--- title: Streaming Services' Best—and Worst—New Halloween Shows description: With Halloween comes shows and movies from Netflix and other streaming services. Here are the best and the worst ones this season. canonical: https://time.com/5428170/best-halloween-movies-shows-netflix/ author: Judy Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-18T10:27:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:57:28.525Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: The Best—and Worst—Halloween Shows on Netflix and Hulu og:description: Netflix may be the platform taking fullest advantage of the holiday og:url: https://time.com/5428170/best-halloween-movies-shows-netflix/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3c461a713aff910/69893cde8fd2ee00cd35ce5e/sabrine-halloween-tv-show.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sabrine Halloween TV Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Best—and Worst—Halloween Shows on Netflix and Hulu twitter:description: Netflix may be the platform taking fullest advantage of the holiday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3c461a713aff910/69893cde8fd2ee00cd35ce5e/sabrine-halloween-tv-show.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Best—and Worst—New Halloween Shows on Streaming > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Judy Berman](https://time.com/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman TV Critic Oct 18, 2018 10:27 AM UTC  From Mad Men to good witch: Shipka stars in Sabrina From Mad Men to good witch: Shipka stars in SabrinaDiyah Pera—Netflix  by [Judy Berman](https://time.com/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman TV Critic Oct 18, 2018 10:27 AM UTC As drugstore candy displays have been reminding us since August, Halloween is fast approaching–and, as always, TV is on it. Family sitcoms are going wild with topical costumes. The Food Network has draped itself in spun-sugar cobwebs. Freeform is wall-to-wall _Hocus Pocus_. But you needn’t be privy to Netflix’s closely guarded audience data to understand why the holiday has a unique appeal for streaming platforms: suspenseful shows are ideal for binge watching, and the cost-effective horror genre is a safe investment for sites stockpiling original content. One reason horror can be so cheap is that it doesn’t have to be good to be entertaining. In lieu of adequate writing, acting and production values, gory set pieces will usually do. Unfortunately, Hulu is banking on that low barrier to entry this year, with schlocky Halloween titles that aren’t even fun. On Oct. 5 it launched _Into the Dark_, a monthly anthology, courtesy of the horror-hit factory Blumhouse, with feature-length installments tied to holidays. The series naturally begins with a Halloween episode: “The Body.” The bloody tale of a hit man at a costume party is based on a short–and it shows in a plot stretched too thin over 90 minutes and stock horror characters whose vapidity defies belief. (The listless performances don’t help.) Equally dull is Hulu’s half-hour _Pretty Little Liars_ knockoff, _Light as a Feather_, about four high school friends and the creepy new girl who knows how they’ll die. Netflix may be the platform taking fullest advantage of the holiday. As is its custom, the streaming monolith has churned out seasonal content for every type of viewer–true-crime addicts (_Making a Murderer_), kids (_Creeped Out_, _Super Monsters_), home cooks (_The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell_)–plus a mess of original fright flicks. But it has also invested in a pair of quality dramas: _The Haunting of Hill House_ and _Chilling Adventures of Sabrina_.  Netflix reimagines Shirley Jackson’s classic novel in an emotional horror story that uses a haunted house as a metaphor for mourning. Steve Dietl—Netflix Debuting on Oct. 12, the 10-episode _Hill House_, from horror master Mike Flanagan (_Oculus_), reframes the Shirley Jackson novel as the story of five adult siblings whose fates have been shaped by their family’s traumatic stay in the haunted home when they were kids. Between effective jump-scares, a cast led by the great TV actors Michiel Huisman (_Game of Thrones_) and Elizabeth Reaser (_True Detective_) breathes life into an allegory for collective mourning. But it’s _Sabrina_, a dark coming-of-age drama from _Riverdale_‘s corner of the Archie Comics universe that drops on Oct. 26, that’s the best show of the bunch. Forget Melissa Joan Hart’s saccharine teen witch; as played by the steely Kiernan Shipka (_Mad Men_‘s Sally Draper), Sabrina Spellman could be Buffy the vampire slayer’s sardonic, supernaturally powerful cousin. This Sabrina has substance, too: pressured by her aunts to sign over her soul to Satan, the half-witch heroine must consider her own spiritual beliefs. Allusions to infamous heretics like Aleister Crowley and Faust only lightly obscure a portrait of a young woman wrestling with universal questions of faith.  Horror juggernaut Blumhouse teams up with Hulu on a holiday-­themed monthly anthology that kicks off with a lackluster Halloween episode. Richard Foreman—Hulu Horror merely needs to exist to draw a Halloween crowd, so it’s easy to imagine plenty of viewers pressing play on both Hulu and Netflix before October is over. The trouble is, the streaming business thrives not on ratings for individual episodes but on attracting and retaining subscribers. Among this year’s offerings, only _Sabrina_ and _Hill House_ seem capable of luring in new viewers–even after the candy displays give way to shelves sparkling with tinsel. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5428170/best-halloween-movies-shows-netflix/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5428170/best-halloween-movies-shows-netflix/"},"headline":"The Best—and Worst—New Halloween Shows on Streaming","datePublished":"2018-10-18T10:27:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:57:28.525Z","description":"With Halloween comes shows and movies from Netflix and other streaming services. 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