Trick or Treat: Halloween at the Movies

This fake documentary investigates the deaths of 15 people at a haunted house as depicted through bone chilling found footage.

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.

This riotously fun and deliciously 80s standalone sequel features killer Jack-o-lantern masks, mysterious men in suits, and an ancient Celtic ritual.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.