Halloween is around the corner, and I know you are ready for the spooky season to start. Planning the Halloween costume with your friends, binging Halloween-themed TV episodes, or going to the theatre to watching horror movies are perfect ways to celebrate the best month of the year.
In case you haven't decided which Halloween movies to watch, we've got you covered this October. This article includes recommendations of recent and upcoming Halloween movies to watch in theatres in 2019. Or if you want to choose a classic Halloween movie to enjoy with your friends and families, there are also plenty of picks.
Now get ready to go through the best Halloween movies to watch in 2019. These movies are sure to leave you and your friends a deep impression by the end of the night.
Horror Movies to Watch in Theaters This Halloween 2019
1. Zombieland: Double Tap
Release Date: October 18, 2019
Runtime: 1h 39min
R
Genres: Action, Comedy, Horror
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cast: Woody Harrelson | Jesse Eisenberg | Emma Stone | Abigail Breslin
Country: USA
Story: Zombieland: Double Tap is the sequel to the 2009 horror-comedy Zombieland. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) returned to carry on fighting against evolved zombies. And new fellow survivors join this group.
2. Doctor Sleep
Release Date: November 8, 2019 (USA)
Runtime: 151 min
R
Genres: Horror
Director: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Ewan McGregor | Rebecca Ferguson | Jacob Tremblay
Country: USA
Story: The much-anticipated Doctor Sleep is a horror movie based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Stephen King. And it is a sequel to The Shinning. Years after his family's disastrous stay at the Overlook Hotel, grown-up Dan Torrance meets a young girl who has the same power as his and tries to protect her from a cult who feeds on children with psychic powers.
3. Parasite
Release Date: October 11, 2019 (USA)
Runtime: 2h 2min
R
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Cast: Kang-ho Song | Yeo-jeong Jo | So-dam Park
Country: South Korea
Story: Many of you may hear of the rumor out of film festivals, saying that Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a masterpiece. The Korean movie revolves around an all unemployed family, who takes peculiar interest in a much wealthier family's lives. One day, the characters find themselves getting entangled in an unexpected incident. And starting as a satire about class inequality, the story quickly evolves into a horror show.
4. The Lighthouse
Release Date: October 18, 2019 (USA)
R
Runtime: 1h 49min
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman
Country: Canada | USA
Story: The Lighthouse is director Robert Eggers' follow-up to his acclaimed 2015 movie, The Witch. The main characters in The Lighthouse are a pair of lighthouse keepers who are tormented while trapped on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 19th century.
5. Countdown
Release Date: October 25, 2019
PG-13
Runtime: 1h 39min
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Director: Justin Dec
Cast: Anne Winters, Elizabeth Lail, Charlie McDermott
Country: USA
Story: When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment when the user is going to die. She is told she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she has to find a way to save herself before time runs out.
Classic Halloween Movies to Watch on Halloween 2019
1. Scream
Release Date: December 20, 1996
R
Runtime: 1h 51min
Genres: Horror, Mystery
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
Country: USA
Story: When the line "Do you like scary movies?" and the following shocking killing come up at the beginning, you may think Scream is a refreshing horror movie.
It tells a story that after a series of mysterious deaths befalls a small town, Sidney Prescott and her offbeat group of friends become the target of a masked killer. They are living in a real-life scary movie.
2. The Exorcist
Release Date: December 26, 1973
R
Runtime: 2h 2min
Genres: Horror
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
Country: USA
Story: The Exorcist, the Oscar-winning horror movie is the type that makes you sleep with the lights on. The thriller is about a mother who seeks help from to priests to save her daughter as her young daughter is possessed by a mysterious entity.
3. The Shinning
Release Date: June 13, 1980
R
Runtime: 2h 26min
Genres: Drama Horror
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Country: USA
Story: Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. And his son, Danny, who owns a special talent, the "Shining", sees horrific forebodings happening in the hotel from both past and future.
4. Hocus Pocus
Release Date: July 16, 1993
PG
Runtime: 1h 36min
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy
Country: USA
Story: A curious youngster moves to Salem, and struggles to fit in but accidentally resurrect three 300-year-old witches. And the witches have one night to secure their continuing existence, so they decided to chase the teenage to seek ways to survive.
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
Release Date: October 29, 1993
PG
Runtime: 1h 16min
Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
Story: Not long after the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town concludes he's simply bored with the annual celebrations related to Halloween, he stumbles into Christmas Town. As he attempts to bring Christmas to his home, confusion comes after…
25 More Halloween Movies You Can Choose to Watch
1.Train to Busan
Movie released date: 13 May 2016
Runtime: 118 minutes
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Brief introduction:
The movie describes the time when a kind of terrible virus is wide spreading in the country. The virus is so dangerous that it can turn people into a zombie. When a man, Seok-woo, who is a divorced father of a little daughter, wants to realize his daughter's dream on her birthday, and is going to take her to Busan for visiting her mother. However, on their way to Busan, they trapped on KTX, and is facing the great danger that the passengers are all turned into zombie...
