It’s October! That means no one can deny that it’s officially Halloween. It also means the first week of many that will offer streaming picks themed around the best holiday of the year. This week belongs to the trick or treater; the costumed denizens roaming the streets on Halloween night are a holiday fixture. These five movies wield the trick-or-treater in different ways.
Sometimes they deliver treats, but in other films, they bring nasty tricks….
As always, here’s where you can stream them this week.
Anything for Jackson – Shudder
Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings star as Audrey and Henry Walsh, a well-to-do couple mourning their young grandson’s tragic loss. Still deep in the denial stage of grief, they turn to Satanism. The couple kidnaps a pregnant woman for their ritual; they plan to transfer their grandson’s spirit into her unborn baby. The novice practitioners unwittingly bust the doors to the spirit world wide open, transforming their home into a house of horrors. The snowy setting screams winter, not Fall, but the home gets terrorized by ghosts, including one creepy, relentless trick-or-treater.
Tales of Halloween – AMC+, Roku, Shudder, Tubi, Vudu
This holiday-themed anthology assembles ten segments that celebrate various aspects of Halloween. A few of them take different approaches to trick or treating, either through revenge or mischievous little devils in disguise. But it’s hard not to fall for the adorable alien that came to Earth to partake in the holiday in Mike Mendez’s “Friday the 31st.”
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers – AMC+, Shudder
You could swap out multiple entries of the Halloween franchise for this one, which would apply to this theme. But the opening of Halloween 4 sets the mood with stunning views of the fall landscape and centers around a little girl that wanted nothing more than to go trick-or-treating. Instead, she spends Halloween night fleeing in terror from her uncle, Michael Myers.
Night of the Demons – IMDb TV
Teenagers get more than they bargained for when they decide to party at an abandoned funeral home on Halloween night, unleashing demonic mayhem. Goth queen Angela might steal the crown for this Halloween favorite, but the epilogue offers a frightening take on a common urban legend- razor blades stuffed in apples. It’s a gleefully bloody reminder to be kind to trick or treaters.
We Need to Talk About Kevin – AMC+, Hulu, Kanopy, Pluto TV, Prime Video, Tubi
This one is a meditative, unsettling slow burn about a mother growing increasingly more unnerved by her sociopathic son. After teen Kevin (Ezra Miller) commits a horrible act at school, his mother Eva (Tilda Swinton) reflects on their complicated relationship throughout his life. So much so that she finds herself downright terrified on Halloween night, the pounding on the door by trick or treaters causing her to cower in fear. We Need to Talk About Kevin isn’t your conventional horror movie, but it chills to the bone.
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