It’s the first week of October. You’ve probably already decked out the house, pulled out your chunky knit sweaters, and drank enough pumpkin spice latte to keep you buzzed for the rest of the month. Now that you’ve gotten that out of your system, it’s time to celebrate all things spooky, from haunted houses to ghoulish ghosts to wicked witches – And we’ve got movies with it all. Sit back and enjoy a spooky flick… or two… or even 75… That’s right, we’ve put together a list of over 75 best Halloween movies and TV shows, available through streaming or purchase from Amazon. This list includes everything from family favorites, like The Munsters, to bone-chilling horror movies, like Scream.
Of course, if you don’t want to see anything too scary or gruesome, VidAngel has filters for skipping gore, violence, and frightening scenes. Or, if scary isn’t your vibe, you may be more interested in shows for fall.
Without further ado, keep reading for binge-worthy Halloween movies and TV shows to get you in the spooky spirit.
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If you’re looking for a family-friendly Halloween movie:
Hotel Transylvania movies
This monster comedy adventure follows the stories of vampires, monster hunters, and, of course, Hotel Transylvania. Join Dracula, Mavis, and Simon Van Helsing in these 3 fun family-friendly movies.
- Rating: PG
- Available:
- Hotel Transylvania – Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
- Hotel Transylvania 2 – Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
- Hotel Translyvania 3: Summer Vacation – Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
- Hotel Transylvania: Transformania – Amazon Prime or Freevee subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting
Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she’s watching on Halloween.
- Rating: TV-PG
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Munsters
Herman and Lily’s crazy courtship takes The Munsters on a hauntingly hilarious trip from Transylvania to Hollywood.
- Rating: PG
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Addams Family
Come join The Addams Family for the most hilarious scare-fest of this season. When long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after twenty-five years, Gomez and Morticia plan a celebration to wake the dead.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
The House with a Clock in its Walls
Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise.
- Rating: PG
- Available: Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
Goosebumps movies
A boy must face an onslaught of witches, monsters, and ghouls after accidentally unleashing the creatures from magical bestselling Goosebumps books.
- Rating: PG
- Available:
- Goosebumps – Amazon Prime subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
- Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween – Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliot who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliot, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
- Rating: PG
- Available: Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
Gnome Alone
When Chloe discovers that her new home’s garden gnomes are not what they seem, she must decide between the pursuit of a desired high school life and taking up the fight against the Troggs.
- Rating: PG
- Available: Netflix subscription
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Three wealthy children’s parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to seize their fortune.
- Rating: PG
- Available: Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, Rent/purchase on Amazon Video
The Curse of Bridge Hollow
A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town’s decorations come to life.
- Rating: TV-14
- Available: Netflix subscription
Spiderwick Chronicles
Upon moving into the Spiderwick Estate, twin brothers and their sister find themselves pulled into an alternate world. Magical creatures roam the grounds, and they all want a special book that’s penned by Arthur Spiderwick.
- Rating: PG
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Casper
Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat.
- Rating: PG
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription, Peacock subscription
If you’re looking for a good scare:
Fear Street Trilogy
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
- Rating: R
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Blair Witch Project
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Hereditary
After the family matriarch passes away, a grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences. He then begins to unravel dark secrets.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Saw movies
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Insidious movies
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available:
- Insidious (2011) – Rent or purchase Amazon Video
- Insidious Chaper 2 (2013) – Rent or purchase Amazon Video
- Insidious Chapter 3 (2015) – Rent or purchase Amazon Video
- Insidious: The Last Key (2018) – Rent or purchase Amazon Video
- Insidious: The Red Door (2023) – Netflix subscription
The Ring
Four teenagers all meet mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching a nightmarish tape. An investigative reporter tracks down the video and watches it. She now has just seven days to untangle the mystery.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Amazon Channels AMC+, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling, a gutsy FBI trainee, risks her life in an attempt to save a missing woman from certain death. The desperate search makes Clarice confront and befriend convicted psychopathic killer Dr. Hannibal Lechter, who can lead her to the murderer.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription, or rent/buy from Amazon Video
The Strangers
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Four teens are in great danger one year after their car hits a stranger whose body they dump in the sea.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
Paranormal Activity
A demonic presence begins terrorizing a series of characters, tearing apart their perfect worlds and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
If you don’t want to take Halloween movies too seriously:
Zombieland movies
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn’t have fears. A pair of sisters, Wichita and Little Rock, strive to get to an amusement park. The four of them band together in a trek across a zombie-filled America.
- Rating: R
- Available:
- Zombieland – Netflix subscription, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
- Zombieland: Double Tap – Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Hubie Halloween
Hubie Dubois who, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Netflix subscription
Mean Girls movies
Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows about “survival of the fittest.” But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available:
- Mean Girls (2004) – Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
- Mean Girls (2024) – Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, Amazon Prime subscription, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
Men in Black movies
Men in Black follows the exploits of agents Kay Jones and Jay Smith, members of a top-secret organization established to monitor alien activity on Earth.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Twilight movies
Bella Swan moves to live with her dad in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. She falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Warm Bodies
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Bewitched
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show “Bewitched”.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Happy Death Day movies
A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer’s identity.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
So I Married An Axe Murderer
Mike Myers takes the lead in this rousing comedy thriller as a romantically-jaded performance artist who finally thinks he’s met his match in beautiful butcher, Nancy Travis.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Fright Night
A teenager suspects his new neighbor is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician in this remake of the 1985 comedy-horror classic.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
Little Evil
In this horror-comedy, a recently married man who wants to bond with his stepson begins to fear that the boy is a demon.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
Lisa Frankenstein
In 1989, a misunderstood teenager has a high school crush — who just happens to be a handsome corpse! After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness…and a few missing body parts along the way.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
Shaun of the Dead
Get ready for a gut-busting, bone-mashing good time in this hilarious horror comedy about two slackers out to save their friends and families from flesh-eating zombies.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase Amazon Video
If you like a good classic Halloween movie:
Halloween movies
A psychotic murderer has been institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister. He escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
- Rating: R
- Available:
- Halloween (1978) – Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
- Halloween (2018) – Netflix subscription, rent/purchase from Amazon Video
- Halloween Kills (2021) – Rent/purchase from Amazon Video
- Halloween Ends (2022) – Amazon Channels Starz subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Scream movies
Follows the survivors of a series of murders committed by various killers wearing the Ghostface mask, who target their victims through phone calls before attacking. Sidney Prescott and her friends try to unmask the killer.
