It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
We hardly think so.
Beetlejuice
Get ready for the long (long!)

Photo:Warner Bros./Archive Photos/Getty Images
Frankenweenie
This gorgeous stop-motion animation from Tim Burton is a kid-friendly twist on the classicFrankensteintale.
Check out these notorious big bads (and their inevitable series of sequels) for a Halloween movie fest.
But nothing beats the firstHalloweenmovie, which launched a thousand horror movie tropes.

tv.apple.com
(Psst…If you want to see Michael Myersfinallyget his comeuppance,Halloween Endsis on Amazon Prime.)
Watch as Nancy unravels the mystery of this menace before it’s too late.
Where to watch:Paramount+ (for pretty much everything in the series!)

Walt Disney Pictures
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The moral of this classic 1990s slasher?
Don’t hit and run.
But see where it started with the original toy-turned-evil tale.

Barry King / Contributor / Getty Images
Don’t Breathe
Gordon Timpen / SMPSP
You’ll be holding your breath throughout this entire thriller.
Where to watch:Paramount+
Cujo
Warner Bros
Scary pets, part deux.
Dare you to watch this one alone in the dark.

Warner Bros.
(And check out the Family-Friendly Halloween Movies section for even more!)
girlfriend from the zombie horde.
)technically makes itworthy of an October rewatch.

Photo © FOCUS FEATURES LLC. All Rights Reserved.
(It also unleashed a string of sequels and reboots.)

Disney / Pixar

Photo © Disney

Fotos International / Getty Images

New Line Cinema

A scene from ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’.© Bryanston

Universal Pictures

Neve Campbell and Rose McGowan in ‘Scream’.© Dimension

Universal Pictures

Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.© MGM

Columbia Pictures / Getty Images

MGM/United Artists

Eric Zachanowich / Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

Christian Bale in a scene from the film ‘American Psycho’, 2000.Hulton Archive/Moviepix/Getty Images

IMDB

Gordon Timpen / SMPSP

American actress Sissy Spacek as the telekinetic protagonist of the horror film ‘Carrie’ (1976).Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

Paramount

Warner Bros

Moviepix/Getty Images

Ryan Reynolds in “The Amityville Horror”.© MGM

A scene from ‘Insidious’.© Sony

Naomi Watts stars in ‘The Ring’ as a woman who tries to break a supernatural curse inflicted by a mysterious video tape.© DreamWorks

Paramount Pictures

20th Century Fox

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg in “Shaun of the Dead”.Photo © Odeon Films

Getty Images

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Focus Features

‘Night of the Living Dead’.

IMDb

Paramount

Getty Images/ Handout

Murray Close/Moviepix/Getty Images

Universal Studios