Searching for the best Halloween movies to stream this weekend? The 2026 spooky season slate is already deep: Netflix dropped a fresh batch of horror on October 1 and has new originals landing through Halloween night, Huluween is running across Hulu and Disney+, and Max, Paramount+, Shudder and Tubi all have new releases dated through October 30. Here is the full guide to what is new, what is family-friendly, and where everything lives.
New Halloween movies and shows on Netflix
Netflix opened October with a stack of licensed horror arrivals, including Evil Dead (2013), the original Friday the 13th (1980), Mike Flanagan’s Ouija: Origin of Evil, dark satire The Menu with Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes, both A Haunted House comedies, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, all dated October 1, with Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman following on October 5, per What’s on Netflix’s October horror roundup.
The bigger story is the originals rolling out all month:
Below (October 8): a six-part supernatural thriller from showrunner Jesse McKeown (The Umbrella Academy) starring Josh Hartnett, Charlie Heaton and Mackenzie Davis, about a Newfoundland coastal town terrorized by something in the water.
Haunted Hotel season 2 (October 9): the animated horror-comedy from Rick and Morty writer Matt Roller, with Will Forte and Eliza Coupe, returns after a well-rated 2025 debut.
The Trap (October 13): a German psychological thriller based on Melanie Raabe’s bestselling novel, in which a reclusive author uses herself as bait for her sister’s killer.
Balaraw: Blood Island (October 29): a slow-burn Filipino horror-mystery starring Janine Gutierrez, built on island folklore and family secrets.
Dead-End Job (October 30): a supernatural K-drama starring Lee Jae Wook, about a too-good-to-be-true part-time job that turns into a nightmare.
Huluween: Hulu and Disney+ Halloween movies
Disney’s official Huluween guide, updated October 9, highlights two new 2026 releases on Hulu: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the Searchlight survival-game sequel with Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton, and SOULM8TE, Kate Dolan’s AI thriller that Hulu dated October 1. TV Guide’s 2026 Halloween streaming list adds two more Hulu arrivals: Hokum (October 10), the Neon horror film from Oddity director Damian McCarthy starring Adam Scott, and the documentary Clown Panic (October 12), which revisits the viral scary-clown sightings of a decade ago.
On the Disney+ side, the seasonal staples are all in one place: both Hocus Pocus movies, The Haunted Mansion (2003) and Haunted Mansion (2023), Edward Scissorhands, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Marvel’s Werewolf by Night in both black-and-white and color.
Max, Paramount+, Shudder and Tubi
TV Guide’s list rounds out the rest of the field. On Max: Backrooms, the A24 box office breakout from 20-year-old director Kane Parsons starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Evil Dead Burn (October 2), the latest franchise installment with Souheila Yacoub. Paramount+ has the Wayans brothers’ long-awaited Scary Movie 6 and Luc Besson’s gothic Dracula with Caleb Landry Jones (October 12). Shudder, the horror specialist, has the busiest October calendar: Infirmary (October 2), the music-themed anthology V/H/S Mixtape (October 9, with segments from RZA and Flying Lotus), Hallowarrior starring Hereditary‘s Milly Shapiro (October 16), and Big Baby (October 30). Tubi’s family-leaning R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2 landed October 9.
Halloween movies for kids and families
For younger viewers, Disney+ is the safest bet: Hocus Pocus, Frankenweenie and The Nightmare Before Christmas are all PG-or-softer staples, and Netflix’s animated Haunted Hotel works for tweens who can handle ghost jokes. Tubi’s R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2 is built for the YA crowd, and Girl vs. Monster, the 2012 Disney Channel movie, is surging again on Google Trends if you want a nostalgia pick.
Want the scariest supernatural horror this Halloween?
Searches for the scariest supernatural horror movies to watch this Halloween are up 500 percent on Google Trends this month. If that is your lane, the strongest 2026 options from the verified lists above are Hokum on Hulu, which TV Guide calls the most terrifying of this year’s indie horror hits, Below on Netflix for slow-burn supernatural dread, and Evil Dead Burn on Max for pure gore. For classics, Evil Dead (2013) and Ouija: Origin of Evil, both new to Netflix this month, cover demonic and occult ground.
Building a 31 days of Halloween movies list
The breakout search this season is “31 days of Halloween movies list,” and the 2026 calendar practically builds one for you: new releases land roughly every two to three days across Netflix, Hulu, Max, Shudder, Paramount+ and Tubi from October 1 through October 30, with the biggest cluster hitting the final week before Halloween on Saturday, October 31. Slot the new releases on their drop dates, then fill gaps with the classics above.
What this means for readers
One subscription is not enough this year. The notable 2026 titles are deliberately spread: Netflix for originals, Hulu for the edgier new releases, Max for A24 and Evil Dead, Shudder for the deepest horror bench.
Free option: Tubi costs nothing, and Pumpkinhead 2 is a legitimate family pick.
Plan the last week: October 29 and 30 bring Balaraw, Dead-End Job and Big Baby, a strong Halloween-eve triple feature across Netflix and Shudder.
Check before you commit: licensed titles rotate; everything dated above was verified against platform or trade coverage published within the last two weeks.
How spooky season 2026 has unfolded
Key dates: October 1 brought Netflix’s licensed horror wave and Hulu’s SOULM8TE; October 2 added Shudder’s Infirmary and Max’s Evil Dead Burn; October 8 and 9 saw Netflix’s Below, Haunted Hotel season 2, Shudder’s V/H/S Mixtape and Tubi’s Pumpkinhead 2; Hokum and Clown Panic hit Hulu October 10 and 12; Shudder’s Hallowarrior arrived October 16; and the month closes with Balaraw: Blood Island (October 29) plus Dead-End Job and Big Baby (October 30).
Zooming out, the pattern is clear: streamers now treat October as a month-long horror premiere window rather than a single week, with Netflix stacking originals across the calendar and Shudder counter-programming with weekly Friday drops. Disney’s Huluween packaging, meanwhile, shows the family end of the season consolidating onto Disney+.
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