- Rating: R
- Available:
- Scream (1996) – Rent/purchase Amazon Video
- Scream 2 (1997) – Rent/purchase Amazon Video
- Scream 3 (2000) – Rent/purchase Amazon Video
- Scream (2022) – Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, Netflix subscription, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
- Scream VI (2023) – Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscriptions, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Murray, the reincarnation of Dracula’s long-dead wife Elisabeta, obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Channels Paramount+, or rent/purchase Amazon Video
The Addams Family movies
Come join The Addams Family for the most hilarious scarefest of this season. When long-lost Uncle Fester Christopher Lloyd reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez Raul Julia and Morticia Anjelica Huston plan a celebration to wake the dead.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Sleepy Hollow
Master storyteller Tim Burton weaves an eerie, enchanting version of this classic tale of horror. Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane, an eccentric New York investigator, who is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths and becomes determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Friday the 13th movies
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child’s drowning.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Ghostbusters movies
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting “ghostbusters” who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins, and supernatural pests of all stripes.
- Rating: PG & PG-13
- Available:
- Ghostbusters – Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
- Ghostbusters II – Amazon Channels Starz subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife – Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Netflix subscription
The Mummy movies
The discovery of a long-lost treasure in the Egyptian desert unearths a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror. They battle resurrected mummies and ancient supernatural forces that threaten to conquer the world.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock’s landmark thriller of the macabre stars Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
- Rating: R
- Available: Netflix subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Rosemary’s Baby
A young couple moves into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, Amazon Channels Paramount+, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
The Witch
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Donnie Darko
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription, Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
If you’re tired of the same old Halloween movies:
Nightbooks
Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her magical New York City apartment.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Netflix subscription
Love and Monsters
Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over the radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription, Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It’s in a mansion where young Sarah turns her tortured life into a series of scary stories.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Netflix subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
A Quiet Place movies
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available:
- A Quiet Place – Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
- A Quiet Place Part II – Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, Netflix subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
- A Quiet Place: Day One – Amazon Channels Paramount+, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Bird Box
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
- Rating: R
- Available: Netflix subscription
Us
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide take their kids to their beach house, expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. Haunted by a traumatic past, Adelaide grows paranoid that something bad will happen. Her fears become reality when masked strangers enter the home, forcing the family to fight for survival.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
Nope
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Channels Starz subscription, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
Get Out
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. He initially reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship. As the weekend progresses, a series of disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
- Rating: R
- Available: Rent or purchase from Amazon Video
Fractured (2019)
Driving cross-country, Ray and his family stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray’s family ever being checked in.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Perfection (2018)
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
Crimson Peak
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
- Rating: R
- Available: Amazon Prime subscription
Cloverfield (2008)
Five New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster descends upon the city. Told from their video camera, the film documents their attempt to survive the most horrifying event of their lives.
- Rating: PG-13
- Available: Amazon Channels Paramount+, or rent/purchase from Amazon Video
If a TV show is more up your spooky alley:
The Haunting of Hill House
Four people spending a summer in a rented mansion soon begin to experience a wide range of supernatural phenomena. A modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s novel.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Haunting of Bly Manor
After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed. At Bly Manor, dead doesn’t mean gone.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
Stranger Things
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
- Rating: TV-14
- Available: Netflix subscription
Wednesday
Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago — all while navigating her new relationships.
- Rating: TV-14
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Twilight Zone (2019)
An updated version of the classic TV series featuring various tales of science fiction, horror and mystery. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Freevee subscription, or purchase from Amazon Video
The Fall of the House of Usher
Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
Discovery of Witches
Diana Bishop, a historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 to solve its mysteries. She’s offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he’s a vampire. Witches should never trust vampires.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, Netflix subscription, or purchase from Amazon Video
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches
An intuitive young neurosurgeon discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Amazon Channels AMC+ subscription, Netflix subscription, or purchase from Amazon Video
Black Mirror
A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the unease of our modern world. Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives. In every home; on every desk; in every palm – a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone – a black mirror of our 21st-century existence.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Terror
The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic’s treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Walking Dead
When the world is ravaged by a zombie apocalypse, police officer Rick Grimes and a small group of others must face a terrifying new reality. Can they survive ‘the dead’ and each other?
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription, or purchase from Amazon Video
Daybreak
Living his best life in post-apocalyptic LA, a slacker strives to find the girl of his dreams while outwitting mindless ghouls and cliquish gangs.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
The Magicians
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription, or purchase from Amazon Video
Dracula
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
- Rating: TV-14
- Available: Netflix subscription
Twin Peaks
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Amazon Channels Paramount+ subscription, or purchase from Amazon Video
The Society
When everyone mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teens of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
- Rating: TV-MA
- Available: Netflix subscription
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Post updated 10/2024
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright do a great job! Hot Fuzz should be on the list along with Shaun of the Dead!