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Oct 2, 2023 · Looking for the best Halloween movies ever? Check out our list, featuring classics like "Hocus Pocus," "Sleepy Hollow" and "E.T."
- 'Halloween' This 1978 slasher flick is named for the holiday it’s about. It also stars the scream queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis. The movie follows Curtis and her friends, who are all without their parents on Halloween night.
- 'Hocus Pocus' In 1993, the world was graced with this Disney masterpiece. This near-perfect Halloween movie stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as Salem witches who were hanged and then brought back to life and into modern times, thanks to a spell they cast and one mischievous teenager.
- 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' “What’s this? What’s this?” It’s another Tim Burton movie! While this one has a Christmas-filled plot and therefore can double as a Christmas movie in a pinch, this 1993 stop-motion animation film is arguably about the Halloween-ification of the December holiday — so it’s a Halloween movie.
- 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' Not all Halloween movies have to be scary. This 1996 movie will put you in the Halloween spirit, while also keeping you at ease.
- The Addams Family
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
- Army of Darkness
- Beetlejuice
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- The Blair Witch Project
- Candyman
- Casper
- The Conjuring
Bringing big dark gothic energy to a film that plays so well for young children is a feat for which Barry Sonnenfeld definitely deserved Oscar consideration. The first film about a spooky family living its best life in modern-day America, featuring unforgettable performances by the perfectly-cast Raul Julia and Angelica Huston as well as a young Ch...
Technically only half of this svelte, 69-minute Disney package film will interest those celebrating Halloween. But the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” section of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad contains some of the spookiest, most iconic imagery in Disney Animation and it’s still a total Halloween treat. Adapted from the classic Washington Irving ...
The third installment in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy sheds almost all of the genuine horror of the previous two films and steers completely into Three Stoogian slapstick absurdity. Endlessly quotable and inspiringly over-the-top, Bruce Campbell’s adventure battling hordes of the undead in medieval Europe is so gleefully unserious that it’s hard t...
Before he had Johnny Depp, director Tim Burton’s go-to guy was — checks notes — stand-up-comedian-turned- serious-actor Michael Keaton. And oh, what a great odd couple it was. The team’s great collab is 1988’s Beetlejuice which sees Keaton transform into the thoroughly odious yet very charming (and possibly bangable?) “bio-exorcist” Betelgeuse. Ol’...
There are few horror films as lavishly produced and deeply romantic as Francis Ford Coppola’s bold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The film, which kicked off a mini resurgence of big budget prestige horror movies like Wolf, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mary Reilly, luxuriates in its opulence – from the incredible make-up effects, to the optical effects w...
I'm not going to sit here and argue that the 1992 film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui is on the same level as what Joss Whedon would eventually transform his screenplay into for television. Those seven seasons are more than able to speak for themselves. However, to totally discount the film is to totally overlook Kristy Swanson's spirited performance...
The modern wave of found-footage horror begins, arguably, with The Blair Witch Project Looking at it now, it’s hard to believe a movie starring three unknowns at the time (Josh Leonard would eventually breakout into bigger projects) would become one of the biggest movies of 1999, grossing nearly $140.5 million domestic on a $60,000 budget. But we d...
One of the greatest modern gothic ghost stories, Candyman is often unfortunately mislabeled as a slasher movie. I love slasher movies, but that's not exactly giving the film credit for the literary nuance and well-implemented tradition it so richly deserves. Inspired by a story by Clive Barkerand repurposed with a story rooted in America's great na...
Casper was telling tweens it was okay to think a ghost was cute boyfriend material long before Netflix’s Julie and the Phantoms. A blend of horror, drama, and comedy, Casper is the perfect movie to entertain kids with frothy Halloween thrills and thoroughly depress their Millennial parents with Casper’s grim backstory. What is that backstory? Well,...
Sometimes to go forward, you gotta go back. From its imposing “based on a true story” opening title crawl to its literal period setting, The Conjuring is here to tell you, in ways both subtly classy and muscly blunt, that our golden age of 1970s filmmaking has plenty of influential meat on the bones. James Wan, whose Saw is also a perennial favorit...
- ‘Tis the spooky season … for scares! Grab a comfy blanket, a big bowl of candy and maybe a flashlight—just in case! Halloween is creeping up on us, which means it’s time to scare yourself silly with the best Halloween movies.
- Halloween. Released: 1978. Directed by: John Carpenter. Go back to the original slasher classic starring Jamie Lee Curtis to experience one of the best Halloween movies of all time.
- Scream. Released: 1996. Directed by: Wes Craven. What’s your favorite scary movie? It’s Halloween night, and your vocal cords need exercise. Time for Scream. Why is screaming fun?
- Nosferatu. Released: 1922. Travel back to the creepy origins of vampire movies with the silent cinema masterpiece Nosfera tu. You’ll be mesmerized by the nightmare visuals as the vampire count terrorizes a small town, and you’ll recognize the shadowy visual style that still influences horror movies today.
What are the best Halloween movies of all time? Try these slashers and horror comedies to get you scared like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Get Out
May 8, 2024 · The best Halloween movies include comedies, classic thrillers, family-friendly scary fare, Netflix Halloween content—and of course, lots of horror.
These are my picks of a hundred or so of the most Quintessential Halloween films, specials, and tv series to view around the month of October.
