Spooky Season Streaming Guide 2024: Best Halloween Movies & Shows

Spooky season is here and other than lighting all the candles and drinking WAY too much Pumpkin Spice Lattes, my favorite way to get into autumn vibes is watching classic Halloween movies or shows. 

But it’s so dang hard keeping track of all the things AND where exactly to stream them this year. Thankfully, my Ravenclaw bestie Amy put together a spreadsheet of all the best Halloween movies and shows, plus where to stream in 2024. 

She was nice enough to let me share the list with you guys, and I updated for 2024. Plus Amy shared her own Hocus Pocus drinking game rules, which I highly recommend you play with your girlfriends and a LOT of wine. Bonus Points if you dress on theme as one of the Sanderson Sisters (personally, I love Sarah Jessica Parker’s look)! 

This time of the year usually flies by – Halloween, Thanksgiving and  are kind of a blur. That’s why I love to savor this time by being super extra for the different seasons. In this case, a classic Halloween movie always gets me in the spirit (or even a fun YouTube video playing some spooky background noise while I’m working). 

Not only will this inspire what content to watch, but might inspire some Halloween costume ideas. Once you have your Halloween costumes picked, I recommend turning to a site like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to determine exactly how you’ll be able pull it together! 

All The Best Halloween Movies & Shows + Where To Stream Them 2024

Like a true millennial, I somehow found myself paying for pretty much all the streaming services. It comes in handy during the fall and holiday seasons. 

These are all the best things to watch in October! Either Halloween classics or movies with MAJOR fall vibes. It’s important to note that I don’t watch horror movies, but I added a couple of classic horror films for the sake of this list. 

Netflix

• Gilmore Girls
• Hubie Halloween
• Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
• Nightbooks
• Fear Street
• Stranger Things
• Dracula
• Goosebumps
• iZombie
• First Kill
• Mr. Harrigan’s Phone 
• The Midnight Club
• The Curse of Bridge Hollow 
• Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
• Wendell and Wild 
• Wednesday
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Hotel Transylvania 2 & 3

Hulu

• Warm Bodies
• Hardy Boys
• Scream Queens
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• What We Do In The Shadows (find our inspired cocktail here!)
• The X-Files
• American Horror Stories
• Buffy
• Fresh 
• Get Out 
• Beetlejuice (1988) 
• Prey
• Over the Garden Wall

Amazon Prime Video

• Knives Out (rent for $3.99!) 
• Young Frankenstein
• The Shining
• Addams Family Values (plus other Addams Family movies)
• Paranormal Activity 
• Sleepy Hollow
• Child’s PlayLisa Frankenstein
• Night of the Living Dead
• My Babysitter’s a Vampire (Season 1 free)
• Sabrina (from $3.99)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (from $3.79)
• The Blair Witch Project (from $3.99)

Disney+

• Hocus Pocus 
• Hocus Pocus 2
• Simpson’s Halloween
• ZOMBIE 1, 2 & 3
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Halloweentown 1, 2 & 3 (also I visited the very real Halloweentown last year)
• Twitches
• The Haunted Mansion (2003)
• Haunted Mansion (2023)
• Muppets Haunted Mansion
• Edward Scissorhands
• Girl vs. Monster
• A Haunting in Venice
• Goosebumps
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• Coco
• Frankenweenie

HBO

• Harry Potter Series
• Nancy Drew
• Freaky
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Carrie
• Scary Movie
• Scream 1, 2, & 3
• Friday the 13th
• Poltergeist
• Victor Frankenstein
• The Craft
• The Sixth Sense

Peacock

• The Munsters
• The curated Halloween episodes playlist (The Office, SNL, Modern Family, Brooklyn Nine Nine, etc)
• Harry Potter Series
• Donnie DarkoFive Nights at Freddy’s
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Night of the Living Dead
• Jaws
• Clue

Freeform: 31 Nights of Halloween

You can pretty much guarantee ALL the Halloween classics will play at some point on Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween. At the time of publishing (August 2024), Freeform hasn’t released the schedule, and we’ll update as soon as they do! 

Other Platforms

• Practical Magic (Pluto TV) 
• Stephen King’s IT (1990 – Tubi) 
• Hotel Transylvania (Tubi)  
• Bewitched (Roku TV, Philo, Sling TV)
• Casper (rent for $3.79 on Amazon Prime) 
• Gremlins (rent for $3.79 on Amazon Prime)
• It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (Apple TV)
• Twilight (all of them) are available to rent on Amazon Prime! Fingers crossed another platform picks them up soon.

Finding Your Perfect Spooky Watch

There’s a spectrum to consider when watching movies during spooky season. From “this is going to haunt me forever” to “so cute and fun!” Or you can think about it as psychological terror to family fun. 

When choosing your genre consider your mood. Do you want something scary? Light and fun? If you want to be scared, choose a classic horror like: 

• Slasher and Gore (think that “eek eek eek” shower scene, iykyk) 
• Monster and Supernatural (your ghosts and vampire flicks) 
• Psychological Horror (messes with your mind!) 

Want something a little more PG? You don’t have to go full family friendly, but not something that makes you lose sleep, consider: 

• Creature Features (like Casper the FRIENDLY ghost!) 
• Comedy Horror (like Scary Movie) 
• Family-Friendly Animated Movies (Hotel Transylvania, anyone?!) 

Lastly, we have our Halloween classics. A little bit of scare, but mostly good nostalgic vibes like Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown. 

Once you pick your vibes, cross-check your platform of choice from the list above and pic your movie. Pop the corn, set up the pillow fort, make the butterbeer, or whatever sets the mood and cozy up! 

How would you rate this list? Is there something to add?! Let us know in the comments! They’re constantly updating watch lists so it’s easy to miss a great show or movie.