Last Updated on 11 October 2025
Through the month of October 2025, I’m watching one scary movie every night. My criteria for selecting the movies is that they are free to stream on at least one free platform and that they have a decent IMDb rating. For each movie, I’m giving a letter grade for how scary they are and for my overall impressions and enjoyment, along with a few comments.
Below is the list and schedule, with links to free streaming. I invite you to join me and comment below.
| Date | Movie | Streaming Platform | IMDb Rating | Scariness Grade | Overall Grade | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 | 28 Days Later (2002) | Pluto | 7.5 | C | B+ | Fast zombies are always scarier. Classic story of surviving an apocalypse, but also has plenty of light-hearted moments to balance. Interesting use of music, mostly choral or similar. The scariness was more from the idea of getting infected than from getting chased by zombies, and then from the survivors and what they would do survive. |
| Oct 2 | Hell House LLC (2015) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 6.4 | B | B | It’s a found-footage movie that combines interviews from a documentary crew with photos and videos from a haunted house tragedy that happened 5 years earlier. As usual for this kind of movie, the creepiness/scariness builds over the course of the movie. There are two sequels to this movie. |
| Oct 3 | The Craft (1996) | Tubi | 6.5 | D | B | While IMDb used terms like “folk horror” and “teen horror,” it wasn’t a particularly scary movie. More like a high school drama movie with a witch theme. Fun story, though, and may have been one of the earlier movies to popularize so much witch terminology. It was interesting to see these actresses early in their careers. |
| Oct 4 | The Ring (2002) | Tubi, Pluto | 7.1 | A | A- | Lots of great scary goosebumpy moments! Good use of reflections and background movements to create scares. The threat of imminent death always makes a movie scarier. The movie wasn’t perpetually scary, because the mystery being solved helped break it up. Oh, and I always enjoy it when horror movies take something normal like a phone ringing and turn it into something scary. |
| Oct 5 | The Changeling (1980) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 7.1 | C+ | A | After experiencing tragic personal losses, a music professor moves to Seattle and ends up renting a gigantic historical house that’s haunted. The use of creepy music made me keep looking in the background for some subtle thing, but apparently it was just to set the mood. Not super scary, but creepy, ghostly, and a very good haunting-based mystery. |
| Oct 6 | Bone Tomahawk (2015) | Tubi, Pluto | 7.1 | B- | A+ | The first half of the movie was basically a decent western movie. I did really enjoy their vocabulary! 😁 It didn’t get scary until the last 40 minutes, when the main people reached the troglodytes. So many familiar faces, too, including Matthew Fox, David Arquette, Sid Haig, & Sean Young. Made me want to watch Lost again. |
| Oct 7 | Suspiria (1977) | Tubi, Roku | 7.3 | B | B- | Written, directed, and music composed by Dario Argento (and Goblin). This movie is legendary and I’ve never seen it. It has a 7.3 rating on IMDb, with over 114k people voting! Interesting use of colored lighting. Weird, creepy movie about dancing, mystery, and witches, with many implausible moments that made me roll my eyes and say “Really!” Still, I’m glad to have seen it. |
| Oct 8 | Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 6.9 | D | B | Two residents of a nursing home, an old Elvis and an old African-American who claims to be President John F. Kennedy, have to fight an evil southern-style Egyptian mummy. Bruce Campbell was hilarious and perfect! The movie was mostly humorous, but the mummy parts were a little scary. The music helped. |
| Oct 9 | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Tubi, Roku | 7.5 | B | A- | A couple American college students get attacked by a werewolf while on a walking tour of Britain. One dies and one begins to change after a few weeks. The real effects (this was before computers) of him physically becoming a werewolf, especially the face, are legendary. Overall, a decent movie with some scary moments. |
| Oct 10 | Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) | Tubi | 8.2 | B+ | A+ | Great movie, great music, great story. Set in Spain in 1944, after their Civil War is over, but rebels are still fighting in the mountains. It’s a dark, creepy, sometimes scary, sometimes violent movie, but tells a great story. The only official version is in Spanish with English subitles. Director Guillermo del Toro intentionally kept the film in Spanish to preserve its authenticity, emotional tone, and cultural context, as the story is deeply rooted in Spanish history and setting. |
| Oct 11 | Night of the Living Dead (1968) | Tubi | 7.8 | A | A | The classic movie that launched the modern zombie craze and set our stereotypes and sense of what zombies are. The music definitely added to the unsettling and creepy vibe. The pursuit by zombies started very early in the movie, which was a nice change, rather than building the back story and only encountering the “monsters” in the last half hour. That kept the tension high for most of the movie. Pretty graphic for 1968, too. Typical roles for this kind of movie, including the helpless girl, the selfish & stubborn man, the young guy, and the leader. The ending was pretty iconic/ironic, too. |
| Oct 12 | Let the Right One In (2008) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 7.8 | |||
| Oct 13 | The Frighteners (1996) | Tubi | 7.1 | |||
| Oct 14 | The Wailing (2016) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 7.4 | |||
| Oct 15 | Sleepy Hollow (1999) | Pluto | 7.3 | |||
| Oct 16 | Donnie Darko (2001) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 8.0 | |||
| Oct 17 | The Wicker Man (1973) | Tubi | 7.5 | |||
| Oct 18 | The Burrowers (2008) | Tubi | 5.7 | |||
| Oct 19 | Brain Dead (1990) | Tubi, Roku | 5.9 | |||
| Oct 20 | The Babadook (2014) | Tubi, Pluto | 6.8 | |||
| Oct 21 | Scream (1996) | Pluto | 7.4 | |||
| Oct 22 | The Cabin in the Woods (2011) | Tubi | 7.0 | |||
| Oct 23 | Pet Sematary (1989) | Pluto | 6.5 | |||
| Oct 24 | Fright Night (1985) | Tubi | 7.0 | |||
| Oct 25 | Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 7.0 | |||
| Oct 26 | Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) | Tubi, Roku | 7.4 | |||
| Oct 27 | Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 7.5 | |||
| Oct 28 | Hellraiser (1987) | Tubi | 6.9 | |||
| Oct 29 | Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) | Tubi, Pluto, Roku | 6.7 | |||
| Oct 30 | The Evil Dead (1981) | Tubi, Pluto | 7.4 | |||
| Oct 31 | Halloween (2018) | Tubi | 6.5 |
