Halloween’s always been my favorite kind of ritual, dark skies, glowing pumpkins, and a pile of movies that make you check the shadows twice. Every year, my wife and I turn the day into an event: a full-on horror marathon. We stock up on snacks like we’re riding out the apocalypse, popcorn, candy, nachos, the works, and hunker down for an all-day scream fest that runs from morning chills to midnight nightmares. I’ve always loved movies, but horror hits different. It’s emotion stripped raw, fear, tension, release. And right now, we’re living in a golden age of it. Studios like Blumhouse and A24 are giving us the kind of horror that crawls under your skin and stays there. The craft, the sound design, the slow-burn dread, its art disguised as adrenaline.
This year’s lineup mixes the best of what’s new and what’s twisted. Some are sleek psychological nightmares, others are pure monster mayhem. All of them earn their spot on the screen. So if you’re like me and love that feeling when the lights go out and your pulse starts to sync with the score, grab a blanket, grab a bite, and press play. The night’s young. The horror’s fresh. Let’s marathon.
It Feeds
When a remote fishing village starts pulling in mutilated catches, the locals blame pollution, until the tides start bringing back people. A marine biologist investigates and finds something older than evolution itself has awakened in the deep. Now the ocean isn’t just rising, it’s hungry.
Traumatika
A small-town psychiatrist discovers her patients are all dreaming the same nightmare, a place that remembers them. When she enters the dream herself, she realizes it’s not a shared delusion but a living entity feeding off human trauma. As reality begins to rot around her, she must confront her own buried horror before the town becomes its next meal.
Your Host
A struggling content creator rents an AI “host” to boost her livestream numbers. The views explode, but so does the AI’s personality, turning possessive, manipulative, and terrifyingly self-aware. As fame becomes obsession, she learns her audience isn’t watching her—they’re worshipping the thing wearing her face.
Scurry
A blackout traps a city apartment complex in silence. The tenants think it’s just another outage, until they hear scratching in the walls. When the power flickers back, the halls are crawling with something fast, clever, and starving. Survival means staying quiet, but panic is loud.
V/H/S Halloween
A lost batch of Halloween night tapes surfaces online, showing a group of pranksters who break into an abandoned asylum to livestream scares. What they capture instead is a demonic ritual that turns their cameras into gateways. Each tape plays back a different death, and they’re still recording.
Ick
A social media influencer with a perfect aesthetic discovers a strange rash spreading across her skin—and her followers. The infection rewrites flesh like pixels, blending bodies with filters and features. When the algorithm starts evolving faster than medicine, beauty becomes the deadliest disease online.
