Mega List of Movies and Shows to watch this October

Mega List of Movies and Shows to watch this October, Perfect for Spooky Season! [Updated for 2025]

Halloween and Autumn are my absolute favourite times of year!

I just love everything about them, but I especially love the movies and TV shows.

As a horror fan who just adores the whole genre from slashers to psychological, I can’t get enough.

As such, I have compiled a list of over 300 titles that are SURE to get you in the mood for Halloween.

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With some old school horrors, to slashers to family friendly titles and everything else in-between.

There are also some movie checklists in here for you to print, use on Instagram, Pinterest or wherever!

Get ready to feel the need for a movie night!

Just creating this list made me want to curl up in the living room, pour out some popcorn and snuggle under blankets having a “Scare” night.

Family friendly of course, well, until my boys go to bed and then bring on all the blood and gore!

Mega List of Movies and Shows

I ADORE horror movies, thrillers or anything suspenseful with blood or gore.

With many titles out there ready to watch, it can be hard finding that perfect movie.

So, I have compiled this MEGA list of Movies and TV Shows that are the perfect fit for spooky season..

If you see any of your favourites, let me know in the comments!

A

• A Cure for Wellness
• Alien
• Alien 2: On Earth
• Aliens
• Alien 3
• Alien Resurrection
• Alien Covenant
• Alien: Romulus
• All American Massacre
• All Hallows’ Eve
• All the Boys Love Mandy Lane 
• American Mary
• American Psycho
• Amityville Horror
• Amityville 2: The Possession
• Amityville 3-D
• Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes
• Amityville: It’s About Time
• Amityville: A New Generation
• Amityville Dollhouse
• Amityville Death House
• Amityville No Escape
• Amityville Exorcism
• Amityville: The Awakening 
• Annabelle 
• Annabelle Comes Home
• Annihilation
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddie’s Revenge
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
• Appendage
• Apostle 
• A Quiet Place
• A Quiet Place 2
• Arachnophobia
• Arcadian
• Army of Darkness
• Audrey Rose (1977)

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B

• Babadook
• Bait
• Beau is Affraid
• Bedeviled
• Before I Wake
• Beloved
• Bird Box
• Black Swan
• Blade
• Blade 2
• Blade: Trinity
• Black Christmas
• Black Phone
• Bloody Valentine
• Bodies Bodies Bodies 
• Books of Blood
• Brain Dead (1990)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• Breach
• Bride of Chucky
• Brightburn

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C

• Cabin Fever 
• Cam
• Candyman 
• Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
• Candyman 3: Day of the Dead
• Candyman (2021)
• Carrie Original (1976)
• Carrie (2013)
• Childs’s Play (1988)
• Child’s Play (2019)
• Child’s Play 2
• Child’s Play 3
• Clown
• Come to Daddy
• Conctantine
• Condemned to Live (1935)
• Creep
• Creep 2
• Cronos (1993)
• Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
• Cult of Chucky

D

• Damien
• Dark Shadows
• Dark Water
• Dawn of the Dead
• Day of the Dead: Bloodline
• Day Shift
• Deadly Blessing (1981)
• Deadly Friend (1986)
• Dead Men Walk (1943)
• Deceived
• Deliverance
• Deliver us from Evil
• Demon Toys
• Derailed
• Devil
• Devils Due
• Diary of the Dead
• Discarnate
• Disturbia
• Doctor Sleep
• Donnie Darko
• Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
• Don’t Breath
• Don’t Knock Twice 
• Don’t Look Now (1973)
• Dracula (1931)
• Dracula Untold
• Drag Me to Hell 
• Dread

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E

• Eerie 
• Eden Lake
• Edward Scissor Hands
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
• Elvira’s Haunted Hills
• End of Days
• Escape Room 
• Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
• Evil Dead 2
• Evil Dead (2013)

F

• Fantasy Island
• Fear Street Part One: 1994
• Fear Street Part Two: 1978
• Fear Street Part Three: 1666
• First Born
• Flux Gourmet
• Final Destination
• Final Destination 2
• Final Destination 3
• Final Destination 5
• Firestarter
• Freddie vs Jason
• Fresh
• Friday the 13th 
• Friday the 13th Part 2
• Friday the 13th Part 3
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
• Friday the 13th (2009)
• From Dusk till Dawn 
• From Hell
• Fight Night
• Funhouse Massacre 

G

• Geralds Game
• Get Out
• Ghost Stories 
• Ginger Snaps
• Glass
• Gone Girl
• Grave Encounters
• Green River Killer

