Halloween Movies of October 2025
I watched a horror/Halloween-esque movie almost every night (except for 10/2 and 10/25) in October. This is the list. All summaries are provided by IMDb.
1. IT: Chapter One
a. Director: Andy Muschetti
b. Year: 2017
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
2. N/A
a. Director: Michael Dougherty
b. Year: 2007
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: Five Halloween stories: A principal has a secret life, a virgin is looking for her first time, a group of kids pull a prank, a woman who loathes Halloween does not respect the rules and a mean old man meets a demonic trick-or-treater.
4. The Lost Boys
a. Director: Joel Schumacher
b. Year: 1987
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: When a recently divorced mother and her two teenage boys move to a coastal town to stay with her father, it doesn't take long for the brothers to realize the area is a haven for something much more sinister than party-going surfers.
5. The Curse of La Llorona
a. Director: Michael Chaves
b. Year: 2019
c. Rating: R
d. Year: Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
e. First time viewing!
6. Christine
a. Director: John Carpenter
b. Year: 1983
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own, and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
6b. Sleepwalkers
a. Director: Mick Garris
b. Year: 1992
c. Rating: R
d. A mother-and-son team of shapeshifters move to a small town to seek out a young virgin to feed on.
7. Sinners
a. Director: Ryan Coogler
b. Year: 2025
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
e. First time viewing!
8. The Shining
a. Director: Stanley Kubrick
b. Year: 1980
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
9. Halloweentown
a. Director: Duwayne Dunham
b. Year: 1998
c. Rating: TV-G
d. Summary: When a young girl living with her secret witch mother learns she too is a witch, she must help her witch grandmother save Halloweentown from evil forces.
10. Leprechaun
a. Director: Mark Jones
b. Year: 1992
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: An evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.
e. First time viewing!
11. The Black Phone
a. Director: Scott Derrickson
b. Year: 2021
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: After being abducted and locked in a basement, a boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims.
e. First time viewing!
12. Frankenstein
a. Director: James Whale
b. Year: 1931
c. Rating: Approved
i. From Google: "Approved" was a rating given by the Hays Office, which enforced the Motion Picture Production Code, a set of moral guidelines followed by the industry from the 1930s until the 1960s.
d. Summary: Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
13. The Substance
a. Director: Coralie Fargeat
b. Year: 2024
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger, better version of herself.
e. First time viewing!
14. The Descent
a. Director: Neil Marshall
b. Year: 2005
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
e. First time viewing!
15. X
a. Director: Ti West
b. Year: 2022
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film on a rural Texas farm, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the crew find themselves fighting for their lives.
e. First time viewing!
16. The Witch
a. Director: Robert Eggers
b. Year: 2015
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: An isolated Puritan family in 1630s New England comes unraveled by the forces of witchcraft and possession.
17. Hocus Pocus
a. Director: Kenny Ortega
b. Year: 1993
c. Rating: PG
d. Summary: A teenage boy named Max and his little sister move to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
18. Young Frankenstein
a. Director: Mel Brooks
b. Year: 1974
c. Rating: PG
d. Summary: An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
19. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
a. Director: Tobe Hooper
b. Year: 1974
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
20. A Nightmare on Elm Street
a. Director: Wes Craven
b. Year: 1984
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
21. The Cabin in the Woods
a. Director: Drew Goddard
b. Year: 2011
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A group of kids go to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a world-wide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.
22. Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
a. Director: Mary Lambert
b. Year: 2001
c. Rating: TV-PG
d. Summary: A young witch and her grandmother work together to foil the plans of a wicked warlock's son before he can use powerful spells to create chaos in the world.
23. All Hallows' Eve
a. Director: Damien Leone
b. Year: 2013
c. Rating: Not Rated
d. Summary: While babysitting two children on Halloween, a babysitter finds a VHS tape in one of their candy bags. The tape contains three horror stories, linked by a killer clown. As the night progresses, strange things happen in the house.
e. First time viewing!
24. The Hills Have Eyes
a. Director: Wes Craven
b. Year: 1977
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
e. First time viewing!
25. N/A
26. Horror of Dracula
a. Director: Terence Fisher
b. Year: 1958
c. Rating: Approved
d. Summary: When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.
27. Midsommar
a. Director: Ari Aster
b. Year: 2019
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
28. Late Night with the Devil
a. Director: Cameron and Colin Cairnes
b. Year: 2023
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
e. First time viewing!
29. The Phantom of the Opera
a. Director: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney (uncredited), Ernst Laemmle (uncredited)
b. Year: 1925
c. Rating: Passed
i. From Google: Like "Approved," "Passed" was a rating given by the Hays Office, which enforced the Motion Picture Production Code, a set of moral guidelines followed by the industry from the 1930s until the 1960s.
d. Summary: A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
30. Candyman
a. Director: Bernard Rose
b. Year: 1992
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
31. Tusk
a. Director: Kevin Smith
b. Year: 2014
c. Rating: R
d. Summary: A brash and arrogant podcaster gets more than he bargained for when he travels to Canada to interview a mysterious recluse…who has a rather disturbing fondness for walruses.