2.Under the Shadow
Movie released date: 23 January 2016
Runtime: 84 minutes
Country: United Kingdom & Jordan & Qatar
Language: Persian
Brief introduction:
During the time when Iran-Iraq War was happening, the building of Shideh was attacked. A neighbor considered that this was happening due to the fact that there is an evil spirit hidden in the missile. She also believed that a supernatural power was trying to possess the body of her daughter. To save both her daughter and herself, she had no choice and only have to face these power.
3.Carrie (1976)
Movie released date: November 3, 1976
Runtime: 98 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The movie concentrates on a sensitive teen, Carrie White. She lives a bad life with classmates scoring, and abuse from her mother. One day, Carrie finds that there are some strange things happening around her, and it seems that she has supernatural power. When she is invited by Tommy to attend a prom, Carrie finally runs into a terrible and violent turn.
4.Apostle
Movie released date: 21 September 2018
Runtime: 129 minutes
Country: United Kingdom & United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The story happens in 1905, in London. One day, when Thomas Richardson went back home, he discovered that his sister was extorted by a religious cult. In order to help his sister and let her go back to the society again, Thomas went to an island where the cult lives. Before his trip, Thomas could never imagine that he would know a dark secret hidden by the cult.
5.Personal Shopper
Movie released date: 17 May 2016
Runtime: 106 minutes
Country: France & Germany & Czech Republic & Belgium
Language: English & French & Swedish
Brief introduction:
After deciding to lead a living in Paris, the supermodel, Maureen, decides to stay strong three months after her twin brother's death. Maureen meets a medium, who can give her a sign of her next life. This medium asks Maureen to find him out in the house that his girlfriend is trying to sell. Then Maureen starts to contact with the 'thing' she can't see.
6.XX
Movie released date: January 22, 2017
Runtime: 80 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
In the story, four movie directors tells four different horrible storie - The Box, The Birthday Party, Don't Fall, and Her Only Living Son. In The Box, it focuses on a strange boy who will behaves strangely while looking ata mysterious gift box; The Birthday Party tells a woman tries her best to avoid an untimely death destroy her son't bash; In the story of Don't Fall, you will see how an innocent trip becomes a tragedy; In Her Only Living Son, you can know how a mother tries to save her kid from the hell.
7.The Sixth Sense
Movie released date: August 2, 1999
Runtime: 107 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The protagonist of the movie, Cole Sear, is confused by a dark secret - he is disturbed by ghosts, and he feels really terrified because the visits of these ghosts. He even feels too hard to tell the truth. When he goes to a child psychologist and asks for help, they both finds out some unexplainable things.
8.The Eyes of My Mother
Movie released date: January 22, 2016
Runtime: 77 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English & Portuguese
Brief introduction:
Francisca never feels concerned or afraid of death because his father used to be a surgeon and has deep understanding about human anatomy. But things become worse after a tragedy happens on her family, the darkness gets appeared obviously. Since then, many terrible things happen...
9.Little Evil
Movie released date: September 1, 2017
Runtime: 95 minutes
Country: United State
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The movie focuses on a newly married man, who has a strange though that his 5-year-old stepson is the production of Satan. He behaves strangely, and it seems that there is a hidden secret hide on him. So what's the truth?
10.The Gift
Movie released date: July 30, 2015
Runtime: 108 minutes
Country: United States & Australia
Language: English
Brief introduction:
Simon and Robyn gets married, and it seems that they are going to start a brand new life...before they meet Gordo. After they three encounter with a series of strange things a mysterious gifts, they discover a terrible secret. After Robyn knows about the truth between Simon and Gordo, she can only find that she only knows very little about her partner.
11.Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Movie released date: 22 January 2010
Runtime: 89 minutes
Country: Canada & United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
Tucker and Dale are good friends. During a time when they goes on a vacation in a remote woodhood, they even can't imagine that what terrible things they would meet. They meet two college students who thinks them are a pair of murderous hillbillies, so the tragedy just happens...
12.Bird Box
Movie released date: November 12, 201
Runtime: 124 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
It seems that an unknown power is going to destroy all people living on Earth. It sets a rule that if you can see the force, you will die certainly. Therefore, people who want to survive have to avoid facing the terrible force directly. To find hope and start a new life, a woman goes on a journey for finding a place for living with her children. But to succeed, they need to avoid seeing into the evil eyes.
13.The Perfection
Movie released date: September 20, 2018
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
Charlotte is a talented cellist, but she has to leave her academy and music career. Charlotte has a sick mother and she needs to take care of her, however, her mother finally dies. After the pass away of her mother, Charlotte wants to go back to the college and continues on her music career, but she only finds that her tutor has a new student, Lizzie. Charlotte becomes envy about the girl and she becomes friend with her with a unpure purpose. This make herself approach to darkness...
14.Halloween 2018
Movie released date: September 8, 2018
Runtime: 106 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
40 years ago, Laurie Strode suffers a terrible attack from a crazy killer, Michael Myers, at the night of Halloween. Fortunately, she survived from the tragedy. 40 years passed and now Michael is locked in an institution. He tries and finally succeeds in escaping the place, but the bus he is going take goes wrong. After he returns back to Haddonfield, Laurie has to face him. But this time, Laurie gets ready.
