Every new horror movie you can watch at home for Halloween 2023

It’s already October, and that means a month-long Halloween celebration — and the perfect time to catch up on all the horror movies of 2023. While there are still plenty of great ones that aren’t streamable quite yet, most of the year’s best are already available online, whether it’s to rent, to buy, to stream, or even for free.

To help you keep up with everything scary in 2023, here’s a list of just about every major horror movie released this year that’s already available to watch online. And if you want to know how scary they are, we’ve got you covered.

The Totally Deadly

Blumhouse Television

What to Watch: Prime Video

The Totally DeadlyIt’s a comedy time travel slasher in which a teenager (Kiernan shipka) is sent back to the past to join forces with her mother, a teenage girl (Olivia Holt), to fight a serial killer.

Photo: Jalen Marlowe/Disney

What to Watch: Disney Plus

Disney’s reboot of this family-friendly horror movie (based on the ride of the same name) stars LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, and Danny DeVito in a silly, ghost-filled adventure.

Image: A24

You can rent or purchase movies on Youtube, Prime Video, Vudu

A group of teens use a mummified hand as a party drug to talk to spirits — until one takes things too far and invites the spirits into our world to take over her body — in this terrifying horror movie from A24.

The Nun II

Warner Bros. Pictures

You can rent or purchase movies on Youtube, Prime Video, Google Play

The eighth film in the Conjuring franchise follows the origins of Valek, the series’ creepiest character and one of its most iconic monsters.

V/H/S/85

Image: “Shudder”

What to Watch: Shudder

This sixth volume of the V/H/S Horror Anthology Series includes short horror films inspired by the 80s, from directors such as Scott Derrickson.SinisterDavid BrucknerThe Night House).

Universal Pictures

What to Watch: Prime Video

It’s a fun movie for all horror lovers, but it is also a perfect way to introduce newcomers to the genre.

What to Watch: Hulu

The story was adapted from one by Stephen King. The Boogeyman tells the story of a family that gets followed by a malevolent force that’s both deadly and very hard to get rid of.

Glen Wilson/Lionsgate

What to Watch: Starz

Seven friends trapped in an isolated cabin are hunted down by a killer who is fond of horror film clichés.

Photo: Michele K. Short/Universal Pictures

What to Watch: Peacock

Nicholas Hoult is the abused and slighted assistant of Dracula, played by Nicolas Cage. RenfieldThis horror film from Lego MovieChris McKay is a writer.

Image: A24

You can rent or purchase movies on Youtube, Prime Video, Google Play

Ari Aster’s follow-up to Midsommar, Beau Is AfraidIt’s a movie that is like a cross between a horror film and a comedy, but it never quite fits into either category. The one thing we can say for sure is that it’s the strangest movie on this list.

Slotherhouse

Image: Hulu

You can rent or purchase movies on Youtube, Prime Video, Google Play

What you need to Know about Slotherhouse can be gleaned from its title: It’s a horror comedy where a group of friends are hunted by a killer sloth.

Sony Pictures Releasing

You can rent or purchase movies on Youtube, Prime Video, Google Play

The sequel to Insidious’ first two movies brings back all the actors from the previous films over a decade after the events of the movies. Dalton is now in college and Dalton continues on his terrifying journey through The Further.

20th Century Studios

What to Watch: Hulu

A home-invasion movie with no dialogue, plenty of extraterrestrial scares, and an ending designed for interpretation makes for one of the year’s most unique horror movies.

El Conde

Photo: Pablo Larraín/Netflix

What to Watch: Netflix

El Conde follows Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who also happens to be a 250-year-old vampire who’s finally decided he’s ready to die.

Lionsgate Image

You can rent or purchase movies on Youtube, Prime Video, Google Play

Cobweb The movie “Things That Go Bump in the Night” is about a child who is terrorized by an unsettling noise coming from their walls. What’s extra scary is that his parents don’t believe he’s hearing it, leading him to suspect that they’re in on whatever evil is behind it.

Image: Cinedigm

What to Watch: Tubi

A gross and inventive found-footage movie OutwatersFollows a group of children who never return from the desert after they shoot a video.

Paramount Pictures

What to Watch: Paramount Plus

Radio Silence has released the second instalment of the Scream franchise.Get Ready), the sixth Scream movie is a little bit more focused on action than horror, but it does move the franchise to New York City for a change.

Universal Pictures

What to Watch: Prime Video

Knock the CabinIt’s a great entry in the all too rare genre of post-apocalyptic fear. The latest movie from M. Night Shyamalan follows a family forced to sacrifice one member in order to prevent the end of the world — at least, that’s what the group of strangers holding them hostage keep telling them.

Image: NEON

What to Watch: Hulu

The second feature from director Brandon Cronenberg isn’t quite as deranged as his first, but it’s still a fantastically twisted ride through the lives of the super-rich in the not-too-distant future.

Image: Sony Pictures

What to Watch: Netflix

It is a masterful art to jump back and forward between comedy and horror. The Pope’s Exorcist somehow manages to do both well, due in no small part to Russell Crowe’s often hilarious commitment to playing an Italian priest.

Image: Netflix

What to Watch: Netflix

Succession’s Sarah Snook stars in this head trip of a thriller about memory, repression, and how long someone has to live with a horrifying mistake.

Photo: Andrea Resmini/Netflix

What to Watch: Netflix

Follow-up on Bird Box may not have set the world on fire like the original did, but it’s still interesting to head back into this world of not-to-be-seen horrors.

Warner Bros. Pictures

What to Watch: Max

The newest entry in the Evil Dead franchise changes out the series’ signature cabins in the woods for a New York apartment building, but it’s still full of the chainsaws, meanness, and gore that make the series great.