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Theme: Halloween


Halloween is an annual event in Western countries – in North America in particular – celebrated on October 31st. Children and adults dress in scary costume and tour neighbourhoods trick-or-treating where they are usually rewarded with candy at the houses visited.

On screen, Halloween was typified by the exploits of Michael Myers in Halloween (1978), the first slasher film. This was followed by various other films about killers stalking people on Halloween Night. Other films concern people often unwittingly venturing into haunted locales, enacting rituals or stirring up spirits on Halloween.

Halloween is also the time when assorted creatures come out to play. In the 2010s, a number of films have concerned themselves with Halloween haunts (haunted house attractions) with killers lurking amidst the make-believe.

There has also been a tradition on various tv shows and movies conducting a Halloween special or episode. For more detail and an overview of the genre see the Theme Essay Films About Halloween.


6 Degrees of Hell (2012)

23 July 201313 July 2019

Rating: 0­

Haunted Halloween House of Horrors

Director: Joe Raffa
Actors: Corey Feldman, Nicole Cinaglia, Faust Checho, Brian Anthony Wilson, …
Category: Horror

All Hallows’ Eve (2013)

6 April 20236 April 2023

Rating: ★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Damien Leone
Actors: Katie Maguire, Catherine Callahan, Marie Maser, Kayla Lian, …
Category: Horror

The American Scream (2012)

15 November 201219 August 2019

Rating: ★★★

Halloween Home Hauntings Documentary

Director: Michael Paul Stephenson
Category: Horror

The Bates Haunting (2012)

24 August 201423 February 2021

Rating: ★★

Halloween Haunted House Attraction Slasher

Director: Byron Turk
Actors: Jean Louise O'Sullivan, Zachary Fletcher, Dante Zucca, Robert Haag, …
Category: Horror

Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two (2021)

6 August 20213 February 2022

Rating: ★★½

Comic-Book Superhero/Animation

Director: Chris Palmer
Actors: Jensen Ackles, Josh Duhamel, Naya Rivera, Billy Burke, …
Category: Fantasy

Boo! 2 A Madea Halloween (2017)

24 February 202024 February 2020

Rating: ★

Halloween Comedy

Director: Tyler Perry
Actors: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Diamond White, …
Category: Horror

Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)

12 March 201714 January 2020

Rating: ★½

Halloween Comedy

Director: Tyler Perry
Actors: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Diamond White, …
Category: Horror

The Book of Life (2014)

9 November 201417 December 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Animation/Mexican Day of the Dead

Director: Jorge R. Gutierrez
Actors: Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman, …
Category: Fantasy

The Caretaker (2008)

23 February 200823 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: Bryce Fridrik Olson
Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Judd Nelson, Jonathan Breck
Category: Horror

Charlie Charlie (2016)

11 April 201929 October 2020

Rating: ★

Oracular Game

Director: Derek Presley
Actors: Tom Zembrod
Category: Horror

Clownhouse (1989)

11 December 200625 January 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Psycho Clowns

Director: Victor Salva
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh
Category: Horror

Cobweb (2023)

6 October 20236 October 2023

Rating: ★★★

Secrets in the Walls

Director: Samuel Bodin
Actors: Lizzy Caplan, Anthony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman, Woody Norman, …
Category: Horror

Goosebumps 2 (2018)

14 April 201930 July 2021

Rating: ★★

Evil Ventriloquist’s Dummy Amok

Director: Ari Sandel
Actors: Jeremy Ray Taylor, Madison Iseman, Caleel Harris, Mark Winert, …
Category: Horror

Hack-o-Lantern (1988)

25 August 202025 August 2020

Rating: 0­

Halloween Killings

Director: Jag Mundhra
Actors: Hy Pyke, Gregory Scott Cummins
Category: Horror

Halloween (1978)

6 December 200216 July 2022

Rating: ★★★★½

Slasher Film

Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, …
Category: Horror

Halloween (2007)

13 February 20093 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: Rob Zombie
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, …
Category: Horror

Halloween (2018)

12 January 20192 November 2023

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, …
Category: Horror

Halloween 5 (1989)

5 May 200311 July 2020

Rating: ★½

Slasher Film

Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr, …
Category: Horror

Halloween Ends (2022)

22 October 20222 November 2023

Rating: ★

Slasher Film

Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Jude Courtney, Andi Matichak, Rohan Campbell, …
Category: Horror

Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)

8 August 200116 October 2023

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: Steve Miner
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, …
Category: Horror

Halloween II (1981)

1 February 200222 October 2021

Rating: ★★½

Slasher Film

Director: Rick Rosenthal
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest, Charles Cyphers, …
Category: Horror

Halloween II (2009)

3 January 201028 May 2021

Rating: ★★½

Slasher Film

Director: Rob Zombie
Actors: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif, …
Category: Horror

