All Halloween Movies¶
Titles link to TMDB. Rated is the US MPA/TV rating. Mine is your score — fill it in as you go. A † means the link is a TMDB search rather than a direct page; swap in the real URL once you've confirmed it.
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Seen¶
Hauntings & Ghosts¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Conjuring | 2013 | R | Ed and Lorraine Warren help a family besieged in their Rhode Island farmhouse. | — |
| The Conjuring 2 | 2016 | R | The Warrens head to London to investigate the Enfield poltergeist. | — |
| The Others | 2001 | PG-13 | A mother raising two light-sensitive children in a fog-bound mansion suspects they aren't alone. | — |
| The Woman in Black | 2012 | PG-13 | A widowed solicitor settling an estate in a marsh-isolated house meets a vengeful ghost. | — |
| The Orphanage | 2007 | R | A woman reopens the orphanage she grew up in; her son's invisible friends come first, then he vanishes. | — |
| The Sixth Sense | 1999 | PG-13 | A child psychologist treats a boy who says he sees dead people. | — |
| The Pact | 2012 | R | After her mother dies, a woman returns to her childhood home, where her sister has disappeared. | — |
| Oculus | 2013 | R | Two siblings try to prove an antique mirror drove their parents to violence. | — |
| Silent Hill | 2006 | R | A mother searching for her daughter gets trapped in a fog-shrouded ghost town. Based on the game. | — |
Curses¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ring | 2002 | PG-13 | A journalist investigates a videotape that kills its viewers seven days later. | — |
| The Grudge | 2004 | PG-13 | An American caregiver in Tokyo runs into a curse born from a violent death in a house. | — |
| It Follows | 2014 | R | A young woman is stalked by a slow, shape-shifting entity that only she can see. | — |
Demons, Cults & the Occult¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hereditary | 2018 | R | After the family matriarch dies, her grieving family uncovers a dark inheritance. | — |
| The Evil Dead | 1981 | NC-17 | Five friends at a remote cabin read from a book of the dead and unleash demons. | — |
| The Omen | 1976 | R | An American diplomat begins to suspect his adopted son is the Antichrist. | — |
| Hellraiser | 1987 | R | A puzzle box summons the Cenobites; an escaped lover needs fresh blood to rebuild himself. | — |
| The Autopsy of Jane Doe | 2016 | R | A father-and-son coroner team examines an unidentified body that defies explanation. | — |
| No One Gets Out Alive | 2021 | TV-MA | An immigrant woman in a cheap boarding house hears cries in the walls. Your note: weird monster that sits on victims' heads; landlord is sacrificing women tenants. | — |
| Malignant | 2021 | R | A woman starts seeing murders as they happen, tied to something buried in her past. | — |
| Pumpkinhead | 1988 | R | When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life. | — |
Folk Horror¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Witch | 2015 | R | A banished Puritan family in 1630s New England unravels after their infant vanishes near the woods. | — |
| The Ritual | 2017 | TV-MA | Four friends take a shortcut through a Swedish forest, and something starts stalking them. | — |
Slashers¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psycho | 1960 | R | An embezzler on the run checks into the Bates Motel. | — |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | R | Road-tripping friends in rural Texas stumble onto a family of cannibals. | — |
| Friday the 13th | 1980 | R | Counselors reopening Camp Crystal Lake get picked off one by one. | — |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | R | Teenagers are hunted in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. | — |
| Child's Play | 1988 | R | A dying killer's soul ends up inside a talking doll given to a six-year-old. | — |
| Candyman | 1992 | R | A grad student researching urban legends summons a hook-handed spirit in Chicago. | — |
Creatures & Sci-Fi¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Thing | 1982 | R | An Antarctic research crew is infiltrated by a shape-shifting alien. | — |
| The Faculty | 1998 | R | Students suspect their teachers are being taken over by parasitic aliens. | — |
| Barbarian | 2022 | R | A woman finds her Detroit rental double-booked, and the house hides far worse than a stranger. | — |
Psychological¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Shining | 1980 | R | A winter caretaker at an isolated hotel unravels as it works on him and his family. | — |
| The Babadook | 2014 | NR | A widowed mother and her troubled son are haunted by a creature from a pop-up book. | — |
| Get Out | 2017 | R | A weekend meeting his girlfriend's parents turns sinister for a young Black man. | — |
| Run | 2020 | PG-13 | A homeschooled teen starts suspecting her mother's devotion hides something. | — |
Found Footage¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | R | Three film students vanish while documenting a local legend in the Maryland woods. | — |
| Paranormal Activity | 2007 | R | A couple sets up cameras to record what's happening in their house at night. | — |
Horror-Comedy¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | R | A London slacker tries to rescue his mum and his ex during a zombie outbreak. | — |
TV¶
| Title | Years | Rated | Synopsis | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stranger Things | 2016–2025 | TV-14 | Kids in 1980s Indiana searching for a missing friend uncover secret experiments and another dimension. | — |
| The Haunting of Hill House | 2018 | TV-MA | Siblings who grew up in a notoriously haunted house confront what happened to them there. | — |
Horror or Not?¶
Fill in Verdict once you've decided.
