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The New Halloween Movies of 2024
The No. 1 rule of effective horror is never let the audience know what's coming, which is why watching a scary movie for Halloween that you've seen a bunch of times just doesn't have the same thrill as watching it for the first time. Thankfully, the streaming era has brought with it plenty of new and original horror movies that are typically released in October, just in time for the scariest holiday of the year.
We've gathered all the new horror movies coming to streaming for Halloween 2024 from Netflix, Max, Prime Video, Shudder, and more. And listen, we know they all won't be "good" or "watchable" or will require "immediate eye bleach and a memory eraser" — there's a reason they're straight to streaming — but the point is they're new, so if you're in the mood for something different and unexpected, this is where you'll find it.
Looking for some of our favorite horror movies to stream? We've got a list right here.
Apartment 7A (Paramount+)
One of horror's all-time classics, Rosemary's Baby, gets a prequel (sorta) explaining why that woman jumped out of the window. The always delightful Julia Garner stars as aspiring dancer Terry Gionoffrio, who shacks up in The Bramford when she's taken in by an older couple, Minnie and Roman Castavet (Dianne Wiest and Kevin McNally), after an injury leaves her unable to dance. Weird stuff starts to happen, the Devil is looking for a surrogate for its baby, and eventually, Julia Garner engages in some self-defenestration, presumably.
Hold Your Breath (Hulu)
Living in the Dust Bowl in 1930s Oklahoma was bad, but imagine if all that dust came with some strange spectral figure that was trying to kill your family. Infinitely worse! That's what happens in Hold Your Breath, a psychological horror film starring modern-day scream queen Sarah Paulson as a mother who believes something known as "The Drifter" is floating around and causing people to behave murderously. "If you breathe him in, he'll make you do terrible things," is muttered several times in the spooky trailer, and it never loses its potency.
House of Spoils (Prime Video)
A chef (Oscar winner Ariana DeBose) is thrilled to open up a new high-end restaurant, but the only thing on the menu is some sort of spook trying to sabotage her dreams. Maybe this wouldn't have been a problem if she didn't open her restaurant in the middle of nowhere inside what amounts to a haunted house.
Salem's Lot (Max)
Stephen King's story of vampires infiltrating a small town in (where else?) Maine gets rebooted with King's approval via Annabelle Comes Home director Gary Dauberman. It's largely the same as the 1975 book and 1979 miniseries — the infamous scene of a vampiric child floating outside the window of their friend IS here, and it's still terrifying — which is both to its benefit and detriment. On the plus side, the vampires look cool, and it's a throwback to classic horror movies, but on the down side, audiences are now accustomed to much scarier things, and since we've seen a billion and one vampire movies, vampire origin stories are pretty rote.
V/H/S/Beyond (Shudder)
Shudder has kept the V/H/S/ franchise alive since 2021, and this will be the fourth film that's a Shudder exclusive. This new collection of six found-footage horror films all lean toward a sci-fi theme, so expect some UFOs. Look for segments directed by Justin Long and Kate Siegel, who is behind the camera of a short film written by her husband, The Haunting of Hill House's Mike Flanagan.
It's What's Inside (Netflix)
Get freaky with It's What's Inside, a high-concept horror comedy that looks like it's essentially Freaky Friday meets Bodies Bodies Bodies. The film follows a group of college friends — played by The White Lotus' Brittany O'Grady, Fear the Walking Dead's Alycia Debnam-Carey, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's Gavin Leatherwood, and more — who reunite at a pre-wedding party, only for an old classmate to throw the night into chaos when he suggests they play a game with a body-swapping machine. What could go wrong? -Kelly Connolly
The Platform 2 (Netflix)
Scary? Maybe. Gross? Definitely. This high-concept parable of socialism, helping others, and civic responsibility is the sequel to the surprisingly good 2019 Spanish film about prisoners who are fed by a descending platform; those on the top floors get their pick of the feast while those at the bottom are left with scraps. And to be honest, it looks like very little has changed in the sequel, and chaos will once again reign. It's probably best to eat BEFORE you watch this.
