13 Spooky Videos to Get in the Halloween Spirit

Sure, it’s sorta weird having Halloween on a Monday since we just exited the last party weekend of spooky season. Maybe it’s time to veg out eating candy or handing it out to kids, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to be over.

Here are some spine-tingling or funny-bone-ticklin’ clips to keep the festive spirit alive, from The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror” (which was really good this year!), throwbacks to haunt season at the theme parks, music inspired by the Haunted Mansion, and some Scooby-Doo parody fun.

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This year’s Simpsons Halloween special packs quite a punch with solid scary riffs on Death Note, The Babadook, and Westworld. Watch on Fox, Disney+, and Hulu.

If you didn’t get a chance to visit Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood and experience the Jupiter’s Claim section of the Terror Tram, here’s a sizzle of it. Loved the creepiness of the Get Out teacup lady and the tethered character from Us walking around the set from Nope.

Tom Hanks reprised his cheerfully chaotic Halloween uncle persona on Saturday Night Live just in time for Halloween. Hope he gets a live-action movie, this generation needs an Ernest Scared Stupid-esque spooky holiday movie from probably the best thing SNL has done in a long time. Give him a Raid high-rise parody flick.

Whew, I am dead serious when I tell you the Disney and haunt community went full thirst for this face character at Oogie Boogie Bash 2023. The bad guy from Disney Pixar’s Coco, yes… that bad guy who suddenly when brought to life gained a theme park cult following. Bring him back next year in his own show!

Comedian, internet personality, and Jellystone voice actress Jenny Lorenzo released a new Halloween special on her character skit-driven YouTube channel inspired by Scooby-Doo. If Scooby Doo Was Latino parodies the Mystery Gang as a group of Miami-based paranormal investigators. Check out last year’s Addams Family skit too.

This is unhinged but we’re into it. Let Scooby-Doo be really scary! (And gay!)

Singer-songwriter and internet personality Traci Hines (Hipster Ariel) has released a new eerie Halloween cover of the Haunted Mansion’s “Grim Grinning Ghosts.” Also solid is her Hocus Pocus “I Put a Spell on You” cover, which is featured at Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney’s California Adventure.

Words cannot describe how disturbing and weird The Paloni Show Halloween special is. I will never look at banana peel costumes the same again (shudder). The full episode is on Hulu!

Watch the full Bugs Bunny and the Mummy segment of the Looney Tunes Halloween special online or the whole thing on HBO Max.

If you’re visiting the Los Angeles area and are looking to meet classic monster-inspired characters while trick-or-treating in a real haunted neighborhood, visit Cemetery Lane.

Filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo (Colossal) leads the second season of Prime’s Spanish-language horror anthology series—the title translates to “Stories to Stay Awake”—which also features an entry by Paradise Hills director Alice Waddington. Take a look at the fantastical frights in the trailer; the series itself is due out next year in the states.

Paranormal investigator and host of Something Scary on YouTube Steffany Strange explored LA to find homes from horror films you may recognize.

Watch this and more shorts on Hulu for “Huluween.”

Happy Halloween, readers!

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