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Whether you’re searching for classic horror films or looking for something new to watch this October, the options across Netflix, Apple TV, Hulu, HBO Max, Prime Video, and Disney+ can feel overwhelming.
From psychological thrillers that’ll keep you up at night to lighthearted Halloween comedies perfect for the whole family, streaming platforms are packed with seasonal content. The challenge isn’t a lack of options — it’s filtering through hundreds of titles to find the ones actually worth your time.
So, this year’s Halloween movie lineup spans every subgenre imaginable. Craving supernatural scares? There are plenty of ghost stories and paranormal thrillers ready to haunt your screen. More into slasher films and blood-pumping action? We’ve got those covered, too. Prefer atmospheric slow-burns that build dread with every scene?
You’ll find critically acclaimed options that prove horror is an art form. And if you’re just here for the nostalgia of rewatching your childhood favorites, don’t worry — the classics are all streaming somewhere.
So grab your candy corn, dim the lights, and get ready to stream your way through the spookiest month of the year. Your perfect Halloween movie night starts here with the best Halloween movies to stream in 2025 on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and more.
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Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, Donald Pleasence, Nick Castle
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 31m
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Critics, 8% Audience
Before Michael Myers, there was no blueprint for the unstoppable masked killer stalking babysitters. 1978’s Halloween laid the foundation for future slashers to come, and it was John Carpenter who created the template that every horror movie since has either copied or subverted.
The original Halloween is one of the best scary movies of all time, and if you have never watched it, you should lock in this spooky season to witness slasher greatness.
Director: Greg Jardin
Cast: Reina Hardesty, Hailee Keanna Lautenbach, Madison Davenport, Gavin Leatherwood, James Morosini
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Suspense, Mystery
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 43m
Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
It’s What’s Inside arrived on Netflix in 2024 and easily became one of my sleeper favs of that year. This sci-fi psychological thriller follows a group of college friends as they reunite for pre-wedding shenanigans. But what began as a walk down memory lane quickly devolves into a nightmare after the friends begin fiddling with the contents of a mysterious briefcase. If you’re looking for a movie that leaves you with more questions than answers, It’s What’s Inside will get you right this spooky season.
Director: Bill Melendez
Cast: Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer
Rating: G
Runtime: 25m
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% Critics, 80% Audience
AppleTV+ has the rights to Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang, which means a few times out of the year, you’re likely to want to stream some Charlie Brown for the holidays. Of course, when it comes to animated family holiday specials, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is one of the best, featuring offbeat child voice acting and stylish World War I flying ace segments.
From Charlie Brown’s costume mishaps (and rock-filled Trick-or-Treating trip) to Linus’s optimism and then hopelessness about not having found the most sincere pumpkin patch to see the Great Pumpkin himself, this is one-of-a-kind holiday viewing. And clocking in at just 25 minutes, it’s a great palette cleanser after one of this list’s more frightening movies.
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 25m
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% Critics, 89% Audience
Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy is full of fun, practical effects and plenty of gore, but if we had to single out one as the best of the bunch, we’d have to lean towards Evil Dead 2. Building upon so much of what made the first Evil Dead great, this sequel-slash-reimagining features Ash (Bruce Campbell) battling demons and even his girlfriend Linda when an audiotape reading of the Book of the Dead gets played in their remote cabin getaway.What makes Evil Dead 2 so much fun is how iconic so many of its thrills and laughs are. From Linda’s disembodied head terrorizing Ash to his disembodied hand and trusty chainsaw, it’s no wonder the movies became a cult franchise.
Director: James Wan
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 51m
Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Critics, 83% Audience
From the Saw franchise to Insidious, James Wan is a director who consistently nails horror movies. Perhaps none of his series illustrate this as well as 2013’s The Conjuring, which is purportedly based on the real-life case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, this horror movie about a demonic presence at a farmhouse showcases some truly original jump scares. From the spine-chilling ghost clap to its expertly terrifying camerawork, The Conjuring is a perfect scary movie to watch with the lights off.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth
Rating: R
Runtime: 2hr 32m
Rotten Tomatoes: 65% Critics, 72% Audience
In this sort-of-kind-of remake of the 1977 film, Dakota Johnson plays dancer Susie Bannion, who auditions for and becomes a lead dancer in a Berlin dance troupe. Of course, this being a horror movie, not everything is as it seems, with underground secrets and rumors of witchcraft swirling around Susie’s coveted position.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Challengers), the movie is confrontational, stylish, and polarizing. Regardless of whether you’ve seen its source material, you’ll either love it or hate it. Even so, you’ll be grateful to have gone along for the garish ride.
Director: Richard Kelly
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Seth Rogen
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Psychological
Rating: R
Runtime: 1h 53m
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
Donnie Darko is a film where the real horror lies within the mind. This 2001 film follows a troubled teenager named Donnie (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), who narrowly escapes death. However, in the days following the event, he begins to experience premonitions showing him what he believes to be the end of the world. To make matters worse, Darko begins to be terrorized by visions of a man named Frank in a rabbit suit, who mentally manipulates him into committing random crimes across town in an attempt to save the world from ending in 28 days. But trust no one, because things may not be what they seem.
