Halloween: The one night a year you can be anyone else!

Getting in the Spooky Spirit

Horror

The horror genre and Halloween go together hand in hand better than peanut butter and jelly, so it is quite a mystery why there aren't more horror movies that take place on Halloween itself. The premise of horror on Halloween is solid and the spooky vibes are immaculate, yet for some reason, there simply aren't an outlandish number of great horror movies that take place on the holiday itself. Luckily, while there isn't an overabundance, there are still plenty of Halloween horror movies to satisfy the appetite of watching some of the scariest, spookiest, and gnarliest films ever made that take place on All Hallow's Eve.From arguably the most beloved, adored, and iconic film to ever take place on the holiday and even included it in its title in John Carpenter's Halloween, to anthology films that provide audiences with a grab bag of terror that will satisfy everyone's desires from zombies to werewolves to vampires and everything in between in anthology staples like Trick 'r Treat, <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-from-the-book-scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark/christopher-myers?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark</a>, and Tales of Halloween, the best horror movies that take place on Halloween manage to not only cheaply use the holiday as a cheap ploy to sell tickets, but incorporate it in its plot, story, and themes to deliver a frightfully fun watch that is guaranteed to get audiences excited for the spooky season.Vote up The Best Horror Movies That Take Place on Halloween, and don't forget to check out <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-horror-films-ever-made">The Best Horror Movies of All Time</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/scariest-horror-movies-ever-made">The Scariest Horror Movies of All Time</a> to see what film you should watch next to get you in the mood for the spooky season.

The 10 Best Horror Movies That Take Place On Halloween

Film

David De La Riva

'Tis the season for costumes, candy, and spooky movies to scare your pants off.

This Is Halloween

Graveyard Shift

Did you feel that slight, cool breeze in the air? That means it's time to break out the flannel button-up because fall is coming and Halloween is right around the corner. And since we all know that Halloween isn't just a holiday, but rather a lifestyle, what better time than now to start binging our favorite Halloween episodes until pumpkin spice pumps through our veins. From wacky trick-or-treat mishaps to genuinely scary horror homages, there's nothing quite like a classic sitcom tackling Halloween in all its spooktacular glory.This list of sitcom Halloween episodes will have your spine tingling because we're ranking&nbsp;the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-halloween-episodes-on-netflix/alex-welch?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best Halloween TV episodes</a> in order to determine once and for all who does the most important Holiday on the calendar best. So put the Jack o'lantern knife down, flip through the TV searching for reruns, and rank the most ghoulish Halloween episodes of the most devilishly spooky sitcoms.

The Best Halloween Episodes In Sitcoms

TV Episode

Best Buy Holiday

The 25+ Best Halloween Episodes In Sitcoms, Ranked By Fans

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Entertainment

Need costume ideas with crutches? With Halloween closing in fast, it&#39;s time to turn to your closet and see if you have anything that you can make a last-minute costume around. Once you have that key piece, the rest of your Halloween costume is easy. If you unfortunately are on or have to be on crutches this Halloween,&nbsp;then start your DIY with this list of easy costumes with crutches.

Most of these&nbsp;costume ideas only need basic clothing and accessories to finish off the look, like the the penguin, the pirate, or the hit-and-run victim. Some of the other costume ideas take some more accessorizing, but are worth it, especially if you want to spend Halloween as Tiny Tim&nbsp;or Donkey Kong.

If you&#39;re on crutches, which of these last-minute costume ideas is the easiest and most creative use of your closet? If we&#39;ve forgotten any great DIY costumes with crutches, be sure to share!

Easy Halloween Costumes If You're On Crutches

General

25 Creative & Easy Halloween Costumes With Crutches

Coco Tang

Lists about the beloved American adaptation of the BBC workplace comedy series "The Office," which ran on NBC from March 2005 until May 2013.

Dunder Mifflin, This Is Pam

The Office

Celebrate trick-or-treat with your favorite&nbsp;Dunder&nbsp;Mifflin employees by watching&nbsp;the best Halloween episodes on The Office. Whether you're looking for <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-the-office-halloween-costumes/ranker-tv" target="_blank">The Office Halloween costume&nbsp;ideas</a> or how to throw a spooky party, this list of The Office Halloween episodes includes memorable moments, like the costume contest and the haunted warehouse, as well as cameos from Timothy Olyphant and Stephen Colbert. The Office Halloween episodes are some of the<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-halloween-episodes-in-sitcoms/ranker-tv" target="_blank"> best sitcom Halloween episodes</a> of all time.Vote up the best The Office Halloween specials, and see how they rank among the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/important-office-episodes/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">funniest episodes of The Office ever</a>.&nbsp;

The Best Halloween Episodes On 'The Office', Ranked

Ranking All 'The Office' Halloween Episodes, Best To Worst

Do you love musicals? Do you love singing along to every song in every musical? Vote on these lists to rank every song you can't stop, won't stop, never wanna stop singing in the greatest musicals ever to hit the stage and screen. 

