FASHION Film Festival: The Best Halloween Movies on Netflix

Halloween weekend is almost here, which means three things: costumes, candy, and Stranger Things season 2. But if you’re a serious binge-racer—Netflix claims that 11% of Canadians are—then you’ll probably be finished the nine new episodes of Netflix’s hit 80’s horror series by Saturday morning. A PSA for those who plan to binge on candy and content this weekend: Netflix has dared viewers to make it to the end of their ‘Trick, Treat or Binge’ challenge.

At FASHION, we’ve rounded up our own favourite Halloween-esque movies now available for screaming streaming. In the ghoulish spirit of Netflix’s road of horror, we’ve taken the courtesy of scare-ranking our picks, from PG family ghost flick to rats eating you in your sleep. Viewers, beware.

Casper

Casper is  a *friendly* ghost. But he spends the entire movie trying to seduce a teenage girl, and that’s a little frightening.

Hotel Transylvania

Moral of the story: monsters deserve all-inclusive family vacations too. There’s a romantic human/non-human subplot with teenagers in this movie too.

Coraline

Not as scary as the children’s book. Still scary as an animated movie.

The Babysitter

Sexy meets satanism when the hot girl next door starts a killing club.

The Host

A swimming, Korean, child-eating King Kong.

It Follows

If STDs were supernatural.

Gerald’s Game

If The Lake House was written by Stephen King.

You’re Next

You probably will never see dead people—but your family home could be invaded by masked axe-wielders.

The Sixth Sense

Axe-murderers and man-eating-monsters are jump-out-of-your-skin scary...but not nearly as nightmarish as seeing dead people.

1922

There’s a bed full of rats. Is there anything scarier than a bed full of rats?