2025 Halloween Horror Lineups Expand Beyond Streaming

The 2025 Halloween season has expanded beyond streaming-curated lineups to a broad slate across theaters, cable and platforms, mixing franchise returns and new originals. Highlights include theatrical and streamer titles such as It: Welcome to Derry (HBO Max), The Black Phone 2 (theatrical), Netflix/Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Paramount+ offerings like Vicious and Sinners, and auteur projects including Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (in select theaters now; streaming on Netflix Nov. 7) and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia. Streaming services and human curators continue to push playlists that mix modern hits (Train to Busan, His House, Smile) with legacy slashers (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and arthouse discoveries (Mubi adding Ferrara/Argento titles). Aggregators and roundups on sites from Boston.com to ScreenRant and Mirror are helping viewers navigate dozens of options, and platforms such as Hulu have shown high engagement with recent remakes. Critics remain divided on several releases and outlets warn that rating aggregates like Rotten Tomatoes can understate the value of many horror films, while Halloween coverage this year also spills into themed sports and pop-culture roundups.