Celebrate Spooky Season with Philo
Philo is your one-stop shop for all things spooky this season.
Our “Frights on Philo” Hub is packed with hauntingly good Halloween collections that are overflowing with tricks and treats for everyone—from spooky movies that’ll scare the bravest of souls to creepy cooking competitions that’ll satisfy even the scardiest of cats.
Eat, Drink, and Be Scary!
Halloween Baking Championship
Bakers are tasked with creating spooky treats in Halloween-themed challenges. As the competition heats up, judges eliminate contestants. The best keep moving through rounds as the tasks and challenges become more complicated.
Watch Halloween Baking Championship on Food Network with Philo.
Scariest House in America
Comedian, actress, and home design enthusiast Retta tours nine eerie and terrifying houses in the Midwest, Northeast, and South. The houses have everything from built-in death traps and questionable taxidermy to daunting basements and ghost sightings. Retta shares hilariously unfiltered views about each home’s scary appearance, bad function, and fright factor.
Watch Scariest House in America on HGTV with Philo.
High-school nerd Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) learns from psychic Madame Serena (Zelda Rubinstein) that she possesses magical abilities that will begin working on her 16th birthday. When the prophecy proves true, the teenager uses her new powers to get what she’s always desired: popularity.
Watch Teen Witch on MGM+ (add-on) with Philo.
Halloween
Halloween (1978)
On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being transferred for a court date, a 21-year-old Michael Myers steals a car and escapes Smith’s Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims.
Watch Halloween on AMC+ with Philo.
Halloween II
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), Michael Myers (Jonathan Prince) has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she’s been admitted for Myers’ attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs, and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
Watch Halloween II on AMC+ with Philo.
Halloween (2007)
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and taking a bullet or six nearly two decades after being committed to a mental institution for killing his stepfather and older sister, Michael Myers breaks out, intent on returning to the town of Haddonfield, Ill. He arrives in his hometown on Halloween with the indomitable purpose of hunting down his younger sister, Laurie. The only thing standing between Michael and a Halloween night of bloody carnage is psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis.
Watch Halloween on AMC+ with Philo.
AMC’s FearFest
The Cabin in the Woods
When five college friends (Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams) arrive at a remote forest cabin for a little vacation, little do they expect the horrors that await them. One by one, the youths fall victim to backwoods zombies, but there is another factor at play. Two scientists (Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford) are manipulating the ghoulish goings-on, but even as the body count rises, there is yet more at work than meets the eye.
Watch The Cabin in the Woods on AMC+ with Philo.
It Follows
After carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings until they, too, begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.
Watch It Follows on AMC+ with Philo.
28 Days Later
A group of misguided animal rights activists free a caged chimp infected with the “Rage” virus from a medical research lab. When London bike courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma a month later, he finds his city all but deserted. On the run from the zombie-like victims of the Rage, Jim stumbles upon a group of survivors, including Selena (Naomie Harris) and cab driver Frank (Brendan Gleeson). He joins them on a perilous journey to what he hopes will be safety.
Watch 28 Days Later on AMC+ with Philo.
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th
Crystal Lake’s history of murder doesn’t deter counselors from setting up a summer camp in the wooded area. Superstitious locals warn against it, but the fresh-faced young people — Jack (Kevin Bacon), Alice (Adrienne King), Bill (Harry Crosby), Marcie (Jeannine Taylor), and Ned (Mark Nelson) — pay little heed to the old-timers. Then they find themselves stalked by a brutal killer. As they’re slashed, shot, and stabbed, the counselors struggle to stay alive against a merciless opponent.
Watch Friday the 13th on AMC+ with Philo.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Years ago, Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) killed infamous hockey-masked murderer Jason Voorhees (C.J. Graham), and the intensity of the experience has landed him in a mental institution. To end his torment and achieve a level of closure, Tommy escapes from the hospital and heads to the graveyard where Jason is buried, intending to dig up the body and cremate it. But, before this total annihilation can occur, a freak electrical accident resurrects Jason from the dead, and the terror begins anew.
Watch Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives on AMC+ with Philo.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
A carefree lakeside vacation is interrupted by the re-emergence of killer Jason Voorhees (Ted White). After he escapes from a morgue, leaving bodies in his wake, Jason travels to Camp Crystal Lake, where a group of friends is staying. The teens meet some locals: Tommy (Corey Feldman) and Trish (Kimberly Beck), as well as secretive hiker Rob (Erich Anderson). As the group of teenagers engages in drunken debauchery, their numbers begin to dwindle, and pieces of the past resurface.
