13 Horror movies that take place during Halloween night
Halloween is the most important night of October and a recurring theme in horror movies. Meaning that there’s a group of horror movies that actually take place during this special holiday. Here’s a list of 13 horror movies, besides the Halloween franchise but being included, that takes place during Halloween night.
Halloween (1978)
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night in 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a psychiatric hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.
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Halloween: H20 (1998)
Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.
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Halloween (2018)
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
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Monster House
Three teens discover that their neighbor’s house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
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Trick r’ Treat
Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.
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Tales of Halloween
Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents.
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All Hallow’s Eve
A babysitter finds a VHS tape which features various sinister murders performed by a psychotic clown.
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All Hallow’s Eve 2
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that’s using the tape to find his next victim.
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Terrifier
On Halloween night, Tara Heyes finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown.
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Terrifier 2
After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the timid town of Miles County where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.
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Hocus Pocus
A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
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Hocus Pocus 2
Two young women accidentally bring back the Sanderson Sisters to modern day Salem and must figure out how to stop the child-hungry witches from wreaking havoc on the world.
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Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, hellish compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
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