Don’t Make Me Sing

Lists for people who can't stop, won't stop, never wanna stop singing along to the greatest Disney musicals to hit the screen and stage.

Sing Along to Disney

The Nightmare Before Christmas

What's this? What's this? We’re ranking the best songs from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. With music and lyrics by Danny Elfman,&nbsp;the 1993 stop-motion&nbsp;animated movie&nbsp;has given us some of the most popular&nbsp;songs in pop culture.&nbsp;What are the best Nightmare Before Christmas&nbsp;songs?What are your favorite Nightmare Before Christmas&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-karaoke-songs-2018/ranker-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">songs to sing</a> along to? Even when it's not the holiday season, we probably have sang along to classics, like &quot;This Is Halloween&quot; and &quot;What's This?&quot;&nbsp;Other good Nightmare Before Christmas&nbsp;songs&nbsp;from the musical soundtrack include &quot;Oogie Boogie's Song&quot; and &quot;Sally's Song.&quot;Vote up the best songs in&nbsp;The Nightmare Before Christmas. Be sure to also vote for any&nbsp;underrated Nightmare Before Christmas&nbsp;songs that deserve to be ranked higher on the list.

Every Song in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ranked by Singability

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The Best Songs in The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack, Ranked

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Halloween is different as an adult. No matter how much you love the day or the season, you have to admit that the magic of celebration has changed. No longer do you dress up in costume to go trick-or-treating with your friends, get into mischief, nor sort through the mysterious trove of candies you have collected. Instead, you’re at home watching a horror movie you’ve watched twenty times before, waiting for the doorbell to ring so you can pretend to be impressed by a kid in the same Iron Man costume you’ve seen four other times that same night, then hand out candy you bought with your own money. It’s just not the same.But there are things we hold onto. Figuratively, we tend to hold onto the love of certain candies we find especially delicious or give us a sense of nostalgia for a long-gone era. Literally, we hold onto the certain candies we love for ourselves rather than handing them out. Even if we’ve sworn off candy, on Halloween night we find ourselves picking out <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-halloween-candy">those favorite few</a> and soon enough we’ve hoarded and eaten them all.So, adults who have now been relegated to handing out candy rather than receiving it on Halloween, which candies do you always find yourself holding onto rather than handing out to the costumed children knocking on your front door?

Halloween Candies You Find Yourself Holding Onto

Food

Brenden Donnelly

Halloween

It&#39;s that time of year again. Get out the costumes, carve up the pumpkins, and stock up on candy - it&#39;s Halloween!&nbsp;Every year, shelves and Amazon vans alike are packed&nbsp;with <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-halloween-candy" target="_blank">America&#39;s favorite candies</a> - from Reese&#39;s to Skittles to Sour Patch Kids. So which candy will you stock up on this year?&nbsp;

Whether you&#39;re shopping in person or online,&nbsp;you&#39;ll want to make sure you know what candy is most popular in the state you live in. <a href="https://www.candystore.com/blog/facts-trivia/halloween-candy-map-popular/" target="_blank">Candystore.com</a> does an excellent job rounding up which candies sold the best in all 50 states (plus Washington, DC). For more than 14 years, the website has crunched the numbers&nbsp;and compiled a list of each state&#39;s favorite candy.

The &quot;favorite&quot; candy is defined as the candy that sold the most, in pounds, in the months leading up to Halloween. Here you&#39;ll find a list of the favorite Halloween candy by&nbsp;state in an easy-to-follow alphabetical format.

What Halloween Candy Sells The Most In Every State?

Chrissy Rose

Weird History

Ghosts, vampires, mummies, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/people-killed-as-witches/laura-allan">witches </a>- the classic line-up for a good ol' Halloween bash. We've grown up loving (and fearing) these creatures, but do we know where their stories really came from?&nbsp;How did <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-witch-tests/tamar-altebarmakian">witches become associated with brooms</a>? And black cats? How long have ghosts haunted people? Was the Headless Horseman based on a real person? Were mummies neighbors of the living? (That one might freak you out a little.)So, if you're a Halloween lover, read on - and be sure to share your favorite spooky fun fact at your yearly costume party.&nbsp;

Facts About Classic Halloween Creatures That Make Us Say, 'Oooooh!'

