Halloween Movies on Netflix in 2025 for Kids, Teens, and Adults

Looking for Halloween movies on Netflix in 2025? Then you’ve come to the right place.

In years past, Netflix has treated subscribers to a month of one new original horror movie a week. The streamer isn’t doing that this year, but there are still plenty of other spooky, fun, scary, gross, and hilarious Halloween movies in the Netflix library. Whether you’re looking for a kid-friendly Halloween movie like Hotel Transylvania, or a Halloween movie that will leave you with nightmares for weeks like Night of the Living Dead, there’s something for everyone on the streaming service for Netflix subscribers this Halloweekend.

That said, there are so many choices on Netflix, that it can be hard to know where to start. In an effort to help you cut through the noise, Decider has put together a list of 15 Halloween movies on Netflix in 2025, including kids Halloween movies on Netflix, as well as Halloween movies for teens and adults.

Happy screaming—uh, I mean, streaming!

Kids Halloween movies on Netflix:

1. Rating: PG

   Listen, obviously it’d be better to watch the first Hotel Transylvania movie, aka the animated hit from director Genndy Tartakovsky, starring Adam Sandler as the voice of Count Dracula, who runs a hotel in a world overrun by monsters like Frankenstein, werewolves, and mummies. Unfortunately, the third one is the one streaming on Netflix. But even though this one takes place on a tropical summer vacation, the characters are still very Halloween-y!

2. Rating: PG

   Nothing says spooky fun for all ages like Casper the Friendly Ghost! This 90s classic fantasy comedy will not only delight new, younger generations, but it will bring back fond memories for millennial parents. Christina Ricci stars as a teenage girl who befriends a CGI ghost of a lonely, but very nice, 12-year-old boy.

3. Rating: TV-14, for mild language

   If you had a kid who’s a Stranger Things fan, be sure to show them this much-less-scary Netflix original that stars Priah Ferguson—aka Erica from Stranger Things—as the lead. Starring comedian Marlon Wayans, who also produced the film, The Curse of Bridge Hollow tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Sydney (Ferguson), whose life is upended when her father (Wayans) moves the family from Brooklyn to the small town of Bridge Hollow. At least Sydney’s new town is really into her favorite holiday— Halloween—but this provides little comfort when her dad, a science teacher, dismisses the spooky decorations in town as childish. When they come to life and terrorize the town, he starts taking them more seriously!

4. Rating: TV-PG

   If you’re raising a little horror fan, go ahead and show them Nightbooks, which is appropriate for kids—but only ones who like to be scared. Based on the 2018 horror-fantasy children’s book of the same name by J. A. White, Nightbooks may be about kids and for kids, but it’s also very much not a Disney Channel horror movie. In other words, this movie delivers genuine scares, albeit in a somewhat kid-friendly way. Krysten Ritter stars as a blue-haired witch who kidnaps a young boy named Alex (Winslow Fegley) and demands he tells her a new original scary story every night. Also held captive is a girl named Yazmin (Lidya Jewett) and together the kids must plot a way to escape. The film was directed by David Yarovesky, and will likely be the new favorite movie of the young horror-lover in your life.

5. Rating: PG-13

   Even though it’s animated, I recommend keeping this one for kids who are 12 and older, thanks to some scary moments and more mature political themes. But if you loved Nightmare Before Christmas, you should definitely make your family watch this weird, spooky, punk-rock cult film for a new generation, from director Henry Selick—aka the same man who brought you The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), and Coraline (2009).

Halloween movies on Netflix for teens:

1. Rating: PG-13

   Teens love Jenna Ortega, right? Maybe’s why the Ortega-led Beetlejuice sequel was a hit. Directed by Tim Burton, Beetlejuice 2 saw the return of Micheal Keaton to his iconic role as a demonic trickster, alongside original cast members Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara from the beloved 1988 horror comedy. Ortega joined the cast as the teen daughter of Ryder’s character, Lydia Deetz, who gets herself into a sticky situation in the Afterlife. Lydia has no choice but to call in a favor from her mischievous and magical pal, Betelgeuse. Don’t wait to watch this one, because it’s leaving Netflix on November 5.