H

• Halloween
• Halloween 2
• Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
• Halloween H20
• Halloween: Resurrection
• Halloween (2007)
• Halloween 2 (2009)
• Halloween (2018)
• Halloween Kills
• Halloween at Aunt Ethel’s
• Hannibal
• Happy Death Day
• Happy Death Day 2
• HellFest
• Hellraiser 
• Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
• Hellraiser  3: Hell on Earth
• Hellraiser: Bloodline
• Hellraiser: Inferno
• Hellraiser: Deader
• Hellraiser: Hellworld
• Hellraiser: Revelations
• Hellraiser: Judgment
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial killer
• Hereditary
• He’s out there 
• Hide and Seek
• High tension 
• Holidays
• House of Wax 
• House on the Hill
• House of 1000 Corpses
• Hubie Halloween
• Human Centipede 
• Human Centipede 2
• Human Centipede 3
• Hush 

I

• Idle Hands 
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• Incantation
• Interview With a Vampire
• Insidious
• Insidious Chapter 2
• Insidious Chapter 3
• Insidious: The Last Key
• In The Tall Grass
• IT: Chapter 1
• IT: Chapter 2
• It Follows

J

• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• Jason X
• Jaws
• Jennifer’s Body
• Jeepers Creepers
• Jeepers Creepers 2
• Jeepers Creepers 3
• Joshua

K

• Knock Kncok

L

• Land of the Dead
• Last House on the Left
• Last Night in Soho
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
• Legion 
• Leprechaun
• Leprechaun 2
• Leprechaun 3
• Leprechaun 4: In Space
• Leprechaun in the Hood
• Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood
• Leprechaun: Origins
• Leprechaun Returns
• Let the Right One In
• Level 16
• Life
• Look Away

M

• Ma
• Malignant
• Malevolent 
• Mama
• Manhunter
• Men
• Midsommar
• Mirrors
• Monstrous
• Mother!
• Murder Party
• My Best Friend’s Exorcism
• My Bloody Valentine

N

• Night of the Living Dead 
• No Exit
• Nope
• Nosferatu

O

• Obsessed
• Oculus 
• Office Uprising 
• Old
• One Hour Photo
• Orphan
• Orphan: First Kill
• Ouija

P

• Paranormal Activity
• Paranormal Activity 2
• Paranormal Activity 3
• Paranormal Activity 4
• Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
• Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
• Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
• Pearl
• Pet Sematary
• Pet Sematary 2
• Polaroid
• Poltergeist
• Predator
• Predator 2
• Predators
• Prey
• Prometheus
• Prom Night
• Psycho

Q

• Queen of the Damned
• Quarantine
• Quarantine 2

R

• Ready or Not
• Ravenous
• [REC]
• Red Dragon
• Resident Evil 
• Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse
• Resident Evil: Extinction
• Resident Evil  (2010)
• Resident Evil: Retribution
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
• Rings (2005)
• Rings (2017)
• Rocky Horror Picture Show 
• Rosemary’s Baby
• Run

S

• Satanic
• Scream
• Scream 2
• Scream 3
• Scream 4
• Scream (2022)
• Seed of Chucky
• Separation
• Seven
• Shaun of the Dead 
• Sharknado
• Sharknado 2: The Second One
• Sharknado: Feeding Frenzy
• Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
• Sharknado: The 4th Awakens
• Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
• The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time
• She Will
• Shutter
• Shutter Island
• Signs
• Silence of the Lambs 
• Silent Hill
• Silent Hill: Revelation
• Sinister 
• Sinister 2
• Sleepy Hollow
• Slender Man
• Slither
• Sightless
• Sorority Row
• Spiral
• Splice
• Split
• Spree
• Stephanie
• Stepfather
• Stoker

T

• Terrifier
• Terrifier 2
• Terror Train
• Texas Chainsaw 
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre 
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Next Generation
• The Amityville Curse
• The Amityville Horror
• The Amityville Haunting
• The Amityville Asylum
• The Amityville Playhouse
• The Amityville Terror
• The Babysitter
• The Babysitter: Killer Queen
• The Black Room 
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Boy
• The Bye Bye Man 
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Craft
• The Craft Legacy
• The Collector 
• The Conjuring
• The Conjuring 2
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
• The Crucifixion 
• The Descent
• The Descent 2
• The Evil Dead
• The Exorcist
• The Final Destination
• The First Purge
• The Forever Purge
• The Good Son
• The Grudge
• The Hand that Rock the Cradle
• The Haunting
• The Hills Have Eyes 
• The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
• The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
• The Hitcher
• The Hunt
• The Invisible Man
• The Lazarus Effect 
• The Manor
• The Monster
• The Mummy 
• The Mummy (2017)
• The Mummy Returns
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon emperor
• The Night House
• The Nun
• The Other Side of the Door
• The Omen 
• The Omen 2
• The Omen 3
• The Open House
• The Perfection 
• The Predator
• The Prodigy
• The Possession
• The Possession of Hannah Grace
• The Purge
• The Purge: Anarchy
• The Purge: Election Year
• The Pyramid
• The Return of the Living Dead
• The Ring
• The Ring Two
• The Shining
• The Silence 
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Sixth Sense
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
• The Thing
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown
• The Turning
• The Unborn
• The Vanished
• The Wicker Man 
• The Witch 
• The Woman in Black 
• The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
• The Woman in the Window
• The Village
• The Visit
• The 6th sense 
• Things Seen and Heard
• Totally Killer
• Train to Busan
• Tremors
• Trick R’ Treat
• Truth or Dare
• Tucker and Dale vs Evil

