The 24 Best Halloween Films on Netflix
1) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
One of the most famous movies to come out of German Expressionism, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a Dr. Caligari, who uses hypnosis to manipulate a sleep-walking man to commit murders. Roger Ebert considered it to be "the first true horror film."
2) The Fly (1958)
While attempting to build a teleportation device, a scientist accidentally transforms himself into a monster with fly-like characteristics. Entomophobes, beware.
3) Jaws (1975)
In this Spielberg classic, a shark hunter (Robert Shaw), an oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss) and the local police chief (Roy Scheider) hunt a man-eating shark off the coast of a New England beach town.
4) Children of the Corn (1984)
In the small town of Gatlin, Nebraska, a devilish creature known as "He Who Walks Beyond the Rows" convinces the local children to massacre the adults in return for a bountiful harvest. Three years later, a young couple traveling through the area gets caught up in the bloodshed. Surprise: the film is based on a short story by Stephen King.
5) The Addams Family (1991)
The first movie to chronicle the lives of Charles Addams' "creepy, kooky" family introduced two inadvertent style icons: Anjelica Huston's morbidly glamorous Morticia and Christina Ricci's malicious schoolgirl, Wednesday.
6) The Crow (1994)
This cult classic follows Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), a man murdered alongside his fiancée the night before his wedding. One year after his death, he rises from the dead as The Crowm intent on revenge.
7) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Two criminals (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) on the run with a family they kidnapped (Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu) stumble upon a bar run by vampires and must devise a means of escape. Director Robert Kurtzman commissioned the script from Tarantino, his first-ever paid writing assignment. The film is now considered a cult classic.
8) Scream 2 (1997)
A copycat killer stalks Sidney Prescott and her friends one year after the events of Scream.
9) Practical Magic (1998)
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman star as sisters who also happen to be witches-and cursed: the men they fall in love with will meet untimely deaths if the two can't determine how to break the spell.
10) Sleepy Hollow (1999)
In Tim Burton's take on Washington Irving's 1820 short story, Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, a policeman sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of brutal beheadings.
11) Underworld (2003)
When a vampire (Kate Beckinsale) falls in love with a human (Scott Speedman) bitten by a lycan (a werewolf-the mortal enemy of vampires), she faces a difficult choice: kill the man she loves, or betray her family to save him.
12) The Amityville Horror (2005)
Based on true events, this remake of a 1979 film follows the Lutz family as they move into a home which bore witness to a grisly mass murder several years earlier.
13) Corpse Bride (2005)
If horror movies aren't for you, get in the holiday spirit with Corpse Bride, Tim Burton's stop motion-animated film about a young man (Johnny Depp) who accidentally marries a dead woman (Helena Bonham-Carter) the night before his wedding day.
14) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
This film adaptation of the 1979 musical of the same name stars Johnny Depp as the title character, a London barber who takes his razor to the necks of his clients as revenge against a judge (Alan Rickman) who wrongfully convicted him. Helena Bonham Carter plays Mrs. Lovett, the cook who turns the barber's victims into meat pies.
15) Monsters (2010)
A photojournalist must help the daughter of his employer escape from an area along the Mexico-United States border occupied by aliens.
16) The Awakening (2012)
An author (Rebecca Hall) intent on debunking ghost stories is hired by a boarding school teacher (Dominic West) to probe reports of a ghost following the death of a student. Imelda Staunton and Game of Thrones's Isaac Hempstead-Wright also star.
17) Byzantium (2012)
Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan play mother-daughter vampires hiding out in a quiet seaside town-until their secret is revealed, with bloody ramifications.
18) The Pact (2012)
When her sister and cousin disappear shortly after the death of her mother, Annie (Caity Lotz) begins investigating her mother's mysterious past-a search that takes a dark turn into the realm of the supernatural.
19) The Babadook (2014)
Described by Stephen King as "deeply disturbing and highly recommended," The Babadook sees a single mother (Essie Davis) attempt to rid her home of a frightening monster borne from a storybook found on her son's shelf.
20) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
A vampiress (Sheila Vand) haunts the people of Bad City, Iran, in this critically-acclaimed art-house horror film.
21) The Invitation (2015)
A man's paranoia plays out at a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new husband.
22) The Nightmare (2015)
This horror documentary explores the unique experiences of eight different people who suffer from sleep paralysis.
23) 13 Cameras (2016)
A newlywed couple expecting their first child move into a home where their landlord has installed cameras-and watches their every move.
24) Hush (2016)
A masked intruder terrorizes a deaf author who lives in a secluded cottage in the woods.
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