Oct. 31, 2025

📺 Hack or Slash Companion List: Our Favorite Halloween Night Movies

Set on Halloween Night (Core List)

  • Halloween (1978)

  • Trick ’r Treat (2007)

  • All Hallows’ Eve (2013)

  • Terrifier (2016)

  • Terrifier 2 (2022)

  • Haunt (2019)

  • Hell Fest (2018)

  • The Houses October Built (2014)

  • Late Night with the Devil (2024)

  • Cobweb (2024)

  • Ginger Snaps (2000)

  • Rob Zombie’s 31 (2016)

  • The Munsters (2022)

  • Tales of Halloween (2015)

 

Honorable Mentions / Halloween Adjacent

  • Hocus Pocus (1993) & Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

  • Halloweentown (1998)

  • Casper (1995)

  • Monster House (2006)

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

  • Frankenweenie (2012)

  • ParaNorman (2012)

  • Hubie Halloween (2020)

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

 

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