TOP 10 RANKING
Halloween Movies
Rank the greatest Halloween movies ever made. From the original Halloween to Hocus Pocus, Beetlejuice to Scream — which film is the ultimate October classic?
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01
Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter's slasher masterpiece — Michael Myers and that piano riff changed horror forever.
02
Hocus Pocus
The Sanderson Sisters rise again — the most rewatched Halloween movie of all time.
03
Beetlejuice
Tim Burton's anarchic afterlife comedy — say it three times and chaos ensues.
04
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington's holiday identity crisis — the movie that owns both October AND December.
05
Scream (1996)
Wes Craven's meta slasher that deconstructed the genre while perfecting it.
06
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger invades your dreams — never has going to sleep felt so dangerous.
07
It (2017)
Pennywise the Dancing Clown vs. the Losers Club — a horror epic done right.
08
Coraline
The Other Mother's button eyes and perfect world hide something deeply, beautifully terrifying.
09
Carrie (1976)
Sissy Spacek in De Palma's prom-night revenge horror — a masterclass in slow dread.
10
Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's comedic masterpiece — the funniest monster movie ever made.