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25 Best Halloween Movies to Watch This Spooky Season 🎃
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items Whether you want something genuinely terrifying, deliciously creepy or just packed with cozy Halloween vibes, these are 25 of my favorite movies to watch during spooky season. 🎃 From horror classics and supernatural thrillers to witches, vampires, g...
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You can't have a Halloween movie marathon without Michael Myers. John Carpenter's original is still wonderfully suspenseful, surprisingly restrained and one of the movies that defined the modern slasher.
Halloween (1978)
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Three witches return to Salem on Halloween night, and glorious chaos ensues. It's funny, nostalgic and ridiculously rewatchable, with exactly the cozy-spooky atmosphere I want in October.
Hocus Pocus (1993)
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An isolated hotel, a snowbound family and one seriously unsettling descent into madness. Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece gets under my skin no matter how many times I've seen it.
The Shining (1980)
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Ghosts, the afterlife, a delightfully unhinged Michael Keaton and peak Tim Burton weirdness. This is a perfect choice when I want something spooky, funny and endlessly quotable rather than actually scary.
Beetlejuice (1988)
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The original 'Scream' is clever, funny and genuinely suspenseful, and it completely revitalized the slasher genre. This 4K collection gives you the first three movies in the franchise, making it an easy pick for a full-on Ghostface marathon during sp...
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play witchy sisters dealing with love, family, curses and a very inconvenient dead boyfriend. This is pure cozy fall viewing with one of my favorite movie houses ever.
Practical Magic (1998)
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A mother turns to two priests when her young daughter appears to be possessed by a demonic force. More than 50 years later, this is still one of the movies I recommend when someone wants to be actually scared.
The Exorcist (1973)
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The Addamses are creepy, kooky and pretty much the ideal family to spend Halloween with. Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia are perfection, and Christina Ricci's Wednesday alone makes this worth an annual rewatch.
The Addams Family (1991)
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Vampires, the California coast, peak '80s style and an absolutely killer soundtrack. This is one of my favorite spooky-season movies when I want horror with a big dose of nostalgia.
The Lost Boys (1987)
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Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren try to help a family terrorized by something sinister in their farmhouse. It's an old-fashioned haunted-house movie executed incredibly well, with some truly effective scares.
The Conjuring (2013)
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Four New Yorkers turn paranormal extermination into a business and wind up facing a supernatural threat to the entire city. Funny, endlessly quotable and packed with ghosts, it's an easy Halloween rewatch.
Ghostbusters (1984)
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Three student filmmakers disappear while investigating a Maryland legend, leaving only their footage behind. It's stripped-down, unsettling and proof that sometimes what you don't see is much scarier.
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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Four teenage girls discover that dabbling in witchcraft can have some serious consequences. It's dark, stylish and gloriously '90s, and Fairuza Balk's performance makes it a spooky-season staple.
The Craft (1996)
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A child psychologist tries to help a frightened boy who says he can see dead people. Even if you know the famous twist, the performances and haunting atmosphere make this well worth revisiting.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
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Jack Skellington discovers Christmas and decides Halloween Town should take over the holiday. Is it a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? I vote both, which means you can start watching it in October and keep going through December.
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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A suburban family's seemingly ordinary home becomes the center of increasingly terrifying paranormal activity. This one hits the sweet spot between blockbuster entertainment and legitimately creepy horror.
Poltergeist (1982)
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A friendly ghost befriends the teenage daughter of a paranormal therapist after they move into a haunted mansion. It's sweet, nostalgic and a great choice when you want Halloween atmosphere without anything too scary.
Casper (1995)
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A woman on the run makes the unfortunate decision to spend the night at the Bates Motel. Alfred Hitchcock's landmark thriller still works beautifully, even when you already know what's waiting behind that shower curtain.
Psycho (1960)
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An FBI trainee seeks help from imprisoned killer Hannibal Lecter while hunting another serial killer. It's more psychological thriller than traditional Halloween horror, but few movies create such a persistent feeling of dread.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Mel Brooks turns the Frankenstein story into one of the funniest horror spoofs ever made. It's perfect when you've watched enough scary movies and need a Halloween palate cleanser.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
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Nicole Kidman stars as a mother living with her two children in a dark, isolated mansion where increasingly strange things begin happening. Go into this atmospheric ghost story knowing as little as possible.
The Others (2001)
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A bored girl discovers a secret world that initially seems better than her own, until she realizes there's something deeply wrong with it. Don't let the animation fool you. This movie is wonderfully creepy.
Coraline (2009)
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Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane investigates a series of grisly murders supposedly committed by the Headless Horseman. Fog, pumpkins, bare trees, witches and Gothic sets make this basically an October mood board come to life.
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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A stranded young couple winds up at the castle of the unforgettable Dr. Frank-N-Furter. It's campy, musical, bizarre and an enduring Halloween tradition that's even more fun with an audience.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
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Linus waits faithfully for the Great Pumpkin while Charlie Brown has a characteristically disastrous Halloween. It's short, sweet, nostalgic and one of those specials that makes it officially feel like Halloween.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)