Creepy, Scary, Bloody, Spooky, Twisted, Dark, and Campy: 100+ Vintage Horror & Halloween Movies
In honor of Halloween, my favorite holiday, I compiled this list, with links to the movie trailers, of 147 VINTAGE HORROR and HALLOWEEN live-action movies.
Hopefully, there will be a few here you have not seen. Let me know! And tell me which ones are your favorites! There may also be some movies on this list that you wish you could forget.
A number of these spawned multiple sequels and remakes, but it's often hard to surpass the originals, so I didn’t include them in general, and no sequels at all. However, some remakes were quite iconic and I included those with * an asterisk.
I focused primarily on horror movies as opposed to thrillers, although some are considered both, as well as lighter fare Halloween themed movies, or themes with witches, werewolves, vampires, and monsters.
I will be updating this list every Halloween, as newer movies age past 20 years, officially making them vintage.
If you click on the movie’s title, it will open up another window and take you directly to the film’s IMDb listing (Internet Movie Database), where you can see all the films’ details like actors and directors, watch options, the movie trailers, and more.
Let me know if there’s any movies I missed that you think should be included! Enjoy!
In Light and Love,
– M.M.
Organized by Year
1922 Nosferatu
1931 Dracula
1931 Frankenstein
1933 The Invisible Man
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1941 The Wolfman
1942 I Married a Witch
1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1951 The Thing from Another World
1956 The Bad Seed
1957 The Crucible
1958 Bell Book and Candle
1958 The Blob
1958 The Fly
1960 Psycho
1967 The Crucible*
1968 Rosemary's Baby
1972 Deliverance
1973 The Exorcist
1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1974 Young Frankenstein
1975 Jaws
1975 Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976 Murder By Death
1976 Carrie
1977 Suspiria
1978 Halloween
1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1979 Salem's Lot
1979 Phantasm
1979 Alien
1980 Prom Night
1980 The Fog
1980 The Changeling
1980 Friday the 13th
1981 The Shining
1981 An American Werewolf in London
1981 The Howling
1981 My Bloody Valentine
1981 Scanners
1981 Wolfen
1981 The Crucible*
1982 Cat People
1982 Creepshow
1982 Poltergeist
1982 The Thing*
1983 Christine
1983 Cujo
1983 The Keep
1983 Sweet 16
1983 Sleepaway Camp
1983 One Dark Night
1984 Children of the Corn
1984 Firestarter
1984 Gremlins
1984 Ghostbusters
1984 Night of the Comet
1985 Clue
1985 Transylvania 6-5000
1985 Teen Wolf
1985 Fright Night
1985 Once Bitten
1985 Silver Bullet
1985 House
1985 The Bad Seed*
1986 April Fool's Day
1986 Haunted Honeymoon
1986 The Hitcher
1986 The Wraith
1986 The Little Shop of Horrors*
1986 Witchboard
1987 Hellraiser
1987 The Fly*
1987 The Lost Boys
1987 The Monster Squad
1987 My Best Friend is a Vampire
1988 Jack's Back
1988 The Blob*
1988 Watchers
1988 High Spirits
1988 Beetlejuice
1988 Spellbinder
1988 Child’s Play
1989 Pet Sematary
1989 Warlock
1989 Teen Witch
1989 Vampire's Kiss
1990 Arachnophobia
1990 Flatliners
1990 Nightbreed
1991 The Addams Family
1990 Tremors
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula*
1992 Death Becomes Her
1993 Hocus Pocus
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein*
1994 Wolf*
1995 Casper
1995 Vampire in Brooklyn
1995 Species
1996 The Craft
1996 Bad Moon
1996 The Crucible*
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 Scream
1996 Sabrina: The Teenage Witch
1996 Matilda
1997 I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 Mimic
1997 Eve's Bayou
1997 The Relic
1998 Ringu
1998 The Faculty
1998 Vampires
1998 Practical Magic
1998 Halloweentown
1998 Blade
1999 Deep Blue Sea
1999 Sleepy Hollow
2000 American Psycho
2000 Final Destination
2000 Scary Movie
2000 Hollow Man*
2000 Dracula 2000
2000 The Little Vampire
2000 What Lies Beneath
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2002 28 Days Later
2002 Queen of the Damned
2002 The Ring
2002 Dog Soldiers
2003 The Haunted Mansion
2003 Underworld