2. Rating: TV-14

   For a slasher that’s not too gore-y, try this time-travel horror film about a 16-year-old girl, played by Madison Bailey, who goes back in time to 2003, to save her sister from the “Sweetly Slasher” serial killer. And yes, the premise of Time Cut is nearly identical to that of another streaming horror movie that came out on Amazon in 2023, Totally Killer, but it still has some early 2000s fun.

3. Rating: R

   Save this movie series for older teens who love gore, but  Fear Street Part 1: 1994—and the entire Fear Street trilogy—on Netflix is not only a fun, gory, R-rated adaptation of the R.L. Stine book series, it’s also a super cute lesbian love story. The very charming Kiana Madeira stars as a teen girl in the ’90s named Deena, who recently broke up with her girlfriend Sam (Olivia Welch), after Sam transferred from the downtrodden Shadyside High to their affluent rivals, Sunnyvale. But soon the girls have more to worry about than drama and rivalries when a masked killer starts terrorizing their friends. Director Leigh Janiak manages to make Fear Street a fun, nostalgic throwback for ’90s kids that will also no doubt appeal to the horror-loving subset of current teens.

4. Rating: R

   Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, with a script written by Robinson and Sam Lanksy, this new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie is a sort of reboot-and-sequel to the 1997 slasher film of the same name and it’s 1998 sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Though OG star Sarah Michelle Gellar didn’t return, both Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt made appearances, so this could be a fun one for parents and teens to watch together.

5. Rating: TV-MA

   What pre-teen boy doesn’t have a babysitter fantasy? Directed by McG, The Babysitter was a 2017 horror-comedy that starred Judah Lewis as a 12-year-old kid named Cole, and Samara Weaving (SMILF, Ready or Not) as his hot older babysitter, who turns out to be in a murder cult who wants to kill him. The violence and gore is pretty explicit in this one, just FYI.

Halloween movies on Netflix for adults:

1. Rating: R

   If you’ve been hurt by love, at least you’ve never had it as bad as the victims in Heart Eyes, a new slasher about a killer who targets couples on Valentine’s Day. Maybe being single isn’t so bad, after all. Directed by Josh Ruben (known for his 2021 horror comedy Werewolves Within), with a script by Phillip Murphy, Happy Death Day‘s Christopher Landon (who also produces), and Michael Kennedy, Heart Eyes is a humorous slasher that pokes fun at rom-coms, and doesn’t shy away from sex.

2. Rating: R

   If you’re looking for a truly scary horror movie this Halloween, check out this supernatural thriller follows a psychiatrist (played by Sosie Bacon) who witnesses a patient taking her own life. Following that traumatic incident, she becomes haunted by a terrifying image—everyone in her life starts smiling. But it’s not like, a nice smile. It’s the creepiest smile ever. Writer/director Parker Finn really knows just how scary a forced smile can be. Don’t wait to watch, because Smile leaves Netflix on November 13.

3. Rating: TV-MA

   Netflix is infamous for its abysmal classic film collection, but there is one pillar of horror movie history in its library right now, and that’s George A. Romero’s low-budget zombie flick, credited with popularizing zombies in pop culture. With ground-breaking explicit violence and gore, this one will still send you to bed with nightmares, well over 50 years later.

4. Rating: R

   After you watch the OG zombie film, you can check out a modern take with both 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Years Later on Netflix, the first and third movie in the Danny Boyle and Alex Garland zombie film series. The third movie features a new cast, led by star Jodie Comer, who plays a woman named Isla who suffers from memory loss. Her husband Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is a scavenger trying to keep them both alive. Also starring Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Edvin Ryding, 28 Years Later was a hit at the box office, earning over $150 million worldwide, and now you can stream it free on Netflix!

5. Rating: R

   This surprise break-out hit for Netflix, directed by Susanne Bier, is pure genre fun. The great Sandra Bullock stars as a tough-as-nails lone wolf trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by mysterious monsters. One look at these monsters will drive you insane, so survivors are forced to wear blindfolds outside. It’s not exactly elevated horror, but it is a creative, original, and fun monster movie. Plus, Sandra Bullock!