas story is also a fun Halloween tale!

Fear Street Trilogy

Fear Street Trilogy

Plus, Stranger Things' Sadie Sink and Maya Hawke star in the trilogy.

Halloweentown

This iconic Disney Channel Original Movie follows three siblings who aren't allowed to celebrate Halloween. They run away with their Halloween-loving grandmother and discover that she's a witch from a place called Halloweentown. Have a Halloweentown marathon this year — it has three sequels!

I Know What You Did Last Summer

This cult classic ushered in a brand new era of slasher flicks! Four friends find themselves on the wrong side of a hook-wielding stalker one year after they covered up a hit-and-run accident, where they killed a man and dumped his body.

Poltergeist

Poltergeist is a scary movie classic that you need to watch ASAP. The Freeling family enjoys a quiet, normal life in the California suburbs, until a series of disturbing, inexplicable paranormal occurrences threaten their entire existence.

Parasite

This Korean horror movie won an Oscar for best picture in 2019, and you will get why at the halfway mark. The impoverished Kim family starts working for the wealthy Park family, and what happens next is something neither family could predict.

Knives Out

Inspired by the mysteries penned by Agatha Christie, Knives Out centers around the death of a wealthy crime novelist, and a detective’s investigation into the patriarch’s eccentric family.

Twilight

Twilight is a classic no matter the time of year, but given the vampires and werewolves, it’s especially appropriate during the Halloween season. With five movies in the saga, you can have an entire Twilight-themed movie marathon in one weekend.

Matilda

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

and abduction of a woman who Peter was planning on going on a date with. It turns out, ghosts aren't as rare in New York as people think. Halloween's the perfect time to catch up on the original before you check out the all-female remake.

Ghostbusters

How do you make a pretty much perfect Halloween movie like Ghostbusters even better? How about a reboot where the classicly male gang are a bunch of kickass ladies and their sidekick is a ditzy Thor, I mean, Chris Hemsworth? Yassssss, please.

The Sixth Sense

Can we mention spooky films without The Sixth Sense? Proudly sitting at the top of any Halloween must-see list, the frightening flick follows a young boy who refuses to share a supernatural secret with anyone besides his psychologist.

IT

The 2017 reboot of Stephen King's chilling IT will make you laugh and scare the crap out of you at the same time. In the first movie, seven middle schoolers in Derry, Maine face a shape-shifting evil clown named Pennywise that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children.

IT

They band together in an attempt to save a little boy named Georgie that fell victim to Pennywise. In IT: Chapter Two, Pennywise returns 27 years after the first movie and the Derry losers are all grown up.

Men

Harper withdraws to a secluded cottage in the English countryside after the sudden death of her husband. But it appears she’s not alone after she goes on a walk and discovers a strange man following her every move.

Edward Scissorhands

A scientist dies before he can finish his greatest invention — a perfect human named Edward. Edward is left stranded in a castle on top of a hill with metal scissors as hands and his life changes when a kind lady named Peg discovers him and welcomes him into her home.

Edward Scissorhands

Fantasy Island

A group of strangers believes they just won the vacation of their dreams, but soon find themselves in the middle of their worst nightmares and must find a way to go back home before it's too late.

Candyman

File Candyman under "creepiest films ever." This movie follows a graduate student as she uncovers the legend of a hook-wielding, bee-swarming murderer who appears when you repeat his name.

Us

In Jordan Peele's second horror film, a family's vacation turns upside down when a group of doppelgängers suddenly attacks them with mysterious motives.

Ma

A group of kids thinks they found the perfect spot when an older woman allows them to use her basement for parties, but things start to change when they notice her mysterious behavior.

Watcher

After Julia moves to Bucharest, Romania, with her boyfriend for his job, she learns that a serial killer is wreaking havoc across the city — and realizes that a stranger is watching her from the apartment window across the street.

The Dead Don't Die

A small town police force must deal with a sudden zombie apocalypse and try to get to the bottom of what initially sparked it.

Truth or Dare

A group of friends have their vacation in Mexico turned upside down when they end up involved in a supernatural version of Truth or Dare. After a few turns, the game turns deadly and they must find a way to survive against the odds and stop it before they all end up dead.

The Black Phone

After 13-year-old Finney is abducted, he realizes that a seemingly-defunct phone in the basement he’s trapped in might be his only way out.

Escape Room

A group of strangers are invited to take part in an escape room with a special grand prize, but they soon find out that it's all part of an elaborate plan and they have to survive.

Halloween

You might want to keep the lights on when watching Halloween—it's seriously scary! Michael Meyers was institutionalized after he killed his brother and sister when he was little. When he grows up, he escapes and starts

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

This campy musical-slash-horror-film is a must-watch year after year, chronicling the wild, eccentric events of a couple stranded in a castle overnight.

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial