All Halloween Movies¶

Titles link to TMDB. Rated is the US MPA/TV rating. Mine is my score. A † means the link is a TMDB search rather than a direct page; swap in the real URL once you've confirmed it. Each section is the movie's main genre; Tags lists every genre and theme it fits (lowercase, comma-separated), so a movie only appears once and you can still search for any tag.

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Family, Campy and Spooky Fun¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis	Notes
Paranorman	2012	👍	Watched	Chris Butler	PG	family, animated, stop-motion, ghosts, zombies, witches, curse, comedy	In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.

Hauntings & Ghosts¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
The Conjuring	2013	👍	Watched	James Wan	R	haunted-house, ghosts, demons, supernatural, based-on-true-story	Ed and Lorraine Warren help a family besieged in their Rhode Island farmhouse.
The Conjuring 2	2016	👍	Watched	James Wan	R	haunted-house, ghosts, demons, possession, poltergeist, based-on-true-story	The Warrens head to London to investigate the Enfield poltergeist.
Oculus	2013	👍	Watched	Mike Flanagan	R	ghosts, haunted-object, psychological, supernatural	Two siblings try to prove an antique mirror drove their parents to violence.
The Others	2001	👍	Watched	Alejandro Amenábar	PG-13	ghosts, haunted-house, psychological, twist-ending	A mother raising two light-sensitive children in a fog-bound mansion suspects they aren't alone.
The Orphanage	2007	👍	Unwatched	J. A. Bayona	R	ghosts, haunted-house, mystery, supernatural, foreign	A woman reopens the orphanage she grew up in; her son's invisible friends come first, then he vanishes.
The Pact	2012	👍	Watched	Nicholas McCarthy	R	ghosts, haunted-house, mystery, supernatural	After her mother dies, a woman returns to her childhood home, where her sister has disappeared.
Silent Hill	2006	👍	Watched	Christophe Gans	R	ghosts, demons, cult, supernatural, video-game	A mother searching for her daughter gets trapped in a fog-shrouded ghost town. Based on the game.
The Sixth Sense	1999	👍	Watched	M. Night Shyamalan	PG-13	ghosts, psychological, twist-ending, supernatural, mystery	A child psychologist treats a boy who says he sees dead people.
Sometimes They Come Back	1991	👎	Watched	Tom McLoughlin	R	ghosts, revenge, stephen-king, supernatural	Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.
The Woman in Black	2012	👍	Watched	James Watkins	PG-13	ghosts, haunted-house, curse, period, supernatural	A widowed solicitor settling an estate in a marsh-isolated house meets a vengeful ghost.

Curses¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
The Ring	2002	👍	Watched	Gore Verbinski	PG-13	curse, ghosts, supernatural, mystery, remake	A journalist investigates a videotape that kills its viewers seven days later.
The Grudge	2004	👍	Watched	Takashi Shimizu	PG-13	curse, ghosts, haunted-house, supernatural, remake	An American caregiver in Tokyo runs into a curse born from a violent death in a house.
It Follows	2014	👎	Watched	David Robert Mitchell	R	curse, supernatural, psychological, creature	A young woman is stalked by a slow, shape-shifting entity that only she can see.

Demons, Cults & the Occult¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
Insidious	2011	👍	Watched	James Wan	R	demons, ghosts, haunted-house, possession, supernatural	A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought. It's not the house that's haunted
Hereditary	2018	👍	Watched	Ari Aster	R	occult, cult, demons, psychological, family-drama	After the family matriarch dies, her grieving family uncovers a dark inheritance.
The Evil Dead	1981	👍	Watched	Sam Raimi	NC-17	demons, possession, gore, cabin, supernatural, classic	Five friends at a remote cabin read from a book of the dead and unleash demons.
The Omen	1976	👍	Watched	Richard Donner	R	demons, occult, supernatural, classic	An American diplomat begins to suspect his adopted son is the Antichrist.
Hellraiser	1987	👍	Watched	Clive Barker	R	demons, gore, body-horror, supernatural, classic	A puzzle box summons the Cenobites; an escaped lover needs fresh blood to rebuild himself.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe	2016	👍	Watched	André Øvredal	R	supernatural, witches, mystery, body-horror	A father-and-son coroner team examines an unidentified body that defies explanation.
No One Gets Out Alive	2021	👍	Watched	Santiago Menghini	TV-MA	ghosts, monster, supernatural, cult	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	👍	Watched	James Wan	R	psychological, body-horror, supernatural, thriller	A woman starts seeing murders as they happen, tied to something buried in her past.
Pumpkinhead	1988	👍	Watched	Stan Winston	R	demons, creature, monster, revenge, witches, folk-horror	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	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
Leprechaun	1993		Watched	Mark Jones	R	folk-horror, creature, monster, dark-comedy	A demonic leprechaun terrorizes a group of young people whom he believes stole his gold.
His House	2020	👍	Watched	Remi Weekes	15	ghosts, haunted-house, curse, refugee, supernatural, psychological	After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Midsommar	2019	👍	Watched	Ari Aster	14A	folk-horror, cult, psychological, thriller	A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled Midsummer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
The Ritual	2017	👍	Watched	David Bruckner	TV-MA	folk-horror, creature, monster, cult, survival	Four friends take a shortcut through a Swedish forest, and something starts stalking them.
The Witch	2015	👍	Watched	Robert Eggers	R	folk-horror, witches, period, demons, supernatural, psychological	A banished Puritan family in 1630s New England unravels after their infant vanishes near the woods.

Slashers¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
A Nightmare on Elm Street	1984	👍	Watched	Wes Craven	R	slasher, supernatural, dreams, classic, franchise	Teenagers are hunted in their dreams by Freddy Krueger.
Child's Play	1988	👍	Watched	Tom Holland	R	slasher, dolls, possession, supernatural, franchise	A dying killer's soul ends up inside a talking doll given to a six-year-old.
Candyman	1992	👍	Watched	Bernard Rose	R	slasher, supernatural, urban-legend, ghosts	A grad student researching urban legends summons a hook-handed spirit in Chicago.
Friday the 13th	1980	👍	Watched	Sean S. Cunningham	R	slasher, camp, classic, franchise	Counselors reopening Camp Crystal Lake get picked off one by one.
Halloween	1978	👍	Watched	John Carpenter	R	slasher, serial-killer, classic, franchise	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.
Halloween II	1981	-	Unwatched	Rick Rosenthal	R	slasher, serial-killer, franchise	After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
Halloween: Resurrection	2002	👎	Watched	Rick Rosenthal	R	slasher, serial-killer, franchise	Laurie Strode is killed early on; Michael Myers then returns to his childhood home, where a group of college students is broadcasting a live internet reality show.
Halloween	2007	-	Unwatched	Rob Zombie	R	slasher, serial-killer, gore, remake, franchise	Young Michael Myers, after murdering his sister on Halloween night, is committed to a sanitarium; fifteen years later he escapes and returns to Haddonfield to hunt the surviving members of his family.
Halloween	2018	👍	Watched	David Gordon Green	18A	slasher, serial-killer, franchise, sequel	Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Halloween Kills	2021	👍	Watched	David Gordon Green	18A	slasher, serial-killer, franchise, sequel	Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.
Halloween Ends	2022	👍	Watched	David Gordon Green	R	slasher, serial-killer, franchise, sequel	Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.
Halloween II	2009	-	Unwatched	Rob Zombie	R	slasher, serial-killer, gore, remake, franchise	Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
Psycho	1960	👍	Watched	Alfred Hitchcock	R	slasher, serial-killer, psychological, thriller, classic	An embezzler on the run checks into the Bates Motel.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	1974	👍	Watched	Tobe Hooper	R	slasher, cannibals, gore, survival, classic	Road-tripping friends in rural Texas stumble onto a family of cannibals.

Creatures & Sci-Fi¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
The Faculty	1998	👍	Watched	Robert Rodriguez	R	alien, sci-fi, teen, creature, body-horror	Students suspect their teachers are being taken over by parasitic aliens.
Barbarian	2022	👍	Watched	Zach Cregger	R	creature, home-invasion, thriller, dark-comedy, survival	A woman finds her Detroit rental double-booked, and the house hides far worse than a stranger.
IT	2017	👍	Watched	Andy Muschietti	18A	monster, clown, supernatural, stephen-king, coming-of-age, franchise	In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
IT Chapter Two	2019	👍	Watched	Andy Muschietti	R	monster, clown, supernatural, stephen-king, coming-of-age, franchise	27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
The Thing	1982	👍	Watched	John Carpenter	R	alien, sci-fi, body-horror, creature, paranoia, survival, classic	An Antarctic research crew is infiltrated by a shape-shifting alien.

