Halloween is right around the corner and that means candy, costumes, and scary (and some not so scary) Halloween movies. It’s my favorite holiday except the ones that revolve around food in our family (Thanksgiving and Christmas). This is the time of year that you can pretend to be anything you want to be, believe in the unbelievable, and stuff your face with candy (and popcorn balls) while you watch scary movies until you can’t sleep unless all the lights in the house are on.
Must See Halloween Movies Every October
There are tons of lists of essential Halloween movies to watch. But this is the list of MY favorite and always essential Halloween movies to watch in the month of October (and some so good that I watch them year round). My favorites include movies that are scary, family friendly, and gory or adult themed. They can give you chills; make you scream, hide your eyes, or jump. These movies are funny, happy, silly, scary, bloody, evil, dramatic, and full of suspense. Whatever emotion or action they evoke, they truly are some of the best movies out there to watch for Halloween.
Scary Halloween Movies
These are the movies that make you jump, squeal, bury your face in a pillow, or have to have a sleeping buddy for weeks afterwards.
1. The Ring
3. The Exorcist
4. 13 Ghosts
5. 1408
7. Wrong Turn
8. Signs
10. Joy Ride
13. Jeepers Creepers
Family Friendly Movies
These movies are ones that the kids can watch and won’t end up in bed with you (at least hopefully).
16. It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
19. Hocus Pocus
20. The Nightmare Before Christmas
21. Casper
22. Corpse Bride
23. Beetlejuice
24. Monster House
25. Coraline
26. Frankenweenie
29. ParaNorman
30. Spookley the Square Pumpkin
31. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Monster Musical
32. Ghostbusters
33. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Halloween Collection
34. Garfield’s Halloween Adventure
35. Scared Shrekless
36. Max & Ruby: Max’s Halloween
Gory/Adult Movies
These movies are the quintessential “Halloween” movies…the bloody, gory, scary, adult movies that make us crave more and really feel like it’s the Halloween season.
39. Friday the 13th
40. Dark Shadows
41. Carrie
43. Psycho
44. The Shining
45. Halloween
46. Practical Magic
47. Sleepy Hollow
48. It (Newer Version)
49. Saw
52. The Crazies
53. 28 Days Later
54. 30 Days of Night
55. The Fly
56. Dracula
57. Gremlins
58. The Village
59. Warm Bodies
61. Constantine
62. Christine
63. Firestarter
65. Zombieland
66. Thinner
69. Pet Sematary
70. Scream
71. The Mist
73. Shutter Island
74. Scary Movie
75. The Purge
76. The Faculty
77. Sweeney Todd
78. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
79. Split
80. Don’t Breathe
Enjoy some, or all, of my favorite Halloween movies this year. And hopefully they will become some of your favorites as well!
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