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The horror genre and Halloween go together hand in hand better than peanut butter and jelly, so it is quite a mystery why there aren't more horror movies that take place on Halloween itself. The premise of horror on Halloween is solid and the spooky vibes are immaculate, yet for some reason, there simply aren't an outlandish number of great horror movies that take place on the holiday itself. Luckily, while there isn't an overabundance, there are still plenty of Halloween horror movies to satisfy the appetite of watching some of the scariest, spookiest, and gnarliest films ever made that take place on All Hallow's Eve.
From arguably the most beloved, adored, and iconic film to ever take place on the holiday and even included it in its title in John Carpenter's Halloween, to anthology films that provide audiences with a grab bag of terror that will satisfy everyone's desires from zombies to werewolves to vampires and everything in between in anthology staples like Trick 'r Treat, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Tales of Halloween, the best horror movies that take place on Halloween manage to not only cheaply use the holiday as a cheap ploy to sell tickets, but incorporate it in its plot, story, and themes to deliver a frightfully fun watch that is guaranteed to get audiences excited for the spooky season.
As its title would suggest, John Carpenters' 1978 horror classic Halloween takes place throughout the spooky and terrifying holiday as Michael Myers hunts down poor unsuspecting babysitters one by one in gruesome and grizzly murders. With pumpkins, costumes, and an overall vibe that just screams spooky season, the film is one of the biggest and best horror movies that takes place on Halloween as it manages to give audiences that warm and fuzzy feeling of fall while simultaneously scaring the living daylights out of them.
When Trick ‘r Treat was released straight to video in 2007, almost no one could have foreseen that almost two decades later it would become a staple of the Fall and Halloween season and be widely considered one of the greatest Halloween movies of all time. An utterly brilliant anthology story that tells the tale of werewolves, zombies, serial killers, and the heart of Halloween, the film is so drenched in the Halloween atmosphere one can't help but get excited at the upcoming season, and Trick 'r Treat more than delivers on the fights, fun, and excitement.
Based on the impeccable and downright horrifying works of Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is an almost linear anthology adaptation of the classic novel of the same name that is the perfect introduction to the horror genre for teens and tweens who have never watched a scary movie before. With numerous titular scary stories throughout the film, audiences are all but guaranteed to find at least one that will keep them entertained and utterly enthrall them with a tense atmosphere, chilling visuals, and a spooky vibe and costumes that help the film shine.
Terrifier is a film that took the indie horror world by storm when it was released in 2018 and managed to become larger than life itself and introduced a new horror icon to the world of terror. Following Art the Clown as he rampages throughout Detroit and brutally, viciously, and maliciously murderers anyone in his way, the film itself is perfectly adequate, but what makes the film work soo masterfully is Art himself. COmpletely unhinged and, as the title would suggest, terrifying, the film showcases some of the most unforgettable and deeply disturbing acts of violence ever shown on the silver screen.
An anthology film from some of the brightest young minds in Hollywood at the time, Tales of Halloween showcases 10 mystifying stories that range from ghosts and goblins to monsters to devils and everything in between. A frightfully fun film to get audiences in the Halloween spirit, while every short may not be the best, there are plenty that more that live up to the exciting premise and deliver the frights as well as deliver that indescribable feeling one gets when watching a film drenched in spooky fall atmosphere.
While it may not be a stereotypical horror movie, Hocus Pocus is one of the pristine examples of a horror movie that takes place on Halloween and manages to be rich in the fall and spooky atmosphere, and while it may be aimed towards children, it has garnered a reputation of being one of the most important Halloween movies ever made. The plot of the story itself is quite creepy, with a group of witches returning from the grave desperate to swallow the souls of children in order to stay young forever, and while it does have that Disney charm, it still manages to stay just spooky enough to be considered frightful.
