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

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Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

If you’ve already given your Halloween costume (and its accompanying Instagram caption) some thought, that officially means spooky szn is in session. If you’re like us, you’re probably on the hunt for some Halloween content to stream as soon as summer passes and October (or, let’s be honest, September) rolls around.

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Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

We truly can’t think of a better way to kick off the holiday than with a marathon of the best Halloween movies of all time. So, grab some popcorn, huddle with your besties, and scream your head off while you stream classic Halloween movies, including the newer hits and non-scary flicks, that everyone in the group will love.

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Time for the ultimate Halloween movie marathon!

Whether you’re looking for the ultimate slasher film like the original Scream franchise, or are just trying to find something lighthearted that everyone can enjoy, there are plenty of picks here for all movie lovers. Ahead, in anticipation of the spookiest night of the year, find the best Halloween movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, and more.

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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.

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Scream

The Scream franchise is now up to five movies, but the first installment from 1996 is a Halloween classic. The Ghostface killer that reappears in the subsequent movies makes its first appearance in this movie, killing teens who live in a small town. A girl and her friends set out to find him, but not everyone survives.

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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.

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Zombieland

In the near future, mad cow disease mutates into mad human disease and causes everyone affected to turn into zombies. Hoping to travel home with the possibility of reuniting with his parents, Columbus travels the country along with Tallahassee. Along the way, they meet up with Wichita and Little Rock, who throw a wrench in their plans as they try to survive in this new world they call Zombieland.

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Hocus Pocus

Three witches return 300 years after being hung for their spellwork in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts. To hold onto immortality, they have to take the life of a child, and the three kids who accidentally resurrected them are doing all they can to stop the witches from returning Salem to the way it was when they first lived. 

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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!

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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.

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Get Out

When it comes time for Chris to meet his girlfriend's parents, he's a little nervous how they'll react to their daughter dating a black man. At first, her fam seems perfectly cool and polite, but Chris soon realizes he shouldn't have just been nervous about meeting this family — he should have been dead scared. The family has a dark secret that could cost Chris his life. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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!

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Fear Street Trilogy

Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, the Fear Street trilogy takes place in a town called Shadyside. The first movie is set in 1994 and follows a group of teens finds out that scary events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected. In true horror movie fashion, they're the next targets.

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Fear Street Trilogy

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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Matilda

Matilda follows the story of a young smart orphan girl who wishes to go to school despite her foster parents wishes. As a mix of unlucky things happens to her parents, they eventually allow her to go to school after finding a harsh principal who Matilda doesn't like. She learns that she actually has telekinetic powers and tries to learn how to use them for good as she tries to adjust to her new life at school.

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Ghostbusters

Who you gonna call? How about three parapsychologists (ghost scientists) who started a New York ghost-busting business to rid Manhattan of all its spooks? Ego, Ray, and Peter lose their research grants at their university and open Ghostbusters, and they soon find themselves investigating the possession

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Edward Scissorhands

At first, he's welcomed into the community with open arms, but despite his gentle, kind personality, his scissor hands make him an outcast — especially when he begins to fall in love with Peg's daughter. If you're looking for a Halloween movie that will make you cry rather than scream in fear, this is the one for you.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 

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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.

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E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

An unlikely friendship forms when 10-year-old Elliot discovers an extraterrestrial creature in his suburban California neighborhood.

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Practical Magic

Two sisters, Sally and Gillian Owens, come from a magical family but have always refrained from using their powers. But that changes when all the men they’ve ever loved in life die due to a curse, and a local detective grows suspicious of them.

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Little Shop of Horrors

This beautiful musical doubles as an equally frightening horror flick, where a floral shop worker finds that his beloved Venus flytrap— affectionately named Audrey II — needs human blood to blossom after a solar eclipse.

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The Strangers: Prey at Night

A family vacation to see loved ones turns awry when a group of masked murderers suddenly appear. When they realize that they are the targets, they try to escape the trailer park they are currently in and get back home safe and sound.

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Pet Sematary

A family moves into a new home but suddenly finds themselves drawn to the mysteries of the graveyard that they live in front of.

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The Haunted Mansion

Based on the theme park ride, The Haunted Mansion follows the Evers family as they try to go on vacation together until Jim Evers forces them to check out a mansion that he wishes to sell. 

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The Haunted Mansion

The family must stay the night after a storm causes them to be stuck in the old house where they encounter the story of two former lovers who died before they could get married and try to figure out the mystery behind the old mansion and its paranormal activity.