Emily Mast

Lists about the members of the Delgado, Dunphy, Pritchett,  Tucker, and Tucker-Pritchett Family, living their lives on ABC from 2009-2020.

Modern Family

Here are the best&nbsp;Modern Family&nbsp;Halloween episodes, including new episodes from the latest season. Whether you're looking for the one where Claire builds a haunted house in &quot;Halloween&quot;&nbsp;or when Jay dresses up as Prince Charming in &quot;Halloween 3: AwesomeLand,&quot;&nbsp;this list of&nbsp;Halloween <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-modern-family-episodes/reference" target="_blank">episodes of&nbsp;Modern Family</a>&nbsp;also includes popular fan favorites, like &quot;Open House of Horrors,&quot; &quot;Halloween 4: The Revenge of Rod Skyhook,&quot; and &quot;It's the Great Pumpkin, Phil Dunphy.&quot; What is your favorite Halloween episode from&nbsp;Modern Family?&nbsp;Vote up the best&nbsp;Modern Family&nbsp;Halloween specials, and see where they rank among the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-modern-family-episodes/reference" target="_blank">funniest&nbsp;Modern Family&nbsp;episodes of all time</a>.

The Best Halloween Episodes On Modern Family

Ranking All Modern Family Halloween Episodes, Best To Worst

If you are looking for the ultimate list of&nbsp;Halloween&nbsp;horror movies,&nbsp;you&#39;ve come to the right place. This list has all the best <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-horror-movies-on-netflix-instant/ranker-streaming?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">horror movies to watch</a>&nbsp;around Halloween, both old and new movies are on the list. Halloween is an obvious choice for scary movies as it is a spooky time of year. The best Halloween&nbsp;horror movies are not necessarily the scariest or most terrifying as some of them can be considered horror comedies. But the best Halloween&nbsp;films&nbsp;tend to find a way to seamlessly blend in aspects of the holiday into the story or antagonist itself. So use this list to come up with ideas for a&nbsp;movie&nbsp;to watch on Halloween or to set up a scary movie marathon for you and your friends.

John Carpenter&#39;s Halloween&nbsp;franchise saw a reboot in both 2007 and 2018 which speaks to the popularity of both Michael Meyers and Halloween horror films in general. Horror movies that take place on Halloween&nbsp;have captured the imagination of audiences for several decades now and there&#39;s no sign of them stopping any time soon. Now it&#39;s time to determine the greatest&nbsp;horror movie that is about or takes place on Halloween&nbsp;with the help of your votes. Vote up the&nbsp;Halloween&nbsp;movies that you loved and vote down the ones <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/things-you-wish-you-were-better-at/lauren-slocum?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">you wish you</a>&#39;d never watched. Don&#39;t see your favorite fall holiday horror movie? Add it to the list, then check back to see how other users rank your additions and&nbsp;look for&nbsp;new Halloween horror movies as they are released.

The Best Horror Movies That Actually Take Place On Halloween

The 50+ Best Halloween Horror Films, Ranked by Fans

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Tim Burton

It's that time of year again! The time of year when fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas get a full two months in which to watch their favorite holiday classic that spans several holidays. Here are a few hilarious tweets, hot takes, and prickly posts about the stop-motion classic that are almost as unhinged as the Pumpkin King himself. Please enjoy.&nbsp;

22 Posts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' That Are As Chaotic As Any Halloween Town Resident

Damon Davis

Lists about Seth McFarlane's irreverent cartoon about Quahog's finest family, airing on Fox since 1999.

Lucky There's a Family Guy

Family Guy

Here are the best Family Guy&nbsp;Halloween episodes, including new episodes from the latest season. Whether you're looking for the one where&nbsp;Stewie and Brian&nbsp;go trick-or-treating in &quot;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-of-family-guy-season-9/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Halloween on Spooner Street</a>&quot;&nbsp;or when the Griffin family gets <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/friendly-nice-ghosts/laura-allan?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">haunted by ghosts</a> in &quot;Petergeist,&quot;&nbsp;this list of Family Guy&nbsp;Halloween episodes also includes popular fan favorites, like &quot;Viewer Mail,&quot; &quot;Petrnormal Activity,&quot; and &quot;And Then There Were Fewer.&quot; What is your favorite Halloween episode from Family Guy?&nbsp;Vote up the best&nbsp;Family Guy&nbsp;Halloween specials, and see where they rank among the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-family-guy-episodes/reference" target="_blank">funniest&nbsp;Family Guy&nbsp;episodes of all time</a>.

