Jason Voorhees is headed back to theaters in 2027 in a 13th feature film directed by Steve Miner, who put the machete in Jason’s hand
All three Grinch movies are streaming on Peacock this season: the 1966 cartoon narrated by Boris Karloff, Jim Carrey’s 2000 live-action movie and the 2018
Ten new horror movies are dated for theaters through March 12, and 68 horror titles arrive on streaming services in November alone. Victorian Psycho, Ebenezer
Collectible popcorn buckets are coming for Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday, which both open December 18, from a Doctor Doom statue at Regal to
Would you eat popcorn out of a baby doll’s belly? The Victorian Psycho popcorn bucket has been captivating the internet, and unfortunately, it doesn’t look
If you want a little more fear with your holiday cheer, Christmas horror is a growing genre, and December searches for Christmas horror movies are
Dead of Night, a mystery-horror slasher starring Dermot Mulroney, Scott Grimes, Jake Busey and Kirrilee Berger, opens in theaters on Friday, November 13, from Level 33 Entertainment, and comes to on demand on Tuesday, January 12, 2027. Chris Jericho, the wrestler who appeared in Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3, is in the cast and is an executive producer.
New Halloween albums from Midnight Syndicate, LVCRFT, Yo Gabba Gabba, Sam Haynes and The Killer Sounds of Halloween series are out for 2026, from a folk-horror score to a 16-song collection for kids. Two come from composers who score haunted attractions: Midnight Syndicate, whose music has played in haunted houses for nearly 30 years, and LVCRFT, which writes the music for the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor.
Christmas at the Kringles is a horror comedy about a family that moves in next door to the Kringles, who celebrate Christmas all year and plan to hypnotize them. It opened only in theaters on Friday, October 30, the day before Halloween, with Ron Livingston and Rachel Bilson as the parents and Rob Riggle as the drunk Santa who helps them fight back.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Audible’s full-cast audio adaptation of the novel, came out on October 1 with Jonathan Bailey as Dracula, Ella Purnell as Mina, and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Professor Van Helsing. Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert directed the production, which runs just under six hours and is sold only on Audible.
Stranger Things: The Diner, a limited-time Netflix dining experience from Bucket Listers, opens November 18 at 512 W. 42nd St. in Manhattan and runs through February 28. Tickets are on sale on Bucket Listers’ page, from $30.03 per person including fees for a 90-minute seating with a $10 food credit and a $5 merchandise credit.
New York, NY — The first trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs, Mike Flanagan’s film with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Scarlett Johansson, debuted on Friday, October 9,
HBO Max’s Halloween section for October, named Horror Comes Home, sorts the service’s horror movies and series into rows by theme, including Stephen King adaptations, The Conjuring films, and a family row with Beetlejuice and Scooby-Doo. Evil Dead Burn joined on October 2, and the three-part documentary series The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story aired its last episode on October 25.
Kids’ Halloween movies are split across services this October: Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown, and The Nightmare Before Christmas are on Disney+, Coraline is on Hulu, Casper airs on Freeform, and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is on Apple TV, where it streamed free on October 17 and 18. New this year are a Spidey and the Avengers Halloween special on Disney+ and a second Pumpkinhead movie, free on Tubi from October 9.
Skeleton Sam’s Deadtime Stories, the new Halloween album from LVCRFT, is 27 tracks set up as a late-night horror broadcast, hosted by Roger L. Jackson, the voice of Ghostface, with songs from Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, and Bruce Campbell. LVCRFT also writes the music for the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor and the LA Haunted Hayride, and three haunt-industry names are on the album: Amy Hollaman, Jon Cooke, and Monte Revolta.
DUNE: The Experience, a 60-minute walk-through of sets, original costumes, and props from Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films, opens November 20 in downtown Los Angeles and runs through January 25, and tickets are on sale now on Fever, from $31.50.
The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XXXVII aired Sunday, October 25, at 8 p.m. on Fox, and it opened with a stop-motion Nightmare Before Christmas sequence that turns Bart into Jack Skellington, Marge into Sally, and Homer into the Mayor of Halloween Town. The date was 36 years to the day after the first Treehouse of Horror aired in 1990.