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Brightburn

A young boy discovers his superhero powers and where he really comes from after the spaceship he came in sends out a signal. Things start to go wrong as he figures out who he is and how to control his powers.

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Harry Potter Series

This childhood favorite series isn't your standard Halloween fare, but with witches, wizards, trolls, and a nearly headless ghost, it serves as endless inspiration for your next Halloween costume. And that's all that matters, right?

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The Perfection

A cello prodigy, who was forced to leave a prestigious music academy, returns in hopes of reconnecting with her previous professors. However, after seeing the new student who has taken her place, she tries to fight her way back into their good graces, no matter the cost.

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Twitches

On their 21st birthday, twins who were separated as babies find each other and learn of their magic powers. Together, they try to save their world before it's too late and try to find out who they really are in the process. Once you watch Twitches, check out its sequel, Twitches Too.

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Hell Fest

A group of friends gets excited as they explore the brand new theme park, Hell Fest. However, after a mysterious figure appears and starts killing attendees, they must try to survive and get out before it's too late.

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The Addams Family

However, it's difficult for the Fester-impostor to fit in with the Addams. Their home is full of dark magic, and the Addams find it equally hard to adapt to the outside world when they are forced out of their home. If Wednesday (played by Christina Ricci), the disturbed Addams daughter, doesn't creep you out, then Thing (who's just a hand) definitely will!

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The Addams Family

However, it's difficult for the Fester-impostor to fit in with the Addams. Their home is full of dark magic, and the Addams find it equally hard to adapt to the outside world when they are forced out of their home. If Wednesday (played by Christina Ricci), the disturbed Addams daughter, doesn't creep you out, then Thing (who's just a hand) definitely will!

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Coraline

After receiving a mysterious doll from one of her new neighbors, Coraline discovers the Other World, which includes Other Mother and Other Father, parents who are much more attentive to her than those in the real world. Coraline soon discovers that the world is not what it seems and tries to make her way back home and to her real parents.

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Hereditary

After a shocking death, the Graham family suddenly discovers strange and mysterious things that happen to them. While trying to figure out the cause, they soon find out that their family had a lot more secrets hidden than they originally thought.

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Would You Rather

After a shocking death, the Graham family suddenly discovers strange and mysterious things that happen to them. While trying to figure out the cause, they soon find out that their family had a lot more secrets hidden than they originally thought.

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Would You Rather

This film takes the classic sleepover game and turns it into a nightmare. Iris and seven other people become trapped in a creepy mansion. There, a lunatic forces them to play a sadistic game for a large sum of money, but the game gets more and more twisted as the night goes on.

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Beetlejuice

After dying in a car crash, the ghosts of Adam and Barbara Maitland are informed that they have to remain in their house for 150 years. This is fine, until their house is sold to a family they can't stand.

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Warm Bodies

In Warm Bodies, Nicholas Hoult plays an unusual zombie who saves a living girl instead of eating her and their budding relationship might just be what it takes to bring some life back into their post-apocalyptic world! Dave Franco also stars in this 2013 flick.

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The Craft

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them. It's like Mean Girls, but make it witchy.

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The Craft

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them. It's like Mean Girls, but make it witchy.

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ParaNorman

Norman's ability to talk to the dead has made him more comfortable with ghosts than with the living. This, however, is pushed to the limit when a witch's curse takes over Norman's town, forcing him to use his talents to take down hoards of zombies and put an end to the curse.

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Paranormal Activity

One of the biggest sleeper hits in horror, Paranormal Activity follows a young couple, Katie and Micah, in their own home. Katie opens up to Micah about a demonic presence that has haunted her ever since she was a young girl. Micah decides to record the couple at night to figure out what's wrong.

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Paranormal Activity

As the nights go by, the evil presence gets worse and Katie and Micah must try to survive and get rid of the presence that seems to want more than just to haunt them.

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Gremlins

There are horror flicks, and then there are Gremlins! These creepy creatures wreak havoc on a small town after a salesman completely disregards warnings not to feed them after midnight, and exposes them to bright light and water.

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Mostly Ghostly

If horror movies aren't your jam this Halloween movie is for you. When a young magician discovers his basement is being haunted by two lost ghosts he offers them help in exchange for their help in the love department. Starring a young Madison Pettis, this movie won't just put you in the holiday spirit but might just bring back some nostalgic feelings.

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Mostly Ghostly

If horror movies aren't your jam this Halloween movie is for you. When a young magician discovers his basement is being haunted by two lost ghosts he offers them help in exchange for their help in the love department. Starring a young Madison Pettis, this movie won't just put you in the holiday spirit but might just bring back some nostalgic feelings.

