What Scares Me Is This … , – – Yet Another Horrifying Halloween Watchlist [2025]

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Only a bloody knife’s throw from anywhere that you stand on a dark, October night is a cinematic Halloween watchlist, replete with a Who’s Who of horrifying films that will make the spooky season just a little more spooky.

Movie after movie, night after night.

So to commemorate October & Halloween and all of the widescreen movies that have been spawned from them, here at the Pickwick Drive-In, we’ve curated a creepy collection of frightening films that will hopefully inspire chills as common as those associated with Jack-O-Lanterns, as trick-or-treating, as bumps in the night.

This watchlist is intended to make for long nights — night by night. Prepare yourself for many evenings of unsound sleep.

To do so, follow along with the Pickwick’s diabolical double features so that you can also see some sneak previews of other films that might keep you awake at night. For a watchlist originally intended to trick you into watching no less than 13 mortifying motion pictures, the additional sneak previews of other thematically-curated films provide an additional treat — as the Pickwick exposes you to so many more movies that might make this Halloween one that you won’t soon forget!

Stay tuned here. The first evening of the watchlist will drop on October 21st, and the watchlist will officially begin on October 24th. The additional movie trailers will be included with the daily posts to come.

For now, prepare yourself for these 15 selections for this inaugural edition of What Scares Me Is This …

Happy haunted viewing!

NIGHT #1 : Kids

The Monster Squad

A young kids’ club of horror film fans is entrusted with saving its small town when it is invaded by each of the major motion picture monsters: a vampire, a werewolf, a sea creature, and a mummy – and they’re aided only by a horrific historian and a conflicted Frankenstein’s Monster!

Available on Amazon Prime.

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The People Under the Stairs

When a young boy breaks into the home of his family’s landlords, he discovers a world where sinister deeds have kept a number of boys imprisoned under the stairs of the creepy house. Only his wits will save him now from the monsters who lurk here!

Available for rental on Amazon Prime.

NIGHT #2 : Vampires

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

In a genre-defying film and in a rundown Iranian city, a skateboarding vampire metes out justice against men who abuse women.

Available on Amazon Prime.

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Sinners

Twin brothers return to their Delta home after a criminal undertaking – hoping to strike gold once and for all – only to find an evil presence will invade their entrepreneurial intentions.

Available on HBO Max.

NIGHT #3 : Zombies

Night of the Living Dead (Criterion Edition)

In George A. Romero’s genre-defining film, a handful of survivors seek refuge in a rural home against a flesh-consuming swarm of zombies. Once there, they will discover that they are just as deadly as the creatures that threaten to swarm them.

Available on Criterion Channel.

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Train to Busan

A rather absent father intends to take his daughter to see his wife on her birthday, but a zombie outbreak interrupts the day … and the rest of their lives.

Available on Amazon Prime.

NIGHT #4 : Hauntings

Session 9

An asbestos abatement team accepts a job within the spooky hallways of a dilapidated mental hospital and discovers that something more sinister than asbestos may be waiting for them there.

Available to rent on Amazon Prime.

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Host (2020)

When friends confined to pandemic lockdown in 2020 take to an online seance as a Zoom-based girls’ night out, they inadvertently invite a supernatural evil into their evening.

Available on Amazon Prime.

NIGHT #5 : Creatures

Creature from the Black Lagoon

A modern-day scientific expedition discovers a prehistoric amphibian creature in the wild that becomes enamored with one of the female scientists on the team and poses a lethal threat to anyone who stands in its way.

Available to rent on Amazon Prime.

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Spring

When a troubled young man travels to Italy and meets an alluring genetics student, he discovers that she harbors a dark, monstrous secret that could threaten their romance.

Available on Fandango at Home.

NIGHT #6 : Anthologies

Twilight Zone: The Movie

In four cinematic vignettes inspired by Rod Serling’s classic television program, The Twilight Zone is given new life in horrific, sci-fi narratives of human behavior & human folly, directed by a contemporary crew of filmmakers.

Available to rent on Amazon Prime.

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Scare Package

In a world where anthology horror films are populated with three to four short vignettes, this particular anthology film offers more than seven short films — ranging from stories about backwoods slashers to suburban cults to haunted houses and so much more!

Available on Shudder.

NIGHT #7 : Slashers

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

In a world where Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers are not so much cinematic spooks but true-to-life, living, breathing killers — an aspiring slasher asks a documentary film crew to record his origin story … and his first night of terror!

Available to rent on Amazon Prime.

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The Final Girls

When a young orphan attends a screening of a B-horror film starring her late mother, a freak accident transports the young woman & her friends into the cinematic world of Camp Bloodbath — where she will have a chance to save her mother’s life from a violent killer intent on murdering them all.

Available on Sling TV.

NIGHT #8 : Halloween

Trick ‘r Treat (2007)

In what may be the best cinematic rendering of Halloween, this anthology film traces the terrifying tales of a small town on the Greatest Night of the Year!

The stories themselves include a diabolical evening of pumpkin carving, a costume ball in the middle of the woods, a legendary local legend, and swift justice for a neighborhood monster.

Available to rent on Amazon Prime.

Chris Kaine is the most amateur film essayist whom you may ever imagine. He earnestly contends that he was named after the actor Chris Sarandon, because he was either conceived while his parents watched Fright Night (1985) in his paternal grandparents’ basement, or because of their love for The Princess Bride (1987), which stars a character by the name of “Humperdink,” which is pretty funny, if you think about it.

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