Psychological¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
The Babadook	2014	👍	Watched	Jennifer Kent	NR	psychological, monster, supernatural, grief	A widowed mother and her troubled son are haunted by a creature from a pop-up book.
Get Out	2017	👍	Watched	Jordan Peele	R	psychological, thriller, social-horror, dark-comedy	A weekend meeting his girlfriend's parents turns sinister for a young Black man.
Longlegs	2024	👍	Watched	Osgood Perkins	14A	serial-killer, occult, demons, psychological, thriller, mystery	FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
The Shining	1980	👍	Watched	Stanley Kubrick	R	psychological, haunted-house, ghosts, isolation, stephen-king, classic	A winter caretaker at an isolated hotel unravels as it works on him and his family.

Found Footage¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis	Notes
The Blair Witch Project	1999	👍	Watched	Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez	R	found-footage, witches, folk-horror, survival, classic	Three film students vanish while documenting a local legend in the Maryland woods.
Paranormal Activity	2007	👍	Watched	Oren Peli	R	found-footage, ghosts, demons, haunted-house, possession	A couple sets up cameras to record what's happening in their house at night.

Horror-Comedy¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis	Notes
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein	1948	👍	Watched	Charles Barton	PG	comedy, monster, vampires, family, classic	The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body. JEEPERS! The CREEPERS are after BUD & LOU!!
Shaun of the Dead	2004	👍	Watched	Edgar Wright	R	comedy, dark-comedy, zombies	A London slacker tries to rescue his mum and his ex during a zombie outbreak.

TV¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
The Haunting of Hill House	2018	👍	Watched	Mike Flanagan	TV-MA	tv, ghosts, haunted-house, supernatural, family-drama, mystery	Siblings who grew up in a notoriously haunted house confront what happened to them there.
IT	1990	👍	Watched	Tommy Lee Wallace	TV-14	tv, monster, clown, supernatural, stephen-king, coming-of-age	In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Midnight Mass	2021	👍	Watched	Mike Flanagan	18+	tv, vampires, religion, supernatural, cult, mystery	The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
Stranger Things	2016–2025	👍	Watched	The Duffer Brothers	TV-14	tv, sci-fi, supernatural, monster, coming-of-age	Kids in 1980s Indiana searching for a missing friend uncover secret experiments and another dimension.
The Walking Dead	2010	👍	Watched	Frank Darabont	18+	tv, zombies, survival, post-apocalyptic, gore	Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
The X-Files	1993	👍	Watched	Chris Carter	14+	tv, alien, sci-fi, paranormal, mystery	The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
The Purge	2018	👍	Watched	James DeMonaco	TV-MA	dystopian, thriller, survival, tv	Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably equipped for everything the night throws at them. As the clock winds down with their fates hanging in the balance, each character is forced to reckon with their pasts as they discover how far they will go to survive the night.

Psychological Thrillers¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
Run	2020	👍	Watched	Aneesh Chaganty	PG-13	thriller, psychological, survival	A homeschooled teen starts suspecting her mother's devotion hides something.
Silence of the Lambs	1991	👍	Watched	Jonathan Demme	18A	thriller, serial-killer, psychological, cannibals, crime, classic	Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
The Purge	2013			James DeMonaco	R	dystopian, thriller, home-invasion, survival, franchise	In a near future where prisons are overcrowded, the U.S. government allows 12-hour periods when all crime is legal. During one of these, a family has to defend itself against a home invasion.

Halloween Vibes¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis	Notes
Donnie Darko	2001	👍	Watched	Richard Kelly	R	sci-fi, psychological, thriller, time-travel, teen, mystery	After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large rabbit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after the rabbit predicts the world will end in just 28 days.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	👍	Watched	Steven Spielberg	PG	sci-fi, family, alien, coming-of-age, classic	An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by 10-year-old Elliott, who keeps him hidden at home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother and his little sister form a bond with their new friend and try to help him find his way home.

Biographies & Documentaries¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis	Notes

Gore¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis	Notes
Terrifier †	2016	👎		Damien Leone	R	gore, slasher, clown, extreme, supernatural	After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.

