24 Bone-Chilling Music Videos to Get You in the Halloween Spirit

It's officially that wonderfully spooky and scary time of year again! While everyone is busy putting up fake cobwebs and perfecting their pumpkin pie punch, what better time than now to round up a list of the best and scariest music videos to ever exist? From Michael Jackson's iconic music video for "Thriller" to "This Is Halloween" from the hit Disney animated film, The Nightmare Before Christmas, here are 24 of the most bone-chilling and blood-curdling music videos we could dig up from the grave.

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“Thriller” by Michael Jackson

How could we create a list of scary music videos and not include the biggest of them all? Michael Jackson's 14-minute-long "Thriller" was MTV's first world premiere video and it has cemented itself as a huge part of popular culture and will forever find itself associated with the holiday of Halloween.

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“Haunted” by Beyoncé

From Beyoncé's self-titled album, the music video for "Haunted" finds Queen Bey in a big mansion full of possible haunts at every twist and every turn.

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“Disturbia” by Rihanna

10 years later and we still can't get that super catchy "Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum" intro out of our heads.

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“The Kill (Bury Me)” by 30 Seconds to Mars

Fun Fact: The music video here plays tribute to Stanley Kubrick's hit 1980 film The Shining based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

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“This Is Halloween” by Danny Elfman

Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange? The residents of Halloween Town from Tim Burton's hit 1993 film, The Nightmare Before Christmas, joyfully welcome us mere mortals to their scary town and introduce us to their spooky lifestyle in this haunting video.

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“Monster” by Kanye West (feat. Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Bon Iver)

And they say that The Avengers was the biggest crossover event in history? Please! On "Monster," Kanye West teams up with a crew of baddies, including Nicki Minaj, who drops one of her most incredible verses in her entire catalog.

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“Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr.

Who you gonna call? The Ghostbusters of course! This music video contains footage from the film itself and also features cameos from many celebrities including but not limited to Danny Devito, Carly Simon, and Chevy Chase before the video concludes with Ray Parker Jr. and the stars of the film dancing down the streets of New York City.

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“Monster Mash” by Bobby "Boris" Pickett

You simply can't celebrate Halloween without honoring this graveyard smash. Here, Pickett performs the ghoulish tune on American Bandstand back in 1964.

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“Black Magic” by Little Mix

Take a sip from Little Mix's secret potion with this music video from the British girl group that finds the four stunning ladies using magic to wrong some rights around their school.

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“I’m in Love with a Monster” by Fifth Harmony

Scenes from Sony Picture's Hotel Transylvania 2 are showcased in this music video that finds Fifth Harmony exploring a haunted hotel occupied by a variety of monsters.

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“Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” by Backstreet Boys

Directed by legendary music video director Joseph Kahn, The Backstreet Boys find themselves turned into classic horror monsters in this video that was filmed in the same house used for 1995's Casper.

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“Heads Will Roll” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Swapping blood for glitter and confetti, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs super-catchy tune finds a werewolf hungry to kill in this super scary music video.

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"Dancing With Myself" by Billy Idol

Post-apocalyptic world? Check! Zombies? Check! Billy Idol? Check! What more could a music video need?

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“Time Warp”

From the cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, viewers learned step by step how to dance to the Time Warp that at first glance might seem a bit hard to comprehend, but it's just a jump to the left and then a step to the right.

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"Turn Me On" by David Guetta (feat. Nicki Minaj)

The story of Frankenstein takes on a new look in this video starring David Guetta as a mad scientist who pieces together his own creation, Miss Nicki Minaj (pink wig included).

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"Burn the Witch" by Queens of the Stone Age

Based on The Crucible and the Salem witch trials, the video features a small town and a woman being accused of witchcraft who turns out to actually indeed be a witch in the video for this appropriately titled song.

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“Calling All the Monsters” by China Anne McClain

This dance jam from Disney star China Anne McClain finds her dancing with all different monsters in a haunted house that was originally featured on the Disney Channel show A.N.T. Farm's Halloween-themed episode.

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“Dragula” by Rob Zombie

Fun fact: This song was inspired Grandpa's car, DRAG-U-LA, from the classic sitcom The Munsters.

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“Demons” by Imagine Dragons

The recent Imagine Dragons hit is accompanied by a music video with a message far scarier than any vampire, ghost, or witch — the personal hardships we deal with every day.

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“Zombie” by the Cranberries

"Zombie" was actually crafted as a protest song by the Irish rock band. In the video, lead singer Dolores O'Riordan, who passed away earlier this year, is covered in gold makeup and sings before a group of young boys also covered in makeup as her vocals take lead in this haunting tune.

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“The Monster” Eminem (feat. Rihanna)

Rihanna and Eminem team up once more for this 2013 hit, which finds the pair becoming friends with the monster under their beds.

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“Feed My Frankenstein” by Alice Cooper

In this music video, Cooper performs the song at a concert featured in the 1992 film Wayne's World. PARTY ON!

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“She Wolf” by Shakira

The full moon lights up the night sky as Shakira releases her inner wolf in this sexy and fun hit from 2009.