Explore Halloween On Disney+ & Hulu, Check Out These Eerie Picks
October 3, 2025
From family-friendly frights to pulse-pounding horror, your Halloween Watchlist starts here.
Boo! Halloween season on Disney+, and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers*, calls for a Watchlist of films ranging from eerie to creepy to terrifying, designed to suit every mood and bravery level. Add these ten handpicked movies and shows to your Watchlist to get you in the spirit of the season in time for October 31.
Family-Friendly Halloween Movies and Shows
Hocus Pocus
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night, this live-action comedy fantasy follows the mischief and magic that ensue. When Max Dennison accidentally resurrects the Sanderson sisters, the trio of witches targets the town’s children to gain eternal life. Max, his sister Dani, and friend Allison attempt to thwart the magical threat with help from Thackery Binx, a boy cursed into a cat centuries earlier. The film stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the mischievous sisters.
Haunted Mansion (2023)
A resourceful woman and her young son move into a sprawling New Orleans house, only to realize it hosts a rowdy population of ghosts. Desperate to reclaim their home, they assemble Father Kent (Owen Wilson), scientist Ben (LaKeith Stanfield), psychic Harriet (Tiffany Haddish), and history professor Bruce (Danny DeVito) for a crash course in supernatural eviction. The film also features Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota and Jared Leto as the Hatbox Ghost; You don’t want to miss this one. Justin Simien directs this adventure comedy, explicitly inspired by the classic theme-park attraction, blending eerie mischief with teamwork as paranormal activity escalates room by room.
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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place
Season 1, Episode 6, “The Legend of Creepy Follows”
When Billie experiments with a spell on her BadgerBook profile, an unexpected enchantment sweeps through her classmates, zombifying them. As the charm evolves, everyday school life warps into magical turmoil, forcing Billie to trace the cause and reverse the effect before consequences multiply. Directed by Andy Fickman, the episode spotlights accountability and quick thinking over shortcuts, underscoring the risks of casual spell-casting in the mortal world. Season 2 comes to Disney+ on October 8.
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Supernatural Shivers
Goosebumps
Five high schoolers investigate the mysterious death of teen Harold Biddle three decades earlier. Their search into the past unlocks eerie phenomena and reveals that their parents share hidden links to the chilling events. Inspired by R.L. Stine’s worldwide bestselling book series, the 10-part anthology horror show stars Justin Long, Zack Morris, Isa Briones, and Rachael Harris. Each discovery binds the friends to a larger connected mystery within their seemingly quiet town.
Want more Goosebumps? Check out Goosebumps: The Vanishing, another twisted tale starring David Schwimmer and Ana Ortiz, streaming on Disney+.
Marvel Television's Agatha All Along
The infamous Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth Teen helps break her free from a distorted spell. Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches’ Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they’re missing. Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down, down The Road…
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Marvel Animation’s Marvel Zombies
After the Avengers are overtaken by a zombie plague, a desperate group of survivors discover the key to bringing an end to the super-powered undead, racing across a dystopian landscape and risking life and limb to save their world.
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Occult Horror
Longlegs, Hulu
An FBI agent hunts a serial killer whose crimes are leaving behind occult clues. As the investigation deepens, she must decode the symbols to stop his terrifying spree. Each revelation brings the agent closer to a killer who twists ritual and fear into lethal patterns that haunt every crime scene. Directed by Osgood Perkins, the horror thriller features Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, and Michelle Choi-Lee. (Hulu)*
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The Monkey, Hulu
Also directed by Osgood Perkins, The Monkey traces twin brothers whose discovery of a wind-up toy monkey coincides with a string of outrageous deaths that tears their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the cursed toy starts killing again, forcing the now-estranged siblings to reunite and confront the malevolent mechanism. The horror-comedy stars Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Christian Convery, and Colin O’Brien as the nightmare resurfaces and the brothers race to end the carnage. (Hulu)*
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Psychological Thrillers
The Man in My Basement
In Sag Harbor, Charles Blakey struggles to hold on to his ancestral home as everything begins to slip away. A businessman named Anniston offers to rent Charles’s basement for the summer, promising quick cash yet cloaking his motives. Accepting the deal pulls Charles into an unsettling arrangement that questions power, trust, and obligation. Corey Hawkins stars as Charles opposite Willem Dafoe as Anniston, in a character-driven thriller adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel, with the author co-writing the screenplay.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Hulu
A suspenseful and seductive psychological thriller that reimagines the classic film and unravels the illusion of domestic bliss with chilling precision. In the psychological thriller from director Michelle Garza Cervera, an upscale suburban mom (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) brings a new nanny (Maika Monroe) into her home, only to discover she is not the person she claims to be. (Hulu)
The season of spirits and scares is the perfect excuse to queue up these Halloween movies and shows. Whether you crave family-friendly mischief or late-night scares, this guide covers the best stories for every mood. Pick your favorites, add them to your Watchlist, and get ready for a marathon that keeps the spirit of the season alive… or dead.
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