It’s officially Halloween weekend, and we know you want to put on some spooky movies for your little ones to get into the spirit.
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But with so many terrifying, gory, and R-rated horror movies out there, it can be hard to find good Halloween movies for kids to watch.
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Whether you’re looking for a light-hearted animated musical like KPop Demon Hunters, or a not-too-scary slasher like Time Cut, or an age-appropriate-but-still-kinda-scary story for your young horror-fan-in-training like Nightbooks, there’s are all kinds of options for kid-friendly Halloween movies.
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But who has time for all that scrolling?
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To help you cut through the noise, Decider has compiled a list of the best Halloween movies for kids on Netflix in 2026.
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All you need to watch these is a Netflix subscription!
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Netflix offers three subscription plans to fit your streaming needs.
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The plans start at $7.99/month for standard with ads and go up to $24.99/month for unlimited ad-free streaming in up to 4K UHD quality.
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Even though it’s not exactly a Halloween movie, this animated musical—which last year became the most-watch Netflix original title of all time—does deal with demons, which is pretty darn spooky.
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It’s right there in the title!
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Plus, Rumi is bound to be (or should we say born to be?) a favorite Halloween costume for years to come.
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KPop Demon Hunters follows a fictional Korean girl pop group, Huntr/x (voiced by Arden Cho, May Hong, and Ji-young Yoo for dialogue, and Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami for singing) who also secretly slay demons in their spare time.
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And it just so happens that an all-boy rival K-pop group, the Saja Boys, are not boys at all
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Let the figurative and literal slaying commence!
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If you had a kid who’s a Stranger Things fan, be sure to show them this much-less-scary Netflix original that stars Priah Ferguson—aka Erica from Stranger Things—as the lead.
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Starring comedian Marlon Wayans, who also produced the film, The Curse of Bridge Hollow tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Sydney (Ferguson), whose life is upended when her father (Wayans) moves the family from Brooklyn to the small town of Bridge Hollow.
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At least Sydney’s new town is really into her favorite holiday— Halloween—but this provides little comfort when her dad, a science teacher, dismisses the spooky decorations in town as childish.
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When they come to life and terrorize the town, he starts taking them more seriously!
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Rating: PG
Though technically a sequel to the 2015 Goosebumps film, you don’t have to have seen that, or the TV show based on the children’s horror book series of the same name by R. L. Stine, to enjoy this kid-friendly Halloween flick.
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This standalone story follows a young boy named Sonny and his friend Sam who uncover an unpublished Goosebumps manuscript and accidentally bring Slappy the Dummy to life.
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For Gen X and millennials, this trip down Goosebumps memory lane is nostalgic, and for kids, it’s low-stakes, spooky fun.
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Nightbooks (2021)
Rating: TV-PG
If you’re raising a little horror fan, go ahead and show them Nightbooks, which is appropriate for kids—but only ones who like to be scared.
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Based on the 2018 horror-fantasy children’s book of the same name by J. A. White, Nightbooks may be about kids and for kids, but it’s also very much not a Disney Channel horror movie.
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In other words, this movie delivers genuine scares, albeit in a somewhat kid-friendly way.
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Krysten Ritter stars as a blue-haired witch who kidnaps a young boy named Alex (Winslow Fegley) and demands he tells her a new original scary story every night.
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Also held captive is a girl named Yazmin (Lidya Jewett) and together the kids must plot a way to escape.
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The film was directed by David Yarovesky, and will likely be the new favorite movie of the young horror-lover in your life.
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Wendall & Wild (2022)
Rating: PG-13
Even though it’s animated, I recommend keeping this one for kids who are 12 and older, thanks to some scary moments and more mature political themes.
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But if you loved Nightmare Before Christmas, you should definitely make your family watch this weird, spooky, punk-rock cult film for a new generation, from director Henry Selick—aka the same man who brought you The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), and Coraline (2009).
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Hubie Halloween (2020)
Rating: PG-13
Directed by Sandler’s long-time collaborator Steven Brill, and co-written by Sandler and another frequent creative partner, Tim Herlihy, Hubie Halloween is pretty much your typical Adam Sandler comedy.
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Sandler stars as Hubie Dubois, a man who is often mocked but nonetheless committed to keeping his hometown of Salem, Mass. safe on the spookiest night of the year.
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When people start disappearing, it’s up to Hubie to convince the police (Kevin James, Kenan Thompson) to take this matter seriously.
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The movie is rated P-13, and while it’s not nearly as raunchy as Sandler’s ’90s comedies, we do suggest saving this one to watch with a kid who won’t mind a few Hubie-boobies jokes.
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Twilight (2008)
Rating: PG-13
If you were a middle school girl in the late aughts, you either read Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular vampire romance novel Twilight, or you consciously chose not to read it.
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But the first Twilight movie, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and released in 2008, took it to a whole new level.
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Robert Pattinson stars as Edward Cullen, the sexy, sparkly, 108-year-old vampire who, for whatever reason, decides to spend his immortal years at a public high school in Forks, Washington.
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And Kristen Stewart stars as the human high school student named Bella that Edward falls in love with.
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Save it for tweens and teens, but nearly 20 years later, this vampire teen romance is still compelling.
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Time Cut (2024)
Rating: TV-14
For a slasher that’s not too gore-y, try this time-travel horror film about a 16-year-old girl, played by Madison Bailey, who goes back in time to 2003, to save her sister from the “Sweetly Slasher” serial killer.
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And yes, the premise of Time Cut is nearly identical to that of another streaming horror movie that came out on Amazon in 2023, Totally Killer, but it still has some early 2000s fun.
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