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 opens 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.
New York, NY — Stranger Things: The Diner, a limited-time Netflix dining experience run by the pop-up company Bucket Listers, is coming to 512 W.
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 a three-part documentary series, The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story, started October 11 and runs on Sundays through 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 in downtown Los Angeles in late November, and tickets go on sale Wednesday, October 7, at 9 a.m. The waitlist is open now and gets presale access.
The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XXXVII airs Sunday, October 25, at 8 p.m. on Fox, and it opens with a stop-motion Nightmare Before Christmas sequence
Heidi Klum’s Halloween party turns 25 this year, and one piece of it is open to everyone: a Butterfinger dessert pizza at Crazy Pizza in
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
KPop Demon Hunters is getting an immersive experience where fans sing with HUNTR/X, fight demons across a neon-lit Seoul, and meet Derpy Tiger. KPop Demon
AMC Theatres is running a five-film horror series called Welcome to Horrorwood at about 300 U.S. locations this October, screening a classic on Friday and
A24 has put out a teaser for a horror film called Slayground, first shown in theaters ahead of Resident Evil and now posted publicly on
Regal Cinemas is putting a horror movie back on the big screen every night this October, from The Shining and The Thing to Halloween and
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,
From Jessica Lange’s return in American Horror Story: 13 to Mike Flanagan’s take on Carrie, the new horror hitting streaming this Halloween is stacked. This
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 is also coming back to Regal. John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
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, and both have
Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween returns for 2026, running every day from October 1 through October 31. Below is the full night-by-night schedule, plus the
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 is back in theaters for the season: the 1978 film has 1,876 screenings ahead at 765 U.S. theaters
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 fan-favorite Halloween competitions are back for 2026, and they premiered on back-to-back nights. Halloween Wars opened its 16th season on Sunday, September
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
