31 Horror movies list to watch before Halloween
From classics to modern movies this list is your perfect guide this Halloween season.
October wouldn’t be completed if we didn’t watch horror movies with friends, with your partner, or alone. Thanks to streaming services, the options to watch are endless to the point were you will find yourself not knowing what to choose. This is why I created a list of 31 horror movies to watch before Halloween. Happy Halloween season horror freaks!
REC (2007)
Available on Tubi & Amazon Prime Video
Late-night TV host Angela and her cinematographer are following the fire service on a call to an apartment building, but the Spanish police seal off the building after an old woman is infected by a virus which gives her inhuman strength.
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House of Wax (2005)
Available on Amazon Prime Video & Apple TV
A gang of college friends, including Wade and his girlfriend Carly, are en route to a school football game when they wind up with a flat tire in a ghost town. They are forced to seek help in the only place that’s open: the local wax museum. Once inside the spooky and seemingly abandoned building, they find the works on display are not quite what they seem and the group soon discovers it’s being hunted by the insane twin brothers who run the museum.
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Ringu (1998)
Available on Shudder, AMC+, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video
When her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko Asakawa sets out to investigate. Along with her ex-husband, Ryuji, Reiko finds the tape, watches it and promptly receives a phone call informing her that she’ll die in a week. Determined to get to the bottom of the curse, Reiko and Ryuji discover the video’s origin and attempt to solve an old murder that could break the spell.
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Dead Silence (2006)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
After his wife meets a grisly end, Jamie Ashen returns to their creepy hometown of Ravens Fair to unravel the mystery of her murder. Once there, he discovers the legend of Mary Shaw, a murdered ventriloquist whose eerie presence still looms over the town. As he desperately digs for answers, Jamie encounters the curse that took his wife’s life and threatens his own.
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Saw (2004)
Available on Tubi, Amazon Prime Video
Photographer Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) and oncologist Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) regain consciousness while chained to pipes at either end of a filthy bathroom. As the two men realize they’ve been trapped by a sadistic serial killer nicknamed “Jigsaw” and must complete his perverse puzzle to live, flashbacks relate the fates of his previous victims. Meanwhile, Dr. Gordon’s wife (Monica Potter) and young daughter (Makenzie Vega) are forced to watch his torture via closed-circuit video.
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Trick r’ Treat (2007)
Available on Amazon Prime Video
Interwoven stories demonstrate that some traditions are best not forgotten as the residents of a small town face real ghosts and goblins on Halloween. Tales of terror reveal the consequences of extinguishing a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight and a grumpy hermit’s encounter with a sinister trick-or-treater.
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Orphan (2009)
Available on Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
Devastated by the loss of their unborn baby, Kate and John decide to adopt a child. At the orphanage, both feel drawn to a little girl named Esther, and soon the couple take their new daughter home. But when a dangerous series of events unfolds, Kate begins to suspect that there is something evil lurking behind the child’s angelic exterior.
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Orphan: First Kill (2022)
Available on Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
After escaping from a psychiatric facility in Estonia, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Yet, an unexpected twist arises that pits her against a mother who will protect her family at any cost.
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The Orphanage (2007)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
Laura has happy memories of her childhood in an orphanage. She convinces her husband to buy the place and help her convert it into a home for sick children. One day, her own adopted son, Simón, disappears. Simon is critically ill, and when he is still missing several months later, he is presumed dead. Grief-stricken Laura believes she hears spirits, who may or may not be trying to help her find the boy.
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Fresh (2022)
Available on Hulu
The horrors of modern dating are seen through the eyes of a young woman who is battling to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.
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Scream (1996)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Available on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video
Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A group of camp counselors trying to reopen a summer camp called Crystal Lake, which has a grim past, are stalked by a mysterious killer.
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The Boy Behind the Door (2021)
Available on Shudder
After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But then he hears Kevin’s screams for help and realizes he can’t leave his friend behind.
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The Night House (2021)
Available on HBO Max
After his wife meets a grisly end, Jamie Ashen returns to their creepy hometown of Ravens Fair to unravel the mystery of her murder. Once there, he discovers the legend of Mary Shaw, a murdered ventriloquist whose eerie presence still looms over the town. As he desperately digs for answers, Jamie encounters the curse that took his wife’s life and threatens his own.
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The Lost Boys (1987)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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Psycho (1960)
Available on Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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Gerald’s Game (2017)
Available on Netflix
When a harmless game between a married couple in a remote retreat suddenly becomes a harrowing fight for survival, wife Jessie must confront long-buried demons within her own mind – and possibly lurking in the shadows of her seemingly empty house.
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American Psycho (2000)
Available on HBO Max
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Available on Disney+
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Get Out (2017)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend’s parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
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Nope (2022)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
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The Talking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Shudder, Tubi
An elderly woman battling Alzheimer’s disease agrees to let a film crew document her condition, but what they discover is something far more sinister going on.
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Ready or Not (2019)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A bride’s wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
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The Witch (2015)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
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Hereditary (2018)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
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Midsommar (2019)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
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X (2022)
Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
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The Black Phone (2022)
Available on Peacock TV, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
After being abducted by a child killer and locked in a soundproof basement, a 13-year-old boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer’s previous victims
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The Exorcist (1973)
Available on HBO Max
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
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Halloween (1978)
Available on Shudder
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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