52 Halloween Movies to Watch in October on Netflix, Prime Video, Max and More 

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, WWD has a roundup of some of the best Halloween movies to stream this October.

• “Hocus Pocus” (1993)

  

  • Director: Kenny Ortega
  • Premiere Date: July 16, 1993
  • Streaming on Hulu and Disney+

  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+.

• “M3gan” (2023)

  

  • Director: Gerard Johnstone
  • Premiere Date: Jan. 6, 2023
  • Streaming on Prime Video.

  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)

  

  • 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.

• “Beetlejuice” (1988)

  

  • Director: Tim Burton
  • Premiere Date: March 30, 1988
  • Streaming on Max, Prime Video and Apple TV+

  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)

  

  • 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.

• “The Addams Family” (1991)

  

  • Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Premiere Date: Nov. 22, 1991
  • Streaming on Paramount+

  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)

  

  • 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.

• “The Amityville Horror”(1979)

  

  • Director: Stuart Rosenberg
  • Premiere Date: July 27, 1979
  • Streaming on Hulu, Max and Prime Video

  Based on a true story, this horror film follows a family as they move into a haunted house with a history of gruesome events.

• “American Psycho” (2000)

  

  • Director: Mary Harron
  • Premiere Date: April 14, 2000
  • Streaming on Peacock

  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)

  

  • 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.

• “Child’s Play” (1988)

  

  • Director: Tom Holland
  • Premiere Date: Nov. 9, 1988
  • Streaming on Max, Hulu and Prime Video

  A horror film featuring a possessed doll named Chucky who terrorizes a young boy and his mother.

• “The Dead Zone” (1983)

  

  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 21, 1983
  • Streaming on Apple TV+, Prime Video and Sling TV

  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.

• “The Fly” (1986)

  

  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Premiere Date: Aug. 15, 1986
  • Streaming on Hulu, Prime Video and Max

  A science fiction horror film about a scientist who undergoes a horrifying transformation after an experiment goes awry.

• “The Host” (2006)

  

  • Director: Bong Joon-ho
  • Premiere Date: July 27, 2006
  • Streaming on Hulu

  A South Korean monster film that follows a family’s struggle to rescue a young girl abducted by a giant creature living in the Han River.

• “The House That Jack Built” (2018)

  

  • Director: Lars von Trier
  • Premiere Date: May 14, 2018
  • Streaming on Hulu, AMC+

  A psychological horror film where an intelligent serial killer recounts his murders over a span of 12 years.

• “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997)

  

  • Director: Jim Gillespie
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 17, 1997
  • Streaming on Peacock

  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.

• “Insidious” (2010)

  

  • Director: James Wan
  • Premiere Date: Sept. 14, 2010
  • Streaming on Max and Prime Video

  A supernatural horror film where a family deals with malevolent spirits and explores the world of astral projection.

• “The Omen” (1976)

  

  • Director: Richard Donner
  • Premiere Date: June 25, 1976
  • Streaming on Hulu and Prime Video

  A classic horror film about a diplomat who realizes his adopted son may be the Antichrist.

• “Pet Sematary” (1989)

  

  • Director: Mary Lambert
  • Premiere Date: April 21, 1989
  • Streaming on Hulu

  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.

• “Scream” (1996)

  

  • Director: Wes Craven
  • Premiere Date: Dec. 18, 1996
  • Streaming on Hulu and Prime Video. The last “Scream” released in 2022 is available on Paramount+.

  The first film of the “Scream” franchise follows a group of high school friends targeted by a masked killer who knows the rules of horror movies.

• “Sleepy Hollow” (1999)

  

  • Director: Tim Burton
  • Premiere Date: Nov. 17, 1999
  • Streaming on Max, Hulu and Prime Video

  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)

  

  • 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.

• “It” (2017)

  

  • Director: Andy Muschietti
  • Premiere Date: Sept. 5, 2017
  • 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.

• “Us” (2019)

  

  • Director: Jordan Peele
  • Premiere Date: March 8, 2019
  • Streaming on Peacock.

  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.

• “Ma” (2019)

  

  • Director: Tate Taylor
  • Premiere Date: May 29, 2019
  • Streaming on Hulu

  A psychological horror-thriller film where a middle-aged woman befriends a group of teenagers, leading to disturbing and dangerous consequences.

• “Get Out”(2017)

  

  • Director: Jordan Peele
  • Premiere Date: Feb. 24, 2017
  • Streaming on Peacock and Hulu.

  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.

