There’s no need to go door to door this Halloween. You can find all your movie tricks and treats under one roof – your own – on DStv. Whether you want to watch the latest titles like The Monkey, The Radleys and Locked, you’re looking for classic chills like the Scream or Final Destination series, you’re getting pulled into Twilight’s “hoa hoa hoa” season on social media, or you want kid-friendly titles like Disney’s new Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampire, it’s all here to haunt your screen.
Sweet screams, horror lovers!
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Identical twins Hal and Bill (Theo James) were terrorised in childhood by a cymbal-playing toy monkey until they threw it down a well in a sealed box. Twenty-five years later, a string of horrific accidents convinces Bill that the toy is back to its evil monkey business in this dark horror-comedy adaptation of a Stephen King short story.
Stream The Monkey on Friday, 24 October at 9PM on M-Net Channel 101, and Friday, 31 October at 8PM on M-Net Movies 1 Channel 104.
During the 1960s, abusive alcoholic husband and father Frank Davis (Henry Thomas) tries to win back his wife Laura (Sarah Lind) by giving her a necklace that he nicked. But the spirit of an evil dead boy torments Laura and their daughters, Ellen (Violet McGraw) and Judy (Madeleine McGraw), after Ellen starts wearing the necklace.
Watch The Curse of the Necklace on DStv Stream (previously on MM1) and on Showmax.
A group of bored Australian teens film each other having ghostly encounters using an eerie, ceramic-coated severed hand that once belonged to a medium. According to the rules, you light a candle, grip the hand, and say “Talk to me,” to allow a spirit to possess you for 90 seconds, until a friend blows out the candle to dismiss the entity. But sometimes the rules get handwaved.
Watch Talk To Me on DStv Stream (previously on MM2).
Also watch on DStv Stream: Ouija: Origin of Evil (previously on MM4).
When criminal Eddie Barrish (Bill Skarsgård) gets trapped in the luxury car he was trying to rob, he finds out that the car’s owner, William (Anthony Hopkins), has customised it to turn it into a torture chamber on wheels. William begins tormenting Eddie and making him do his bidding while he enjoys Eddie’s suffering via remote camera.
Stream Locked on Friday, 24 October at 8PM on M-Net Movies 1 Channel 104.
Wes Craven re-wrote the slasher horror game for genre-savvy fans when Scream came out in 1996. Anyone could be hiding behind the iconic Ghostface killer’s mask and robe as they stalk the town of Woodsboro killing off students in Sidney Prescott’s (Neve Cambell) social circle, while seemingly following horror movie tropes to determine their next victims.
Watch Scream 1, 2, and 3 on DStv Stream (Previously on MM3).
Detective Zeke Banks (Chris Rock) realises that a copycat killer is following in now-dead serial killer Jigsaw’s footsteps. But as the bodies pile up, the cops can’t help but notice that each victim or location has a personal connection to Zeke. Whoever the fake Jigsaw is, they’ve had time to tinker with glass crushing machines, finger-ripping devices and pipes filled with boiling wax.
Watch Spiral: From the Book of Saw on DStv Stream (Previously on MM4).
Prepare for a cunning modern twist on HG Wells's 1897 novel The Invisible Man. Architect Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) drugs her abusive mad scientist boyfriend Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) so that she can escape him. While Adrian supposedly later takes his own life, Cecilia becomes convinced that he used his top secret tech to become invisible and stalk her.
Watch The Invisible Man on DStv Stream (Previously on MM3).
Horror comedy based on Matt Haig’s 2010 young adult novel of the same name. The Radley family are suburban vegetarian vampires … or at least husband Peter (Damian Lewis), a doctor, and his housewife partner Helen (Kelly Macdonald) are managing their “addiction”. As their children Rowan (Harry Baxendale) and Clara (Bo Bragason) come of age, though, the lure of bloodlust becomes too strong to resist.
Watch The Radleys on DStv Stream (Previously on MM1).
Rat-toothed vampire Count Orlok/Nosferatu (Bill Skarsgård) oozes from the shadows, reaching out his clawed, corpse-white hands to grasp at the object of his obsession: newlywed Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), the young bride of Orlok’s unlucky estate agent, Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult), who becomes his prisoner.
Stream Nosferatu on Saturday, 25 October at 00:47AM on M-Net Movies 1 Channel 104.
It’s hoa hoa hoa season, horror fans! Time for a Twilight rewatch as normal girl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) becomes mutually obsessed with her secret vampire schoolmate Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), while wrestling her attraction to secret teen werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and becoming embroiled in global vampire power struggles.
Stream Twilight on Monday, 27 October at 5:55PM and The Twilight Saga: New Moon on Tuesday, 28 October at 5:45PM on Studio Universal Channel 112.
The film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels continue with Bella and Edward’s engagement and the Cullen and werewolves’ alliance to fight a vampire uprising. Breaking Dawn’s two-part saga details Bella and Edward’s marriage, Bella’s pregnancy and transformation into a vampire, the birth of their daughter, and the conclusion of the vampire war with the ancient Volturi.
