Halloween Movies Showing in Kansas City

The spookiest time of the year means Halloween movies are hitting theatres in Kansas City.

Halloween in Kansas City means haunted houses, pumpkin patches, ghost tours, trick-or-treating, and plenty of other fun events and activities, including watching Halloween movies.

Usher in the season of witches and vampires with a movie marathon of your favorite Halloween flicks. Whether you’re a fan of horror films, comedies or cartoon classics, there are plenty of choices on our list so you should be able to find something to watch.

There are different venues in Kansas City showing Halloween-themed movies. Some are inside theatres; others are outdoor set ups. Scroll down to see details on these fun and spooky screenings.

If you want to watch Halloween movies at home, you can find many options on various streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video.

Others who still have DVD or even VHS collections (we know you are out there) will probably find a few of these housed in your stash or you can purchase them online or in stores.

Here are some of our favorites from Kansas City on the Cheap. This list of movies is from Amy Schiska-Lombard, our former editor.

10 Scary Halloween Movies

Round up family and friends, turn off the lights (if you dare), grab some Halloween treats, and get ready for the ultimate movie fright night.

• The Exorcist: A tale of an exorcism loosely based on events that happened in St. Louis, Mo.
• Friday the 13^th: Jason’s hockey mask has become one of the most recognizable images in horror and popular culture. It all started with the franchise that includes 12 slasher films.
• Halloween: Michael Myers started terrorizing with the original movie in 1978. There are 13 movies to choose from in this franchise.
• Mother: A psychological thriller follows a young couple whose lives are disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious couple
• Nightmare on Elm Street: Wes Craven brought Freddy Krueger to life (or back from the dead) in 1984. A total of nine films make up this movie franchise.
• Nosferatu: Go classic with the 1922 silent horror film.
• Poltergeist: A supernatural horror film that reminded kids in the 80s to turn the TV off at night.
• Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock’s slasher classic.
• The Shining: Make up some red rum punch and get ready for a run through the English maze.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Leatherface came to life on the big screen in this 1974 American slasher film.

10 Not-so-Scary Halloween Movies

If you’ve got small children to entertain or just don’t want to get too freaked out yourself, try some of these not-so-scary classics.

• The Addams Family: Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia lead this comedy.
• Addams Family Values: The story of America’s spooky and kooky family continues in this sequel.
• Casper: Features everyone’s favorite friendly ghost.
• Corpse Bride: A Tim Burton animated musical fantasy film
• Frankenweenie: Tim Burton’s story about a boy and his dog
• Hocus Pocus: A coven of evil witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) terrorize Salem, Mass.
• Hotel Transylvania (1, 2 and 3): A film series starring Adam Sandler as Dracula the dad
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown: Wah, wah, wah, wah, we love it!
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Another Tim Burton classic
• Young Frankenstein: A fantastic Mel Brooks comedy starring Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman and Teri Garr

Halloween Movies Showing in Kansas City

Here are Halloween movies that are part of the Halloween fun in Kansas City. Check back because we are updating this list as we find more screenings. 

SHOCKtober

The Screenland Armour Theatre is one of Kansas City’s few operating historic theatres. They have a full lineup of scary and freaky movies featured during this celebration of all things creepy, during SHOCKtober. 

There are even a few fun ones for those who don’t like to be frightened.

See here for specific movies and details for SHOCKtober at the Screenland Armour Theatre.  

Kansas City Public Library Free Movies

The Kansas City Public Library hosts free movie screenings daily in the Durwood Film Vault, an old bank vault that has been converted into a 28-seat movie theater. As Halloween approaches, more of those films will have a Halloween film.

See all the Halloween-themed movies at Kansas City public libraries at this link.

Aztec Shawnee Theater & Shawnee Town 1929 Americana Summer at the Movies

The Aztec Shawnee Theater is a restored single-screen movie house that provides a passage to the golden age of movies. 

This October, The Aztec Shawnee Theater is showing a horror film as the final movie in the Americana Summer at the Movies Series, sponsored by Shawn Town 1929. 

The film is the original 1934 movie “The Black Cat,” based on the Edgar Allen Poe story, starting Boris Karkoff and Bela Lugosi.

The film will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 22. Tickets are $8 to $18.

Zona Rosa Beats & Broomsticks

Friday, October 23, 2026
Location: Zona Rosa, Kansas City, MO
Hours: 5 to 9 p.m.
Admission: FREE 

As part of its Beats and Broomsticks Halloween event, Zona Rosa is hosting an outdoor showing of the Halloween classic “Hocus Pocus,” starting at 7 p.m. See here for details.

AMC Theatres Thrills & Chills

The AMC Thrills & Chills series brings horror and suspense to the big screen. Thrills and Chills films come from a variety of styles, budgets, genres, and corners of the globe, but they all share the common theme of scaring. 

Frightening flicks are on the big screen just in time for the Halloween season at AMC Theatres in Kansas City.

FUN FACT! John Carpenter’s legendary slasher Halloween premiered at the Kansas City AMC Empire Theater in 1978. 

FUN FACT #2: I interviewed John Carpenter while he was making “Halloween” when I was a student journalist at Western Kentucky University, where his father was a music professor. In fact, his father was one of my mother’s music professors.

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