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Spooky Season is officially here, which means it’s the perfect time to watch Halloween movies. Figuring out what to watch can be tough, though, especially when it comes to Netflix’s vast catalogue of titles. Lucky for you, we’ve put together a curated list of the best Halloween movies on Netflix right now. Some of these films are genuine Halloween movies, while others just deliver on the “Halloween vibes.” But all of them make for great viewing options when you turn the lights down, light some candles and cozy up with a warm blanket.

Check out our picks for the best Halloween movies on Netflix below.

Halloween (2018) Universal Pictures

2018’s “Halloween” kicked off a brand new trilogy of films in the franchise from director David Gordon Green, and the first is a direct sequel to the original 1978 “Halloween” – one of the scariest films of all time. In this...

While there's a lot of excitement among horror fans for recent and upcoming R-rated releases, I highly recommend Nightbooks, which just recently made its premiere on Netflix! Directed by David Yarovesky, starring Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett and Krysten Ritter, and based on a book by J.A. White, Nightbooks is a great movie for kids to watch this Halloween season, with enough scares and fun to win over horror fans of any age!

During a recent press day, I had the opportunity to catch up with the Nightbook's main cast to learn about the making of the movie and their favorite horror movies:

"Alex (Winslow Fegley) is a creative boy with a strong passion for writing scary stories. But when he's labeled weird and rejected for what he likes, he swears he'll never write again. That’s when an evil witch (Krysten Ritter), captures him in her magical apartment in New...

You’ve just watched Nightbooks with your family, and depending on how your kids reacted to this frightening children’s horror movie, you’ve either been left wanting more or are wondering if you’ve traumatized your little ones for good. Indeed, the latest Netflix chiller from director David Yarovesky (Brightburn), based on the children’s book by J.A. White, is genuinely scary in a way that might take you back to your days of watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? or Goosebumps as a kid.

While the movie is ostensibly about two kids stuck in a fairy tale being spun by a cruel witch (played with relish by Krysten Ritter), Nightbooks cuts much deeper than that, delivering some truly bone-chilling set pieces as protagonists Alex (Winslow Fegley) and Yazmin (Lidya Jewett) try to escape their terrifying surroundings (and a very mean cat). Tackling themes of child abuse, bullying,...

Krysten Ritter has signed on to the cast of the upcoming HBO Max series “Love and Death.”

The series is based on the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend from church, Betty Gore, with an axe in 1980. The show is inspired by the book “Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs” and a collection of articles from Texas Monthly.

Ritter will appear in the role of Sherry Cleckler. It was previously announced that Elizabeth Olsen would star as Candy Montgomery. Other cast members include Jesse Plemons as Allan Gore, Patrick Fugit as Pat Montgomery, Lily Rabe as Betty Gore, Keir Gilchrist as Pastor Ron Adams, Elizabeth Marvel as Pastor Jackie Ponder, and Tom Pelphrey as Don Crowder.

Ritter currently stars in the Netflix film “Nightbooks,” based on the J.A. White horror-fantasy children’s book. She is best known for...

Krysten Ritter is set as a lead alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Patrick Fugit and Lily Rabe in HBO Max’s Love and Death, a limited series about the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980.

Ritter will play Sherry Cleckler in the series from the Big Little Lies and The Undoing duo of David E. Kelley and Nicole Kidman and Lionsgate Television.

Written by Kelley and directed by Homeland‘s Lesli Linka Glatter, Love and Death is inspired by the book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs and a collection of articles from Texas Monthly.

The series revolves around two churchgoing couples enjoying small-town family life in Wylie, until somebody picks up an ax. The couples are Candy (Olsen) and Pat Montgomery (Fugit) and Betty (Rabe) and Allan...

Fairy tales and scary stories make for a perfect gateway into the genre for many children. Who among us isn’t familiar with the nightmarish imagery and stories of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? Or the grim, bloody origins of Grimm’s Fairy Tales? Nightbooks, based on J.A. White‘s children’s fantasy-horror novel, takes the concept and runs with […]...