15.Hocus Pocus
Movie released date: July 16, 1993
Runtime: 96 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
Max Dennison and his sister, Dani, makes a new friend, Allison after they move to Salem. One time, when the three teenagers go to explore an abandon house and dismiss a story, they free the evil witches of the house by accident. After the mistake happens, they have to try their best to steal a curse book from these witches, preventing them from becoming immortal.
16.The Nightmare Before Christmas
Movie released date: October 29, 1993
Runtime: 76 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
Jack Skellington is a pumkin king that is loved by Halloweentown. However, he gets really tired of the routine work he needs to do on every Halloween night - to get people afraid. One time when Jack falls into the Christmastown by mistake, he seems that his new life can become more colorful. He then gets a plan, which is to kidnap Santa Claus and make himself take a full charge of Christmas. However, his plan goes awry.
17.Hotel Transylvania
Movie released date: September 8, 2012
Runtime: 91 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The monster want to get out of the restrictions around them, so they go to Hotel Transylvania, where is a perfect vacation place for them because they can just be themselves. This time, they just catch up with the 118th birthday of Mavis, and Dracula invites many creatures for celebrating. Accidentally, an ordinary man breaks into the party, and falls in love with Mavis. Then a complicated story happens...
18.Monster House
Movie released date: July 21, 2006
Runtime: 91 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The three youths, D.J. Walters, Chowder, and Jenny Bennett state that a living creature is living in their neighbourhood. However, no adults believe them and they consider that the three teenagers are just kidding. So without help, the three friends have to find out a way by themselves to defeat the creature before it is going to destroy the whole building.
19.Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Movie released date: October 8, 2018
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
One day, the best friends Sonny and Sam meets Slappy, a dummy, which is from an unreleased book written by R.L. Stine. In order to find his own family, Slappy kidnap Sonny's mother, and brings all his terrible friends back to life on Halloween. The quiet and peaceful town suddenly is filled with horrible monsters, witches, and some unknown creatures. In order to save Sonny's mother and the town, Sonny, his sister, and Sam, unit up for defeating Slappy.
20.Boo! A Madea Halloween
Movie released date: October 22, 2016
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
In order to get the approval and appreciation from friends, Tiffany escapes out of house quietly and attends a Halloween bash party at night. But when the police arrives, the party ends unhappily. Due to the disappointment, soon, those collegians make up their minds for scaring the police and her relatives as well. Later, Madea finds that she is under attack, so she has to escape from all kinds of ghosts, ghouls, and zombies.
21.Fun Size
Movie released date: October 26, 2012
Runtime: 86 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
Wren is an ordinary high school student who can't wait to escape from her unsatisfied family. During the Halloween night, Wren's mother wants to hang out with her boyfriend, then only leave Wren to take care of her little brother, Albert. During the period, Wren is distracted by the annual party, Albert disappears. So Wren starts her adventure for finding her sibling with the help of her classmates.
22.Frankenweenie
Movie released date: September 20, 2012
Runtime: 87 minutes
Country: United State
Language: English
Brief introduction:
Victor Frankenstein is a young person, who is a science nerd and doesn't show many interest in any event in school. But he still has a friend, Sparky, which is his dog. But soon, sad thing happen - Sparky gets out of his mortal coil. Victor gets really sad. In order to cheer him up, Victor's science tutor offers him an idea, and the experiment works. However, some of Victor’s classmates steal his experiment for calling other dead animals back to life, which leads to a terrible result.
23.Spooky Buddies
Movie released date: September 20, 2011
Runtime: 88 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The Buddies, are going to participate in a race with their friends, Pip, Zelda, Rodney, and Skip. But the enemy they need to face is a no-good hound. In order to prevent Warwick and his bad behavior that may damage the work, the friends have to unit up and defeat him.
24.Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Movie released date: September 29, 1995
Runtime: 88 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
The movie focuses on a terrible murder, Michael Myers, who is always wearing his mark while doing crime. This time, Michael Myers comes back for killing Tommy Doyle. He takes Tommy as a target because Tommy has relationship with Michael's willing as well as Strode family. While the movie following Michael and his terrible supernatural power, you can also see his enemy, Sam Loomis, how to stop the brutal rampages.
25.Trick 'r Treat
Movie released date: December 7, 2007
Runtime: 82 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Brief introduction:
On a small town, some terrible things happen to the residents on the day of Halloween. The town needs to face the true ghost and goblins during the night. Also, the terror happens while the Jack-o-Lantern and grumpy hermit meets a sinister trick-or-treater.
Bottom Line
No holiday is complete without a movie marathon, especially Halloween. Halloween has long inspired some of the scariest films of the year. However, Halloween movies don't have to be gruesome and frightful. Kids can also have a few family-friendly options to spend the night. Just choosing a Halloween movie and celebrate the holiday from the comfort of your home with families and friends.
