If there’s one thing that can soothe the terrifying reality that is 2020, it has to be the greatest holiday of all — Halloween! Welcome back to the annual 31 Graves of Halloween, our carefully curated watchlists for every single spooky day of October. With a pandemic still raging across the world and the cool autumnal weather setting in, it’s the perfect time to be at home under the covers, grab a hot drink, and watch horror movies.
As always, you can find links to the movies on our lists below for more information. If you’re feeling particularly daring, you can follow along with one – or both – of our lists, and if you have your own, please share it with us via private message or in the comments below!
To check out our lists from previous years: 31 Graves of Halloween
Barnabas (Keeping with tradition, the films below marked (NEW) will be those that I haven’t seen before, and the rest are classics that I’m itching to revisit. The list is about half new viewings and half old ones because even though Halloween can be an excellent time to revisit those fun, old horror flicks, it’s also a great opportunity to diversify your movie knowledge!
There are also a few movies on this list that are holdovers from last year because I didn’t get the chance to watch them. I also did not set a viewing order this year, so that I could easily pick what I wanted to watch each day.)
- #Alive (NEW)
- 3 from Hell (NEW)
- Alien
- The Amityville Horror (1979)
- The Birds
- Black Sunday
- Cannibal Holocaust (NEW)
- Critters
- Daughters of Darkness (NEW)
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (NEW)
- Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (NEW)
- Häxan (NEW)
- Hocus Pocus
- House (1977)
- The House by the Cemetery
- I, Madman
- Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
- The Lair of the White Worm (NEW)
- The Lodge (NEW)
- King Kong (1933, NEW)
- Kuroneko
- Night of the Demon (1980, NEW)
- Pit and the Pendulum (1961, NEW)
- The Prowler
- Relic (NEW)
- Spookies
- Strait-Jacket (NEW)
- Street Trash (NEW)
- The Uninvited (1944)
- The Wolf Man (1941)
Samael (As always, Sam brings the Halloween spirit to October in spades! This list is chock-full of tried and true horror classics that should be mandatory viewing for any genre fan during the unholiest time of the year, including some newer titles that are sure to please the spookiest of fans. This list follows the more classical 31-day viewing order—follow along if you dare! ~ Barnabas)
- Hocus Pocus
- Tales of Halloween
- Trick ‘r Treat
- Haunt
- The Barn
- All Hallows Eve
- Terrifier
- 10/31
- The Witching Season
- Night of the Demons (1988)
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 3 Dead Trick or Treaters
- The Houses October Built
- The Monster Squad
- Fright Night (1985)
- The Thing (1982)
- Scream
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- It (2017)
- It Follows
- Blood Fest
- Halloween | Halloween II
- Hell Night
- The Return of the Living Dead
- Phantasm
- The Fog (1980)
- Goosebumps
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- Hell Fest
- Halloween (2018)