Best Halloween Movies of All Time

Last Updated on 2 December 2023

The following list is the Official Definitive List of the 300 best Halloween movies of all time.

I averaged 49 different ranked lists of “Best Halloween movies of all time” to get this definitive compilation. Some were movies that had the day of Halloween in them. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including all 49 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you’re welcome to print, followed by the full list with links to IMDb.

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Halloween (1978)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Scream (1996)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Shining (1980)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Beetlejuice (1988)
The Addams Family (1991)
Halloweentown (1998)
Practical Magic (1998)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Coraline (2009)
Poltergeist (1982)
It (2017)
Casper (1995)
Get Out (2017)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Psycho (1960)
The Conjuring (2013)
Corpse Bride (2005)
The Craft (1996)
Carrie (1976)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Hereditary (2018)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Witches (1990)
The Babadook (2014)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Addams Family Values (1993)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Us (2019)
The Ring (2002)
Monster House (2006)
A Quiet Place (2018)
Child’s Play (1988)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Scary Movie (2000)
The Sixth Sense (1999)f
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Midsommar (2019)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
The Witch (2015)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Omen (1976)
ParaNorman (2012)
Ready or Not (2019)
Twitches (2005)
Halloween (2018)
A Ghost Story (2017)
Terrifier 2 (2022)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Alien (1979)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Fright Night (1985)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Haunted Mansion (2023)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
We Have a Ghost (2022)
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Night of the Demons (1988)
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Hubie Halloween (2020)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Twilight (2008)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Frankenweenie (2012)
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Over the Garden Wall (2014)
Renfield (2023)
Zombieland (2009)
The Crow (1994)
Children of the Corn (1984)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Dracula (1931)
The Thing (1982)
Clue (1985)
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Barbarian (2022)
Suspiria (1977)
Hellraiser (1987)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Goosebumps (2015)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Coco (2017)
28 Days Later… (2002)
The Purge (2013)
The Fly (1986)
M3GAN (2022)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
The Guest (2014)
Idle Hands (1999)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Others (2001)
Crimson Peak (2015)
Fear Street: Part One – 1994 (2021)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Fear Street: Part Two – 1978 (2021)
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Fear Street: Part Three – 1666 (2021)
The Lost Boys (1987)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Candyman (2021)
Creepshow (1982)
Ringu (1998)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Orphan (2009)
Ghostbusters (2016)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Hell House LLC (2015)
Haunt (2019)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Run Rabbit Run (2023)
Totally Killer (2023)
Insidious (2010)
The Village (2004)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
The Invisible Man (2020)
Nope (2022)
X (2022)
Escape Room (2019)
Arachnophobia (1990)
Suspiria (2018)
The Black Phone (2021)
It Follows (2014)
Candyman (1992)
The House of the Devil (2009)
Halloween (2007)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Warm Bodies (2013)
Saw (2004)
The Birds (1963)
The Invitation (2015)
Gremlins (1984)
A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
The Halloween Tree (1993)
Trick or Treat (1986)
Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)
Annabelle (2014)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Halloween Ends (2022)
The Grudge (2004)
Terrifier (2016)
May (2002)
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
Ghostwatch (1992)
Pearl (2022)
Umma (2022)
The Haunting (1963)
The Descent (2005)
The Changeling (1980)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
Hell Fest (2018)
Under Wraps (1997)
Teen Witch (1989)
Sinister (2012)
Talk to Me (2022)
Scream VI (2023)
Fun Size (2012)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Nun (2018)
Truth or Dare (2018)
Flatliners (1990)
Dark Shadows (2012)
The Visit (2015)
Halloween II (1981)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Tales of Halloween (2015)
The Perfection (2018)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Boogeyman (2005)
Parasite (2019)
Labyrinth (1986)
Happy Death Day (2017)
Mean Girls (2004)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Smile (2022)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Garfield’s Halloween Adventure (1985)
The Wolf Man (1941)
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Lady in White (1988)
The Pumpkin Karver (2006)
The Fog (1980)
The Houses October Built (2014)
It Chapter Two (2019)
Disturbia (2007)
Men in Black (1997)
The Innocents (1961)
Brightburn (2019)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
House (1977)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Freaky (2020)
Ma (2019)
Murder Party (2007)
Halloween Kills (2021)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Bay (2012)
The Addams Family (2019)
Song of the Sea (2014)
Oculus (2013)
American Psycho (2000)
1408 (2007)
Room on the Broom (2012)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Misery (1990)
The Haunting (1999)
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Gaslight (1944)
Monster Family (2017)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Orphan: First Kill (2022)
Men (2022)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Countdown (2019)
The Strangers (2008)
Tales from the Hood (1995)
You’re Next (2011)
The Batman (2022)
Train to Busan (2016)
Fantasy Island (2020)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Carrie (2013)
It Lives Inside (2023)
The Little Vampire (2017)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Pet Sematary (2019)
The Little Vampire (2000)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
The Karate Kid (1984)
His House (2020)
The Orphanage (2007)
The Faculty (1998)
Bones (2001)
House at the End of the Street (2012)
The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
The Omen (2006)
Christine (1983)
Vampires (1998)
Parents (1989)
The Scream Team (2002)
Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
Host (2020)
The Mist (2007)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Malignant (2021)
Zodiac (2007)
Tremors (1990)
Affliction (1997)
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Final Destination (2000)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
The Woman in Black (2012)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Once Bitten (1985)
Relic (2020)
Tragedy Girls (2017)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Boys in the Trees (2016)
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Among the Living (2014)
Day of the Dead (1985)
It Comes At Night (2017)
Kill Baby … Kill! (1966)
Little Monsters (1989)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Signs (2002)
The Gift (2015)
Under the Shadow (2016)