There are very few things I love more than autumn in general and Halloween specifically. Every October I try to watch as many of my spooky/creepy/horror favorites as I can (let’s be real, most of these are year-round viewing for me, but there’s something extra satisfying about watching them during October).

So partly as a service to myself and partly for fun, I decided to make a definitive running list of all my favorite spooky-season shows and movies.

This is definitely a personal list so yeah, probably a lot of your favorites are missing. For one thing, I absolutely don’t do slasher films lol. But if you like anything spooky, cozy or creepy, I bet you’ll find a new gem or two below.

PARANORMAL + SPOOKY

• The Conjuring 1 – Netflix
• The Conjuring 2 – Netflix
• The Conjuring 3 – rent on Amazon Prime
• Paranormal Activity (the first three, #3 is scariest) – Hulu
• Sleepy Hollow – rent on Amazon Prime
• The Sixth Sense – Peacock, rent on Amazon Prime
• The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Netflix
• Stranger Things – Netflix
• Carrie – Amazon Prime
• Poltergeist – HBO Max
• Silent Hill – Hulu
• The first 2 seasons of Supernatural (I’m not responsible for what happens to your brain if you watch more than that) – Netflix
• The Haunting of Hill House – Netflix
• The Haunting of Bly Manor – Netflix
• Interview with a Vampire – rent on Amazon Prime
• Ghost Whisperer – Hulu
• It (2017) – Hulu
• The Blair Witch – Hulu
• Insidious 1 & 2 – Netflix
• American Horror Story: Coven – Netflix
• The Amityville Horror – Hulu

PSYCHOLOGICAL

• Psycho – Hulu
• Rear Window – Hulu
• The Shining – HBO Max
• The Silence of the Lambs – rent on Amazon Prime
• The Village – Hulu
• Children of the Corn – Hulu
• Bates Motel – Amazon Prime
• The Witch – Hulu
• Twin Peaks – Hulu
• In the Flesh – Hulu
• Parasite – Hulu

FUN-SPOOKY

• The Addams Family – Amazon Prime
• The Addams Family Values – Amazon Prime
• Hocus Pocus – Disney+
• The Corpse Bride – HBO Max
• Over the Garden Wall – Hulu
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Hulu
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Hulu
• What We Do in the Shadows (film) – Amazon Prime
• What We Do in the Shadows (series) – Hulu
• Heathers – Hulu
• The X Files – Hulu
• A Series of Unfortunate Events – Netflix
• The Vampire Diaries – Netflix
• Edward Scissorhands – Hulu
• The Nightmare Before Christmas – Disney+
• Sweeney Todd – rent on Amazon Prime
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Hulu
• The Twilight Zone – Hulu

COZY + FEEL GOOD

• Practical Magic – rent on Amazon Prime
• Gilmore Girls – Netflix
• You’ve Got Mail – HBO Max
• When Harry Met Sally – HBO Max
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – HBO Max
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – HBO Max
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch (90s version) – Hulu
• All Halloween episodes of Brooklyn 99 – Hulu
• All Halloween episodes of Bob’s Burgers – Hulu

CRIME-Y

• Fargo (film) – rent on Amazon Prime
• Fargo (series) – Hulu
• The End of the Fucking World – Netflix
• Breaking Bad – Netflix
• Mindhunter – Netflix
• Broadchurch – Netflix