Watch Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter on AMC+ with Philo.
Monster Mashup
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel. Gary Oldman plays Dracula, whose lonely soul is determined to reunite with his lost love, Mina (Winona Ryder). In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of terror and seduction, draining the life from her closest friend, Lucy.
Watch Bram Stoker’s Dracula on SundanceTV with Philo.
Chucky
After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begins to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets.
Watch Chucky on AMC+ with Philo.
The Babadook
A troubled widow discovers that her son is telling the truth about a monster that entered their home through the pages of a children’s book.
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Final Destination
Final Destination
Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) is embarking on a trip to Paris. He experiences a premonition—he sees the plane explode moments after leaving the ground. Alex insists that everyone get off the plane, and seven people, including Alex, are forced to disembark. All watch as the plane actually explodes in a fireball. He and the other survivors have briefly cheated death, but they will not be able to evade their fate for very long. One by one, these fugitives from fate fall victim to the grim reaper.
Watch Final Destination on AMC+ with Philo.
The Final Destination
While enjoying a day at the track, Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a horrific premonition of his friends and him all dying in a freak accident involving many racecars. Mere seconds before the vision comes true, he manages to convince them to leave. Although they cheat death then, the survivors each begin to meet a grisly end, and Nick tries to figure out a way to escape a similar fate.
Watch The Final Destination on AMC+ with Philo.
Final Destination 5
During a bus ride with his colleagues to a corporate retreat, Sam (Nicholas D’Agosto) experiences a horrifying vision: the suspension bridge that they, and many others, are crossing starts to crumble around them. When his vision ends and, almost immediately, starts to come true, Sam takes quick action that saves a number of people, including his girlfriend, Molly (Emma Bell), and his best friend, Peter (Miles Fisher). However, the survivors soon find that Death will not be denied.
Watch Final Destination 5 on AMC+ with Philo.
They’re Here…
Personal Shopper
A young American (Kristen Stewart) in Paris works as a personal shopper for a celebrity. She seems to have the ability to communicate with spirits, like her recently deceased twin brother. Soon, she starts to receive ambiguous messages from an unknown source.
Watch Personal Shopper on AMC+ with Philo.
Late Night with the Devil
In 1977, a live television broadcast goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
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The Ring
When her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima) sets out to investigate. Along with her ex-husband, Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada), Reiko finds the tape, watches it — and promptly receives a phone call informing her that she’ll die in a week. Determined to get to the bottom of the curse, Reiko and Ryuji discover the video’s origin and attempt to solve an old murder that could break the spell.
Watch The Ring on AMC+ with Philo.
Killer Collection
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
A year after running over a fisherman and dumping his body in the water, four friends reconvene when Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) receives a frightening letter telling her that their crime was seen. While pursuing who he thinks is responsible for the letter, Barry (Ryan Phillippe) is run over by a man with a meat hook. The bloodletting only increases from there, as the killer with the hook continues to stalk Julie, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.).
Watch I Know What You Did Last Summer on AMC with Philo.
Candyman (1992)
Skeptical graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) befriends Anne-Marie McCoy (Vanessa Williams) while researching superstitions in a housing project on Chicago’s Near North Side. From Anne-Marie, Helen learns about the Candyman (Tony Todd), a knife-wielding figure of urban legend that some of her neighbors believe to be responsible for a recent murder. After a mysterious man matching the Candyman’s description begins stalking her, Helen fears that the legend may be all too real.
Watch Candyman on AMC+ with Philo.
Prom Night
This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now, high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids, have kept their involvement a secret, but when they start being murdered, one by one, it’s clear that someone knows the truth. Also coping with the past are members of the dead girl’s family, most notably her prom-queen sister, Kim Hammond.
Watch Prom Night on AMC+ with Philo.
Philo Core also includes Shudder and AMC+, along with access to HBO Max Basic With Ads and discovery+. Subscribers have full access to these extended libraries of spooky season content, including the HBO Max original It: Welcome to Derry, premiering October 26th.
Note: At the time of publication, all of the above shows and movies were available on demand or coming soon to Philo. We constantly strive to bring you the best content for the best price, so some content offerings are subject to change based on network availability. Check out our What’s New post to see the top shows and movies coming soon to Philo.