Donnie Darko is a cult classic film at this point, so if you’ve never seen it before, this is the perfect time to have your mind blown.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Rating: PG
Runtime: 2hr 4m
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Critics, 91% Audience
Not many movies were so scary upon first release that they changed the way people vacationed. That is, not until Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Now celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary (and available to stream on Netflix), this movie about shark infested waters and a terrorized beachfront town is just as thrilling as it was when it was first released.
Sure, the shark effects may have aged less well, but thanks to Spielberg’s expert camera work and the movie’s iconic John Williams score, the movie still maintains its tense atmosphere.
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 44m
Rotten Tomatoes: 98% Critics, 86% Audience
Jordan Peele’s Get Out isn’t just an amazing horror film, it’s an amazing film period. What starts as a weekend getaway for Black photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) to meet his white girlfriend’s parents quickly turns supernaturally freaky as more and more about the Armitage family and their history comes to life.
Wholly original and totally chilling, Get Out functions as both a psychological thriller and a blistering satirical commentary on race. With sharp writing and great performances, the movie is all the more relevant eight years after it’s initial release.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 43m
Rotten Tomatoes: 58% Critics, 62% Audience
In Death Becomes Her, a novelist returns to her ex-husband and his movie star wife after a stint in a psych ward with a secret: she has attained immortality thanks to a strange drug. If that setup sounds similar to The Substance, it’s because it is, although Death Becomes Her is more of a spooky satire than body horror gorefest.
This 90’s horror-comedy has become a cult favorite since its release, in large part due to the way that Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Goldie Hawn make this star-studded dark comedy sing. It’s a great choice for something lighter but totally on brand for Halloween.
Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Cast: Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Amber Doig-Thorne
Rating: NR
Runtime: 1hr 40m
Rotten Tomatoes: 3% Critics, 49% Audience
One of the strangest movies to come out when A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh characters became public domain, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey delivers exactly what its title promises. In the film, Winnie the Pooh and Piglet have been abandoned by Christopher Robin and gone feral, leading to their titular bloodlust. Trading lessons in friendship for bloody carnage is certainly a departure from the beloved source material, which either will appeal to you or not. If you have a penchant for subversive B-movies, though, Blood and Honey is worth checking out. It might be a bit uneven, but you can’t argue that the premise is wildly original (albeit a tad exploitative).
Director: Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes
Cast: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Fayssal Bazzi
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 33m
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Critics, 82% Audience
In Late Night with the Devil, David Dastmalchian stars as Jack Delroy, a talk show host who plans a one-of-a-kind Halloween special in an attempt to improve his flailing ratings. Set in the 1970s, it leans heavily on other horror movies from that era, making for a retro experience despite the fact that the film was released in 2024. Films about possessions are few and far between these days, so it’s great to see a more modern effort in Late Night with the Devil. Anchored by a solid performance by Dastmalchian, it’s a fun horror flick that doesn’t rely on gratuitous scares to creep you out.
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 41m
Rotten Tomatoes: 95% Critics, 66% Audience
Sometimes a movie comes along that completely turns a genre trope on its head, and It Follows is one of those movies. In many horror flicks, especially 80s slashers, characters get offed for “bad” behavior (like having sex before marriage). In It Follows, that’s the whole premise. In this movie, if you have sex with someone, you’ll be pursued by a shapeshifting monster that will stop at nothing to kill you unless you can pass the curse onto someone else through intercourse.
It’s a super simple premise, but director David Robert Mitchell gets tons of mileage from it. It Follows is a movie that changes the way you watch movies, with every background actor suddenly upping the tension with their entrance.
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 37m
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Critics, 85% Audience
In An American Werewolf in London, two college friends backpacking in Great Britain are attacked by a wolf, with one of them surviving the attack only to become a werewolf. While that sounds grisly, the movie is part creature-feature and part comedy, a hard balancing act to nail. It’s wacky and weird, for sure, but surprisingly, it all works. Even if you’re on the fence about this one, it’s worth seeing for the makeup effects alone. They stand the test of time even more than forty years later.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Gunner Hansen, Allen Danziger
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 23m
Rotten Tomatoes: 84% Critics, 82% Audience
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre may have been made in 1974, but it is still scary enough to go toe-to-toe with pretty much any horror movie out there. The title tells you pretty much everything you need to know about this one, but that doesn’t make the way it unfolds any less shocking. As its teenage characters are hunted by the masked, chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, the tension is at an all-time high. What makes it so frightening is just how senselessly plausible it all feels. It’s sick, it’s twisted, it’s everything the title promises and so much more.
Director: Parker Finn
Cast: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 56m
Rotten Tomatoes: 80% Critics, 77% AudienceAfter Dr. Rose Cotter witnesses a terrifying incident with one of her psychiatric patients, she slowly becomes terrorized by an invisible presence that manifests in something generally deemed harmless: a broad smile. As both a horror film and a surprisingly nuanced exploration of trauma, Smile is full of shocking, frightening images. It’s an unsettling film that gets under your skin; exactly the kind of thing a good horror movie should aim for.
