Cozy and/or spooky season means it's time to make a list of the best Halloween movies to get you in the mood. Everyone’s mood is different, of course. Some of us prefer Halloween movies that are sweeter than candy.
But we all love this time of year; the orange leaves on the trees, the pumpkin carving opportunities, and chilly weekends spent on the sofa, lining up film marathons. Even if you don't have your costumes or your house parties sorted yet, you can at least sort out the movie you're keen on seeing before the big day is here. Here, we've rounded up some of the best spooky movies to get you in the mood—from The Craft to Hocus Pocus, to more modern Halloween films like The Haunted Mansion on Disney+.
Twin brothers return from Chicago to their Southern rural home town to open in juke joint in 1932. Little do they know, a vampire is planning to gatecrash. Jordan (in duel roles), Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Delroy Lindo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jack O’Connell, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li What's it about?
A teenage goth in the 80s accidentally reanimates a corpse and not-so-accidentally falls in love with him. Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Carla Gugino What's it about? A young aspiring author marries an aristocrat and moves to his country manor in Victorian era England.
Wouldn’t you know it, the house seems haunted... and something is up with the young woman’s new sister-in-law. Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessican Chastain, Charlie Hunnam What's it about? The brooding, angst-ridden vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac recounts his life story to a reporter in the present day.
His tale starts in New Orleans, where he first met (and was turned by) the flamboyant vampire Lestat de Lioncourt and added a tempestuous young girl named Claudia to their coven. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas What's it about? Lydia Deetz is *still* haunted by Beetlejuice, over 30 years after the original Beetlejuice, and when she returns to Winter River with her teenage daughter after a family tragedy, her life is turned upside down once again.
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