As soon as there's a chill in the air, we're ready to get cozy and watch the best Halloween movies on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and Prime Video. While we love a super-spooky thriller, sometimes we want to laugh! That's when the best funny scary movies come in. These horror comedies will put you in the Halloween spirit without scaring you too much.
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In some cases, the funny scary movies on our list lead with comedy first and are created as hilarious spoofs on original horror films (like the popular Scary Movie franchise). Others sneak humor into a predominantly spooky storyline. Either way, here are our favorite funny scary movies for watching this Halloween.
A group of kids hunt for treasure, all in an effort to save their house from being demolished. The bad guys are on their tail the whole way, but the good guys win in the end. This heart-warming flick has its fair share of thrilling and funny moment and is a great choice for a family movie night.
There's music, there's murder, and there's a lot of campy costumes. This risqué movie shows what happens when an unsuspecting couple gets stranded at a creepy castle with some...interesting inhabitants.
Another Tim Burton favorite shows Jack Nicholson as the President of the United States, which is enough to get some laughs right out of the gate. Add alien invaders into the mix and you have one of the funniest scary movies ever.
This Disney Halloween classic is light on the horror and heavy on the laughs, making it the perfect choice for family movie night this spooky season. Don't miss the sequel, exclusively on Disney+, out September 30.
Director: Edgar WrightCast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy DavisYou can argue until you're zombiefied with exhaustion as to whether Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's first cinematic collaboration is a true horror. It is: the laughs are balanced by a keen understanding of the fear aesthetic, and it doesn't skimp on either the scares or the gore. You only have to look to the final siege's homaging of Night Of The Living Dead to understand that. Plus, Wright and his cast add such real emotional depth to the characters that they come across as more nuanced than many a scary movie can boast.Read The Empire Review
Director: David Robert MitchellCast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel ZovattoA strong contender for the best horror film of 2014, It Follows runs with its brilliant central concept and never drops the ball. We never really learn what the 'It' is, except that it's a mysterious entity that's somehow sexually transmitted, manifesting as a variety of shuffling injured strangers, or sometimes as people known to the victims it inexorably pursues. It's an interesting twist on the slasher movie "promiscuous teens get killed" trope, with the wrinkle that if you find yourself affected, you can just shag someone else and get rid of it, like a chain letter. That rule takes the film to some very dark places.Read The Empire Review
Director: Stanley KubrickCast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny LloydStephen King hates it, of course. Contemporary critics were lukewarm. Initial box-office returns were middling. The Academy Awards flatly ignored it. Stanley Kubrick, unbelievably, was even nominated for a 'Worst Director' award at the inaugural Razzies. (He 'lost' to Robert Greenwald's Xanadu). It wasn't a fun shoot either, by all accounts. Kubrick forced Shelley Duvall to do 127 takes of one scene, a record according to The Guinness Book Of Records. The infamous "Here's Johnny!" scene took three days and 60 doors. Both lead actors left the shoot exhausted and resentful.What a difference a bit of hindsight makes. As with a lot of Kubrick's work, time has been kind, and it now seems blindingly obvious that The Shining is a masterpiece without parallel: precise, meticulous, surreal, visually astonishing, a shimmering study of a descent into madness. The ultimate horror movie.Read The Empire Review
Centered on the fictional town of Woodsboro, the story follows a high school becoming increasingly tormented by a mysterious Ghostface killer quietly making his own movie with each slaying. As the OG film's tagline goes, "Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far!" It set the stage for a pair of successful sequels, and we can't wait to see what's in store for the next.
Although Cannibal Holocaust is considered to be the first found-footage film, The Blair Witch Project re-popularized the subgenre in 1999 and mastered it at the same time, for better or worse. At the time of its release, the film about a group of student filmmakers, who venture into the mysterious Black Hills to investigate an urban legend, left audiences terrified. Using largely inexperienced actors, the film expertly used its 35-page script to improvise much of the dialogue, adding to the feel of a real home movie.