Organize these¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
Ready or Not	2019	👍	Watched	Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett	R	dark-comedy, thriller, survival, cult, occult	A bride's wedding-night game of hide-and-seek with her rich in-laws turns lethal.
28 Days Later	2002	?	—	Danny Boyle	R	zombies, sci-fi, survival, apocalyptic	A man wakes from a coma into a London emptied by a rage virus.
The Skeleton Key	2005	👍	Watched	Iain Softley	PG-13	supernatural, witches, hoodoo, mystery, twist-ending	A hospice nurse in the Louisiana bayou discovers hoodoo at work in her patient's house.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose	2005	👍	Watched	Scott Derrickson	PG-13	possession, demons, courtroom, based-on-true-story, supernatural	A courtroom drama about a priest charged after an exorcism ends in a young woman's death.
Jeepers Creepers	2001	👍	Watched	Victor Salva	R	monster, creature, survival, supernatural	Siblings driving home spot a figure dumping bodies, and it notices them back.
The Lighthouse	2019	👍	Watched	Robert Eggers	R	psychological, isolation, folk-horror, period, black-and-white	Two lighthouse keepers on a remote 1890s rock slide into madness.

Watchlist¶

Up Next¶

Title	Year	Rating	Status	Director	Rated	Tags	Synopsis
Us	2019	👍	Watched	Jordan Peele	R	doppelganger, thriller, home-invasion, psychological, social-horror	A family's beach vacation is upended by their own doppelgängers.
Cabin Fever †	2002	👍	Watched	Eli Roth	R	body-horror, gore, survival, cabin, dark-comedy	College friends at a cabin turn on each other as a flesh-eating virus spreads.
Thirteen Ghosts	2001	👍	Watched	Steve Beck	R	ghosts, haunted-house, supernatural, remake	A family inherits a glass house that's really a machine powered by captive ghosts.
Grave Encounters †	2011	👍	Watched	The Vicious Brothers	R	found-footage, ghosts, haunted-house, asylum	A ghost-hunting reality crew locks itself inside an abandoned asylum overnight. Found footage.
Mama †	2013	👍	Watched	Andrés Muschietti	PG-13	ghosts, supernatural, monster, family-drama	Two girls found after years alone in the woods brought something back with them.
Martyrs	2008	👍	Watched	Pascal Laugier	NR	extreme, gore, psychological, survival	A woman hunts the family she believes tortured her as a child. Famously extreme.
Dead Silence	2007	👍	Watched	James Wan	R	dolls, ghosts, curse, supernatural, mystery	A widower goes home to unravel a legend about a murdered ventriloquist and her dolls.
In the Mouth of Madness	1994	👍	Watched	John Carpenter	R	cosmic-horror, psychological, monster, meta	An insurance investigator tracking a missing horror novelist starts losing his grip on reality.
Mirrors	2008	👍	Watched	Alexandre Aja	R	ghosts, haunted-object, supernatural, mystery	An ex-cop working nights in a burned-out department store finds the mirrors are malevolent.
mother!	2017	👍	Watched	Darren Aronofsky	R	psychological, allegory, thriller, home-invasion	A couple's quiet country home fills with increasingly unwelcome guests. Heavy allegory.
The Uninvited †	2009	👍	Watched	The Guard Brothers	PG-13	ghosts, psychological, mystery, twist-ending, remake	A teen back from a psychiatric hospital suspects her father's new girlfriend. Remake of A Tale of Two Sisters.
Annabelle: Creation	2017	👍	Watched	David F. Sandberg	R	dolls, demons, possession, haunted-house, franchise	A grieving dollmaker and his wife take in orphaned girls, and one of them finds the doll.
Toe ??	—	👍	Watched		—		Unknown title — original note just says "Toe".
Alone †	2020	👍	Watched	John Hyams	R	thriller, survival, kidnapping	A widow driving through the Pacific Northwest is abducted and has to escape her captor in the wilderness.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	2019	👍	Watched	André Øvredal	PG-13	anthology, monster, supernatural, teen, urban-legend	Teens in 1968 find a book whose stories start writing themselves.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	2006	👍	Watched	Tom Tykwer	R	thriller, serial-killer, period, psychological, mystery	In 18th-century France, a man with a superhuman nose kills to capture the perfect scent.
Possessor †	2020	👍	Watched	Brandon Cronenberg	NR	sci-fi, body-horror, gore, psychological, thriller	A corporate assassin carries out hits by taking over other people's bodies through brain implants.
Drag Me to Hell	2009	👍	Watched	Sam Raimi	PG-13	curse, demons, supernatural, dark-comedy	A loan officer who refuses an old woman an extension gets cursed.
The Ruins †	2008	👍	Watched	Carter Smith	R	survival, creature, body-horror, gore	Tourists visiting a Mayan ruin in Mexico discover the vines are alive.
It Lives Inside †	2023	👍	Watched	Bishal Dutta	PG-13	demons, supernatural, teen, folk-horror	An Indian-American teen distancing herself from her culture faces a demonic spirit after falling out with a friend.