Caddo Lake (Max)
Teen Wolf's Dylan O'Brien stars in this thriller set in the South's Caddo Lake, where a girl's mysterious disappearance opens up a family's dark secrets and maybe some type of time vortex? Descriptions about what's going on are vague, and the trailer will only make you more confused. Yes, it's produced by M. Night Shyamalan.
Daddy's Head (Shudder)
Daddy's Head already wins the competition for best title for a new Halloween movie in 2024, and it might also take home the trophy for creepiest. After a boy loses his father in a tragic accident, he begins to see a strange creature... that just so happens to have his daddy's head. It's a brutal look at grief and denial.
Mr. Crocket (Hulu)
We haven't yet run out of ideas for horror movies, but I think we're getting pretty close. Mr. Crocket appears to be about a haunted video tape of an old children's program featuring a Mr. Rogers type who isn't here to take off his shoes and hang up his sweater. Elvis Nolasco goes ham as Mr. Crocket, who crawls out of the television to kidnap kids and kill their parents. This is a movie that knows exactly what it's doing, which is leaning into its goofy premise while also going for it as a legit scary movie.
Outside (Netflix)
Remember when every movie coming out was a zombie movie? The flood has become a trickle, with the Philippine zombie movie Outside as one of the only real new zombie films coming out in time for Halloween. Not much is known about it except that it follows a family trying to outrun an undead apocalypse by retreating to an abandoned family farmhouse, only to unearth some big secret that may be worse than the zombies outside.
MadS (Shudder)
Let's get this out of the way: Mads Mikkelsen is NOT in this movie. Instead, this French horror film from director David Moreau is a balls-to-the-wall one-shot wonder that follows a teen who tries an experimental drug and picks up an injured woman while out partying. From there, things go CRAZY as the action is unleashed at a frenetic pace, all stitched together to make it look like the movie never has a single cut.
MaXXXine (Max)
It's not an original streaming movie, but this A24 film from filmmaker Ti West appropriately makes its streaming debut in October. The third film in the X film series, MaXXXine, once again stars horror maven Mia Goth as Maxine Minx as she heads to 1980s Hollywood in search of fame, but finds herself targeted by a serial killer.
Carved (Hulu)
One of Hulu's short horror films for the 2019 Huluween Film Fest gets blown out into a full-length movie in Carved. The horror comedy follows a group of kids who get stuck in a historical reenactment village and must protect themselves from a grotesque, sentient pumpkin. Sure, why not?
Don't Move (Netflix)
This suspenseful thriller stars Kelsey Asbille as a woman who finds herself in a secluded forest with a killer. That's a bad day! What makes it worse for her is the murderer has injected her with a paralytic agent, giving her a limited amount of time to get away before her body shuts down.
Trap (Max)
M. Night Shyamalan's newest film, Trap, is not a good movie, but it does have an interesting premise: A dad takes his daughter to a pop idol's concert and learns that a serial killer targeted by police is somewhere in the building. There's a twist, obviously, and it comes out pretty early, but we won't spoil it here. Josh Hartnett stars.
Time Cut (Netflix)
Time Cut is the latest genre mash-up (it's being billed as Back to the Future meets Scream) to hit the horror scene, and it should be no surprise that it was produced by Happy Death Day's Christopher Landon. Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia) and Madison Bailey (Outer Banks) star in the film, which follows a young woman (Bailey) who time travels to the night before her sister (Gentry) was murdered in 2003 to stop her death without changing the future. The scariest thing about this movie might be thinking of the early 2000s as nostalgic.
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (Prime Video)
Come se dice "braaaaains"? This Spanish horror film is the latest to show what happens when the dead get back up and kick off a zombie apocalypse. It follows Manel (Francisco Ortiz), a man dealing with the recent loss of a loved one who navigates the end of times with his cat.