Spooky Season on Streaming Services
‘Tis the season for nights of frights and what better way to spend it than snuggling up on the couch with a cup of warm cider and a spooky movie to get in the spirit. This will serve as your guide to finding all the best horror, thriller, or even comedy halloween classics so you don’t have to spend hours sifting through each platform to find the perfect spooky movie (or TV series).
Netflix and Chills
Netflix is back with a vengeance this year with a solid halloween line-up. Let’s look at what they have in store for us this season.
Classics
- American Psycho
- Hitchcock’s Psycho
- Jaws
- Halloween
- Jigsaw
Series
- Supernatural
- The Haunting of Hill House
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- Stranger Things
- Wednesday
- The Watcher
Not for the Faint of Heart
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- Tarot
- The Ritual
- Evil Dead Rise
- In the Tall Grass
Huluween
Known for their wide array of options from gut-wrenching horror to goofy dark-humor, Hulu always shows up with the best choices for a perfect movie night. This year they brought out all the classics, so get your popcorn ready.
Classics
- The Sixth Sense
- The Purge
- Alien
- Donnie Darko
- The Omen
- Poltergeist
- The Exorcist
- Edward Scissorhands
- Jennifer’s Body
Highly Recommended
- Us
- Barbarian
- The Hug
- Smile
Series
- Grotesquerie
- American Horror Story
- Scream Queens
- What We Do in the Shadows
Max: No Sleep OCtober
A new player joins the playing field. Max hasn’t always been the first choice for horror options, but in recent years they have gone through a complete rebrand and really brought their A-game. Let’s see what they have in store, this spooky season. Maybe they’ll become our new first pick of this Halloween season.
Classics
- Babadook
- It
- Scooby-Doo: The Movie
- Trick R’ Treat
- The Shining
- Gremlins
- Final Destination
Top-Tier
- Midsommer
- The Amityville Horror
- Watchers
Movie Marathon Night: Full Collections
- Paranormal Activity
- The Saw
- The Conjuring
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Scream
This year’s general consensus when it comes to finding a good watch for spooky-movie-night is to go to Netflix if you’re looking for a good series to binge. Look on Hulu if you want a good variety, especially of the Horror genre classics. And finally, Max is the place to go for having a marathon of full film-collections back to back. You will not run out of scary-content this season, because the major streaming services have your back!