The Best Halloween Episodes On 'Family Guy'

Ranking All 8 'Family Guy' Halloween Episodes, Best To Worst

Lists about the Fox animated series about Bob and Linda Belcher, their three kids, and the family burger joint they all help to keep running between disasters and songs.

Bob's Burgers

Go trick-or-treating with the Belcher&nbsp;family, and enjoy the best&nbsp;Bob's Burgers&nbsp;Halloween episodes, including new episodes from the latest season. Whether you're looking for the one where the family visit a haunted house in &quot;The Hauntening&quot;&nbsp;or when Linda and the kids&nbsp;play with <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/how-to-summon-spirits-with-ouija-boards/jacob-shelton?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">a Ouija board</a> in &quot;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/bobs-burgers-is-better-than-the-simpsons/zack-howe?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Tina and the Real Ghost</a>,&quot; this list of&nbsp;Bob's Burgers&nbsp;Halloween episodes also includes popular fan favorites, like &quot;Teen-a-Witch,&quot; &quot;Fort Night,&quot; and &quot;The Wolf of Wharf Street.&quot; What is your favorite Halloween episode from&nbsp;Bob's Burgers?&nbsp;Vote up the best&nbsp;Bob's Burgers&nbsp;Halloween specials, and see where they rank among the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-bobs-burgers-episodes/reference" target="_blank">funniest&nbsp;Bob's Burgers&nbsp;episodes of all time</a>.

The Best Halloween Episodes On 'Bob's Burgers'

Ranking All 'Bob's Burgers' Halloween Episodes, Best To Worst

Retro

Halloween pumpkin carving has become an art, and these gaming pumpkins are proof. From some extremely detailed pumpkins from popular artists to works of gourd-art from talented amateurs, here are the best video game pumpkin ideas, challenges, and pictures. If you can replicate any one of these, then your hands are officially not as useless as mine. Enjoy.

The Most Epic Halloween Gaming Pumpkins of All Time

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Gaming Pumpkins: The Most Epic Halloween Video Game Jack O Lanterns of All Time

Brian Gilmore

Costumes & Cosplay

Halloween is here, which means it&#39;s time to figure out your costume for the big night.

Do you go as some current meme that will only be relevant for the next 20 minutes? Do you go as Mike Myers and run into 30 of you on the street? Do you dress as a beer pong table or a keg brah? Or do you (what up, ladies) dress as a sexy nurse? A sexy cat? A sexy police officer?

Or do we man/woman up and be the best possible version of ourselves and be a fricken superhero? You can never go wrong dressing as <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/disturbing-future-versions-of-superheroes/stephanroget?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">your favorite superhero</a> or super villain.&nbsp;

So who do you dress up as? Whose <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the best superhero</a> or villain to dress up as? Who has coolest costume to wear? Is it Batman or Superman or Spider-Man? <a href="/list/best-joker-halloween-costumes/maggie-clancy" target="_blank">The Joker</a> or Harley Quinn?

Let&#39;s settle it all, once and for all! Vote up all your favorite superhero costumes to wear for Halloween.

Loki

The Best Superheroes To Be For Halloween

Comic Book Character

Best Superheroes and Villains to Be for Halloween | Greatest Comic Book Costumes to Go Trick-or-Treat In

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Fails

Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year - that time when ghosts and goblins run amok, and free candy is given to all. It&rsquo;s also the perfect time to take a look around your neighborhood for any closet haunted house purveyors who spend the rest of the year lurking in the shadows. It&rsquo;s been a longstanding American tradition to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-halloween-decorations/ranker-shopping" target="_blank">make your house look as spooky as it possibly can</a> by adding cobwebs, headstones, and blood splattered walls to your home, and a lot of people really shine when it&rsquo;s time to creep everyone out, but some people just don&rsquo;t seem to get it. Bad Halloween decorations are like fun size candy bars:&nbsp;they&rsquo;re not what you want, but at least you got something. And if nothing else, you can always make fun of the Halloween fails. Put on your skeleton pajamas and check out this list of the worst Halloween decorations in America.

On this list, you&rsquo;re going to see one terrible Halloween decoration after another, and it&rsquo;s going to be spooky. But not good spooky. Think haunted house run by a bunch of three year olds. That analogy should set you up properly for the big Halloween decoration fail that is this list. If you get the heebie jeebies from bad Halloween decorations, you&rsquo;re going to want to see the craptastic decorations below. Hopefully you can sleep at night after you see all of these funny Halloween decorations and Halloween decoration fails.

The Worst Halloween Decorations in America

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Halloween Decoration Fails | Funny DIY Decor

Jacob Shelton

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