Ultimate horror movies October watchlist
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 during the month before Halloween. Happy Halloween season horror freaks!
The Descent – HBO MAX
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
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Saw – Prime Video
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they’re pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
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28 Days Later – VOD
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
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Dawn of the Dead – Peacock Tv
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
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Train to Busan – Prime Video
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
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Raw – VOD
A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.
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Barbarian – HBO MAX, Hulu
A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.
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Happy Death Day – VOD
A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer’s identity.
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Coraline – HBO MAX
An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
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IT (2017) – HBO MAX
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
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IT: Chapter 2 – HBO MAX
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
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The Bride of Frankenstein – Peacock Tv
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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Friday the 13th (1980) – HBO MAX
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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Mama – Prime Video
After a young couple take in their two nieces, they suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched onto their family.
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Scream (1996) – Paramount+
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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Bride of Chucky – Peacock Tv
Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.
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Let me in – HBO MAX
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
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The Ring – Prime Video
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
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Triangle – Peacock Tv
Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.
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Talk to Me – VOD
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
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Prey – Hulu
Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space – Tubi
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
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The Evil Dead – AMC+
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
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Evil Dead – Prime Video, Hulu
Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.
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Evil Dead Rise – HBO MAX
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
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A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) – HBO MAX
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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) – Peacock Tv, Tubi
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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Psycho (1960) – Peacock 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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Trick r’ Treat – VOD
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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The Exorcist – HBO MAX
When a young 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) – 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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