The 1978 iteration directed by Philip Kaufman may be the best, though, as it combines exceptional acting, striking visuals, disgusting gore, and a brilliantly disturbing ending which is sure to haunt viewers long after the film is over. Its political and cultural subtext may have made it one of the best horror films of the '70s, but its style, bleakness, and conclusion cement it as one of the most important scary movies ever made.
With Hereditary, Ari Aster instantly made a name for himself in the vast annals of the horror film archives, making a movie about possession that separated itself from the countless Exorcist knockoffs, and a haunting film about the destruction of a suburban family (a frequent horror theme). With the help of Toni Collette's Oscar-worthy performance, he depicts a family slowly unraveling as a result of loss, grief, anger, and supernatural intervention.
The Exorcist is the prototype for countless, lesser-possession films that would come out after its 1973 release. A film about a 12-year-old girl named Regan (Linda Blair), a sweet child who becomes possessed after an elderly priest unwittingly releases a demon, might have seemed like typical B-movie fodder, but the movie proved how critically acclaimed and commercially successful well-done horror can be. At the time, audiences were both repulsed and inexplicably drawn to the film, as is often the case with scary movies (which may be reflective of our collective fixation with the horror genre).
Ridley Scott's Alien isn't your average horror film, due to its minimalism, its science fiction overtones, and the fact that it takes place entirely in space. One might even consider it a sci-fi movie more than it is a horror film. However, that doesn't take away from the overwhelming sense of dread throughout its 117-minute runtime. It is a masterclass in slowly building suspense, delivering great jump scares, and creating gross-out body horror. From its opening scene of isolated space travel, a piercing silence builds a palpable sense of tension; it's clear that the government-sanctioned mining crew gets more than they bargained for when they discover the perfect killing machine in the terrifying Xenomorph.
Lest we forget the famous shower scene, which featured the first-person stabbing angle that would become a staple in great Giallo horror movies and the later slasher films of the 1980s. Initially heavily censored because of its violence and commentary about gender and sexuality, Psycho is Hitchcock's purest distillation of tension and sexuality, and birthed a new age in horror.
The script was written by Gary Dauberman and it signaled his arrival as a sought-after Hollywood writer after a couple of schlocky B-movies. He favors a Walter Hill (The Getaway, Alien) minimalist writing style, with sentences either broken up within the paragraph, or hugging the left margin, almost like bullet points.
If you're a horror movie aficionado, you've likely heard of the box office and critical hit Train to Busan. The Gong Woo-led movie follows a group of travelers fighting for their lives aboard a zombie-infested high-speed train hurtling to one of the last safe places in the country. The film's powerful class commentary shows the benefit of taking collective action over prioritizing individual survival. Critics pointed out how the movie may be a response to the Sewol ferry disaster of 2014 that left 300 dead, including around 250 teenagers.
This animated prequel to Train to Busan imagines Seoul's lockdown at the start of the zombie outbreak. The movie follows former sex worker Hye-sun, who is searching for her pimp-slash-boyfriend amidst the chaos. While Train to Busan luxuriates in the spectacle of violence and the social conditions that triggered it, Seoul Station looks closer at the lives who are at the margins and most likely to be cast aside in a cataclysmic event. In fact, one of the first zombies is an old homeless man, yet his affliction is ignored due to his age and social status.
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A surefire win (with teeny, tiny scares) for the youngest movie buffs, this classic Pixar film was an extremely memorable leap in animation technology and remains a heartwarming 'spooky' story for your littles. Monsters Sully (John Goodman) and Mike (Billy Crystal) work together at Monsters, Inc., a power company in a Monsters-only world. The power company is fueled by the screams of human children (collected by monsters who go into the human world to scare them). When one of Mike and Sully's nightly haunts fails terribly and brings a small child into their world, they must work together to make things right (and ultimately save 'Boo' from even more terrible creatures). Rated G. 2ff7e9595c
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