U

• Unbreakable
• Underwater
• Unfriended: Dark Web
• US

V

• Vampire Academy
• Van Helsing 
• Veronica

W

• What Lies Beneath
• When a Stranger Calls 
• Winchester
• Wish Upon 
• World war Z 
• Would you Rather
• Wrong Turn 
• Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
• Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead
• Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
• Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines
• Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort
• Wrong Turn (2021)

X

• X

Y

• You’re Next

Z

• Zombeavers
• Zombie Nation
• Zodiac

#

• #Alive
• 28 Days Later
• 28 Weeks Later
• 31
• 3 From Hell
• 1922
• 1408
• 13 Ghosts
• 47 Meters Down
• 47 Meters Down: Uncaged

Shows/Series to Watch

Netflix

Age Rating: 18+

• The Fall
• Black Mirror
• Peaky Blinders
• Brand New Cherry Flavor
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Slasher
• Hemlock Grove
• Ratched
• The Sandman
• You
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Monster

Age Rating: 15+

• Stranger Things
• The Haunting of hill house
• The Mist
• I am the pretty thing that lives in the house
• IZombie
• Chilling adventures of Sabrina
• The Serpent
• Lucifer
• The Umbrella Academy
• Daybreak
• Dark
• The Order
• Shadow Hunters
• Teen Wolf
• Bitten
• Riverdale
• Making a Murderer
• The Deceived
• Heist
• The Sinner
• Vampire Diaries
• Fate: The Winx Saga
• The Haunting of Bly Manor
• Locke & Key
• The Witcher
• First Kill
• Devil on Trial

Age Rating: 12+

• Disenchantment
• Merlin
• Always a Witch

Age Rating: PG & U

• Creeped Out
• Good Witch
• A Tale Dark & Grimm
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Worst Witch
• Hotel Transylvania
• Phantom Pups

Disney+

Age Rating: 18+

• American Horror Story
• American Horror Stories
• The Walking Dead
• The Accident

Age Rating: 16+

• The Gloaming
• Criminal Minds
• Lost
• Body of Proof
• The Killing
• Bones
• Hellstorm
• The Strain
• The X Files
• The Gloaming
• 24
• Scandal
• Scream Queens
• Angel
• Tierra Incognita
• Ghost Whisperer
• What We Do in the Shadows

Age Rating: 14+

• Sleepy Hollow
• Lie to ME
• Revenge
• Devious Maids

Age Rating: 9+ & 12+

• Wanda Vision
• Loki
• Next
• Futurama
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Just Beyond
• Once Upon a Time
• Secrets of Sulphur Springs
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• The Evermoor Chronicles
• Binny and the Ghost

Age Rating: 0+ & 6+

• So Weird (Fun Fact, My Grandpa’s Best Friend is in this! David ‘Squatch’ Ward)
• The Ghost and Molly McGee
• The Owl House
• Junior Vampirina
• Gargoyles
• Descendants Wicked World
• Wizards of Waverly Place

Prime Video

Age Rating: 18+

• Fear The Walking Dead Season 5
• The Exorcist
• Hannibal
• The Boys
• Them
• Stan Against Evil
• Cold Justice
• American Gods
• Carnival Row
• I Know What You Did Last Summer

Age Rating: 15+ & 16+

• Hunted
• Hush Hush
• The Purge
• Lore
• Apparitions
• Vikings
• Spooks
• NCIS
• Preacher
• Little Fires Everywhere
• Nine Perfect Strangers
• Mr Robot
• Hunters
• The Wilds
• The Rings of Power
• The Wheel of Time
• Swamp Thing
• Supernatural
• Hanna
• Truth Seekers
• Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer

Age Rating: 12+ & 13+

• In The Shadows
• Most Haunted
• Good Omens
• Smallville

Age Rating: All

• Just Add Magic
• Lost in Oz
• Sigmund and the Sea Monster
• The Halloween Mansion
• Pinkfong! Halloween Songs

