| Movie | Year | Style | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 2004 | The gold standard. A romantic comedy with zombies. Hilarious and heartfelt. | | Renfield | 2023 | Nicolas Cage as Dracula. Action-comedy about Dracula’s overworked familiar. Very gory but funny. | | Jennifer’s Body | 2009 | Re-evaluated cult classic. Megan Fox as a demon-possessed cheerleader. Smart, funny, and bloody. | | The ‘Burbs | 1989 | Not strictly horror, but a Halloween staple. Tom Hanks suspects his neighbors are killers. Very cozy. | | Tucker & Dale vs. Evil | 2010 | Two hillbillies vs. college kids who keep accidentally dying. One of the funniest horror parodies. |
| Movie | Year | Vibe | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 2015 | A24 arthouse horror. Slow, period-accurate dialogue about a family falling apart in 1600s New England. | | Hereditary | 2018 | Devastating, terrifying family trauma horror. Not a "fun" Halloween movie, but a great one. | | The Black Phone | 2021 | Ethan Hawke as a masked child kidnapper. Tense, supernatural, and well-reviewed. | | M3GAN | 2022 | Fun, campy killer doll movie. More comedic than scary, but a blast with a group. | | The Ring (2002) | 2002 | The American remake that actually works. Creepy videotape curse. | halloween movies on prime video free