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Battle Royale

Imagine going on a field trip with your classmates only to be taken to an island where you all have to kill each other and only one can survive. Welcome to the world of Battle Royale. Before The Hunger Games was even a book, Battle Royale was first released in Japan in 1999.

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Battle Royale

It was then turned into a movie that later made its way to the United States and became a horror film success despite controversy over children killing each other in order to survive.

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A Quiet Place

John Krasinski's first film as a writer and director, A Quiet Place, takes place in 2020 after most of the Earth's population has been killed off by mysterious creatures that hunt humans based on sound. Lee Abott (Krasinski) and his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt) try to protect their family by living in silence. 

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A Quiet Place

A series of events causes the family to try to find a way to survive or be killed by the mysterious creatures that will kill them at all costs. Plus, there's a sequel you can stream after watching this one!

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Hotel Transylvania

Mavis and her dad Dracula run a 5-star hotel in Transylvania just for monsters. When she explores the human world for the first time, her father has zombies follow her and scare her from ever going back there again. Along the way, a human named Jonathan accidentally ends up in the hotel and must try to blend in, but he is found by Dracula who tries to kick him out.

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Hotel Transylvania

Realizing the human and his daughter have fallen in love, Dracula tries to stop them from getting together in fear that humans can never love his vampire daughter. Plus, this is an entire franchise with 3 (!!) more movies, which makes it perfect for a marathon.

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Repo! The Genetic Opera

This crazy and gory film starring Spy Kids' Alexa Vega is perfect for any music lover who is looking for the two genres to blend.

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Carrie

Chloe Grace Moretz's take on Stephen King's Carrie looks so creepy and so good. Chloe plays an outcast named Carrie who is confronted with the meanest of mean girls, but she gets her revenge using telepathic powers.

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Crawl

A young girl played by Skins' Kaya Scodelario goes to check in on her father during a hurricane. However, she soon discovers she must try to survive after a group of alligators block them from escaping.

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Casper

No list of Halloween movies is complete without Casper! Kat befriends a friendly ghost named Casper and they help each other come to terms with tragedies in their respective lives. May we add that the dance scene is everything?

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The Possession

When a young girl buys an old antique box at a garage sale, some pretty weird stuff starts happening. It turns out, the box has a spirit living in it!

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Corpse Bride

Somehow, the young (and alive!) Victor Van Dort ends up marrying not his intended bride-to-be, but the Corpse Bride, a skeletal woman who also happens to be dead. Now Victor has to make a choice between his new Corpse Bride and his once-fiancé, Victoria. Oh, the drama!

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Corpse Bride

Somehow, the young (and alive!) Victor Van Dort ends up marrying not his intended bride-to-be, but the Corpse Bride, a skeletal woman who also happens to be dead. Now Victor has to make a choice between his new Corpse Bride and his once-fiancé, Victoria. Oh, the drama!

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Suspiria

A remake of the 1977 horror classic, Dakota Johnson plays Susie Bannon, an American dancer who ends up joining a prestigious dance group in Germany. However, she soon discovers that the school is run by witches that have their own wicked plans for the students.

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Fun Size

Victoria Justice stars as Wren, who is basically having the worst Halloween ever. Her crush is throwing a Halloween party and she's all pumped to go, but then she has to babysit her little brother. Things take a turn for the worse when he goes missing. Will she lose her brother and her crush for good? You'll have to watch this feel-good YA movie to find out!

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The Conjuring

Scary movies are especially creepy when they're based on true stories. This one is based on the real investigations of noted paranormal experts, Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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The Conjuring

In The Conjuring, the Perron family moves into a truly freaky-looking house in Rhode Island — which literally should have been a dead giveaway that it was haunted — when increasingly strange things begin happening to them. Desperate to get rid of their tormenter, The Perrons call on the Warrens to investigate. What they find is straight out of your nightmares.

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Fright Night

When a high school teen Charley suspects his new neighbor Jerry is a vampire after witnessing the unusual activity, no one believes him. So, he sets out one night to destroy him. This suspenseful watch will have you on the edge of your seat to find out who makes it out alive.

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What We Do in the Shadows

When a high school teen Charley suspects his new neighbor Jerry is a vampire after witnessing the unusual activity, no one believes him. So, he sets out one night to destroy him. This suspenseful watch will have you on the edge of your seat to find out who makes it out alive.

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