If you’re a fan of mid-2000s slow-burning horror like The Ring, Smile will likely be right up your alley. With solid jump scares and a strong cast to boot, it’s one unnerving viewing experience.
Director: Mike FlanaganCast: Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 39m
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% Critics, 58% Audience
Director Mike Flanagan is largely known for the stunning and creepy Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House or Midnight Mass. But his horror movies are just as scary, something Ouija: Origin of Evil proves in spades. In this movie, a mother’s seance scam service takes an evil turn when her daughter becomes posessed by a relentless spirit. While 2014’s Ouija left many wanting for more, its sequel shows that there’s plenty of promise in its supernatural premise. In the hands of Flanagan, it’s classic horror goodness.
Director: Drew Goddard
Cast: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 35m
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% Critics, 74% Audience
The Cabin in the Woods is a totally inventive take on the horror genre as a whole. It takes a familiar premise of a college getaway to a remote cabin and turns it completely on its head, interjecting a much grander, meta-social experiment to the proceedings with thrillingly dark wit.Expertly playing with audience expectations, archetypes, and genre tropes, the film uses self-aware humor alongside some legitimate scares to create a movie that’s twisty and fun from start to finish. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t read anything else about it before you give it a watch. You’ll be rewarded.
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph
Rating: NR
Runtime: 1hr 29m
Rotten Tomatoes: 87% Critics, 82% Audience
Pretty much any of David Lynch’s films (well, except for The Straight Story) could fit on this list. But Eraserhead’s unique blend of surrealism, alienation, and straight-up body horror seems like the best pick. In this hour-and-a-half, black-and-white nightmare, a man named Henry must parent an otherworldly, mutant baby. Its cries and wails are as haunting as the industrial soundscape and imagery, making the film one of the scariest (and weirdest) explorations of parenting, alongside other horror greats like Rosemary’s Baby.
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 45m
Rotten Tomatoes: 75% Critics, 78% Audience
In this sequel to the cult-classic, Beetlejuice, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) and the rest of her family are thrust back into the Netherworld and put face-to-face with the eponymous Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) as Lydia tries to rescue her daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega). Much lighter on traditional scares than other films on this list, it’s still a great Halloween watch thanks to its ghoulish characters and Tim Burton’s idiosyncratic, gothic flair. If we’re being honest, Burton has been pretty hit-or-miss for a while now, but Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice showed that the filmmaker behind classics like Edward Scissorhands still has plenty up his sleeves. The film’s rousing finale (set to the lyrically-weird Richard Harris song, “Macarthur Park”) is a real highlight. With the second season of Wednesday in the books too, maybe we’re entering a new era of Burton.
Director: George Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman
Rating: NR
Runtime: 1hr 36m
Rotten Tomatoes: 95% Critics, 87% Audience
George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic, Night of the Living Dead, is spine-tingling even more than sixty years after it first terrified audiences. Following seven disparate strangers who get trapped in an abandoned house during a zombie outbreak. Something about Night of the Living Dead’s black-and-white color makes it even eerier, as characters and the undead disappear into pitch-black darkness in some scenes.
Amidst all the blood and terror, there’s also a critique of capitalism built in, giving the movie the sort of thematic weight that makes it a scary movie with staying power. It spawned a franchise for a reason.
Director: Andrew Fleming
Cast: Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, Rachel True
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 40m
Rotten Tomatoes: 57% Critics, 65% Audience
When Sarah transfers to a high school in LA, she learns that her powers of telekinesis make her an ideal fit for a trio of witches looking for a fourth to join them. Featuring Neve Campbell of Scream fame alongside Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, and Rachel True, you’ve got yourself a fun ensemble flick for teens and adults alike.While this 1996 horror movie comes with a hefty dose of camp, it’s the kind of campiness that endears it to you even more. Throw in some witchy feminism and memorable characters, and you’ve got yourself a great watch for spooky season.
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1hr 35m
Rotten Tomatoes: 41% Critics, 71% Audience
Name a more iconic trio than the Sanderson sisters. This Disney cult classic from High School Musical director Kenny Ortega stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as three hilarious witches who are resurrected by a teenage boy and must be defeated before they take over the town.
For pure 90’s made-for-tv nostalgia alone, Hocus Pocus is a helluva lot of fun. Light on scares and big on spooky humor, the movie has so many quotable lines it’s hard to keep track of them all. Pretty much everything delivered by Thora Birch as kid sister Dani is pure gold.
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton
Rating: R
Runtime: 2h 17m
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Audience Score: 96%
Sinners stands out as one of the strongest horror movies of 2025. Featuring a stellar ensemble and a fresh, incisive take on the vampire genre, Sinners will leave you stunned by every unexpected twist.
From the cultural tributes to the electrifying performances from nearly the entire cast, Sinners marks a daring addition to the horror film canon. You need to see it this Halloween season.
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