This fake documentary investigates the deaths of 15 people at a haunted house as depicted through bone chilling found footage.
Trick or Treat: Halloween at the Movies
It’s the season for ghosts, ghouls, and scary stories. The perfect time to watch a movie—and the perfect setting for a movie to unfold. Celebrate the spookiest week of the year with this series of films that take place around October 31st, spanning 80 years of tricks and treats. From John Carpenter’s Halloween and its terrifyingly underrated sequel Halloween III: Season of the Witch to a gloriously bloody Mexican slasher, an Italian proto-giallo, and the beloved Judy Garland musical Meet Me in St. Louis, our screens are overflowing with a variety of the very best Halloween eye-candy from all over the world.
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Halloween
Oct 27—Oct 31, 2023
John Carpenter’s ultra-influential, breakout commercial hit—which made a horror icon out of the babysitter-stalking maniac Michael Myers—is a virtual master class in suspense, starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

John Carpenter’s ultra influential breakout hit introduced the world to masked maniac Michael Myers.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Oct 27—Oct 30, 2023
This riotously fun and deliciously 80s standalone sequel features killer Jack-o-lantern masks, mysterious men in suits, and an ancient Celtic ritual.

This riotously fun sequel features killer Jack-o-lantern masks, and an ancient Celtic ritual.

Idle Hands
Oct 28—Nov 2, 2023
The devil has taken over a channel-surfing couch-potato slacker’s right hand in this wickedly funny horror comedy starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, and Jessica Alba.

The devil takes control of a teen-slacker’s hand in this wickedly funny horror comedy.

Hocus Pocus
Oct 28—Oct 31, 2023
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy ham it up gloriously as the ghoulish Sanderson sisters—17th-century witches running amok in contemporary Salem—in this 90s nostalgia classic.

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy ham it up in this 90s nostalgic classic.

Ghostwatch
Oct 28—Oct 30, 2023
This terrifying BBC mockumentary shocked and horrified a whole generation of children who were tricked into believing stomach-turning paranormal events were occurring in real time.

The terrifying BBC mockumentary that scarred a whole generation of children.

Cemetery of Terror
Oct 28—Nov 2, 2023
A group of bored teens accidentally brings a savage serial killer back to life in this bloody, gutter-runs-red slasher romp from Mexican director Rubén Galindo Jr.

A savage serial killer comes back to life in this gloriously gory Mexican slasher.

Meet Me in St. Louis
Oct 29—Oct 31, 2023
Vincente Minnelli’s sublime evocation of early 20th-century America charts one family’s year of romance, heartbreak, and holidays, including an iconic scene of Halloween mischief.

Judy Garland stars in Vincente Minnelli’s sublime evocation of early 20th-century America.

Castle of Blood
Oct 29—Oct 30, 2023
Dripping with gothic ectoplasm and erotic alchemy, this French-Italian classic portrays a lonely traveler who makes a fateful bet with Edgar Allen Poe and has to spend the night in an abandoned castle.

This classic gothic horror film features death, sex, graveyards, and Edgar Allen Poe.

Trick R’ Treat
Oct 29—Nov 1, 2023
This darkly comic film weaves four different Halloween tales featuring a secret serial killer, a virgin’s gruesome fate, a cruel prank gone wrong, and an old man battling a trick-or-treating demon.

Four distinct interwoven tales twist and turn in this darkly comic halloween haunt.