🎬 The Screening Room

The movies that built Halloween. This season's new nightmares, the classics superfans rewatch every October, and the deep cuts they swear by β€” tap any cover to play the official trailer right here.

🆕 New for 2026

Fresh blood for this Halloween season β€” in theaters and streaming now, or landing before the big night.

Resident Evil (2026)

In theaters now Β· Sep 18

Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) takes the keys to Raccoon City β€” the fall's biggest horror swing.

Official Trailer · Sony Pictures Entertainment

Other Mommy (2026)

In theaters Oct 9 Β· Rated R

Jessica Chastain plays a mother β€” and the thing wearing her face. The season's creepiest double act.

Official Trailer · Universal Pictures

V/H/S/Mixtape (2026)

Streaming on Shudder Β· Oct 9

Found footage gets a soundtrack β€” this year's V/H/S anthology wires every scare to the music.

Official Trailer · Shudder

Crawlers (2026)

In theaters Oct 16 Β· Rated R

Venomous spiders seal an apartment block β€” and a city quarantines it with everyone still inside. Eight legs, no exits.

Official Trailer · RoadsideFlix

Whalefall (2026)

In theaters Oct 16

Swallowed whole by a sperm whale with an hour of air left β€” the survival nightmare you'll feel in your chest.

Official Trailer · 20th Century Studios

Clayface (2026)

In theaters Oct 23 Β· Rated R

DC goes full body horror β€” a disfigured actor, a desperate experiment, and Gotham's most tragic monster, landing the weekend before Halloween.

Official Trailer · DC

🏆 The Classics

The canon. If it's October and you're not rewatching at least three of these, are you even a superfan?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Fifty years of midnight crowds still do the Time Warp in costume. Not a screening β€” a ritual.

Official Trailer · 20th Century Studios

Halloween (1978)

The night he came home. Carpenter's shoestring slasher wrote the blueprint horror still follows β€” and Haddonfield is sacred ground.

Official Trailer · Scream Factory TV

Beetlejuice (1988)

The ghost with the most turned a haunted house into a comedy club. Go ahead β€” say his name three times.

Official Trailer · Warner Bros. Entertainment

Hocus Pocus (1993)

Three resurrected witches, one black-flame candle, infinite rewatches. The official film of October.

Official Trailer · Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Halloween movie or Christmas movie? Superfans settled it long ago: it's both, forever β€” and Halloween Town is home.

Official Trailer · Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Scream (1996)

The film that made horror self-aware β€” and made every ringing phone in 1996 sound like a threat.

Official Trailer · Paramount Movies

Halloweentown (1998)

Disney Channel's 1998 original is pure bottled nostalgia β€” Grandma Aggie, a giant pumpkin in the town square, and a town where it's always Halloween.

Official Clip · Disney Channel

Trick 'r Treat (2007)

Sam's rules are the superfans' rules: wear a costume, hand out treats, and never blow out a jack-o'-lantern early.

Official Trailer · Legendary

Coraline (2009)

The 'kids' movie that genuinely terrifies adults. Button eyes beat jump scares, every single time.

Official Trailer · LAIKA Studios

🔪 Superfan Deep Cuts

Beyond the canon β€” the ones superfans pass hand to hand like a cursed videotape. Start here when the classics feel too easy.

The Monster Squad (1987)

Kids vs. Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman β€” the '80s clubhouse horror that raised a generation of superfans.

Official Trailer · Arrow Video

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Puberty as lycanthropy β€” Canada's sharpest cult classic, and the werewolf movie superfans gatekeep hardest.

Official Trailer · Lionsgate Movies

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

A rom-com with zombies that loves the genre too much to mock it. The Cornetto standard, set in a London pub.

Official Trailer · Focus Features

Monster House (2006)

The house across the street is literally alive β€” animated suburbia with real teeth, and a finale that goes full monster movie.

Official Trailer · Amblin Entertainment

The House of the Devil (2009)

Shot like a lost tape from 1983 β€” Ti West's babysitter slow-burn is the purist's pick, Walkman and all.

Official Trailer · Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing

ParaNorman (2012)

A boy who talks to the dead saves a town that fears him β€” LAIKA's stop-motion love letter to every weird kid who loves horror.

Official Trailer · LAIKA Studios

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Four vampire flatmates, one documentary crew β€” the funniest bloodsuckers ever filmed, straight out of Wellington.

Official Trailer · Madman Films

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