Stream The Twilight Saga: Eclipse on Friday, 24 October at 9:50AM and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, with Part 2, on Saturday, 25 October at 13:35PM and 2:35PM on Movie Room Channel 113. Or watch The Twilight Saga: Eclipse on Wednesday, 29 October at 5:50PM on Studio Universal Channel 112.
If you need vampires to be cool again, this action movie adaptation of the Marvel comics title of the same name follows the vigilante human-vampire hybrid “Daywalker” Blade (Wesley Snipes), as he targets rogue vampires like Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) who’re preying on humanity.
Stream Blade on Sunday, 26 October at 8PM, and Blade II at 10:05PM on Movie Room Channel 113.
An anonymous heist crew kidnap a criminal kingpin’s (Matthew Goode) young daughter, Abigail (Alisha Weir), and smuggle her to a remote mansion where they are meant to keep her captive until her father coughs up $50 million in ransom. Unfortunately for the heist crew, both the little ballerina and the big, creepy mansion are hiding sinister secrets.
Watch Abigail on DStv Stream (Previously on MM2).
Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel, Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter chronicles the doomed journey of a merchant ship ferrying 50 mysterious wooden crates from Carpathia to London. The crew soon discover they are not alone on board as a hidden passenger stalks them by night.
Watch The Last Voyage of the Demeter on DStv Stream (Previously on MM2).
Disney’s zombie musical movie series is back for another bite as zombie Zed (Milo Manheim), cheerleader Addison (Meg Donnelly), Eliza (Kylee Russell), and werewolf Willa (Chandler Kinney), play peacemakers for mortal enemies Victor (Malachi Barton) the vampire and Nova (Freya Skye) the half-human Daywalker, teaching them to live – and sing – in harmony.
Stream Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampire on Saturday, 25 October at 11AM on Disney Channel 303.
Aardman’s claymation heroes take on a monster movie parody! Wallace and Gromit’s pest control business suffers a blow when a giant, brainwashed mutant rabbit starts ravaging their village’s vegetable gardens and greenhouses in the run-up to the Tottington Hall giant vegetable competition.
Watch Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit on DStv Stream (Previously on MM4).
A creepy old house with a mind of its own terrorises neighbourhood children at Halloween in this genuinely scary, Golden Globe-winning animated movie. Can best friends DJ (Mitchel Musso) and Chowder (Sam Lerner), Girl Scout Jenny (Spencer Locke), and babysitter Zee (Maggie Gyllenhaal) get Chowder’s basketball and all the neighbourhood kids’ toys back from the house?
Watch Monster House on DStv Stream (Previously on MM4).
Animated horror comedy inspired by Clive Barker’s ZOOmbies. A living-dead bunny rabbit goes on the rampage after a meteorite crashes into a small zoo. As the infection spreads, survivors including a young wolf (Gabbi Kosmidis) and a mountain lion (David Harbour), who meet at the zoo’s animal hospital, must team up to survive.
Watch Night of the Zoopocalypse on DStv Stream (Previously on MM1).
Tyler Perry’s infamously mean grandma character is here for Halloween. Madea’s nephew Brian (also Tyler Perry) asks Madea to watch over his daughter Tiffany (Diamond White) the night of a frat party. And in the sequel, Madea heads for a haunted campground to save family and friends from a bunch of ghouls, goblins, monsters and The Boogeyman.
Stream Tyler Perry’s Boo and Boo 2! A Madea Halloween on Saturday, 25 October at 4:30PM and 6:15PM on Movie Room Channel 113.
Anna (Elle Lorraine), an assistant at TV station Culture, bows to pressure from her boss Zora (Vanessa Williams) to “tame” her natural hair with a weave to better fit the station’s image. While success seems to follow Anna’s transformation, sinister things happen as Anna has nightmares and strange cravings, and the creepy weave moves on its own.
Stream Bad Hair on Monday, 27 October at 8PM on Studio Universal Channel 112, and watch on DStv Stream.
After the Maitlands (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) die, teenaged goth Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) moves into their now-haunted house with her artist stepmother Delia Deetz (Catherine O’Hara), who’s determined to make it over to match her modernist vision. But as the Maitlands wrestle with afterlife bureaucracy, the sleazy demon Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice, and played by Michael Keaton) plots to manipulate the Maitlands and Lydia.
Watch Beetlejuice on DStv Stream (previously on MM2). The 2025 sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is on Showmax.
Also watch on DStv Stream: Death Becomes Her (previously on MM3) and Scary Movie (previously on MM3).
In this reboot/remake of James O’Barr’s 1989 The Crow comic book series, Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård) comes back from the dead as The Crow to avenge his and his girlfriend Shelly’s (FKA Twigs) murders by crime lord Vincent Roeg (Danny Huston), who’s made a pact to send the Devil innocent souls every year in exchange for eternal life.
Watch The Crow on DStv Stream (Previously on MM2).
This M Night Shyamalan horror movie is based on Pierre Oscar Lévy’s French graphic novel, titled Sandcastle. A family and fellow guests at a tropical island resort start experiencing strange phenomena as they figure out that the beach is ageing people by one year for every 30 minutes. They also start to suspect that their invitation to the resort was no coincidence. With Gael García Bernal and Rufus Sewell.
