Even though we still have a few more weeks before October—and even though the temperature outside is still way too hot—we know plenty of you are eager to start watching Halloween movies on streaming.
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Spooky season can be as long as you want it to be!
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That said, maybe you don’t currently have a subscription to a streaming service like Netflix or HBO Max.
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We don’t blame you.
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Those subscription fees really add up.
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Lucky for you, you can still watch Halloween movies on streaming, without paying a dime.
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If you have internet access, you can watch hundreds of movies and TV shows either live or on demand, for free right, now on Pluto TV.
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You don’t even need an account!
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(Though you might want to make one, so you can save your progress while you watch.)
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Pluto TV is a legitimate, free, ad-supported streamer, which means there will be a few commercials while you watch—but it’s nowhere near as many commercials as you’d see watching a movie on cable.
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You can watch on the Pluto TV app, or on the Pluto TV website.
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To help you cut through the noise, we’ve assembled a list of the best Halloween movies on Pluto TV in September 2026.
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RDespite a criminally inaccurate marketing campaign—which painted it as the sexy, sleazy, “Megan Fox nudity” movie—Jennifer’s Body has, in recent years, finally found its audience as a feminist cult classic.
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Written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama, it’s a tonally perfect horror comedy about a toxic teen girl friendship between Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox.
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It just so happens that one of those teens is also a murderous succubus.
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From 9/11 allegories to the not-so-subtle sapphic undertones, Cody and Kusama captured exactly what it felt like to be a teen in the early 2000s, and made a kick-ass horror film in the process.
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RThis classic ’90s teen horror flick—written by the same writer as the Scream franchise, Kevin Williamson— tells the story of four friends who, after a drunken night of partying, accidentally kill a pedestrian by hitting him with their car.
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They decide to dump the body, and vow never to speak of what happened on that fateful day, to anyone.
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But while they attempt to move on with their lives, a hooked-hand killer begins to stalk them, in order to remind them that, well, someone knows what they did last summer.
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From Jennifer Love Hewitt to Sarah Michelle Gellar to Freddie Prinze Jr., this movie features all your ’90s faves.
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Smile (2022)
DIRECTOR: Parker Finn
CAST: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher
RATING: RThis terrifying supernatural thriller follows a psychiatrist (played by Sosie Bacon) who witnesses a patient taking her own life.
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Following that traumatic incident, she becomes haunted by a terrifying image—everyone in her life starts smiling.
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But it’s not like, a nice smile.
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It’s the creepiest smile ever.
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Writer/director Parker Finn really knows just how scary a forced smile can be.
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The Addams Family (1991)
DIRECTOR: Barry Sonnenfeld
CAST: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christropher Lloyd, Christina Ricci
RATING: PG-13If you’re looking for spooky vibes without the scares
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Based on the comic book strip characters created by Charles Addams, and subsequent TV show, this campy supernatural comedy tells the story of a strange, macabre family who dabble in the occult and delight in their bizarre, gothic aesthetic.
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If you love Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Adams in the Netflix spin-off, this is a must-watch.
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And after you watch the first film, you can watch the sequel, Addams Family Values, also streaming free on Pluto TV.
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After a group of teens make the mistake of picking up a hitchhiker, they find themselves being brutally slaughtered by a chainsaw-wielding, masked maniac, aka Leatherface.
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You can thank this movie for originating many of the slasher tropes that still permeate the genre over 50 years, from the masked killer to the final girl.
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For horror film aficionados, it’s an essential watch.
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you really feel like getting scared this spooky season, one of the scariest horror films of the 2010s, The Witch, is currently streaming free on Pluto.
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The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy, in her feature film debut, as Thomasin, the eldest daughter of a Puritan family living in 1630s New England.
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When an evil force descends on the family, Thomasin is accused of witchcraft.
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Fox stars as popular teen boy, star of his high school’s basketball team, who wakes up one morning to discover he’s inherited a family curse: He’s a werewolf!
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But he’s not going to let a little fur and some claws keep him from the court.
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RNo one does Halloween vibes like the goth king Tim Burton, and one of Burton’s most Halloween-y movies ever—his retelling of Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”—is streaming for free on Pluto TV.
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Depps stars as Ichabod Crane, a police constable sent to investigate the village of Sleepy Hollow, where residents are being decapitated.
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RCannibalism is definitely a creepy horror movie staple, but it’s also strangely romantic in this critically-acclaimed film adaptation of the 2015 novel of the same name, by Camille DeAngelis.
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…and 20 more, not listed.
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