70 Best Halloween Movies of All Time

[claws]

goodhousekeeping.com (!) claims these are the 70 Best Halloween Movies of All Time.

Lotsa Tim Burton

1. The Shining 1980
2. The Sixth Sense 1999
3. Psycho 1960
4. Get Out 2017
5. It 2017
6. A Quiet Place 2018
7. The Conjuring 2013
8. Edward Scissorhands 1990
9. The Thing 1982
10. Saw 2004
11. The Exorcist 1973
12. Ghostbusters 1984
13. The Cabin in the Woods 2011
14. Midsommar 2019
15. Scream 1996
16. Hereditary 2018
17. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007
18. Sleepy Hollow 1999
19. The Ring 2002
20. The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
21. Beetlejuice 1988
22. Us 2019
23. Insidious 2010
24. Halloween 1978
25. The Witch 2015
26. Corpse Bride 2005
27. The Blair Witch Project 1999
28. Nope 2022
29. Coraline 2009
30. A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
31. The Invisible Man 2020
32. Paranormal Activity 2007
33. The Babadook 2014
34. The Purge 2013
35. Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992
36. Rosemary's Baby 1968
37. Carrie 1976
38. Barbarian 2022
39. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
40. The Addams Family 1991
41. Poltergeist 1982
42. Smile 2022
43. Friday the 13th 1980
44. Hocus Pocus 1993
45. M3GAN 2022
46. Hellraiser 1987
47. Night of the Living Dead 1968
48. Death Becomes Her 1992
49. Knock at the Cabin 2023
50. Child's Play 1988
51. Pet Sematary 1989
52. Malignant 2021
53. The Craft 1996
54. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922
55. Trick 'r Treat 2007
56. Five Nights at Freddy's 2023
57. Candyman 1992
58. Practical Magic 1998
59. Hubie Halloween 2020
60. Dracula 1931
61. The Haunted Mansion 2003
62. Bride of Frankenstein 1935
63. Hocus Pocus 2 2022
64. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant 2009
65. The Amityville Horror 1979
66. The Haunting 1963
67. House on Haunted Hill 1959
68. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 1966
69. Halloweentown 1998
70. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy 1955

[M.10rda]

1.) If that's a ranked list, it's completely ferkakte.

2.) Some of those selections are entirely ridiculous. But it's Good Housekeeping, what do they know about horror movies anyway? 

On the real, though, if we're strictly talking festive Halloween viewing and particularly if you want to go "family friendly" for some reason... I can't argue w/ #21 and actually I'd probably rank BEETLEJUICE quite a bit higher... like maybe even top 3 or 5. Fantastic film to have running in the background while you hand out candy to kiddies.

Also worth mentioning: not a single non-English language film on this list. Seriously, HAUSU might be the most Halloween movie ever made.

[chainsaw midget]

It's not a horrible list.  I don't agree with all of it, but I've definitely seen worse.  Still, having Abbott and Costello meet the Mummy over meet Frankenstein is an odd choice.

[zombie no.one]

having INSIDIOUS over HALLOWEEN in a best 'anything' list is blasphemy, but in a best *halloween movies* list? this is nothing less than an attempt to destroy society and plunge the world into chaos... typical of those goodhousekeeping guys.

[RCMerchant]

1. The Shining 1980
3. Psycho 1960
9. The Thing 1982
11. The Exorcist 1973
24. Halloween 1978
27. The Blair Witch Project 1999
31. The Invisible Man 2020
36. Rosemary's Baby 1968
37. Carrie 1976
39. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
41. Poltergeist 1982
47. Night of the Living Dead 1968
51. Pet Sematary 1989
54. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922
60. Dracula 1931
62. Bride of Frankenstein 1935
65. The Amityville Horror 1979
66. The Haunting 1963
67. House on Haunted Hill 1959
68. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 1966


These are the only ones I enjoyed.

[Trevor]

I make a point of it to watch THE DEMON every year on Halloween.

[VenomX73]

Cheers brother.



and I Always make it a point to watch Night of the Demons (1988) every Halloween