Stream Old on Monday, 27 October at 9:45PM on Studio Universal Channel 112.
Sci-fi action film. In an underwater ocean facility that would have a James Bond villain waving fistfulls of cash, a team of scientists is conducting research by experimenting on mako sharks. But scientist Dr McCallister (Saffron Burrows) has made them super-smart, and when one escapes, everyone must fight for their lives as the facility becomes a watery death maze.
Stream Deep Blue Sea on Sunday, 25 October at 11:55PM on M-Net Movies 2 Channel 106, and on Saturday, 25 October at 4:17PM on TNT Channel 137.
Widowed father Dr Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) takes his teenage daughters Mae (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Sava Jeffries) to South Africa hoping to show them the village where their mother grew up, and to visit his old friend Marti (Sharlto Copeley), who’s now the manager of the Mopani reserve. But while they are on safari, a rogue lion starts stalking them after wiping out a Tsonga community.
Stream Beast on Friday, 24 October at 7:20PM on Studio Universal Channel 112.
A nature documentary film crew are taken hostage by a crazed hunter on the trail of a giant anaconda in the Amazon. With Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Danny Trejo and Ice Cube. In the sequel, researchers looking for a rare orchid in Borneo become snacky snacks to the island’s anacondas, but we never find out how this exotic snake came to be there, since the researchers are botanists rather than herpetologists.
Watch Anaconda and Anacondas on DStv Stream. (Previously on MM3).
Mia (Sophie Nélisse) and her stepsister Sasha (Corinne Foxx) run into high school mean girl Catherine (Brec Bassinger) and her friends at a scuba diving hotspot in a lagoon where there’s a sunken Mayan city. But when Sasha’s friend Nicole (Sistine Stallone) accidentally knocks down a stone column, she starts a cave-in that traps the divers in the ruins with ravenous Great White sharks.
Watch 47 Meters Down: Uncaged on DStv Stream (previously on MM3).
Samuel plays federal agent Neville Flynn, who’s escorting witness Sean Jones (Nathan Phillipps) to testify at the trial of gang lord Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson). But Eddie arranges for bags of venomous snakes to be smuggled aboard and released during the flight. Cue taipan turbulence for flight attendant Claire Miller (Julianna Margulies) and the passengers.
Watch Snakes on a Plane on DStv Stream (Previously on MM2).
Twelve-year-old Charlotte (Alyla Brown) secretly raises a tiny “spider” she finds, despite it hatching out of a glowing object that crash-lands in her aunt’s apartment. But Sting, as Charlotte calls the creature, grows really big, really fast, and shows eerie signs of intelligence along with an insatiable appetite. Soon the spider secretly escapes and cocoons the building’s less mobile residents and pets.
Watch Sting on DStv Stream (Previously on MM2).
Also watch: Zoombies on Monday, 27 October at 11:15PM and Tuesday, 28 October at 00:55AM on Movie Room Channel 113. And on DStv Stream: Prey (previously on MM2) and Out of Darkness (previously on MM2).
In Guillermo del Toro’s comic book adaptation sequel, demon superhero Hellboy (Rob Perlman) and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense are called to action when elf prince Nuada (Luke Goss) tries to revive his father’s invincible Golden Army so he can fight back against humans’ destruction of the magical world.
Stream Hellboy II: The Golden Army on Friday, 24 October at 4:51PM on TNT Channel 137.
In this prequel to the 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby, dancer Terry Gionoffrio (Julia Garner) moves into the Bramford building as a guest of “kindly” Bramford residents Minnie (Dianne Wiest) and Roman Castevet (Kevin McNally), who run a secret Satanic cult. While Terry is living rent-free, the Casavets are plotting to move a demonic tenant into her womb.
Watch Apartment 7A on DStv Stream (Previously on MM2).
As the Catholic Church combats a rise in demon possession cases by reopening their exorcism training school, Father Quinn (Calin Salmon) bucks tradition to train a nun, Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers). But Ann’s troubled past gives the demons several ways to torment her along with her exorcism partner, Father Dante (Christian Navarro), whose sister is possessed.
Watch The Devil’s Light on DStv Stream (Previously on MM4).
Also watch on DStv Stream: Bagman, and Insidious: Chapter 3 and Chapter 2 (Both previously on MM4).
Survivors of an alien invasion learn to be very, very quiet, or get snatched and annihilated by blind creatures who’re lightning fast. John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt play a husband and wife raising their children in a world of silence. In Part II, we see the same family’s lives from the start of the invasion, as they try to find a way to spread what they’ve learned about the aliens’ vulnerabilities.
Stream A Quiet Place on Saturday, 25 October at 9:25PM on M-Net Movies 3 Channel 107. Stream A Quiet Place Part II on Sunday 26 October at 8PM on M-Net Movies 3 Channel 107. Also watch A Quiet Place: Day One on Showmax.
Luyanda Zuma commands attention as Captain Mo in Levels, Mzansi Magic’s new drama, while also vying for the Miss South Africa 2025 crown.
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