Horror movies to watch ahead of Halloween

By Entertainment Desk | October 22, 2025

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This modern masterpiece plunges a grieving family into terrifying darkness after the death of their secretive grandmother. The movie delivers overwhelming, psychological horror and deep-seated dread through phenomenal performances and a relentless, unsettling atmosphere.

Hereditary

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A sharp, socio-political horror film that follows a young Black man visiting his white girlfriend’s parents’ seemingly idyllic estate. It masterfully uses thriller elements and supernatural body horror to expose deeply unsettling truths about racial dynamics.

Get Out 

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A single mother struggles with her troubled son and the sudden appearance of a malevolent creature from a sinister children’s book. This film is a potent allegory for grief and depression, blending deeply personal drama with chilling, creature-based scares.

The Babadook

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A family must live in absolute silence to survive in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by blind, sound-hunting creatures. The premise creates spectacular, almost unbearable tension, turning the slightest noise into a potential death sentence.

A Quiet Place

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Set in a snowy Stockholm suburb, a lonely, bullied 12-year-old boy finds friendship and unconventional love with a mysterious, perpetually young girl. This Swedish film is a haunting, beautiful vampire tale that is as tender as it is viscerally dark.

Let the Right One In

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Based on the real-life files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, this is a supremely well-crafted, old-school haunted house movie. It relies on masterful suspense and classic jump scares to terrify a family in their secluded farmhouse.

The Conjuring

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A terrifying supernatural force, which can take the form of any person, slowly but relentlessly pursues a young woman after a sexual encounter. The film evokes primal fear with its constant sense of unseen, approaching danger and an innovative score.

It Follows

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A man wakes from a coma to find London completely abandoned and overrun by fast-moving, rage-infected humans. Danny Boyle’s kinetic direction redefined the zombie genre for a new generation, focusing on brutal survival and societal collapse.

28 Days Later

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A caving expedition by a group of female friends goes horribly wrong when they become trapped in an unmapped system. Claustrophobia gives way to gruesome, creature-based horror as they fight both the environment and a terrifying species of subterranean predators.

The Descent

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