Free Halloween movies streaming now

42 titles on the air now, made between 1910 and 2021 - about 46 hours of viewing in all. 34 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 8 are shorts. 24 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.

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Looking for something to watch this Halloween without a subscription? Every film below is streaming free on Starlite TV - the full Graveyard Shift horror lineup plus spooky-themed titles from our cartoon, family and mystery channels that are gentler for younger viewers.

During October our 31 Nights of Horror features one headline horror film each night at the start of Graveyard Shift's prime time. Everything here is in the U.S. public domain or under an open license; each title page lists the evidence.

See also 31 Nights of Horror for this October's nightly featured film and its airtime.

Where to start

Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.

• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 73 min · Graveyard Shift
  Roger Corman was famous for making films fast and cheap, and The Little Shop of Horrors may be his most famous example.
• The Man Who Laughs (1928) 111 min · Graveyard Shift
  Universal had scored huge hits with Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera, and studio head Carl Laemmle wanted another lavish Gothic melodrama from a classic novel.
• The Most Dangerous Game (1932) 63 min · Graveyard Shift
  Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game" has one of the most famous premises in fiction: a big-game hunter is shipwrecked on a remote island, where a cultured Russian aristocrat reveals that he has grown bored of hunting animals and now hunts the most dangerous game of all — human beings.
• Night of the Living Dead (1968) 95 min · Graveyard Shift
  Night of the Living Dead was made by a group of friends in and around Pittsburgh who had been producing TV commercials and industrial films through their company, The Latent Image. George A. Romero, John Russo and Russell Streiner decided a horror movie was the most realistic way to break into features.
• Nosferatu (1922) 92 min · Graveyard Shift
  Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was made in Germany in 1921 and released in 1922 by Prana Film, a short-lived studio co-founded in 1921 by Enrico Dieckmann and the occult-minded artist Albin Grau. Director F. W. Murnau and screenwriter Henrik Galeen based it, without permission, on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 92 min · Graveyard Shift
  Universal's The Phantom of the Opera adapts Gaston Leroux's 1910 French novel about a masked figure who haunts the Paris Opera House and secretly coaches a young singer, Christine Daaé, to stardom.
• The Skeleton Dance (1929) 6 min · Saturday Morning
  The Skeleton Dance was the first of Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies, a series of musical cartoons that ran alongside the Mickey Mouse shorts and became Disney's testing ground for new techniques. The idea came from composer Carl Stalling, a theatre organist in Kansas City who had scored Disney's early Mickey cartoons.
• White Zombie (1932) 65 min · Graveyard Shift
  White Zombie is generally considered the first feature-length zombie film. In the early 1930s, American readers were fascinated by Haiti and Vodou after William Seabrook's 1929 travel book The Magic Island, which described stories of the dead being raised to work in the fields.
• The Unknown (1927) 50 min · Graveyard Shift
  Lon Chaney as an armless knife-thrower in Tod Browning's circus melodrama, with Joan Crawford.
• The Haunted House (1929) 7 min · Saturday Morning