HALLOWEEN SCREAM FEST WATCH PARTY 2026
AIN FEAR FRENZY!
Twenty classic nightmares. One Halloween celebration. Vampires, zombies, ghouls, bats, monsters, mad scientists, aliens and things that really should have stayed in the swamp. AIN’s Halloween Scream Fest Watch Party brings together 20 wonderfully creepy, strange and unforgettable classics for a Halloween binge from the earliest days of screen horror through the cult favorites of the 1960s.
THE FILMS
1. NOSFERATU (1922)
One of cinema’s original nightmares. The terrifying Count Orlok leaves his Transylvanian castle and brings death and plague with him in F.W. Murnau’s legendary silent vampire masterpiece. Public Domain Movies
2. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
They’re coming to get you! A group of strangers barricades themselves inside a lonely farmhouse while an ever-growing army of flesh-eating dead surrounds them. George A. Romero’s groundbreaking horror classic changed zombie movies forever. Public Domain Movies
3. THE DEVIL BAT (1940)
Bela Lugosi is a brilliant scientist with a wonderfully wicked revenge plan: enormous killer bats trained to attack anyone wearing his specially created aftershave. Yes, really. And we wouldn’t have it any other way.
4. HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959)
Vincent Price invites five strangers to spend the night in a supposedly haunted mansion, with a cash prize waiting for anyone who survives until morning. Locked doors, ghosts, murder and Vincent Price. What could possibly go wrong?
5. THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1962)
After a horrific accident, an obsessed surgeon keeps his fiancée’s severed head alive while searching for a new body for her. Meanwhile, something monstrous is waiting behind a locked laboratory door.
6. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)
After inexplicably surviving a terrible automobile accident, a young woman begins seeing a mysterious pale-faced stranger and feels herself irresistibly drawn toward an abandoned carnival pavilion. Dreamlike, eerie and genuinely unsettling. Public Domain Movies
7. DEMENTIA 13 (1963)
Before The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola directed this wonderfully twisted Gothic tale of an inheritance, a haunted family, a mysterious death and an axe murderer stalking the grounds of an Irish castle.
8. THE SKELETON DANCE (1929)
When midnight strikes, the graveyard comes alive! Skeletons rise from their graves for a wonderfully macabre musical dance through the cemetery. Five minutes of spooky, silly Halloween perfection.
9. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959)
Flying saucers! Aliens! Zombies! Bela Lugosi! Extraterrestrials resurrect Earth’s dead as part of their ninth attempt to stop humanity from destroying the universe. Ed Wood’s gloriously strange cult classic simply has to be experienced. Wikipedia
10. THE GHOUL (1933)
Boris Karloff stars as an eccentric Egyptologist whose obsession with an ancient jewel and the promise of resurrection sets off a wonderfully atmospheric tale of tombs, murder and things that refuse to stay buried.
11. THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON (1973)
A Washington reporter returns from Hungary carrying one very inconvenient souvenir: a werewolf curse. Soon the nation’s capital has a hairy new problem roaming its corridors of power.
12. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)
A painfully untalented beatnik accidentally discovers a horrifying shortcut to becoming a celebrated sculptor. Roger Corman mixes murder, art and pitch-black comedy into one deliciously bizarre cult favorite.
13. THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964)
Vincent Price may be humanity’s final survivor after a plague transforms the rest of the population into vampire-like creatures. Every day he hunts them. Every night they come looking for him.
14. ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959)
Something enormous is lurking beneath the murky waters of the Florida Everglades, and it is hungry. Locals begin disappearing as gigantic bloodsucking creatures drag their victims into an underwater lair.
15. THE BAT (1959)
A mysterious killer known as “The Bat” is terrorizing an isolated mansion where stolen money may be hidden. Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead lead this delicious old-fashioned mystery filled with murder, secret rooms and things creeping around in the dark.
16. THE TERROR (1963)
A young Jack Nicholson encounters a mysterious woman while traveling along a desolate coastline and follows her into the strange castle of Boris Karloff. Ghosts, madness, murder and Gothic atmosphere follow.
17. WHITE ZOMBIE (1932)
Bela Lugosi is the sinister Murder Legendre, master of an army of mindless zombies working in the shadows of Haiti. When a young woman becomes the object of another man’s obsession, Legendre offers a horrifying solution.
18. REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES (1936)
An expedition searching Cambodia for the secret behind a supernatural zombie army discovers that the power to control human minds may be far more dangerous than anyone imagined.
19. KING OF THE ZOMBIES (1941)
After their plane crashes on a mysterious Caribbean island, three travelers find themselves in a mansion where strange ceremonies, hypnotism and the walking dead suggest their host is hiding something very sinister.
20. MANIAC (1934)
A former vaudeville performer working for a mad scientist commits murder, assumes his boss’s identity and slowly descends into madness himself. Corpses, bizarre experiments, hallucinations and one VERY memorable cat make this one of the strangest horror curiosities of the 1930s.
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Night Of The Living Dead
Directed by: George A. Romero
Written by: George A. Romero and John A. Russo
Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Russell StreinerSTORY
A car winds along a lonely Pennsylvania road toward a cemetery.
There is nothing supernatural about... -
Nosferatu (1922)
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, John GottowtSTORY
Before Dracula became a romantic figure in a cape, before Bela Lugosi gave him an accent, and long before vampires became handsome, seductive creatures of the night, there... -
The Terror (1963) BORIS KARLOFF, JACK NICHOLSON
Directed by: Roger Corman
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann, Jonathan HazeSTORY
Lost and separated from his regiment, young French Lieutenant André Duvalier wanders along a desolate coastline searching for his way back to civilization. Exhaust...
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Dementia 13 Francis Ford Coppola
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Written by: Francis Ford Coppola
Executive Producer: Roger Corman
Starring: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton, Mary Mitchell, Patrick Magee, Eithne Dunne, Peter ReadSTORY
The Haloran family has a problem.
Actually, the Haloran family has several probl... -
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE 1959.ia
Directed by: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Starring: Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Bela Lugosi, Maila Nurmi (Vampira), Tor Johnson, Tom Keene, Lyle Talbot, Dudley Manlove, Joanna Lee
Narrated by: CriswellSTORY
Flying saucers are appearing over California.
The government knows about them.
The military...
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King Of The Zombies (1941)
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
Starring: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, Patricia Stacey, John Archer, Leigh WhipperSTORY
Somewhere over the Caribbean, three American travelers are about to discover that surviving a plane crash may be the EASY part of their evening.
P...
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The Skeleton Dance -1927 Walt Disney a CLASSIC
Directed by: Walt Disney
Animation by: Ub Iwerks
Music by: Carl W. StallingSTORY
Midnight strikes in a lonely graveyard, and while most sensible creatures would probably prefer to be somewhere else, the residents of this cemetery are only getting started.
An owl watches from a tree as bats fl...
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House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Directed by: William Castle
Written by: Robb White
Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr., Julie Mitchum
STORY
Frederick Loren is throwing a party.
Of course, when Frederick Loren is played by Vincent Price, accepting the invitation proba... -
Attack Of The Giant Leeches
Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski
Starring: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Michael Emmet, Bruno VeSota, Gene RothSTORY
Deep in the Florida Everglades, something enormous is hiding beneath the black water.
When local trapper Lem Sawyer claims he has seen a gigantic creature in the swam...
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Maniac (1934)
Directed by: Dwain Esper
Written by: Hildagarde Stadie
Starring: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller, Thea Ramsey, Jenny Dark, Marvelle Andre, Celia McCann, John P. WadeSTORY
Don Maxwell used to be a vaudeville performer.
Now he has found a slightly less conventional oc... -
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Directed by: Victor Halperin
Starring: Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Roy D’Arcy, Robert Noland, George Cleveland, E. Alyn Warren, Carl StockdaleSTORY
During World War I, something far more terrifying than ordinary weapons appears on the battlefield.
A Cambodian priest serving with a French colo...
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White Zombie (1932) BELA LUGOSI
Directed by: Victor Halperin
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, John Harron, Robert Frazer, Joseph Cawthorn, Brandon Hurst, George Burr MacAnnan, Clarence MuseSTORY
Young lovers Neil Parker and Madeleine Short arrive in Haiti expecting to begin their new life together. They have been invite...
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The Bat VINCENT PRICE, AGNES MOOREHEAD
Directed by: Crane Wilbur
Starring: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, Elaine Edwards, Darla Hood, John Bryant, Harvey Stephens, Mike Steele
STORY
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder thinks she has found the perfect place to spend a quiet summer working on h...
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The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Directed by: Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo Ragona
Starring: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Umberto Raho, Christi Courtland
STORY
The world as Dr. Robert Morgan knew it is gone.
A mysterious disease has swept across humanity, killing nearly everyone it touches. But ...
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The Fall Of the House Of Usher EDGAR ALLAN POE 1928
Directed by: James Sibley Watson Jr. and Melville Webber
Starring: Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber
Adapted from: Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher, first published in 1839.
STORY
A lone traveler enters the strange and decaying world of Roderick Ush...
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The Haunted House Mickey Mouse 1929
Directed by: Walt Disney
Starring: Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney)
STORY
It is a dark and stormy night, and poor Mickey Mouse is caught outside in absolutely miserable weather.
Rain pours down. Lightning flashes across the sky. The wind has turned Mickey's umbrella into something considerably less...
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THE DEVIL BAT BELA LUGOSI
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, Donald Kerr
Produced by: Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Screenplay by: John Thomas Neville
Original Story by: George Bricker
Runtime: Approximately 68 minutes
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Directed by: Joseph Green
Written by: Joseph Green and Rex Carlton
Starring: Jason Evers (credited as Herb Evers), Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont, Anthony La Penna, Lola Mason, Bruce Brighton, Eddie CarmelSTORY
There are certain sentences a woman never expects to hear from the man she loves.
“Da... -
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Directed by: Herk Harvey
Written by: John Clifford
Starring: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt, Herk HarveySTORY
This one HAUNTS.
It doesn't chase you out of the theater.
But, it will follow you home.It begins with a dare.
Two cars.
A stretch of road.
K... -
The Ghoul BORIS KARLOFF 1933
Directed by: T. Hayes Hunter
Starring: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell, Ralph RichardsonSTORY
Professor Henry Morlant is dying.
But Henry Morlant has absolutely no intention of staying dead.
Boris Karloff stars as the wealthy, obsessive Egyptolog... -
Werewolf_of_Washington
Directed by: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Biff McGuire, Clifton James, Katalin Kallay, Michael Dunn, Thayer DavidSTORY
Washington has survived scandals, political enemies, cover-ups and crises.
But it has never had to deal with a werewolf in the White House.
Dean Stockwell st... -
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Directed by: Roger Corman
Starring: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone, Julian Burton, Ed Nelson, Bert Convy
STORY
Walter Paisley is a painfully awkward busboy working at the Yellow Door, a coffeehouse filled with beatnik poets, artists and bohemian intellectuals. Walter desperately...
