I tried again. Like last year – I’ve always been a little envious of people who watch like 31 scary movies (or more!) during the month of October. I’ve never been able to hit the full 31. There’s always baseball or football or regular TV or soccer or dance classes and such. But this October, I did my best. Not quite as good as last year – I only hit 20 instead of 27 last year. I did watch a few series which took a lot of time (Monster: The Ed Gein Story was…a lot lol). But if you are looking for a movie to watch tonight after all the trick-or-treating is complete, here is the list of the creepy, scary, disgusting and/or classic horror and horror-adjacent movies I have seen this month. A few of these (The Substance, Weapons, and Longlegs in particular) are ones I’m truly bummed I didn’t get to see in theaters. I planned to do a full write-up on each of them, but let’s be honest. that ain’t happening and there’s Reese’s to be dad-taxed so here it is!

	Movie	Streaming Service	Score (Out of 10)	Notes
1	It Feeds	Hulu	6	Relied a little too much on jump scares. Entitiy/Demon looked very good. Leads were great. Hulu has got to fix their sound quality.
2	Trick ‘r Treat	HBO Max	9.75	Yearly watch. Almost perfect.
3	Until Dawn	Netflix	7.5	Very much felt like a video game. Which it’s based on…so that’s good. Good fun. Well acted.
4	The Woman	Amazon Prime	4.5	Outside of Pollyanna McIntosh’s performance, this was just torture porn. They tried to have a good feminist message, but it fell flat
5	Bring Her Back	HBO Max	9.5	Dude, Sally Hawkins is so good.  Philippou brothers follow up is even better Talk To Me, which I loved
6	Final Destination: Bloodlines	HBO Max	9.5	Surprisingly good. Need to rewatch all of them but it may be my favorite in the series.
7	Tucker & Dale vs Evil	Disney +	10	Watch this as much as possible. It’s just so good and a perfect send up of the genre as a whole.
8	The Invitation	Hulu	6.5	Forgot I had already watched this til I was like halfway through the movie lol. It’s a perfectly fine vampire story.
9	M3GAN 2.0	Peacock	8	Maybe not as much on the horror elements as the first movie, but still very fun and M3GAN herself is still extraordinarily funny.
10	Smile 2	Paramount +	8.5	Great opening scene. A few very funny lines, which was unexpected. Didn’t think it was necessary but maybe liked it more than the 1st movie
11	Vicious	Paramount +	4 or 9 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯	Honestly cannot decide if I loved this movie or not at all. The sound design is junk, but overall a good examination of mental illness and self-acceptance. I will say Dakota Fanning elevates this massively.
12	Nosferatu	Amazon Prime	9	Still very bummed I didn’t see this in thaters. Beautiful. Every scene that Lily Rose-Depp is in was elevated by her acting.
13	Mouseboat Massace	Amazon Prime	5	Not as campy as I was hoping for. A warning for what happens when IP prtections run out lol. Not as good as anything in the Poohniverse.
14	The Hand The Rocks the Cradle	Hulu	5ish	So many of my favorite actors but I don’t know if this retelling was necessary at all. Good acting. The husband is the worst character by a mile.
15	The Substance	HBO Max	9.75, possible 10	Man, this movie is as close to perfect as it gets for me. Demi Moore should have won every award. Perfect body horror.
16	Weapons	HBO Max	Same as The Substance	Real bummed out that I didn’t see this one in theaters. More than one person told me this may be my favorite movie of the year. Between this and Sinners. Watching The Substance and Weapons back to back was great.
17	Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare	Peacock	5	3rd entry in the Twisted Childhood Univers (The Poohniverse). Look, these movies aren’t good, but I’m so glad they exist.
18	I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)	Netflix	7.5	Fully unnecessary but a lot of fun. Better than it should be. Also as it turns out, still crushing on my first Hollywood crush so I’ve got that going me.
19	Death of a Unicorn	HBO Max	7.5	Fun all the way throughout. The unicorns are legit scary looking but where they come from is beautiful. The whole cast is good and very funny
20	Longlegs	Hulu	8	I loved it, but can totally understand how this movie is very uneven in terms of reviews. Truly felt uneasy for the whole run.

Happy Halloween everybody! I hope you all got more treats than tricks!