I’m not quite sure who Nightbooks is for. As marketed, the latest Netflix original film appears to be a fantasy-driven horror film for kids and tweens. But the movie itself, which deals with themes of child abuse and features some objectively terrifying monsters, may be too dark for that demographic. This can be an issue with book-to-film adaptations. What works for kids in a literary format can sometimes be too scary once brought to life on-screen. That being said, for adults and kids who have a high tolerance for horror, the Sam Raimi-produced Nightbooks is definitely worth a watch. A gorgeously rendered horror world with a character-driven mystery at its heart, director David Yarovesky’s adaptation of J.A. White’s 2018 middle grade story is a truly rewarding spooky season experience that’ll appeal to adults and kids who are willing to delve into its secrets.

Nightbooks doesn’t waste time throwing its protagonist,...

Save for a small handful of recent films like “The House with the Clock in Its Walls” or the “Goosebumps” movies — nearly all with Jack Black as comic relief — chillers for children are an uncommon and somewhat dicey proposition. For horror filmmakers even interested in trying, they have to hit an exceedingly narrow target, offering enough scares and intensity to delight intrepid tweens without sending them diving under their parents’ comforters with nightmares. Based on J.A. White’s novel, “Nightbooks” will certainly push its audience to the limit with its unrelenting fusillade of jump scares, black magic and campfire stories, but

Co-produced by Sam Raimi through his Ghost House Pictures shingle, “Nightbooks” often feels like a kid-friendly version of Raimi’s “The Evil Dead II,” with its haunted locale, its magical books flush with ancient specters and even an enchanted forest sequence that deploys his deranged Pov camera technique. Though...

Are you ready for another scary YA-like kids story? Netflix’s new film “Nightbooks” places its morbid storytelling directly in the hands of one special boy. His talents are put to the test after encountering a witch with a taste for terrifying tales. This adaptation of J.A. White’s book harkens back to classic ‘80s fantasy and horror like “Labyrinth.” The film features a screenplay from Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis; both Daughtry and Iaconis are well aware of genre content, having worked on 2019’s “The Curse of La Llorona.”

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Director David Yarovesky once again focuses on the dark details that surround youth.

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"This is your life now – forget your family, focus on being useful to the witch." Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for the kids' horror film Nightbooks, a new film from the director of Brightburn, David Yarovesky. Based on the book by J.A. White, and produced by Sam Raimi. The film follows a boy obsessed with scary stories who is imprisoned by an evil young witch in her New York City flat. When Alex, who loves scary stories, is trapped by an evil witch in her magical apartment, and must tell a scary story every night to stay alive, he teams up with another prisoner, Yasmin, to find a way to escape. "Alex must learn to embrace what makes him unique — his love for scary stories — and rewrite his own destiny to break them free." It stars Winslow Fegley as Alex, Lidya Jewett as Yasmin, Krysten Ritter as the evil witch,...

The director of Brightburn is heading to Netflix for a…family movie? Yep. David Yarovesky, who directed the nasty, James Gunn-produced, supervillain origin story Brightburn, is on board to direct Night Books, a film adaptation of author J.A. White’s children’s fantasy story about a young boy who is imprisoned by a witch. Horror legends Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert […]

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Exclusive: Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter, Winslow Fegley And Lidya Jewett are set to star in the Netflix family pic Night Books with David Yarovesky on board to direct. Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert will produce through Ghost House Pictures along with Mxn Entertainment’s Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen.

Based on the J.A. White horror-fantasy children’s book, the story follows Alex (Fegley), a boy obsessed with scary stories, who is imprisoned by an evil young witch (Ritter) in her contemporary New York City apartment. He meets Yasmin (Jewett), who is also trapped there, and learns he must tell a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.

Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis will adapt the script. Ghost House Pictures’ Romel Adam will exec produce and Mxn Entertainment’s Tracy Kopulsky will co-produce.

Yarovesky broke on to the scene with his horror pic The Hive in 2014 and...