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis | Verdict | Mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ready or Not | 2019 | R | A bride's wedding-night game of hide-and-seek with her rich in-laws turns lethal. | ? | — |
| 28 Days Later | 2002 | R | A man wakes from a coma into a London emptied by a rage virus. | ? | — |
| The Skeleton Key | 2005 | PG-13 | A hospice nurse in the Louisiana bayou discovers hoodoo at work in her patient's house. | ? | — |
| The Exorcism of Emily Rose | 2005 | PG-13 | A courtroom drama about a priest charged after an exorcism ends in a young woman's death. | ? | — |
| Jeepers Creepers | 2001 | R | Siblings driving home spot a figure dumping bodies, and it notices them back. | ? | — |
| The Lighthouse | 2019 | R | Two lighthouse keepers on a remote 1890s rock slide into madness. | ? | — |
Watchlist¶
Up Next¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Us | 2019 | R | A family's beach vacation is upended by their own doppelgängers. |
| Cabin Fever † | 2002 | R | College friends at a cabin turn on each other as a flesh-eating virus spreads. |
| Thirteen Ghosts | 2001 | R | A family inherits a glass house that's really a machine powered by captive ghosts. |
| Grave Encounters † | 2011 | R | A ghost-hunting reality crew locks itself inside an abandoned asylum overnight. Found footage. |
| Mama † | 2013 | PG-13 | Two girls found after years alone in the woods brought something back with them. |
| Martyrs | 2008 | NR | A woman hunts the family she believes tortured her as a child. Famously extreme. |
| Dead Silence | 2007 | R | A widower goes home to unravel a legend about a murdered ventriloquist and her dolls. |
| In the Mouth of Madness | 1994 | R | An insurance investigator tracking a missing horror novelist starts losing his grip on reality. |
| Mirrors | 2008 | R | An ex-cop working nights in a burned-out department store finds the mirrors are malevolent. |
| mother! | 2017 | R | A couple's quiet country home fills with increasingly unwelcome guests. Heavy allegory. |
| The Uninvited † | 2009 | PG-13 | A teen back from a psychiatric hospital suspects her father's new girlfriend. Remake of A Tale of Two Sisters. |
Top 6 (2020 list)¶
Only three of the six survived in the original notes.
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annabelle: Creation | 2017 | R | A grieving dollmaker and his wife take in orphaned girls, and one of them finds the doll. |
| Toe ?? | — | — | Unknown title — original note just says "Toe". |
| Alone † | 2020 | R | A widow driving through the Pacific Northwest is abducted and has to escape her captor in the wilderness. |
Honorable Mentions¶
| Title | Year | Rated | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | 2019 | PG-13 | Teens in 1968 find a book whose stories start writing themselves. |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | 2006 | R | In 18th-century France, a man with a superhuman nose kills to capture the perfect scent. |
| Possessor † | 2020 | NR | A corporate assassin carries out hits by taking over other people's bodies through brain implants. |
| Drag Me to Hell | 2009 | PG-13 | A loan officer who refuses an old woman an extension gets cursed. |
| The Ruins † | 2008 | R | Tourists visiting a Mayan ruin in Mexico discover the vines are alive. |
| It Lives Inside † | 2023 | PG-13 | An Indian-American teen distancing herself from her culture faces a demonic spirit after falling out with a friend. |
Not a Movie¶
- Blair Witch (2019 video game) — the E3 2019 reveal was Bloober Team's game, not a film. Parked here in case you want a "games" page.