81+ Best Halloween Movies [for Kids, Teens & Adults]

You may be like us and staying home with Halloween. One way we love to celebrate is with the best Halloween movies all month long! Below you’ll find the best movies for kids, teens, and adults!

Along with these ideas, we also put together a how to host a Halloween movie night with Halloween movie snacks and invitations as well!

While we’ve categorized the best Halloween movies for kids, teens, and adults, you should always use your judgement on whether your children (or yourself if you’re a horror-wimp like me!) are ready for a movie.

24 Nostalgic Cute Halloween Movies for Kids

1. Hocus Pocus
2. The Addams Family
3. Casper
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Ghostbusters
6. Halloweentown
7. The Haunted Mansion
8. Hotel Transylvania
9. E.T.
10. CoCo
11. Little Monsters
12. Corpse Bride
13. Scooby Doo
14. Scoob! (HBO Max)
15. The House with a Clock it Its Walls
16. Goosebumps
17. Toy Story of Terror Fun Size
18. Frankenweenie
19. Double, Double, Toil & Trouble
20. The Little Vampire
21. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
22. Gremlins
23. Ernest Scared Stupid

Check out our full Coraline Movie Night Menu or Nightmare Before Christmas brownies!

We also have a full Hocus Pocus movie night with recipes, activities, and trivia planned out for you!

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4 Teens & Tweens

1. Monster House 
2. Coraline
3. The Witches (1990)
4. Beetlejuice
5. The Cabin in the Woods (Older Teens)
6. Scary Movie (Older Teens)

You may also like The 25 Best Horror Movies for Tweens (10-13 Years Olds) or Beetlejuice Party ideas!

Best Halloween Movies for Teens & Adults

Since this is a large category, we wanted to also narrow it down a bit based on the type of Halloween movie it was.

If your party guests are over 21, we also have some fun horror movie drinking games!

 5 The Classic Halloween Movies

1. Psycho
2. Young Frankenstein (1974)
3. Wolfman
4. Creature of the Black Lagoon
5. Dracula

 12 Top Slasher Halloween Movies

1. Scream
2. Friday the 13th
3. Halloween
4. Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. The Thing
7. I Know What You Did Last Summer
8. Candy Man
9. Strangers
10. The Hills Have Eyes
11. Hush
12. Hellraiser

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25 Super Natural Halloween Movies

1. The Exorcist
2. Paranormal Activity 
3. Carrie
4. Children of the Corn
5. The Shining
6. It
7. Pet Sematary
8. The Sixth Sense
9. Rosemary’s Baby
10. The Amityville Horror
11. Final Destination
12. Chucky
13. The Blair Witch Project
14. Sleepy Hollow
15. The Evil Dead
16. Hereditary
17. The Ring
18. Trick ‘r Treat
19. The Grudge
20. The Conjuring
21. Annabelle
22. The Nun
23. The Omen
24. 13 Ghosts
25. The House on Haunted Hill

 

10 More Halloween Movies

1. A Quiet Place
2. Get Out
3. Signs
4. Practical Magic
5. Shutter Island
6. Clue
7. The Invisible Man
8. Edward Scissorhands
9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
10. Zombieland

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Whether you’re planning a get together with friends, a family movie night, or snuggling in with your significant other, we hope our list of best Halloween movies helps you create some memories!

You can also grab our favorite Halloween movie night snacks and party tips too!

 Now that you have your Halloween movies picked out Halloween, all you need is to invite your friends!

You can grab either of these free printable Halloween movie night invitations! No email sign-up required!

How to Use the Halloween Movie Night Invitations

Just click for the full-size, high-quality invite that is printable!

You can also save it on your iPhone, click Edit, then Markup to add your date and address!

Looking for something a little more creepy or adult? Check out our Fright Night Invite!

Love these ideas? Bookmark our 31 Halloween Movies Web Story for later!

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