Can I ask you a question, boils and ghouls? How are you planning on spending your Halloween?
Are you going to a party? Trick-or-treating with the kids? Maybe heading to the local cemetery for a spot of ghost hunting?
Whatever you’ve got in the diary, cancel it now and ghost your friends when they try and find out why.
Why are we asking leave your friends and family in the lurch? Well, because there’s great, terrifying TV to watch, of course.
Now normally we only recommend one show in these articles, but as it’s the spookiest time of the year and we love things that go bump in the night, we’re recommending not one, not two, but three terrying televisual treats.
So which (or should that be witch?) hex-tra special shows are we recommending this Halloween?Well, you’ll have to read on… If you dare!
The Creep Tapes
A spin-off to the wonderfully weird and downright bone-chilling Creep movies, this found-footage anthology series tells six different stories about the unfortunate victims of the serial killer known as Peachfuzz (Mark Duplass).
A darkly amusing and shocking series, The Creep tapes boasts a rather impressive 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the show was something of a cult hit when it was released back in 2024.
Bloody Disgusting labelled it ‘a fun experiment that explores more dark corners and impulses of a disturbed individual.
Meanwhile, Imani Lovett confessed in her Google review that she ‘had a nightmare after watching the first couple of episodes.’
A second series is set for release in November, so if you’re a fan of Peachfuzz and his horrifying home movies, then it’s the perfect time to catch up.
The Creep Tapes is available to stream now on Shudder and Tubi.
Slasher
Does the sight of blood on the big screen get your heart pumping? If so, why not check out Slasher?
This anthology series has been running for five seasons (well, technically six, but we’ll get to that), with each chapter following a different killer and their unfortunate victims.
A love-letter to the grisliest movie genre, Slasher is fiendishly good fun and bloodier than a particularly juicy rare steak. Don’t take my word for it, though; the show has legions of fans.
‘This is definitely one of the best TV series ever,’ wrote Joyce Sisto in her five-star Google review. ‘So many twists and turns it’s crazy!!!!’
P. Dev was just as enthusiastic writing, ‘This is the best show on Netflix and one of the best horror shows I have seen in my life, and I have seen a lot of horror and slashers.’
Slasher is available to stream now on Netflix and Shudder.
Hell Motel
Finally, we want to recommend Hell Motel… although we wouldn’t want to stay here.
Now, technically speaking, Hell Motel is the sixth season of Slasher, but it’s also listed as a spin-off set in the same universe, so we’re counting it as a separate show for the sake of this list.
This sinister series group of true-crime fans who are staying at a newly renovated motel that just so happens to be the site of a 30-year-old unsolved ritualistic mass murder.
Sounds like a fun holiday, right? Well, it would be if there weren’t a masked serial killer called Bathomet who’s just itching to start murdering.
Brutal and bloody Hell Motel isn’t for the faint-hearted, but if TV gore gets you going, then you’re going to be very pleased.
Damion Timpe was certainly impressed with the series, giving it five stars on Google and branding it ‘phenomenal’.
Hell Motel is available to stream now on Shudder.
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