Film Museum, Cinemas, and Streaming Providers with Horror Highlights for Halloween

On Halloween, the eve of All Saints' Day, the fright reaches its peak once again this year. At the Vienna Gartenbaukino, Bloody Marys are served on October 31st, cult classics are shown at the Film Museum, and streaming services launch a horror offensive.

Horror in Technicolor at the Film Museum and Bloody Marys at the Vienna Gartenbaukino

For the second time in a row, the Austrian Film Museum celebrates Halloween with a selection of horror classics from its own collection. On the evening of October 31st, "The Revenge of Frankenstein" (1958) from Terence Fisher's Hammer Horror cycle (in Technicolor) and "Alligator" (1980) serve legendary B-movie monster fare.

For all those who missed the craziest vampire film of all time at the Viennale: Various Austrian cinemas, including the Gartenbaukino (with blood-red wine and Bloody or Virgin Marys), the Innsbruck Cinematograph (discounted admission with Dracula costume), and the Graz KIZ Royalkino, are showing a preview of Radu Jude's anarcho-vampire parody "Dracula" before the film hits cinemas in 2026.

Legendary Horror Classics for Halloween on Streaming Platforms

Three minutes of terror that still resonate today: Janet Leigh in the shower, a killer with a mother complex, a butcher knife - the water turns red. Stabbing in quick succession, accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's screaming strings that amplify the shock moments. "Psycho" (available on Amazon Prime and Sky, among others) laid the foundation for the slasher genre in 1960 - psychological horror combined with brutal murder scenes.

But Jamie Lee Curtis is in no way inferior to her mother Janet Leigh when it comes to screaming: The role of Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's first "Halloween" film (available on Amazon Prime, among others) made her a scream queen legend in the 1970s. The babysitter who ran from the shuffling teenage hunter with a William Shatner mask was a "final girl" long before the term existed - add a few unmistakable synth sounds and the cult slasher was perfect.

Speaking of slashers: Season 3 of the "Monster" series on Netflix currently focuses on Ed Gein (Charlie Hunnam) - an inconspicuous loner who was notorious as a murderer of women and grave robber in the 1950s. Gein's macabre stagings inspired directors to create classics like "The Silence of the Lambs" (available on RTL+, among others) or "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (available on Sky and Amazon Prime, among others). The first to artistically approach Gein was Alfred Hitchcock, who paid tribute to the murderer with an obsession for his religious mother - which brings us back to "Psycho".

Horror offensive around Halloween in cinemas and on streaming providers

Additionally, Ethan Hawke has returned to perhaps the most devilish role of his career in cinemas with "Black Phone 2", Yorgos Lanthimos locks his favorite actress Emma Stone in a basement with a conspiracy theorist in his new masterpiece "Bugonia", and Luc Besson shows his romantic side with "Dracula" - featuring Christoph Waltz as a vampire killer.

Around Halloween, various streamers are also launching a horror offensive. Sky offers two specially set up pop-up channels, horror film highlights, and classic horror films, and also has a new series in store: The series "IT: Welcome to Derry" is a prequel to the well-known "IT" series by Stephen King and takes place in the years before the events of the films "IT" and "IT: Chapter 2".

Netflix has a nice Mike Flanagan collection, also known as "Flanaverse", especially the horror series "Midnight Mass", "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Haunting of Bly Manor". The mouse streaming provider Disney+ also ensures a refined scare for the whole family with cult films like "Casper", "Hocus Pocus" and "Addams Family".

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