Happy October! Celebrate the Halloween season with movie marathons and jump scares all month long. Not sure where to get started? Here are 30 movies for just you and some friends, or for the whole family!

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Teen/Adult

The Lodge (2019)

About: A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.

Where to stream: Hulu

1BR (2019)

About: Sarah tries to start anew in LA, but her neighbours are not what they seem.

Where to stream: Netflix

The Invisible Man (2020)

About: When Cecilia’s abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

Where to stream: HBO Max

Hereditary (2018)

About: A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.

Where to stream: Amazon Prime

Us (2019)

About: A family’s serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.

Where to stream: HBO Max

Midsommar (2019)

About: A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled 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.

Where to stream: Amazon Prime

Beetlejuice (1988)

About: The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

Where to stream: Peacock; Rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

About: On Halloween 1968, Stella and her two friends meet a mysterious drifter, Ramón, and uncover a sinister notebook of stories.

Where to buy: Amazon Prime, Apple, YouTube

The Others (2001)

About: A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

Where to stream: HBO Max

The Addams Family (1991)

About: Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.

Where to stream: Netflix, Amazon Prime

The Sixth Sense (1999)

About: A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

The Craft (1996)

About: A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

The Quiet Place (2018)

About: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

The Exorcist (1973)

About: When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

About: A young couple trying for a baby move into a fancy apartment surrounded by peculiar neighbors.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Family-Friendly

Coraline (2009)

About: An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Monster House (2006)

About: Three teens discover that their neighbor’s house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Halloweentown (1998)

About: After learning she is a witch, a girl helps save a town full of other supernatural creatures.

Where to stream: Disney+

Hocus Pocus (1993)

About: A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.

Where to stream: Disney+

ET (1982)

About: A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Frankenweenie (2012)

About: When a boy’s beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.

Where to stream: Disney+

Corpse Bride (2005)

About: When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Twitches (2005)

About: Two teen witches who were separated at birth and were adopted by two different families meet on their 21st birthday and must use their powers to save the world in which they were born, where their birth mother still lives.

Where to stream: Disney+

Scooby-Doo (2002)

About: After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.

Where to stream: HBO Max

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

About: Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.

Where to stream: Disney+

Paranorman (2012)

About: A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

About: Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count’s teenaged daughter.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

About: A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.

Where to stream: Disney+

Casper (1995)

About: An afterlife therapist and his daughter meet a friendly young ghost when they move into a crumbling mansion in order to rid the premises of wicked spirits.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple

Ghostbusters (1984)

About: Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

Where to rent: Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple