40 Cult Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween
What makes a horror movie a cult horror movie? In a word: rewatchability. And with Halloween nearly upon us, the question of what frightening, shocking, silly, classic, or demonically camp movies to press play on again (and again) has never been more pertinent. Here at Vogue, of course, we dole out extra cult horror points if a movie can hold its own sartorially. Dario Argento’s Suspiria has inspired everyone from Nicolas Ghesquière to the Rodarte sisters; Yves Saint Laurent designed Catherine Deneuve’s costumes for the blood-soaked romance The Hunger; and Eiko Ishioka’s Japanese-influenced creations for Bram Stoker’s Dracula are just as striking now as they were in the ’90s. Below, Vogue rounds up 40 favorite cult horror movies, ranging from the very new to a few select tried and tested (and especially chic) classics.
Photo: Nemesis Films1/40Red Rooms (2024)
This is a stylish, unsettling, and hyper-modern horror story about a fashion model obsessed by a man accused of terrible brutality: acts of rape and murder that he streamed live to devoted followers. Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) attends his trial as a kind of groupie, and is also a hacker who lives in antiseptic luxury high above the city, dipping in and out of online netherworlds she can’t look away from.
How to watch: Stream it on Prime Video.
Photo: Courtesy of A242/40I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Not quite horror, but not not horror, this is eerie, yearning, piercingly nostalgic indie filmmaking, a vivid account of youthful alienation full of luridly beautiful, and sometimes extremely alarming, images that you will find hard to shake.
How to watch: Stream on Max.
Photo: Courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder Release.3/40Infested (2024)
How do you say “spider attack” in French? We proclaim instant cult status to this wildly effective creepy-crawly French creature-feature set in a Brutalist Parisian housing block and starring a wonderfully energetic band of resourceful hoodie-clad Zoomers who find themselves besieged by super spiders. Zut alors!
How to watch: Stream on Apple TV or Prime Video.
Photo: Keeper Pictures4/40Oddity (2024)
Set in rural Ireland, at an isolated house with an insane asylum nearby, this one is so scary. The wife of an asylum doctor is visited by one of his patients at night, who desperately asks to be let inside. The choice she makes, of whether to open the door, sets off a lunatic story that feels singular and new.
How to watch: Stream on Apple TV or Prime Video.
Photo: Bleecker Street/LAURA RADFORD5/40Out of Darkness (2024)
Like any good late-night film, Out of Darkness—about six Paleolithic characters being hunted by a dark force when the sun goes down—takes no time to get moving…though be warned the characters speak in an (invented) Stone Age language. It’s more thriller than horror film, though when the group plunges into a old-growth forest, the Blair Witch vibes fully descend.
How to watch: Stream on Apple TV or Prime Video.
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