Updated October 2025.
I made a list of Halloween movies for the entire family to enjoy, and here is some of the scariest movies I could find for you to enjoy without the kids. They are listed by platform and then alphabetically, so you can easily search. So tonight, settle in for the ultimate fright by picking one of the scariest Halloween movies for adults below!
Max
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Annabelle (1,2, &3)
Children of the Corn
Companion
Final Destination (1,2,3,4,&5)
Final Destination Bloodlines
Firestarter
Freddy vs. Jason
Get Out
Gremlins
Halloween Resurrection
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Hannibal
House of Wax
Insidious (1,2,3)
Interview with the Vampire
IT (1&2)
IT (1990)
Misery
Poltergeist
Salem’s Lot
Sinners
The Amityville Horror
The Blob
The Cabin in the Woods
The Conjuring (1,2,3)
The Exorcist
The Last House on the Left
The Nun
The Outsiders (Series)
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense
Trap
Trick r’ Treat
Netflix
28 Days Later
28 Years Later
Anaconda
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Bird Box
Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Series)
Death Becomes Her
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
Interview with the Vampire (Series)
Jaws
Lucifer (Series)
Midnight Mass
Ratched (Series)
Red Dragon
Sinister
Slender Man
Smile
Stranger Things
Supernatural (Series)
The Blackening
The Dead Don’t Die
The Fall of the House of Usher (Series)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Series)
The Haunting of Hill House (Series)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Walking Dead
White Noise
Prime
10 Cloverfield Lane
A Quiet Place: Day One
American Horror Story (Series)
American Psycho
Bates Motel (Series)
Blink Twice
Blood Fest
Death Becomes Her
Disturbing Behaviors
Escape Room
Hannibal (Series)
Hell House
Joy Ride
Night of the Living Dead
Nosteratu
Oculus
Old
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Red Dragon
Smile 2
Speak No Evil
Stigmata
Terrifier (1&2)
The Craft
The Raven
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Totally Killer
Truth or Dare
V/H/S
Void
Hulu
28 Weeks Later
Abandoned
Alien Franchise
Evil Dead Rises
Get Away
Ghostbusters: Answer The Call
Jennifer’s Body
Joy Ride
Scream (1,2,&3)
Scream (2022)
Scream Queens (Series)
Slotterhouse
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Nun 2
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Shallows
The X-Files (Series)
What We Do in the Shadows (Series)
World War Z
Peacock
1408
American Psycho
Black Phone
Child’s Play Collection
Chucky
Day of the Dead
Drag Me To Hell
Firestarter
Friday the 13th
Frighteners
Krampus
Krampus
Leprechaun Collection
Mama
Megan
Megan 2.0
Nope
Quarantine
Scary Movie
Scream
Shaun of the Dead
Slither
Studio 666
Terrifier (1,2&3)
The Birds
The Crow
The Invisible Man
The People Under the Stairs
The Purge
The Purge Election Year
The Skeleton Key
Van Helsing
You Should Have Left
Zombieland
Paramount +
A Quiet Place (1,2,3)
Case 39
Cloverfield
Disturbia
Dracula 2000
Friday the 13th Franchise
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Paranormal Activity
Scream (2023)
Shutter Island
Sleepy Hollow
Smile (1&2)
Sweeney Todd
The Haunting
The Ring
The Ruins
The Woman in Black
They
What Lies Beneath
World War Z
Zodiac
Let us know in the comments below which scary movie is your favorite to watch, and if we missed any.
