The first week of October is officially here, so it’s full steam ahead on the Halloween season from here on out. This week’s streaming picks embrace spooky season festivities by centering on holiday-themed horror movies that feature Halloween parties as their slaying grounds.
Some of these horror movies bring the fun, while others aim to spike your adrenaline. But all use Halloween parties as a centerpiece for the horror that’s unleashed within.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
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Cemetery of Terror – AMC+, Shudder
Rubén Galindo Jr.’s most prominent horror feature is the American-influenced Don’t Panic (available on Shudder), but the Halloween-centric Cemetery of Terror offers the most fun. A trio of college kids decides to impress their ladies by stealing a body from a morgue for a Halloween prank and party in an abandoned house. It happens to be the body of a serial killer, and reading an incantation from a book revives him. This supernatural slasher brings bloody mayhem in the vein of Lucio Fulci and features legendary character actor Hugo Stiglitz as the occult expert.
Ginger Snaps – AMC+, Criterion Channel, freevee, Peacock, Plex, Roku, Shudder, Vudu
Macabre and death-obsessed teens Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) are outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, making them inseparable. Then Ginger gets her first period, attracting a werewolf that’s been stalking the area. Puberty takes on a whole new meaning as the werewolf’s bite transforms Ginger into something far more monstrous. Ginger Snaps is a werewolf favorite that stands on its own, but Halloween plays a prominent part in party form in the third act, setting the stage for Ginger to let her inner killer roam free.
Hell Fest – Plex
Not all Halloween parties are house parties; sometimes, they’re an entire Scream Park. Gregory Plotkin’s Halloween slasher unleashes a masked killer who uses a Halloween theme park as his slaying grounds, blending in with the scare actors while committing murder. The terrorized group of friends cannot seek help, either; the patrons think the terror is all part of the event’s entertainment. Hell Fest uses a requisite holiday pastime- the haunt- as the center stage for this slasher that seeks to retool the definition of “Final Girl.” The inventive set pieces add to the fun.
Murder Party – Plex, Redbox, Vudu
Before Green Room and Blue Ruin, filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier quietly debuted with Murder Party. The horror comedy follows Christopher (Chris Sharp), a nice guy with no plans for Halloween, until he finds a mysterious party invitation on the way home. With a DIY costume assembled and a host gift baked, Christopher treks over to the costume party in a nondescript warehouse. There, he finds that the partygoers plan to murder him in the name of art, though everything that could go wrong does to hilarious results. Hyper-violence and a glorious bloodbath make for one of the most fun final acts, with a satisfying conclusion to Christopher’s venture out on Halloween night. Look for Macon Blair as a lovesick werewolf.
Night of the Demons – AMC+, Arrow, freevee, Peacock, SCREAMBOX, Shudder
Angela Franklin (Amelia Kinkade) and her best bud Suzanne (Linnea Quigley) decide to throw their Halloween party at Hull House, an abandoned mortuary with a dark past. Sure enough, an evil presence awakens after a séance, and their group is trapped inside Hull House while demonic spirits prey on them. Night of the Demons offers a spooky, fun title sequence, cool demon FX, a memorable villainess, and a wide embrace of horror iconography- right down to a bookended trick-or-treating tale. It’s a holiday cult classic. With the sequels finally arriving on physical media, now is a perfect time to revisit this gem on SCREAMBOX.
In fact, Night of the Demons is part of the SCREAMBOX x Bloody Disgusting Halloween Challenge, which runs all October long. Watch along with us on Saturday, October 28!
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