Heidi Klum came to her 25th Halloween party as a giant severed hand, modeled on her own left hand, at Cathédrale in New York on
The Crypt Keeper is hosting AMC’s FearFest this year, in what AMC says is the first new Crypt Keeper content in 30 years. John Kassir
Welcome to Horrorwood, a five-film AMC Theatres horror series, played at about 300 U.S. locations this October, a classic on Friday and Tuesday nights with
Scare actor “Metal Mike” Graves wakes up inside a haunted attraction surrounded by the bodies of his co-workers in Slayground, A24’s horror movie opening in theaters on January 29, 2027. He has no memory of how they got there, and a statewide manhunt follows him as he tries to find out.
Regal Cinemas put a horror movie back on the big screen every night this October, from The Shining and The Thing to Halloween and Trick
Pamela Voorhees is back, and this time the story is hers. Peacock has released the trailer for Crystal Lake, its Friday the 13th prequel series,
Update, November 7: for what’s in theaters and streaming after Halloween, my new horror movies guide has every new horror movie, updated weekly. From Jessica
Elvira is stepping into a Pumpkinhead movie this Halloween. R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2 premieres free on Tubi on October 9, and Cassandra Peterson, the horror
Carrie, Mike Flanagan’s series of Stephen King’s 1974 novel, is streaming on Prime Video, where all eight episodes came out on October 7. It is
American Horror Story is bringing back its most infamous characters all at once. American Horror Story: 13 premiered Thursday, September 24 on FX, reuniting villains
Michael Myers now has his own video game, and it is out just in time for Halloween. Halloween: The Game drops you into 1978 Haddonfield
The Last Kiss, a new Blumhouse teen slasher starring Mckenna Grace, comes home on digital September 15 to buy or rent with no subscription. Grace
A Las Vegas lounge is spending October as a Halloween cocktail bar. The Sand Dollar Lounge’s “The Haunting on Spring Mountain” runs October 1 through
The original Halloween trilogy also came back to Regal. John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) played
The Resident Evil popcorn bucket, a green organ-transplant cooler with a bloody first-aid cross, was $24.99 at AMC and $19.95 at Cinemark online, where both
Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween ran every day from October 1 through October 31, 2026, and on November 5 Freeform had not announced dates for
Coven Academy, Freeform’s new supernatural teen drama, premiered Thursday, October 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The full season arrived the next day, October 2, on
The storybook is bleeding. Ever After, an independent horror film billed as “the bloodiest fairy tale,” opened exclusively in theaters on September 4, 2026, with
Tim Curry, the actor who first brought Pennywise the Dancing Clown to the screen, died on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at his home in Toluca
Los Angeles, CA — John Carpenter’s Halloween was back in theaters this fall, and its last U.S. screenings were on November 5. The list the
A24’s Backrooms, the studio’s highest-grossing film of all time both domestically and globally, made its streaming debut exclusively on HBO Max in the U.S. on
HGTV’s A Very Haunted Renovation put six designers inside Bihl Manor, an Ohio mansion HGTV bills as one of the most haunted homes in America,
Adult Swim has a new live-action series arriving in time for the Halloween season. The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza premieres the evening of Sunday, September
Food Network’s two Halloween competitions returned for 2026 on back-to-back nights. Halloween Wars opened its 16th season on Sunday, September 13 at 9|8c, and Halloween
CLEVELAND, OH — Midnight Syndicate, the dark symphonic duo whose music has scored haunted houses for nearly thirty years, released their new studio album Plankett’s
Pennywise is coming back. HBO has renewed IT: Welcome to Derry for a second season, and the new episodes will jump back to 1935 and
Frendo is not done. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives, a sequel to last year’s slasher hit, is officially in development at Temple Hill
Halloween season on TV means a wave of animated specials, spooky one-offs, and returning traditions across broadcast and streaming. This guide rounds up the Halloween
Family Guy is spending Halloween in Hell. The show’s 2026 Halloween special, titled Happy Hell-o-ween, sends Brian and Stewie to the underworld with Succession star