• “Poltergeist” (1982)

  

  • Director: Tobe Hooper
  • Premiere Date: June 4, 1982
  • Streaming on Max.

  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.

• “Halloweentown” (1998)

  

  • Director: Duwayne Dunham
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 17, 1998
  • Streaming on Disney+

  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.

• “Haunted Mansion” (2023)

  

  • Director: Justin Simien
  • Premiere Date: July 28, 2023
  • Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu

  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.

• “The Nightmare Before Christmas”(1993)

  

  • Director: Henry Selick
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 13, 1993
  • Streaming on Disney+

  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” (2005)

  

  • Director: Stuart Gillard
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 14, 2005
  • Streaming on Disney+

  “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.

• “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1949)

  

  • Director: Clyde Geronimi and Jack Kinney
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 5, 1949
  • Streaming on Disney+

  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.

• “Hereditary” (2018)

  

  • Director: Ari Aster
  • Premiere Date: June 8, 2018
  • Streaming on Max, Hulu and Prime Video

  A psychological horror film that follows a family’s dark and disturbing unraveling after the death of their secretive grandmother.

• “Midsommar” (2019)

  

  • Director: Ari Aster
  • Premiere Date: July 3, 2019
  • Streaming on Paramount+ and Showtime

  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.

• “The Cabin in the Woods” (2012)

  

  • Director: Drew Goddard
  • Premiere Date: April 12, 2012
  • Streaming on Max and Hulu

  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.

• “The Witch” (2015)

  

  • Director: Robert Eggers
  • Premiere Date: Jan. 27, 2015
  • Streaming on Hulu

  A period horror film set in 1630s New England, following a Puritan family as they grapple with fear, superstition, and dark forces in the wilderness.

• “Suspiria”(2018)

  

  • Director: Luca Guadagnino
  • Premiere Date: Sept. 1, 2018
  • Streaming on Prime Video

  A psychological horror film that serves as a remake of the 1977 classic, focusing on the unsettling events at a prestigious dance academy.

• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)

  

  • Director: Tobe Hooper
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 1, 1974
  • Streaming on Netflix

  A classic horror film that follows a group of friends who encounter a family of cannibals, including the iconic Leatherface.

• “Train to Busan” (2016)

  

  • Director: Yeon Sang-ho
  • Premiere Date: May 13, 2016
  • Streaming on Peacock

  A South Korean zombie horror film that follows passengers on a train as they battle to survive during a zombie outbreak.

• “The Neon Demon” (2016)

  

  • Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Premiere Date: May 20, 2016
  • Streaming on Prime Video

  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.

• “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” (2016)

  

  • Director: André Ovredal
  • Premiere Date: Sept. 9, 2016
  • Streaming on Hulu and AMC+

  A supernatural horror film where a father and son coroner team faces mysterious and terrifying events during the autopsy of an unidentified woman.

• “The Lodge” (2019)

  

  • Directors: Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz
  • Premiere Date: Jan. 25, 2019
  • Streaming on Max

  A psychological horror film where a family’s trip to a remote lodge takes a dark and eerie turn as the children experience disturbing visions.

• “A Quiet Place” (2018)

  

  • Director: John Krasinski
  • Premiere Date: March 9, 2018
  • Streaming on Paramount+

  A post-apocalyptic horror film, starring Emily Blunt, where a family must live in silence to avoid deadly creatures that hunt by sound.

• “The Ring” (2002)

  

  • Director: Gore Verbinski
  • Premiere Date: Oct. 18, 2002
  • Streaming on Paramount+

  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.

• “The Conjuring” (2013)

  

  • Director: James Wan
  • Premiere Date: July 15, 2013
  • Streaming on Max

  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.

• “It Comes at Night” (2017)

  

  • Director: Trey Edward Shults
  • Premiere Date: May 5, 2017
  • Streaming on Netflix

  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.

• “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)

  

  • Director: Jonathan Demme
  • Premiere Date: Feb. 1, 1991
  • Streaming on Max and Hulu

  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)

  

  • 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.

• “Jennifer’s Body” (2009)

  

  • Director: Karyn Kusama
  • Premiere Date: Sept. 10, 2009
  • Streaming on Max

  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.

• “Orphan” (2009)

  

  • Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
  • Premiere Date: July 24, 2009
  • Streaming on Max

  A psychological horror-thriller where a couple adopts a young girl, only to discover that she may not be the innocent child she appears to be.

• “It Follows” (2014)

  

  • Director: David Robert Mitchell
  • Premiere Date: May 17, 2014
  • Streaming on Hulu Premium

  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.