Family Friendly Titles

A

• A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting
• Adams Family Values
• Adams Family Reunion
• Aladdin
• Alice in Wonderland
• Alice Through the Looking Glass
• All Hallows’ Eve
• A Mermaids Tale
• A Troll in Central Park
• A Witches’ Ball
• A Wrinkle in Time
• Avalon High

B

• Beautiful Creatures
• Beetlejuice
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Blippi and Friends Halloween Special
• Blippi’s Spooky Spells Halloween
• Bride of Boogedy

C

• Can of Worms
• Casper
• Casper: A Spirited Beginning
• Casper Meets Wendy
• Casper’s Haunted Christmas
• Casper’s Scare School
• Coco
• CoComelon Halloween Songs
• Coraline
• Corpse Bride 
• Creeped Out
• Cruella
• Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest

D

• Daphne & Velma
• Dear Dracula
• Descendants
• Descendants 2
• Descendants 3
• Double Double Toil and Trouble 
• Don’t Look Under The Bed
• Dreambuilders
• Dreamworks Spooky Stories

E

• Earnest Scared Stupid
• E.T

F

• Frankenweenie
• Freaky Friday

G

• Ghostbusters
• Ghostbusters 2
• Ghostbusters (2016)
• Ghostbusters Afterlife
• Ghost Patrol
• Gnome Alone
• Goosebumps 
• Goosebumps 2
• Goosebumps (originals)
• Gremlins 
• Girl vs Monster

H

• Halloweentown
• Halloweentown 2: Kalabar’s Revenge
• Halloween Heros
• Halloweentown High
• Halloween Island
• Happy Family
• Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
• Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Hocus pocus
• Hocus pocus 2
• Hotel Transylvania 
• Hotel Transylvania  2
• Hotel Transylvania  3: Summer Vacation
• Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

I

• Igor
• Into the Woods
• Invisible Sister
• Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had To Go

L

• Labyrinth
• Lego Star Wars: Terrifying Tales
• Liar, Liar, Vampire
• Little Shop of Horrors 

M

• Maleficent
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
• Mary and the Witches Flower
• Matilda
• Mickey’s House of Villains
• Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
• Moms got a Date with a Vampire
• Monster Family
• Monster High Haunted
• Monster High Boo York, Boo York
• Monsters House
• Monsters Inc.
• Monster Squad
• Monsters vs Aliens
• Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out?
• Mr. Boogedy
• Muppets Haunted Mansion
• My babysitter’s a Vampire 

O

• Once Upon a Time 
• Open Season Scared Silly

P

• Paranorman
• Phantom of the Megaplex
• Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie
• Practical Magic 

Q

• Quest for Camelot

R

• Return to Halloweentown
• Roald Dahl’s The Witches
• Room on the Broom

S

• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Secret society of Second-Born Royals
• Scared Shreckless
• Scaredy Cats
• Scoob!
• Scooby-Doo
• Scooby-Doo2: Monster Unleashed
• Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins
• Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster
• Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
• Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King
• Spooky Buddies
• Spooky Kids
• Spooky Stories
• Spookley the Square Pumpkin
• Super Monsters 

T

• The Adams Family 
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
• The Black Cauldron 
• The Curse of Bridge Hollow
• The Dark Crystal
• The Dog who Saved Halloween
• The Haunted Mansion
• The Little Vampire 
• The Nightmare Before Christmas 
• The School for Good and Evil
• The Scream Team
• The Secret of NIMH
• The Witches  
• The Vampire’s Assistant
• Tower of Terror
• Toy Story of Terror 
• Twitches
• Twitches Too

U

• Under Wraps
• Upside Down Magic

W

• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Welcome to Monsters High
• When Good Ghouls go Bad
• Wizards of Waverly place the Movie
• Wizards Return: Alex vs Alex

Z

• Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
• Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2
• Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3

#

• 100% Wolf

Final Thoughts

And there you have it, a mega list of horror movies to watch and shows to watch this October.

I had so much fun creating this post as it brought back so many titles that I forgot about and have now started re-watching.

Honestly, I would HIGHLY recommend Deliver us from Evil, it’s a great film. 

I wish I could go over all of the titles that I just adore in this list but we would be here forever.

Instead I’ll leave you with this mini list of my favourite titles among this bunch.

• The Conjuring 
• The Conjuring 2
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
• IT
• Things Seen and Heard
• Halloween
• Midsommar
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
• Scream
• HellFest
• Orphan
• Apostle
• IT Follows

What’s some of your favourite horror movies to watch?

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