Two great Halloween Video Mixtapes by Austin Popdan. The first Halloween Trash O Rama video mixtape was released in 2016. In 2017 Austin started a series also called Trash O Rama of themed video mixtapes. The 13th episode of the series is the 2017 Halloween Special. Watch both Halloween versions below and then check out the whole Trash O Rama series at Austin's Internet Archive account under the user name JamesBatman.
SYNOPSIS: SEE! A leprechaun killing someone with a pogo stick! SEE! A robot space gorilla shooting lightning from his fingers! SEE! R.L. Stine trying to act! This video mixtape is 31 minutes of spooky trailers, commercials, movie/tv clips and music videos. Featuring music from AC/DC , Type O Negative, The Dickies, Rob Zombie and even Detroit's heavy metal horror show Halloween!
2016 Halloween Trash O Rama Video Mixtape:
SYNOPSIS: Welcome one and all to Trash-O-Rama, my 40-50 minute series of themed video mixtapes inspired by the likes of Forbidden Transmission and the Hypnotic Eye. For those unaware a video mixtape is the "best parts" of movies, tv shows, music videos, commercials or whatever edited together in a certain fashion.
Today's episode is a very special one for it's marks Trash-O-Rama's first Halloween special! In our longest episode yet, expect Boris Karloff, heavy metal, Vincent Price, Hallmark commercials, gore, nudity and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers battling a rapping monster with an upside down pumpkin head!
I found a bunch of Halloween and horror music videos on Youtube and Vimeo (some I edited myself) and stuck them all together into six 1hour+ musical compilations. Here's the last video Part 6, the playlist of songs is below the video. If you want to check out the first five, here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5, or click here to watch all parts on one page.
Jack-O's Horrid Halloween Music Show Part 6 from Jack O on Vimeo.
01 Boogeyman - Dead Posey (Halloween Franchise clips)
02 Everybody Scream - Rob Zombie (psycho ward clips)
03 Halloween - Gravesiders (Rhonda scenes from Trick 'r Treat)
04 Scooby Doo Lost Mysteries opening with Horror Movie Villains
05 The Monster Squad Rap
06 War Machine - KIϟϟ (Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla clips)
07 Tearin' Up The Town - Pleaser (The Barn clips)
08 I'm Your Boogieman - White Zombie (horror movie montage)
09 Tales of Halloween – Jimmy Psycho (Tales of Halloween opening scene)
10 Monster Party - Error 404 featuring CJ Watson
11 FearNET Feartober promo
12 Trick or Treat... We're Going To Kill You - Wednesday 13
13 I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement - Ramones (Animated)
14 Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)- Concrete Blonde (Greatest Horror Movies of All Time clips)
15 Shadows Grow - Loop Line
16 Pumpkinhead - Groovie Ghoulies
17 It Must Be Halloween - Andrew Gold (All Hallows Evil: Lord of the Harvest clips)
18 Spook City USA - The Misfits (Night of the Punks inspiration tone reel)
19 Last Halloween - Jyrki 69 (Halloween Pussytrap Kill! Kill! clips)
20 Puttin' on the Mask (parody song) - Svengoolie (Halloween III clips)
21 Enter Sandman - Metallica (creepy carnival clowns montage)
22 The End - Jim Johnston (Michael Myers clips)
23 Let's Celebrate Halloween!!
Every October, movie sites roll out their “Ultimate Halloween Movie Lists.” You know the type: 25 titles, all the usual suspects, and inevitably, John Carpenter’s Halloween is sitting smugly at #1.
And listen — I love those lists. As a die-hard Halloween obsessive, I read every single one hoping to find a new title to add to my ever-growing October watch pile.
But new discoveries? They’re rare.
So this year, we’re ditching the obvious picks. No Hocus Pocus, no Halloween (1978), no The Nightmare Before Christmas. Instead, here’s a list of lesser-known, underappreciated, or just plain strange titles to queue up when the trick-or-treaters are gone, the jack-o’-lanterns are flickering low, and the night feels a little too quiet.
Some are scary, some are weird, some are nostalgic, and a few might make you wonder how they even count as “Halloween movies” — but trust me, they all bring something unique to the table.
Grab your candy bowl, dim the lights, and let’s get weird.
Lucky McKee’s eerie boarding-school chiller is part witchcraft story, part autumn mood piece. It’s not perfect (thanks, studio meddling), but the atmosphere drips with Halloween energy — creeping trees, vintage costumes, and Patricia Clarkson in full mysterious-teacher mode. Oh, and Bruce Campbell’s in it. Enough said.
Found-footage road trip through America’s haunted attractions — with a real-life creepy doll-masked stalker thrown in. The characters can be annoying, but the haunt sequences are so immersive you can practically smell the fog machines.
Set on Halloween night, 1962, this ghostly murder mystery blends childhood nostalgia with genuine chills. Part Stand by Me, part supernatural whodunit, it’s a love letter to small-town autumn.
Yes, it’s Nicolas Cage. No, it’s not bad. In fact, this New York-set Halloween mystery about a missing child works surprisingly well — especially for its rare big-city Halloween parade scenes.
An indie throwback to 1989 Halloween, loaded with urban legends, cornfields, pumpkin patches, and homemade monsters. Feels like Halloween III meets a VHS rental from your childhood.
Five Edgar Allan Poe stories, each animated in a unique style and narrated by genre legends like Christopher Lee and Guillermo del Toro. Not Halloween-themed, but dripping with gothic dread.
Australian indie that’s part drama, part fantasy, part ghost story. Two estranged friends wander the streets on Halloween 1997, confronting old wounds amid glowing jack-o’-lanterns and TP-strewn trees.
Darkly comic British anthology episode — creepy clowns, questionable motorists, and plenty of weird humor. No prior series knowledge required (just skip the cliffhanger ending).
A pitch-perfect VHS-era spoof of a 1987 haunted house news special — complete with fake commercials. Feels like discovering a cursed tape at a thrift store.
BBC’s infamous fake “live” ghost investigation that convinced half of Britain it was real. Caused outrage, urban legends, and one of TV’s great Halloween scares.
Ray Bradbury’s Emmy-winning animated adaptation of his novel narrated by the author and featuring Leonard Nimoy as the mysterious Mr. Moundshroud, blending history, melancholy, and nostalgia into an enduring seasonal classic.
Final Thoughts
Halloween doesn’t have to be just the same five movies every year. Sometimes the magic comes from the unexpected — a VHS oddity, a TV special you’ve never heard of, or a quiet little indie that just feels right for the season.
Because part of the fun is making your own traditions. Dig up something odd, dusty, or forgotten — and make it part of your personal October ritual.
So this October, try something new. After all, even Halloween thrives on surprises.
Every year, sites like this one like to run their own take on the ultimate and comprehensive list of seasonally-appropriate flicks to watch on Halloween. If you’re someone like me who’s a little tired of the norm, and of reading through lists that have John Carpenter’s Halloween as the inevitable number one, here’s a list of obscure, unknown, or less obvious choices to watch on Halloween night after the sun has set and the trick-or-treaters have disappeared (hopefully the non-lame ones who knocked on doors instead of peering into car trunks)....
