October carries with it the excitement of Halloween. In honor of the spooky season, streaming platforms are bringing some of the best haunting movies and horror classics to their viewers, from family-friendly titles such as “Hocus Pocus” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” to contemporary horror classics like “The Conjuring” and “Hereditary.”
Netflix, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Peacock and Prime Video are filled with Halloween movies, while Hulu is hosting its sixth annual “Huluween,” streaming “The Bogeyman,” “The Mill” and many other titles. Disney+ is also celebrating the season with its fourth annual “Hallowstream,” which marks the 25th anniversary of “Halloweentown.”
Here, celebritiestalks has a roundup of some of the best Halloween movies to stream this October.
Three witch sisters resurrected in Salem, Mass., wreak havoc, and it’s up to a group of kids to stop their mischief. The film stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters. “Hocus Pocus 2,” released in 2022, is also available on Disney+.
A toy company’s robotics engineer constructs a lifelike doll that starts to take life on its own. The movie features Allison Williams from “Girls.”
“Prey” (2022)
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Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Premiere Date: July 21, 2022
Streaming on Hulu
“Prey,” an exclusive Hulu Original production, transports viewers 300 years back in time to the heart of the Comanche Nation telling the story of Join Naru, an adept warrior, in her relentless quest to safeguard her tribe from an enigmatic high-tech adversary relentlessly pursuing her people.
A supernatural comedy and Halloween classic where a recently deceased couple seeks the help of a mischievous ghost named Beetlejuice to rid their home of a new living family.
“Appendage” (2023)
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Director: Anna Zlokovic
Premiere Date: Oct. 2, 2023
Streaming on Hulu
A Fashion designer grapples with the tumultuous swirl of her innermost thoughts, and an unsettling transformation takes root, one that continues to expand and grow, threatening to consume her existence.
A dark comedy film featuring the eccentric and macabre Addams family and their spooky, kooky adventures. Another Halloween classic starring Anjelica Huston and Christina Ricci.
“The Mill” (2023)
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Director: Sean King O’Grady
Premiere Date: Oct. 9, 2023
Streaming on Hulu
A mysterious event unfolds as a businessman awakens in an outdoor penitentiary. Pressed into service as a laboring creature, he faces the urgent challenge of breaking free, all while racing against time before the imminent birth of his child.
A psychological thriller where a wealthy New York investment banker hides his psychopathic ego from his friends while indulging in his murderous fantasies. The movie features Christian Bale as the leading character Patrick Bateman.
“Carrie” (1976)
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Director: Brian De Palma
Premiere Date: Nov. 3, 1976
Streaming on Max
A horror classic where a bullied high school girl with telekinetic powers seeks revenge on her tormentors.
A thriller based on a Stephen King novel where a man develops psychic abilities after a car accident and must navigate the moral dilemmas they present.
A teen slasher film where a group of friends is haunted by a secret from the past. The cast features Jennifer Love Hewitt, Julie James, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Helen Shivers, Anne Heche, Melissa Egan, Ryan Phillippe, Barry Cox and Freddie Prinze Jr.
Based on a Stephen King novel, this film follows a family that discovers a burial ground with the power to bring the dead back to life, but with horrifying consequences.
A gothic horror film, starring Johnny Depp, where Ichabod Crane investigates a series of beheadings in the village of Sleepy Hollow.
“Friday the 13th” (1980)
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Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Premiere Date: May 9, 1980
Streaming on Max, Prime Video and Hulu
A classic slasher film that follows a group of young camp counselors at Camp Crystal Lake as they are stalked and brutally murdered by an unknown assailant.
Streaming on Max. “It Chapter 2” is available on Max and Hulu.
An adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, “It” follows a group of kids who are terrorized by the shape-shifting clown Pennywise in the town of Derry, Maine.
A psychological horror film by Jordan Peele and starring Lupita Nyong’o, where a family’s vacation takes a terrifying turn when they are confronted by doppelgängers of themselves.
Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed horror film explores themes of race and social commentary as a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family and uncovers a sinister plot.
A classic supernatural horror film that follows a suburban family plagued by malevolent spirits in their home, leading to a battle to save their daughter.
In this Disney Channel original movie, a young girl discovers her family’s secret that they are witches, and she must save the magical town of Halloweentown from a dark force.
Gabbie, a single mother played by Rosario Dawson, enlists the services of a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to conduct an exorcism in her recently purchased mansion, which she has learned is inhabited by restless spirits.
A stop-motion animated musical film directed by Tim Burton, which tells the story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who discovers Christmas and decides to bring it to his dark world.
“Twitches” and its sequel, “Twitches 2” (2007), follow the journey of two twin witches played by Tia and Tamera Mowry, who discover their magical powers and a dark family secret.
A segment of Disney’s “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad,” it adapts Washington Irving’s classic tale of Ichabod Crane’s encounter with the Headless Horseman in the spooky town of Sleepy Hollow.
A folk horror film that takes a group of friends to a remote Swedish village to partake in a unique midsummer festival, which quickly turns into a disturbing and surreal nightmare. Florence Pugh plays the main character, Dani.
A horror-comedy film that deconstructs the genre, as a group of friends faces unexpected terrors during a getaway to a remote cabin in the woods. Chris Hemsworth and Jesse Williams feature in the movie.
A psychological horror film starring Elle Fanning that delves into the dark side of the Fashion industry as an aspiring model navigates jealousy and obsession.
A supernatural horror film where a journalist investigates a mysterious videotape that curses anyone who watches it, leading to a race against time to solve the mystery.
A supernatural horror film based on real events, where paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called to help a family plagued by a malevolent presence in their home.
“In the Tall Grass” (2019)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Premiere Date: Sept. 7, 2019
Streaming on Netflix
A horror film adapted from a Stephen King and Joe Hill novella, where siblings get lost in a field of tall grass and discover that something malevolent lurks within.
A post-apocalyptic horror film that explores the paranoia and distrust that arise when two families share a remote home during a deadly virus outbreak.
A psychological thriller-horror film where an FBI trainee seeks the help of incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter to catch another murderer known as “Buffalo Bill.”
“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” (2023)
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Director: Rhys Waterfield
Premiere Date: Feb. 15, 2023
Streaming on Peacock
After Christopher Robin departs for college, Pooh and Piglet set out on an bloody journey in search of new sources of sustenance.
A horror-comedy film written by Diablo Cody, where a high school student becomes possessed by a demon and develops a taste for human flesh, leading to a dark and satirical story.
A psychological horror film where a young woman is pursued by a relentless supernatural entity that can only be passed on to others through sexual encounters.
