Halloween Programming Streaming Guide: From Movies Like ‘Hocus Pocus’ And ‘Halloweentown’ To Shows Like ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’

As the final stretch of October sets in, there is still plenty of time to catch favorite flicks, spooky, witchy, scary or cozy in the season of pumpkins, monsters and more. Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween has several classic films airing all month long such as Casper (1995), Arachnophobia, Goosebumps, Edward Scissorhands, etc.

More recent films like 2021’s Ghostbustesr: Afterlife, 2022’s Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) and Haunted Mansion (2023) will also be available. Disney+ is the home of several of the movies in the below list, as is Max. Follow along below for your favorite titles as well as what is available by streamer and network.

Movies:

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While Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola is streaming on MGM+, several other vampire movies like Interview with the Vampire are available on Max. Peacock also boasts a couple newer fanged flicks like Renfield (2023) and Abigail (2024). Twilight is not streaming anywhere currently, but there are options to rent the five films about the Cullen family.

Horror and thriller films like The Conjuring can be found on Max, as can Annabelle and the five Nightmare on Elm Street films.

Halloween Films

Halloween (2007) is streaming on Fubo, Peacock and AMC+. Halloween (2018) is streaming on Netflix, Fubo, Peacock, FXNow and more.

The following witchy movies and more will put a spell on viewers ahead of the spooky holiday.

Halloweentown Movies

The first Halloweentown film will air on Freeform Thursday, Oct. 24 at 12 a.m. ET/PT and on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 8:30 a.m. ET/PT. The second film, Halloweentown: Kalabar’s Revenge will air on Freeform Friday, Oct. 25 at 12 a.m. ET/PT and Saturday, Oct. 26 at 10:30 a.m. ET/PT. The films are also available on Disney+.

Hocus Pocus & Hocus Pocus 2

There is still time to catch Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2 ahead of Halloween on Freeform. The first film will air Thursday, Oct. 24 at 8:55 p.m. ET/PT, Saturday, Oct. 26 at 5:05 p.m. ET/PT, Sunday Oct. 27 at 3:30 p.m. ET/PT, Tuesday Oct. 29 at 8:50 p.m. ET/PT, Wednesday Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. ET/PT and twice on Halloween at noon ET/PT and 6:20 p.m. ET/PT.

The second film will air Saturday Oct. 26 at 7:15 p.m. ET/PT and on Halloween night at8:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Practical Magic (1998)

The Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock starring romance film is available to stream on Max.

Other kinds of cozy and spooky films are also streaming.

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

The trick-or-treating animated film will be the first of three Peanuts specials available to stream for free on Apple TV+. The Halloween classic was available Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday Oct. 20.

Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988)

The first Beetlejuice film is available to stream on Max. It aired on Freeform earlier this month several times. Beetlejuice Beelejuice has not yet arrived to streaming, but it will head to Max as well.

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

The animated feature film that kicks off the holiday season and mixes Halloween with Christmas will air on Freeform Sunday Oct. 27 at 5:40 p.m. ET/PT and on Halloween at 4:40 ET/PT. The director’s Frankenweenie will also air on Freeform Sunday, Oct. 27 at 1:30 p.m. ET/PT, Monday Oct. 28 at 11 a.m. ET/PT.

Scream Franchises

The original Scream films are available to stream on Max and Hulu with the Disney/Hulu/Max bundle. The newer ones are also spread out across Netflix and Paramount+.

Frankenstein Films

Lisa Frankenstein (2023) is streaming on Prime Video. Young Frankenstein (1974) is not currently available to stream. Victor Frankenstein (2015), starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, is streaming on Max.

The Criterion Channel

The Criterion Channel has categorized it’s offerings by horror, witches, Winona Ryder and more.

Horror F/X:

Frankenstein, James Whale, 1931
Island of Lost Souls, Erle C. Kenton, 1932
Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold, 1954
The Curse of the Werewolf, Terence Fischer, 1961
Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero, 1968
Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977
The Fog, John Carpenter, 1980
An American Werewolf In London, John Landis, 1981
Scanners, David Cronenberg, 1981
The Entity, Sidney J. Furie, 1982
The Company of Wolves, Neil Jordan, 1984
Day of the Dead, George A. Romero, 1985
Lifeforce, Tobe Hooper, 1985
The Fly, David Cronenberg, 1986

Witches:

Häxan, Benjamin Christensen, 1922
Black Sunday, Mario Bava, 1960
Il demonio, Brunello Rondi, 1963
Viy, Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov, 1967
The Witches, Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, and Luchino Visconti, 1967
Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski, 1968
The Girl on the Broomstick, Václav Vorlíček, 1972
Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977
Alison’s Birthday, Ian Coughlan, 1981
The Witches, Nicolas Roeg, 1990
The Crucible, Nicholas Hytner, 1996
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Tibor Takács, 1996
Witch Madness, Faith Hubley, 1999
The Love Witch, Anna Biller, 2016

Starring Winona Ryder:

Heathers, Michael Lehmann, 1989
Mermaids, Richard Benjamin, 1990
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, Jim Abrahams, 1990
Night on Earth, Jim Jarmusch, 1991
The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, 1993
Reality Bites, Ben Stiller, 1994
The Crucible, Nicholas Hytner, 1996
Autumn in New York, Joan Chen, 2000

Japanese Horror:

Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo, 1964
Kuroneko, Kaneto Shindo, 1968
House, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989
Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997
Ring, Hideo Nakata, 1998
Audition, Takashi Miike, 2001
Ichi the Killer, Takeshi Miike, 2001
Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001
Dark Water, Hideo Nakata, 2002
Ju-On: The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu, 2002
Ju-On: The Grudge 2, Takashi Shimizu, 2003
Creepy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016

Stories by Steven King:

Christine, John Carpenter, 1983
The Lawnmower Man, Brett Leonard, 1992
Dolores Claiborne, Taylor Hackford, 1995
Secret Window, David Koepp, 2004

Shows:

Plenty of classic films provide the foundation for Halloween watches and rewatches each year, but 2024 has seen some new material added to the catalogue like Marvel’s Agatha All Along and Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place reboot: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.

Agatha All Along follows Kathryn Hahn’s Marvel character from WandaVision as she assembles a coven with the help of Joe Locke’s mysterious Teen (who turns out to be a major character) to walk The Witches’ Road. There’s a catchy ballad that goes along with all the trials in the show, and there are two more episodes arriving next week on Disney+ the day before Halloween.

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place premieres Oct. 29 on Disney+ with a batch of eight episodes. Selena Gomez and David Henrie from the original Disney Channel series will appear in the sequel show.

Netflix has also added some spooky original series and films like Girl Haunts Boy starring Michael Cimino and Peyton List and Time Cut, a slasher film starring Antonia Gentry and Madison Bailey, out Oct. 29 on the streamer.

Paramount+ has shows that tie in with spooky season in recent years include School Spirits as well as Ghosts from CBS.

CBS original shows such as NCIS, The Price Is Right, Let’s Make a Deal, The Talk, The Bold and the Beautiful and Elsbeth among others will have Halloween-themed episodes the week of the holiday.

Still more spooky shows have new seasons arriving in January, perfect for when the holiday season has come to an end. Season 2 of Goosebumps with David Schwimmer arrives Jan. 10 on Disney+ and Hulu. Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season 2 arrives on AMC+ Jan. 5.

A new season of American Horror Stories starring Debby Ryan, Victor Garber and Michael Imperioli arrived on Hulu Oct. 15 as a part of the streamer’s Huluween. American Horror Story is also streaming on Hulu.

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