Since October has started, it is time for delicious popcorn and fun Halloween movie nights. There are many fun classic scary movies to choose from. A few examples are Scream, The Conjuring, Saw, and Jaws. Some newer movies include The Backrooms and Obsession. If you aren’t a big fan of horror, that’s no problem; there are still many fun Halloween movies to choose from that aren’t horror. Non-scary movies feature Hocus Pocus, Ghostbusters, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Coraline, but there are still many more Halloween movies out there.
HORROR MOVIES:
Scream (December 20, 1996). Scream is a horror movie about a teenager in high school who gets a phone call from “Ghostface” and gets targeted by “Ghostface” on the anniversary of her mother’s death.
Saw (October 29, 2004) Saw tracks two men who are captured by the famous killer “Jigsaw”. The men have to follow Jigsaw’s instructions to survive, but none will survive in the end.
Jaws (June 20, 1975) Jaws is a movie set on a beach, and a shark kills a lady at night, and the Mayor leaves the beach open, worrying that tourist attraction will decrease if it closes. The shark keeps attacking, and finally a marine biologist looks into the case and realizes that the “thing” that caused the deaths wasn’t a shark at all.
Backrooms (May 29, 2026) Backrooms is a movie that shows an endless yellow room dimension, and a man named Clark and his therapist, Dr. Mary, find themselves stuck in the backrooms.
PARANORMAL MOVIES:
The Conjuring (July 19, 2013). The Conjuring follows a group of paranormal investigators who help a family that is getting terrorized by a spirit haunting their farmhouse.
Ghostbusters (June 8, 1984). Ghostbusters is a comedy Halloween film about a group of scientist ghost-hunting and will save the world from an ancient God.
The Sixth Sense (August 6, 1999). The Sixth Sense is about a little boy named Cole who sees ghosts and gets scared by them, so he tells no one but a psychologist named Dr.Malcolm Crowe, who tries to uncover what is happening with Cole.
Obsession (May 15, 2026). Obsession is a newer movie about a lonely guy named Bear who uses a “One Wish Willow” to make his crush Nikki fall in love with him. Nikki becomes possessed by an obsessive being and becomes obsessed with him.
The Shining (May 23, 1980). The Shining is about a writer named Jack who picks up a job at the Overlook Hotel during a writer’s block and takes his family with him. During a bad snowstorm, the family is isolated, and Jack gets possessed by malevolent spirits, which turn him into attacking his family.
MAGIC MOVIES:
Hocus Pocus (July 16, 1993). Hocus Pocus is a non-scary movie about witches who were executed back in 1693 and place a curse on a boy that will stay a black cat for eternity, come back alive in Salem, and cause havoc to kids that eventually trap them and the curse is lifted.
Practical Magic (October 16, 1998). Practical Magic is a witch movie about two sisters who are witches, and they have a curse put on their bloodline where any man they fall in love with dies.
FAMILY FRIENDLY NON-SCARY MOVIES:
The Nightmare Before Christmas (October 29, 1993). The Nightmare Before Christmas follows Jack Skellington, who is the pumpkin king, who is tired of the usual routine of Halloween and decides to take over Christmas instead. He has trick-or-treaters capture Santa Claus and bring him to Halloween Town, but everything goes wrong, so Jack has to fix it all.
Coraline (February 6, 2009). Coraline is about a girl who moves into a new apartment and finds a secret door that leads her into an alternate world, and she finds the “other parents” who have buttons for eyes and tries to manipulate Coraline into staying if she sews buttons into her eyes.
ROM-COMS:
Bewitched (June 24, 2005). Bewitched is about a famous movie star named Jack Wyatt who stars in a movie with Isabel Biglow, who plays his housewife who’s a witch, but it turns out that she actually is a witch.
Edward Scissorhands (December 7, 1990). Edward Scissorhands is about Edward, who is made by a scientist who died before he could finish Edward, so he is left with scissors for hands, and falls in love with a lady named Peg Boggs, even though he is an outcast.
When you watch a movie, you can have some popcorn or some Halloween-themed snacks to make it even more fall-themed. So which movie are you watching this season?