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

19 February 200122 October 2022

Rating: ★★★

Mad Scientist’s Occult Revenge Plot

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Actors: Tom Atkins, Dan O'Herlihy
Category: Horror

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

13 December 200219 March 2021

Rating: ★½

Slasher Film

Director: Dwight H. Little
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, George Wilbur, …
Category: Horror

Halloween Kills (2021)

23 October 20212 November 2023

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Michael Hall, James Jude Courtney, Judy Greer, …
Category: Horror

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

2 December 200222 October 2021

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: Rick Rosenthal
Actors: Bianca Kajlich, Busta Rhymes, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Loree, …
Category: Horror

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

1 November 199922 October 2021

Rating: ★

Slasher Film

Director: Joe Chappelle
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Kim Darby, Mitchell Ryan
Category: Horror

Hans Crippleton: Talk to the Hans (2014)

28 June 201631 May 2021

Rating: 0­

Deformed Hillbilly Monster Hunter Comedy

Director: Jimmy Lee Combs
Actors: Kevon Ward
Category: Horror

Haunt (2019)

14 February 202026 September 2023

Rating: ★★

Extreme Halloween Attraction

Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Category: Horror

The Hazing (2004)

26 January 202326 January 2023

Rating: ★★

University Hazing in a Haunted House

Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Actors: Tiffany Shepis, Brad Dourif, Parry Shen, David Tom, …
Category: Horror

Hell Fest (2018)

22 February 20214 February 2023

Rating: ★★★

Masked Psycho Stalks a Halloween Attraction

Director: Gregory Plotkin
Actors: Amy Forsyth, Stephen Conroy, Reign Edwards, Roby Attal, …
Category: Horror

Hellions (2015)

10 January 20167 July 2021

Rating: ★★

Masked Children Pursue a Girl on Halloween Night

Director: Bruce McDonald
Actors: Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick, Rachel Wilson, Rossif Sutherland, …
Category: Horror

Hocus Pocus (1993)

25 November 200027 October 2022

Rating: ★

Revived Witches/Disney Film

Director: Kenny Ortega
Actors: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, …
Category: Fantasy

Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

31 October 202218 January 2023

Rating: ★½

Revived Witches/Disney Film

Director: Anne Fletcher
Actors: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Whitney Peak, …
Category: Fantasy

The Houses October Built 2 (2017)

13 October 201730 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Found Footage/Extreme Halloween Attractions

Director: Bobby Roe
Actors: Brandy Schaefer, Mikey Roe, Bobby Roe, Zack Andrews, …
Category: Horror

The Houses October Built (2014)

15 May 20159 November 2021

Rating: ★★

Found Footage/Extreme Halloween Attractions

Director: Bobby Roe
Actors: Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Mikey Roe, Bobby Roe, …
Category: Horror

The Midnight Hour (1985)

8 April 200122 March 2023

Rating: ★★

Halloween Special

Director: Jack Bender
Actors: Lee Harcourt Montgomery, Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, …
Category: Horror

Night of the Demons (2009)

24 June 20133 June 2020

Rating: ★★

House of the Possessed Dead

Director: Adam Gierasch
Actors: Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Edward Furlong, Diora Baird, …
Category: Horror

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

8 February 200423 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Halloween Denizens Take Over Christmas/Stop-Motion Animation

Director: Henry Selick
Actors: Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, …
Category: Fantasy

Pay the Ghost (2015)

14 July 201724 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Man Searches for His Supernaturally Abducted Son

Director: Uli Edel
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Stephen McHattie, Susannah Hoffman, Lyriq Bent
Category: Horror

Spaced Invaders (1990)

4 December 20003 March 2023

Rating: ★

Bumbling Alien Invaders

Director: Patrick Read Johnson
Actors: Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, Douglas Barr, Wayne Alexander, …
Category: Science Fiction

Tales of Halloween (2015)

14 December 20157 February 2022

Rating: ★★

Anthology of Halloween Horror Stories

Director: Dave Parker, Darren Lynn Bousman, Adam Gierasch, Paul Solet, …
Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Daniel DiMaggio, Austin Falk, Madison Iseman, …
Category: Horror

Trick (2019)

3 July 20207 July 2023

Rating: ★★½

Halloween Killer

Director: Patrick Lussier
Actors: Omar Epps, Ellen Adair, Tom Atkins, Jamie Kennedy, …
Category: Horror

Trick or Treats (1982)

22 August 20176 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: Gary Graver
Actors: Jackelyn Giroux, Peter Jason, Carrie Snodgress, David Carradine, …
Category: Horror

Trick ‘R Treat (2008)

20 May 20106 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Halloween Horror Anthology

Director: Michael Dougherty
Actors: Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Leslie Bibb, …
Category: Horror

When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)

5 February 20153 March 2023

Rating: ★★½

Children’s Halloween Film

Director: Patrick Read Johnson
Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Roy Billings, Brendan McCarthy
Category: Horror

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