Halloween 2025: Horror Film & TV Suggestions

It's that time again... ooooooooo!!!  

For the horror fans among my readers, here's a TV and film selection for this year's Halloween. 

                                                      1. Storm of the Century (1999)

                                           

 The 3-episode mini series is set in a small town in Maine, where the townspeople are terrorised by a stranger, who seems to know all their secrets and insists, "Give me what I want, and I'll go away." 

Storm of the Century is written by the master of horror, Stephen King, but is not based on any of his novels. 

                                                              2. Rose Red (2002)        

                                               

Another Stephen King entry- again, not an adaptation of any of his novels. The Rose Red mini series is about a parapsychologist and her group of psychics sent to investigate a Seattle mansion, believed to be haunted. 

                                                                3.  Lisey's Story (2022)

                                    

Another Stephen King entry, but this time, it's an 8-episode TV  adaptation of his 2006 novel of the same name.  2 years after her talented but troubled husband's death, a widow must confront his dark past and enter a place that could save her from a psychotic stranger.  

                                                           4. It: Welcome To Derry (2025)                    

Another Stephen King entry on the list, IT: Welcome to Derry, is based on his 1986 novel and serves as a prequel to the 2017 film adaptation and its sequel. Exploring the origins of the entity, Pennywise, it is set in 1962,  where a couple moves to Derry, Maine, and soon experiences malicious happenings in the town. 

                                                              5. Doctor Sleep (2019)     

The final Stephen King entry on the list is an adaptation of King's 2009 novel of the same name. The novel itself is a sequel to his 3rd novel, The Shining, published in 1977. Danny, the troubled son of the previous novel's main character, Jack, must save a little girl with similar psychic abilities to his from a blood thirsty cult. 

                       

                                                                  6. Suspiria (2018) 

The remake of the 1977 Italian film of the same name, a young girl enrolls in a prestigious ballet school, only to discover it's run by a coven of witches.    

                           

                                                       7. Smile (2022)  & Smile 2 (2024) 

                                                       

In the first film, a psychiatrist is convinced she's being terrorised by a malevolent entity after a patient commits suicide in front of her, while smiling in a very creepy way. In part 2 (not related to part 1), a pop star experiences disturbing events from a smiling entity while on tour. 

                                                              8.  Sinners (2025) 

                                     

        Twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start afresh, only to face a dark evil there.                                    

                                                  

                                                            9.  The Substance (2024) 

                                                    

Desperate to regain her youth and celebrity status, a fading actress buys a black market drug that creates a younger and more beautiful version of herself. 3 rules: respect the balance, switch bodies after 7 days and follow the dosage. That should be easy...right? 

                                                              10.  Nosferatu (2024)

                                                  

This final entry is a remake of the (believe it or not) 1922 silent film, which was inspired by Bram Stoker's gothic novel, Dracula. In the story, an estate agent meets with a new client,  Count  Orlock, over the sale of a property. However, the sinister Count has plans for the agent's wife, Ellen. 

Happy viewing!