October is here, and you know what that means: it’s time to get cozy and enjoy Halloween movies! Whether you like funny Halloween movies that will make you laugh or horrors that will give you goosebumps, we’ve got you covered. We’ve prepared a great Halloween movies list. So check it out and enjoy! Of course, we recommend you create your own checklist online and put it somewhere around you to free up your mind.
Classic Halloween horrors to watch
Halloween (1978)
Michael Myers gets out of a mental hospital 15 years after killing his sister on Halloween night in 1963. He then returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.
Child’s Play (1988)
A single mom gives her son a much-wanted doll for his birthday, only to find out that it has the soul of a serial killer inside it.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
The famous scientist’s grandson is trying to prove that his grandfather wasn’t insane as people think. He is invited to Transylvania, where he learns how to bring a dead body back to life.
The Shining (1980)
A family spends the winter in a remote hotel, where the father is pushed to violence by an evil presence, and his psychic son sees terrible things from the past and the future.
Friday the 13th (1980)
A mysterious killer follows a group of camp counselors as they try to reopen a summer camp with a dark history called Crystal Lake.
The Exorcist (1973)
A woman goes to two priests for help when her daughter, a teenager, becomes possessed by an unseen enemy.
The Amityville Horror (1979)
A newly married couple and their three kids move into a big house where many people were killed. They start to have strange, unexplainable things happen to them that significantly affect everyone who lives in or visits the house.
Dracula (1931)
Count Dracula, a vampire from Transylvania, gets a naive real estate agent to do what he wants. He then moves to a London estate, where he sleeps in his coffin during the day and looks for new victims at night.
Psycho (1960)
A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from a client of her boss, then runs away and checks into a motel run by a young man whose mother exerts dominance over him.
Children of the Corn (1984)
A violent religious cult of children has trapped a young couple in a small town where they think everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.
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New 2022 scary movies
Smile
Dr. Rose Cotter begins experiencing strange, unexplainable occurrences after witnessing a bizarre, horrific episode involving a patient. Rose must face her troubled past to survive and escape her horrible new reality.
Scream
Twenty-five years after a string of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, California, a new killer puts on the Ghostface mask and decides to kill a group of teenagers to bring back secrets from the town’s deadly past.
The Menu
A young couple goes on a romantic getaway to an exotic island where they plan to dine at a fancy restaurant. But unfortunately, they don’t know that the chef has prepared for them some shocking surprises.
The Coven
What should have been a relaxing weekend for a loving couple is interrupted by a nightmare cult and its lunatic leader, who has come to carry out an end-of-the-world prophecy.
X
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers went to rural Texas to make an adult movie. When their elderly, reclusive hosts caught them, the actors had to fight for their lives.
Barbarian
A woman renting a house through Airbnb finds out it is not what it seems.
Pearl
Pearl is confined to her family’s remote farm, where she must take care of her dying father while her devoted mother keeps a stern and domineering eye on her. Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all clash horrifyingly as she strives for a more glamorous existence.
Orphan: First Kill
Esther sneaks into America after escaping from an Estonian mental hospital by pretending to be the missing daughter of a wealthy family. However, a surprising twist places her against a mother who would stop at nothing to keep her family safe.
Halloween Ends
Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and working on her memoir four years after her last run-in with the masked killer Michael Myers. Since then, Myers hasn’t been seen, and Laurie finally decides to let go of her anger and fear and start living again. But when a young man who was babysitting a boy is accused of killing him, a chain of violence and terror forces Laurie to face the evil she can’t stop.
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Halloween movies on Netflix
The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)
A teenage girl accidentally lets out an old, mischievous spirit on Halloween, which makes decorations come to life and cause trouble. To save her town, she must collaborate with her father, the last person she’d want to deal with.
There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021)
A masked killer is going after the Osborne High School seniors, hoping to find out their darkest secrets. Only a group of misfit outsiders can stop these killings.
Choose or Die (2022)
When a young coder starts up a lost survival horror game from the 1980s, she sets off a hidden curse that rips apart reality and forces her to make difficult choices with deadly results.
Halloween movies that aren’t scary
The Addams Family (1991)
Knowing that the strange Addams family is looking for a long-lost family member, con artists come up with a plan to trick the family by having one of them pretend to be the long-lost Uncle Fester. Morticia and Gomez Addams, however, are hard to beat.
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
An incompletely constructed artificial guy with scissors for hands keeps a solitary existence. Then, one day, he meets a suburban woman who introduces him to her world.
Happy Death Day (2017)
A college student has to live through the day she was killed over and over again in a loop that won’t end until she finds out who killed her.
The Witches (2020)
When an orphan meets a witch, his grandmother puts him up in a hotel to keep him safe. But in the same hotel, a cohort of witches is planning to get rid of all the children of the world.
Final thoughts
When it comes to getting into the Halloween spirit, nothing works better than an old good horror movie. When you turn down the lights and watch a scary movie, your heart beats faster, your mind scans the shadows for danger, and your body jumps off the couch at every loud sound.
So if you’re searching for the best Halloween movies to watch this year, here are plenty of picks for all movie lovers. You can also create your own list of movies using Cheqmark, one of the best free checklist tools. Visit our gallery with beautifully designed templates that you can customize and update. Copy, complete, and download. Give Cheqmark a try today, and you won’t regret it. Happy Halloween!
